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Contestation between those who are largely concerned about justice and social equality and those who represent a traditional international governance system based on the primacy of nation state is neither new nor an existential threat to world order. But the tension is there and it is increasing as the forces of globalization increase. Continue reading Contesting Contestation—Alice Huntoon
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An Imperfect World for International Justice – Paul Fry
Let's be honest here. In a perfect world, no prosecutor should take political factors into consideration when deciding who to investigate and who to prosecute. But we don't live in a perfect world; far from it. Since the International Criminal Court is "the world's most serious attempt at achieving international justice" (Bosco 1), it needs to be treated seriously. It needs to have its survival protected.
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The EU: A League of its Own?– Chiara Gabellieri
The European Union is truly an anomaly in the world of international relations and global governance. Many other international organizations are separate entities from domestic governing institutions, typically with marginal leverage when it comes to the internal affairs of member states. In the case of the European Union; however, all 28-member states have given up aspects of their sovereignty in order to make way for a centralized government with its own distinct powers. Continue reading The EU: A League of its Own?– Chiara Gabellieri
The Third Wheel: Finding the Right Teeth – Jin Sol Park
On October 2013, the National Security Agency of the United States was blamed for intercepting more than 70 million phone calls in France between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013. In the process of consulting with France, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said "lots of countries engage in intelligence activities to try to prevent terrorist attacks. This might not sound like a sincere apology. It is an illegal activity that victim states should check on. But in short, major powers all do it and we all know that we do it. Victim States should act on it not solely because of the spying incident itself but also because of the gullible image that victim states will receive when failing to act on it. This is a result of Relative-gain consideration and concern about cheating.
Continue reading The Third Wheel: Finding the Right Teeth – Jin Sol Park
The Need for Emerging Great Powers to Step Up in the International System—Alice Huntoon
The US News and World Report March 2014 article, "Where Have All the Great Powers Gone?" by Michael Schroeder and David Banks, comments on China's, Brazil's, and India's response to the recent Russian intervention in Ukraine. Brazil's and India's "silence is deafening" while China's can be expected, as Russia starts threatening to tromp into Europe.
Continue reading The Need for Emerging Great Powers to Step Up in the International System—Alice Huntoon
Doubts on Generalizations on the Scope of State Control–Paul Gee Sung Park
Krasner denounces the idea that the importance of sovereignty to national states has been in the decline. He argues that the practice of sovereignty has been adapting to emerging challenges. In fact, he argues that those challenges that are threatening sovereignty are not new at all. One of the challenges, globalization, Krasner argues, has actually strengthened state control and has had the effect of changing the scope of sovereignty, not the political structure itself. Continue reading Doubts on Generalizations on the Scope of State Control–Paul Gee Sung Park
Sovereignty: Alive and Well – Paul Fry
Stephen Krasner quite rightly argues in his article on sovereignty that the challenges states face to their sovereignty today are no different than the challenges they faced in the past. But to say that the notion or idea of sovereignty faces challenges is very different from declaring it dead or in decline.


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Hike with the GR5 throughout le Doubs and la Haute-Savoie from Montperreux to Nyon (Leman Lake-Switzerland) via Malbuisson, Touillon-et-Loutelet, Metabief, Les Villedieu, Mouthe, Petite-Chaux, Chaux-Neuve, Chapelle-des-Bois, Les Rousses, La Grenotte, La Cure, Givrine, Saint-Cergue and Trelex. Guest House, Bed and Breakfast, Hotel, Camping, Inn.
Distance: 101,66km, Elevation maximum: 1420m, Elevation minimum: 377m, Elevation gain uphill: 2159m
IGN Maps: Sainte-Croix (1182). Mouthe (1201). Orbe (1202). Le Sentier (1221). Les Rousses (1240). Nyon (1261). Thonon (1262). ChampagnoLac de Chalain Pic de l'Aigle (3326ET). Morez Les Rousses Faucille Pass (3327ET). Pontarlier Levier Lac de St-Point (3425OT). Mouthe Metabief le Mont d'Or (3426OT).
Guest House, Bed and Breakfast, Hotel, Camping, Refuge, Hostel, Tourist Office, Shops, Hiking Travel Agency on or near a GR ® listed on www.gr-infos.com, you can appear for 20 €/year (12 months)/GR by completing the registration form
GR5 From Mondorff (Moselle) to Bayonville-Sur-Mad (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
GR5 From Bayonville-Sur-Mad (Meurthe-et-Moselle) to Dieuze (Moselle)
GR5 From Dieuze (Moselle) to Andlau (Bas-Rhin)
GR5 From Andlau (Bas-Rhin) to Thann (Haut-Rhin)
GR5 From Thann (Haut-Rhin) to Soulce-Cernay (Doubs)
GR5 From Soulce-Cernay to Montperreux (Doubs)
GR5 From Montperreux (Doubs) to Nyon (Lac Leman-Switzerland)
GR5 From Thonon-les-Bains to Les Houches (Haute-Savoie)
GR5 From Les Houches (Haute-Savoie) to Bessans (Savoie)
GR5 From Bessans (Savoie) to Montgenevre (Hautes-Alpes)
GR5 From Montgenevre (Hautes-Alpes) to St Dalmas-le-Selvage (Alpes-Maritimes)
GR5 From St Dalmas-le-Selvage to Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
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It is advisable to follow the beacons all along your hike and to bring you the FFRandonnee topo-guide. You will also find information on MonGR.fr.
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Old romantic Hotel, L'Etoile Guest-House is a mountain retreat in the South of France. With a beautiful park along the Allier River, L'Etoile Guesthouse is located in La Bastide-Puylaurent between Lozere, Ardeche and Cevennes. Many hiking trails like GR7, GR70 Stevenson trail, GR72, GR700 Regordane way, Cevenol, GR470 Allier river trail, Margeride, Gevaudan, Ardechoise. Many hiking loops around L'Etoile Guesthouse. The right place to relax.
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Article Jordan Blaine | Photography Life N Light Without a doubt, Bellevue is a dog-friendly community. This area is home to an array of resources. From a boutique and bakery with pup-approved treats, a club that gives your dog a vigorous workout or a lounge strictly for our furry friends, Bellevue is the spot for pampered pooches. Treat your best friend…
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The Linnton Switcher sorts cars for BP before heading over the Willamette to St. Johns. Rumor has it that Linnton Plywood will be torn down sometime this year.
Portland and Westerns other former SP SD45 carbody rests at Harbor siding with a couple former SPMW cars.
Former St. Lawrence & Atlantic 3004 leads 663 past the defunct Linnton Plywood Company. Once a top rated company to work, now sits idle due to the downsizing of the old growth forrest operations.
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Before heading to the W Yard, I hopped out and grabbed this shot of our small train.
The "Lewis & Clark Explorer" RDC trio sit way back on the Morse Brothers property awaiting their fate. These are all ex BC Rail cars of the same numbers.
567-equipped SD9 and 645-equipped GP40 are the power on the Linnton Switcher. The SD9 runs 100 times better than the GP40, wish I could get two SD9s to run together.
The Day Linnton Switcher Relief power is seen with the Wauna Turn's power in Linnton this morning.


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LONDON (Reuters) - British fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown overcame adverse publicity over the suspension of Neil Woodford's flagship fund to increase full-year assets by 8.4% on a growing client base and net savings inflows, sending its shares higher.
The UK's biggest online investing platform appeared to have weathered the ire of clients and policymakers since the June suspension of Woodford's equity income fund, which Hargreaves had championed for years to its many retail savers.
Hargreaves said on Thursday that total assets under administration were 99.3 billion pounds at end-June, up from 91.6 billion pounds a year earlier and beating a company supplied consensus of 15 analysts for 98.7 billion pounds, helping to underpin a 7.7% rise in its shares.
"We recognise that there are industry headwinds and that the environment continues to be difficult and we remain vigilant to these conditions," Chief Executive Chris Hill said.
A 133,000 rise in client numbers to 1.22 million combined with the trend for consolidating their savings on the Hargreaves platform drove net new business of 7.3 billion pounds, while market gains added a further 400 million pounds.
However, Hargreaves said revenues were impacted by reduced client demand to trade shares given uncertainty around Brexit, while its decision to waive platform fees for clients affected by Woodford was costing 360,000 pounds a month.
Hargreaves' promotion of the fund only ended on the day it was suspended, leaving nearly 300,000 clients trapped until it reopens for trading, something unlikely to happen until December, the fund's Authorised Corporate Director has said.
Britain's financial regulator is looking into the circumstances surrounding the fund's suspension, which occurred when client demand to leave caused a liquidity squeeze.
Hill and other Hargreaves executives confirmed on Thursday they would give up their bonuses for the year over the affair.
"Our priority remains to support our clients and pressing for the Woodford Equity Income Fund to reopen as soon as is practicable, whilst protecting the interests of all investors," Hill said.
Despite questions about the way Hargreaves constructs and markets its favourite fund picks, used by many clients to decide where to invest, it stood by its 'Wealth 50' list.
"We are committed to a favourite funds list as one of many tools which are important for our clients."
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A city already as inviting and majestic as San Francisco is transformed into a grand-scale playground in The Institute, a chronicling of a mysterious organization and its unwitting "inductees" in the late 2000s. Strange flyers posted around town led potential ...Read more →
'Hell Baby' A Horror Comedy With Neither Horror Nor Comedy
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Why Harvey Weinstein's Neutering of Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer' Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...Read more →
Jeff Garlin's 'Dealin' With Idiots': With Friends Like These, Who Needs A Script?
There is hardly a more affable presence in comedy today than Jeff Garlin. The Chicago-born standup comic has gained notoriety for his near-omnipresence in television and film, both behind and in front of the camera, with ties that vary from underground absurdi...Read more →
Glitz, Gloss and Flesh in Michael Winterbottom's Shapely 'The Look of Love'
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Neil Jordan's Fireball Comedy 'The Butcher Boy' Rages On
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The opening credits of Noah Baumbach's last feature, 2010's Greenberg, play over lingering shots of the film's co-star Greta Gerwig as she drives around Los Angeles to the tune of Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner". The shot is unbroken, in profile and close u...Read more →
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During 3 days, developers and analysts will gather in a room to develop a new community Webtool: a web platform that integrates all documentation, knowledge related to Open and Commercial BioImage Analysis Softwares and interrelates them in a way which will be comprehensive and accessible to the community.
The participants will concentrate on tagging pages, back linking literatures and adding documentation to each page. The original web-platform is being developed and prepared.
In this first taggathon we collect tags and annotation using temprary interface that still is a proto-prototype. During the taggathon we will also discuss on the ideal design of the prototype of web-platform.
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When did apple go from being a proactive company to such a reactive one? :(Seriously? They're NEVER first, they're always late or last and that's what gives them a huge advantage. See what was a gimmick, what worked and what needed work to be great.
In July ('https://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/26/apple-investing-in-augmented-reality/'), Cook said Apple was "high on AR..."This explains so much!
In all seriousness though, I get this dismal feeling that Tim has absolutely no vision... fast to follow and all that. Augmented Reality has been around for how long now? I do agree that it has far more potential than VR, at least in the current state of things (the only people I know who care about VR are the guys who have jobs in that industry).
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our Store
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Pictures of
How to tell which plant yields the largest
How to choose the right number of plants?
most frequent question I am asked is about the yield of each strain.
This is
not easy to answer even though many other seed banks provide a "clear"
indication of what you should expect to yield after spending $100 on seeds.
reason is that Yield of Cannabis Plant is determined not by the genetics alone
but by the amount of wattage (Watts) used in growing it and more specifically
a cultivation method used to grow it. The yield can not be determined by the
size of the plant and strain type. It is a little more complicated that that.
Consider this first:
10 seeds growing in 5 Gallon (or 10") pots, and assuming all 10 will be
light in a maximum space of 9 square feet is expected to yield from
4 to 8 ounces of dry bud every 2 to 3 months.
4 ounces if you grow a Sativa dominant strain and 8
ounces if you grow an Indica dominant strain. 2 months if you start from pre-vegged
clones and 3 months if you start from seeds or un-vegged clones.
light in a maximum space of 16 square feet is expected to yield from
8 to 16 ounces of dry bud every 2 to 3 months.
light in a maximum space of 25 square feet is expected to yield from
16 to 32 ounces of dry bud every 2 to 3 months
matter which cultivation method you choose
numbers represent current capacity of indoor lights. It means that if you grow
any plant under these lights, that is what you can expect to produce in the
end whether you grow a Skunk 69 or White Widow or White, Red, Yellow Russian
:-) Everything has its limits.
Now Consider this:
Indica is a short and stocky plant
that grows short and bushy. It is also very resistant to malnutrition and
swings in temperatures.
It is the favourite plant for
indoor growers because its easy to grow and yields best results.
The buzz is "stony" and "sleepy"
in nature, best consumed before going to bed. Not something you'd want to toke
through a days work at a busy Bay Street office.
This is the most widely available
weed on the streets.
Indica would be the plant that
produces 8 ounces under
400W, 16 ounces under 600W
and 2 lbs under 1000W
Sativa is a long and stemmy plant
(that grows tall). Its a bitchy plant in general, not too good with new growers
and tends to react badly to temperature swings and bad light conditions. The
buzz, however is "trippy" and "happy".
The type of stone medical patients
and connoisseurs tent to look for. Sativa is why we all grow weed. This is the
so called "good" weed.
Note: I know that I may come
across as pushing Sativa "brand" however I actually prefer the Indica strains
as I like the "stupid-stony-relaxing" feeling only a heavy Indica can give you
Sativa would be the plant that
4 ounces under 400W, 8 ounces
under 600W
1 lb under 1000W light
..... and its often known to
produce far less.
trick is to find a strain that will produce Short, Small and Bushy (like an
Indica) plants best for indoor closets and at the same time still get the
Sativa quality smoke. That is why people cross-breed different strains of
cannabis to obtain this type of plant.
Seed Bank describes these crosses with a percentage breakdown like the one on
the left.
this picture you can see that this strain (Northern Lights x Buddha) is 80%
Indica and 20% Sativa. This means that she will grow bushy and short but will
stretch just a bit to accommodate the Sativa genes. The buzz itself will be a
mix of 80% Indica and 20% Sativa.
This is a compromise that best suits a
closet grower. From this picture you can guess that you should expect about
6 to 7 ounces from a 400W, 10 to 12 ounces from a 600W
light and a pound or
pound and a half from a 1000W light.
the picture on the right, you can see that the yield will be on the lower
scale of what is possible but the product will give you a higher percentage of
Sativa quality buzz.
From this picture you can guess that you should expect
about 4 to 5 ounces from a 400W, 8 to 9 ounces from a
600W light and 16 to
17 ounces from a 1000W light.
Now Consider the third aspect of
are many methods to grow cannabis indoors but this is what you have to know
when choosing your own method to cultivate.
Soil or Soil-less methods (plastic pots with
instead of dirt)
Very Easy. Anyone can do it.
However the best you can get from this method is roughly 75% of what is
possible to yield from a hydroponics water table. Thus a pure Indica strain
grown using Promix as a growing medium,
can yield
6 ounces under a 400W light, 12
ounces under a 600W and maybe 25 ounces under a 1000W.
This is in fact my favourite
method and its also used by the "Motorcycle Clubs" and the Asian growing
community..... ah, that is correct, Asian gangs and bikers grow their weed
with this methods (at least in Ontario and Quebec)
Hydroponics Tables (or so-called
flood & drain, rockwool and reservoir of well PH'ed water)
This is the method used by
professional BC growers. For an advanced grower the table system can be
wonderful. It yields the best results. A pure Indica strain would yield 100%
of what is possible to get from any particular light.... and more with
experience. There is a BIG however ....... the system can be a killer for
anyone on less then advanced level.
Many people growing with Hydroponics
tables kill whole tables worth of weed, because of intermitted reoccurring
problems like a water pump broking down, or the PH
of the water changed for no apparent reason or the cubes got mold, fungus,
rot, roots get too big or too small, or the bugs get in there or the line gets
jammed or ...or...or...or.... intermitted and reoccurring.
I would strongly reccomend that
you stick to what works (which is Promix)
and once you understand how the cannabis plant grows, then you can choose a more
advanced method.
There is also the forth aspect you
must consider:
As an experienced
grower (I hope Health Canada is listening), I can get 1.5 pounds of weed from
a 1000W light whether I have 1 or 200 plants. How is this possible?
The trick is as
With 1 plant
available to me I would
plant her into the biggest pot (10 Gallons would do it) I could find. I would vegetate the
plant to the proper size (i.e. giant) before triggering bloom cycle in
order to get 1.5 pounds (in other words grow her big enough to produce this much bud).
The vegetative cycle would take approximately 2 months and/or may be longer.
If you add 2 months
of bloom cycle to the 2 months I spent vegetating this plant we can
have 1.5 pound of dry bud after 4 or 4.5 months of total time spent.
With 200 plants
available to me I could trigger the bloom cycle when all the plants are 3
inches tall. With such a large number of plants I would have to use tiny
little pots (or 3 inch rockwool cubes on a bed of Promix or on a Hydroponics
Flood & Drain Table). With 200 plants vegged for maybe 2 or 3 days (+ 2 months
of bloom cycle) I could still produce 1.5 pound of weed. The total time is 2
months and 3 days.
So the lesson here
It is not just
How Many Plants you Have in your closet that will determine the final yield,
but it's How you grow them.
In general, the more plants you have the quicker
the whole growing cycle is.
It also means that
when the number of plants increase, each plant has to be grown smaller in
order not to affect their optimum spacing requirements. In other words, the
more plants you have, the smaller they have to be individually, before you
start blooming.
Vegetating plants
should not touch each other until the1st month of bloom. After the 1st month
of bloom this space restriction becomes less detrimental to their well being
and its ok to let them touch. If you ignore this suggestion and cram as many
plants into your closet as you can fit, the plants will
stretch instead of
grow. Stretching refers to a process when
plants get very tall, very quickly, a growth spurt can often be seen overnight
if temperatures reach over 35 degrees Celsius in a Summer heat wave OR you put
too many plants in a space that's too small for them. Stretched plants will
actually yield far less total dry bud in the end.
When plants are too
close to each other they perceive this as a space issue (lack of space) and
start getting as tall as they can in order to out grow the other plants to the
available light.
What you what is
plants that grows at a regular time cycle and concentrate on making internodes
(off shoots or branches) at the same time as they naturally grow upwards at a
steady rate.
Stretching is just
as bad when it comes to a plentiful yield as problems with spider mites and/or
nutrient overfeeding.
In general, the more
wattage (power) you have, the more yield you will get.
In general, the
closer to a pure Indica strain you have, the more yield you will get.
And as a final note:
All the pictures of
bud you see out there on the internet are made using cannabis grown under
1000W light in a 5 x 5 foot space. Any closet with less power then 1000W
causes natural stretching of plants.
In fact, nature
provides 1200W of power for every 4 x 4 foot of any open outdoor space. Unless
you use 2 x 600W lights indoors a 4 x 4 foot space, indoor growing will always
be a little be stressful for plans.
This is why you
should bloom your plants before they reach 2 feet in height since they
will grow (i.e. stretch) even deep into bloom cycle. This means that a 2 feet
tall plant grown under a 400W light will double in size before the bloom cycle
is finished. This new growth caused by stretching will not increase yield, but
neither will it decrease it.
When it comes to
avoiding natural stretching of plants, the closer in power you can get to what
nature provides outdoors, the better it is for plants which experience less
stretching and thus concentrate on bud production and of course you get more
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Luke: Portrait of the Christ #46 "Dressed for Readiness" (Luke 12:13-34)Pastor Kelly Larson, February 5, 2017
Part of the Luke: Portrait of the Christ series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Bishop Creek Community Church 2-5-17
"Dressed for Readiness" #46 in Luke: Portrait of the Christ
Luke 12:13-34
The Setting, Chapter 12
~Authentic Discipleship
Dressed for Readiness. Luke 12:35-38
At an Hour Unknown. Luke 12:39-40
Who is the Faithful Steward. Luke 12:41-48
The Coming Judgment. Luke 12:49-59
Dressed for Success
Luke 12:13-34
13And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. 14And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? 15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 16And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. 22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? 27Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? 29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. 30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. 32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (KJV)
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Can we fix the minion tax next season?
Seriously this needs to go, I don't care if funneling comes back as a jungler main I'm getting so so tired of constantly being on the most gold as my lanes seem incapable of farming or getting kills in ganks, then being punished for doing well so I have no hope of being able to help carry when things go badly. This tax has hit junglers that aren't gank focused so hard, been noticing since it happened that people tend to go for gank heavy junglers as theres no point going for one that needs to farm and gank as you'll just end up behind almost every game as you can't tax the lanes when you gank / they die as you get so little from it theres almost no point in it.
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More than a hundred thousand people work as online content moderators, viewing and evaluating the most violent, disturbing, and exploitative content on social media. In a new book, "Behind the Screen," Sarah T. Roberts, a professor of information studies at U.C.L.A., describes how this work shapes their professional and personal lives. Roberts, who conducted interviews with current and former content moderators, found that many work in Silicon Valley, but she also travelled as far as the Philippines, where some of the work has been outsourced. From her research, we learn about the emotional toll, low wages, and poor working conditions of most content moderation. Roberts never disputes that the work is crucial, but raises the question of how highly companies like Facebook and Google actually value it.
I recently spoke by phone with Roberts. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed why finding and deleting offensive content is so tricky, why the job is so psychologically taxing, and the fixes that could help these workers and make them better at their jobs.
What is it about the lives of people doing this work that you thought was important for people to understand?
I came to this topic in 2010. The nature of the work demanded total psychic engagement and commitment in a way that was disturbing, because it was a flow that they could not predict, and they were always open to anything at any time. People were flocking to these platforms, in no small part, at least in the American context, because they were being led to believe, either tacitly or overtly, in some cases, that being online in this way would allow them to express themselves. What they were being told was that you have your thought or you have your thing you want to express, you share it on the platform, and you can broadcast it to the world. YouTube's tag line was "Broadcast yourself."
They were being sold on this notion that you could blast your thoughts around the world in this unfettered way, and in fact it turned out that there were big buildings filled with people making really important decisions about whether or not that self-expression was appropriate. And the platforms themselves were saying nothing about it. They weren't saying who those people were, where they were, and they weren't really saying on what grounds they were making their decisions. There was just total opacity in every direction. I was curious about the difficult nature of the work, and then the secrecy and the lack of communication, and what that meant for the world's orientation toward social media as a substitute for the public square.
What are the people who hold these jobs doing on an average day?
I was looking at the rank-and-file people who would be fairly new to not only this particular work of commercial content moderation but also to the tech industry. It's typically considered an entry-level job, which meant that a lot of young people were doing it, but not exclusively. In all the cases I've looked at, they've tended to be people who are fairly well-educated, college grads. Again, these were people working at élite Silicon Valley firms. But, instead of coming into those firms as full-badge employees with a career trajectory in front of them, they were coming in through contract labor, third-party sourcing. They were coming in relatively low-wage, especially in relation to any peers that they could be working side-by-side with in such a place. And, in the case of the United States, they didn't have health care provided to them through this arrangement; when we think about psychological issues or other health issues that come up on the job, the way that people get health care is through their employment.
The work tended to be something that you would likely not do for a long time. You would probably do it for a couple of years and either be term-limited, because of the contractual arrangements that the firms had with these third-party contractors, or you would just burn out. You would either not be able to really take it anymore, or you would become so desensitized as to not be any good at that job anymore.
This burnout, or desensitization—what is it that's going on in their work that's causing this?
What these people were doing was really a front-line decision-making process, where they would sit in front of the screen and jack into a queue system that would serve up to them content that someone else, someone like you or me, might have encountered on the platform and had a problem with. We found it offensive, we found it disturbing, maybe it was really, really bad, or illegal activity, or somebody being harmed. And someone like us would report that.
That material would get aggregated and triaged into queues, and the people on the other side of the queue were these moderators who would then look at it, usually just for a matter of seconds, because of the sheer volume, and then they would be called to have memorized the company's internal policies about what that company allowed or disallowed. And then they would apply that policy to the particular piece of content, and ultimately it was really a binary decision: this should stay up or this should come down, and it should come down on these grounds, and then they'd be on to the next piece of content.
Sometimes what they would see would be totally innocuous. But the next piece could be something very shocking and abhorrent. And these people were called upon to make decisions sometimes into the thousands per day on their shift.
What did you find are the psychological costs of doing this? And, second, did you find that the company cared at all that this is happening to these workers?
To the first point, obviously, I'm not a trained psychologist. But, in their own words, a lot of the workers would claim that they didn't have any ill effects. And I would take that at face value, and then we would continue talking and engaging, and they would say things to me, like, "You know, since I took this job, I've really been drinking a lot. I just come home at night, I don't really want to talk to anyone." Or, "I find myself avoiding social situations."
One case that really stood out to me is one of these people who told me over and over again that he could handle it, and he had no impact personally. So then he told me about one night when he was at home, in San Francisco, with his girlfriend—they were on the couch. She scooted over to him to become intimate with him, they were making out, getting close. And suddenly he just stiff-armed her, like the football move, and shoved her away. And he said to me, "You know, I couldn't tell her that the reason I did that is because the image of something I'd seen at work that day popped into my mind in this intimate moment and it just shut me down." That's a good stand-in for the sorts of things that people disclosed.
One woman used to work for MySpace, which used to be a big thing, and she told me that she's now a bookkeeper. She got as far away from dealing with humans as she could and got into the dealing-with-numbers business. She told me that she wouldn't shake people's hands for about three years after she quit her job. I asked her why, and she said it's because she knew people were disgusting.
Did you get a sense that the social-media companies had clear policies on the way they wanted this content looked at? And, if no, do you think that's because it's a really complicated issue or because they didn't care that much?
That went both ways. They often had really, really, really specific policies that most people might consider a little bit ridiculous or absurd, that would remove the agency of the moderator to make a decision. But then there was another phenomenon where there would be a particular type of content that one of these front-line people, who saw it all the time, felt violated the spirit if not the letter of some greater principle that was supposed to be at play.
The example I'll give there is blackface. One person that I talked with said time and again he would see these videos that were filled with blackface, and he would go and argue with his supervisor, saying, "This is racist, we supposedly don't allow racist or hate speech on our platform," and he could get no traction. So the policies that were in place almost parodied themselves. They were so specific on the one hand and totally missing the forest for the trees on the other that you really had to embed yourself into the logic of the particular platform, and of course every platform has its own set of policies that it makes up.
I think they cared enough that they had an entire apparatus devoted to the creating and designing and thinking through of their policies, but what became clear to me through the course of this work was that the primary function of people doing commercial content moderation at these platforms was for brand management of the social-media platform itself. There would be a great side-benefit of keeping some bad stuff out of people's way, or "cleaning up" the platform. But ultimately this was in the service of the brand, so that the brand could continue to function as a site where advertisers might want to come. And so I feel that this whole practice really laid that bare for me.
Did you get some larger sense of how important these issues were to the company based on how the workers were treated?
Yes, but, again, it was sort of this talking out of both sides of their mouths, where, on the one hand, anyone who was engaged with these practices at these companies knew they were so important, maybe one of the few sorts of gate-keeping mechanisms that could really be relied upon. But, on the other hand, bringing in crews of contractors said something very different, and the moderators themselves were really aware of that, and felt pretty disposable in most cases.
You also go to the Philippines in this book and you talk to people from other countries, in Mexico, for example. What are the consequences of outsourcing these jobs in terms of the quality of the work being done? And I don't ask that to imply that people abroad can't do a job as well.
I think there is a precedent for outsourcing this type of service work, and we see that in the call-center industry. The same kinds of problems that are present in that work are present in this particular context. So that would be things like the dissonance and distance culturally and linguistically, contextually, and politically, for a group of people that are being asked to adjudicate and make decisions about material that emanates from one place in the world and is destined for another, that may have absolutely nothing to do with their day-to-day life.
I think a second thing is that the marketplace has chased a globalization solution for the same reasons it has in other industries, which are the issues of: Where can we get the cheapest labor? What countries are lax in terms of labor protections? Where is organizing low? Where is there a huge pool of people for whom this job might be appealing because it's better than the other jobs on offer? It's not a simple case of everyone in the Philippines who does this work is exploited, and I was really trying hard not to make that claim in the book. But, at the same time, the United States sends the work to the Philippines for a reason. It sends the work there because Filipino people have a long-standing relationship, so to speak, with the United States, that means that they have a better facility to understand the American context. That's actually been in the favor of most people in the Philippines.
It's worrisome to see those kinds of colonial traditions and practices picked up again, especially in this digital marketplace, this marketplace of the mind that was supposed to be deliverance from so many of the difficult working conditions of the twentieth century. So I think that's the big thing about the way that this plays out on the global stage. The companies have a problem that they don't have enough people to do the work. And so they are pulling out all the stops in a way to find people to do the work, but it's still not nearly enough.
What could be done to make the lives of these workers better, given that this is a job that needs to be done? And it needs to be done by smart people doing it well, who need to be very well-trained.
This is a question that I've often posed to the workers themselves, because I certainly am not possessed of the answers on my own. They want better pay. And I think we can read that in a lot of ways: they want better pay, they want to be respected. The nature of the way the work has been designed has been for the work to be secret. In many cases, their N.D.A. precludes them from even talking about the work. And the industry itself formulated the job as a source of shame in that sense, an industry source of shame. They were not eager to tout the efforts of these people, and so instead they hid them in the shadows. And, if nothing else, that was a business decision and a value judgment that could have gone another way. I think there's still a chance that we could understand the work of these people in a different way and value it differently, collectively. And we could ask that the companies do that, as well.
There's a rich history of labor organizing and worker-led, or worker-informed, movements, and in this case it might have to be region by region or specific to particular parts of the world. Or it could be something that crossed geographic and cultural boundaries where workers learn to identify with each other despite where they're located.
We talk a lot about automation. I think that's what you're saying about the tech companies. Their solution is always automation, or that's what gets foregrounded, but, I think if you talk to anyone in the industry who's in the know, the likelihood of humans going away anytime soon is pretty much nil. And we also need to support them with mental-health support. There are things we can do technologically to maybe make it less difficult to look at some of the content.
Are there any major companies in the realm of social media that you think take this seriously, or have made major steps to take seriously?
I do think that since the time I started looking at this issue, there has been a sea change, and I don't think anybody would accuse me of being a champion of industry around this. But I have seen a shift such that many of the big tech firms that I think about and am familiar with, which are the big American ones, have seriously taken up this issue, or they've shown up at the table to have conversations with civil society and with advocacy organizations and other people like me.
Facebook, just about ten days or so ago, announced a major initiative where they were going to raise the base pay of all their content moderators. I was thrilled about that. On the other hand, we could read between the lines of such an announcement to learn that until now these people were probably making minimum wage or close to that. And we could also read the deafening silence from other firms that they haven't done that and aren't really willing to do that yet. Because, if they were, they'd be issuing a press release, too. We've got a ways to go on that.


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This was Aboriginal territory for thousands of years. The Wyandot (called the Huron by Europeans), who spoke an Iroquoian language, were the historic people living here in the 15th century. Archeological remains of a large village have been found here, known as the Draper Site.[3] Later, the Wyandot moved northwest to Georgian Bay, where they established their historic homeland. There they encountered French explorers in the early 17th century, followed by missionaries and fur traders.
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Ana Darcy's husband Matt, being an English major, has an unsurprising taste for poetry. Recently, approximately a month before their anniversary, he ran across a poem that touched his heart.
We can only provide a link to a copyrighted work, but we can say that except for the ocean mentioned (there are no oceans anywhere close to southern New Mexico) there was much in it to remind him that his sweet wife had traveled trillions of miles from her home planet to get to Earth, and to their house.
What in the poem spoke to him?
"I climbed / the stairs to the roof of the house and under a sky / strewn with stars I gazed...and I imagined you coming closer...."
"The nearness, the momentary warmth of you...why did I believe you would come out of nowhere?"
He can never forget the last line, "Why with all / that the world offers would you come only because I was here?"
After years of marriage, Matt still can't understand why this glorious woman should have chosen him, of all the people on Earth, to love. His only guess: it was a miracle.
The poem is "Black Sea," by Mark Strand. The story of the meeting and courtship of Ana and Matt is told in Distant Cousin.
Note (2017): The link above has been closed. The very fine poem, however, can still be found using a workaround. Please see this suggestion!
See more of Ana's favorite poetry, recipes, and art in the columns to the right


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As we stumble upon Wednesday, I can't help but highlight two blaring reasons why I am not a normal human being, if "normal" in fact could be defined. That is a conversation for another time, but right now we are going to focus on two events that happened to me over the two days of the week so far.
Monday: I had to take a walk to get something work-related, so I'm on my way back and thoroughly enjoying the nice weather and am a bit lost in my thoughts thinking about writing ideas and what to put for my next blog post.
And I'm probably also trying to focus on not tripping in my sandals because on Friday there was a minor incident when I tripped up the stairs and spilled coffee all down the left sleeve of my white cardigan. The same coffee I considered finishing in the car before work, but decided to bring with me in order to really savor it. The shoes are too damn cute not to wear, so I just have to walk extra careful-like.
But that's beside the point. The actual point is that I'm too caught up in my own little princessy world that I don't notice the white van pull up next to me, or the man leaning out of the window to wolf whistle at me, very loudly I might add. I was so scared that I jumped and fell into the bushes. I suppose it could have been worse if I fell into the street, but I was still mobile as I was falling so I almost did a somersault, which actually would have been awesome.
If normal were to exist, one might complete a casual hair flip and keep walking with a slight bounce in their step, perhaps giving a quick glance to the driver. I fall into bushes.
Tuesday: I pulled dirty underwear out of my pant leg. I can't even preface that. This is what I get for wearing the same capris two days in a row. I left my dirty, albeit adorable zebra-print panties in my pants and wore them the next day only to find them pooled around my knee. We are very grateful, and by we, I mean me and everyone else in the world, that they didn't just fall out of my pants and that I could casually, unnoticeably just pull them out under my desk and sneak them into my bag. But the worst part of all of this is I didn't even notice until more than half my day. More than six hours had passed and they were just chilling (hanging?) there without me realizing.
If normal were to exist, one would not have dirty underwear leftover from the day before in their pants. Or one might consider buying another pair of pants.
My life. You're welcome. Just call me Clumsy Caitlin.
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Side note to go with the following picture: People need to stop having graduation parties so I can stop being tempted by cake. This is me dying.


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