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NCFM Member Jason Dale, Domestic Violence by Dummies – a must read
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The domestic violence industry is about gender politics, power, control, and MONEY – billions.
NCFM NOTE: First published here in 2014 it inexplicably disappeared. But the following is simply a superb email exchange between NCFM Member Jason Dale and Pat Goodman, Men's Program Coordinator, Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs (the "Duluth" domestic violence model power and control organization). If you need a quick reference guide to the related research you'll find it here. Maybe you need a key phrases or bullet points to counter anti-male bias in discussions about intimate partner violence, to include sexual assault. Or, maybe you would like a quick history of how the multi-billion dollar domestic violence industry got its roots. You can even get a good lesson in ignorance and a peek into the thinking of one of the most influential and wrongheaded domestic violence organizations on the planet. Whatever you gain from this email exchange, we trust it will be more than you may have imagined. The title "Domestic Violence by Dummies" is ours, not Mr. Dales, but we like to think the title salutes his genius…
Domestic Violence by Dummies
Email correspondence in chronological sequence
(Minor edits have been applied to my text for spelling/grammar/formatting purposes. Scott Miller's comments have not been edited in any way)
Email 1: From Jason Dale (myself) to Pat Goodman (Men's Program Coordinator) at Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs ("DAIP" website: http://www.theduluthmodel.org/)
From: Jason Dale jason.eddison.dale@gmail.com
To: pgoodman@theduluthmodel.org
Date: Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 11:43 PM
Subject: Duluth model enquiry
I was doing research on the internet looking for resources/information for assisting men who have been abused by their spouses and/or siblings. Both of my previous girlfriends were extremely abusive, and as a young boy I grew up with a sister who was extremely violent and abused me in every way imaginable – including physically and sexually.
As far as I can tell – at least in so far as domestic violence is concerned; the Duluth model is the most prominent and widely used model for articulating all of the stages of abuse.
What also became immediately obvious however is how the model seems to assume that the abuser is always male and that the victim is always female. All of the Duluth model wheels that I have seen make statements like "preventing her from getting or keeping a job," "making her ask for money," "putting her down"…etc. This is despite the fact that research has exhaustively and conclusively proven that violent behaviour is not a gender issue but a generational issue and both genders are just as capable of domestic violence or intimate partner violence. http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm (221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses demonstrating that women are as physically aggressive or more aggressive than their male counterparts) http://www.domesticviolenceresearch.org/ (one of the world's LARGEST domestic violence research databases consisting of over 2,600 pages and summaries of over 1,700 peer reviewed scientific studies (pre-selected according to careful criteria from 12 000 studies))
When is the Duluth model going to be updated to reflect the basic and essential fact that violent and abusive behaviour has got nothing to do with gender?
Email 2: No response from Pat Goodman, but I received this email from Scott Miller (DAIP Blueprint Coordinator)
From: Scott Miller smiller@theduluthmodel.org
To: jason.eddison.dale@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Subject: Duluth Model
Your "research" on the internet seems fairly limited and drives at a particular political point of view that seeks to remove male entitlement and the overwhelming global, social problem of men battering women from the conversation. Instead of looking at a small minority of researchers who push this point of view, why don't you go to government funded websites like NIJ or OVW to find what the rest of the world thinks. I've attached something to start with. You might also want to do some looking into the difference between the crime of domestic violence and the social problem of battering.
Email 3: My response to Scott Miller
to: Scott Miller smiller@theduluthmodel.org
date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:07 PM
subject: Re: Duluth Model
While it is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, I think your email and comments reveal the true nature of what lurks beneath the Duluth Model with the kind of clarity that few pictures can match.
For starters, you callously ignored the fact that I personally have been a victim of abuse at the hands of female perpetrators – abuse which includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse. When it came to my own human suffering, you showed about as much heart as an unflushed toilet, while at the same time arrogantly talking down to me as though I am an individual with an intellectually stunted brain. Perhaps you were hoping that I wouldn't notice the fact that the NIJ "Special Report" you sent me (published in June 2009 which now makes it over 5 years old) is endorsed by the very same U.S. Department of Justice that REFUSES TO FUND the very same research that you claim is "limited:"
"The U.S. Department of Justice solicitation of proposals for Justice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking (p. 8) stated "What will NOT be funded: 4. Proposals for research on intimate partner violence against, or stalking of, males of any age or females under the age of 12." [Bold, capital and underlined emphasis mine (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000734.pdf).
You are DECEITFUL Scott, and as you are very quickly going to discover; I am neither the push-over nor the fool that you think I am.
You claim that my research is "limited." As a matter of interest, did you actually bother to check the web links that I sent you?
http://www.domesticviolenceresearch.org/
"Over the years, research on partner abuse has become unnecessarily fragmented and politicized. The purpose of The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project (PASK) is to bring together in a rigorously evidence-based, transparent and methodical manner existing knowledge about partner abuse with reliable, up-to-date research that can easily be accessed both by researchers and the general public. In March, 2010, the Senior Editor of Partner Abuse recruited family violence scholars from the United States, Canada and the U.K. to conduct an extensive and thorough review of the empirical literature, in 17 broad topic areas. Researchers were asked to conduct a formal search for published, peer-reviewed studies through standard, widely-used search programs, and then catalogue and summarize all known research studies relevant to each major topic and its sub-topics. In the interest of thoroughness and transparency, the researchers agreed to summarize all quantitative studies published in peer-reviewed journals after 1990, as well as any major studies published prior to that time, and to clearly specify exclusion criteria. Included studies are organized in extended tables, each table containing summaries of studies relevant to its particular sub-topic.
In this unprecedented undertaking, a total of 42 scholars and 70 research assistants at 20 universities and research institutions spent two years or more researching their topics and writing the results. Approximately 12,000 studies were considered and more than 1,700 were summarized and organized into tables. The 17 manuscripts, which provide a review of findings on each of the topics, for a total of 2,657 pages, appear in 5 consecutive special issues of Partner Abuse published between April, 2012 and April, 2013. All conclusions, including the extent to which the research evidence supports or undermines current theories, are based strictly on the data collected."
Did you also happen to check the reference section from Martin S. Fiebert's (PhD) Bibliography? (http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assaultsbib.html)
52 NATIONAL SURVEYS & REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE STUDIES (1981 to 2009)
48 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (1981 to 2012)
100 DATING STUDIES (1982 to 2009)
30 GENERAL ANALYSES (1980 to 2011)
35 REVIEWS (1987 to 2012)
19 ETHNIC & INTER-RACIAL PARTNER VIOLENCE STUDIES (1988 to 2009)
3 CASE STUDIES (2001 to 2009)
12 BOOKS AND THESES (1981 to 2008)
47 OTHER EMPIRICAL STUDIES (1980 to 2010)
You prejudicially invalidate the humanity of roughly half the world's population of over 7 BILLION PEOPLE simply because of their gender, while completely ignoring any non-gendered research that might refute your bigoted views because you think that such research is "limited." You condescendingly dictate that dissident thinkers must get in line with the rest of the world like sheep and blindly believe websites funded by politically oriented national governments, while at the same time deceitfully accusing international peer-reviewed research of somehow being slanted by national politics – despite the fact that the Duluth model can within itself be viewed as a "political education mapped onto an intervention" (Dutton & Corvo, 2006). Even worse, and by using some profound mutation of logic; you spectacularly accuse the researchers from Martin S. Fiebert's bibliography as well as PASK of somehow colluding to "Remove male entitlement and the overwhelming global, social problem of men battering women from the conversation," despite the fact that PASK specifically states upfront that "research on partner abuse has become unnecessarily fragmented and politicized."
WOW! Did the Duluth model folks somehow miss you when they were screening their male staff and volunteers for "power and control" megalomaniacs? Perhaps they missed the ball because their Duluth model was not written by qualified psychologists to begin with? (Dutton & Corvo, 2007).
You are not God, Scott. Don't flatter yourself by making egregiously egotistical statements such as "why don't you go to government funded websites like NIJ or OVW to find what the rest of the world thinks." You don't speak for the hearts and minds of every American citizen, nor do you speak for the hearts and minds of the international community. For that matter, just because an idea might be popular does not automatically make it the truth. A few centuries ago, the "rest of the world" thought that the world was FLAT. But that did not make them right, did it?
Governments LIE Scott, and they are also PERPETUATING THE LIES ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE! http://whiteribbon.org/domestic-violence-law/refuting-40-years-of-lies-about-domestic-violence/
You do know of course know who Erin Pizzey is, don't you? If you don't, I would encourage you to read up about the life of this amazing woman. She was one of the first people to get involved in the women's movement in the UK, and in 1971 she founded the first nationally and internationally recognized women's shelter or "refuge." Of the first 100 women who came to her shelter however, she reported that 62 were as or more violent than the partners they tried to escape from – only to return to their partners time and again because of their addiction to pain and violence; violence that they persistently did their best to bring about. When Pizzey reported her findings that violence was a generational issue and not a gendered issue and that woman could be just as violent as men, she became subject to public protests and death threats, which also culminated in the shooting of her family dog. The harassment eventually became so severe that she eventually had to flee the UK with her family.
http://www.erinpizzey.com
http://www.whiteribbon.org
http://www.batteredmen.com/pizzey.htm
Frankly, I don't think it's a coincidence that you are pro-government research, Scott. You see, the collective meetings that were taking place in the women's movement in the 1970's were actually laced with Marxism. In today's terms, the brand of feminism that is proliferating the media, politics and government in the US and other countries also has a strong Marxist undercurrent – one that wants women to go to work full-time while their children are being cared for by the state – just like a communist government.
Feminism has succeeded in turning domestic violence into a BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY, and Barack Obama happens to be one of Feminism's biggest political supporters in the United States. Are you starting to join the dots yet? Why would the US government want to dismantle such a lucrative cash cow by publishing research that exposes the damnable lies of feminism? For example, analyses of data from 32 nations in the International Dating Violence Study (Straus 2007; Straus and International Dating Violence Research Consortium 2004) found about equal perpetration rates and a predominance of mutual violence in all 32 samples, including non-Western nations.
Can you show me ONE government funded website that will publish PROOF that DOMINATION AND CONTROL BY WOMEN OCCURS AS OFTEN AS BY MEN and are as strongly associated with perpetration of Partner Violence ("PV") by women as by men (Straus, 2007). Such research would not cast the Duluth model in a very positive light, now would it?
Perhaps you should go and read Dr. Murray Straus's paper entitled "Processes explaining the concealment and distortion of evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence" (Straus, 2007).
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V74-gender-symmetry-with-gramham-Kevan-Method%208-.pdf
Your statement about the so-called "overwhelming global, social problem of men battering women" is unscientific and inexact. What is your definition of "overwhelming?" GET SPECIFIC, Scott. Which of the 195 countries in the world (or 196 if you treat Taiwan as separate from mainland China) are you referring to? Since the U.S. Department of Justice has no jurisdiction in foreign countries, perhaps you can point me to peer-reviewed research that PROVES that "men battering women" is an "overwhelming social problem" in each and every one of these 195/196 countries?
Does discrimination and abuse in all of its forms happen to women? OF COURSE IT DOES, and it NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED! There most certainly ARE countries like Saudi Arabia where women are very severely abused and discriminated against. However, discrimination and abuse in all of its forms HAPPENS TO MEN TOO – and it happens MORE OFTEN THAN YOU REALIZE – a fact that Duluth model activists just can't seem to get into their skulls. This might come as a surprise to you Scott; but in western countries like the United States, WOMEN ACTUALLY HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN MEN DO. I happen to live in a country where white men are the most politically marginalized and discriminated against group.
Research is not "pushed" – it is PUBLISHED. Just because that research might upset the pet theories of male-hating ideologies like the Duluth model does not automatically make that research "anti-women," nor does this mean that such research is attempting to subvert the rights of either gender in any way.
Clearly, it is YOU that needs to do some REAL RESEARCH. Why don't you go and learn from REAL EXPERTS like Erin Pizzey instead of falling for politicized government propaganda like a sack of potatoes!
Lastly, a few WORDS OF WARNING, Scott. While you might feel very smug and self-satisfied about your reply to me, you must remember that your comments are not just a reflection on you but a reflection on your organization as a whole. I happen to notice that you used the word "enjoy" as a closing salutation to your email. What exactly do you find "enjoy[able]" about domestic violence and "the social problem of battering?" This is a SERIOUS subject for BOTH GENDERS. We are not talking about the weekend sports here. I don't expect you to write like Shakespeare, but as these emails are going to be published, I strongly suggest that you improve your attitude and brush up on your email etiquette. Take responsibility for your OWN words before you lecture me about the semantical differences between words/terms like "domestic violence" and "battering" as they may legally be defined in each country.
May 2015 be the year in which your deceit, ignorance and delusional self-importance are dissolved with moral disinfectant to make space within you for a genuine sense of humility, wisdom and compassion for the whole human race.
Jason Dale
Email 4: Scott Miller responds (he clearly spent a LOT of time thinking about this…)
To: Jason Dale jason.eddison.dale@gmail.com
I didn't refer to your victimization because that's your experience and to me that's sacred and separate from, what seemed to me, the larger concern you have regarding our agency's work. To include your experience of trauma as a factor or component in our difference of opinion on the work of DAIP would be inappropriate from my point of view.
The tone you used in your initial email was to judge this agency and the work we do. I'm guessing you felt justified in assuming you had room to educate us about what you feel is good research without ever asking us what we base our understanding of the issue on – which comes from a culmination of over 35 years of work. You took a great deal of license, from my point of view, on how you interpreted my response. I will take responsibility for the ending "enjoy." I could have chosen another way to end it that would have been much more concrete like take care, peace or sincerely.
You clearly don't like the research I feel has been vetted for accuracy and you don't like our agency and its mission. That was true before you emailed us and I'm guessing it won't change. That's ok. You can hold your view. We will continue to do the work we believe in as should you. The PASK group is on one side. The majority of domestic violence work both in the U.S and abroad is on another. Again, we can disagree on whether that's true. The researchers and individuals that you list are as familiar to us as we are to them. We don't agree on the issues around men's violence against women and how to respond to it. That's absolutely true. People can agree to disagree when the impasse is this significant. Regardless of what each side believes, I know we all do our work and hope that the lives of women, children and men are improved by the work we do.
Email 5: At this point I decided to include all of the other individuals listed on their website's contacts page:
Melissa Scaia, Executive Director
Emebet Davies, Finance Director
Rene Gutmann, Accountant
Matt Nesshengel, Maintenance Coordinator
Sheryl Boman, Family Visitation Center Program Coordinator
Arielle Schnur, Visitation Specialist
Jeanette Janisch, Visitation Specialist
LaDonna Adams, Visitation Specialist
Brenda Jeka, Visitation Specialist
Pat Goodman, Men's Program Coordinator
Tara Haynes, System, Court and Visitation Liaison
Karin Sollom, Training Coordinator
Denise Gamache, Director of Battered Women's Justice Project
(http://www.theduluthmodel.org/contact.html)
Cc: executivedirector@theduluthmodel.org,
edavies@theduluthmodel.org,
rgutmann@theduluthmodel.org,
mnesshengel@theduluthmodel.org,
sboman@theduluthmodel.org,
aschnur@theduluthmodel.org,
jjanisch@theduluthmodel.org,
ladams@theduluthmodel.org,
bjeka@theduluthmodel.org,
pgoodman@theduluthmodel.org,
thaynes@theduluthmodel.org,
ksollom@theduluthmodel.org,
dgamache@bwjp.org
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:00 PM
Your statements are quoted in "italics," and my replies are in plain font. Please note that I am also including all of the individuals listed on your website's contact page, and that all responses will be published with the names of the email respondents.
"I didn't refer to your victimization because that's your experience and to me that's sacred and separate from, what seemed to me, the larger concern you have regarding our agency's work. To include your experience of trauma as a factor or component in our difference of opinion on the work of DAIP would be inappropriate from my point of view"
Showing compassion for the suffering of another human being (regardless of their gender) or at the very least acknowledging that person's experiences in a professional and courteous manner is NEVER "inappropriate." Instead, you responded to me not only with indifference but with unbridled arrogance, hypocrisy and deceit – even going so far as to level false accusations of a very serious nature against a large number of scholars and researchers – conduct of which is both egregiously "inappropriate" and wholly inconsistent with the claims which you are now conveniently making only after being challenged.
Having said that, I wasn't expecting you to pull out a violin and start crying me a river, Scott. I am well aware of the fact that male victims are generally reluctant to seek help because of the significant obstacles that they face (Galdas et al., 2005; Cook 2009) and that the majority of male victims are treated dismissively by Duluth model inspired Domestic Violence ("DV") agencies either by being told "we only help women" or by being accused of somehow instigating their own abuse (Douglas and Hines, 2011).
Quite frankly, the more likely explanation for your indifference is that the Duluth model essentially views all female transgressions as being self-defensive in nature (even against children!) and can be attributed either to previous victimization by a male or to an allegedly oppressive "patriarchy" (Dutton and Corvo, 2007).
"The tone you used in your initial email was to judge this agency and the work we do"
Come on, Scott. The tone used in my initial email was actually very courteous, professional and emotionally neutral. My email started off with a friendly salutation ("Hi there!"). I then provided background and context by mentioning my own victimization; after which I politely mentioned the visibly obvious gender bias in the Duluth "Power and Control" wheel. Not wanting to rely only on my own personal experiences; I then proceeded to provide you with references to rigorously evidence-based, transparent, reliable and up-to-date peer-reviewed research which clearly proves, inter alia; that domestic abuse/domestic violence ("DA"/"DV") and intimate partner violence ("IPV") are NOT gendered issues and that women can be just as violent as men. Finally, I concluded my email by asking a perfectly valid and reasonable question: "When is the Duluth model going to be updated to reflect the basic and essential fact that violent and abusive behaviour has got nothing to do with gender?"
On what basis do you dismiss my email as "judgmental?" Simply because I presented evidence-based statements that made you feel very uncomfortable because they contradict your ideology-based word view?
Can you imagine how it must feel for countless hundreds of thousands of innocent men implicated in IPV/DV/DA related cases to be unjustly judged guilty for no reason other than being male?
For that matter, I wonder how the entire planet's population of men must feel about the fact that Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs ("DAIP") judges ALL men (regardless of their individual character) as being "socialized to be dominant" (Pence & Paymar, 1993) under a Marxist strain of patriarchy theory; despite the glaring lack of evidence to support such a theory and the significant amounts of evidence that prove otherwise? (Straus, 2007; Archer, 2006; Stith et al., 2004; Sugarman & Frankel, 1996; et al.). See also (Elliot, 1977; Rounsaville, 1978; Straus, 1973; et al.).
I wonder how these same men must feel about the fact that DAIP judges and conflates ALL family violence as being a "socialized option for men" (Pence & Paymar, 1993) and that any other factors are summarily dismissed as "excuses" (Pence & Paymar, 1993), despite the significant amounts of research that prove that such violence can stem from a multitude of etiological process (Dutton and Corvo, 2006; et al.) which include neurological (Dutton, 2001; Meloy, 1992; Schore, 2003a,b), psychological (Dutton, 2002; Dutton & Holtzworth-Munroe, 1997a,b; Dutton, Saunders, Starzomski, & Bartholomew, 1994; Dutton & Starzomski, 1993; Hamberger & Hastings, 1991; Holtzworth-Munroe, Bates, Smutzler, & Sandin, 1997; Holtzworth-Munroe, Stuart, & Hutchinson, 1997), recurring IPV due to interactive factors (Leonard & Senchak, 1993; Levenson & Gottman, 1983; Margolin et al., 1989; Stets & Straus, 1992a,b), developmental psychosocial risk (Dutton, 2002; Putallaz & Bierman, 2004; Serbin et al., 2004; Sroufe, Egeland, Carlson, & Collins, 2005), interpersonal (Jacobson et al., 1994; Leonard & Roberts, 1998; Margolin, John, & Gleberman, 1989), situational (Eckhardt, Barbour, & Davis, 1998; Fagan, 1989; Fagan, Stewart, & Hansen, 1983), historical (Dutton, 2000, 2002), witnessed violence (Dutton, 2000; Egland, 1993), shaming (Dutton, Starzomski, & Ryan, 1996; Dutton, Swanson, van Ginkel, & Starzomski, in press), trauma (Dutton & Holtzworth-Munroe, 1997a,b; Rumsey, 2003), cultural influences (Archer, 2005; Dutton, 1985) and alcohol (Leonard and Roberts, 1998; Leonard and Senchak, 1993; Dalton, 2001).
I wonder how the researchers from PASK (who host the world's LARGEST domestic violence research database) as well as the researchers from Fiebert's Bibliography (who use an aggregate sample size of 371,600) must feel about being judged by "a small group of activists in the battered women's movement" (Pence & Paymar, 1993) who at the time had NO qualifications in psychology, NO therapeutic expertise and who established their operating principles on a sample size of 9 PEOPLE (5 battered women and ONLY 4 MEN, all of which were batterers) (Dutton and Corvo, 2006) and built their empirical foundation on interviews held in 1984 with "more than 200 battered women in Duluth who participated in 30 educational sessions sponsored by the shelter" (Pence & Paymar, 1983). Notice how well the MEN were represented! (I speak sarcastically, of course).
I wonder how society must feel about the fact that unqualified and sexist activists like Pence and Paymar were able to heavily influence the regulatory, arrest priorities, legal/prosecutorial decision making, post-arrest intervention and policy discourse of the United States, Canada and other countries (Dutton and Corvo, 2006) with their ideas about patriarchy theory and the socially sanctioned dominance of women by men as being the exclusive cause of domestic violence? (Gelles, 2001; Maiuro, Hagar, Lin, & Olson, 2001; Mills, 2003; Sherman et al., 1992; Ford & Regoli, 1993; Maiuro et al., 2001).
I wonder how males all around the United States must feel about the fact that the US Department of Justice refuses to fund "Proposals for research on intimate partner violence against, or stalking of, males of any age or females under the age of 12" (NIJ, 2005; et al).
And yet amazingly, AMAZINGLY; you asserted that the research I provided was "limited" and that I should "go to government funded websites like NIJ or OVW to find what the rest of the WORLD thinks!" [Bold, underline and capital emphasis is mine].
"I'm guessing you felt justified in assuming you had room to educate us about what you feel is good research without ever asking us what we base our understanding of the issue on – which comes from a culmination of over 35 years of work"
You are assuming of course that I don't already know what you base your "understanding of the issue on." Even so, how much "specialist" knowledge does a person need to see that your "Power and Control" wheel is sexist and one-sided? As you will recall, that is the reason I wrote to your agency in the first place.
Actually, Scott; I do not personally assume to "educate" anyone as you demeaningly suggest. I am small potatoes in the grander scheme of things, which is why I made extensive reference to the works of other highly qualified and skilled researchers and scholars.
What does surprise me however is that even the world's largest domestic violence research database has not been able to convince agencies like DAIP of what really should be common sense. Are both men and women human? Sure they are. Do men have human natures? Sure they do. Do women have human natures? Sure they do. Therefore, BOTH men AND women are equally capable of violence as well as other types of abusive and harmful behaviour. This is not rocket science!
In my own professional career, I have had the privilege of working with a team of Professors and scholars on university projects in the United States, Africa and Europe, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of research nor am I unfamiliar with the concept of logical reasoning. As an aside, I notice that you have not been able to successfully refute me on any of the points I have raised previously.
Research does not automatically become "good" simply because of how it makes you "feel" or because it comes from government, nor does research automatically become "good" simply because of the time spent on it. Take feminism inspired "women's studies" for example – it was decades if not centuries in the making.
Research only becomes "good" when it follows the principles of good research, and these principles include, inter alia; the integrity and character of the researcher/s, the quality of the foundational hypothesis/research question/s, the choice and application of research methodologies, the definition of data requirements, the methods used to gather the required data, the data sources or samples used and the manner in which that data is analysed and interpreted with regards to the original hypothesis/research question/s.
If you build upon an already bad foundation with a prejudicial and biased viewpoint about what you are researching (as DAIP has done), then your research has failed even before it has started, regardless of the scope of its acceptance or the apparent popularity of its findings.
Ultimately however, research means nothing if you lack integrity and genuine compassion for all people regardless of their gender, nationality, culture, religion or creed. If you are really looking for a real "education," why not start with Erin Pizzey? In less than a year of starting one of the first internationally recognized shelters or refuges for battered women; she was able to recognize and openly expose what DAIP has apparently chosen to ignore or not been able to grasp in 36 years.
"You took a great deal of license, from my point of view, on how you interpreted my response."
This statement is dripping with deceit and intellectual cowardice, Scott. Your response was as brazen and as clear as a neon sign!
You on the other hand took a "great deal of license" when you falsely accused PASK and Fiebert's researchers of seeking to "remove male entitlement and the overwhelming global, social problem of men battering women from the conversation." That accusation is very plain and leaves no room for misinterpretation.
I also CHALLENGED you to clearly define what you "interpret" the word "overwhelming" to mean and to provide PROOF of this claim from every one of the 195/196 countries in the world. After all, we are talking about a "global" problem, are we not? But you DID NOT ANSWER ME, DID YOU? So in this case, how can you accuse me of taking a "great deal of license" to interpret what YOU are not willing to clarify?
You also stated that "Instead of looking at a small minority of researchers who push this point of view, why don't you go to government funded websites like NIJ or OVW to find what the rest of the world thinks." I am not illiterate Scott, and it is crystal clear that you have taken a "great deal of license" to assume that you know what "the rest of the world thinks" while at the same time not having a clue what you are talking about!
"You clearly don't like the research I feel has been vetted for accuracy and you don't like our agency and its mission. That was true before you emailed us and I'm guessing it won't change"
Your statement is as presumptuous as it is illogical. How can you "know" (without any doubt) that something is "true" and yet have to "guess" (express doubt) that it won't change? Did you somehow lose your magical mind reading abilities half way through a sentence?
My initial email attempted to debate the issue of your Duluth model wheel in an objective and congenial manner. My personal "likes" or "dislikes" are subjective and irrelevant.
Saying that research is "accurate" is a meaningless statement, because research can be biased and misleading and still be "accurate." If you selectively choose only the research and/or data that supports your biased point of view, while ignoring, distorting or suppressing any research and/or data that does not; you are still going to end up with a skewed result – even if you crunch the numbers accurately.
"The PASK group is on one side. The majority of domestic violence work both in the U.S and abroad is on another"
NO, the "PASK GROUP" is NOT "on one side." PASK does not take sides. Instead, they take an objective and unbiased view of domestic violence for the benefit of all humanity which happens to include BOTH genders and not just one. In a sense, you could say that they are "on both sides!"
When you FAIL to provide any kind of evidence or proof to substantiate nondescript and inexact statements like "the overwhelming global, social problem of men battering women" or "The majority of domestic violence work both in the U.S and abroad is on another" then you are LYING, Scott. Make no mistake about it, THOSE LIES ARE BEING EXPOSED!
"Again, we can disagree on whether that's true. The researchers and individuals that you list are as familiar to us as we are to them."
How do you take your TRUTH? Candy-coated or between the eyes?
The law of gravity "sucks," whether you find it agreeable or not. Both genders are human and both genders are capable of bona fide violence, whether you find it agreeable or not. Sorry, but we are not on two sides of a proverbial opinion coin here, and you don't get to lump your unsubstantiated and sexist ideology on the same proverbial book shelf as logic, reason and proven facts.
When you say that "the researchers and individuals that you [that's me] list are as familiar to us as we are to them" are you referring to ALL of the researchers and individuals listed? If not, which researchers and individuals are you specifically referring to? Which of their works have you actually read? Did you meet them at any academic summits or conferences? Did you collaborate with or co-author any research papers or publications with them? For that matter, who is "us?" Are you referring to ALL of the staff at DAIP or just some of them? GET SPECIFIC!
However, I DO agree with Henry Louis Mencken when he said "Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced."
Life has a nasty habit of knocking people out of their mental bunkers, Scott. I sincerely hope for your sake that your wake-up call does not come in the form of a borderline personality disordered female that wants to butcher her ex-husband and dispose of her children.
"We don't agree on the issues around men's violence against women and how to respond to it"
Who is "we?" Are you talking about all of the folks at DAIP or are you referring to "us" as in you and I?
Let me be patently clear on this, Scott: I DO NOT AGREE WITH VIOLENCE AGAINST ANY PERSON, REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER!
As for how to "respond" to violence, that is a tome in its own right, but I do like the way www.whiteribbon.org sums it up:
"Violence has no gender"
"End violence against EVERYONE"
"Support evidence-based solutions to domestic violence"
"Sexism is not the answer to domestic violence" (banner on www.avoiceformen.com)
"The answers start with compassion for all victims" (banner on www.avoiceformen.com)
"Regardless of what each side believes, I know we all do our work and hope that the lives of women, children and men are improved by the work we do"
Unfortunately, you do NOT improve the lives of women, children and men by promoting sexist and one-sided ideologies or by discriminating against men when it comes to domestic violence or any other kind of abuse. For that matter, you are NOT helping women by perpetuating the idea that they are always ultimately victims, even when they are the abusers. This type of "limited" mind-set effectively denies much needed support and services to women who themselves admit to being abusive and who want to change!
If you really insist that you want the lives of women, children and men to be improved by your agency's work, then why don't you PROVE it by updating your "Power and Control" wheel to reflect the basic and essential fact that violent and abusive behaviour has got nothing to do with gender?
Since my last email on the 20th of January 2015, no further responses from Scott Miller or any other individual from DAIP has been received to date…
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Now that the routing is finished, let's tune the PCB up.
You may remember the mention about how the crystal zone is sensitive.
We can protect it, along with other components, from external electrical noise through the use of ground fills.
Select create fill zones to begin.
We will draw two zones: One around the MCU, and one for the USB connector.
Then click on the first corner of the zone to surround to bring up a menu.
Select the ground net for the fill net, and high resolution for prettier edges.
Click at the corners, and double click at the last corner to end.
Then, press B to fill the zone.
The ground fill question is always an interesting one.
On one hand, it reduces EMI interference both entering and exiting the board.
However, it adds a significant amount of copper, making it more difficult to solder due to the necessity to raise temperatures further for ground-connected components.
It also makes the PCB opaque. This can be a major disadvantage if you are wishing for the translucent PCB aesthetic.
If doing full ground fill, make sure there is no ground current interference (i.e. Ground current from LED doesn't take a path that cuts across MCU/Crystal zone).
Also, in this case, it is critical that the USB lines are routed properly: Not close and parallel to pulsing matrix and LED lines, crossing perpendicularly to other traces as much as possible.
Whether you choose aesthetic or function is up to you. Such is a design decision left for the designer.
My personal recommendation is to use fill around the entire MCU zone or entire board until you are used to PCB design and have a few functional prototypes.
Let's celebrate your first PCB by making it yours.
F/B.SilkS - Silkscreen print. The best choice for most decorations.
F/B.Cu - The copper. Add stealth logos and text that aren't as obvious.
F/B.Mask - The soldermask. If no copper exists below, you will end up with a tan color exposed (PCB material). If copper below, you will get a shiny copper artwork or text.
For example, select the text tool on the layer F.SilkS, and place a block of text on the PCB.
Then, press Alt+3 to render the PCB.
Artwork can be done using Bitmap2Component. This will be discussed in a future chapter.
Are you sure that you haven't made any mistakes?
Use DRC to find out.
Press "Start DRC", then wait a few moments for KiCad to find things to complain about.
If it returns empty, you're all set.
If not, you've made a mistake.
Repeat until KiCad complains no more.
Let's get this board produced and in your hands.
Gerber files are the standard for PCB data. We will export this from KiCad.
Open the Plot menu from the toolbar.
Here are the generic settings I use for exporting to most factories.
Once everything is set, press Plot to generate the data.
Now click Generate Drill Files.
Stock settings should work fine here. Simply generate the files and close all dialogs.
Check your repository folder - You'll notice that there are gerber files in the directory you specified.
Add all these gerber files to a zip file.
Congratulations, you can use this file for production.
Commit a celebratory commit to GitHub so you don't lose your work when KiCad decides to have a bad hair day.
For example, you can upload the zip at JLCPCB, and it will generate a quick screenshot of the PCB data.
Let's finish the guide up by buying all the parts necessary to assemble this board.
The guide will be expanded sooner or later to cover LEDs and such.
For now, you can refer to the advanced info.
Also, feel free to join ai03's Discord server.
It provides a safe place for all to discuss and design.


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Secretary Zinke is a champion and promoter of sport hunting, which in part tipped a selection influenced by Donald Trump, Jr.
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A similar de-listing of the Northern Continental Divide grizzly population, covering Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall and Great Bear Wilderness Areas.
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It was time to end the "barbaric, bloody sport hunt," in the words of Joy Foy, national campaign director for the Wilderness Society, an environmental group that has campaign years for a grizzly hunting ban.
British Columbia has an estimated 15,000 grizzlies. But the population of bears in southwest B.C. is endangered. As well, the previous provincial government severely short changed game management, so population estimates are not precise..


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Masks (1958) – ENCHI Fumiko
原文名: 女面
作家: 円地 文子
発行年: 昭和33(1958年)
Recommended to me by a colleague, this is the last of my January in Japan reviews. Any keen readers will have noted that I have managed to get through the month reviewing only female authors—this was deliberate, and I hope to do it again in the future.
Ibuki and Mikame are two men fascinated by the same women, Yasuko. Recently widowed, she is still working for her deceased husband's mother, Mieko, in completing his academic work. But as Ibuki and Mikame are drawn to this beautiful young woman, they find themselves caught up in something much larger than themselves. And though they realise they are being manipulated, they cannot work out by whom, and if it really is all for the best.
Perhaps the best place to begin the discussion is the title. Though translated as Masks in English, the Japanese title, 女面 (on'na-men), refers to a kind of mask used in noh theatre, worn by men playing female roles (noh is so traditional, it doesn't let women on stage, leaving men to play these roles). As with other noh masks, there are several stock on'na-men that represent certain stock characters—including those from which the three sections—ryo no onna, masugami (増髪) and fukai (深井)—come. The implication, of course, that the three female characters of the novel each align with one of these masks.
Enchi takes this idea of female masks quite literally. The two main female characters are almost impossible to read in their motivations, and as such, the title becomes a little obvious. This is a novel that suggests that women are inherently unknowable—that men are unable to understand what it is that drives women, because everything a woman does is an act, a mask they wear to hide their true motivations.
So we arrive at the end, and are still not quite sure which plan was in action the whole time, and whether or not it actually worked. Did Mieko set out to ensure her daughter died in childbirth, removing the stain from the family line? Or was Yasuko so determined to have a child, she was happy to sacrifice her late husband's twin to get a child that shared his DNA? Perhaps we will never know.
Perhaps it's a simply cultural misunderstanding. I have read my fair share of Japanese literature, but Genji is not one I've ever been brave enough to tackle. And since Masks is so heavily reliant on a fairly deep understanding of that novel, perhaps it is just beyond me. Because when I finished, there was a definite sense of deflation, of waiting for the next part of the story to begin. The women have tricked the men, hiding behind their womanly masks, but that's about it. I'm not sure the concept of people hiding behind facades is exactly new—even Mishima was doing it in 1949.
Masks is fascinating, but ultimately frustrating. The lack of exploration of the character motivation is, of course, the point of the novel, but without an understanding of the masks that are being used to define the women, it leaves one a little cold. Maybe a reread after tackling Genji is the way to go.
Tagged Japan, masks, women
The Face of Another (1964) – ABE Kōbō
This is the third attempt I've made at reading The Face of Another (a clunky translation, but I can't think of a better one, so I should probably shut up). Years ago, I watched a film called The Woman of the Dunes, which is based on another Abe novel. It's a great film, and you should watch it if you get a chance, but it's also very long, not a lot happens, and really focuses on the internal psyche of its main character. Coincidentally, that last sentence could just as easily be applied here.
A scientist has been horribly scarred from a chemical accident at his lab. His face is left a mess of keloid scars, and has resorted to wearing bandages to cover the sight every time he leaves his house. But one day he wonders what it would be like if he wore a mask. With this in mind, he sets out to create the perfect mask, one he can use to interact with everyday people. As with all scientific experiments, though, it has a high chance of going very, very wrong.
Obviously the disconnect between the face and the interior is not an exclusively Japanese concern – Western postmodernists have been having a field day with it since the 1960s – but I think it's certainly one of the main concerns of Japan. This is unsurprising, when you consider just how much of Japanese society is based on external appearance, on presenting a polite face to the rest of teh group in order to avoid causing meiwaku, or trouble, for other people. There exists a gap, then, between what you must present to the rest of the group, and what you really think, and this provides fertile ground for authors and philosophers to explore questions of identity, and how much the world around us shapes who we are, and how much we can repress.
I use the word "philosopher" carefully and deliberately here, because this is as much a philosophical musing as a novel. One of the time-honoured "good things" about the written word is that we get the chance to see inside the inner workings of characters, to try and get inside their minds to understand why they do what they do. Abe doesn't disappoint in this respect. A large chunk of this novel is not about plot or character, but about the potential implications for society if he goes ahead with his plans for the mask. We start with a treatise on faces, and the four main face-shape type, and how each one sees the world differently, and is seen differently by the world. It takes our protagonist some time to decide what kind of face he wants to project to the rest of the world, musing on the pros and cons of each type. Unsurprisingly, he eventually chooses a rather aggressive type, one that fits in with his strangely aggressive way of thinking.
The actual creation of the masks is glossed over quite quickly, though that is not really the point of the novel, so it doesn't really matter. Once he has the mask, the tone and focus shift, and we begin to explore what the protagonist can do with this new face. He starts small, but gradually works up his courage to go out into the wider world and interact with people using the mask. This culminates in his conducting an affair with his own wife, disguised with the mask, to see if she can notice. She can't. But there's a rather nice twist at the end of this tale, and it turns out that the wife knew all along – how could she not? For her, it is not just from his face that she knows who he is, but from a whole host of other reasons.
One of the central concerns of our protagonist is his ability to see and understand the suffering of minority groups, particularly those minority groups who are visible in their difference – black Americans, for example, and the Koreans who live in Japan. He is now able to understand what it means to be ostricised by society simply by what you like. As such, he seeks out company with people like him – he drinks in Korean bars; he is enthralled by a young woman who has been visibly been affected by the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. Of course, this is problematic – for the masked man, he now has the option to become "normal" by using his disguise, negating any sympathetic feeling he may have for these people. He acknowledges as such, which in many ways, only serves to strengthen his point about the importance of appearance. There's a nice sub-plot, too, if you can call it that, where the protagonist has a series of conversations with the mentally disabled daughter of his landlord, who can see he is the same person, even with his mask on.
This is not an adventure novel. Plot and character are seemingly secondary to Abe's wider vision – his desire to explore the ways in which people interact, both with faces and in other ways, overtakes any kind of literary fireworks or touches that may be present. But it's an interesting premise, and some of the hypotheticals posed by the work leave you wondering about the ways in which we all lead our lives.
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Chicago coach Rudy Pilous poses with goalie Glenn Hall and the Louch mask he sported — if only in practice — in the fall of 1960. In Glenn Hall: The Man They Call Mr. Goalie (Greystone, 2002), Tom Adrahtas tells the story of what happened earlier in the year when fans voted Hall to the NHL's First All-Star team. Montreal coach Toe Blake was incensed. "We win first place, Plante wins the Vézina for the fourth time, and he's not the All-Star?" Pilous was quick to the retort: "My guy was the best. And he played without a mask." In November of 1959, Plante had famously donned his mask for the first time during a game with the New York Rangers. Blake never liked it; he even accused Plante of cowardice. Plante's response: "Does jumping out of a plane without a parachute make you a coward?"
Delbert Louch, Glenn Hall, Jacques Plante, masks, Rudy Pilous, Toe Blake, Tom Adrahtas
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Does WordPress's Security Patch Make It Suitable for Healthcare?
WordPress had a busy December, releasing one of its largest updates in recent times, WordPress 5.0. To everyone's dismay, the update also included seven vulnerabilities that affected the platform in a range of different ways.
The development team kicked into overdrive and released a patch to address the issues the following week, just ahead of the Christmas period. The known flaws may have been addressed, but one question remains: Is WordPress a suitable content management system when it comes to HIPAA-compliance?
Which Vulnerabilities Were Discovered & Patched?
A vulnerability was found by Yoast which could lead to email addresses and even passwords being exposed. It allowed search engines to index the user activation screen. This could result in email addresses being leaked. In certain cases, the vulnerability could also expose passwords if they had not been changed from the default.
This flaw was addressed by WordPress in the update. Developers took the activation key that was used in the URL and stored it in a cookie to prevent the attack from continuing to work.
A security researcher found that specially-tailored inputs could be used to create unauthorized post types. This bug required an attacker to have author-level privileges, so it was unlikely to be abused on a wide scale.
Another researcher discovered a separate flaw that allowed author-level users to change metadata. This could be used to delete files, even if the user wasn't authorized to. This problem arose from two arbitrary file delete flaws that were first addressed in WordPress 4.9.6.
This initial fix restricted the file paths to the uploads directory, changing how files could be deleted. Despite this, it failed to address the fact that authors could delete the attachments of other users by changing the attachment paths to arbitrary files. Update 5.0.1 has now rectified the issue.
Another vulnerability used carefully-crafted metadata for PHP object injection. It allowed those with author-level privileges to change attachment paths to arbitrary files. Attackers could use PHAR files for object injection into attachments that had already been uploaded.
Several different XSS flaws were discovered by Tim Coen, one of which was detected alongside a security researcher who goes by the name of slavco. Together, they found that those with author-level privileges could upload tailored files to get around MIME verification, but only on Apache-hosted websites.
Another XSS vulnerability discovered by Coen involved crafting URL inputs. It doesn't affect WordPress core, but can impact certain plugins that use the wpmu_admin_do_redirect function. Coen's final XSS vulnerability allowed contributors to edit comments from privileged users. All of these flaws were addressed in the latest patch.
The security update was a positive step for the safety of WordPress websites, but it's far from a complete solution to the CMS's security issues. One of the main problems is that WordPress isn't really a complete package, especially from a security perspective.
It relies on third-party plugins that come from a wide variety of developers, many of which have very questionable security. There are tens of thousands of different plugins available, with a very limited vetting process in place. Some of these plugins are well-regarded and frequently updated, while others are riddled with flaws.
WordPress-related vulnerabilities were up 300% in 2018, but only 2% were in the platform itself, the rest were found in plugins. This is why it's critical to only use plugins that come from well-regarded developers that are committed to providing patches whenever security issues are discovered.
WordPress websites generally use a variety of plugins for custom features, but plugins should also be used to complement WordPress's security. Monitoring and auditing plugins are some of the most important ones for keeping websites safe. They are useful for malware scanning, tracking failed-login attempts, taking logs and much more.
Plugins are an almost essential part of using WordPress to manage your website. Since you don't sign a business associate agreement with the vendors of any plugins you may use, this exposes your organization to greater HIPAA-compliance risks. If a vulnerability in one your plugins results in your business's ePHI being compromised, your company could be liable for the consequences.
Most plugins aren't designed with the stringency of HIPAA in mind, so you may find that using them substantially increases your risks. WordPress and its varying plugins may still be the best option for your site's needs, but you need to at least be aware of the risks that come with their use.
To find out more about WordPress and plugin security, download LuxSci's free ebook. It has everything you need to know about keeping your WordPress website secure.
We have written posts describing WordPress vulnerabilities and the methods hackers use to exploit these. In this post, we describe steps by which a web site owner can mitigate the risks of using WordPress as a content management system. After all, it cannot be denied that WordPress remains the most user-friendly tool for creating and managing both large and small websites, as shown by its enormous adoption rate.
There is a very rich literature describing WordPress vulnerabilities and ways to harden a system against exploits. Here we distill some of these learnings into a practical guide for WordPress-based web site owners. We specifically have in mind small to medium-sized medical practices that wish to use WordPress to create (or maintain) their online portal for patients. In a future post, we'll describe how such steps can meet HIPAA-HITECH guidelines for safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI).
We describe these steps in a layered way – starting at the bottom with the hosting server infrastructure, before moving to the WordPress platform itself and other applications.
In our previous post, we described various techniques used to attack WordPress-based sites. In this post, we'll give some examples of what happens after the vulnerabilities have been exploited to hack into a website. The purpose is to continue to reiterate the lessons that blogs such as ours (see here, here and here) provide to alert the medical industry, specifically, and business, in general, to security issues that can lead to breaches and loss of business, reputation, and income.
It is worth recalling that WordPress is the world's most popular content management system (CMS) powering ~60% of websites worldwide (that are known to use a CMS), and ~29% of all web sites. While it is hard to find the statistics on how many websites related to the medical industry use WordPress, it is likely that these could well be a substantial percentage of the total given the ease of setup and use associated with WordPress. The fact that many of these are smaller sites, often without much IT support (much less security support) makes them all the more vulnerable. This makes education about the security aspects of WordPress all the more necessary.
Despite the valiant efforts of the WordPress organization, vulnerabilities continue to exist and most exploits take advantage of the simplest techniques – infrequent updates of critical software, poor web site hygiene (easily broken passwords, retaining default options, turning off auto updates, etc.) and the use of vulnerable WordPress plugins and themes. (Hereafter, we also include plugins and themes when we talk of WordPress vulnerabilities, unless we need to specifically distinguish between these.) Sucuri.net, a website security company, noted that of the 11,485 infected websites that they analyzed in 1Q2016, 78% of these were built on WordPress of which ~56% were out-of-date (i.e., not running the latest version). The vulnerabilities were primarily in the plugins and themes.
WordPress is the world's most popular publishing platform, with a strong emphasis on usability and support of open web standards. It powers most of the largest content providers as well as millions of personal blogs. Its open source software, available at WordPress.org, can be downloaded to a suitable server and run as a standalone publishing platform, while ordinary users can quickly create personal sites as sub-domains of WordPress.com.
There's no doubt that the statistics about WordPress are impressive: ~30% of the million most visited sites on the Internet run WordPress; at 52%, it far surpasses its nearest competitor (at a measly 6.3%) for the largest market share of content management systems; it powers 96% of blogging websites worldwide – we could go on and on, but we refer the reader to other sources for more numbers.


The sherry triangle is full of surprises. Did you know, for example, that there is a sherry house that makes wines from the grape variety pedro ximenez only? And not just sweet wines, like the famous PX, but also beautiful dry and semi-sweet wines? And, moreover, not fortified?
For centuries the Spanish family Zarzana has owned vineyards of pedro ximenez grapes near Jerez de la Frontera. Vineyards planted with this grape only cover 2 to 3% of the planted surface in the sherry area. Currently, the Zarzana family owns 22 hectares, which lie in and around Las Tablas, a hamlet between Sanlucar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera. The winery has never ventured to work with palomino fino, the grape variety used to make the famous styles Fino and Amontillado. Over the centuries, the family has made sweet PX from pedro ximenez and also vinegar and brandy. Nice detail for Dutch readers: they started to make brandy at the request of wine merchants in Rotterdam. The sales ledgers of the house go back to 1729, when a shipment of PX was delivered in Veracruz, Mexico.
The company is currently headed by José Antonio Zarzana. Together with his father, Don José Luis Zarzana Palma, Zarzana junior is very interested in the history of his house, but especially in the history of the grape variety pedro ximenez. There are many stories about this in the literature. One of these stories traces the grape variety to a provenance from the Rhineland and a relationship with riesling. Pedro ximenez could be a corruption of a Dutchman name Pieter Symonsz., Peter Siemens or something like that, who might have brought the grape with him to Spain. This historical context was an important reason for me to visit this winery, Bodegas Ximénez-Spínola.
During my research in recent years, I discovered that wines from the pedro ximenez grape have been imported into The Netherlands since 1609. Don José Luis has made it his life's work to trace the origin of the grape; he was therefore very emotional when I showed him the earliest mention of PX in a Dutch source I have been able to find sofar. We had extensive conversations about the origin of the grape during our visit, which I keep for a later article.
Bodegas Ximénez-Spínola does not only research the grape in historical documents. Father and son have experimented with pedro ximenez for a number of years, to investigate the character of the grape variety and compare it with other European varieties. Although modern DNA research has undermined the theory that pedro ximenez is related to riesling, there may be another grape variety from Germany or from the Rhineland that could be the origin of the grape. Elbling maybe? This grape variety could then have adapted to the local climate due to the exceptional and extreme circumstances in Andalusia. José Antonio Zarzana wrote a fascinating blog post about it.
Because in sweet, fortified pedro ximenez the grape character cannot be tasted, the company has started making non-fortified dry wines. In addition, a part of each vintage is stored, to be able to taste after some years of maturing; the idea is to investigate whether the wine starts to show any resemblances to, for example, Riesling or Elbling.
During our visit we tasted an impressive number of wines. The first series, Exceptional Harvest, consisted of semi-sweet wines with residual sugar of 23 to 30 grams per liter. The finest of these was the oldest: a wine from 2011 that had a character that certainly resembled Riesling. The wine also reminded me of mature Welschriesling (could not that be the kinship?). Nutty, with hints of licorice and curry. The 2013 displayed notes of honey and ripe fruit, the 2015 some goût de petrol. In the 2016, I personally found the residual sugar a little too overbearing. The grapes for these wines stay on the vines for a long time; after harvest, the wines are made with one month skin contact and stay on the lees for four months, in barrels of American oak. During that time, batonnage takes place. The contact with the lees is of great importance: otherwise the wine would spoil too quickly in the hot climate of southern Spain. Because these wines are not fortified and do not come from a solera, they cannot be labeled as 'sherry'. Since 2014, therefore, a special designation has been created for Bodegas Ximénez-Spínola: Vino Varietal Pedro Ximenez.
Even more exciting than the Exceptional Harvest wines were the wines in the Fermentación Lenta series. We tasted different vintages and were very impressed. These wines are completely dry and are made in barrels of 300 liters. The fermentation process is slow and complex; only 30 liters of wine can be made per day. The yeasts do not have more power to handle the process and to convert the sugars into alcohol. Every day, 30 liters are poured into the already existing fermented must, to create this intriguing and delicious wine very slowly. The 2014 reminded us of a Rkatsiteli from a Georgian qvevri: dry, nutty, very difficult to describe. Zarzana junior compared the wine to a Savagnin from the Jura, with which we could certainly agree. The 2015 still had a lot of fruit in nose and mouth, and in my opinion was the most exciting of the three vintages tasted. In the 2016, the process turned out to have been somewhat different. One of the 26 barrels had developed a flor blanket, which is rare at Ximénez-Spínola; they are not fond of it either. However, they decided to mix the barrel with the other 25, which gave a totally different wine than the previous year: the flor suppressed almost all the fruit character in the final wine! People who like the 2015 will therefore be very surprised if they taste the 2016 of this series. José Antonio Zarzana asked us what style he thought we should continue: we are going for the fruity 2015! Fortunately, he agreed to that himself.
Our visit was not yet finished: we still had to taste the Old Harvest. What a wine! Not fortified and still 17% alcohol, made from dried grapes, just like PX. But this time in the oxidative way, in a solera started in 1964, with a bit of sweet wine added from a solera from 1918. This wine may therefore be labeled as sherry! A Pedro Ximenez to bow to with respect, with fine acidity and a great balance. Is it dry or sweet? It actually does not matter: this is a wine to really enjoy in small amounts, on its own or with some nice (goat) cheese.
I am a wine writer, blogger, historian and communications specialist. With a university degree in medieval history, I work as a PR specialist for cultural organisations. Later in life, wine became a great passion, and I am happiest combining the two interests, wine and history. I completed the Dutch Wijnacademie and became 'Vinoloog' van de Wijnacademie in 2010, a training level roughly between WSET 3 and 4. Together with culinary journalist Irene de Vette, I have published a book on Dutch wine, Wijn van eigen bodem, and the English e-book Discover Dutch Wine. In 2017, my most recent book was published: Nederlanders en wijn, about the long history the Dutch have with wine.


Twitter — the online microblogging platform favored by President Donald Trump — has been purging accounts suspected of supporting terrorism at a dizzying pace: nearly 377,000 accounts in the last six months of 2016 alone, almost three times the rate of the previous year.
Those numbers were made public Tuesday, as part of Twitter's latest transparency report.
There's also a gray area: the governments can — and often do — pressure Twitter to take down content without officially using legal mechanisms, but rather by privately pointing out Twitter accounts that may violate the TOS.
Since the ISIS began using Twitter to communicate and disseminate its propaganda in 2014, the company has come under serious pressure to purge the group and its supporters from the platform. As the ISIS rampaged through Iraq and Syria in the summer of 2014, supportive accounts tweeted out propaganda videos celebrating the group's exploits. At a counterterrorism conference in 2015, FBI Director James Comey put it starkly: "Twitter works as a way to sell books, as a way to promote movies, and it works as a way to crowdsource terrorism — to sell murder." That same year, Berger published "The ISIS Twitter Census," which identified 46,000 major Twitter accounts operating on behalf of the group.
Outside the battle zones in the Middle East, Twitter had become one of the primary breeding grounds for ISIS-related activity. The company — which prides itself on eschewing censorship and guarding the privacy of its users — had a "slow start" purging the terror accounts from its platform, Berger says. But the latest report shows they've hit their stride. "I think it's probably not reasonable to expect them to push it much further," Berger says.
As Twitter escalated its campaign against ISIS and other terror groups such as al Qaeda and al-Shabab, the ACLU wasn't the only group to worry both about creeping censorship, and about the extent to which Twitter and other social media companies acquiesced to government pressure outside the public eye.
At the beginning of 2016, the U.S government convened a closed-door summit with social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to strategize about combatting terror in cyberspace. Civil libertarians warned tech companies to be wary of being too cooperative with authorities in censuring content, given the gray space between legitimate counter-terror activity and censorship. At that summit, Buzzfeed reported, the Pentagon applied pressure on companies to tweak their internal algorithms to bury certain content that the government deemed harmful to national security.
Last May, the ACLU of Northern California filed a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) asking for documents that outline the extent of behind-the-scenes cooperation between the federal government and social media companies like Twitter. "We want to see any informal demands they might be sending to social networks to remove content," Cagle explained.
Twitter's latest report did shine some light on that dynamic: in terrorism-related take-downs, the company reported that a full 74 percent were flagged by "internal, proprietary spam-fighting tools" and less than 2 percent had been suspended after authorities complained.
At the same time, Twitter's success pushing ISIS and other foreign terror organizations off its platform does not mean it's devised a successful formula for dealing with all violent content. "Things are going to be more complicated going forward, as not all violent extremists are as clearcut as ISIS," Berger said.


You may enjoy visiting and using other libraries in Newcastle that are not run by Newcastle City Council but are still open to all – here are a few of those. Please note the list below is not exhaustive.
The Dinnington Parish Council hosts in the Memorial Institute a library operated by the community.
The library at Fawdon Community Centre is run by volunteers.
The Jesmond Library is a community-run facility operated by the Friends of Jesmond Library.
The Lit & Phil has been open since 1825 and is now the largest independent library outside London.
The Multilingual Library was set up by the Kittiwake Trust and is run by volunteers. It offers a range of books "in nearly 80 languages".


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Chemotherapy of Brain Tumors: The "Blood-Brain Barrier" Is Not a Factor
Nicholas A. Vick, MD; Janardan D. Khandekar, MD; Darell D. Bigner, MD
Department of Medicine Northwestern University Medical School Evanston Hospital 2650 Ridge Ave Evanston, IL 60201
Department of Pathology (Neuropathology) Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710
Brain tumors are not rare. In the United States, nearly 11,000 new patients were seen in 1976.1 This number can be expected to increase as systemic cancers are controlled more effectively and as longevity is prolonged. Most patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors are treated by surgery, glucocorticoid "decompression," radiotherapy, or chemotherapy—alone or in various combinations. The therapeutic yield from surgery alone has reached its zenith. While radiotherapy prolongs survival, and radiosensitizers such as metronidazole may add to its efficacy,2,3 it seems likely that further advances in the treatment of brain tumors will come from chemotherapy. To date, chemotherapy of brain tumors has been disappointing, to say the least.
Most oncologists assume that to be useful for brain tumor chemotherapy a drug must be lipid soluble, be unionized at physiologic pH, and be of relatively small molecular size in order to enter the brain from the
Vick NA, Khandekar JD, Bigner DD. Chemotherapy of Brain Tumors: The "Blood-Brain Barrier" Is Not a Factor. Arch Neurol. 1977;34(9):523–526. doi:10.1001/archneur.1977.00500210025002


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LITERARY CRITICISM: American: General
HISTORY: United States: State & Local: General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures
"It's cause for celebration that a one-volume, thoroughly readable selection from this American classic, keenly alive to modern taste, makes its appearance. It is a volume that every serious reader or lover of American literature will want… Emerson in His Journals, a book to own and cherish, is the best of companions." —Reid Beddow, The Washington Post Book World
"[The editor] has performed an invaluable service by condensing the Harvard edition of Emerson's journals into a single volume… The man who appears in these pages is not just a sunny optimist, living serenely in rustic Concord, Mass. This Emerson also dwells in an age of cholera, slavery, and Civil War. Beyond his back pasture stands the town poor-house, where a madwoman screams night and day…his daily entries were wholly American: raw and unrefined, thoughts undulating with his own pace of action." —William Howarth, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"For generations of readers [this] book will stand for 'Emerson in his journals.'" —Richard Poirier, The New York Times Book Review
"The title of this book is exactly right, for Emerson revealed himself more spontaneously and unguardedly in his Journals than anywhere else. Joel Porte has done a superb job of selecting out of three million words the passages which are most valuable either as autobiography or as literary expression. [This book] will contribute mightily to the rediscovery of Emerson now taking place a century after his death." —Gay Wilson Allen
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To complement the pastoral care we provide in school, we have put together a number of resources to help parents and young people find out more about the challenges of growing up. If you have any questions, please contact your son or daughter's head of year.
Link to a free resource from the Anti-Bullying Alliance.
Click the link below to view School Attendance Matters – a Parent's Guide.
Advice from a range of sources about the risks of gaming online.
A guide from Young Minds, a mental health charity, with information about misuse of drugs and alcohol.
Child and adolescent mental health services information for parents and carers.
An NSPCC guide about postive parenting.
A guide to screen time from the UK Safer Internet Centre.
Information from the NSPCC – find out how to spot the signs of self- harm and what you can do to help.
A guide from the South West Grid for Learning.
A range of materials to help parents understand the risks to young people of using social media.


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Patrick James Zurek (ur. 17 sierpnia 1948 w Wallis, Teksas) – amerykański duchowny katolicki, biskup Amarillo w metropolii San Antonio od 2008.

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Urodził się w rodzinie o czeskich korzeniach. Uzyskał dyplom z matematyki na Uniwersytecie św. Tomasza w Houston. Formację seminaryjną odbył w Houston i Kolegium Ameryki Płn. w Rzymie. Tam zdobył dyplom z teologii na Angelicum. Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał 29 czerwca 1975 z rąk papieża Pawła VI w bazylice św. Piotra w grupie 360 kleryków, którzy zostali wyświęceni dla uczczenia Roku Świętego. Razem z nim ordynowani zostali m.in. przyszli biskupi: Raymond Leo Burke, Michael Cote, James Michael Harvey, Michael Hoeppner, Glen Provost i William Mulvey. Pracował duszpastersko w rodzinnej diecezji Austin.

5 stycznia 1998 otrzymał nominację na biskupa pomocniczego San Antonio ze stolicą tytularną Thamugadi. Sakry udzielił mu ówczesny metropolita Patrick Flores. Po dziesięciu latach, w dniu 3 stycznia 2008 mianowany ordynariuszem Amarillo. Ingres miał miejsce 22 lutego 2008.

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Urodzeni w 1948
Amerykańscy biskupi katoliccy
Diecezja rzymskokatolicka Austin
Archidiecezja rzymskokatolicka San Antonio
Diecezja rzymskokatolicka Amarillo

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The ER-flow project uses and integrates technologies from various projects and scientific collaborations. These technologies are brought together by the SHIWA Simulation Platform (a service package designed for workflow-oriented scientific collaborations), maintained by an open collaboration.
The platform supports various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) such as: clouds (Amazon and Openstack) as well as service grids (gLite, Globus and UNICORE) . The interoperability solution includes various workflow systems such as: Askalon, Galaxy, Kepler, Moteur, Pegasus, PGRADE, ProActive, Taverna, Triana and WS-PGRADE. By using the SHIWA platform the research communities have freedom to choose from a large variety of workflow management systems, infrastructures or middleware to implement their Virtual Research Environments.
SHIWA Repository: a database of workflows and related meta-data, used to search and share workflows within and among scientific communities.
SHIWA Portal: a web portal integrated with the SHIWA Repository and with various workflow engines that orchestrate workflows from the Repository on different e-infrastructures.
Workflow engines: the ASKALON, Galaxy, GWES, Kepler, LONI Pipeline, MOTEUR, P-GRADE, PEGASUS, ProActive, Taverna, Triana and WS-PGRADE workflow engines are already integrated with the SHIWA Simulation Platform. Other engines can be added when required.
Follow our Getting Started instructions to try out the SHIWA Simulation Platform.