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In remarks that addressed US fears about nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War world, former CIA director John Deutch and two other panelists gave appraisals of the current state of affairs and laid out best- and worst-case scenarios for the future during "Loose Nukes," an October 14 Catherine N. Stratton Lecture on Critical Issues.
Graham Allison, former assistant secretary of defense, and Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joined Institute Professor Deutch on a panel that warned of the potential for disaster should the Russian government lose control of the nuclear weapons now in its possession. The cautionary trio shared a concern that terrorist groups or rogue governments would gain control of nuclear weapons or materials, but differed in their approaches to the dilemma.
Professor Deutch, also former deputy secretary of defense and former undersecretary of energy, stated that nuclear weapons remain an important part of US political/military strength.
"No nation can hope to have our capability, and so they are dissuaded from trying to accomplish this or even obtain nuclear weapons," said Professor Deutch, who also argued that fewer nuclear weapons would be better, and would also be cheaper to maintain.
"There are opportunities for reduction that would not impair national security," he said. Arms reduction talks between the former Soviet Union and the United States must lead to a series of mutually agreed activities to reduce weapons, must cover both strategic and tactical weapons, and must include the process of dismantlement and disposal of the weapons. He also pointed out that since the end of the Cold War, there have been no net additions to the world's nuclear club.
Dr. Allison, who is director of the Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, cautioned against complacency toward the former Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal.
"Despite the fact of the Cold War being over, the problem of nuclear danger has not ended. There are 30,000 nuclear weapons left in the midst of a society being convulsed by a revolution that is collapsing all central control systems. Those nuclear weapons remain vulnerable to theft and sale in a way that they were never vulnerable before," he said.
He painted a frightening scenario of a terrorist detonating a small nuclear "suitcase" weapon in a crowded public space in the United States. To avoid such a disaster, he recommended that the US government purchase all nuclear weapons and materials from Russia within the next two years.
Dr. Mathews, a former officer in the White House and in the State Department, cautioned that the Russians might not be anxious to sell all their plutonium, seeing it "as an asset, not an albatross."
Assuming they did sell, the United States would face the more basic dilemma of what to do with the nuclear material once purchased. She recommended that the US stop drawing a "false distinction between military and civilian plutonium" and stop trying to reach an unattainable standard of nuclear waste disposal.
"We have spent upwards of 40 years pursuing a dead-end technology for disposal of nuclear fuel that is never going to work, and that attempts to satisfy an unnecessary and unattainable standard," she said. "The law now states that waste be made safe for 10,000 years. But almost all radioactivity is gone in 5,000 years."
The United States should "build a subsurface retrieval and storage facility and count on human intelligence instead of geology to manage it," said Dr. Mathews. The obvious place for such a storage facility is "the Nevada test site. It is bigger than the state of Rhode Island -- a huge, remote, dry, empty place." However, she acknowledged that it would be political death for any Nevada legislator to agree to such a step.
In the meantime, the government should "oppose production of a single additional gram of plutonium until we deal with the existing 100 tons," she said.
The Catherine N. Stratton Lecture Series honors Kay Stratton, wife of the late MIT President Julius A. Stratton. Her 50-plus years of commitment to the Institute include not only the annual Critical Issues lectures, but also the seminars on Aging Successfully held every spring. The series is supported by an endowed fund initially seeded by the MIT Women's League.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on October 22, 1997.


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Macmillan eBook Embargo Updates
Macmillan Abandons Embargo – March 2020 (NEW)
On March 17th, Macmillan CEO John Sargent issued this memo addressed to all librarians, authors, illustrators, and agents.
The memo reads, "Dear Librarians, Authors, Illustrators and Agents, There are times in life when differences should be put aside. Effective on Friday (or whenever thereafter our wholesalers can effect the change), Macmillan will return to the library ebook pricing model that was in effect on October 31st, 2019. In addition, we will be lowering some ebook prices on a short term basis to help expand libraries' collections in these difficult times. Stay safe. John"
Legislation Introduced in New York - January 2020
S7576 May / A9881 Ryan (Access to E-Books)
This bill, currently in the Senate Consumer Affairs Committee, requires that publishers who offer electronic books to the private market, also extend licenses to libraries within the State, without discrimination. Contracts would stipulate "reasonable terms" that would allow libraries across the state, and their patrons, to have equitable access to the content they seek.
The Latest
- Macmillan Abandons Embargo – March 17th, 2020
- #eBooksForAll Campaign Update - Tuesday, December 17
- Libraries Respond to Macmillan Ebook Embargo with Boycotts, Advocacy - November 13, 2019
- Monroe County libraries join national Macmillan boycott - November 6, 2019
- ALA turns to Congress as Macmillan ignores public call to reverse library e-book embargo - November 1, 2019
- ALA responds to Macmillan Letter - October 31, 2019
- Macmillan CEO, John Sargent, writes a letter to librarians - October 29, 2019
- Congress Looking into Anticompetitive Behavior in the Digital Library Market - Publishers Weekly, October 24, 2019
- ALA submission about problems in the digital marketplace provided to the U.S. House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law - October 15, 2019
NYLA Calls on Macmillan to Reverse Library eBook Embargo
On July 25, Macmillan Publishing announced it would become the only major (Big 5) publisher to limit eBook lending for U.S. libraries. Under its new licensing model, scheduled to begin November 1, 2019, a library may purchase one copy upon release of a new title in eBook format, after which the publisher will impose an eight-week embargo on additional copies of that title sold to libraries.
As American Library Association (ALA) President Wanda Brown asserted that same day, "Macmillan Publishers' new model for library eBook lending will make it difficult for libraries to fulfill our central mission: ensuring access to information for all. Macmillan's new policy is unacceptable."
And Public Library Association (PLA) President Ramiro Salazar stated, "Access to digital content in libraries is more than a financial issue: it is an equity issue. We encourage Macmillan Publishers to reverse course before libraries and the people they serve are harmed."
Millions of people now use digital content as their preferred or only access to books, music, and movies. Digital content is portable, accessible to people with print disabilities, available anywhere 24/7, and brokered by libraries to provide diverse options to our diverse communities.
Libraries not only pay for books; they market them. Lost marketing means lost publicity and sales for publishers and authors.
NYLA joins the ALA in denouncing this measure and calling for Macmillan Publishing to cancel the embargo and restore full access to its complete eBook catalog upon release to the public.
Furthermore, NYLA affirms the principles that:
- All published works must be available for libraries to purchase and lend to library users.
- Access to and use of eBooks must equitably balance the rights and privileges of readers, authors and publishers.
- Digital content must be accessible to all people, regardless of physical or reading disability.
- Library patrons must be able to access digital content on the device of their choosing.
- Reading records must remain private in the digital age.
What You Can Do
- Tell Macmillan Publisher CEO John Sargent that you demand #eBooksforAll
- Follow #eBooksforAll on Twitter to stay updated
- ALA Launches eBooksForAll.org Website
More Resources
- ALA launches national campaign against e-book embargo - American Library Association
- Public Library Association condemns Macmillan Publishers library lending model - American Library Association
- Update on Ebook Advocacy - American Libraries Magazine
- How publishers' increasingly restrictive e-book policies could undermine a key public library reference service - Publishers Weekly

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
We understand the world on the basis of our experience. How can we know if our experience is unique to us or common to many?
As a physician, I listened to hundreds of people's experiences. Their stories enabled me to see social patterns that are normally hidden. I learned that most people think of their problems as unique and individual, when they are actually common and social.
I discovered that the suffering we label as mental illness is the kind of suffering we would expect when people are trapped in bad situations. Why do we treat this suffering as a personal or medical defect? Why don't we change the conditions that cause suffering?
These questions cannot be left to experts and other authorities. Each of us is personally affected by what happens in society. That gives us the right to express our opinion about what is wrong and to be involved in making it right. How can we do this?
Rebel Minds reveals that what we think of as social problems are actually symptoms of a deeper underlying problem, a global capitalist system that divides humanity into classes: a tiny ruling class who compete for wealth and power, a larger manager class who enforce their rule, and the majority working-class who create all social wealth, yet get no say over how that wealth is used.
The result is astounding inequality and massive suffering that our rulers justify with the racist explanation that these problems are rooted in biology and cannot be changed. They are dead wrong. As Rebel Minds explains, we do not have to accept how things are. We can build the world we want and deserve. Not by wishing and hoping and trusting authorities, but by understanding how we got here, what keeps us here, and what we must do to end our suffering and make the world safe for everyone.


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Denmark set to build wild boar fence on German border
Due to be completed by autumn 2019, the construction will be 1.5 metres in height and will extend 50cm underground to prevent wild boar from digging under the fence.
During the first two months, six stretches of the fence, each measuring one kilometre in length, will be erected in Aabenraa and Tønder municipalities.
Denmark's Liberal Party took full responsibility for the decision, which they claimed would protect Denmark from the disease, which it said was "moving closer" to its borders.
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The fence is a series of initiatives that the Danes have launched to eradicate wild boar from entering the country.
In March 2018, the Government and the Danish People's Party introduced new hunting times, allowing wild boar hunts around the clock, as well as intensified efforts to hunt wild boar on state-owned and private land. Meanwhile, fines have been raised if an animal transport has not been properly cleaned or disinfected. Signs have also been erected at rest stops along Danish highways, informing people of the risk of spreading ASF through food waste in nature.
The Scandinavian country's pork industry exports amounted to around DKK30 billion, with DKK11 billion to countries outside the EU during 2016. Denmark's Government said if an outbreak were to occur, then exports to non-EU countries would have to be shut down.
"We have 11 billion good reasons to do everything we can to prevent African swine fever reaching Denmark. And now we can finally get started on erecting our wild boar fence," said Denmark's minister for environment and food Jakob Elleman-Jensen.
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Visit the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo - where the "hosts" are women cross - dressing as men, and the "clients" are women - and take an extraordinary look at gender and sexuality in Japan. Shinjuku Boys introduces Tatsu, Gaish and Kazuki, three annabe who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club. Annabe are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they do not usually identify as lesbians. Tatsu lives with his girlfriend, Tomoe. Gaish is the tough-talking heartbreaker type who has a string of girlfriends. Kazuki lives with Kumi, a male transsexual and semi-famous nightclub dancer in Tokyo. Tatsu, Gaish and Kazuki talk frankly to the camera, revealing their own extraordinary stories as well as their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism. The clientele of the New Marilyn Club is almost exclusively heterosexual women who have become disappointed with born men.
Shinjuku Boys alternates fascinating interviews with fabulous sequences shot inside the Club, where the suave annabe down Buds in their snappy suits and turn on the charm for their glamorous clients. From the makers of Dream Girls, Shinjuku Boys is a remarkable documentary about the complexity of female sexuality in Japan today.
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Shinjuku Boys (Women Make Movies; 1996; 53 min.) focuses on three transgendered men who work in "Club Marilyn", a bar located in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, which employs ftm hosts to serve a female clientele. These hosts, whom the narrator describes as "women who have decided to live as men", arecalled onnabe in Japanese, and are considered to be "ideal men" by their customers.


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April 18, 2013
So this has been quite a week, no? I'm just...ugh. Boston.
Tuesday's post had been scheduled months in advance, as most sponsored posts are, and I admit it was nice to stick my fingers in my ears and just post the blogging equivalent of LA LA LA LA LA LA ANYTHING ELSE. LET'S TALK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.
But it's been hard coming up with the next thing to say. Maybe because there just isn't anything to say.
My brother lives in Boston. Jason's brother lives in Boston. My nephew, his niece, our sister-in-law. They are fine. I feel stupid even bringing them up because they weren't anywhere in the vicinity of what happened on Monday, but...you know. It's the first place your brain goes.
The second place my personal brain goes is right back to the morning of 9/11. I was 24. Stuck in traffic on a bridge heading from D.C. to my office in Virginia, listening to the awful news unfold on the radio. Suddenly seeing black wisps of smoke in the sky on the horizon, down the Potomac. Realizing it was from the Pentagon. Realizing that nothing would ever, ever be the same again.
First Newtown, now Boston, both events with victims near the age of my own child, both events that leave me almost trembling at the daunting task of keeping my babies safe, of all the years ahead and all the terrible randomness of it all. And of course it won't ever stop. Eight years old or 29; that's still someone's baby and I just can't. I just can't even.
In the days following these things I get inundated with emails from "experts" pitching articles or offering interviews and tips on talking to your kids about what happened. The Mister Rogers "look for the helpers" quote (which I reread and repeat for my own grown-up sanity, actually) makes the rounds on Facebook.
My kids are all still at an age where...well, we just don't talk about it yet. They don't know about Aurora or Newtown or Boston, or any of the news stories that cause me to put my hand on my heart and turn away from the laptop screen. Noah still repeatedly asks if there "really is such thing as ROBBERS," because stealing is about the worst crime he can currently fathom. They don't know about the bad things that can happen, that can happen to innocent little kids, that mommies and daddies and policemen can't stop from happening. They watch my brow furrow as I thumb through news coverage on my phone and ask what game I'm playing. They indulge my need for extra hugs and laugh because "you're squeezing me too tight, Mom! let gooooo!"
Some day they'll have the moment that I did out on that bridge. That moment of shocking, mortal clarity where you just realize...everything. All of it. Just like that.
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Freddy Mamani is a Bolivian architect who has designed an array of colourful mansions, known as 'cholets', which you can find in the world's highest city, El Alto, in Bolivia. He has created what has been described as 'New Andean' or 'neo-Andean' architecture, a unique blend of traditional Andean designs and modern influences, including science fiction (the Transformer movies in particular). Mamani says his "designs are a modern expression of our culture". And the culture he is referring to comes from the indigenous Aymara community of Bolivia, of which Mamani is a member. This neo-Andean architecture draws inspiration from the traditional patterned cloth made by the Aymara people.
Yuri Segalerba, who travelled to El Alto to photograph the vibrant, striking cholets, said that these buildings were symbols of "a renewed sense of indigenous pride". The ingenious admixture of modern architecture with Aymara designs has resulted in a form of architecture that looks alien, futuristic, and psychedelic. The interiors are said to resemble 'pinball machines'. Interestingly, many users of the potent psychedelic compound DMT agree that the interior of Mamani's buildings bear an uncanny resemblance to the architecture of the DMT realm, with the colour scheme and patterns appearing distinctly familiar. Indeed, these building interiors look like a trippy, alien Las Vegas casino or a merry-go-round type environment, a space that many DMT users have reported visiting. Mamani's architecture also resembles a jewelled, candy-coloured Willy Wonka factory, which for many is reminiscent of the DMT realm.
According to Mamani, the geometric frieze patterns featured in his architecture are influenced by motifs found in Tiwanaku, an important archaeological site of the pre-Inca civilisation, located near El Alto. Interestingly, in 2019, a 1000-year old shaman's pouch was discovered, belonging to the Tiwanaku civilisation. And this pouch was found to contain a collection of psychoactive substances, including DMT and harmine (which can be combined together to create a psychedelic brew like ayahuasca or made into a snuff), as well as psilocin (one of the main active ingredients in 'magic mushrooms'). Researchers who published a paper on this landmark discovery said: "The use of psychoactive substances by ancient Tiwanaku may have been connected to a complex religious tradition with deep roots in earlier Andean and Amazonian cultures." And as we know, psychedelics have had a great influence on distinct motifs and designs.
It is possible, then, that the geometric designs used in Mamani's architecture are psychedelic in origin, specifically inspired by a DMT-containing brew or snuff. With such DMT-esque patterns made neon, brightly coloured, and embedded in a casino-like environment, people are finding that his architecture resonates deeply with their own DMT experiences. Another reason why Mamani's architecture seems DMT-esque may be because the Aymara community has a tradition of ayahuasca shamanism, so it may be that such indigenous ayahuasca use influenced Aymara textiles, in the same way that the woven cloth of the Shipibo people is inspired by the distinctive geometric patterns seen during an ayahuasca experience. It may also be somewhat coincidental that Mamani's architecture bears a resemblance to DMT hyperspace, as appears to be the case with the Castle of Sammezzano in Italy. Regardless of the actual connection between Freddy Mamani's architecture and DMT, his buildings remain distinctly psychedelic and impressively inventive. Here are some examples of Mamani's imaginative designs.


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Creating content is usually thought of as the major time outlay for a marketing or creative department. But ask anyone who's ever managed the review and approval process, and they can tell you that's frequently the source of many delays. Simply collecting clear, actionable feedback from reviewers can bring up these common, but often unanticipated, headaches:
- Difficulty communicating
Often, reviewers are looking at their content in one window while typing up their feedback in an email. This disconnect between the content and the feedback means that reviewers have to describe what they want changed, and designers have to decipher the reviewer's intent. Reviews and revisions take longer, and change requests get lost in translation.
- Cumbersome email threads
Content gets emailed to a reviewer and the reviewer then reply with their feedback, and that feedback is forwarded onto the content creator. Not so bad. Start adding in additional reviewers, exchanging email responses, or sharing revised versions, and these email threads become convoluted pretty quickly.
- Review information isn't transparent
Sharing content for review over email or FTP can feel like throwing a message in a bottle into the ocean. You're unsure what's happening to it after it leaves your hand. Did your reviewers receive your content? Have they looked at it yet? And once all of the feedback and sign-offs come back, it's often difficult to access them later without digging through your inbox.
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VHAT started as a state-level network of NGOs within the state of Tripura with the aim to build the capacity of the member organizations as well as the different sectors of the society. In 2015-2016 Mr.Benudhar Acharya was the President of VHAT. He is working as an Officer in State Bank of India. But since his student life, he has had a great interest in the welfare activities.
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There stands a house under the mountain of the world,
a road runs down, the mountain covers it
and no man knows the way. It is a house
that binds bad men with ropes
and clamps them into a narrow space.
It is a house that separates the wicked
and the good; this is a house from out of which
no one escapes, but just men need not fear before its judge,
for in this river of spent souls the good
shall never die although the wicked perish.
– The Sumerian Underworld, from Poems of Heaven and Hell.
This week on Gloranthan Readings is the Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, translated by N. K. Sandars. This is one of the essential collections of Mesopotamian mythology, containing the Babylonian Creation (the Enūma élish), The Sumerian Underworld, Inanna's Journey to Hell, Adapa: the Man, and A Prayer to the Gods of Night.
Of these, the Enūma élish is probably the best known. It tells of the creation of the world out of chaos, a two-staged cosmogony with the first being the fecund powers of chaos that gave birth to generations of gods and monsters, and the second being the creation of the ordered world through the defeat of Tiamat by her distant descendant Marduk, who becomes king of the gods. This is Orlanth's defeat of Sh'harkazeel or Yelm's defeat of Nestenos or Umath's defeat of Predark. The Enūma élish was likely connected to the Babylonian New Year festival, and like Glorantha's Sacred Time, held at the advent of spring. Actually, "like Glorantha's Sacred Time" understates the matter – this is Sacred Time, and the description of the Babylonian New Year festivals in this book is the basis for Glorantha's Sacred Time.
As cool as the Enūma élish is, Inanna's Journey to Hell is even more interesting for the Glorantha-phile. Inanna, Goddess of Fertility and War, goes to the Underworld to challenge her sister Erishkigal, Queen of the Underworld. She goes through the Seven Gates, each time being required to give up part of her divine regalia. Each time she protests, "Why do you do this?" And each time, she is told "Quiet, Inanna, this is the law of the underworld, which must be fulfilled. Do not question the rites of hell." After she passes through the seventh gate, she is naked and on her knees before grim Erishkigal and her Seven Judges. They sentence the goddess of Life to death and her body was a corpse that hung on a spike.
Inanna had already prepared a plan, and after some effort she is revived. But the Judges said:
"Who has ever returned out of hell unharmed?
To escape the pit alive she must leave
another who shall wait in her place."
And so Inanna leaves the pit to find her replacement – her lover Dumuzi, who is seized by demons who drag him down to the Dark City. The poem ends with Dumuzi being mourned by his sister, his mother, and by Inanna.
This is raw heroquesting material for any Glorantha GM. The hero goes to the Underworld, dies, finds a way to be revived, but must pay the price. Superb stuff. Other poems give us some of the geography of the Underworld, a paean to the gods of Night, and more.
Go over to Gloranthan Readings and check out what else we've got up? As of today, we have 20 books, with more coming.


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In the second of his irregular profiles, Lloyd Wood catches human interface god and former Apple Fellow Don Norman at a lecture in Surrey.
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Notes on Norman1999-03-23
Professor Donald Norman, former Apple Fellow (University of California) [1]
Notes expanded to full article, Tuesday 23rd March 1999.
After an introduction by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey -- he's calling himself the Chief Executive these days in a case of what I can only describe as Business Envy, but he still possesses the measured tones and pomp that you've come to expect from reading any Terry Pratchett novel -- Don Norman took the podium and began to speak, quietly. He made the following points, presented here in roughly chronological order.
Norman says he's for for-profit education, selling courses to companies for employee lifelong learning, and that he's involved with companies doing that. This received a large number of nods of approbation among the audience; the University is running more and more short courses. I swear, the UK education system is going to short-term US hell, where you learn nothing much at all in your twenties but lifelong learning will supposedly make up for it, while the needs of industry reign paramount. If Norman underwent for-profit education himself and doing his PhD bankrupted himself and his family as a result, well and good; the thought of people pulling up the drawbridge behind them and destroying the educational systems that they benefited from and that moulded them is a trend that I have always found particularly worrisome. Come to think of it, the tendency for privately-educated UK politicans -- the Chief Executives of UK plc -- to destroy the educational systems that they didn't pass through is probably rather worse.
He trotted out Moore's law, which really needs retiring since it's past its sell-by date. Gordon Moore originally noted and extrapolated on the increasing number of transistors on Intel's CISC processors, and that observation has been generalised in increasingly suspicious ways ever since [3]. Moore's law is about as credible and reliable as Bode's law [4] these days. It may even be artificially maintained by market expectations. If it's a law, I'm an orangoutan. Norman used Moore to ask what you would do with a computer a thousand times more powerful in fifteen years' time. The answer will be 'wait for Microsoft Word to finish printing your document to the Linux spooler', I expect.
He contrasted specialist and generalist devices, saying that good specialist devices suited to a clear purpose are what's needed; tools that humans can understand. Since Nokia, one of the companies sponsoring the Digital World Initiative, now make cellular phones you can play games on, I think Norman's point is being completely ignored in practice here. I don't know anyone who fully understands their cellular phone, much less anyone worried by this failing.
Technical development isn't the problem; Norman thinks we have more tools and abilities than we know what to do with, and he's right there. Social implications, and the use of technology for clear communication, are the problems. It's not what we've got, but how it gets implemented and used. There is a lack of good conceptual models for human/computer interfaces; building your own mental models of behaviour of digital devices from the limited non-redundant information presented, on a video recorder LCD, say, is tricky, and design criteria often favour form and minimization over understandability and usability.
Norman illustrated this using salt and pepper shakers. He asked how you would know which was which (convention only goes so far), and then segued smoothly into a discussion of seemingly identical controls in that old favourite, the nuclear power plant control room. Improvements in said control rooms and in cockpits were cited - Norman claimed there weren't any crashes on commercially-scheduled flights last year, which caused me to do a double-take (SwissAir? Far eastern flights?), but I presume that he was talking about internal US flights.
Speaking of Norman's US perspective, I had to do some mental gear-shifting when he started talking about how hard early phonographs were to use, too. I believe he meant record players. And, speaking of gear-shifting: when he talked about how easy a car was to drive, he contrasted the complex car with the simple unicycle, which is far more basic in construction but is much harder to master.
This comparison gave pause for thought. 'Easy to drive' may be true for US automatics, on wide, straight US roads, but here in the UK we have driving lessons, narrow roads, and gears. Oh, and roundabouts; you know, traffic circles. Nothing much happens if you fall off a unicycle, whereas cars do annoying things like explode if you steer them into concrete walls at speed. 'Easy' includes weak penalties when things go wrong, and then there's cognitive load. That's why driving a car is so tiring, whereas once you've learned to balance on a unicycle the skill becomes innate. This is a trite example that doesn't hold up to close inspection, in my view.
Norman claimed that the best technology isn't perceived as technology, and isn't sold upon the strength of its technology. He illustrated this by waving his wrist and talking about watches as an item of jewellery, branded separate from the technology and how well they actually kept time. People will pay more for watches that actually keep measurably worse time. He mentioned SMH, the owners of Swatch and other brands, and how they'd targetted different market segments. He didn't discuss Swatch's bizarre Internet Time concept, although I imagine Negroponte would [5], given a similar speaking situation.
Oddly, there was no mention of Apple's iMac as an attempt to move personal computing into a similar mature-product post-technical-features product-differentiation phase where people judge a computer solely by the colour it comes in. (By all accounts, lime iMacs are the least popular, and special promotions to clear putrid green stock are underway.) In fact, Don Norman, former Apple Fellow, didn't mention Apple at all. Well, they're just another middling computer company with badly-designed hardware and overly complex impossible-to-use unstable software that is also going to hell these days; being associated with Apple is probably just embarrassing, for any number of possible reasons.
Human-centred design is needed, using cognitive engineering (Norman never used the word 'ergonomics', which appears to have fallen out of favour). 75% of accidents are attributed to human error, and there's a tendency to blame the human as the cause. An example tailored to the satellite-focused Surrey audience was given: a satellite launch goes off-course because digits are transposed, and has to be blown up. Don mentioned a Russian launch [6], but the fabled Mariner 1 launch sequence also sprang to mind [7] -- it's a human error, so the human gets disciplined, even though transposition errors and the like are unavoidable human behaviour and should be expected and compensated for.
If the same result occurred due to noise in the circuit, you'd redesign the circuit to prevent the effect of the noise. Norman made the point that process engineering should be designed around the human as an invariant: in the intellectual age work should be adapted to humans, rather than humans adopted to work (as occurred in the mechanical age). Though if you replace 'work' with 'education' that reads a bit worryingly; humanity is just getting soft.
Electronic books were mentioned. Norman is involved with one company, and they're doing lots of user testing, figuring out good user-centred product design, and doing all the things that Norman advocates. In the meantime, three other companies are marketing arguably-worse products, trying to find a business model that actually works and can make money.
There's a gap between these two approaches that needs to be bridged, which is where Norman believes that cross-discipline cognitive engineers -- a social science background, but a practical implementation-driven bent -- come in, to produce decent, well-designed, usable products the first time around.
This is a great idea -- in theory. Unfortunately, all the social scientists I've ever met do social sciences because they don't care for or can't cope with engineering or the hard sciences.
Norman's own background is a masters in engineering followed by a jump into social psychology for his PhD, so I think he's preaching to the wrong crowd. He should be talking at engineers who have started finding people more interesting and easier to work with than boxes, if you ask me -- but then, as one of those, my own viewpoint is equally biased. I'm with Heinlein on this: an engineer can always learn the fuzzy stuff and pick up some culture, but the reverse is much harder and far, far less likely.
Three to five people is an effective number for a group; the Mythical Man Month got a mention. Universities were criticised for always favouring theory over implementation; people doing implementations get sneered at as the lowest of the low. Yup, Norman's got an engineering background and a chip on his shoulder about it, all right. Bet he laughs at Dilbert, too.
Social sciences have problems, not least of which is physics envy and the desire or need to stick 'science' in their subject titles as justification so that people take them seriously. Social scientists need to take their understanding of people and behaviour and communicate that to different disciplines - engineers, designers, and (given the DWRC sponsors) the four cellphone manufacturers whose representatives were present. Cognitive engineering, an angle on the problem Norman's spent most of his career evangelising as a new field, got a few more mentions. Ergonomics didn't.
There was an emphasis on mature viewpoints rather than that of a 22-year-old designer enthralled by adding neat features for the sake of it -- but then Norman is looking a bit greyhaired himself these days.
It was an interesting if abstract talk -- there were no obvious visual aids apart from the salt and pepper cellars and the wristwatch. However, the lights dimmed halfway through at 6pm and then rose again, which turned out to be due to 'smart lighting' in the new lecture building that senses movement, and everyone sitting still at six.
My first thoughts: wouldn't infrared detection of body heat work better? Or of noise? And what sort of time-out sans hysteresis just happens to dim on the hour exactly? Norman's comment: 'Why is it called smart?'
A sleeping audience wouldn't need any light, and hey, it's a university lecture hall after all. I think Norman should spend some time in France, experiencing light cut-offs that darken corridors as you're walking halfway down them -- French regimentation taking precedence over considerations of fluorescent ballast and tube lifetime, power, or convenience.
My second thoughts: my, this is awfully convenient for the talk, and a very illuminating point about the assumptions of product designers to boot. Nicely done.
All in all, Norman went over a lot of familiar ground, and he's affable and a pleasure to listen to. I was surprised by the reaction of much of the audience to what Norman did say; it's almost as if they'd never heard of any of this stuff before, as they laughed and nodded at seemingly novel points. Now that I find scary. But I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because they're simply more human. Because their lifelong learning never saw fit to cover this stuff. Or because they're older.
[1] http://www.jnd.org/
[2] http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/
[3] http://www.intel.com/intel/museum/25anniv/hof/moore.htm
[4] http://www.itsnet.com/home/bmager/public_html/pluto/bodeslaw.html
[5] http://www.media.mit.edu/
[6] http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.33.html#subj4.1
[7] http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.66.html#subj1.1
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Alex Trebek was 'ready to pack it in' during cancer battle. He opens up in new memoir
In a public address to "Jeopardy!" viewers last week, Alex Trebek assured fans that he was fine. "Feeling great," in fact. The treatment for Stage IV pancreatic cancer was "paying off," he said, and his numbers were good. Wearing one of his well-pressed blazers, his voice steady as ever, he playfully showed off the goatee he'd grown since the pandemic halted production in March.
But in private, Trebek — who turns 80 on Wednesday — has struggled. He admits he had moments of "complete discouragement" when he felt "ready to pack it in," times when he thought about taking his own his life. And that bothers him. It's not that he's ashamed that suicidal thoughts have crossed his mind. He just doesn't want to be perceived as a disappointment.
"You can't be telling people 'Keep your chin up, fight on!' and then all of a sudden you counter that by: 'What happened to Trebek?' 'Oh, he killed himself. He just got too discouraged,'" the quiz show host says in an interview from his office. "'Well, hell, he was telling us to be positive. And then he did this negative thing.' So, yeah. That's the responsibility that has bothered me."
Trebek's new memoir, "The Answer Is ... Reflections on My Life," is dedicated to "those who are hoping to become survivors." But as he reveals in the book — which will be published Tuesday — the burden of serving as a beacon of hope has weighed on him. When he began chemotherapy, he started having crying spurts out of the blue. He was troubled by this and confided in his oncologist about the tears. The doctor advised Trebek that they were likely a side effect of his treatment.
"He told me not to feel embarrassed, but I said, 'I do feel a little embarrassed. I feel like a wuss. It's not that men shouldn't cry. It's that, my God, Alex, get yourself together, here,'" Trebek recalls. Just the day before, he says, he started getting "very emotional for no reason that I can think of" while his son, Matthew, was preparing dinner. Noticing his father's upset, the 30-year-old stopped cooking and came over to the kitchen table to pat his dad's back. "And then, the moment was gone. Thank God these things don't last long. I know that now, so it doesn't scare me as much as it used to."
Opening up about any of this in a book was never something Trebek planned. He had long rejected entreaties from publishers hoping he would tell his life story. So when, just weeks after his cancer diagnosis in early 2019, he received an email from Simon & Schuster asking him to write a memoir, he promptly turned down the request.
"He said he just didn't feel like he had a story worth telling," says Sean Manning, executive editor at the publishing company. Still, Manning continued to check in every few months to see if Trebek might reconsider. The host was steadfast in his decision until he learned that an unauthorized biography of his life by Lisa Rogak — who had also written about Rachel Maddow, Stephen King and Jon Stewart — was set for publication around his 80th birthday. Trebek hated the notion that the author wouldn't "get it right" and decided that if he could give his advance money to charity, the effort might be worth it. But to compete with Rogak's book— which is also coming out on July 21 — Trebek would have to move quickly.
"It was a rush job," he acknowledges, noting that he began work on the book only in March.
Given the time constraints — and the fact that he doesn't consider himself a "good enough writer" — Trebek decided he wouldn't write a soup-to-nuts autobiography. He describes it to readers as "a series of quick look-ins" that touch on the highlights of his life, including his early career, his favorite "Jeopardy!" contestants and his 30-year marriage to second wife, Jean.
It was written with the aid of both Manning and "Jeopardy!" supervising producer Rocky Schmidt, who joined conference calls to jog Trebek's memory about major life events. After those conversations, Manning would send notes from the chats back to Trebek for revisions — a format "that was going to cause me the least amount of grief, if you will," the host jokes.
Schmidt, who began working on "Jeopardy!" as Trebek's assistant in 1987, already knew most of the stories shared on the three-way calls. But by the end of the process, he says he gained fresh perspective on how Trebek lives his life: With a "fundamental feeling of 'I want the world to be fair.'"
"On the show, there are clear-cut answers, and if you give the right answer, you're gonna get rewarded for it," Schmidt says. "He tells a story in the book about how, when he was at military school, he made hospital corners perfectly on his bed and a [senior cadet] tore up the sheets anyway. He was upset that it wasn't fair."
Trebek's impartiality has become a cornerstone of his reputation. He made a conscious decision to keep his political views private so as not to "offend an important segment of our audience." Born a Canadian, Trebek became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1998 and writes that he has since voted for both Republicans and Democrats. But because of "the number of crises that are affecting our country right now," he says he is planning to become more vocal about his beliefs before the 2020 presidential election.
"I'm trying to cope with how I want to do it," he says. "You have to do it in a way that doesn't make it seem as if you're picking on certain people or denigrating their points of view or putting them down because they're obviously not bright enough to come up with the same conclusions you've come up with."
He is also a rule-follower when it comes to socializing with "Jeopardy!" contestants. Trebek interacts with players only during commercial breaks, not just because of time limitations — he films five shows a day, twice a week — but also because he doesn't want to create an impression of impropriety. He became closest with Ken Jennings, who won a record-breaking 74 consecutive games, largely because they had so much time to talk on set. Worried his voice wouldn't be able to hold up, Trebek asked Jennings to record the majority of the audiobook for "The Answer Is … ." The player was honored, especially since their social interactions had been limited.
"The reason why you can't hang out with Alex is not because he's snooty — it's because he's read all the answers and isn't allowed to fraternize," Jennings said. "It's always funny to see him in non-'Jeopardy!' settings where he doesn't have the Perry Ellis set and he's wearing dad jeans and a bomber jacket. In real life, he could not be more down-to-earth and less like his fussy Will Ferrell stage persona. "
Trebek is well aware of what he has come to represent to viewers over his 36 years as the host of "Jeopardy!" He's the reliable figure you can count on to appear on your television each weeknight, "not so much as a showbiz personality but as an uncle," he writes. He's not intimidating. He's a "second-tier celebrity." Part of the family.
He leans into this persona in the book, offering up wholesome tidbits about how he's happiest sitting on the swing in his backyard or eating fried chicken and broccoli for dinner. He doesn't drink alcohol, save for the "occasional" glass of chardonnay, instead preferring a tall glass of 1% milk in the middle of the night. He arrives everywhere 10 minutes early.
And he loves a routine, always arriving at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City on tape days at 6 a.m. This gives him time to eat his daily Kit Kat and Diet Pepsi while spending an hour and a half reading through the day's 305 clues. Then he reads the Los Angeles Times and attempts to complete the crossword puzzle.
"I think after 36 years, people have come to realize who I am and what I represent," he says. "They know I'm not a flake. They know I'm not a braggart. ...There was a survey that I think Reader's Digest did about a year or so ago about America's Most Trusted People, and I made the top 10. I felt really good about that. I dropped right in between Bill and Melinda Gates. I was No. 8."
So if you're expecting there to be a smoking gun in "The Answer Is …," you'll be disappointed. He does cop to cursing and says that in his younger days he bought a Bentley convertible, Jaguar roadster and then an Italia Spyder to impress people. (These days, he drives a Dodge Ram so that he can lug around the supplies he needs to make house repairs.)
"I'm kind of dull and boring, aren't I?" he says, assessing himself. "I say it almost apologetically. It would be nice if there was something — not too offensive — but something spectacular that people could say, 'Oh, yeah! I knew Trebek wasn't Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes. He had skeletons in his closet.' But there aren't."
Trebek doesn't dwell on his hardships. After his parents divorced, his mother began dating a new man and got pregnant, ultimately giving the child up for adoption. Trebek did not learn he had a half-brother until he was in his 40s and writes that he "had kind of a resentment for my mother" as a result. Still, they "settled" things long before her death at 95, which Trebek says "didn't devastate" him because he "had come to terms with it pretty well."
Of his own divorce, Trebek says in the book that he remains close with his first wife, Elaine, and considers her 53-year-old child, Nicky, his "daughter by osmosis." And when he decided to marry Jean, 24 years his junior, her father was initially dismayed, but Trebek insists there "were never any in-law problems."
It was all such plain sailing that even he used to question when the hammer was going to fall.
"And then all of a sudden you say, 'Well, wait a minute, it did fall.' A year and a half ago I'm suddenly diagnosed with one of the worst kinds of cancer, and I've been dealing with it ever since," he says solemnly. "So in a sense, 'Hey, maybe he had too much of a good thing going. Maybe he needed to be brought back down to earth and taught a lesson in that bad things can happen to good people too. So here it is, Alex. Deal with it.'"
Trebek is candid in writing about the toll cancer has taken on his body. In one particularly moving section, he reveals that one day on set his stomach cramps were so excruciating that he collapsed on the floor of his dressing room, crying and writhing in pain. Producers suggested they cancel the taping, but he insisted he continue working — something that has, inexplicably, helped to ease his physical ailments.
"I just cried, because you don't want anyone you know or love to be in pain," Schmidt says of walking in on Trebek that day. "Most of the time his pains were very sharp and intense, but they didn't last a long time, so he knew it would pass. And the minute he walked on stage, nobody out in the audience or the contestants knew he had a problem. I defy you to watch one of those shows and say, 'This is a day he was in pain.'"
In two weeks, Trebek plans to return to the set, where there will be no audience and contestants will be separated by partitions and more than six feet of distance. He recently started a new immunotherapy program developed by NantKwest, whose chief executive is Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Times. But if the program fails to improve his health, he writes in his memoir that he has already told his family he'll "probably stop treatment."
"There is an end to all," he says in a straightforward tone. "Dying is part of life. And, hey, guys, it comes with the territory. So hang in there as long as you can, and let's see what happens."
As for the book, he still has mixed feelings. After a pause, he says he is glad he wrote it, but quickly counters that he feels it could have been better if he'd had more time to put it together.
"But what I'm discovering from people who have read the book — and a lot of it unsolicited — is that they like it," he said. "And so I guess I've accomplished what I wanted to. I've made people feel good. And I'm going to help a lot of good charities. I just want people to say, 'He's a good guy. Now I know why I like him.'"
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Brevard County Sheriff's K9 Tebow Sniffs Out Cash Stash After Bank Robbery Perp Hides In Woods
By Wayne Ivey, Brevard County Sheriff // March 5, 2018
BCSO K9 Tebow is trained to alert on currency
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Recently the Space Coast Credit Union in Port St. John was robbed after a man passed a note to the teller demanding money.
The suspect was arrested less than an hour later when he was located trying to hide from Deputies in a heavily wooded area near the bank.
The uncooperative suspect refused to tell the Agents where the money he had stolen could be located as he was not in possession of the currency at the time of his arrest.
With the suspect in custody, Agents from our North Precinct General Crimes Unit directed their efforts to recover the stolen currency.
Beginning in the area where the suspect was apprehended, Agents began combing the wooded area in hopes of locating the money.
Agents reached out for K-9 assistance and K9 Corporal Jerry Shealy and his partner "Tebow" responded to assist in searching the area during the afternoon and early evening. K-9 "Tebow" is trained to alert on currency and is relatively new to our agency.
While the immediate search proved to be unsuccessful, Deputy Shealy refused to give up and subsequently returned to the area the following morning to continue searching for the stolen money.
Armed with additional information that Agents had gained through further investigation, the K9 team was able to narrow the large area to be searched.
The team's diligence proved successful as K9 "Tebow" located the money that had been hidden by the suspect.
Due to the successful teamwork of the handler, his K9 partner, and members of North GCU, the entire amount of stolen currency was located and returned to the bank.
Please join me in congratulating Jerry and K-9 "Tebow" on a job well done and for refusing to give up.
– Sheriff Wayne Ivey


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In his 1999 declaration in the Wollersheim case, David Miscavige argued that his authority does not come from being Captain of the Sea Org. Instead, Miscavige propounds the falsehood that he only runs RTC, the "ecclesiastical" aspect of the Church.
This begs the question: From where did Miscavige derive his power to negotiate legal and financial matters with the IRS if he is only an ecclesiastical official? Technically speaking, only ED INT has the power to represent CSI in legal matters.
Categories: The Scientology Money Project


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(a) The board may make, purchase, or participate with financial institutions in making or purchasing small business development loans not exceeding $1,000,000 in principal amount with respect to small business loans made or purchased by the board and not exceeding $1,000,000 principal amount with respect to the board's share when the board participates in making or purchasing small business loans.
(b) With respect to loans that the board makes or purchases or participates in, the board may determine or provide for their servicing, the percentage of board participation, if any, the times the loans or participations are payable and the amounts of payment, their amount and interest rates, their security, if any, and other terms, conditions, and provisions necessary or convenient in connection with them and may enter into all necessary contracts and security instruments in connection with them. The board may enter into commitments to purchase or participate with financial institutions or other persons upon the terms, conditions, and provisions determined by it. Loans or participations may be serviced by financial institutions or other persons designated by the board.
(c) The board shall obtain the best available security for all loans. The board may provide for or require the insurance or guaranteeing of the loans or board participations in whole or in part by the federal government or a department, agency, or instrumentality of it, by an appropriate board account, or by a private insurer.
The following eligible small businesses have preference among all business applicants for small business development loans:
(1) businesses located in rural areas of the state that are experiencing the most severe unemployment rates in the state;
(2) businesses that are likely to expand and provide additional permanent employment in rural areas of the state, or enhance the quality of existing jobs in those areas;
(3) businesses located in border communities that experience a competitive disadvantage due to location;
(4) businesses that have been unable to obtain traditional financial assistance due to a disadvantageous location, minority ownership, or other factors rather than due to the business having been considered a poor financial risk;
(5) businesses that utilize state resources and reduce state dependence on outside resources, and that produce products or services consistent with the long-term social and economic needs of the state; and
(6) businesses located in border city enterprise zones, as described in section 469.166.
A business applying for a loan must be sponsored by a resolution of the governing body of the local governmental unit within whose jurisdiction the project is located. For purposes of this paragraph, "local governmental unit" means a home rule charter or statutory city when the project is located in an incorporated area, a county when the project is located in an unincorporated area, or an American Indian tribal council when the project is located within a federally recognized American Indian reservation or community.
If the board determines that an eligible small business is eligible for special assistance, the $1,000,000 limitation established in subdivision 1 does not apply.
An eligible small business is not eligible to receive special assistance unless the board has passed a resolution designating the eligible small business as being in need of special assistance. The resolution must include findings that the designation and receipt of the special assistance will be of exceptional benefit to the state of Minnesota in that at least three of the following criteria are met:
(1) to expand or remain in Minnesota, the eligible small business has demonstrated that it cannot obtain suitable financing from other sources;
(2) special assistance will enable an eligible small business not currently located in Minnesota to locate a facility in Minnesota that directly increases the number of jobs in the state;
(3) the eligible small business will create or retain significant numbers of jobs in a Minnesota community;
(4) the eligible small business has a significant potential for growth in jobs or economic activities in Minnesota during the ensuing five-year period; and
(5) the eligible small business will maintain a significant level of productivity in Minnesota during the ensuing five-year period.
[Repealed, 1988 c 615 s 7]
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes


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Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is renowned for his ability to switch between genres with relative ease, with past successes including Jude (1996), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and The Killer Inside Me (2010). His latest venture is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's penultimate novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles set in present day India and stars Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Roshan Seth.
Trishna (Pinto) is the eldest daughter of a rickshaw driver, living in an improvised part of India. Her life is changed dramatically when she crosses paths with Jay (Ahmed), the son of a wealthy hotel developer. Jay is taking his visiting British friends on a sightseeing trip around India, with their excursion leading them to a temple in a distant outpost town. It's here that our two central protagonists meet, with Trishna dancing as part of a show in the hotel Jay's friends are staying in.
Trishna's striking beauty doesn't go unnoticed and Jay becomes instantly transfixed with her. Going to great lengths to see her again, he orchestrates things so that she's offered a job in one of his father's hotels. Needless to say a romance soon begins to blossom, however, what initially looks like transpiring into a classic love story between a wealthy out-of-towner and a modest lower class girl soon takes a turn for the worse – leading to a series of uncomfortably degrading encounters.
Trishna is Winterbottom's third Hardy adaptation (Jude and The Claim [2000]) and he's clearly a director who understands the meaning behind Hardy's literary works. Choosing India as a setting for this tale of conflict between traditionalism and romance allows the film to appear contemporary without losing any of the gravitas of the source material's themes whilst simultaneously maintaining the book's core narrative devices.
Obviously there have been concessions made and the story focuses solely on Jay and Trishna's relationship to make sure the film never becomes overbearingly complex. Winterbottom has also amplified the Victorian book's timid sexuality to bring it in line with our modern standing towards sex, visually encapsulating the stories powerful issues of virtue, identity and innocence.
Winterbottom's simplistic approach to directing allows the scenery's vivid colours to fill the screen and enhance the vibrancy of India's often hectic towns and cities. This subdued approach culminates in the few sporadic moments of camera trickery resonating with great effect and allowing the film's climatic final act to feel all the more dramatic.
Pinto is superb; however, the same can't be said for the rest of the cast – who appear wooden and awkward within their roles; especially Ahmed, who is by far the weakest link. Trishna, much like Winterbottom's previous film The Killer Inside Me, also contains an overbearing degree of misogyny that whilst clearly required to advance the plot (and in no way as physically violent as his previous work), creates a thoroughly uncomfortable viewing experience that removes the viewer from this harrowing tale.
Trishna is a beautifully-shot film that sadly fails to connect on the right emotional level. As modern literary adaptations go the film masterfully captures the essence of its source material, yet fails to effectively convey it in an engrossing fashion, with the film's second half feeling far too illogical and out of sync with what goes before – resulting in a peculiarly dull tale of romance that lacks any substantial passion.
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