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The Root Cause of Mass Shootings is the Rage of Alienation
Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman's motivation. At Columbine High School in Colorado, the killers supposedly snapped after being bullied. The guy who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado was wild-eyed carrot-topped nuts. After a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, an anti-immigrant manifesto posted online pointed to right-wing politics. Simple mental illness—if there is such a thing—appears to be the culprit in Dayton, Ohio. Also misogyny. But the Dayton shooter's Twitter feed indicates the shooter liked Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. So right-wing media blames his progressive leanings.
And when there is no obvious explanation as in Las Vegas in 2017, when the mass murderer doesn't leave a final message and doesn't appear to have subscribed to extremist politics and was financially secure, but drank a lot and may have bought into Internet conspiracy theories, we shrug our shoulders and forget about it. But deep inside we believe there is a simple answer. We just haven't discovered it yet.
Gun control advocates want to ban assault rifles like the semi-automatic AR-15 used in so many mass shootings. But even if those guns disappeared overnight, gun-related massacres would still occur, albeit with lower body counts. Which would be nice, but it wouldn't address the big question, the one we secretly ask ourselves after such incidents: where does the rage come from?
Flailing about in search of the enablers of personal mass violence (as opposed to state-ordered mass violence) is useful as far as it goes. The NRA and the gun lobby make money with every firearm purchase. Victims of mental illness go uninsured and thus undiagnosed and untreated. Hateful rhetoric, most common on the right and most recently epitomized by President Trump, legitimize the dehumanization of future victims.
In the beginning, though, is rage.
The blind anger that, like the medieval image of a succubus insinuating itself into a previously healthy brain, suggests that shooting a lot of people is either a solution or at least a satisfying way of venting, is the germ of the idea that leads to the first shot being fired at a military base, an elementary school, a country music concert.
The rage says: "I hate everybody." It continues: "I wish everyone would die." It concludes: "I will kill them all."
I am mystified by the fact that so many people are mystified about rage.
I have been there. I have hated everyone. I have been so depressed that I didn't care what happened to me. I was furious at how oblivious everyone was to my pain and how nobody cared about me. I wanted them to pay for it. Haven't you ever felt that way?
Mostly it was when I was younger. In junior high school, when I was relentlessly bullied and beaten up and neither my classmates nor my teachers interfered—to the contrary, they thought it was funny—I fantasized about going to school and shooting everyone there.
When I was a junior in college, I spent finals week at the hospital due to a freak injury. Several of my professors refused to allow me to take a make-up exam because they were lazy, I got Fs and landed on academic probation, and the following semester one mean teacher gave me a C+ and so I got expelled. I lost my job, my dorm room and thus a place to live and wound up homeless on the streets of New York. Watching people go about their day, smiling and laughing and exchanging pleasantries and buying luxuries while I was starving, I despised them. Of course it wasn't their fault. I knew that. What was their fault, in my view at the time, was their active decision not to engage in the struggle for a world that was fair and just, not just to me, but to everybody.
I imagine that most, if not all, homeless people feel that way watching me stroll down the street on my stupid smartphone. They hate me and they are right to hate me.
The NRA and the weapons business and Congress share responsibility, but what really causes mass shootings is the shooters' alienation from society.
Why doesn't America enforce mental health insurance parity? Because the American people don't care enough to raise enough hell to force our elected officials to do so. If you have ever been broke and needed to see a therapist, you probably found out that they charge at least $200 an hour and that your insurance company probably won't cover it—assuming that you have insurance. American society's message to you is loud and clear: we don't care about you. Go ahead and be insane. Die. Returning society's contempt for you is perfectly understandable.
The so-called "incel" (involuntarily celebate) movement of men who hate women because they won't sleep with them is a perfect example of society's refusal to try to understand a legitimate concern. In 2014 an incel killed six people near Santa Barbara. "I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it," the killer said in a video he posted before his rampage. In 2018 an incel killed 10 people in Toronto with his van.
Experts recommend writing laws to deny incels access to guns, shutting down their online forums so that they don't work each other up, and improving their access to mental health care. Those may be good ideas. But they ignore the root of the problem.
Obviously no one has to have sex with anyone. Incels don't have a constitutional right to get laid. But anyone who has ever been young and sexually frustrated (or old and sexually frustrated) knows that sexlessness can literally drive you crazy. Glibly suggesting to awkward or clueless or physically unattractive men to hit the gym and get their charm on is just as hopelessly naïve as Nancy Reagan's "just say no" campaign. Feeling condemned to a life without love or physical companionship really truly sucks and we could start by acknowledging that.
Rage, I think, comes less from having a problem that feels hopelessly unsolvable than from the belief that no one gives a damn about you or your issues. People need to feel heard. People need to be heard.
Given how callous and unfeeling we are about so much suffering around us and among us, the only thing surprising about mass shootings is that they don't happen more frequently.
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, is the author of "Francis: The People's Pope." You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Alienation, Anger, Aurora, Columbine, Guns, incels, mass shootings, mental illness, NRA, Rage, Trump on August 12, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Suicide Is a Rude Way to Interfere With Society Murdering You
Society drives you to suicide but when you go pull the trigger, they tell you your life is worthwhile and that we need you. Maybe society needs to stop sending so many mixed messages.
This entry was posted in and tagged depression, emotions, Healthcare, Hopelessness, Jobs, mental health parity, mental illness, Police, poverty, quota, stresss, Suicide, Unemployment on April 15, 2019 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Who's to Blame for Political Violence? The Terror Starts at the Top, Trickles Down
There are no eye sockets big enough for the eye-rolling I want to do when I hear American politicians express shock at political violence like the last week's domestic terror trifecta: a racist white man murdered two blacks at a Kentucky grocery store, a white right-winger stands accused of mailing more than a dozen pipe bombs to Democratic politicians and celebrities, and a white anti-Semite allegedly gunned down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
There's plenty of blame to go around.
The assault weapons ban expired in 2004 and Congress failed to renew it; eight million AR-15 semiautomatic rifles and related models are now in American homes. Mass shootings aren't occurring more frequently but when they do, body counts are higher.
In 1975 the Supreme Court ruled that a state could no longer forcibly commit the mentally ill to institutions unless they were dangerous. It was a good decision; I remember with horror my Ohio neighbor who had his wife dragged away so he could move in with his girlfriend. Unfortunately it set the stage for the Reagan Administration's systemic deinstitutionalization policy. During the first half of the 1980s mental hospitals were closed and patients were dumped on the streets. The homeless population exploded. Under the old regime, obviously deranged people like James Holmes (the carrot-haired mass shooter at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado), Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut) and Cesar Sayoc (the homeless man arrested for last week's mail bombs) would probably have been locked up before they could hurt anyone.
This time, the post-mayhem political classes blame Donald Trump. He's bigoted and loudly legitimizes far-right extremism. Did his noxious rhetoric inspire these three right-wing bigots? I think it's more complicated: Trump can convince a reasonable person to turn racist. But it's a bigger jump to turn a racist into a killer. That has more to do with insanity.
Tone, morale, what's acceptable vs. what's unacceptable: social norms come from the top and trickle down to us peasants. Trump's rhetoric is toxic.
But the message that violence is effective and acceptable didn't begin with Trump. And it's hardly unique to his presidency.
To paraphrase the old Palmolive commercial: Violence? You're soaking in it! And no one is guiltier of our culture of violence than the countless politicians who say stuff like this:
"Threats or acts of political violence have no place in the United States of America." —Trump, 10/24/18. Untrue. Five days earlier, Trump praised ("he's my kind of — he's my guy") a psychotic Montana congressman who assaulted a reporter, breaking his glasses.
"There's no room for violence [in politics]." —Barack Obama, 6/3/16. Yet every week as president Obama worked down a "kill list" of victims targeted for drone assassination because they opposed the dictatorial governments of corrupt U.S. allies. And he bragged about the political assassination of Osama bin Laden rather than putting him on trial, as the law requires.
Textbooks teach us, without irony or criticism, about Manifest Destiny—the assumption that Americans have been entitled from Day One to whatever land they wanted to steal and to kill anyone who tried to stop them. Historians write approvingly of the Monroe Doctrine, the insane-if-you-think-about-it claim that every country in the Western hemisphere enjoys only as much sovereignty as we feel like granting them. Implicit throughout America's foreign adventurism is that the U.S. invading and occupying and raiding other nations is normal and free of consequence, whereas the rare occasions when other nations attack the U.S. (War of 1812, Pearl Harbor, 9/11) are outrageous and intolerable and call for ferocious retribution.
After childhood the job of brainwashing otherwise sane adults into the systemic normalization of state violence falls to our political leaders and their mouthpieces in the media.
Even the best politicians do it. It's a system. When you live in a system, you soak in it.
"In this country we battle with words and ideas, not fists and bombs," Bernie Sanders tweeted in response to the mail bombs. What a lie.
The Obama Administration's Department of Homeland Security used policemen's fists and flash grenades and pepper bombs to rout dozens of Occupy Wall Street movement encampments in 2011.
The mayor of Philadelphia ordered that police drop a bomb on a row house in a quiet neighborhood in 1985. The botched effort to execute arrest warrants on an anarcho-primitivist group called MOVE killed 11 people and burned down three city blocks, destroying 65 buildings. Police shot at those trying to escape. Naturally, no city official was ever charged with wrongdoing.
Cops kill a thousand Americans every year.
Every president deploys violence on a vast scale. They're cavalier about it. They revel in their crimes because they think bragging about committing mass murder makes them look "tough."
How on earth can they act surprised when ordinary citizens follow their example?
After watching Islamist rebels torture deposed Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi and sodomize him with a bayonet, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chuckled gleefully about America's role in his gruesome death (a U.S. drone blew up the dictator's convoy): "We came, we saw, he died."
How macho.
At the 2010 White House Correspondents Dinner Obama joked about his policy of assassinating brown-skinned Middle Easterners willy-nilly: "The Jonas Brothers are here; they're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: Predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking."
Imagine the president of France or Germany or Canada or Russia saying something that insensitive, tasteless and crass. You can't. They wouldn't.
"It's already hard enough to convince Muslims that the U.S. isn't indifferent to civilian casualties without having the president joke about it," commented Adam Serwer of the American Prospect. Assuming Muslims are dumb enough to be convinced.
When political leaders in other countries discuss their decisions to commit violence, there's often a "more in sorrow than in anger" tone to their statements. Don't want to, can't help it, regrettable—just don't have a choice.
American presidents are different. They swagger like John Wayne.
The crazies who shoot up schools and synagogues sound a lot like them.
"Screw your optics, I'm going in," accused Pittsburgh temple shooter Robert Bowers posted to social media hours before the incident.
"Hey mom. Gotta go," Dylan Klebold said on video the day before he and Eric Harris killed 20 people at Columbine High School.
"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," wrote Andrew Stack before he flew his plane into an IRS office in Austin in 2010.
There is, of course, a difference between killer elites and killer proles. The elites kill more people.
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, is the author of "Francis: The People's Pope." You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Adam Lanza, AR-15, Aurora, Brutality, Cesar Sayoc, domestic terror, Donald Trump, James Holmes, Manifest Destiny, mental illness, Monroe Doctrine, Obama, Violence on October 29, 2018 by Ted Rall.
Capitalism Kills Mentally Ill Americans
Why don't more victims of depression call for help? Some people who do wind up not with help but a giant medical bill.
This entry was posted in and tagged ambulance, Capitalism, depression, Healthcare, Medium, mental illness, Profit, Psychiatrist, suicide hotline on October 5, 2018 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Suicide? No. Society Is Murdering Us. But There Is a Way Out.
They say that 10 million Americans seriously consider committing suicide every year. In 1984, when I was 20, I was one of them.
Most people who kill themselves feel hopeless. They are miserable and distraught and can't imagine how or if their lives will ever improve. That's how I felt. Within a few months I got expelled from college, dumped by a girlfriend I foolishly believed I would marry, fired from my job and evicted from my apartment. I was homeless, bereft, broke. I didn't have enough money for more than a day of cheap food. And I had no prospects.
I tried in vain to summon up the guts to jump off the roof of my dorm. I went down to the subway but couldn't make myself jump in front of a train. I wanted to. But I couldn't.
Obviously things got better. I'm writing this.
Things got better because my luck changed. But — why did it have to? Isn't there something wrong with a society in which life or death turns on luck?
I wish I could tell my 20-year-old self that suicide isn't necessary, that there is another way, that there will be plenty of time to be dead in the end. I've seen those other ways when I've traveled overseas.
In Thailand and Central Asia and the Caribbean and all over the world you will find Americans whose American lives ran hard against the shoals of bankruptcy, lost love, addiction or social shame. Rather than off themselves, they gathered their last dollars and headed to the airport and went somewhere else to start over. They showed up at some dusty ex-pat bar in the middle of nowhere with few skills other than speaking English and asked if they could crash in the back room in between washing dishes. Eventually they scraped together enough money to conduct tours for Western tourists, maybe working as a divemaster or taking rich vacationers deep-sea fishing. They weren't rich themselves; they were OK and that was more than enough.
You really can start over. But maybe not in this uptight, stuck-up, class-stratified country.
I remembered that in 2015 when I suffered another setback. Unbeknownst to me, the Los Angeles Times — where I had worked as a cartoonist since 2009 – had gotten itself into a corrupt business deal with the LAPD, which I routinely criticized in my cartoons. A piece-of-work police chief leveraged his department's financial influence on the newspaper by demanding that the idiot ingénue publisher, his political ally, fire me as a favor. But mere firing wasn't enough for these two goons. They published not one, but two articles, lying about me in an outrageous attempt to destroy my journalistic credibility. I'm suing but the court system is slower than molasses in the pre-climate change Arctic.
Suicide crossed my mind many times during those dark weeks and months. Although I had done nothing wrong the Times' smears made me feel ashamed. I was angry: at the Times editors who should have quit rather than carry out such shameful orders, at the media outlets who refused to cover my story, at the friends and colleagues who didn't support me. Though many people stood by me, I felt alone. I couldn't imagine salvaging my reputation — as a journalist, your reputation for truthtelling and integrity are your most valuable asset and essential to do your job and to get new ones.
As my LA Times nightmare unfolded, however, I remembered the Texas-born bartender who had reinvented himself in Belize after his wife left him and a family court judge ordered him to pay 90% of his salary in alimony. I thought about the divemaster in Cozumel running away from legal trouble back in the States that he refused to describe. If my career were to crumble away, I could split.
You can opt out of BS without having to opt out of life.
Up 30% since 1999, suicide has become an accelerating national epidemic — 1.4 million Americans tried to kill themselves in a single year, 2015 — but the only times the media focuses on suicide is when it claims the lives of celebrities like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. While the media has made inroads by trying to cover high-profile suicides discreetly so as to minimize suicidal ideation and inspiring others to follow their example, it's frustrating that no one seems to want to identify societal and political factors so that this trend might be reversed.
Experts believe that roughly half of men who commit suicide suffer from undiagnosed mental illness such as a severe personality disorder or clinical depression. Men commit suicide in substantially higher numbers than women. The healthcare insurance business isn't much help. One in five Americans is mentally ill but 60% get no treatment at all.
Then there's stress. Journalistic outlets and politicians don't target the issue of stress in any meaningful way other than to foolishly, insipidly advise people to avoid it. If you subject millions of people to inordinate stress, some of them, the fragile ones, will take their own lives. We should be working to create a society that minimizes rather than increases stress.
It doesn't require a lot of heavy lifting to come up with major sources of stress in American society. People are working longer hours but earning lower pay. Even people with jobs are terrified of getting laid off without a second's notice. The American healthcare system, designed to fatten for-profit healthcare corporations, is a sick joke. When you lose your job or get sick, that shouldn't be your problem alone. We're social creatures. We must help each other personally, locally and through strong safety-net social programs.
Loneliness and isolation are likely leading causes of suicide; technology is alienating us from one another even from those who live in our own homes. This is a national emergency. We have to discuss it, then act.
Life in the United States has become vicious and brutal, too much to take even for this nation founded upon the individualistic principles of rugged libertarian pioneers. Children are pressured to exhibit fake joy and success on social media. Young adults are burdened with gigantic student loans they strongly suspect they will never be able to repay. The middle-aged are divorced, outsourced, downsized and repeatedly told they are no longer relevant. And the elderly are thrown away or warehoused, discarded and forgotten by the children they raised.
We don't have to live this way. It's a choice. Like the American ex-pats I run into overseas, American society can opt out of crazy-making capitalism without having to opt out.
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Anthony Bourdain, Capitalism, journalism, Kate Spade, killing, media, mental illness, stress, Suicide, therapy, Unemployment on June 14, 2018 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: On the One Hand, Gun Violence. On the Other Hand, Gun Control. It Never Ends.
On the one hand, the news that another psychologically damaged man shot 17 schoolchildren to death with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle is not news. Put it on page 27 below the fold, maybe?
On the other hand, you have to be shocked because these are kids and who do we become if we stop being shocked? Congress and the president should put their heads together and act now.
On the one hand, the Second Amendment is an essential safeguard against government tyranny. While an authoritarian state (any state) will always have police and troops with better training and arms than its enemies at its disposal, owning a weapon will give many resistance fighters of the future the courage they need to fight back.
On the other hand, the population of Americans who live in rural areas was 95% when the Founding Fathers ratified the Constitution. Now it's 15%. Once a major source of food necessary for survival, hunting today is mere sport. Considering the daily carnage of gun violence, the Second Amendment may be as obsolete as the flint-lock rifle. Perhaps we should repeal?
On the one hand, military-style weapons like the current mass shooters' gun of choice, the AR-15, were designed for one purpose: to kill people efficiently. Until 2008 they were banned. Why not renew the assault weapons ban?
On the other hand, people really do use them to hunt. Having been on the receiving end of more than my fair share of death threats, I'd rather defend my homestead with an AR-15 than a less efficient, less accurate gun. Sorry, liberals, but gun rights people have a point: ban AR-15s and the next step will be a push to ban other weapons. Slippery slopes are a real thing; look how the pro-life movement has rolled back abortion rights via incremental, reasonable-seeming moves like bans on late-term terminations.
On the one hand, there are 270 million guns in the United States — almost one for every man, woman and child. Even if we banned guns, how would we force the gun genie back into its bottle of death? Send government goons to kick down every door in the country to search for them?
On the other hand, existing guns could be grandfathered into a ban on the manufacture and sale of new guns (including from one individual to another). Guns would get old. They'd rust. Those used for target practice would wear out. Trigger mechanisms are often the first to go. Like the fairly effective ban on ivory, the effect would become evident over time: a nation awash in weaponry would become less so with the passage of time.
On the one hand, states like Florida seem crazy for not requiring gun purchasers to register their weapons. Florida actually bans such regulations. Cars, boats, even bicycles and cats and dogs, must be registered. Why not devices that kill people?
On the other hand, gun ownership is different. It's a constitutional right. Automobile ownership, operating a boat and having a pet are privileges guaranteed by state and local laws. Mandatory gun registration would be no more constitutional than forcing media outlets to apply for a state license before publishing (they do this in other countries).
On the one hand, many if not most mass shooters are mentally ill. Wouldn't it make sense to prohibit sales of firearms and ammunition to people suffering from mental illness?
On the other hand, who gets to define what constitutes mental illness? Federal law bans sales to anyone who "has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution." New York, where I live, goes further, banning sales of guns to one "who has stated whether he or she has ever suffered any mental illness." That's very broad: "Heathers" and "Stranger Things" actress Winona Ryder, singer Mariah Carey, artist Yoko Ono and actress Roseanne Barr were all institutionalized. But no one thinks they're going postal any time soon — frankly, I'd trust Winona with the nuclear codes more than Trump. The metric is also highly subjective. Gays were officially classified as mentally ill until 1987. Transgender people are still on the list.
On the one hand, people who knew him say they're not surprised that Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz went berserk. The signs were there all along: violent Internet posts, ties to white supremacists, erratic behavior like threatening people with a BB gun. People saw something; why didn't they say something?
On the other hand, this isn't "Minority Report." You can't jail someone for what they might do. People are entitled to their opinions, no matter what they are. If you jailed everyone who acts strange or right-wing or loopy, half the country would be locked up. And anyway, who trusts the police or the government to decide which half?
On the one hand, if anyone deserves to die, it's Nikolas Cruz.
On the other hand, what kind of society executes a "broken child," possibly autistic, almost certainly emotionally damaged, absolutely wrecked by the recent death of his mother, his last surviving parent?
How does killing a killer send the message that killing is wrong?
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall) is co-author, with Harmon Leon, of "Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America," an inside look at the American far right, out now. You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
CORRECTION: This piece has been corrected by the deletion of "because it's the 18th school shooting so far this year, " from the first sentence. I fell victim to a widely disseminated, now known to be untrue, statistic. Please see The Washington Post here for details.
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged abortion rights, ammunition death penalty, ar-15s, assault weapons ban, constitution, Florida, Gays, Gun Control, gun violence, Hunting, Lesbians, LGBTQA, mental illness, Military, nikolas cruz, NRA, roseanne barr, rural, school shooting, Second Amendment, transgender, winona ryder, yoko ono on February 16, 2018 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Germanwings Mass Murder-Suicide Caused by Punitive Rules, Coldhearted Capitalism
Investigators are still putting together the pieces, but from what we know so far, it's likely that 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz committed mass murder-suicide when he flew a Germanwings passenger jet carrying 149 passengers and fellow crewmen into the French Alps.
Authorities say they haven't found a suicide note, but it's a safe bet that Lubitz's final act was prompted by depression (they found the meds), diminished vision, a deteriorating romantic relationship and his worry that the Lufthansa subsidiary would ground him if they found out about his problems, crashing a career he loved and blowing up his livelihood.
Though rare, pilot suicide isn't unheard of. As long as the current system remains in place, it will happen again.
By "system," I'm referring both to specific rules issued by the FAA and other countries' aviation authorities to regulate pilots, and to that most coldhearted of socioeconomic systems, you're-on-your-own capitalism.
"Before they are licensed, pilots must undergo a medical exam, conducted by a doctor trained and certified by the aviation agency," explains The New York Times. Some airlines impose additional screening procedures, but they vary from company to company. Active pilots are required to have a medical screening once a year until they turn 40 and then twice a year after. Only when pilots are found to have mental health problems are they sent to a psychiatrist or psychologist for evaluation or treatment."
At first glance, an incident like the Germanwings disaster seems to call for increased physical and mental monitoring. But leaning harder on pilots would only fix half the problem.
The current system is punitive – thus it encourages lying.
"But the system, Dr. [Warren] Silberman [a former manager of aerospace medical certification for the FAA] and others said, leaves pilots on an honor system, albeit one reinforced by penalties to discourage them from concealing any health issues that could affect their fitness to fly, including mental illness. Pilots who falsify information or lie about their health face fines that can reach $250,000, according to the FAA."
Imagine yourself in that position. Knowing that public safety is at risk, you might do the right thing and step forward after your psychiatrist tells you that you shouldn't be working, as happened to Lubitz. Then again, you might not.
First of all, you might doubt the diagnosis. That's the thing about mental illness – victims' judgment can be impaired. For example, there is evidence that Ronald Reagan suffered from early signs of dementia while serving as president. If true, that's scary – but was the Gipper aware he was fading?
Second, you might think you could handle it, that with the help of psychiatric treatment and antidepressant medications, you could push through what might turn out to be a temporary crisis. Why risk everything over a passing phase?
Third, and this is likely, you might keep your problems to yourself because to do otherwise would ruin your life – or at least feel like it. At bare minimum, it would end your career, forcing you to start from zero. For many people, that seems too horrible to bear. In our society, social status is determined by our careers.
"The stigma [of having a mental illness] is enormous," Dr. William Hurt Sledge, professor of psychiatry at Yale who has consulted for the FAA, the Air Line Pilots Association and major airlines, told the Times. "And of course, none of them wants that to be known, nor do they want to confess it or believe that they have it."
And for those who decide to ignore the stigma, what comes next? Where's the safety net, professional, social and economic, for people who run into trouble, whether of their own making or not?
At the root of Lubitz's decision to kill himself – whether he gave much thought to the 149 people on the other side of the reinforced cockpit door cannot be known – is that he lived, as we all do in the Western world, in a disposable society. Lose what you do and you lose what you are. The bills keep coming long after the paychecks stop; soon you have nothing left.
I could throw a dart at any daily newspaper to illustrate this point; today it would probably land on the results of an AARP survey that found – unsurprisingly to anyone over age 50 – that a single layoff after that age has devastating, long-term consequences. People over 50 are overwhelmingly more likely to wind up classified among the long-term unemployed and typically wind up earning less if and when they find a new job, often starting again from scratch in a new industry because their experience was in a line of work that no longer has openings.
I imagine a system in which people like Andreas Lubitz don't need to see a psychological or other setback as the end of their world.
What if he could have confided in his bosses without fear? What if Lufthansa policy was to stand by him through his treatment, guaranteeing him a respectable job at equivalent salary – for as long as it took for him to get better? And if he couldn't recover, what if he knew that his country's government would provide for him financially and otherwise? Finally, what if no one cared what he did for a living, and it was just as prestigious and remunerative to work as a file clerk as to fly a plane?
I'm not sure, but I bet 150 people would be alive today.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and the cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of the new critically-acclaimed book "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan." Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Still No National Healthcare For Mental Illness? That's Crazy
STILL NO NATIONAL HEALTHCARE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS? THAT'S CRAZY
BY TED RALL
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014
The sister of the 28-year-old man who shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore the same morning he killed two New York police officers as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn said her brother had long suffered from mental illness, but hadn't received treatment.
"He was an emotionally troubled young man, and he was suicidal," said Jalaa'i Brinsley. "Clearly something's wrong. He should have been offered help in the system, right? But he wasn't."
Indeed. Something is very wrong.
In the United States, psychiatric care is a luxury that, at $150 an hour and up for counseling that can last for months or even years, only the very wealthiest citizens can afford.
This latest sorry episode serves as yet another reminder that ours remains a country in its infancy when it comes to health care, despite the undeniable turning point marked by last year's enactment of the Affordable Care Act. As many as one out of four Americans suffer mental health issues in any given year, yet even upper-middle-class "white-collar" workers with relatively high-end health insurance plans receive little coverage for mental illness. The same goes for dental and vision care.
You know the narrative by now: after a particularly heinous shooting or mass shooting, typically ending with the suicide or death-by-cop of the suspect, relatives of the murderer emerge to express their sorrow and anger that they had repeatedly sought help but had been consistently rejected, usually due to their inability to afford expensive treatment and medications for mental illness. For the most part, however, news coverage and political debate emphasizes helplessness – who can predict who will go crazy? – and America's easy access to high-powered weapons. Sure, there is a flutter of discussion of the fact that few Americans have access to care for mental illness, but those stories are inevitably overshadowed by the gun control and the "culture of violence" chatter.
Talk about crazy!
As the bodies of the victims – which, if you are fair-minded, must include the killers along with the killed – go cold in their graves, the media and thus the population at large move on, the system putters on the same as always, denying countless millions access to the mental health professionals this country can easily afford to pay on their behalf, and setting the stage for some tiny fraction of them to go haywire and commit the headline-grabbing mass murders of the future.
Two years ago, after Adam Lanza slaughtered 20 children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed his mother and himself, some public officials declared that it was time to get serious about mental illness. According to a report by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate, Lanza had never received treatment for years of mental illness, including anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But, as USA Today reports, "the drive for change has [since] slowed at the state level and ground almost to a halt in Washington…Only 29 states increased funding this year, however. Seven states reduced mental health spending. In some states, mental health funding is still less than it was before the [2008-10] recession."
"We're seeing less attention to mental health, and that's concerning to us, because we're still seeing so many tragedies every day," Mary Giliberti of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) told the paper. Although individual tragedies may not make the news, she said, "the suffering is tremendous when people don't get the services they need. People end up in emergency rooms. People end up in jails and prisons, which is absolutely the wrong place for someone with mental illness."
Mental illness is one of America's biggest hidden scourges.
According to NAMI, 1 in 17 adults − about 13.6 million Americans – suffer from a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder.
46% of homeless Americans in shelters suffer from serious mental illness and/or substance abuse.
20% of prisoners in state and local prisons have a recent history of mental health problems.
70% of children in juvenile prisons have a mental health condition.
People need help, but they're not getting it. 60% of adults with mental illness received no treatment within the last year.
Mental health treatment is expensive — but so is ignoring the problem. "Serious mental illness cost the economy $193.2 billion in lost earnings each year," according to NAMI. Think of all the wars we could fight with the taxes from those lost salaries! Or don't: 22 veterans commit suicide daily.
This year is a perfect example of the system's inability and/or unwillingness to respond to the mental health crisis. Even after actor-comedian Robin Williams succumbed to suicide after years of alcoholism and depression, and a severely depressed 22-year-old man killed six people and then himself at the University of California at Santa Barbara, you couldn't even find a single liberal Democrat in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to propose a bill that would expand the ACA to include comprehensive coverage for mental illness.
Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger's "parents repeatedly attempted to get psychiatric help for their son. By his own account, he was prescribed antipsychotic medication but refused to take it," CBS News reported at the time.
There is a strong argument to be made in favor of restricting access to the highest powered automatic weapons, as well as philosophical interest in debating the nature of good and evil, but if we as a country truly want to reduce the frequency and severity of shootings in our public spaces, we should start by throwing some serious money at psychologists and psychiatrists.
"About half of these mass killings are being done by people with severe mental illness, mostly schizophrenia," Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a leading expert on severe mental illness told "60 Minutes" in 2013. "And if they were being treated, they would've been preventable."
So it wasn't just "evil," or random criminality, that killed those two NYPD officers last weekend.
It was us.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and cartoonist, is the author of the new critically-acclaimed book "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan." Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
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Adbusters Sells Out Occupy Wall Street
UPDATED: Turns out the email from "Adbusters" below was actually from another group. See my follow-up blog post for details.
So I got this email from Adbusters Magazine this morning:
What made this crass attempt to commercialize the crashed-and-burned OWS movement even ickier was that it recently followed this:


Aging changes and gravity cause loosening and drooping of the tissues of the neck. Even as early as the late 30s, many patients will dislike the appearance of their neck and desire rejuvenation. There may be early jowls and these patients would traditionally be treated with a Lower Face Lift and Neck Lift. However, new minimally invasive procedures, the Silhouette Neck Lift and Ribbon Lift (Endotine) can provide significant neck lifting and rejuvenation. In conjunction with the Silhouette Face Lift or Silhouette Face Lift or Endotine Mid-Face Lift, these innovative procedures deliver the safe, simple and effective rejuvenation of the Lower Face and Neck.
What is the Silhouette Neck Lift, Minimally invasive Neck Lift?
The Silhouette Neck Lift uses an innovative thread with bio-absorbable cones to lift and secure the neck tissues through a short incision behind the ear. The threads secure the tissue during the normal healing phase and the cones are absorbed by the body after 10 -12 weeks leaving the threads intact to hold the lifting effect.
Who is a good candidate for the Silhouette Neck Lift?
The Silhouette Neck Lift is an excellent option for patients with early jowling, who need a well defined cervico-mental angle and patients with early neck laxity or platysmal bands who wish to avoid major invasive procedures. Silhouette Neck Lift is suitable for heavy necked male patients or patients who have residual neck laxity following a previous Face Lift who require a further adjustment. The Silhouette Neck Lift is suitable for patients in their 40's to early 50's.
How is the Silhouette Neck Lift performed?
Initial consultation will determine the goals of treatment, make note of any associated abnormalities or asymmetry and plan the optimum treatment to achieve the ideal result in each patient. The Silhouette Neck Lift is carried out in the out-patient setting and takes approximately 45 minutes and is commonly performed in combination with the Silhouette Face Lift. A local anaesthetic injection is used to ensure that the treatment is as comfortable as possible. Liposculpture of the neck may be performed to remove any excess fat and an incision is made around the earlobe. The Silhouette Threads are passed from below the earlobe to the anterior neck just below the jaw-line. The Threads are then pulled back to lift the neck and define the jaw-line and secured to the deep tissue behind the ear.
This lifting action may produce excess skin around the earlobe which can trimmed to complete the procedure. A short course of antibiotics will be prescribed.
Minimal discomfort is expected during the treatment and minimal bruising may occur, which will usually resolve after 1 week.
Improvement in the neck and jaw line will be seen immediately following the Silhouette Neck Lift. Any swelling will resolve in 1 week.
The effects of the Silhouette Neck Lift are long lasting. However, this procedure rejuvenates the neck but does not stop the effects of gravity and aging, therefore, additional treatments may be required in 3 – 5 years.
Mild discomfort, swelling and bruising can occur. Infections with the Neck Lift are rare. The neck may feel tight for the first 4 – 6 weeks and the area may be tender for the first 2 weeks.
Restricted activities are advised for 1 week following the Silhouette Neck Lift. Wearing a neck support is recommended for the first week. Avoid vigorous activity for 4 weeks following the Lift.


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"""
Test lldb data formatter subsystem.
"""

import lldb
from lldbsuite.test.decorators import *
from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
from lldbsuite.test import lldbutil

class NSStringDataFormatterTestCase(TestBase):

    mydir = TestBase.compute_mydir(__file__)

    def appkit_tester_impl(self, commands):
        self.build()
        self.runCmd("file " + self.getBuildArtifact("a.out"), CURRENT_EXECUTABLE_SET)

        lldbutil.run_break_set_by_file_and_line(
            self, "main.m", self.line, num_expected_locations=1, loc_exact=True)

        self.runCmd("run", RUN_SUCCEEDED)

        # The stop reason of the thread should be breakpoint.
        self.expect("thread list", STOPPED_DUE_TO_BREAKPOINT,
                    substrs=['stopped',
                             'stop reason = breakpoint'])

        # This is the function to remove the custom formats in order to have a
        # clean slate for the next test case.
        def cleanup():
            self.runCmd('type format clear', check=False)
            self.runCmd('type summary clear', check=False)
            self.runCmd('type synth clear', check=False)

        # Execute the cleanup function during test case tear down.
        self.addTearDownHook(cleanup)
        commands()

    @skipUnlessDarwin
    @no_debug_info_test
    def test_nsstring_with_run_command(self):
        """Test formatters for NSString."""
        self.appkit_tester_impl(self.nsstring_data_formatter_commands)

    @skipUnlessDarwin
    @no_debug_info_test
    def test_rdar11106605_with_run_command(self):
        """Check that Unicode characters come out of CFString summary correctly."""
        self.appkit_tester_impl(self.rdar11106605_commands)

    @skipUnlessDarwin
    @no_debug_info_test
    def test_nsstring_withNULS_with_run_command(self):
        """Test formatters for NSString."""
        self.appkit_tester_impl(self.nsstring_withNULs_commands)

    def setUp(self):
        # Call super's setUp().
        TestBase.setUp(self)
        # Find the line number to break at.
        self.line = line_number('main.m', '// break here')

    def rdar11106605_commands(self):
        """Check that Unicode characters come out of CFString summary correctly."""
        self.expect('frame variable italian', substrs=[
                    'L\'Italia è una Repubblica democratica, fondata sul lavoro. La sovranità appartiene al popolo, che la esercita nelle forme e nei limiti della Costituzione.'])
        self.expect('frame variable french', substrs=[
                    'Que veut cette horde d\'esclaves, De traîtres, de rois conjurés?'])
        self.expect('frame variable german', substrs=[
                    'Über-Ich und aus den Ansprüchen der sozialen Umwelt'])
        self.expect('frame variable japanese', substrs=['色は匂へど散りぬるを'])
        self.expect('frame variable hebrew', substrs=['לילה טוב'])

    def nsstring_data_formatter_commands(self):
        self.expect('frame variable empty str0 str1 str2 str3 str4 str5 str6 str8 str9 str10 str11 label1 label2 processName str12',
                    substrs=['(NSString *) empty = ', ' @""',
                             # '(NSString *) str0 = ',' @"255"',
                             '(NSString *) str1 = ', ' @"A rather short ASCII NSString object is here"',
                             '(NSString *) str2 = ', ' @"A rather short UTF8 NSString object is here"',
                             '(NSString *) str3 = ', ' @"A string made with the at sign is here"',
                             '(NSString *) str4 = ', ' @"This is string number 4 right here"',
                             '(NSString *) str5 = ', ' @"{{1, 1}, {5, 5}}"',
                             '(NSString *) str6 = ', ' @"1ST"',
                             '(NSString *) str8 = ', ' @"hasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTimehasVeryLongExtensionThisTime',
                             '(NSString *) str9 = ', ' @"a very much boring task to write a string this way!!',
                             '(NSString *) str10 = ', ' @"This is a Unicode string σ number 4 right here"',
                             '(NSString *) str11 = ', ' @"__NSCFString"',
                             '(NSString *) label1 = ', ' @"Process Name: "',
                             '(NSString *) label2 = ', ' @"Process Id: "',
                             '(NSString *) str12 = ', ' @"Process Name:  a.out Process Id:'])
        self.expect(
            'frame variable attrString mutableAttrString mutableGetConst',
            substrs=[
                '(NSAttributedString *) attrString = ',
                ' @"hello world from foo"',
                '(NSAttributedString *) mutableAttrString = ',
                ' @"hello world from foo"',
                '(NSString *) mutableGetConst = ',
                ' @"foo said this string needs to be very long so much longer than whatever other string has been seen ever before by anyone of the mankind that of course this is still not long enough given what foo our friend foo our lovely dearly friend foo desired of us so i am adding more stuff here for the sake of it and for the joy of our friend who is named guess what just foo. hence, dear friend foo, stay safe, your string is now  long enough to accommodate your testing need and I will make sure that if not we extend it with even more fuzzy random meaningless words pasted one after the other from a long tiresome friday evening spent working in my office. my office mate went home but I am still randomly typing just for the fun of seeing what happens of the length of a Mutable String in Cocoa if it goes beyond one byte.. so be it, dear foo"'])

        self.expect('expr -d run-target -- path', substrs=['usr/blah/stuff'])
        self.expect('frame variable path', substrs=['usr/blah/stuff'])
        self.expect('expr -d run-target -- empty_path', substrs=['@""'])
        self.expect('frame variable empty_path', substrs=['@""'])

    def nsstring_withNULs_commands(self):
        """Check that the NSString formatter supports embedded NULs in the text"""
        self.expect(
            'po strwithNULs',
            substrs=['a very much boring task to write'])
        self.expect('expr [strwithNULs length]', substrs=['54'])
        self.expect('frame variable strwithNULs', substrs=[
                    '@"a very much boring task to write\\0a string this way!!'])
        self.expect('po strwithNULs2', substrs=[
                    'a very much boring task to write'])
        self.expect('expr [strwithNULs2 length]', substrs=['52'])
        self.expect('frame variable strwithNULs2', substrs=[
                    '@"a very much boring task to write\\0a string this way!!'])

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Apply to EvoKids!
Inquire a Trial Class
EvoKids' Handbook
Ellie Alexiou Sporrer (EvoKids' Founder)
Mrs. Alexiou Sporrer was born in Athens, Greece and she studied Mathematics. Even though she always intended to follow a career in education, post-graduation, she chose to follow an MBA course from which she graduated in 2008 with a distinction. It may seem an oxymoron, yet management skills turned out to be especially useful to a teacher!
Her interest in Education led her to London where, in September 2008, she qualified as a Teacher from the General Teaching Council for England and Wales (QTS No: 1030338). She taught at the Primary classes of "High Barnet Hellenic School" in London for one year whilst training as a secondary teacher at the "Park View Academy" in Tottenham, London and teaching privately the two great grandchildren of the distinguished family of Constantin Carathéodory.
In September 2009 she moved back to Athens for a year, and she taught kids 18 months to 6 years old at "My PlayCe" private school. In 2010, she moved to Zurich, Switzerland and started working at "Zurich International School", where she taught for two years.
In August 2012, she did the next stop in her career and she started leading Kinder Connection International School in Baden, Switzerland while her vision for creating her own school became a reality!
Mrs. Ellie is a PhD student in the field of Evolutionary Developmental Psychology. A field that inspired her to build her own school focusing on each child's emotional and academic development.
Mrs. Ellie is First Aid qualified for Babies, Children & adults.
Nick Godwin (EvoKids' Curriculum Director)
Mr. Godwin is a highly experienced language teacher to learners all over the world but with a special focus in Japan and UK. He has over 5,000 teacher hours both privately and to group classes.
Nick creates bespoke rapid improvement courses aligned with each schools' students' goals to help them break through their plateaus, reduce fossilised mistakes, and improve their confidence in using English - no matter their purpose.
He helps learners find both the enjoyment and results they are hoping for in their language endeavours.
Dr. Christina Wehrli - Batsalias
German is her native language. She was born in Aachen, Germany.
Christina studied at the University of Hamburg, degree in Sociology, German philology and Psychology. She did her Doctoral studies - PhD at the University of Hamburg.
She has been teaching German as a foreign language for over 20 years. She was the owner and head of the language institute "Müller" - German language courses in Athens, Greece.
Christina was the Head of the German department of the private primary school I.M. Panagiotopoulos in Athens.
She is a Co-author of test books for German as a foreign language, B1 and B2 - Goethe certificate.
Christina supervises the EvoKids' teaching program in the subject "German" according to the German and Swiss-German recommendations, always based on the didactics of German in early childhood education.
After completing the EvoKids teaching program, she teaches students from the age of 6 privately in German and accompanies them through the school. The same applies to interested parents who want to expand their knowledge of German or who are also aiming for a certificate (A1-C2).
Christina works as a German teacher in Zurich (since 2011) – Deutschkurse Wehrli-Batsalias.
https://deutschkurse-wehrli-batsalias.ch
Hara Guntli (Principal Bad Ragaz Campus)
Mrs. Guntli was born in Athens, Greece and raised in Ancient Olympia, Peloponnese where she also competed her obligatory school education until 18 years old. After high school Hara moved to Athens where she studied as a Multimedia Programmer.
With an extensive experience in marketing, project handling and events, Hara moved to Switzerland where she worked as an events coordinator for the Careers Department in International Hotel Management IMI College in Lucerne.
Leaving IMI, Hara was hired as a member of the Operations Team in a major Trading house in Zug with an annual turnover of 8 billion USD in Petrochemicals, handling projects of operations for the Petroleum business.
While she had her two kids and moved from Zurich Hara enrolled her daughter to EvoKids Zurich where she also provided her experience with events production and marketing. After living in Zurich for 3 years she moved to Bad Ragaz and now manages the EvoKids Bad Ragaz Campus in St Gallen.

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I don't act this way to change the world, I act this way so that the goddamn world won't change me!
You don't think I am weird? You don't know me at all.
Yes sorry I was thinking of doing that individually. I am starting a podcast network and thinking of doing a podcast with stories. I have access to voice actors who can bring your stories to life. I am currently writing a story that will be a seperate podcast that will run for about 12 episodes. I'm thinking of doing more long length stories or a podcast with short stories. Depending on the genre that you write. You will be given credit as the author. If you end up joining and constantly writing, if the network grows and gets popular and gets sponsors, there is a possibility of getting paid. But we can talk about that if we get there. Right now I need dedicated story tellers who would like their stories to be brought to life and shared with the world.
It all depends. you can message me privately and we can talk about it. If you write a longer story, then you won't need to write often. However if you want to just write one story, that is fine too. Anything goes it all depends on what you can do.
I'll definitely submit a story, but I might take time since I am not free till October first week.
I'll probably write something that splits between different episodes, 20 episodes? What genres are you looking for and is there anything like no mature content or anything? What would be the length of every episode? How much time would lapse between two podcasts?
So yeah, pm about the answers or answer them here, whatever.
Sounds fishy. Do you have any kind of public/ business contact or online presence? Even something like a personal blog?


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MuseuMap has been appointed member of Europeana
We are proud to announce that the Europeana Aggregator Forum (EAF) and the Europeana Foundation (EF) appointed MuseuMap as an accredited aggregator to the Europeana service.
The Europeana initiative builds on a network of national, thematic and domain aggregators enabling cultural heritage institutions across Europe to share their content with Europeana and open it up to new audiences. MuseuMap operated by Hungarian National Museum has been recognised as an active member of this network and a constituent part of the Europeana ecosystem.
MuseuMap is contributing to the Europeana initiative working with cultural institutions and collectors to gather authentic, trustworthy and robust data and make it accessible to Europeana. This also makes it available to education and research infrastructures, creatives, developers and the general public. MuseuMap has also been recognised as an important source of expertise, offering advice and support in digitisation, content description, metadata mapping, licensing, media formats, accessibility, multilingualism and in the adoption of controlled vocabularies.
MuseuMap, by virtue of its activities and its contribution to the Europeana initiative, has been appointed as a full member of the Europeana Apqreqators Forum network of national, thematic and domain aggregators for digital cultural heritage in Europe.
Tags: MuseuMap, Digitisation, Collections, Europeana


Your diet plays in important role in how well your body functions. A balanced diet provides the necessary vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates and fat that your body needs for optimal function.
Physical activity is not only for weight control. It can also decrease your chances of developing diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer.
Stand more. Instead of sitting while watching TV, playing video games, or using the computer, try standing. Too much sitting is bad for you.
Proper oral hygiene is important for overall health. Brushing your teeth with fluoride toothpaste and flossing between them reduces the chances of having tooth decay and gum disease. Gum disease is linked to heart disease and diabetes. Don't forget to brush your tongue, as it contains the majority of oral bacteria. Try to brush at least twice a day and use mouthwash containing fluoride for added protection.
Use caution with oral piercings when brushing and flossing.
Drink plenty of water and limit sugary and acidic drinks. Drinking through a straw helps reduce teeth discoloration and the amount of contact sugar and acid have with the teeth.
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry advises against the use of whitening products by anyone under the age of 15, due to a lack of research supporting their safety for use on young teeth.
Colgate: White Strips for Teeth: Safe for Kids and Teens?


Hungary takes part at the Eurovision Song Contest irregularily. The last participation has been in 1997 in Dublin with V.I.P.. The biggest success could be reacht in 1994 in the debut year with Frederika and her song "Kinek mondjam el veitkeimet" - rank 4! Since that Hungary did not have much luck with Eurovision entries.
This year Hungary tries to show another time how beautiful Hungarian music can be. The group Nox will sing a quite folkloristc song called "Forogj világ" in the semifinal. We can definitely expect violins and dance on stage, but the chorus is a bit too much schlager. Its going to be very intersting how Hungary does this year, Nox are already quite popular in the Eastern European countries. This may be the insider tip this year!


text:
Zapytanie przestrzenne () – specjalny typ zapytania bazodanowego obsługiwanego przez geograficzne bazy danych. Zapytania takie różnią się od zapytań SQL kilkoma ważnymi rzeczami. Dwa najważniejsze rzeczy to:
 używanie geometrycznych typów danych, takich jak: punkty, linie, wielokąty,
 zapytania przestrzenne uwzględniają przestrzenne relacje pomiędzy obiektami geometrycznymi (reprezentowanymi przez powyższe geometryczne typy danych).

Typy zapytań przestrzennych
Nazwy funkcji różnią się pomiędzy różnymi bazami danych. Poniższa lista zawiera najczęściej używane funkcje wbudowane w PostGIS, która jest darmowym rozszerzeniem do PostgreSQLa. Termin 'obiekt' odnosi się do wspomnianych wcześniej obiektów geometrycznych. Nazwy tych funkcji w PostGIS to:

 Distance(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca odległość euklidesową pomiędzy dwoma podanymi obiektami,
 Equals(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli dwa podane obiekty pokrywają się w przestrzeni,
 Disjoint(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli dwa podane obiekty są rozłączne w przestrzeni,
 Intersects(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli dwa podane obiekty posiadają część wspólną,
 Touches(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli dwa podane obiekty dotykają się w przestrzeni. Dotykanie się oznacza, że wnętrza obiektów nie pokrywają się, a same obiekty mają część wspólną,
 Crosses(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli obiekt pierwszy dzieli obiekt drugi na dwie części,
 Overlaps(obiekt, obiekt) - zwraca wartość 1 (prawdę), jeśli obiekt pierwszy nakłada się na obiekt drugi,
 Length(obiekt) - zwraca dwuwymiarową długość obiektu, jeśli obiekt jest typu LINESTRING lub MULTILINESTRING,
 Area(obiekt) - zwraca pole powierzchni obiektu,,
 Centroid(obiekt) - zwraca centroid obiektu,
 i wiele innych.

Zobacz też
 przestrzenna baza danych

Linki zewnętrzne
 Opis operacji na obiektach geometrycznych

Systemy Informacji Geograficznej
Języki zapytań

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text:
Nepal splits and demonstration - the probleme is maoism- peoples war- party of new type NOW
CPN Maoist holds mass assembly in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU, DEC 26 – The newly formed CPN Maoist is holding a mass assembly in the Capital on Friday, coinciding with the 122nd birth anniversary of Mao Zedong. The party supporters from across the country have gathered at Khullamanch for a show of strength. Chairman Netra Bikram Chand and other senior leaders will address the assembly. They are expected to announce the party's agendas and position on the disputed issues of constitution drafting process. Party leader Khadga Bahadur Bishwokarma said on Thursday that they will appeal the senior leaders of major political parties to promulgate the new constitution through consensus between the forces inside and outside the Constituent Assembly (CA).
The ruling and the opposition parties should hold an all-party assembly instead of seeking consensus in the CA, he said. "A constitution promulgated without the participation of the parties outside the CA won't be acceptable. The ruling parties should approach the forces outside the CA," said Bishwokarma. The CPN Maoist has proposed "unified rebellion" as its ideological doctrine that is supposedly more radical than the "capitalist revolution of UCPN (Maoist)" and the "people's new revolution" of CPN-Maoist. CPN Maoist leaders, however, are still unclear on how they plan to gather support of rural peasants and urban working class for its planned revolution. According to some central committee members, the party also hopes to use the mass gathering as a platform to collate the opinions of its cadres before the general convention. CPN Maoist plans to hold its general convention in the Capital on January 7-10 to decide the party's guiding principle, organisational structure and strategies.
http://www.ekantipur.com/2014/12/26/top-story/cpn-maoist-holds-mass-assembly-in-kathmandu/399534.html
Current CA is not genuine: Chand
KATHMANDU, DEC 26 – Coordinator of the newly formed CPN Maoist, Netra Bikram Chand, has demanded the dissolution of Constituent Assembly (CA) and stressed on the need to write the new constitution through national political assembly. Speaking at a mass assembly of the CPN Maoist held at Khullamanch in the Capital on Friday, Chand opined that his party would not accept the new constitution drafted through the CA. "The current CA is fake. This CA is not legitimate and the people have not approved it," he claimed.
He claimed that the CA was formed to wipe out the Maoists and there has not been any debate about people in the assembly. "That's why the CA must be dissolved and a new constitution should be drafted by forming a national political assembly so as to ensure civilian rights." Chand said his party would not accept the two-thirds majority. "The so-called two-thirds believed to be in the CA is delusive. The genuine CA is with the Maoists." The Maoists, who had won 80 percent through the people's war, still have a majority.
He alleged that the current CA was formed by a millionaire. "This is not my statement," said Chand. "It was said by Nepali Congress lawmaker Gagan Thapa. Didn't the UML comrades said whoever paid Rs 20 million became the lawmaker?" said Chand. Expressing his sympathy towards the UCPN (Maoist) leaders, Chand claimed the Maoist leaders who worked hard had to suffer loss at the hands of those who paid money. "Don't the Maoists who won 80 percent in the people's war need their legacy?" he questioned. In another context, the CPN Maoist leader said he had never thought that the Maoist rebellion would result in its present day condition. He lamented that the political career of Maoist leaders currently is in miserable condition.
"Youth are furious that Maoist led them to this path and finally left them in the middle," Chand said," I had never thought that the Maoist revolution would come to this point." Leader Chand further said that the people feel betrayed by the Maoists as can be understood through people's anti-Maoist sentiments expressed in social networking sites. Addressing the mass rally, Chand said that he tore his college certificate in Kathmandu and joined the Maoist's armed movement under the influence of Maoist leaders Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai.
http://www.ekantipur.com/2014/12/26/top-story/current-ca-is-not-genuine-chand/399560.html
Chand in donation drive
KATHMANDU, DEC 23 – The Netra Bikram Chand -led CPN Maoist has commenced a nationwide campaign to collect funds to 'finance' the ongoing activities of the newborn party. The party, which was announced a month ago with the backing of nearly one third central committee members of the CPN-Maoist , is scheduled to hold its first general convention on January 7 -10 in the Capital. CPN Maoist sources said the party has formed a "special squad to collect donations" as directed by the central steering committee coordinated by Chand.
The Post has learnt that party cadres are extracting from Rs 5,000 to Rs 2 million in donation from individuals, and small and medium-sized enterprises. The party is said to have given specific instruction to such squads to focus on private industries, foreign employment recruiting agencies, education consultancies, schools and hospitals in the Capital. They have also approached state-owned institutions. Such squads have been visiting business houses in person, sending text messages, letters and also making threatening phone calls for contributions.


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Yellowknife MLA says NWT can learn from Nunavut premier's ousting
By Meaghan Richens
Thursday, Jun. 14th, 2018
The premier of Nunavut Paul Quassa was ousted in a non-confidence vote today.
Julie Green, MLA for Yellowknife Centre, took to Twitter today, saying the Northwest Territories can learn a lesson from this.
Fascinating debate about Paul Quassa's leadership & consensus government #Nunavut and he's gone. So much for #NWT to learn #nwtpoli
— Julie Green (@juliegreenMLA) June 14, 2018
Green said her tweet was a reflection on the midterm review of the executive council that took place back in October.
"We had that debate at that time, and it turned out that there was non-confidence in one of the ministers, but he wasn't removed," said Green.
What came to mind for Green was the fact that it was a free vote, meaning cabinet members could vote according to their constituents' wishes, their own wishes or a combination of the two.
"… And as a result, this non-confidence motion passed, and it was decisive and it was very quickly done. People didn't talk around and around and around, the debate was over in under an hour. And I felt that we could really learn from the fact that they had a free vote and that they were decisive in their actions. And that's something we didn't accomplish last October. "
Why didn't this happen here?
"I think the major issue is that cabinet's solidarity was extended to the midterm review, and I think that really stood in the way of having a honest and open discussion," Green said.
A free vote would be more in keeping with a consensus government, and may have even produced a different result said Green.
"I just think that if what we have is consensus government, that means that each individual has a voice," Green said.
"And if what we have is parties, then that means that there's a discipline imposed and so I don't think that the discipline imposed on the midterm review by cabinet was in keeping with consensus government."


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