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Ah, Pam! Thanks so much for the tour! Patience, patience, patience...sigh!!
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:27:56 -0600
Subject: [CHAT] Spring has sprung y'all
For those of you in snowier environs, close your eyes and take a
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w/ moi. Up front - roses and Wild Thing salvias budding to
beat the
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daffodils, French
lavender, violas, pansies all in bloom. Red bed
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Birdies everywhere. Spring bulbs all going bonkers,
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April first wearing a nice
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Bill Gates gets a lot of good press, on this site as much as anywhere else (maybe more!). He's praised for giving away his fortune, for funding everything from condoms to vaccines, and, most of all, for ushering in a new type of philanthropy, and persuading other rich people, from Warren Buffett to Mark Zuckerberg, to do as he does. Gates personifies the new "philanthrocapitalism" with its emphasis on results, technological innovation, and business-like no-nonsense.
Nobody can deny the good Gates does in the world, and that isn't the point of "No Such Thing As a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy," a new book by the Canadian sociologist Linsey McGoey. McGoey's argument isn't that the Gates Foundation is evil (though she does make some sharp points about unintended consequences of their work on the ground). It's that we give too little scrutiny to people like Gates, and too much credence to the idea that philanthrocapitalism can "save the world" as a well-known book of that name says it can.
McGoey is sometimes too cynical (at least for my liking). But it's worth hearing what she has to say, because it's not said enough.
First, she disputes the idea that foundations run with business principles—as the Gates foundation is often lauded for—are anything new. The idea goes back to John D. Rockefeller and his philanthropic advisor, Frederick Gates (no relation). Gates was a big believer in the Efficiency Movement, which looked to import principles from making factories run better into every corner of society. Rockefeller and Gates also believed in getting results and not wasting resources.
McGoey criticizes philanthrocapitalists for this ahistoricism and for poo-pooing older foundations as amateurish. "There's a level of hubris in the rhetoric in these self-styled philanthrocapitalists who imply that in the past foundations weren't interested in impact," McGoey tells Co.Exist. "That's simply not the case. To say these philanthropic foundations were not interested in having a business mentality is erroneous."
Second, the Gates Foundation is often unaccountable, she says, even though it holds increasing sway over public agencies. In 2013, the Gates Foundation was the single largest donor to the World Health Organization, which is increasingly funded from "voluntary" contributions rather than governments. "There's a problematic precedent being set where a small group of private donors have the ability to dictate health policy at the highest level of the UN organization who aren't accountable to states who officially make up the membership," she says.
Third, philanthropic giving can "exacerbate the same social and economic inequalities that philanthropists purport to remedy." Philanthropists pay less tax because they can write off their donations. And, by giving large sums and claiming to spend their money in a scientifically effective way, they insulate themselves from arguments around tax avoidance and wealth inequality.
"Through initiatives like the Giving Pledge—Gates and Buffett's exhortation to their fellow billionaires to give at least 50% of their fortunes to charity—Gates offers a powerful antidote to the mushrooming legions of economic doomsayers who suggest that growing wealth gaps are the biggest threat to global sustainability today," she says: "'Back off,' Gates and his fellow pledgers protest when faced with criticism from economists such as Thomas Piketty and James Galbraith. 'We're giving it away.'"
McGoey also points out that the level of philanthropy today isn't as great as we might think (though there are almost the double the amount of foundations today than in 2000). Overall charitable giving has stayed at about 2% of GDP since the 1970s. And in 2011, only 7% of charitable donations in the U.S. went to "public-society benefit" causes as opposed to religious and cultural pursuits, according to a Giving USA study. Philanthropists like Gates and Buffett may be exceedingly generous, but that's no indication that as society we're doing a particularly good job, at least not toward the poor.
Sometimes McGoey's arguments feel a little mean-spirited. While she's right to criticize hubris among the philanthrocapitalists, it's doubtful if people receiving polio vaccines and anti-malaria netting care much about the arrogance of their benefactors. McGoey sounds nasty when she criticizes "'TED Heads'—amiable entrepreneurs and executives who congregate at exorbitantly priced TED events around the world, flocking to headline events ('speaking innovation to power'; 'branding for good') with the earnestness of a Grateful Deadhead on his fifth tour." There's nothing inherently wrong with being amiable or earnest, with tickets being overpriced (you don't have to pay), or with the Grateful Dead.
But McGoey makes important points about over-relying on philanthropy. We can't expect philanthropists to fix fundamental imbalances in the economic system, and it may be that relying on super wealthy philanthropists could make inequality worse. McGoey points out that the last great burst of faith in philanthropy occurred in the 1920s. It did nothing to correct growing gaps between rich and poor during that era—an era that ended in the Great Depression. It took changes at a government level before inequality narrowed and broad-based social programs came into place.


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TylerJProud 2168 days ago
The large mass is actually Andros, Bahamas. Great fishing! The little island hiding under a cloud just off the top left corner of Andros is Nassau. @macsongs
JessiRox15 2187 days ago
the bahamas !!! SUCH a beautiful picture!
katelynnandaur 2249 days ago
the bahamas
Vic_____ 2255 days ago
The bahamas
n:) A Land of Healing
Hepzibah's (Kef-cee-pa)'s Beulah Land"
This photo shows the severe break. Most did not realize it was there. God is very close to this in healing and rstoring the planet. Yahweh's Servant
liquiddante 2280 days ago
the amazing Bahamas
Stelygs 2281 days ago
Stunning Bahamas#spacegeo & cloudy Cuba...spectacular, thanks! Yours is the most exciting&incredible of human explorations! :)
Geshiela 2281 days ago
@StationCDRKelly #spacegeo this is the Bahamas (the biggest island), with cat Island (NE) and Darby Island (N)
wwestwood 2281 days ago
thanks its great photos i love it BILL
ko2ri 2281 days ago
AB!! BP!!! *AB=Andros,Bahamas / BP=Beautiful Pic :)))
macsongs 2281 days ago
Could be tha Bahamas, the large mass could be Nassau, great picture, thanks!
Dean_Harnes 2281 days ago
The Bahamas
david_bryant 2281 days ago
Andros Island, Bahamas. The nearly circular deep feature is the "Tongue of the Ocean"
Dubmaster2 2281 days ago
The Bahamas. What a beautiful picture..!
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Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty
In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims of low-income workers might not even exceed the minimum income guarantee which the government provides the aged. Recently, some German politicians have criticized this likely development because it was unjust that persons who have paid contributions over a long working life end up with no higher benefits than people who have never worked or paid any contributions. However, the government defended the current retirement benefit formula with the argument that every Euro paid as contributions had exactly the same value in generating future retirement benefits. But this logic has been questioned recently, e.g. by Breyer and Hupfeld (2009), since the value of a contributed Euro depends on the life expectancy of the individual, which is positively correlated with annual income. In that earlier paper, we introduced the concept of "distributive neutrality", which takes income-group-specific differences in life expectancy into account. The present paper estimates the relationship between annual earnings and life expectancy of German retirees empirically and shows how the formula that links benefits to contributions would have to be modified to achieve distributive neutrality. We compare the new formula to the benefit formulas in other OECD countries and analyze a data set provided by the German Pension Insurance Office on a large cohort of pensioners to find out how the old-age poverty rate would be affected by the proposed change of the benefit formula. Finally, we discuss other possible effects of a change in the benefit formula, especially on the labour supply of different earnings groups.
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I feel like I've stepped into a fairy tale bubble!
... divers take advantage of - very popular on the day we were there. Actually, the whole lake area is popular - you see, the government enforces Sunday as a family day, so very few shops are open and you see families out enjoying themselves, going places and having fun together - lovely to see!
Monday, I took the bold step of going to the shops alone to see if I could buy stuff - I went to 3 different stores and bought one thing in ...
Sunshine & swiss beauty
... felt different. Cappuccino for me and an Appenzeller Bier for my cousin hit the spot. <i>"At 2,502.9 metres above sea level, Säntis is the highest mountain in the Alpstein mass of northeastern Switzerland. It is also the culminating point of the whole Appenzell Alps, between Lake Walenstadt and Lake Constance.'</i> Status update: my Swiss German has not improved. ...
Day 1, late start, high velocity and a late camp
... shooting practice was scheduled the next morning, ate our risotto and a whole chicken and went to bed.
The ground was uneven and I think we both dreamt of drunken hunters finding a tent behind their range...not the worst night, but definitely not the best.
The start was early the next morning and we had breakfast in front of a public pool. Mini Ciabatta, swiss brie and dry sausage from the mountains. ...
Swiss adventure #12
On 9/28 we took the train from Scuol to Appenzell with a stopover in St. Galen. We spent 4 hours in St. Gallen for lunch, a visit to the monastery and a walk around the attractive old town. The monastery, which is currently inactive as a monastery, contains an incredible library with documents as much as 1300 years old. The documents were saved from a fire in the 16th century and the library was beautifully rebuilt in the baroque style. No photos were allowed in the library so you'll ...
Swiss adventure #11
On 9/26 we again deviated from our original plans in order to travel back Guarda to see the festivities involved in bringing the cows down to lower pastures for the winter. Before the parade we heard two men playing alpenhorns for the waiting crowd. Horses led the parade of decorated cows down through the main street of town. The cow who had ...


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Leading by example - BirdLife's July 2010 Round Up
BirdLife works hard to hold governments to account, ensuring they keep their promises. And when governments fail, or fall below international best practices, BirdLife is ready with the practical solutions and encouragement to get them back on track. The EU failed in its Convention on Biological Diversity commitment to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. BirdLife and the European Environmental Bureau have set out a series of actions that would enable a new EU biodiversity policy framework to achieve its goals. These actions build on the successes of the existing policy framework, such as the EU Birds and Habitats Directives, in which BirdLife also played a significant role (What do we need to achieve the new 2020 biodiversity target?). For the Belgian presidency of the EU, which covers the last six months of the International Year of Biodiversity, BirdLife has called for ambitious new strategies for biodiversity and ecosystem services, increased funding for conservation, a sweeping reform of the Common Agricultural Policy refocusing on sustainability and rewards for public goods, and emergency measures to stop the slaughter of seabirds in European fisheries (Will Europe avoid another "Copenhagen fiasco"?). BirdLife's Marine Important Bird Area (IBA) Toolkit is a step-by-step guide to enable EU countries to identify sites of conservation priority for seabirds in their waters. The companion report 'Marine IBAs in the EU' presents a description of each country's Marine IBA networks, with current levels of protection. Both will be updated regularly (Two major publications to protect our seas). Some countries have a poor record when it comes to conserving the natural riches of their former colonies and current overseas territories in the Caribbean. 'Les Zones Importantes pour la Conservation des Oiseaux en Guadeloupe' identifies nine IBAs covering 505 km¬≤ (including marine areas). Guadeloupe is an overseas department (DOM) of France, but is not covered by the EU Birds and Habitats Directives, and a legal framework to protect the sites is urgently needed (Guadeloupe gets first national IBA directory). CNAP (BirdLife in Cuba) has published 'Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves en Cuba', which details 28 IBAs covering 21% of Cuban territory. The book is the first attempt in Cuba to identify conservation priorities using a scientifically-sound methodology. Seven IBAs have already received conservation attention through a programme funded by 2001's Birdfair (New directory set to help conserve Cuba's birds). The islands of the Pacific have also suffered centuries of habitat degradation and the introduction of species like cats and rats creating a legacy of extinction and decline. BirdLife has received a grant from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to produce an inventory of IBAs in the Cook Islands. This is particularly urgent, since of 50 species identified by the Te Ipukarea Society (BirdLife in the Cook Islands), 15 are Globally Threatened (Conservation and the Cook Islands). Goodwill and international cooperation can repair some of the damage humankind has done. A UK photographic exhibition revealed how conservation work by Nature Iraq (BirdLife in Iraq), backed by the BirdLife Partnership, is beginning to patch up the ravages of war (Iraq: war-torn nation or wildlife hotspot?). Meanwhile with support from BirdLife in the Middle East and the Partners in the UK (RSPB) and Turkey (Doƒüa Derneƒüi), the Turkish Government has donated six semi-captive Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita to join the sole remaining Middle Eastern population in Syria, now reduced to three adults and a juvenile. This is a major international collaboration, the kind of joined-up conservation needed to protect migratory birds (Donation of ibis gives Middle East's rarest bird renewed hope of survival). BirdLife has long campaigned for the link between healthy, biodiverse ecosystems and human wellbeing to be recognised. With funding from the UK Government's Darwin Initiative, Bird Conservation Nepal (Birdlife Partner) and BirdLife have begun a three-year project to assess Nepal's ecosystem services, and to assign an economic value to them. The real importance of the ecosystem approach is to show what we would lose as a society if these ecosystems were destroyed (Assessing Nepal's natural benefits). Finally, the latest report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, which has been putting a price on nature, finds biodiversity is being placed higher on the agenda by businesses. "BirdLife is engaging with a number of businesses, helping to guide their operations to minimise negative impacts and encourage positive impacts on biodiversity," commented BirdLife Director Leon Bennun (Smart business leaders see nature as an asset). News Stories Smart business leaders see nature as an asset Attitudes of consumers and business leaders are changing, with biodiversity being placed higher up on everyone's agenda says a recent report compiled by The Economics of Ecosystems and... News : News Stories : 29-07-2010 New directory set to help conserve Cuba's birds The National Centre for Protected Areas (CNAP, BirdLife in Cuba) has launched an Important Bird Areas directory for Cuba, detailing 28 IBAs, covering over 2.3 million hectares. News : News Stories : 28-07-2010 Guadeloupe gets national IBA directory AMAZONA has published an IBA directory for Guadeloupe, the first national language IBA publication for the Caribbean News : News Stories : 22-07-2010 Conservation and the Cook Islands BirdLife International has received a grant from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to produce an inventory of priority conservation sites for biodiversity in the Cook Islands... News : News Stories : 20-07-2010 What do we need to achieve the new 2020 biodiversity target? The EU has clearly failed to halt the loss of biological diversity within its own territory and beyond by 2010. News : News Stories : 14-07-2010 Donation of ibis gives Middle East's rarest bird renewed hope of survival Northern Bald Ibis was once revered as a god. But now this bird has become the rarest in the Middle East. However a new cross-country conservation collaboration is already providing some exciting... News : News Stories : 13-07-2010 Two major marine publications to protect our seas The size of the Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZs) of EU countries exceeds several times the terrestrial area...but how much do we actually know about our seas? News : News Stories : 09-07-2010 Iraq: war-torn nation or wildlife hotspot? If your impression of Iraq is a landscape of sandy deserts without a shade of green in sight, then a UK photographic exhibition organised by Nature Iraq (BirdLife in Iraq) and BirdLife... News : News Stories : 08-07-2010 Will Europe avoid another ÔøΩCopenhagen fiascoÔøΩ? BirdLife International presented its environmental priorities for the Belgian EU Presidency. News : News Stories : 05-07-2010 Assessing Nepal's natural services Bird Conservation Nepal and BirdLife International with funding from the UK government's Darwin Initiative programme, have embarked on a three-year project to assess and monitor ecosystem... News : News Stories : 02-07-2010 Community Posts Noted Conservation and Communications Leader to be Audubon President Oversummering Spoon-billed Sandpiper discovered in Thailand


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Halfway through a month long trip I needed a reset. Looking for something close to accom in Venice Beach and happened upon Sandy : )
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Decided last minute to fit a massage in during our vacation. Booked a couples massage and we both enjoyed our masseuses. Before and after activities were a little haphazard but we attribute that to them fitting us in late.
Halfway through a month long trip I needed a reset. Looking for something close to accom in Venice Beach and happened upon Sandy : )
A great wrap and massage from someone that knows her stuff and is very good at it!
Don't expect an over the top glamorous salon, a visit here is like going to your best friends...
I ended there because it was raining so I could go the beach. The place is amazing and the woman managing it was so nice. I had a massage, then I spent some time in the sauna and finally I got one last treatment of 30 minutes (detox). So in total I spent 2 and half spectacular hours treating myself...
I think they are incredible. Very relaxing and great location. I hear they are doing surf lessons now and calling it surf and soothe. I can't imagine a nicer way to spend an afternoon than surfing and being massaged. Highly recommended.
My wife and I were celebrating our anniversary and decided to pamper ourselves with a SPA. Couple massages were great! Vicky and Dana were very professional and gave us the Best massages we experienced to date; and fresh juices & pasta served by the owner were top notch!
We highly recommend this SPA to anyone who needs pampering without breaking...
As a rule, I don't like spas because of the environment, not the treatment. I hate walking into a location feeling like I'm in a Dr.'s office. I've been to very expensive spas at hotels and bare bones places and it always seems extremely noisy, too crowded and you can always hear the outside noise during your treatment. Creative Chakra...
I had a fantastic massage today that was customized for what I needed - Dana is highly skilled and I recommend her! The space is off the beaten path but really warm and refreshing inside. A beautiful, quiet space.
I have been coming here for 8 years and love it, this review is long overdue, it is a hidden gem and that is exactly it, I want to keep it a secret but my conscious won't let me anymore, you need to know. The therapists here bring a higher level of skill, integrity and caring to their work, I...
The spa is no longer part of the hotel---it's a couple of blocks away but worth the walk or the drive.
This 'spa' is located in a residential area near Venice Beach/Marina Del Rey. I booked a standard massage and it was wonderful. The experience of the massage itself was top notch. However, if you are looking for a standard chain spa experience (glossy magazines, waiting rooms, private treatment rooms, luxurious bathrooms, etc.) don't come here. This is a quirky, cobbled...
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Intel Looks to Drive Cloud Adoption with New Xeon Server Chips
The Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors are key to creating software-defined IT environments to accelerate businesses' move to the cloud, officials say.Intel officials a year ago kicked off what they called the Intel Cloud for All strategy, an effort designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by businesses that includes not only the chip maker's silicon products for cloud environments, but also helping to create the ecosystem around cloud infrastructures and open standards. At the time, the officials said that while businesses want to embrace the cloud, the technology is too complex to implement on a large scale, which has been a drag on cloud adoption by the enterprise. At an event in San Francisco March 31, Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group, introduced the latest generation of Xeon E5 server and workstation processors that she and other officials said has the features and enhancements that will enable businesses to more easily adopt cloud computing and manage the processing demand coming from the fast-growing mobile computing space. At the same time, the world's largest chip maker also introduced new solid-state drives—including the company's first 3D NAND drives that are optimized for cloud and enterprise workloads—and announced collaborations with a broad array of cloud software and solutions providers and new industry programs aimed at making it easier for enterprises to run their workloads in the cloud. Among the partners are VMware, CoreOS, Mirantis and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project aimed at creating computing optimized for distributed system environments.
"For today's enterprises, competitiveness increasingly hinges on IT agility," Jennifer Huffstetler, director of data center product marketing, wrote in a post on the company blog. "In simple terms, a digitally driven business—which is now virtually all businesses—can move no faster than its IT infrastructure. This new reality for the enterprise is accelerating the shift to public, private, and hybrid clouds enabled by software defined infrastructure (SDI)."
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A report released July 11 by investment research company Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster predicts that iPhone and iPad users will download 61 percent more apps in 2011 than in 2010 and these apps will cost an average of $1.44.
Due to the lack of data available from Apple, the report is based upon Gene Munster's own model of Apple's app store business.
According to the report, in 2011 the average owner of a device on the iOS operating system such as an iPhone or iPad will download 83 applications, representing a 61 percent increase from the average 51 apps downloaded by users in 2010.
In addition the report finds that the average price of each application is increasing by 14 percent in 2011 to $1.44 following a decline of 18 percent in 2010; these 'paid' apps represent 18 percent of the applications available in Apple's app store.
The increase in the average price of applications is, the report suggests, driven by the rising demand for more expensive iPad apps.
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Alex joined The Weather Channel in 2013 after working at WHNS-TV (Greenville, SC) and WOWK-TV and WVNS-TV (Huntington, WV). Alex loves all things pop culture, as well as group fitness and traveling. As a self-proclaimed foodie, she enjoys exploring local restaurants. She also cheers on Syracuse, Penn State and Philly sports teams.
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How did you decide you wanted to become a meteorologist?
I love that weather impacts everyone, everyday. We are part of the public's daily life and help them prepare and stay safe – whether it's a sunny, warm day or a severe weather outbreak.
What is your Favorite season?
Fall! I love the cooler weather, the gorgeous colors, the scents of the season… and pumpkin everything!
What is your most embarrassing moment on air?
There have been a few small things here and there – but I'm still waiting for a trip and fall! I've had a few off-air, and our heels are so high it's bound to happen!
What is your favorite part about your job?
I love having the opportunity to give someone information that's critical to their day. And it's awesome to work here at The Weather Channel - to be surrounded by hundreds of people who are also passionate about the weather!
What is your Favorite color?
It's hard to choose just one – orange, blue, neon green – they're all great! My closets and drawers look like a crayon box!
What is your Favorite holiday?
Thanksgiving – it's the best because you get to enjoy time and great food with friends and family!
Do you have any Pets?
Two dogs – Bandit (a Bichon/Cavalier King Charles mix) and Riley (a Shih Tzu/Dachshund mix). They're best friends… and very spoiled!
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I'm fascinated by wine and constantly try to learn more about it, and I think I have a pretty good nose (and could give a good recommendation!). I'm also pretty good to have on a trivia team… especially if there are questions on pop culture!
Why do you think #ItsAmazingOutThere?
It's never the same, which is part of what makes weather so fascinating. Plus, there are still things that happen that surprise or wow us – so in this field, you're constantly learning new things!
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Meet Leila Brink, Mum of 3 and owner of brand new Moroccan rug emporium Blue Gigi. A few months ago, I had the pleasure to work with Leila and photographer Paul Craig on her very first shots for the launch of her new brand. Leila turned up at the fabulous Brixton East Studios with her 4x4 laden from top to bottom with rugs and props and we literally got stuck in! We had great fun putting the shots together in a pretty tight timescale, which makes you think on the hoof and gets the adrenalin running!
Having travelled to Morocco and Egypt many times as a child with her parents, Leila grew up with a love and appreciation of the decorative beauty in the painstakingly and lovingly handcrafted pieces that adorned people's homes. It was during a holiday on the Ile de Re that Leila met Vincent Bas, and so began the story of Blue Gigi. Vincent introduced Leila to the historical traditions, methods and meanings of tribal rugs in Morocco from his home in Marakkech and together they now source the best they can find for clients' homes here in the UK.
Blue Gigi is a truly personalised rug-finding service, where the client's needs, tastes and home are carefully considered before recommendations are made by Leila. And if she doesn't have in stock exactly what you need, she and Vincent will source it for you. Each piece is chosen for its 'meaning, history and beauty,' and what I loved about them was that each one is truly individual and unique-real investment pieces and family heirlooms.
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This project is to build and develop a Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center at the American Heart Assocation (AHA). This virtual Center will be a network of consortia between AHA and several leading academic institutions. It will house programs of multidisciplinary research that will inform the manufacture, distribution and marketing of tobacco products related to the regulatory authority of the FDA. Center investigators will study the cardiovascular toxicity of tobacco products and the relationship between tobacco product use and subclinical progression of cardiovascular disease to identify sensitive and robust biomarkers of cardiovascular injury related to tobacco product exposure. These studies will help to identify the relative sensitivity of specific domains of cardiovascular injury that are sensitive to tobacco exposure and faciliate the identification of harmful and potentially harmful constitutents of current, new and emereging tobacco products that cause cardiovascular injury and how the impact of these constituents on cardiovascular disease outcomes could be measured. In cohorts of varying ethnicities, behavior, perceptions, and attitudes regarding tobacco products will be studied to identify which communications channels are used by vulnerable populations to obtain information about tobacco products, and which strategies are likely to be effective in discouraging initiation and continuation of tobacco use. The Center will also provide comprehensive education, state-of-the-art training in tobacco regulatory science and foster the development of independent research careers of junior investigators. Research in the Center will be supported by faciltites/cores that will provide assessments and characterization of exposure to tobacco products and unifed measurements of biomarkers and validated indicies of cardiovascular injury. The adminstrative core of the Center will provide scientific, adminstrative and logistic oversight to all aspects of the Center and coordinate integrative team science focused on addressing the research priorities of the FDA. The Center will be well-poised to undertake strong and coordinated research projects in response to new developments and conduct collaborative research with other Centers in the Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science
Research supported by the AHA-Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center (A-TRAC) will aid the development and evaluation of tobacc product regulation by the FDA and thereby contribute to the protection of public health and reduction of tobacco-related disease, disability and death.
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I propose that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a [government] jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder's deserts. The amount of this excess, if any, may be determined very conveniently by a petit jury, as other questions of guilt are now determined. The flogged judge, or Congressman, or other jobholder, on being discharged from hospital — or his chief heir, in case he has perished — goes before a grand jury and makes a complaint, and, if a true bill is found, a petit jury is empaneled and all the evidence is put before it. If it decides that the jobholder deserves the punishment inflicted upon him, the citizen who inflicted it is acquitted with honor. If, on the contrary, it decides that this punishment was excessive, then the citizen is adjudged guilty of assault, mayhem, murder, or whatever it is, in a degree apportioned to the difference between what the jobholder deserved and what he got, and punishment for that excess follows in the usual course.
H.L. Mencken, "The Malevolent Jobholder", The American Mercury, 1924-06.
July 5, 2016
QotD: A government reform proposal
April 29, 2016
QotD: American liberty
The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. Laws limiting the radius of his free activity multiply year by year: It is now practically impossible for him to exhibit anything describable as genuine individuality, either in action or in thought, without running afoul of some harsh and unintelligible penalty. It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto "In God we trust" were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, "verboten," substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet. Moreover, this gradual (and, of late, rapidly progressive) decay of freedom goes almost without challenge; the American has grown so accustomed to the denial of his constitutional rights and to the minute regulation of his conduct by swarms of spies, letter-openers, informers and agents provocateurs that he no longer makes any serious protest.
H.L. Mencken, The American Credo: A Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, 1920.
December 20, 2015
When the police are afraid to investigate crimes
In the town of Rotherham, the local police have been effectively hiding a massive criminal conspiracy for fear of being accused of racism:
Fifteen years ago, when these crimes were just beginning, the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry into the conduct of the British police was made by Sir William Macpherson a High Court judge. The immediate occasion had been a murder in which the victim was black, the perpetrators white, and the behaviour of the investigating police lax and possibly prejudiced. The report accused the police – not just those involved in the case, but the entire police force of the country – of 'institutionalised racism'. This piece of sociological newspeak was, at the time, very popular with leftist sociologists. For it made an accusation which could not be refuted by anyone who had the misfortune to be accused of it.
However well you behaved, however scrupulously you treated people of different races and without regard to their ethnic identity or the colour of their skin, you would be guilty of 'institutionalised racism', simply on account of the institution to which you belonged and on behalf of which you were acting. Not surprisingly, sociologists and social workers, the vast majority of whom are professionally disposed to believe that middle class society is incurably racist, latched on to the expression. MacPherson too climbed onto the bandwagon since, at the time, it was the easiest and safest way to wash your hands in public, to say that I, at least, am not guilty of the only crime that is universally recognised and everywhere in evidence.
The result of this has been that police forces lean over backwards to avoid the accusation of racism, while social workers will hesitate to intervene in any case in which they could be accused of discriminating against ethnic minorities. Matters are made worse by the rise of militant Islam, which has added to the old crime of racism the new crime of 'Islamophobia'. No social worker today will risk being accused of this crime. In Rotherham a social worker would be mad, and a police officer barely less so, to set out to investigate cases of suspected sexual abuse, when the perpetrators are Asian Muslims and the victims ethnically English. Best to sweep it under the carpet, find ways of accusing the victims or their parents or the surrounding culture of institutionalised racism, and attending to more urgent matters such as the housing needs of recent immigrants, or the traffic offences committed by those racist middle classes.
Americans too are familiar with this syndrome. Political correctness among sociologists comes from socialist convictions and the tired old theories that produce them. But among ordinary people it comes from fear. The people of Rotherham know that it is unsafe for a girl to take a taxi-ride from someone with Asian features; they know that Pakistani Muslims often do not treat white girls with the respect that they treat girls from their own community. They know, and have known over fifteen years, that there are gangs of predators on the look-out for vulnerable girls, and that the gangs are for the most part Asian young men who see English society not as the community to which they belong, but as a sexual hunting ground. But they dare not express this knowledge, in either words or deed. Still less do they dare to do so if their job is that of social worker or police officer. Let slip the mere hint that Pakistani Muslims are more likely than indigenous Englishmen to commit sexual crimes and you will be branded as a racist and an Islamophobe, to be ostracised in the workplace and put henceforth under observation.
December 18, 2015
Canadian Forces report $4.4 million in lost, stolen, and damaged items
Four point four million dollars might sound like a lot, but for an organization the size of the Canadian Forces (the largest department of the Canadian government), that's actually a pretty reasonable figure. Embassy's Marie-Danielle Smith rounds up some of the highlights:
The Canadian Armed Forces are short more than $4.4 million worth of equipment stolen, damaged or lost—or discovered to have been lost — in the 2014-15 financial year, according to the government's annual public accounts tabled in Parliament this month.
The Department of National Defence does not expect to recover much of this amount, says the document — there's no Lost and Found for pistols or hammers.
In addition to more than $1.5 million in lost combat clothing alone, items that were stolen, damaged or lost included computers, machinery, technical equipment, transportation equipment, tools and weapons and accessories.
"DND and the CAF take all complaints and allegations of missing and stolen weapons seriously and all cases are investigated with due diligence by the proper authorities," a spokesperson for the department, Ashley Lemire, said. "Every effort is made to account for weapons used in the performance of CAF mandates."
Stolen items were worth $332,797. That's a big jump from the year before, when a total of $44,568 in equipment was stolen from the Department of National Defence.
Part of the 2014-15 chunk includes the "theft of information technology equipment and computer peripheral" valued at $281,094.
Asked what type of equipment this is, or what exactly it is used for, Ms. Lemire said the information couldn't be disclosed because the theft is currently before the provincial court of Ontario.
"As this matter is now before the courts, it would be inappropriate to discuss details that may affect the outcome of the court case," she told Embassy in an email. The document says the department expects to recover the full cost in a future year.
Stolen items categorized as "tools" — only nine of them in 2014-15, worth $429 — included several types of knives, hammers, axes, cutter straps and rulers, Ms. Lemire said. Another 975 "tools" were reported lost.
December 15, 2015
QotD: When "pop culture" is based on myth rather than fact
Everything you think you know about the 20th century is wrong.
It's been a favorite theme of mine for years — that liberal (self-)mythologizing rarely withstands even the slightest scrutiny:
The Rosenbergs were guilty. Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty. Alger Hiss was guilty. OJ was guilty. Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty. Mumia was guilty. Leonard Peltier was guilty.
Rachel Carson lied. Alfred Kinsey lied. Betty Friedan lied.
To that list, Ed Driscoll adds familiar names like Kitty Genovese and Truman Capote.
Earth Day started out as a commemoration of an event that didn't quite happen as advertised.
Vietnam? Don't get me started.
One day, we'll find out the Scottsboro Boys were guilty.
And some people still wonder why a lesbian waitress would cook up a hoax about homophobic customers…
Kathy Shaidle, "Altamont: When the Hippies Were Expelled From the Garden: Did the Sixties really end on December 6, 1969?", PJ Lifestyle, 2013-12-06.
December 7, 2015
If not amnesty, then what?
At Coyote Blog, Warren Meyer cuts to the chase on the whole amnesty "debate" in US politics:
Mickey Kaus wonders why the GOP elite is still "clinging to amnesty" for illegal immigrants. I have the same thought every time I hear someone rail against "amensty": What the f*ck else are we going to do? Put 12 million people in jail for violating immigration laws? Are we really talking about deporting 12 million people? Do you have any idea how ugly this will be? I don't want to commit a Godwin's Law violation, but rousting people — whole families — out of their homes at gunpoint and loading them up on trucks and trains to be shipped en mass somewhere else — does this sound like any other 20th century event to you? If you wanted to find some other precedent for this that was not the German shipping of Jews to Poland, what would even be close?
Looked at another way, the disastrous government and civil war in Syria has created, by UN estimates, 4 million refugees. At a stroke, do Republicans really want to create 12 million refugees?
December 5, 2015
A life of crime … derailed
At American Digest, Gerard Van der Leun recalls how his budding teenage life of crime was brought to a sudden halt:
As a teenager my addiction to science fiction paperbacks often came into conflict with my ongoing cash-flow problem. To wit, I hadn't any. But, for a few brief, shining weeks I did discover a resource better than cash for acquiring science-fiction paperbacks — my pants.
Yes, at some point it dawned on my tiny teenage brain that, if I could just get these piles of paper down the front of my pants and walk without a waddle out the door of the store, the latest Asimov or Heinlein would be free. What was even better was my discovery that I could, after reading these stolen gems, take them back to the bookstore from which I boosted them and sell them back to that dull owner for a credit to buy other paperbacks. Cost of stock: $0, Price received: $0.25, Profit — infinite. What a business! I was a confirmed capitalist. I even thought of a name for my company, World Wide Pants, and was quite upset years later when David Letterman stole it from me.
Of course I knew on some level that stuffing things down my pants, waddling out of a store and then coming back later to sell the purloined items back was …. a teeny bit wrong. But the bookstore owner had so many science fiction books and I had so few. "From bookstores according to their stock, to me according to my need to read," seemed to be my moral code at the time. Besides, I wasn't "really" stealing them because I "returned" them for a fee. It was a way of letting the bookstore owner sort of reverse-rent them to me.
I started small — maybe a slim collection of short stories like The Green Hills of Earth, or a novella such as "Children of the Atom," would find their way to their temporary home between my belt and my underwear. But then I decided to expand. After all, it seemed to me that my pants had room to spare especially if I let my shirt tails hang out. Once that was in my mind, I started to up the ante and began to go for multiple copies of Ace Doubles. My pants became, in effect, a small bookshelf.
The owner of the bookstore down in the slums of Sacramento was, I was certain, clueless as to what was going on. He was a wispy simulacra of William Burroughs with the gray haze of alcohol hovering about him and a tendency to give me a smile that was a little too warm whenever I came into the shop. He'd often disappear into a curtained nook with the sign "Special Titles — Ask for admittance" thumbtacked to the bookshelf next to it.
My undoing came one day when I think I had probably added a full two inches to my waistline in the science fiction section. I waddled to the cash register with one tattered copy of some space opera and slid my quarter across the counter. He looked at it, looked at me, took the quarter and slid the book into a flimsy paper bag and handed it back. "See you soon," he said with a wink. I turned and had gotten out the door and a couple of steps down the sidewalk when the bony hand of retribution clutched my shoulder. "I see you're gaining a little weight," he said in a voice that betrayed an unhealthy interest in Lucky Strikes. "I think we need to talk to your parents about this. Come on back in."
There's no way to describe the churning, burning hunk of fear that forms in your stomach the first time you're busted. If, at that moment, you could chose between death and juju, death would win every time — but only because you don't know that you'll get death only after juju.
November 9, 2015
Shocking cheese-related crime in France
Ace of Spades H.Q. has the details:
Sacre Vache! Thieves Steal 4 Tonnes of Comte Cheese, In What Police Are Calling "A Crime That Happened This Century"
Four tonnes of comte. Street value: almost one half of one million dollars, maybe more if you step on it and cut it with brie.
Police describe themselves as "vaguely interested" in this case.
Interpol has been called, but didn't pick up a phone. So an email was sent. The email was marked, "When you get to it."
Some thieves in France have made off with a rather odd prize recently — four tonnes of cheese.
Police were called to a break-in on Monday in which the owner of the Napier dairy in the town of Goux-les-Usiers discovered some crooks had stolen roughly 100 wheels of comte, a luxury cheese which can only be made in the Franche-Comte region using unpasteurised cow's milk.
Unpasteurized — that's the good shit. That's what hooks you, that's what makes you a junkie. Once you're hooked on cheese made of unpasteurized milk, you'll spend the rest of your life "Chasing the Cow," walking down lonely streets and breaking into seedy fromageries looking to score your next "wheel."
It might seem like a crime by someone with a fairly extreme dairy fetish, but police believe the cheese was stolen by a gang who will sell it on the black market.
Comte can sell for 40 [Euros] a pound, making it just as valuable to thieves as jewellery or electrical goods.
You can tell how "pure" cheese is by sticking your pinky into it and then rubbing the cream on your gums. If your gums feel like they're on fire — that's pure, baby.
November 7, 2015
QotD: Humane punishment for criminals
Modern countries pride themselves on their humane treatment of prisoners. And by "humane", I mean "lock them up in a horrible and psychologically traumatizing concrete jail for ten years of being beaten and raped and degraded, sometimes barely even seeing the sun or a green plant for that entire time, then put it on their permanent record so they can never get a good job or interact with normal people ever again when they come out."
Compare this to what "inhumane" countries that were still into "cruel and unusual punishment" would do for the same crime. A couple of lashes with the whip, then you're on your way.
Reader. You have just been convicted of grand theft auto (the crime, not the game). You're innocent, but the prosecutor was very good at her job and you've used up all your appeals and you're just going to have to accept the punishment. The judge gives you two options:
1) Five years in prison
2) Fifty strokes of the lash
Like everyone else except a few very interesting people who help provide erotic fantasies for the rest of us, I don't like being whipped. But I would choose (2) in a fraction of a heartbeat.
And aside from being better for me, it would be better for society as well. We know that people who spend time in prison are both more likely to stay criminals in the future and better at being criminals. And each year in jail costs the State $50,000; more than it would cost to give a kid a year's free tuition at Harvard. Cutting the prison system in half would free up approximately enough money to give free college tuition to all students at the best school they can get into.
But of course we don't do that. We stick with the prisons and the rape and the kids who go work at McDonalds because they can't afford college. Why? Progressives!
If we were to try to replace prison with some kind of corporal punishment, progressives would freak out and say we were cruel and inhumane. Since the prison population is disproportionately minority, they would probably get to use their favorite word-beginning-with-"R", and allusions would be made to plantation owners who used to whip slaves. In fact, progressives would come up with some reason to oppose even giving criminals the option of corporal punishment (an option most would certainly take) and any politician insufficiently progressive to even recommend it would no doubt be in for some public flagellation himself, albeit of a less literal kind.
So once again, we have an uncanny valley. Being very nice to prisoners is humane and effective (Norway seems to be trying this with some success), but we're not going to do it because we're dumb and it's probably too expensive anyway. Being very strict to prisoners is humane and effective – the corporal punishment option. But being somewhere in the fuzzy middle is cruel to the prisoners and incredibly destructive to society – and it's the only route the progressives will allow us to take.
Scott Alexander, "Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell", Slate Star Codex, 2013-03-03.
October 21, 2015
QotD: Tamara's Handy Tips For Not Winding Up On The Wrong Side Of The Yellow Tape
1) If you're in a bad neighborhood, the kind where you get to hear gunfire and sirens on a nightly basis, move. If you can't move, have yourself inside at a decent hour, before the time when "suspects" start outnumbering "witnesses" on street corners.
2) As a matter of fact, having yourself in at a decent hour is good advice for just about anybody. Ask your local po-po, but I'd bet that in most places, not much good happens after ten p.m.; certainly after midnight, the majority of the folks not already at home are already legally intoxicated, or are engaged in business transactions buying or selling intoxicants. Saying that these people are overrepresented in criminal and traffic code violations is like saying that rednecks are overrepresented in the stands at a NASCAR race.
3) Regardless of your opinion of the War on (Some) Drugs, the fact remains that, for now, drugs are illegal. This means that to get any for your own use, you have to come in contact with some one who is, by definition… class? Anyone? That's right, a criminal. Now, other than engaging in a little unlicensed pharmaceutical distribution, your particular connection may be a saint and a member of the Kiwanis. On the other hand, how well do you really know them? They've demonstrated the willingness to break one law; what others do they break? What other criminals do they associate with? What are the chances of this all ending in tears? If you want to play the safe side of the odds, wear your seatbelt, don't ride motorcycles, and stay away from the dope and the people who use it.
4) Likewise, hitting people is against the law. You should stay the hell away from people who think fisticuffs is an appropriate method of conflict resolution for adults. Particularly if they also have a fondness for judgement-impairing substances like Budweiser. I don't care if you lovelovelove them; if they have proven their willingness to talk with their fists, they will do it again, and maybe worse. If you are living with them or hanging around them, get out. You can then settle your differences from the other end of a phone line a whole lot safer than you could have from inside the tiger cage.
Tam Slick, "How to not get killed", View From The Porch, 2009-07-20.
October 18, 2015
QotD: Peace and order in the Kaiser's Germany
Private lawyers are not needed in Germany. If you want to buy or sell a house or field, the State makes out the conveyance. If you have been swindled, the State takes up the case for you. The State marries you, insures you, will even gamble with you for a trifle.
"You get yourself born," says the German Government to the German citizen, "we do the rest. Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it. Don't you worry yourself about anything."
And the German doesn't. Where there is no policeman to be found, he wanders about till he comes to a police notice posted on a wall. This he reads; then he goes and does what it says.
I remember in one German town—I forget which; it is immaterial; the incident could have happened in any — noticing an open gate leading to a garden in which a concert was being given. There was nothing to prevent anyone who chose from walking through that gate, and thus gaining admittance to the concert without paying. In fact, of the two gates quarter of a mile apart it was the more convenient. Yet of the crowds that passed, not one attempted to enter by that gate. They plodded steadily on under a blazing sun to the other gate, at which a man stood to collect the entrance money. I have seen German youngsters stand longingly by the margin of a lonely sheet of ice. They could have skated on that ice for hours, and nobody have been the wiser. The crowd and the police were at the other end, more than half a mile away, and round the corner. Nothing stopped their going on but the knowledge that they ought not. Things such as these make one pause to seriously wonder whether the Teuton be a member of the sinful human family or not. Is it not possible that these placid, gentle folk may in reality be angels, come down to earth for the sake of a glass of beer, which, as they must know, can only in Germany be obtained worth the drinking?
In Germany the country roads are lined with fruit trees. There is no voice to stay man or boy from picking and eating the fruit, except conscience. In England such a state of things would cause public indignation. Children would die of cholera by the hundred. The medical profession would be worked off its legs trying to cope with the natural results of over-indulgence in sour apples and unripe walnuts. Public opinion would demand that these fruit trees should be fenced about, and thus rendered harmless. Fruit growers, to save themselves the expense of walls and palings, would not be allowed in this manner to spread sickness and death throughout the community.
But in Germany a boy will walk for miles down a lonely road, hedged with fruit trees, to buy a pennyworth of pears in the village at the other end. To pass these unprotected fruit trees, drooping under their burden of ripe fruit, strikes the Anglo-Saxon mind as a wicked waste of opportunity, a flouting of the blessed gifts of Providence.
I do not know if it be so, but from what I have observed of the German character I should not be surprised to hear that when a man in Germany is condemned to death he is given a piece of rope, and told to go and hang himself. It would save the State much trouble and expense, and I can see that German criminal taking that piece of rope home with him, reading up carefully the police instructions, and proceeding to carry them out in his own back kitchen.
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel, 1914.
October 17, 2015
Moynihan's scissors
David Warren looks at the work of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
We are celebrating this year, if that is the word, the fiftieth anniversary of perhaps the most inconsequential sociological study ever published. That was, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, by the brilliant American politician and thinker, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003).
Working then in the U.S. Department of Labour, Moynihan focused his attention on a counter-intuitive statistical fact. Unemployment among black males was falling, in 1965. But rates of welfare enrollment for black families was rising. This did not make sense. The two lines on this chart had always fallen or risen together. But they had crossed over in 1962. He had put his finger in what came to be called, "Moynihan's scissors."
[…] while the "Moynihan Report" is famous, and at one time, everyone claimed to have read it, it contains something so obnoxious to enlightened post-modern thought as to remain invisible to all participants in the discussion.
This was Moynihan's sociological and anthropological observation that the American black culture was becoming "matriarchal." Whether without, or more likely with the help of welfare programmes, women were becoming the heads of households, and men were being removed from that station.
(The background: All of the higher civilizations have been unambiguously patriarchal; matriarchy is associated in the prehistoric and anthropological record with savage, gratuitously violent, self-destructive tribes.)
Already, in 1965, one in four black kids in the USA were born out of wedlock. Today it is more than three in four, and levels of bastardy among the other races have risen in course. By the end of the last century (1990s), white children were as likely to be raised in fatherless homes as black children had been in the 1960s. "Progress" has been progressing rapidly.
The Nanny State has replaced fathers as the principal source of income for such families (bankrupting itself in the process), and the feminist movement has supplied the arguments — or more precisely, misandronist slogans and vindictive clichés — for the overthrow of "patriarchy" and its systematic replacement with a shrewish matriarchy in all facets of social life. The movement has been, moreover, so successful in achieving its objects — the emasculation of men, and degradation or actual inversion of traditional morality — that it has now moved on. For with the defeat of masculinity, new horizons of "gender-bending" or "transgendering" have come into view.
Now, part of the reason people can't get their little heads around what has actually happened — first to the black family, then to the brown, then to the white — is the surviving, basically modern (i.e. pre-post-modern) belief that eunuchs behave much like fairies; that they become docile and effeminate, harmless and nurturing, sensitive and sweet; that their previously reprehensible "masculine" traits will quietly disappear. Some men do indeed respond to emasculation by becoming the pathetic, contemptible wimps that all women, including feminists, instinctively abhor. But some do not.
As a well-read student of social sciences and history, Moynihan knew better than this. The masculine capacity for violence (at all levels, spiritual as much as physical) does not go away. From Spartan Laconia, backwards and forwards through history on all continents, we see that eunuchs and other "homosexual" (the word is inadequate) guards and soldiers have been employed by the great warrior despots. This is because they make the fiercest fighters. Having no families, no heritage to protect, no women and children to feed and shelter in safety, they become a purely destructive force. They become men who do not care even for their own lives, let alone for the lives of others.
October 15, 2015
Opponents of sentencing reform
Jacob Sullum points out a few misconceptions about sentencing reform:
Anderson, with Sessions' help, manages to pack at least half a dozen serious misconceptions into a 375-word post. Let's consider them one at a time.
Is "crime rising in America"? As Jesse Walker noted here last month, the latest FBI numbers show that violent and property crime both fell last year, continuing a "long decline" that began in the mid-1990s. Although some American cities have seen spikes in violent crime this year, it is not clear whether they represent a nationwide increase or, if so, whether that increase represents a reversal of recent trends or a blip.
Are police "increasingly under siege"? Last month my former Reason colleague Radley Balko, who writes about criminal justice for The Washington Post, reported that "2015 is on pace to see 35 felonious killings of police officers" and that "if that pace holds, this year would end with the second lowest number of murdered cops in decades." As Jesse Walker pointed out here, such numbers have never deterred law-and-order types who propagate "the eternally recurring legend of a 'war on cops.'"
Are drug traffickers "violent criminals"? Some are, but there is a clear distinction between stabbing or shooting someone and engaging in consensual transactions that Congress has arbitrarily decided to prohibit. Under current law, doing the latter is enough to trigger mandatory minimum sentences ranging from five years to life. By pretending there is no difference between violent predators and nonviolent drug offenders, opponents of reform make a hash out of any effort to focus criminal justice resources on the lawbreakers who pose the biggest threat to public safety.
October 10, 2015
Police body cameras
There's plenty of argument about whether body cams are a pro- or anti-police innovation. Here's an example of the way body cams can actually help to show when the police are doing everything right, and things still go wrong:
We've written a lot here at Ars about how video surveillance has captured cops doing bad things. We cover this area because the technology of body cams, Taser cams, dash cams, and even images taken by bystanders has changed our perspective on police behavior that would likely have been swept under the rug previously.
But this surveillance technology also captures officers who, in the words of a local Cleveland county prosecutor, have acted with "remarkable restraint." In this instance, body cam footage of several Cleveland patrol officers shows them doing everything they could to convince a man to put down his weapon.
Police came to visit Theodore Johnson's Cleveland residence after his wife claimed he threatened to kill her. The man had already shot one officer, striking the chest of a patrolman David Muniz's ballistic vest. "I know you shot me, but I'm not going to shoot you," Muniz tells the 64-year-old Johnson, according to police body cam footage taken at the scene.
To be honest, I'm quite impressed at the restraint these officers managed to show. If a member of my team had just been shot, I know it'd be very tough for me not to return fire…
October 2, 2015
QotD: The plight of women at Yale is "worse than Berlin in 1945"
The Association of American Universities (AAU), a nationally recognized research organization, arranged last Spring to have a Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct taken by undergraduate and graduate and professional students at 27 colleges and universities.
The results at Yale were more spectacular than merely impressive. The survey's results apparently demonstrate that "By senior year, 34.6 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation." These are sexual assaults that meet criminal standards.
"Among female undergraduates, 28.1 percent experienced this type of assault since entering Yale University and 14.3 percent experienced this type of assault during the current school year."
When the Russian Army took Berlin in 1945, "[a]t least 100,000 women are believed to have been raped" (Wikipedia) out of a population of 2,000,000 women.
So roughly 5% of German women were successfully sexually assaulted in 1945 by a hostile invading army of primitives bent upon revenge, while in 2015 at Yale almost three times as many (14.3% ) of the young ladies suffer the same fate worse than death. Goodness gracious!
David Zincavage, "Worse Than Berlin in 1945", Never Yet Melted, 2015-09-22.