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Just passed the 13,000 word mark on my current book about Machiavelli and municipal politics, this weekend. So far, I have gone through explanations of Chapters 1-10 of The Prince. The Prince has 26 chapters, so I'm about 40% of the way through my analysis, more or less on track for a 35,000-40,000 word book.
It's a little tough in places trying to fit Machiavelli's words and ideas to modern issues and themes, but so far I think I've done a fair job of finding relevant metaphors, issues and events. The next chapter, on ecclesiastical states, might be a bit of a stretch, since their relevance today is minimal, so I suspect I'll need to conflate a couple of chapters here.
[pullquote]It's a little tough in places trying to fit Machiavelli's words and ideas to modern issues and themes. [/pullquote]I hope to have the core material written over the next two weeks.I'm working with several translations of The Prince, but the core material I'm quoting comes from the public domain Marriott translation. It's a bit of a stodgy version and isn't broken into paragraphs for easy reading. Fortunately for me, I have a print version that is, so it's a bit easier to find material and to read.
Once the basic overview of The Prince is complete, I'll bring in selections from The Discourses to bolster my arguments, as well as throwing in some quotes from Sun Tzu, Han Fei Tzu and one of my favourite books on leadership – Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. Then I'll try to add a few examples from Canadian municipal politics to it. Toronto these days seems to have a wealth of stories.
I want this to be about the same size as my last two books, so I have to try to focus and not be too long-winded.
One of the books I've been reading recently while doing this is Maurizio Viroli's Niccolo's Smile, an excellent and highly entertaining biography of Machiavelli. Understanding the events that shaped his life makes it easier to understand Machiavelli's political theories.
I've also been reading books and online essays/articles about Machiavelli's political theories, ethics, and morals. Some have been a bit densely pedantic (is that an oxymoron?), but others have given me some material to consider.
Well, back to work… 1,000 words a day is my minimum target and the day's not getting longer.


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There was once a woman who never smiled. Her name was Bao Si and she was a concubine to a king of the Zhou dynasty, which flourished in China after 1000 BCE. The king wanted so much to see her smile that he scoured the kingdom for entertainers and performing animals; not a flicker of amusement crossed her face. Then one day a bonfire was ignited, a signal of emergency. Troops poured into the capital in battle array, only to be stopped short and told that the fire had been lit by accident. At this Bao Si smiled; in fact, she began to laugh. Keen to repeat his success, the king had bonfires lit over and over again. His troops stopped paying attention to the signals; so when the invaders came, the king was driven out, and the dynasty was at an end.
It's a story emblematic of so much else in Marilyn French's vast four-volume history of women. A twitch of a woman's lip causes the fall of a nation. On the one hand she is sickeningly, destructively powerful. One the other hand she is a chattel, a beast, a commodity, she and her sisters are "human incubators." In the Assyrian empire, which flourished from 1300 BCE, she could be impaled for aborting the child she is carrying. For lesser offenses she could be beaten or disfigured behind closed doors, but if her master wanted to mutilate her permanently—cut off her ears or nose, or tear out her breasts—he had to do it in public; though whether for the sake of example or for the general enjoyment, French does not say. She could be punished at various times and places for going veiled, or not going veiled. She could be sold, pawned, or prostituted.
In Aristotle's thought, French says, women were "deformed" men. In feudal Japan they were barred from climbing Mount Fuji because they would pollute it, and "unhappily married women were expected to commit suicide." A Buddhist text describes woman as the "emissary of hell." Her oppression is universal, her story cyclical; construed less as a human being than as an animal or force of nature, her place is outside history.
Even when records begin, most women have no names. At best they are just "wife of" or "daughter of" some illustrious man. A few stand out—they are famous for being almost erased, like Sappho, or startlingly wicked, like Messalina, or they perpetrate shocking violence on a man, like Jael killing Sisera by putting a nail through his head; or like Ruth the Moabite, they offer a pattern of exemplary gentleness, approved by men. If somehow a woman does manage to impose herself on the culture, her achievements will be appropriated by men or dismissed as freakish, a problem expressed pithily in the seventeenth century by Anne Bradstreet, the New England Puritan poet:
If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'l say its stoln, or else it was by chance.
In the nineteenth century, women's skulls were measured and their brains were weighed, and found wanting. For the criminologists Lombroso and Ferrero, women were big, vicious children. Through much of recorded history they have been slaves, though in some eras "rhetoric granted them the status of angels." Arguing for women's moral superiority can be a way of keeping them in their place—a way of removing them from the civil space, where power corrupts, to the supposed purity of the private sphere.
The home, French observes, is seen as women's natural territory, but is also "the primary site of female prosecution," the place where she is most unsafe. Sometimes the only power a woman has is to kill herself. In east African traditional societies women committed "cooking pot suicide," poisoning themselves and taking their children with them. Sometimes a woman is more powerful dead than alive. In the China of the Han dynasty, if an unhappy wife killed herself wearing her red bridal dress, she would haunt the husband's family and they would have to move house.
There was an Eve, Marilyn French tells us, a universal mother born in Africa; not the first woman that ever was, but the first to pass her DNA on to her daughters, who had daughters in their turn. French's attempt to trace her story took fifteen years and originally ran to ten thousand pages. She has worked very hard to make it inclusive and to avoid history predicated on Western assumptions. It is a sorry tale and, by necessity, summary: at one point the author tells us, "These 3000 years were hard for everyone." A project of this size has a life of its own; just as it escapes the power of one writer to hold the subject together, so the books escape any single person's assessment.
French has been supplied, her introduction tell us, with a mass of material by specialist scholars; a reviewer can only stand in place of the general reader and ask, is this interesting, is this convincing, does this seem true? Every page has something fascinating to tell; the credibility of these fascinating things varies; the reader is often uneasy, without being able precisely to pinpoint an error. Margaret Atwood, who supplies a foreword to the four volumes, sounds impressed by the effort but also bemused:
Men who read it might be put off by the depiction of the collective male as brutal psychopath, or puzzled by French's idea that men should "take responsibility for what their sex has done." (How responsible can you be for Sumerian monarchs, Egyptian pharaohs, or Napoleon Bonaparte?)
French recognizes that "control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men," but she also takes gender oppression to be the fundamental oppression, and "primary, whatever the agenda of a culture."
Volume I, Origins, looks for the earliest evidence of women's lives. It comes from bones, flints, and shards; then from carvings and cave paintings. How can we know anything about the lives of our foremothers? We can look at the few Stone Age societies that still exist, to see how they order themselves. We can recall myths of origin in which goddesses precede gods. We can take our evidence from the primates we observe today. We know from studying apes, French says, that mothering is learned behavior. Ape babies separated early from their mothers don't know how to mother their own offspring; in the same way, not just in urban ghettos and trailer parks but in palaces, human mothers who have themselves been neglected or abused pass to the next generation an inheritance of physical or emotional abuse.
French points to what she takes to be a misunderstanding, very early in human history: mothering was taken to be innate, an instinctive activity. In cases where mothers violate this instinct, they can be punished and their children taken away. Once the link between coitus and childbirth was understood, French says, men began to regard children as their property. In her view, all patrilineal societies stand condemned: "Naming children for fathers is intrinsically an act of force: it reverses natural mother-right." Sometime before the development of writing, the shift took place from matrilineal to patrilineal societies, then to patriarchy. The war against women began, the long battle to control their sexuality, which necessitates control of their bodies and minds.
In Volume I the civilizations sail by—the Middle East in biblical times, Greece, Rome. Generalities can be very dull, and there are few particulars. In states isolated from one another in time and space, there are similar laws to control women. For a while it looks as if religion will change the pattern of oppression. Jesus chose to have women disciples, regarding them as equally capable of salvation. "Prisca of Corinth hypothesized that, in the Second Coming, Jesus would return as a woman." Female saints were famous for their spectacular martyrdoms, and ladies and their slaves, like Perpetua and Felicity, died together in the arena. Religious communities of women governed themselves, but such independence became an object of suspicion. Some exceptional women resisted suppression of their talents—women like Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth-century scientist, writer, and composer, or the mystic Julian of Norwich. But Christian doctrine evolved to exclude women, to stigmatize the very notion of the feminine: "The Trinity procreates without the female—without body, blood, ooze, without nature, and superior to it."
The final chapter of Volume I deals with Islam, where the pattern is repeated; women are powerful in the formative stages of belief systems that, once established, turn on them and oppress them. The young Muhammad married his woman boss, Khadija, who urged him to trust his visions. French emphasizes the early radicalism of Islam, with its "demand for social justice and an assertion of human equality." It is true, she says, that misogyny gathered pace in the generations after the Prophet's death, but she isn't ready to let the Prophet off the hook: "the constraints imposed by later generations," she says, "grew from woman-hating or woman-fearing rules introduced by Muhammad himself." A disjunction occurs between theory and practice. "Qur'anic prescriptions that benefited men were followed; those that did not were ignored." The revolts of Muslim women are, she suggests, expunged from the record.
In Volume II she shows how "England, Germany, and France accomplished in a few hundred years what Mesopotamia, China, and India took thousands of years to achieve: turning women into property." The impression is of horror and waste—the brutal toll of childbearing and infant mortality, toil and pain, with 90 percent of women employed as laborers on the land. The volume also tells us about famous women, like Eleanor of Aquitaine, and alludes to women whose achievements have been assimilated into those of men, like "Tycho Brahe's sister." The emphasis seems misplaced; French uses up her space on the well-known Eleanor, rather than tell us more about the scientist Sophie Brahe, the astronomer's second sister.
As the seventeenth century progresses, the dawning notion of rights for men doesn't necessarily ameliorate the situation for women; liberties seen as desirable for men to exercise are not desirable for their wives and daughters. Mary Astell (1666–1731) writes, "Is it not…partial in men to the last degree to contend for and practice that arbitrary dominion in their families which they abhor and exclaim against in the state?"
But sometimes the women are false to themselves. Members of Dahomey's female army insisted that "we are men, not women," a confusion that has beset many high-achieving women in every era. French is not sentimental about women's natural solidarity. In Japan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "to eat, one had to obey," and the hierarchy of oppression she describes sounds like the template for many others, ancient and modern:
A woman was subject to her father in youth, her husband in marriage, and her son in widowhood. But that was the theory; in practice she was subject to her parents in youth, her bullying mother-in-law in marriage, and, in widowhood, she in turn bullied her daughter-in-law.
Women beware women; in Volume IV, French will explain the Indian mother-in-law's role in "a new form of capital accumulation"—the disposal of brides whose dowry has proved unsatisfactory. A girl is held over a cooking stove, her sari catches fire, and the murder is explained as an accident.
Irresistibly anecdotal, French describes the European appropriation of North America, highlighting Jesuit testimony to the gentle and egalitarian societies of Native Americans: "Indians never imagined rape until they saw Europeans perform it." If true, this challenges the assumptions to which the rest of her project leads us—assumptions not just about men and women, but about how the strong exert power over the weak. Was Abigail Adams wrong when she said, "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could…. That your sex is naturally tyrannical is a truth so thor- oughly established as to admit of no dispute"?
It was, French argues, the chosen task of the Church to suppress egalitarianism in Native American society and to teach men to be brutal to their women. She tells us this with great conviction, and here and elsewhere she amply demonstrates that the Catholic Church is one of the most effective misogyny machines ever devised. So, in her confused and error-strewn section on the French Revolution, perhaps the most surprising opinion is that women of the era stood by the Catholic Church because it "exalted nurture and valued the contribution of women."
As we move into the nineteenth century we have a much fuller record of women's lives, generated by the women themselves and seen here against the background of a larger story of reform. Women become "actors in their own play." In Volume III, French calls this century "the lowest point in women's history" but also "the most cheering period in female history, the moment the tide began to turn." In the rapidly industrializing West, women's capacities are proclaimed to be exactly what economic need requires them to be at any particular time. Oppression puts on a mask of concern. Is it not an erosion of women's natural rights, employers ask, to try to protect them (and their children) from the long hours and filthy conditions of labor in factories and mines, when their men are not so protected? And if the cheap labor of women and children is not available to owners, will not enterprises fail, making men, the support of their families, destitute too?
In this way, working men and women are set against each other. Work performed outside the factory system, because it does not produce a profit, is now seen as worthless; housekeeping and childcare require no economic recompense nor recognition of their public value. Women must be careful when men praise them:
In a world devoted to power, the belief that women are by nature more humane and compassionate, less aggressive and acquisitive than men, justifies the status quo and its division of power.
In nineteenth-century America, "the rhetoric of achieved revolution" con- ceals vast sexual and racial inequalities. Woman is no longer cast as diabolically sexy; now she is asexual, and responsible for regulating men's desire. In her, desire is abnormal; uterine function dominates mental function; too much thinking is bad for reproductive health; and "all exclusively female physical functions were considered inherently pathological."
French's range of reference is so vast, her examples so various, that you get the best from her history only by reading the volumes end to end in one Stakhanovite enterprise. In the annals of African countries she finds women war leaders who also have spiritual gifts, and women who can only assert themselves by displaying supernatural powers and trading on the uncanny. The reader thinks of Joan of Arc. We read of African spirit mediums who became rich, and long for French to cross-refer to their American and European equivalents, and to the mediums, spiritualists, and hysterics of nineteenth-century psychopathology. But the linear nature of the narrative refuses connections, and time and again wobbly detail saps the reader's faith.
Sometimes French's history is more pleasing and picturesque than what really occurred. Writing of the suffragists in Britain, she recalls that "as the king rode to the Derby, Emily Wilding Davison hurled herself in front of his horse crying 'Votes for Women!'" The idea of the careless monarch trampling his subjects is wonderfully enraging; in fact, Davison ran onto the track in front of a racehorse belonging to the king, and whether she was a suicide, as French claims later, is debatable.
What would have happened if French had used Davison, for example, as a case study? She would have found out that Holloway College is in Egham, not Oxford, as she writes, and Westfield College is in London, not Cambridge. She would have been able to highlight pertinent issues about the most effective forms of political protest, and she would have found a way through the thicket of detail. Suppose she had written in more depth about Emma Goldman or Sojourner Truth, or selected as case studies any of the inspiring women who flit through her pages? The recorded history of women, as opposed to the imagined history of women, is a history of exceptionalism; so what would she have lost? Her book would then have been more like other books, but perhaps more moving, useful, and accurate than it is as it stands.
The last chapter of the third volume, "The War Against Women," has a savage and gloomy tone. Passing on to the twentieth century, French tells us, "The underprivileged won some battles, but the privileged have won the war—so far." Where did this war originate? In the last volume she refers to "men's deep unacknowledged hatred of women"—in the barrage of names and dates that precede this reference, in the endless parade of events, we miss the pause needed to reflect on this "hatred," and it is a reflection needed to pull the whole project together.
The inner landscape of human beings is not on display in these volumes. You would think they were all surface, all show, that through history they said what they meant and meant what they said. French is well aware of the difference between rhetoric about society and what actually happens in the street or in the home, or in the marketplace where labor is sold. "We do not know the facts of behavior," she admits; but the admission doesn't move her to scrutinize her own examples more skeptically.
The truth is that even when a people is, in theory, able to inscribe its own story on the record, "happiness writes white." We are faced with the perplexity inherent in all social studies, that the moneyed and educated classes command media and culture, while those of the lower social classes who make it onto the record do so because they've moved the social conscience of the reformer or attracted the attention of the policeman, because they're recalcitrant or a troublemaker or a hard case, or the exception that proves the rule. French's examples from literature and art are equivocal; the gap between rhetoric and performance never opens wider than when we are told that Shelley is the "feminists' favorite poet." It's hard not to imagine the hand of his drowned first wife reaching out of the Serpentine, groping for a pen to tell her side of the story.
Looking back on the political upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, French tells us:
No revolutionary struggle, no matter how vocal its commitment to sexual equality, actually achieved it; no matter how strongly revolutionary leaders advocated women's rights before or during armed conflict, none accepted women as equals once it was won. Women's experience in struggle had local particularities, but men's treatment of women as a caste after the struggle is over is strikingly similar from nation to nation.
Socialism failed women, she says, "because it could not break with the idea of male superiority." Like the nascent religions of earlier times, reformist and revolutionary movements have woman as the yeast in their mixture, activists fizzing with idealism and hope; when the reform is won, the revolution made, women find themselves back at the bottom of the heap. She describes the contribution of women to the Algerian independence struggle; after independence was won, "Algeria's rulers insisted that women's place was making couscous."
The twenty-first century she calls "Dawn." The section on the history of feminism is admirably concise, clear, and free of jargon. For the rest, a note of triumphalism and a note of complaint are sustained side by side, often in the same paragraph. Feminism has "changed the discourse" and yet "even intellectual men write about history and literature as if feminism had never occurred." She ends with a chapter on the future of feminism, in which she stresses its radical nature: that it is "a living entity," not a dogma, and one that offers an alternative model to top-down social organization. Feminism is often misunderstood; people think it is about putting women where men are now, but "the ultimate goal of feminism is to change society." The design is to create a cooperative world, a task that will not be achieved in a few generations; to do it we will have to free ourselves from the grip of history, from the assumptions of the societies in which we have grown up. The task is to convince the world that "sexism brings men…emotional and biological loss." She says, "feminism brings joy to people's heart—it is truly a gospel, a good news."
It's in the nature of French's enterprise that it suffers from the length of time taken to complete it. In this book, Robert Mugabe's depredations have not yet ruined Zimbabwe. The trafficking of women for sex is a problem mainly for Southeast Asia. No author can help her book becoming out of date. But neither is it the case that any old story will do, and French does like to believe old stories. It's a long time since scholars thought that Henry VIII died of syphilis or that droit du seigneur was a feudal right as opposed to a staple of folklore.
In French's final volume there is plenty about conferences and caucuses, nothing about pornography. She mentions AIDS in Africa without much effort to relate it to social and sexual behavior. She hasn't the space to explore the export of women's domestic labor from the developed to the developing world, a form of exploitation highlighted by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild in their 2003 book Global Woman. She does not discuss the new reproductive technologies that, in theory anyway, alter the biological imperatives that have governed women's lives since the world began. The glossary provided for Volume I includes some limp definitions that get us nowhere; better leave a complex topic alone than define "Manichaean" as meaning "seeing good and evil as utterly separate opposites."
French's commitment is never in doubt; it's her furious haste, her attack, her very lack of style that seem to guarantee her integrity. This, surely, is what many of us said in the 1970s about her most famous novel, The Women's Room, which many women credit as a life-changing book, as others look to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook or to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. The fact that a serious writer with so little dramatic flair launched herself into fiction seemed, in itself, to attest to how urgently she needed to sway opinion.
The profound earnestness that informs her fiction must have been summoned again to carry through this vast undertaking. But here, the imprecision of French's style makes muddles. She says, for instance, that the UK Representation of the People Act of 1918 (which allowed some women the vote and created universal manhood suffrage) extended suffrage to "all men who had fought in the war"—which is to confuse the political impetus behind the act with what the legislation actually achieved. She suggests that at the time of the Black Death women began to outlive men "perhaps because women as a caste developed resistance to the plague." The reader who originally frowned at the phrase "women as a caste" will have been bludgeoned into submission by its brutal repetition; still, the notion of an immunological caste needs some explanation.
So often, French seems to have committed herself to paper without pursuing the logic of her claims: in what way can the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Bill be said to have "eased divorce for the poor," since it left divorce a costly and complex legal business that the poor could not afford? Sometimes her choice of terms, though justifiable in the narrow sense, is odd: to use "anarchy" instead of "anarchism" seems to invite the popular misconception about their ideals that anarchists through the years have fought to dispel.
On that topic, one of her personal and revealing assumptions is that "most people do not like authority and do not feel that others have the right to authority over them." Is that historically true, or is it wishful thinking by someone who would prefer history to be different? If you extrapolate from animal behavior, as French does in Volume I, to draw out truths about human nature, you cannot overlook the fact that most social animals are hierarchical and that the urge to conformity has been a powerful shaping force in human affairs.
It must be said that the enterprise is on a heroic scale, and consistently thought-provoking. "What we are talking about when we talk about 'women's issues' is life itself," she says. Yet to live within these books is to walk through a vast graveyard where the dead are not buried yet—atrocity and injustice flow from master to slave, colonialist to colonized, regardless of gender. There is no subtlety here, no irony, and little forgiveness. From earliest history to the twenty-first century, French has taken us on a terrible journey. She quotes a Buddhist text: "Her face resembles that of a saint; her heart is like that of a demon…. A woman has no home in the three worlds." French explains, "she does not exist in the past, present, or future." Her battle is just to become visible; to be accorded full humanity, not to be regarded as some transient natural phenomenon, or an animal created for male use.
At the end of the story, French grubs up some optimism: as Margaret Atwood says, "she insists on hope." Atwood herself seems to doubt the promised "dawn." Dubious about the future of humanity on a fragile planet, she says, "in practice, it may be a scramble for the lifeboats." If that's so, we're unlikely to hear the old cry of "women and children first."
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Particularly in urban areas, loud or repetitive exterior noises can be a source of stress and a risk factor for certain health outcomes. Studies show that individuals exposed to traffic noise have a higher risk for diabetes, stroke and heart attack, and those exposed to road traffic and aircraft noises have a higher risk for hypertension. In addition, exposure to noise can lead to reduced reaction time and increased levels of annoyance. Preventing excessive exterior noise from reaching building interiors can help improve occupant comfort and well-being.
Each regularly occupied space meets the following sound pressure level when the space and adjacent spaces are unoccupied:
Spaces equal to or less than 1,900 m² [20,000 ft²]: average sound pressure level from outside noise intrusion is less than or equal to 35 dBA.
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Oldest pteranodon found, according to ScienceDaily 1 March 2011. The bones of the left wing of a pteranodon have been found in Texas by an amateur fossil hunter and identified by Timothy Myers of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Meyers estimates the creature had a wing span between 3.6 to 4 meters (12 to 13 feet). The bones showed signs of being broken when they were buried. Meyers described them: "We know it was disarticulated when it was buried because the bones weren't preserved in correct anatomical position. Abrupt truncation of the broken end of one of the bones and infilling of the break with sediment also indicates that the breakage and disarticulation took place prior to burial". He went on to say: "Any pterosaur material is fairly rare to find unless you have exceptional preservation conditions. They are frail, fragile bones, and they require rapid burial to be well preserved". The fossil was found in rocks dated as 89 million years old, making it the oldest pteranodon in North America, and possibly the oldest in the world. A pteranodon of similar age has been found in England.
Pteranodons are large pterosaurs – flying reptiles. They are believed to have evolved as small toothed creatures about 200 million years ago and then evolved into large toothless creatures about 100 million years ago.
Editorial Comment: Pterosaurs, or flying reptiles, are some of the strangest creatures to have lived on earth. All known pterosaurs of any evolutionary age in the fossil record are of fully formed winged creatures, some with teeth and some without, but all distinctly different from any known fossil or living walking reptile. According to evolution they evolved from non-flying reptiles, but this belief is not based on fossil evidence of change and is held purely by faith. Their fossil record actually fits the Biblical history of the world much better, i.e. they were created as separate distinct kinds and reproduced after their kind until the world degenerated so much they could no longer survive. (Ref. pterodactyls, pterosaurus, palaeontology)
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On 23 November 2012 Infradata was declared the winner of the Golden FD Gazellen Award in South Holland. This is not the first time that the network integrator for the service provider market has been on this prestigious list. This year, Infradata is celebrating its fifth FD Gazellen anniversary; the company has been among the Netherlands' fastest-growing companies for the past five years.
In recent years, Infradata has achieved profitable revenue growth of over 20% per year. This puts Infradata among the top fastest and continuously growing companies in the Netherlands.Leon de Keijzer, CEO of Infradata: 'We are climbing higher on the FD Gazellen list every year because we are able to continue our growth every year. It's great that we were this year's winner in our region. We couldn't ask for a nicer confirmation of our performance. I especially want to thank all of the Infradata employees, who have been able to achieve a fantastic customer experience due to their dedication and expertise. This award is a splendid reward for this.'
Infradata will continue its growth strategy in 2013 as well. The trends that Infradata will intensely continue to capitalise on are the transition from traditional mobile networks to IP networks, the development of cloud services and the support of on-demand content for television and Internet. In the Netherlands, the company will expand with new propositions for media, content and payment service providers and utilities. Internationally, the organisation will continue to grow vigorously in Belgium and Poland.
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A poem:
Today was long.
So long, I am broken.
Tomorrow will be shorter,
with hotdogs & brats.
But when others are eating,
I will be starving.
Because I have to wait
for corn dogs instead.
A poem:
Today was long.
So long, I am broken.
Tomorrow will be shorter,
with hotdogs & brats.
But when others are eating,
I will be starving.
Because I have to wait
for corn dogs instead.
Have sweet corn dog dreams
The night's shorter than it seems
Soon a wakin' you will be
And covered in treats big and wee
Not only that a but FURiends arrive
Ready to see you, Puglet, alive
Love Noodles
Oh Pug! Your poem is sad, but your picture is VERY very cute. Hang in there buddy!
We are so sorry that you are broken. Get some rest and tell your human to do the same, so she does not get broken too.
Luv, Zoey & Phoebe
Good night, Puglet. Rest your little pug paws.
You've been such a good Pug-bassador on this project. It can't be easy watching all these pugs go off with your human, coming back all smiles and smelling like your treats. You deserve a medal - or at least a mountain of hotdogs and bacon.
You hang in there. That corn dog is going to be so good, you'll never look the same way at a regular hotdog again.
Corn dogs are yum-mo and worth the wait. Out daddy human lets us have some, much to mommy humans disgust. Enjoy your rest and corn dogs!
Bouncer and chaos....
Puglet, Your poem is breaking my heart. xxx
Your poem was beautiful. A little bit zen, part sonnet, and some ee cummings in a subdued manner.
How amazing:)
Mocha Barney, Ashley Pumpernickel and Winniechurchill
Oh puglet we wanted to cry but it's for your health, we want u around for a long time!
I will mail you a corndog.
Love, Daisy
I will mail you a corndog.
Love, Daisy
Oh Puglet, corn dogs are good too! You look so sweet in that picture!
We know you will get more than just a corn dog... Hope you had fun time at the Pugfest. We know there are many DP friends at the shoot : )
Poor poor pitiful pug...:(
Jack's Mom
Hugs to you Pug! You look so sweet sleeping, certainly dreaming of yummy foodables :)
Meredith & Scarlet
Sleep little puglet
Sleep fast in your bed
While visions of corn dogs
dance in your head
Awake in the morning
unbroken to the sun
and face the day
for lots more pug fun
Roxi, Riley & Lea
LOL...you are too funny Puglet! Hope you got that corndog!! And way to go Jersey Shore Puggles by sending your own poem.


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Stephen Lendman Date: March 5, 2013 Subject: Imperialism Imperial America's in Good Hands with Philip Gordon
by Stephen Lendman
He's an American diplomat. He's a foreign policy specialist. He's Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. His portfolio includes 50 countries. He's moving on. More on that below.
He serves US imperial interests. They include international security, NATO, coordinating with EU nations and regional organizations, counterterrorism, and nonproliferation.
"From the beginning of the Obama administration," he said, "we've made a deliberate and conscious effort to strengthen our ties with Europe and to work with our most important allies around the world on global issues."
Imperial ones are prioritized. He stopped short saying so. His new position includes them. He's Washington man in an important part of the world. He's Israel's man at State.
On March 2, the White House announced his appointment. He'll join Obama's National Security Staff. He'll do so on March 11.
He's his new Special Assistant. He's also White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and Gulf Region. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said:
"Phil has been a key member of President Obama's foreign policy team for the past four years, and his work with our European Allies and partners has been indispensable in helping us to formulate policy and address issues around the globe, including Libya, Syria and Iran."
Add Israel to his portfolio. He'll prioritize its interests. George Mitchell did earlier as Obama's Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. So did Dennis Ross under Clinton, Bush and Obama. Committed Zionists alone are appointed. The more hardline, militant, and anti-Iranian, the more eligible. Gordon's resume qualifies him.
From 1999 - 2009, he was Brookings Institution senior fellow. It's a longtime imperial tool. It's reliably pro-Israeli. It's militantly anti-Iranian. It reports what Washington wants to hear.
It's trustees, senior fellows and experts include a rogue's gallery of extremists. They turn truth on its head. They're well paid to do so. Gordon did for a decade. He contributes to major scoundrel media publications. They welcome his views. They reflect power politics.
He held teaching and lecturing positions at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. IISS calls itself "a world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict."
He also taught and lectured at INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) and the German Council for Foreign Policy (DGAP).
INSEAD calls itself "The Business School for the World." It's allied with Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
DGAP is an applied research think tank. It focuses on foreign policy political, economic, scientific and national security issues.
During his 2008 campaign, Gordon was Obama's senior foreign policy advisor.
In its September/October 2008 issue, The American Interest published his article headlined "Obama's Foreign Policy Options."
Are Americans better off then than earlier, he asked? Not at all, he said. "(T)he world is more dangerous. America's enemies are stronger and more numerous, and our international standing is vastly diminished."
He disingenuously called democracy the centerpiece of Washington's foreign policy. It stalled or reversed in the Middle East, Russia and Latin America, he claimed.
At the same time, America's popularity hit all-time lows. "Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders remain at large, and major terrorist attacks around the world proliferated."
He turned truth on its head saying so. He called "these unwelcome developments" not entirely Bush's fault. Who then if not him? Events preceding his presidency contributed. Post-9/11, they accelerated. Obama advanced them further. Gordon perhaps knew he would if elected. Presidents prioritize advancing America's imperium. Gordon's job at State does the same thing. His tenure and positions showed he did what Washington expects. He moves on to do more.
He wants America's standing in the world improved. In 2008, he said he wanted allies "inspired (to) work willingly with us, conduct tough but serious diplomacy with adversaries, (and) seek to build national unity and international legitimacy…."
He said Obama needs "to defend traditional American interests forcefully while grappling with new issues and repairing the breach with an alienated world."
He didn't say how. It's unknown then if he knew what he knows now. Obama exceeded the worst of Bush. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's got others in mind.
Across North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Eurasia, America's more hated than ever. It's for good reason. Obama's waging war on humanity. Don't expect Gordon to explain.
He said expect Obama to "bring a new and distinctive approach to today's changed world." He's "not bound by Manichean, highly militarized thinking."
He knows "military force has a role to play in the world."
"He has called for a larger US military, advocated the deployment of at least two additional brigades to Afghanistan, and on many occasions said he would not hesitate to use force to protect US national interests."
He knows other challenges have to be addressed.
His "international background also allows him to see the world in a usefully different way." It's not clear what experience he means. He taught constitutional law, was Illinois' 13th District senator, and served less than four years as US senator before being elected president. What little he knew little about foreign policy came through his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs.
He assembled a war cabinet as president. It remains in place. New names and faces replaced old ones. Policies remain unchanged. He prioritizes national security. It means maintaining the "strongest military on the planet," he said.
He outspends all other countries combined. He has to given his priorities. War on the world defines them. He's got lots of new targets in mind. America's peace president loves war. He continues Bush's war on terror. Occupation, colonization, exploitation, and dominance follow. So do mass death, destruction, instability and human misery. Obama reinvented a Cold War with Russia. He challenges China's economic and military might.
He supports "the principle of willingness to engage directly with adversaries," said Gordon. He's more than ever inclined to do so now. He prioritizes doing it militarily. He's committed to might over right.
He'll make tactical changes accordingly. Basic strategy remains unchanged. Gordon supports it. It's belligerent, hardline and dangerous. It threatens global war. Don't expect Gordon to explain. "American foreign policy presents no easy options," he said.
"Obama and his team offer not just an opportunity for change, but for strategic intellectual coherence."
It's hard imagining what he meant. Things didn't soften. They toughened. America's more than ever belligerent. War on humanity is policy. Gordon's job is supporting it. Expect him to take full advantage.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.
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3 Simple Tricks to Boost Sales & Income
If you have the same offer with the same amount of traffic but you double conversions, then you've just doubled your sales and profits, too. Here are 3 methods to do just that.
1: What's in a Name? Everything
You pour your heart and soul into a blog post, article – even an entire book – and nothing happens.
No one reads it. No one comments. No one shares it on social media. No one buys your book.
Yet the content is excellent, it's well-written and it's entertaining.
People SHOULD be reading it.
So how do you fix it?
9 times out of 10 it's as simple as changing the title.
That's right – relaunch with another title and see if you don't do a whole lot better.
I know of one fellow (retired now) who spent his career finding under-appreciated books, buying the rights and retitling and re-releasing them.
He made a fortune doing this before the Internet blew up.
So go back and find your content that didn't do as well as it should. Polish it off, do any necessary updating, and most of all give it a new title that is irresistible.
You just might have a new bestseller on your hands.
2: Stop pushing your customers
"This is the greatest so-in-so ever and you will fall in LOVE with it, even though you don't even know what the heck it is yet…"
Let's face it – in the name of brevity and enthusiasm we tend to tell our customers what they should be doing and how they should be doing it.
We have their best interests at heart – don't' they see that?
Actually, no they don't.
Imagine someone standing on the other side of the room from you.
They're screaming at you that you should do what they say.
What's your reaction?
My reaction isn't fit to print, so I won't.
Now imagine that same person smiles at you across the room, walks over, extends their hand and introduces themselves.
Next, they start talking about this problem they have. That's funny, it's the same problem you have. And they sound just like you. They even have the same thoughts about the problem, the same worries, and fears that you have.
How do you feel? Like you just met a kindred spirit perhaps?
They invite you to walk with them, and without even thinking, you are right there with them, side by side, going for a short walk.
By the end of the walk, they've shown you how they solved their problem. You're elated. There is a solution! You ask if you can buy the solution and they graciously sell it to you.
What just happened?
Instead of feeling like someone was trying to command you to buy something, you voluntarily bought it because you wanted it.
All because they came over to where you were, talked to you in your own words and then walked with you to the solution.
That's how truly great sales work. You don't shout from the rooftops or across the room.
Instead, you go to where they are. You feel what they're feeling, say what they're thinking, and become a kindred spirit. Then you gently guide them to where you want them to go.
Use this technique in all of your sales materials and I guarantee your conversions will at least double, if not triple.
3: $40,000 a Month via Phone
Why do you suppose you see so many $10 products and so few $10,000 products?
It seems like it would be harder to sell a $10,000 product.
But what's easier – selling 1,000 $10 products, or just ONE $10,000 product?
Odds are, it's going to be much easier to sell one big product than 1,000 small ones.
John Chow opted to sell the big products and it paid off big time. In just 2 years, he grew his blog from $0 in revenue to more than $40,000 per MONTH.
To do this, he worked a whopping 2 hours per day.
And he didn't even do his own selling. Instead, he licensed a phone team to sell big-ticket items for him.
If you want to sell big-ticket products, I would highly suggest hiring or licensing a professional phone team. They're going to be able to convert prospects at a much higher rate than you can through online marketing.
Offer a free product that totally ROCKS to get the prospect's information.
Work on building that relationship and let your phone team do the rest.
And in two years? If you follow in John's footsteps, maybe you can be making $40,000 a month as well.
These are three very different methods that all have the same end goal – to increase your conversions on everything you sell. Use them wisely and the sky is the limit!


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ZDI-10-146: Apple Webkit Anchor Tag Mouse Click Event Dispatch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
August 9, 2010
10, (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
-- Affected Vendors:
-- Affected Products:
Apple Safari
-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 10141.
For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS, visit:
-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Apple Safari's Webkit. User interaction is
required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a
malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within the library's support for mouse events
on a particular element. If a mouse event is dispatched to an element
when one of it's attributes is undefined, the library will dereference a
memory pointer pointing to arbitrary data. Usage of this element can
then lead to code execution under the context of the application.
-- Vendor Response:
Apple states:
-- Disclosure Timeline:
2010-06-01 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-08-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
* wushi of team509
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By John Kincaid
When Elinor Ostrom visited Lafayette College in 2010, the number of my non-political science colleagues who announced familiarity with her work astonished me. Anthropologists, biologists, economists, engineers, environmentalists, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and others flocked to see her.
Elinor's work cut across disciplines and fields of governance because she deftly employed and developed interrelated concepts having applications in multiple settings. A key foundation of these concepts is federalism—an idea central also to the work of her mentor and husband, Vincent Ostrom.
Vincent understood federalism to be a covenantal relationship that establishes unity for collective action while preserving diversity for local self-governance by constitutionally uniting separate political communities into a limited but encompassing political community. Power is divided and shared between concurrent jurisdictions—a general government having certain nationwide duties and multiple constituent governments having broad local responsibilities. These jurisdictions both cooperate and compete. The arrangement is non-hierarchical and animated by multiple centers of power, which, often competing, exhibit flexibility and responsiveness.
From this foundation, one can understand why the Ostroms embraced the concept of polycentricity advanced in Michael Polanyi's The Logic of Liberty (1951), namely, a political or social system consisting of many decision-making centers possessing autonomous, but limited, powers that operate within an encompassing framework of constitutional rules.
This general principle can be applied to the global arena where, like true federalists, the Ostroms rejected the need for a single global institution to solve collective action problems such as environmental protection and common-pool resource management. They advocated polycentric arrangements that enable local actors to make important decisions as close to the affected situation as possible. Hence, the Ostroms also anticipated the revival of the notion of subsidiarity in European federal theory.
But polycentricity also applies to small arenas, such as irrigation districts and metropolitan areas. Elinor and Vincent worked on water governance early in their careers, and both argued that metropolitan areas are best organized polycentrically because urban services have different economies of scale, large bureaucracies have inherent pathologies, and citizens are often crucial in co-producing public services, especially policing (the subject of empirical studies by Elinor and colleagues).
The Ostroms valued largely self-organizing social systems that border on but do not topple into sheer anarchy. Anarchy is a great bugaboo of centralists, who de-value the capacity of citizens to organize for self-governance. Without expert instructions from above, citizens are headless chickens. But this centralist notion exposes citizens to the depredations of vanguard parties and budget-maximizing bureaucrats.
This is why Vincent placed Hamilton's famous statement in Federalist No. 1 at the heart of his work, namely, "whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice" rather than "accident and force." The Ostroms expressed abiding confidence in the ability of citizens to organize for self-governance in multi-sized arenas if given opportunities to reflect on their common dilemmas, make reasoned constitutional choices, and acquire resources to follow through with joint action.
Making such arrangements work also requires what Vincent especially emphasized as covenantal values, such as open communication, mutual trust, and reciprocity among the covenanted partners. Thus, polycentric governance, like federal governance, requires both good institutions and healthy processes.
As such, the Ostroms also placed great value on Alexis de Tocqueville's notion of self-interest rightly understood. Indeed, it is the process of self-organizing and engaging one's fellow citizens that helps participants to understand their self-interest rightly so as to act in collectively beneficial ways without central dictates.
Consequently, another major contribution of the Ostroms was to point out that governance choices are not limited to potentially gargantuan government regulation or potentially selfish privatization. There is a third way grounded in federalism.
John Kincaid is the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service at Lafayette College and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government. He served as Associate Editor and Editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and has written and lectured extensively on federalism and state and local government.
More on the applications and reflections on the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom can be found in this recently released special issue from Publius: The Journal of Federalism. An addition to this, Publius has also just released a free virtual collection of the most influential articles written by the Ostroms and published in Publiues over the past 23 years.
Publius: The Journal of Federalism is the world's leading journal devoted to federalism. It is required reading for scholars of many disciplines who want the latest developments, trends, and empirical and theoretical work on federalism and intergovernmental relations.
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I love e-Life, the open access journal where its editors noted that a submitted synthetic biology and bioengineering report was replete with US and UK experts (along with a European or two) but no expert input from other parts of the world. In response the authors added 'transatlantic' to the title. It was a good decision since it was too late to add any new experts if the authors planned to have their paper published in the foreseeable future.
I've commented many times here when panels of experts include only Canadian, US, UK, and, sometimes, European or Commonwealth (Australia/New Zealand) experts that we need to broaden our perspectives and now I can add: or at least acknowledge (e.g. transatlantic) that the perspectives taken are reflective of a rather narrow range of countries.
Now getting to the report, here's more from a November 21, 2017 University of Cambridge press release,
Human genome editing, 3D-printed replacement organs and artificial photosynthesis – the field of bioengineering offers great promise for tackling the major challenges that face our society. But as a new article out today highlights, these developments provide both opportunities and risks in the short and long term.
Rapid developments in the field of synthetic biology and its associated tools and methods, including more widely available gene editing techniques, have substantially increased our capabilities for bioengineering – the application of principles and techniques from engineering to biological systems, often with the goal of addressing 'real-world' problems.
In a feature article published in the open access journal eLife, an international team of experts led by Dr Bonnie Wintle and Dr Christian R. Boehm from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, capture perspectives of industry, innovators, scholars, and the security community in the UK and US on what they view as the major emerging issues in the field.
Dr Wintle says: "The growth of the bio-based economy offers the promise of addressing global environmental and societal challenges, but as our paper shows, it can also present new kinds of challenges and risks. The sector needs to proceed with caution to ensure we can reap the benefits safely and securely."
The report is intended as a summary and launching point for policy makers across a range of sectors to further explore those issues that may be relevant to them.
Among the issues highlighted by the report as being most relevant over the next five years are:
Artificial photosynthesis and carbon capture for producing biofuels
If technical hurdles can be overcome, such developments might contribute to the future adoption of carbon capture systems, and provide sustainable sources of commodity chemicals and fuel.
Enhanced photosynthesis for agricultural productivity
Synthetic biology may hold the key to increasing yields on currently farmed land – and hence helping address food security – by enhancing photosynthesis and reducing pre-harvest losses, as well as reducing post-harvest and post-consumer waste.
Synthetic gene drives
Gene drives promote the inheritance of preferred genetic traits throughout a species, for example to prevent malaria-transmitting mosquitoes from breeding. However, this technology raises questions about whether it may alter ecosystems [emphasis mine], potentially even creating niches where a new disease-carrying species or new disease organism may take hold.
Human genome editing
Genome engineering technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9 offer the possibility to improve human lifespans and health. However, their implementation poses major ethical dilemmas. It is feasible that individuals or states with the financial and technological means may elect to provide strategic advantages to future generations.
Defence agency research in biological engineering
The areas of synthetic biology in which some defence agencies invest raise the risk of 'dual-use'. For example, one programme intends to use insects to disseminate engineered plant viruses that confer traits to the target plants they feed on, with the aim of protecting crops from potential plant pathogens – but such technologies could plausibly also be used by others to harm targets.
In the next five to ten years, the authors identified areas of interest including:
Regenerative medicine: 3D printing body parts and tissue engineering
While this technology will undoubtedly ease suffering caused by traumatic injuries and a myriad of illnesses, reversing the decay associated with age is still fraught with ethical, social and economic concerns. Healthcare systems would rapidly become overburdened by the cost of replenishing body parts of citizens as they age and could lead new socioeconomic classes, as only those who can pay for such care themselves can extend their healthy years.
Microbiome-based therapies
The human microbiome is implicated in a large number of human disorders, from Parkinson's to colon cancer, as well as metabolic conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Synthetic biology approaches could greatly accelerate the development of more effective microbiota-based therapeutics. However, there is a risk that DNA from genetically engineered microbes may spread to other microbiota in the human microbiome or into the wider environment.
Intersection of information security and bio-automation
Advancements in automation technology combined with faster and more reliable engineering techniques have resulted in the emergence of robotic 'cloud labs' where digital information is transformed into DNA then expressed in some target organisms. This opens the possibility of new kinds of information security threats, which could include tampering with digital DNA sequences leading to the production of harmful organisms, and sabotaging vaccine and drug production through attacks on critical DNA sequence databases or equipment.
Over the longer term, issues identified include:
New makers disrupt pharmaceutical markets
Community bio-labs and entrepreneurial startups are customizing and sharing methods and tools for biological experiments and engineering. Combined with open business models and open source technologies, this could herald opportunities for manufacturing therapies tailored to regional diseases that multinational pharmaceutical companies might not find profitable. But this raises concerns around the potential disruption of existing manufacturing markets and raw material supply chains as well as fears about inadequate regulation, less rigorous product quality control and misuse.
Platform technologies to address emerging disease pandemics
Emerging infectious diseases—such as recent Ebola and Zika virus disease outbreaks—and potential biological weapons attacks require scalable, flexible diagnosis and treatment. New technologies could enable the rapid identification and development of vaccine candidates, and plant-based antibody production systems.
Shifting ownership models in biotechnology
The rise of off-patent, generic tools and the lowering of technical barriers for engineering biology has the potential to help those in low-resource settings, benefit from developing a sustainable bioeconomy based on local needs and priorities, particularly where new advances are made open for others to build on.
Dr Jenny Molloy comments: "One theme that emerged repeatedly was that of inequality of access to the technology and its benefits. The rise of open source, off-patent tools could enable widespread sharing of knowledge within the biological engineering field and increase access to benefits for those in developing countries."
Professor Johnathan Napier from Rothamsted Research adds: "The challenges embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals will require all manner of ideas and innovations to deliver significant outcomes. In agriculture, we are on the cusp of new paradigms for how and what we grow, and where. Demonstrating the fairness and usefulness of such approaches is crucial to ensure public acceptance and also to delivering impact in a meaningful way."
Dr Christian R. Boehm concludes: "As these technologies emerge and develop, we must ensure public trust and acceptance. People may be willing to accept some of the benefits, such as the shift in ownership away from big business and towards more open science, and the ability to address problems that disproportionately affect the developing world, such as food security and disease. But proceeding without the appropriate safety precautions and societal consensus—whatever the public health benefits—could damage the field for many years to come."
The research was made possible by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative (both at the University of Cambridge), and the Future of Humanity Institute (University of Oxford). It was based on a workshop co-funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Here's a link to and a citation for the paper,
A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering by Bonnie C Wintle, Christian R Boehm, Catherine Rhodes, Jennifer C Molloy, Piers Millett, Laura Adam, Rainer Breitling, Rob Carlson, Rocco Casagrande, Malcolm Dando, Robert Doubleday, Eric Drexler, Brett Edwards, Tom Ellis, Nicholas G Evans, Richard Hammond, Jim Haseloff, Linda Kahl, Todd Kuiken, Benjamin R Lichman, Colette A Matthewman, Johnathan A Napier, Seán S ÓhÉigeartaigh, Nicola J Patron, Edward Perello, Philip Shapira, Joyce Tait, Eriko Takano, William J Sutherland. eLife; 14 Nov 2017; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.30247
This paper is open access and the editors have included their notes to the authors and the authors' response.
You may have noticed that I highlighted a portion of the text concerning synthetic gene drives. Coincidentally I ran across a November 16, 2017 article by Ed Yong for The Atlantic where the topic is discussed within the context of a project in New Zealand, 'Predator Free 2050' (Note: A link has been removed),
Until the 13th century, the only land mammals in New Zealand were bats. In this furless world, local birds evolved a docile temperament. Many of them, like the iconic kiwi and the giant kakapo parrot, lost their powers of flight. Gentle and grounded, they were easy prey for the rats, dogs, cats, stoats, weasels, and possums that were later introduced by humans. Between them, these predators devour more than 26 million chicks and eggs every year. They have already driven a quarter of the nation's unique birds to extinction.
Many species now persist only in offshore islands where rats and their ilk have been successfully eradicated, or in small mainland sites like Zealandia where they are encircled by predator-proof fences. The songs in those sanctuaries are echoes of the New Zealand that was.
But perhaps, they also represent the New Zealand that could be.
In recent years, many of the country's conservationists and residents have rallied behind Predator-Free 2050, an extraordinarily ambitious plan to save the country's birds by eradicating its invasive predators. Native birds of prey will be unharmed, but Predator-Free 2050's research strategy, which is released today, spells doom for rats, possums, and stoats (a large weasel). They are to die, every last one of them. No country, anywhere in the world, has managed such a task in an area that big. The largest island ever cleared of rats, Australia's Macquarie Island, is just 50 square miles in size. New Zealand is 2,000 times bigger. But, the country has committed to fulfilling its ecological moonshot within three decades.
In 2014, Kevin Esvelt, a biologist at MIT, drew a Venn diagram that troubles him to this day. In it, he and his colleagues laid out several possible uses for gene drives—a nascent technology for spreading designer genes through groups of wild animals. Typically, a given gene has a 50-50 chance of being passed to the next generation. But gene drives turn that coin toss into a guarantee, allowing traits to zoom through populations in just a few generations. There are a few natural examples, but with CRISPR, scientists can deliberately engineer such drives.
Suppose you have a population of rats, roughly half of which are brown, and the other half white. Now, imagine there is a gene that affects each rat's color. It comes in two forms, one leading to brown fur, and the other leading to white fur. A male with two brown copies mates with a female with two white copies, and all their offspring inherit one of each. Those offspring breed themselves, and the brown and white genes continue cascading through the generations in a 50-50 split. This is the usual story of inheritance. But you can subvert it with CRISPR, by programming the brown gene to cut its counterpart and replace it with another copy of itself. Now, the rats' children are all brown-furred, as are their grandchildren, and soon the whole population is brown.
Forget fur. The same technique could spread an antimalarial gene through a mosquito population, or drought-resistance through crop plants. The applications are vast, but so are the risks. In theory, gene drives spread so quickly and relentlessly that they could rewrite an entire wild population, and once released, they would be hard to contain. If the concept of modifying the genes of organisms is already distasteful to some, gene drives magnify that distaste across national, continental, and perhaps even global scales.
These excerpts don't do justice to this thought-provoking article. If you have time, I recommend reading it in its entirety as it provides some insight into gene drives and, with some imagination on the reader's part, the potential for the other technologies discussed in the report.
One last comment, I notice that Eric Drexler is cited as on the report's authors. He's familiar to me as K. Eric Drexler, the author of the book that popularized nanotechnology in the US and other countries, Engines of Creation (1986) .


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James Huff Stout
If James Huff Stout were to return today to the institution he founded in 1891, he wouldn't recognize most of the campus; nor would he be familiar with the specialized majors offered by what is now University of Wisconsin-Stout. Yet, upon close examination of the university's current mission, he would undoubtedly conclude that the spirit of his forward-looking vision lives on today.
James Huff Stout was born and grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. He entered his father's lumber business at age 19, spent some years in Reads Landing, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C., and then settled in Menomonie, Wisconsin, where he resided for the last 20 years of his life. Today the name Stout is readily associated with the University of Wisconsin-Stout and with the Knapp-Stout lumber company. While Stout's principal claim to fame lies in his laying a foundation for a great university, his prominence in other Wisconsin and national affairs has largely been forgotten.
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Stout Manual Training Schools » 1891–1908
Under the auspices of the Menomonie Public Schools, James Huff Stout funded various educational enterprises. In 1891, manual training and domestic science training was introduced through the Stout Manual Training School. 1894 brought the introduction of kindergarten classes. In 1899, the Kindergarten Training School began to prepare kindergarten teachers. A School of Physical Culture opened in 1901, which provided physical training. In 1903, training schools for manual training teachers and domestic science teachers were added. By 1907, a Homemaker's School had opened and a trade school was planned.
The Stout Institute » 1908–1955
To simplify administration and clarify ownership of and responsibility for the various public and Stout Training Schools, The Stout Institute was formed in 1908. The institute was designed to "provide facilities in the way of buildings, equipment, and teachers, through which young people of both sexes may secure such instruction and training in industrial and related lines of educational effort as will enable them to become efficient industrial, social, and economic units within their environment." In 1911, following Senator Stout's death, ownership transferred to the State of Wisconsin.
Stout State College » 1955–1964
The Stout Institute Board of Trustees was abolished, and the institution came under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents of the State Colleges, a move that the institute board resisted, fearing a loss of prestige from being a special college. In retrospect, joining the "League," as President Fryklund expressed it, proved to be a distinct advantage to the school and its faculty.
Stout State University » 1964–1971
The name change to university was authorized by the Board of Regents who believed that the "state colleges had reached another plateau in their development." Increased enrollment brought new and enlarged facilities. A traditional focus was maintained even while new majors were added and new directions were given to established majors.
University of Wisconsin-Stout » 1971–Present
The Wisconsin State Universities and the University of Wisconsin campuses merged to form the University of Wisconsin System. Stout was designated by the Board of Regents as one of only two special mission universities in the UW System. Stout was to offer focused programs "related to professional careers in industry, technology, home economics, applied art and the helping professions." In March 2007, UW-Stout was designated "Wisconsin's Polytechnic University" by the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents.


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"There was an idea I had at one point, where Elton's in a restaurant with his mother," the filmmaker explained to Gay Star News. "I thought John Reid and Freddie could be at another table and they wave at each other."
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