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After exploring the South Pacific onboard the HMS Beagle, the young Charles Darwin theorized that the beautiful, low sandy islands built on coral reefs had started as rocky volcanic peaks. His theory, still accepted today, holds that reefs build around the outer edge of volcanic islands. In warm, tropical waters, the reefs constantly grow, while the island subsides until only the low, sandy reef remains. Samples of types of South Pacific islands that fueled Darwin's theory are shown in this series of images, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's EO-1 satellite between April and June 2006. The images show three types of islands in various stages of development: a volcanic island, an island with fringing reefs, and a coral atoll.
The youngest island is the volcanic island. Such islands are built up over weak spots in the Earth's crust near boundaries between plates where molten rock seeps into the ocean eventually forming a rocky island. The island shown here is Pitcairn Island, the island on which the sailors from the British ship HMS Bounty settled after their mutiny in 1790. High cliffs surround most of the island, making access difficult—likely a primary reason the mutineers chose Pitcairn. The center of the island is green, covered with a dense forest. The island's only inhabitants (descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions) live in Adamstown, the bright spots near the northeast shore. A faint semi-circle around the top of the island traces out an ancient crater, evidence of Pitcairn's volcanic past.
In the general pattern of island development in the tropics, coral begins to grow on the shallow, submerged portion of the volcanic island. Generation after generation of coral builds, each on top of the previous, until eventually they form a ring or partial ring of solid land, a fringing reef, around the island. The bright blue water around Pitcairn Island may be an indicator that a coral reef is building.
This image of Pitcairn Island was taken on April 5, 2006, as part of a Mid-decadal Global Land Survey. The purpose of the survey is to collect a set of cloud-free moderate- to high-resolution images between 2004 and 2007 that can be used as a reference point for the period. Scientists use such surveys to study a variety of things, ranging from changes in vegetation over time to the impact of urbanization. For example, in June 2006, an international team of scientists published a paper in the journal Science, which used images from a similar NASA-funded mapping project called the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project to determine how well the world's coral reefs are being protected. The group found that less than two percent of the world's coral reefs fall within designated protected areas.
Island Evolution, Part 2: Oeno Island is the second in a three-part series of images that illustrates the evolution of tropical islands to atolls.
NASA Coral Reef Images Key to New Global Survey provides additional images of reefs from the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project.
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin, text provided by Project Gutenberg.
Atoll from Wikipedia contains an animation showing the development of an atoll around a subsiding volcanic island.
NASA images by Lawrence Ong and the EO-1 Science Team.
Image of the Day Land
Island Evolution, Part 2: Oeno Island
Island Evolution, Part 3: Tureia Atoll
Tagula Island, Louisiade Archipelago


It's the holiday season at the city's most popular cathdral. But, there is a lot more to this cathedral than you know.
Note, this is an outdoor exteriour tour of the cathedral where we will observe the Gargoyles from many different locations.


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Marketplace lending news roundup 14/03/17
By Daniel Lanyon on 14th March 2017
P2P/Marketplace LendingAlternative Credit
The most important stories and data from the world of Marketplace lending and alternative finance.
Nationalism may be on the rise politically, but in fintech the opposite is true with collaboration the new and emerging trend. Lending Works has opened a new channel to customers in the form of a tie-up with digital only bank Revolut, who also recently announced a partnership with property investment platform Bricklane.
Zopa, the UK's largest platform, is having to keep new investors on ice, however, having last week announced a waiting list.
In the funds world, while star fund manager Neil Woodford has been buying more exposure to P2P Global Investments, rival asset manager Old Mutual Global Investors has been selling some of its exposure to VPC Speciality Lending.
Phillip Hammond's first Budget as Chancellor last did not go down well with….anyone. In particular, the fintech and alternative finance industry has hit back with several industry figures taking the opportunity to speak out against Hammond's lack of tacit support for the burgeoning industry.
Nonetheless, one piece of new policy that will see dividend taxes become less favourable could potentially benefit the Innovative Finance ISA. More good news comes this week in the form of a new report by Deloitte which suggests, the online lending is not in a state of existential crisis – as some have suggested – but is in fact in rude health.
Over in the US, the money keeps flowing for platforms. US-based Kabbage has priced its second ever securitisation at $525m.
Ultimate Finance hits record lending to SMEs

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Doctrine of Discovery
Catholic Nuns Critical of Doctrine of Discovery
December 21, 2014 December 19, 2014 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is "Nuns Blast Catholic Church's 'Doctrine Of Discovery' That Justified Indigenous Oppression."
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, NewsCatholic Church, Doctrine of Discovery
Speakers Series Today
February 26, 2013 February 26, 2013 ilpc
Profs. Watson, Seed, and Pearl:
Author: Kate E. Fort, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Lecture, legal historyAlex Pearl, Blake Watson, Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. M'Intosh, Pat Seed
Lewis & Clark Law Review Indian Law Symposium
February 23, 2012 Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment
The Future of International Law in Indigenous Affairs:The Doctrine of Discovery, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF COLONIALISM: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Robert J. Miller
15 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 847 (2011)
The majority of the non-European world was colonized under an international law that is known as the Doctrine of Discovery. Under this legal principle, European countries claimed superior rights over Indigenous nations. When European explorers planted flags and religious symbols in the lands of native peoples, they were making legal claims of ownership and domination over the lands, assets, and peoples they had "discovered." These claims were justified by racial, ethnocentric, and religious ideas of the alleged superiority of European Christians. This Article examines the application of Discovery by Spain, Portugal, and England in the settler societies of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the United States. The comparative law analysis used in this Article demonstrates that these three colonizing countries applied the elements of the Doctrine in nearly identical ways against Indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the six settler societies analyzed here continue to apply this law today to restrict the human, property, and sovereign rights of Indigenous nations and peoples. This Article concludes that basic fairness and a restoration of the self-determination rights of Indigenous peoples mandates that these countries work to remove the vestiges of the Doctrine of Discovery from their modern day laws and policies.
RECONCEPTUALIZING TRIBAL RIGHTS: CAN SELF-DETERMINATION BE ACTUALIZED WITHIN THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE?
Rebecca Tsosie
15 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 923 (2011) Continue reading →
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, legal history, SymposiaDoctrine of Discovery, Lewis & Clark Law Review
Blake Watson on the Doctrine of Discovery and the Elusive Definition of Indian Title
September 24, 2011 September 24, 2011 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Blake Watson has posted his paper, "The Doctrine of Discovery and the Elusive Definition of Indian Title," on SSRN. It is forthcoming in the Lewis & Clark Law Review.
Here is the abstract:
This article contends that, pursuant to the discovery doctrine developed and adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, Indian tribes retained possession of their lands after European encounter, but no longer owned their land and no longer held unlimited disposition rights. This "limited possessor" definition of Indian title is particularly difficult to justify in view of contemporary norms of international indigenous rights, and should be rejected along with the doctrine of discovery.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, legal history, ScholarshipDoctrine of Discovery, Lewis & Clark Law Review
New Scholarship on the Impact of the Doctrine of Discovery in Chile
September 3, 2011 September 2, 2011 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Robert J. Miller, Lisa LeSage, and Sebastián López Escarcena have published "The International Law of Discovery, Indigenous Peoples, and Chile" in the Nebraska Law Review.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, ScholarshipChile, Comparative Law, Doctrine of Discovery
Bob Miller on The International Law of Colonialism
August 31, 2011 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Robert Miller has posted his working paper, "The International Law of Colonialism: A Comparative Analysis," on SSRN.
The majority of the non-European world was colonized under an international law that is known as the Doctrine of Discovery. Under this legal principle, European countries claimed superior rights over Indigenous nations. When European explorers planted flags and crosses in the lands of native peoples, they were making legal claims of ownership and domination over the lands, assets, and peoples they had "discovered." These claims were justified by racial, ethnocentric, and religious ideas of the alleged superiority of European Christians. This Article examines the application of Discovery by Spain, Portugal, and England in the settler societies of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the United States. The comparative law analysis used in this Article demonstrates that these three colonizing countries applied the elements of the Doctrine in nearly identical ways against Indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the six settler societies analyzed here continue to apply this law today to restrict the human, property, and sovereign rights of Indigenous nations and peoples. This Article concludes that basic fairness and a restoration of the self-determination rights of Indigenous peoples mandates that these countries work to remove the vestiges of the Doctrine of Discovery from their modern day laws and policies.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, ScholarshipDoctrine of Discovery
Bob Miller on Christianity, the Doctrine of Discovery, and Jamestown
April 10, 2011 April 9, 2011 Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments
Robert Miller has posted his paper, "Christianity, American Indians, and the Doctrine of Discovery," on SSRN. It is published in REMEMBERING JAMESTOWN: HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT CHRISTIAN MISSION, Amos Yong, Barbara Brown Zikmund, eds., Pickwick Publications, 2010.
The abstract:
The European countries that explored and colonized North America utilized the international law Doctrine of Discovery to claim the sovereign, property, and human rights of Indigenous peoples. Discovery was developed primarily in the fifteenth century by Spain, Portugal, England, and the Church and was designed to control the acquisition of non-European lands. The assumed superiority of European religions and civilizations played a major role in justifying Discovery. Starting with the fifteenth century papal bulls and the later English Royal charters, the primary goals of colonization were alleged to be "propagating Christian Religion" and bringing "human civility" to the "pagan," "heathen," "Infidels and Savages" who "yet live[d] in Darkness and miserable ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God." The United States Supreme Court expressly adopted the Doctrine of Discovery in 1823 in Johnson v. M'Intosh and expressly relied on Christian religion and Euro-American civilization to justify its decision. The goals of, and the justifications for, Discovery continued to be part of United States Indian policy and Manifest Destiny until nearly the end of the twentieth century.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, ScholarshipDoctrine of Discovery, Jamestown
Robert Miller & Micheline D'Angelis on "Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery"
March 4, 2011 March 4, 2011 Ann Tweedy1 Comment
Miller and D'Angelis have posted their article on SSRN. Here's the link.
Author: Ann Tweedy, ScholarshipComparative Law, Doctrine of Discovery
Blake Watson on the Doctrine of Discovery
January 23, 2011 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is the article, published in the Seattle University Law Review.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, international law, ScholarshipDoctrine of Discovery, Seattle University Law Review
Ohio Appellate Court Holds that Ohio Holds Title in Trust to Submerged Lands in Lake Erie
August 27, 2009 Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment
The Doctrine of Discovery strikes again! Here is the opinion of the Ohio Court of Appeals (11th Dist.) in State ex rel. Merrill v. State. Here is one of the key questions presented:
The state of Ohio, through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources ("ODNR"), has asserted trust ownership rights to the area of land along the southern shore of Lake Erie up to the ordinary high water mark, set at 573.4 feet above sea level by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1985. The Ohio Lakefront Group, 1 ("OLG"), along with several of its members, many of whom own property adjoining Lake Erie, dispute the authority of ODNR to assert these trust ownership rights without first acquiring the property in question through ordinary land appropriation proceedings. The validity of the ordinary high water mark, set at 573.4 feet International Great Lakes Datum (IGLD)(1985) is also disputed, the argument being that the ordinary high water mark is a boundary that must be determined on a case-by-case basis with respect to each parcel bordering the lake. Further, the ODNR's authority to require landowners to lease land from the state of Ohio when that land is already contained within the legal description in their respective deeds is disputed.
The court holds that Ohio has trust title to the submerged lands, but that the water mark identified by the Army Corps of Engineers must be re-established at trial.
The history of Ohio lands from the moment of "discovery" in 1497 begins in paragraph 26. It may be worth discussing for anyone teaching Johnson v. M'Intosh this week (like me!).
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Environmental, legal history, Research, treaty rightsDoctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. M'Intosh, Lake Erie, Ohio Court of Appeals, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, State ex rel. Merrill v. State


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Derrick Turnbow
Thomas Derrick Turnbow (born January 25, 1978) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher.
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick.
Derrick Thomas is an American football player from Cotton Center, Texas who plays as an inside linebacker.
Derrick Barnes
Derrick Barnes is an American football player from Louisville, Kentucky who plays as an inside linebacker for the Purdue Boilermakers football team.
Derrick Cameron
Derrick Cameron is an American stand-up comedian who has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Comedy Central, and Comics Unleashed . He has appeared on The Bob & Tom Show and has performed in concert with Al Green and Blue Öyster Cult. Cameron also does stand-up comedy shows on Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean International cruise ships such as Sapphire Princess, Voyager of the Seas, Anthem of the Seas, and Mariner of the Seas.
Derrick Mayweather
Derrick Mayweather (born on 1998 and raised in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American student and football player.
Derrick Luckassen
Derrick Luckassen (born 3 July 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre back for R.S.C. Anderlecht on loan from PSV Eindhoven.
Derrick Low
Derrick Low (born March 21, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Pieno žvaigždės of the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga.


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To map the QCD phase diagram, especially to search the QCD critical point using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), significant luminosity improvement at energies below γ =10.7 is required, which can be achieved with the help of an electron cooling upgrade called Low Energy RHIC electron Cooler (LEReC) ( 1).
Xiao, Binping. HOM induced energy spread and emittance growth in LEReC system. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.2172/1477487.
Xiao, Binping. HOM induced energy spread and emittance growth in LEReC system. United States. doi:10.2172/1477487.
Xiao, Binping. Thu . "HOM induced energy spread and emittance growth in LEReC system". United States. doi:10.2172/1477487. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1477487.
Technical Report Barnard, J.J. ; Miller, J. ; Haber, I.
The change in beam energy spread due to transmission through a long, planar undulator is calculated. This change is shown to be gaussian as expected from the central limit theorem and large number of photons emitted per electron. These results are compared with Saldin et al.  expressions. Numerical results for the case of the TESLA beam and for an NLC beam are given.


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Six-month time to probe corruption cases against government employees
NEW DELHI: Changing an over 50-year-old rule, the government has set a deadline of six months to complete probe in corruption cases+ involving its employees.
The decision has been taken to speed up the investigation in such cases, most of them pending for quite a long time.
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has amended Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, and decided a timeline for critical stages of investigation and inquiry proceedings.
The Inquiring Authority should conclude the inquiry and submit its report within a period of six months, says the amended rules.
However, an extension for a period not exceeding six months at a time may be allowed for any good and sufficient reason to be recorded in writing by the disciplinary authority, it said.
Earlier, there was no such time frame to complete an enquiry.
The disciplinary authority shall deliver to a government servant, accused of irregularity and corruption, a copy of the articles of charge, the statement of the imputations of misconduct or misbehaviour and a list of documents and witnesses by which each article or charges is proposed to be sustained, the new rules said.
On receipt of such articles of charge, the government servant shall be required to submit his written statement of defence, if he so desires, and also state whether he desires to be heard in person, within a period of 15 days, it said.
The time limit can, however, be extended for a period not exceeding fifteen days. But under no circumstances, the extension of time for filing written statement of defence shall exceed forty-five days from the date of receipt of articles of charge, the rules said.
At present, there is no time limit for submission of the employee's statement of defence.
The new rules are applicable to all category of employees excluding those in all-India services--Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS)-- and a few other categories of officers.
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), in a directive, had last year expressed serious concern over delay in finalising corruption cases and asked all departments to complete these inquiries within a maximum period of six months to keep away "nothing will change" notion associated with governance.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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RaceFans > Essential F1 information > F1 biographies: Drivers and other significant figures > Who's who: H > Mike Hawthorn
Mike Hawthorn was the first British driver to win the world championship, claiming the title for Ferrari in 1958, narrowly beating Stirling Moss.
Hawthorn cut his teeth on motorbikes but quickly switched to four-wheeled competition. After a debut season at the wheel of a Cooper in 1952 Hawthorn joined Ferrari for 1953, with whom he would spend most of his career.
In 1953 he took his first win at Reims in France, edging out Juan Manuel Fangio in a thrilling finish. He ended the season fourth overall with 19 points. Hawthorn won in Spain the following year placed third in that year's championship.
Two appearances for Vanwall in 1955 ended in retirement and, following the death of his father, only did three more races that year, all for Ferrari. He won Le Mans in a Jaguar with Ivor Bueb, but in tragic circumstances after being involved in the accident that killed Mercedes driver Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators.
The 1957 season marked his return to Ferrari but he was denied a win at Germany by the inspired Fangio, who scored a final, incredible victory at the expense of Hawthorn and team mate Peter Collins.
In 1958, of the ten world championship rounds (excluding the Indianapolis 500) Hawthorn took one win and five second places, while Moss won four times and suffered five car failures, making Hawthorn champion. Moss famously helped Hawthorn by intervening on his behalf in a dispute over a penalty, securing several extra points for Hawthorn, which proved enough to give him the title.
Both suffered terrible losses that year: Collins died in that year's German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, and Moss's friend Stuart Lewis-Evans suffered burns in a crash in the Moroccan Grand Prix from which he would later die.
Hawthorn spurned Enzo Ferrari's offer to name a price for a drive to defend his title – and announced his retirement. But a final tragedy struck. Hawthorn was killed in a road accident near Guildford that winter.


Wonky chickens on my computer. They just wanted to say hi! Or what are they saying?
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That is sososososo cute, they look soooooo fuzzy, I love things that are sort of messed up and "wonky".
Well I say HI right back to those cute little chicks!
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Clinton Is The Clear Choice On Race And Criminal Justice Reform
September 28, 2016 by terrance
Little Zianna Oliphant, speaking through her tears at a city council meeting in Charlotte, said more about what's really happening with policing in black communities than Donald Trump did in 90 minutes at Monday nights debate.
The candidates had a lot to say, at last night's debate, when the question turned to police involved shootings of African Americans, and the problem of inherent racism in our criminal justice system. (A problem that Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence thinks we can solve by just not talking about it.)
When moderator Lester Holt referenced recent shootings in Tulsa and Charlotte, posed the question, "So how do you heal the divide?", Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton acknowledged, "race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system." Clinton spoke of the need to restore trust between police officers and the communities they serve. More importantly, Clinton noted that respect between citizens and law enforcement should be a two-way street, saying, "Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law."
Clinton's criminal justice platform embraces the principle of mutual respect and trust that she called for in her remarks, by tackling the existence of inherent bias head on — just like Clinton did during the debate — and bringing police and communities together to solve it. Clinton's platform includes $1 billion in first budget to find and fund the best training programs that address implicit bias, de-escalation, and community policing, and make them available nationwide. Clinton's platform also addresses the use of excessive in law enforcement by limiting the availability of military weapons and equipment to police departments nationwide. The police response to the protests in Ferguson brought national attention the militarization of police departments.
This is the platform of the only one of the two major candidates to have sat down and listened the Mothers of the Movement, who have lost children to the volatile combination of implicit bias and the use of deadly force by police. It's also the platform of a candidate who would almost certainly hear the voice of children like nine-year-old Zianna Oliphant, who poured out her heart at a city council meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the police-involved shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott.
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"I feel like that we are treated differently than other people. I don't like how we're treated. Just because of our color doesn't mean anything to me," she said before breaking down in tears.
… Speaking through sobs, Oliphant continued: "We are black people, and we shouldn't have to feel like this. We shouldn't have to protest because y'all are treating us wrong. We do this because we need to and have rights."
She said she was raised in Charlotte, adding, "I've never felt this way until now."
"I can't stand how we're treated," she continued. "It's a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed, and we can't even see them anymore. It's a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. We have tears and we shouldn't have tears. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side."
Through her tears, Zianna gave voice to the normally unheard trauma of children in African-American communities. Their fear that a police encounter might mean a mother or father never comes home again, is the other side of the same fear African-American parents have for our children. It's not hard to imagine Hillary Clinton, who's spent much of career working in the interests of children just like Zianna.
Though she spoke volumes about the pain at the heart of protests in Charlotte and elsewhere, Donald Trump is unlikely to ever hear Zianna Oliphant's voice over his own bluster. Trump hasn't been shy about telling us what he thinks of African-Americans. "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose?" he said ostensibly to African-Americans while speaking to an almost entirely white audience in Wisconsin.
Trump's response at Monday night's debate dripped with the same contempt as his previous statements about African-American communities. "We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African-Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot," Trump said. But Trump is wrong about crime, and his wild assertions about the "hell" that blacks and Hispanics walk through on a daily basis, are no more based in reality that his claims about President Obama's birth certificate. The rate of violent crime is at a 45 year low — down 20.3 percent during President Obama's term in office alone.
When Trump says crime is up, he's talking about the uptick in violent crime in the past couple of years. An increase in one or two years does not a trend make, but it does make an opening for Trump to exploit the racial fears of his base. When Trump says we "have to bring back law and order," he's talking about the unrest in cities like Charlotte, Ferguson, Baltimore, and Milwaukee in the wake of police-involved shootings of African-Americans (who are often unarmed). His proposals regarding such reflect a view that the outrage at police violence in these communities must be tamped down with more of the same.
In Wisconsin, Trump said that Milwaukee's black communities needed more police.
Last month, during a discussion at a Fraternal Order of Police lodge, Trump said that he would return military weapons and equipment to police departments.
In an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, Trump said his solution to what he saw as an increase of violent crime in "inner cities" is to give police permission to "go out and counterattack."
A Trump presidency would result is even more police in African-American communities, with even more powerful weapons, and even more encouragement to use them. For African-American families, that would mean even greater chances of encountering police officers, armed with more deadly weapons, and more impunity in using them. It means more parents fearing for their children, and more children like Zianna Oliphant fearing for their mothers and fathers. It means that when it comes to safety and justice for our families and communities, the choice in this election couldn't be clearer.
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Black Ball Squash Open PSA Platinum Event, 03-09 Dec 2018, Cairo
FINAL : Raneem wins a thriller
Day FOUR : SEMI-FINALS
Day Three : Quarter-Finals
Day TWO : Hania takes out Tayeb in round two
Day ONE : Round ONE
Count Down : ONE Day to go, the Opening Dinner
Welily and Sherbini headline Women's Black Ball Squash Open Draw
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PSA Day One Roundup
December 3, 2018	MENS, NEWS, PSA
Egypt's Essam and El Hammamy cause upsets in Round One
Egypt's Shehab Essam and Karim El Hammamy both claimed big wins on the opening day of action at the CIB Black Ball Squash Open in Cairo, Egypt as they reached the second round for the first time in their careers at a PSA Platinum event.
The Black Ball Squash Open is the first major tournament to take place in Egypt's capital since the men's 2016 PSA World Championships and it was a successful day for the home talent at the Black Ball Sporting Club.
Tournament wildcard Essam claimed the first upset of the day after he downed Scotland's Greg Lobban by an 11-7, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8 margin in 62 minutes.
Egypt's World No.80 played without fear to conquer World No.31 Lobban and reach the second round, where he will now face compatriot and World No.10 Mohamed Abouelghar.
"I was lucky to get the wildcard, so thanks to Black Ball," said the 23-year-old Egyptian. "It was a really good win for me and I went for it for it with all I could.
"Abou is a good friend of mine, he is a great player and in the top ten now. I'm looking forward to it and to playing a good match with him."
Meanwhile, Essam's compatriot El Hammamy also claimed a big win of his own after he took out World No.34 Mazen Hesham by an 11-8, 13-11, 10-12, 11-8 scoreline to set up a second round encounter with England's George Parker, who defeated Wales' Peter Creed in round one.
El Hammamy was forced to hold off a resilient Hesham in an 81-minute intense battle on the glass court at the Black Ball Sporting Club as he booked his place in the last 32 for the first time at a major PSA tournament.
"Mazen is a great opponent and one of the most talented players on Tour," said 23-year-old El Hammamy. "It feels good to win the first round against him and especially for me as it's my first time advancing to the second round at a major event, so that's good for me."
They will be joined in the next round by fellow Egyptians Zahed Salem, Karim Ali Fathi and Mostafa Asal after they enjoyed wins over Mazen Gamal, Tayyab Aslam and Youssef Soliman respectively. While, tournament wildcard Shady El Sherbiny, Omar Abdel Meguid and Mohamed Reda all fell to defeats in the opening round.
Elsewhere, Malaysia's Eain Yow Ng battled back from two-games down against experienced Australian Cameron Pilley to record a big win, in what has been an impressive season so far for the 20-year-old Malaysian.
Ng was staring down the barrel of defeat against World No.27 Pilley, however, the Malaysian fought back in spectacular style to secure a second round berth, where he will now face New Zealand's Campbell Grayson after he defeated Finland's Olli Tuominen.
"I knew that Cam is an experienced and really good player," said Ng after his victory. "He came out firing in the first and second game and I couldn't really find the answer to it. But I just stayed calm and focused and it worked out in the end.
"I've been playing good squash lately and my confidence is pretty high. I came in without any pressure, so I just stayed focused and concentrated on playing well and hopefully I can continue doing the same."
There were also wins for England's Tom Richards and Chris Simpson after they prevailed against Egyptian wildcard Shady El Sherbiny and Spain's Edmon Lopez in their respective first round fixtures.
Hong Kong duo Tsz Fung Yip and Leo Au were also both at their best to beat England's Nathan Lake and India's Vikram Malhotra to set up respective second round clashes with Egypt's former World No.1 Karim Abdel Gawad and France's Gregoire Marche in round two.
While there were also victories for Scotland's Alan Clyne, United States Todd Harrity and France's Lucas Serme on the opening day of action in Cairo.
The second round begins on Tuesday December 4 when number one seed Mohamed ElShorbagy will begin his tournament.
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Discussion in 'Mac Basics and Help' started by bobber205, May 5, 2006.
Does anybody know of a good app or two that lets me make animated gif clips of screenshots of my dvds?
Also, what's the best way to take screenshots with DVD player?
I don't think it's possible to take them with DVD player open, so I guess VLC or something else is your only option.
to take screen shots of a DVD using DVD Player you'll have to find a 3rd party app, there are some available on versiontracker.com but i haven't tried any out.
You could always rip the dvd with handbrake first then do screen shots from the Quicktime file.
Export as image sequence for animation stills for the gif.
Here's what I know of to take screenshots/clips in DVD Player. It's shareware though, and the demo wasn't so great last time I tried.
Here's a quick and dirty way to do it; just take a digital photo of the screen.
You can take DVD screenshots in Terminal (MacBytes article on it), or there are third-party apps like SnapzProX that can do it.
SnapzProX that can do it if you want to pay for it (unless they have a trial for it). I have used and like the free CaptureMe app. I use this for pulling dvd shots for use in Flash or Photoshop for my art Give it a search on Version Tracker as that's the last place I found it.
Does command + shift + 3 not work?
Not when DVD player is open.
Nope...Apple wanted to make it difficult to take screenshots of DVDs.


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Wealden District Council > Planning and Building Control > Heritage > Other Heritage Assets
Other Heritage Assets
Registered Parks and Gardens
The Historic England, Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (external link) was established in 1983. The main purpose of this Register is to celebrate designed landscapes of note, and encourage appropriate protection.
Registration is a 'material consideration' in the planning process, meaning that planning authorities must consider the impact of any proposed development on the landscape's special character.
Parks and Gardens of Historic Interest
On the register of 'Parks and Gardens of Historic Interest' compiled by Historic England, there are 18 entries within Wealden District for which the Council is the Local Planning Authority. Registered sites are not open to the public unless advertised elsewhere as being so.
Bayham Abbey
Buckhurst Park
Buxted Park
Eridge Park
Frant Court
Glen Andred Garden
Groombridge Place
Hammerwood Park
Heathfield Park
Herstmonceux Castle and Place
Horsted Place
Kidbrooke Park
Penns on the Rocks
Rotherfield Hall
Sheffield Park
The Hoo
Wadhurst Castle
Wych Cross Place
The grading system is similar to that of the listed buildings: Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II, depending on their importance and completeness. A list description is provided for each Registered Park and Garden and can be viewed on the Historic England Register of Historic Parks and Gardens (external link).
Registered Battlefields
There are no registered battlefields in Wealden.
Registered Wreck Sites
There are no registered wreck sites in Wealden.
Non-designated Heritage Assets
Local planning authorities may identify non-designated heritage assets. These are buildings, monuments, sites, places, areas or landscapes identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions but which are not formally designated heritage assets. In some areas, local authorities identify some non-designated heritage assets as 'locally listed'.
When considering development proposals, local planning authorities should establish at an early stage in the process if any potential non-designated heritage asset meets the heritage asset definition in the National Planning Policy Framework (external link). 'Heritage Asset – A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, because of its heritage interest. Heritage asset includes designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning authority (including local listing).'
The practice of compiling a list of 'buildings or structures of local importance' is a way of identifying non-designated heritage assets of significance to the local area.
At present, Wealden does not have a Local List. Consultation on whether Wealden should have a local list and potential objective criteria for Local Listing, to sit alongside new local plan policy, will be formulated as part of a consultation process with local communities, in line with Historic England Good Practice, and will take place as part of the new Local Plan.
The Local List is a non-statutory designation. Buildings on a list will not be subject to new or additional controls. The existing planning controls over changes of use, external alterations, extensions etc. will continue to apply and will remain unchanged.
Much can be done to help protect the character of locally important buildings by raising their profile without the need for extra controls.
The Local List initiative is aimed at:
ensuring that these buildings enjoy the recognition which they deserve
raising public awareness of the importance of these buildings to the local environment
encouraging owners to protect and maintain the character of such buildings
ensuring that planners, architects, builders and others concerned with development proposals are aware of the need to give special attention to such buildings


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Think about the solar system.
What is the image that comes to mind?
That picture we saw hundreds of times in our textbooks and science classrooms is not descriptive enough. We are not stuck in place on a neat row of planets circling a sun, we are in a helix around a nuclear inferno that is itself orbiting a black hole in the center of a galaxy one hundred thousand light years across.
What we are shown often sticks and becomes our representation of the world. Classrooms and textbooks in particular need to reflect reality as best we can. Even Google should do a better job of this, if you search for 'solar system' in Google images you have to scroll pretty far down to get to anything resembling what it really looks like. I still find it hard not to think of the solar system as the static image of our planets aligned neatly beside the sun.
The goal of science should not only be to get to the truth, but to ground society in reality. To give us as honest a portrayal as possible of the world we live in. I'm sure that second image above is itself not descriptive enough, but it is closer to the truth and I wish it was the first thing that flashed into my head whenever I think of the solar system.
A huge gap exists between what science knows and what the general public believes. As science continues to push forward the limits of knowledge it needs more people working to bridge that gap, to ground us and keep us humble, to remind us as often and as loudly as possible of the truth, that we are just apes held down to a clump of rock and metal spiraling around a ball of hot plasma flying through the universe trying to make sense of it all.
I wonder what else we believe to be true really isn't?


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Elliot Page's Wife Emma Porter 'Proud' of Him After Transgender Reveal
Emma Porter, wife of Elliot Post, hailed her husband after he came out as a transgender man. The dancer/choreographer took to Instagram to g...
Emma Porter, wife of Elliot Post, hailed her husband after he came out as a transgender man. The dancer/choreographer took to Instagram to gush over her significant other, showing her passionate love for the star, who was formerly identified as Ellen Page.
Elliot's transgender declaration was reposted by Emma, who was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She wrote in the caption, "I am so proud of @elliotpage." She said, "Trans, queer and non-binary people are a gift to this world." acting in favor of LGBTQ+ individuals in general.
Emma also asked her fans and Elliot's backers "for patience & privacy but that you join me in the fervent support of trans life every single day." She proceeded to compliment the 33-year-old actress, "Elliot's existence is a gift in and of itself. Shine on sweet E. Love you so much."
With a tweet shared on his Instagram page on Tuesday, November 1, Elliot announced that he's a transsexual and changed his name from Ellen. He said, "I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot," "I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life."
"I can't begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self... I ask for patience. My joy is real, but it is also fragile," he said of his transformative path. "The truth is, despite feeling profoundly happy right now and knowing how much privilege I carry, I am also scared. I'm scared of the invasiveness, the hate, the 'jokes' and of the violence."
To be sure, he added, "To be clear, I am not trying to dampen a moment that is joyous and one that I celebrate, but I want to address the full picture... I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer."
Since then, he has gained mainstream support, including fellow celebrities such as Patricia Arquette, Anna Paquin, Miley Cyrus, and James Gunn.
"Elliot Page has given us fantastic characters on-screen, and has been an outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people. He will now be an inspiration to countless trans and non-binary people. All transgender people deserve the chance to be ourselves and to be accepted for who we are. We celebrate the remarkable Elliot Page today."Elliot Page has provided us on-screen with fantastic characters, and has become an outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people. He will now be an inspiration for countless trans and non-binary people. All transgender people deserve the ability to be ourselves and to be accepted for who we are. Today, we celebrate the remarkable Elliot Page.
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Frieze New York Sales Report
May 3, 2018 by Marion Maneker
Atsuko Tanaka, '95A, 1995 at Sakurado Fine Arts
Artsy's Anna Louie Sussman had these sales:
Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar works priced between $6,600 and $10,000
Mor Charpentier
a set of The Fountain Archives (2008- ) by Saâdane Afif for around €45,000
Alexander Apóstol's Color is my Business (2012-2015), which comes in an edition of three plus two artist proofs, for $29,000
small 3D-printed sculptures by Carlos Motta, for €8,000
False Flag (2017), photographs of typesetting sorts by the Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa
Zeno X
Brooklyn-based Mircea Suciu's painting The constant feeling of guilt (after Delacroix) (2018) for between $20,000 and $25,000
an untitled 2017 Paulo Monteiro work on linen for an undisclosed amount
an oil on canvas by Marina Rheingantz Galope (2017) for $25,000
a mixed-media work by Dutch artist Mark Manders Landscape with Male Head(1992-2017)
Grimm gallery
two paintings by Caroline Walker (her solo show that opened Friday at the gallery's location on the Bowery has also already sold out)
Matthew Day Jackson's LIFE, April 6, 1959 (2018), priced at $150,000
two works by William Monk, priced at $30,000 apiece
three works by British artist Alex Dordoy for £14,000
multiple editions of Dana Lixenberg's iconic 1996 photograph of the late rapper the Notorious B.I.G. wearing a Coogi sweater and counting a stack of money, which was on the cover of a magazine in the early 1990s (smaller sizes starting at $3,000 and large ones beginning at $15,000)
Thaddaeus Ropac
Baselitz painting Sie werden gehen, sie sind gegangen (2017) for $850,000, which was bought by a British collector and will go back to London
Robert Longo's Untitled (Split Ram) (2018) for $850,000
a 1990 Rauschenberg, Star Park (Borealis), for $675,000
Frank Elbaz
sold two editions of the photograph Mother Reader(2018) by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, one to the Harvard Business School Collection and another to a private collector in New York, and a curtain and neon installation, Leaning braid (2017), to a private collection in New York for $10,000
What Sold at Frieze New York (Artsy)
Lehmann Maupin
McArthur Binion's (including dna: sepia: ii, 2016 selling in the range of $50,000-$75,000 USD)
Shirazeh Houshiary's large painting Sap, 2018, also sold in the range £200,000-£250,000 GBP.
ArtNews's Annie Armstrong had these sales:
Andrew Kreps Gallery
four Bruno Menari prints for prices between $25,000 and $45,000
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
two paintings by Eddie Martinez sold in the $40,000 range
one larger painting brought in $100,000
Parrasch Heijnen
Two Forrest Bess works priced at about $200,000 apiece
Island in the Sun: Collectors Flock to Frieze New York for High-Temperature Opening (ARTnews)
Pace Gallery
sold 30 of David Hockney's iPhone and iPad drawings (including multiple editions of several works), all priced at $26,000 each
sold out of a number of available editions.
Jack Shainman
recent work by Hank Willis Thomas (including a major sculpture, a retroflective and one of Thomas' iconic flags in the LIVE section)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Becky Suss, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Geoffrey Chadsey
Proyectos Ultravioleta
sold seven paintings by the Guatemalan artist Jorge de León
Galeria Nora Fisch
sold a work by Argentine artist Juan Tessi at $12,000
McArthur Binion's Binion's DNA: Study: (Frieze), 2018 (LM28107) selling in the range of $150,000-$175,000 USD; Ink: Work (Vermillion), 2018 (LM27954) selling in the range of $80,000-$100,000 USD to a New York based collector; and ink: work: iv, 2018 (LM28123) sold in the range of $50,000-$75,000 to a new collector to the gallery from Michigan. Binion's dna: transition: i, 2015 (LM27602) also sold in the range of$50,000-$75,000 USD to a trustee of SF MoMA; and DNA: Study: Zero, 2018 (LM28105) sold in the range of $150,000-$175,000 USD to a board member at Albright Knox
Shirazeh Houshiary's Cascade, 2018 (LM27849) also sold in the range of £100,000-£150,000 GBP to major New York based collectors
Cecilia Vicuña's painting Gabriela Mistral, 1979 (LM26561) has sold in the range of $65,000-$75,000 USD to a New York based collector
Shirazeh Houshiary's painting Sap, 2018 (LM27848) sold in the range of £200,000-£250,000 GBP
sold the majority of their solo booth of photographer Torbjørn Rødland in the range of $14,000 USD to $28,000 USD
a number of seminal works by the renowned artist Tom of Finland as part of the special curated section, For Your Infotainment: Hudson and Feature Inc. in the range of $10,000 to $25,000
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
two works by Georg Baselitz ranging from €500,000-€700,000
a Tony Cragg bronze sculpture for €175,000
a piece by Robert Rauschenberg for $725,000
a metal and wood piece by Jack Pierson for $190,000
sold about half of their mini-show of Bharti Kher sculptures and bindi paintings, handpicked from her studio, for prices ranging from$155,000-30,000 to a mix of new and current clients
Stephen Friedman
sold two paintings by Kehinde Wiley in the range of $100k – 150k
a new work by Jim Hodges in range of $100K-$200k
a piece by Luiz Zerbini for c. $150k
a number of works by David Shrigley
a piece by Jiro Takamatsu for c. $100k
several paintings Andreas paintings were sold in the range of €50k
three sculptures by Tom Friedman in the range of $200k-$300k are on reserve
Xavier Hufkens
sold three works by Tracey Emin
Marian Goodman
sold William Kentridge's bronze Shadow Figure II (2016) for $95,000
Royale Projects
sold three Clinton Hill paintings at c. $95,000 each, two to a London collector and one to a collector from California
sold Barbara Bloom's Vanity (2017) within two hours to a prominent New York collector for $90,000
Paul Kasmin
sold three works by Theodora Allen, Barry Flanagan and William Copley
sold ten works ranging from $25,000 to $70,000.
Maureen Paley
sold a Gillian Wearing portrait for £22,000
Ghebaly
sold out their entire booth of works by Farah Atassi at prices ranging from $24k-35k
sold an Emma Amos work
Jhaveri Contemporary
sold two works by Indian artist Mohan Samant
Jhaveri Contemporary was also awarded the Frieze Stand Prize for its outstanding presentation in the Spotlight section of the fair
Fredericks & Freiser
sold a number of Thomas Trosch works ranging from $15,000-$35,000
multiple works by Jocelyn Hobbie, Mary Reid Kelley and John Wesley
Michael Rosenfeld
sold two works by the German artist Mary Bauermeister
Sotheby's Australian Art Makes A$11.26m
Artelligence for June 1, 2018
Rybolovlev's Lawyer, Bersheda, Releases Statement
It's "not about the world discovering African art, it's about Africa discovering art"
Steven Cohen Joins LA MoCA's Board
Ai Weiwei Re-Creates Zodiac Clock in NYC


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Can't stand the look in the mirror? Self-awareness avoidance in borderline personality disorder
Dorina Winter ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5096-79951,
Katrin Koplin1 &
Stefanie Lis2
Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) expect and perceive social rejection stronger than healthy individuals. Shifting ones attention from oneself to others has been suggested as a mechanism to deal with the experience of social rejection. Here, we investigated whether BPD participants avoid increased self-awareness and whether this is done intentionally.
Thirty BPD patients and 30 healthy control participants, all naïve of the study's purpose, were asked to choose either a seat facing a mirror (self-awareness) or not facing the mirror (avoidance of self-awareness). Afterwards they were asked to indicate if they have chosen the seat intentionally.
BPD patients avoided as a trend the chair facing the mirror more often than healthy control participants. 90 % of the patients reported that they made their seating decision intentionally in contrast to 26.7 % of the healthy participants (odd ratio = 24.75).
Results revealed altered reactions to self-awareness cues in BPD. While BPD patients avoided such a cue slightly more often, they were more often aware of their behavior than healthy participants. As possible explanations, a negative body related, shame-prone self-concept as well as a simultaneously increased degree of self-focused attention are suggested.
Enduring difficulties in social interactions, including unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment reflect basic characteristics of borderline personality disorder (BPD; [1–3]). As one factor contributing to these difficulties, studies demonstrated that BPD patients expect to be rejected more frequently in social interactions than healthy controls and are more concerned by this perception in social interactions [4–7]. BPD patients perceived to be more excluded from an interaction even when, objectively, they were included as much as every other team member [6, 8, 9]. This suggests that BPD patients anxiously expect social rejection even in the absence of an acute rejection situation.
One mechanism to deal with perceived rejection has been shown to be a shift in one owns attention from the self to others [10, 11]. The decrease in attention to the self was suggested to protect the self from devaluating experiences, while the increase of attention to others would serve to re-establish and maintain social relationships [10]. Such attention shifts has been measured by simple behavioral tests such as the choice of participants to sit down on a chair in front of a mirror or not [12]. Twenge and colleagues [11] used this paradigm to investigate effects of social rejection induced by faked feedback on a personality questionnaire: Participants, who were told that their questionnaire results show that they are likely to spend their future alone, chose less often the chair facing a mirror compared to those participants without feedback as well as those that were told that the results predict rewarding relationships or misfortune. The authors concluded that people who feel socially excluded are averse to attention to the self. It has been shown that self-awareness initiates self-evaluation [13–16]. Thus, avoiding cues that increase self-awareness may help to avoid or reduce negative self-evaluative processes such as those induced by assuming to have a personality that is so miserable that it will lead to a lonely future [11]. Assuming that BPD patients expect being rejected in the absence of acute social exclusion, they may avoid cues of self-awareness more than healthy control participants without such an exclusion context.
Due to these findings, we hypothesized that BPD patients would avoid to sit on a chair facing to a mirror even in the absence of an actual rejection experience, which healthy control participants would do less often. As self-awareness cues may be particularly salient to BPD patients due to their negative and shame-prone self-concept [17–21], we also expected that BPD patients would adjust their behavior more intentionally. To examine this, we were also interested in whether the seating would be chosen intentionally or not and whether this would differ between BPD patients and healthy controls.
Thirty women with BPD and 30 healthy women (HC) matched according to age and education participated in this study as part of a larger study on self-referential processing. We informed all participants regarding study procedures and obtained written informed consent. The study followed the Declaration of Helsinki. Research Ethics Board II of Heidelberg University, Germany, had approved the study. Exclusion criteria for all participants were any traumatic brain injuries and lifetime schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder, mental or developmental disorders as well as substance dependency during the last year and current substance abuse. HC had to be free of any current or lifetime mental illness and psychotropic medication. Trained clinical psychologist obtained the diagnosis of BPD using the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE; [22]). Axis I disorders were assessed using the Structured Interview for DSM-IV [23]. Borderline symptom severity was measured using the short version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23; [24]).
Sample characteristics are presented in Table 1. BPD patients and healthy controls did not differ in age and education. 19 (63.3 %) of the BPD patients were free of psychotropic medication, 6 (20 %) received an atypical antipsychotic, 5 (16.7 %) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, 4 (13.3 %) serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, and one (3.3 %) each monoamine oxidase inhibitors, tetracyclic antidepressants, neuroleptic medication, and methylphenidate.
Table 1 Demographic and clinical variables in healthy control participants (HC) and patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Experimental task
After participants completed the study described in [25], participants were told that the experiment was over but that there were some final diagnostic questions that the experimenter would like to ask. That would take place in another corner of the laboratory room. There were two chairs standing with their back to a wall, one facing a standardized (= distortion-free) mirror (height 175 cm, width 95 cm) and one facing into the room. See Fig. 1 for illustration. The experimenter asked the participant to sit down while she would save some data and would join the participant afterwards. In case the participant asked which chair she should sit down on, the experimenter told her to feel free to sit down on any chair she prefers. The instructions were standardized in order to avoid an experimenter bias. The experimenter did not engage in any further verbal or nonverbal interaction with the participant at this stage of the experiment. Immediately after the participant sat down on one of the two chairs, the experimenter recorded the participant's choice and asked whether it was made intentionally.
The dependent variables were the number of participants choosing the chair not facing the mirror (behavioral avoidance) as well as the number of participants choosing their seating position intentionally (choice intentionality) per group (HC, BPD). Whether more BPD patients displayed behavioral avoidance or an intentional decision than healthy control participants was tested using Fisher's exact tests (one-tailed for behavioral avoidance, two-tailed for choice intentionality). All analyses were performed with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 (IBM, USA).
With respect to behavioral avoidance, 21 (70 %) healthy control participants and 27 (90 %) BPD patients did choose the chair not facing the mirror. Statistical analysis revealed a strong trend that more BPD patients than HC avoided the chair facing the mirror (p = .052, OR = 3.98).
Regarding choice intentionality, more BPD patients (N = 27, 90.0 %) than HC (N = 8, 26.7 %) reported to have chosen the chair intentionally (p < .001, OR = 24.75). See Fig. 2 for graphical illustration. To explore whether the chosen seating influenced the choice intentionality, we compared the choice intentionality for those participants facing and not facing the mirror. Of the 21 HCs avoiding the mirror image, 28.6 % (N = 6) reported an intentional choice, which was similar to those facing the mirror (22.2 %, N = 2 out of N = 9, p = 1.00). Of the 27 BPD patients avoiding the mirror image, 92.6 % (N = 25) reported an intentional choice, while this was true for 66.6 % of those facing the mirror (N = 2 out of N = 3). The small sample size of BPD patients facing the mirror prevents a further statistical analysis and an investigation of modulating factors. However, it seems worth mentioning that those three patients who reported a non-consciousness seating choice reported lower RSQ-scores (9.5 SD 1.1) than 84.6 % of the BPD sample.
Experimental set up. Participants were supposed to choose either the chair facing the mirror (increased self-awareness, chair 1) or the chair facing the room (self-awareness avoidance, chair 2)
Behavioral Results. Results on the behavioral self-awareness avoidance reflected by the percentages of subjects choosing the chair not facing the mirror and the reported intentionality of this choice. BPD = borderline personality disorder, HC = healthy control participants
This study investigated reactions to self-awareness cues in BPD. Since self-awareness avoidance has been described in healthy individuals as a response to social exclusion [10, 11, 26], we hypothesized that BPD patients would avoid self-awareness even in the absence of actual social exclusion. In addition, we were interested in whether participants were aware of avoidance behavior and whether this differs between HC and BPD suggesting an altered salience of self-related processes in BPD. Our findings mainly confirmed our hypothesis: BPD patients avoided the chair facing the mirror slightly more often than healthy controls. However, in contrast to this statistically only marginally significant finding, groups differed strongly in regard to the intentionality of their choices: BPD patients indicated more often than healthy controls that they have been conscious about their seating decision.
A heightened tendency not to sit down on a chair facing a mirror was proposed to reflect self-awareness avoidance [11]. According to previous evidence [10, 11], healthy individuals would allocate their attention away from themselves and towards social others after acute rejection, probably in order to increase the awareness of social signals of a partner to re-establish a social relationship. Even without experimental rejection induction, BPD patients avoided cues that increase attention to the self more often than HC. The high proportion of BPD patients that chose the chair not facing the mirror is comparable to that in HC after being acutely socially rejected (see [11]).
In the present study, a high percentage of HCs chose the chair not facing the mirror without the experimental induced experience of social rejection. This proportion of HC that avoided cues of self-awareness is similar to that found by Twenge et al. [11] when participants were facing socially relevant positive information. An explanation might be that healthy participants shifted their awareness away from their physical appearance in preparation of the announced, subsequent conversation and social interaction.
With respect to their seating choice, BPD patients were in contrast to HC well aware of their behaviour: While only 27 % of the HC reported to have chosen the seating intentionally, about 90 % of the patients reported to have been aware of their decision for one of the chairs. Such particularly high self-focused attention has been found to play a role in the maintenance of social anxiety [27–29]. Clark and Wells [27] stress that socially anxious people monitor themselves as 'social objects', which - due to negative assumptions about themselves - leads to heightened perception of social threat with respective somatic and cognitive symptoms as well as safety behaviours such as escape from a social situation. When self-awareness is increased using e.g. a video-camera [30–32], anxiety and escape propensity also increases - a phenomenon also observed in individuals with low self-esteem [33]. This is in agreement with clinical observations that BPD patients react with an increase of inner tension in situations that require public speech, videotaping or body related interventions. Similarly, patients with posttraumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual abuse, a frequent comorbidity in BPD, experienced increased inner tension when anticipating a mirror confrontation, i.e. when being asked to focus at different parts of their own body while wearing a standard bikini [34].
Taken together, our findings revealed complex alterations of self-awareness in BPD: While behaviourally avoiding cues that direct attention to the self, the conscious seating choice suggests an increased self-awareness probably linked to self-evaluative processes in BPD. One may ask whether the study's results on altered self-awareness in BPD can actually be linked to a history of social rejection in BPD. Our findings are similarly conclusive with earlier findings of maladaptive perception of one's own body in BPD [18, 35–37]. BPD patients have a negative self-concept comprising a negative body image [17–21, 35, 38]. They have been shown to have a negative attitude towards their physical self and they have reported to avoid social situations during which physical appearance may be important [35]. Similarly, comorbid BPD increased the attention to body related cues in posttraumatic stress disorder although this attentional bias was not explicitly linked to the own body [39]. Future studies have to investigate the interplay between a negative body image and fear of social rejection. One may speculate whether a negative body image constitutes a threat to social participation and belonging: particularly when physical appearance is assessed as important, social rejection may be anticipated when the own appearance is negatively evaluated. Another important factor might be the experience of shame. Shame is a self-conscious emotion associated with a negative body image and plays an essential role in the self-concept of BPD patients [17–21]. It has been linked to increased self-awareness [40]. Similar to the relation between negative body image and shame, shame may also be a key emotional response to social threats such as social exclusion [41]. In BPD, studies on the relation of shame and social rejection are so far inconclusive: While Chapman et al. [42] observed an increase of shame particularly after the experience of social rejection, a subsequent study could not replicate this finding [43]. Taken together, experienced and expected rejection, a negative body image, and shame may contribute to our findings in BPD, showing the attempt to reduce body-related self-awareness by avoiding self-related cues while, however, simultaneously failing to withdraw attention from the own behavior and reduce self-awareness. Since we did not measure shame and body image in our sample, further studies are required to disentangle the relevance of experienced or imagined social rejection, a negative body image and shame for alterations of self-awareness in BPD. It has to be emphasized that subsequent studies have to apply finer-grained measurement variables providing a higher variance between participants to allow for the identification of modulating factors. Additionally, alternative measurement methods of self-awareness have to be applied (see, e.g., sentence completion tasks with first-person pronouns [44]) to test whether the alterations of self-awareness in BPD are restricted to body-related cues or extend to other features of the self.
Regarding this study, some limitations need to be considered. We only included female participants, thus the study does not allow any conclusions regarding male BPD patients. It has to be mentioned that the sample size is small and further independent studies have to replicate our findings. Future studies may aim at including a higher number of patients to allow for an analysis of specific traits or comorbidities to gain further insight into the underlying mechanism of the described self-awareness alterations. To assess the specificity of our findings for BPD, future studies with clinical control groups such as patients with social phobia, PTSD and other personality disorders are required. Based on our data, it is not possible to decide whether behavioural avoidance and the intentionality of this strategy represent an unspecific mechanism linked to psychopathology in general, to people low in self-esteem or high in social anxiety or whether they are specific to BPD. Nevertheless, our findings revealed alterations in self-awareness in BPD which may hamper interpersonal functioning and may constitute a target for psychotherapeutic interventions.
In addition, it has to be mentioned that the task was an add-on experiment conducted after tasks that required the evaluation of self-referential information. Since BPD patients are more likely to experience higher levels of emotional arousal from such tasks as healthy participant, our findings may reflect state rather than trait alterations in BPD. Thus, future studies have to replicate our data in different contexts to further explore determinants of altered self-awareness in this clinical sample.
In sum, our findings confirm alterations in self-awareness in BPD: Behavioral avoidance of cues that increase self-awareness was linked to a higher self-awareness in terms of a conscious decision to avoid these cues. The present study did not reveal the underlying mechanism or consequences for BPD patients' social interactions. Nevertheless, one may assume that the observed alterations may disadvantageously affect social relations by restricting attentional resources available for the perception of social cues from others.
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DW and SL designed the study and wrote the manuscript. KK recruited the participants, collected the data and participated in statistical analyses. DW supervised diagnostic procedures, data collection and did the statistical analyses. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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U.S. ready to restart talks with N. Korea, seeks denuclearization by 2021
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© ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - This Aug. 29, 2017 file photo distributed on Aug. 30, 2017 by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea. When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday, April 27, 2018, the world will have a single overriding interest: How will they address North Korea's decades-long pursuit of nuclear-armed missiles? Success, even a small one, on the nuclear front could mean a prolonged detente and smooth the path for a planned summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in May or June. Optimists hope that the two summits might even result in a grand nuclear bargain.(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
By Lesley Wroughton and Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
WASHINGTON/SEOUL
The United States is ready to engage in talks with North Korea "immediately," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, with the aim of completing North Korea's denuclearization by January 2021.
Pompeo's announcement demonstrated the Trump administration's apparent eagerness to seize on commitments made by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a summit with South Korea, even as critics said they did little to put Pyongyang on the course for irreversible denuclearization.
The sudden return to diplomacy contrasted with weeks of doubts within the administration about North Korea's intentions to negotiate in good faith. The January 2021 target date was the most specific deadline in what is expected to be a long, drawn-out process.
In late August, Trump abruptly canceled Pompeo's planned trip to North Korea, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearize had stalled since his summit with historic Kim in Singapore in June.
Less than a week later, Trump hailed his personal relationship with Kim as "a very good and warm one."
Pompeo said he had invited North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho to meet in New York next week where they are both due to attend the U.N. gathering of world leaders.
The United States has also invited North Korean representatives to meet with the U.S. special representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, in Vienna at the "earliest opportunity," Pompeo said.
Pompeo cited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's decision to "complete the previously announced dismantlement of the Tongchang-ri site in the presence of U.S. and international inspectors as a step toward the final fully verified denuclearization of North Korea."
"On the basis of these important commitments, the United States is prepared to engage immediately in negotiations to transform U.S.-DPRK relations," Pompeo said in a statement, referring to the acronym used to describe North Korea.
North Korea's pledge at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang drew an enthusiastic response from Trump, even though some U.S. officials and experts fear a ploy to weaken Washington's resolve and its alliance with Seoul.
'HE'S CALM, I'M CALM'
In a joint statement after the summit with Moon, Kim pledged to permanently abolish North Korea's key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts.
He said he was also willing to close the country's main nuclear complex - but only if the United States took unspecified reciprocal action.
Speaking ahead of Pompeo's announcement, Trump welcomed Kim's pledges, calling them part of "tremendous progress" with Pyongyang on a number of fronts, and hailing "very good news" from the summit between the Koreas.
"He's calm, I'm calm - so we'll see what happens," Trump told reporters, referring to Kim, whom he met at an unprecedented summit in Singapore in June.
"It's very much calmed down," added Trump, who last year engaged in a war of rhetoric with Kim in which he threatened to destroy North Korea.
Analysts had said Kim's pledges could inject new momentum into stalled nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang and lay the groundwork for another Kim-Trump meeting.
Trump has questioned the rationale and cost of keeping 28,500 U.S. troops based in South Korea. Pyongyang has long sought their withdrawal.
'NO CLOSER TO DISARMAMENT'
Speaking at a joint news conference in Pyongyang, the two Korean leaders agreed to turn the Korean peninsula into a "land of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats."
Kim pledged to work toward the "complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula" during two meetings with Moon earlier this year and at his summit with Trump in Singapore.
But discussions over how to implement the vague commitments have since faltered and North Korea has consistently refused to give up its nuclear arsenal unilaterally.
Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tweeted that the Moon-Kim summit had made the Korean peninsula safer.
"But it is no closer to North Korean disarmament," he said.
Washington has demanded concrete action toward denuclearization, such as a full disclosure of North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities, before agreeing to key goals of Pyongyang, including an easing of international sanctions and an official end to the Korean War.
Although North Korea has unilaterally stopped nuclear and missile tests in the past year, it did not allow international inspections of the dismantling of its main nuclear test site in May, drawing criticism that its action was for show and could be easily reversed.
As a next step, North Korea will allow experts from "concerned countries" to watch the closure of its missile engine testing site and launch pad at Dongchang-ri, according to Kim and Moon's joint statement.
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