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U.S. Confirms Effort to Phase Out Selected 'Dirty Bomb' Materials
Paired with conventional explosives, radiological materials used in medicine could potentially be dispersed over a wide area, creating dangerous contamination.
U.S. officials confirmed on Monday that they will launch an effort to help limit the prospect of "dirty bomb" attacks by working to phase out certain radiological materials.
"The United States intends to establish an international research effort on the feasibility of replacing high-activity radiological sources with non-isotopic replacement technologies, with the goal of producing a global alternative by 2016," states a U.S. "progress report," released Monday at the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands.
This unilateral "house gift" that U.S. officials offered at the biennial gathering of world leaders follows calls from nonproliferation advocates for the United States and United Kingdom to lead an effort that could enable a global phase-out of selected radiological materials used in the medical field.
As Global Security Newswire reported last week, a report from James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies suggested that hospitals and blood banks move away from the use of cesium chloride. The radioactive substance presently is used for irradiating blood prior to transfusion, in order to prevent a rare but lethal complication known as graft-versus-host disease.
Paired with conventional explosives, such substances could potentially be dispersed over a wide area in a dirty bomb attack, creating dangerous contamination.
The report says blood could be irradiated instead with electromagnetic radiation, such as X-rays or ultraviolet light, or by linear accelerators that many hospitals already have on hand for cancer treatments.


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How good does this one-pot roasted salmon, rice, and vegetable dish look? Amazing, wouldn't you agree? This is my kind of meal — easy, healthy, and delicious.
No one knows gluten-free cooking and baking better than Carol Fenster. This post is about her newly revised and updated cookbook, Gluten-Free 101: The Essential Beginner's Guide to Easy Gluten-Free Cooking. It's also your opportunity to win your own copy.
But first, I must disclose that Carol is a good friend of mine. We have lunch together often and we're never at a loss for words. In fact, three hour lunches are common for us. Aside from being the visionary in the world of gluten-free cooking, she's an incredibly nice person — one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. For someone who's known world-wide for her expertise, she's over-the-top humble and remarkably generous with her knowledge. All she wants to do is help people navigate the gluten-free lifestyle in a healthy and delicious way. Carol's been doing this long before it was trendy. In fact, she's been creating gluten-free recipes, writing cookbooks (10 to date), sharing information, and increasing awareness of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity for over 25 years. She's the ultimate expert.
Having said that, there's a touch of newsworthy irony to Carol's story. She grew up on a wheat farm in Nebraska and went on to marry a wheat farmer. Imagine how life-altering it was for her to be diagnosed with an intolerance to gluten? Her family's livelihood was defined by wheat. It was the main topic of conversation during family gatherings. Her journey from wheat farmer's daughter to the queen of gluten-free cooking hasn't been easy. But Carol has a delightful sense of humor, a supportive family, and an unwavering spirit, so that part of the story is just a tasty footnote to her success.
Now, back to the features of Gluten-Free 101. This book is designed for people new to the gluten-free lifestyle, but there's enough interesting information for even the most experienced cook. The book describes how to read labels, offers alternatives to gluten, gives substitutions, and details how to successfully stock a gluten-free pantry. The book also highlights 175 gluten-free recipes, including everything from basic quick bread to ham quiche to lemon bars. It's all there, whether you're new at this or a seasoned gluten-free expert. The gorgeous color photos (see salmon photo above) also make it a fun book to drool over.
Who wants to win their own copy? Trust me, it's worth a try. Here's all you have to do to be entered. Choose to do one of the following (or all) and then leave me a message here on my blog as to what you did or why you'd like to have this cookbook. I'll choose a winner at random. The contest closes at midnight on Sunday, February 16th.
- Like Carol's Facebook Page — https://www.facebook.com/carol.fenster
- Follow Carol on Twitter — @CarolFenster
- Follow Carol on Pinterest — http://www.pinterest.com/carolfenster/
Make sure you leave me a message in the comment section so I know who is entered and how to get in touch with you if you win (your email address will remain private). Good luck!
Here's a delicious sample recipe courtesy of Gluten-Free 101: The Essential Beginner's Guide to Easy Gluten-Free Cooking, by Carol Fenster (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 14, 2014, printed with permission)
One-Pot Roasted Salmon with Mediterranean Vegetables and Rice
Makes 4 servings
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Roasting time: 40 minutes
- 2 cups gluten-free low-sodium chicken broth, heated to boiling
- 1 cup long-grain white rice
- 5 ounces baby spinach
- 1 (6-1/2 ounce) jar marinated artichokes, drained
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup red grape tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup pitted black olives, sliced
- 4 small salmon fillets (about 4 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons dry white wine or lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
- 1 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning or lemon-herb seasoning
- Place a rack in the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place the boiling broth and the rice in a deep, 2-quart baking dish.
- In a large bowl, toss the spinach, artichokes, and garlic together and place on top of the rice. Arrange the tomatoes and black olives around the edges of the dish. Arrange the salmon fillets on top of the spinach, drizzle with the olive oil and wine, and sprinkle with the salt, pepper, and lemon pepper seasoning. Cover tightly with a lid or aluminum foil.
- Roast in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove the lid and continue roasting until the fish flakes easily with a fork, 5 to 7 minutes, depending on the thickness of the fish. Serve immediately.
Per serving: 470 calories; 35g protein; 15g total fat; 4g fiber; 46g carbohydrates; 59mg cholesterol; 894mg sodium
Enjoy! Don't forget to leave me a comment so you're entered to win a copy of Gluten-Free 101.
UPDATE: And the winner is — Nicole (#8 comment).


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By Bill Rigby
SEATTLE, March 6 (Reuters) - Alzheimer's disease is the fastest-growing threat to Americans' health, while early childhood illnesses and interpersonal violence are declining in frequency, according to the most detailed research on the causes of death and disability in the country published on Tuesday.
The findings of a research project show that among rich countries, noncommunicable diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and drug and drink disorders now loom largest, while poor countries are still chiefly threatened by infectious and infant diseases, especially HIV/AIDS.
Data on global causes of death and disability were published by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in December. Tuesday's results, presented in Seattle by Microsoft Corp co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, included country-by-country data. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which principally aims to curb diseases causing the most deaths in poor countries, is the biggest funder of IHME.
The latest set of data "kicks off a world where we are really going to be able to talk about our health statistics in a deep way," said Gates. He said the IHME data would be especially useful, allowing individual countries to benchmark their healthcare performance against others'.
The IHME's Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 was created over five years by almost 500 researchers in 50 countries. The latest version is the most detailed since the project began in 1991 and the first to provide specifics by country.
For the United States, the data shows that the most prolific killers are heart disease, lung cancer, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as measured by numbers of years of life lost, calculated by subtracting the age someone dies from their maximum life expectancy.
The research mostly did not go into reasons why certain diseases were rising or ebbing, but the data confirms general health trends already observed in the United States.
Diabetes jumped to No. 7 on the U.S. list of causes of premature death from No. 15 in 1990, a measure of the growth in diet-related health complications as Americans eat more calorie-packed foods. Alzheimer's jumped to No. 9 from No. 32, largely because Americans are living longer and are more susceptible to the illness in older age. A similar trend is evident in most wealthy countries where life expectancy is increasing.
HIV/AIDS was the biggest decliner, falling from No. 7 in 1990 to No. 23 in the latest figures, reflecting greater awareness of the disease and the availability of advanced drugs. Interpersonal violence fell to No. 12 from No. 8, although it was not clear why.
Full figures and data visualizations for the United States and other countries is available here: www.ihmeuw.org/GBDcountryviz.
Another measure, called years lived with disability - calculated by ascribing severity levels to a range of nonfatal conditions - showed that the biggest health problems troubling an aging U.S. population are low back pain, major depressive disorder, neck pain and anxiety disorders.
Putting together the data on years of life lost and years living with disability, the IHME produced a measure it calls "disability adjusted life years," which aims to capture the overall causes of death and suffering.
In the United States, according to that measure, the biggest threats are coronary heart disease, COPD and low back pain.
Alzheimer's and problems from illicit drug use were the fastest-growing factors for the measure between 1990 and 2010, while lower-respiratory infections, interpersonal violence and preterm birth complications were the sharpest decliners.
The three risk factors that correlate with the most disease in the United States are bad diet, tobacco smoking and high body-mass index, an indication of excess weight, according to IHME data.
In the two decades since the first iteration of this research, sponsored by the World Bank in 1991, the United States fell to No. 13 from No. 10 in one measure of death rates against a group of 15 other rich countries most similar in terms of income, including Canada, Kuwait, Switzerland and Brunei.
Gates said the data would be useful for rich and poor countries alike in identifying their most pressing health problems and working out how to tackle them.
"In almost every endeavor, but particularly in health, it's the areas where we go in and do a good job of measurement that we make progress," said Gates. "We see who is doing well, who is not doing well and we come up with the tactics to make very rapid change." (Reporting by Bill Rigby; editing by Prudence Crowther)


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Page 40 - I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony ; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Page 18 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 48 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Page 26 - And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
Page 49 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Page 15 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page 17 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold ; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Page 37 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; he shall dwell on.
Page 43 - These are they which were not defiled with women ; for they are virgins ; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Page 27 - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.


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11 October 1933
Rudolf Seligsohn's eulogy for Bertha Lindenberg
When Bertha Lindenberg was buried in Oderberg on 11 October 1933, rabbi candidate Rudolf Seligsohn (1909–1943)—only twenty-three at the time—held a remarkable eulogy. For Seligsohn, saying goodbye to Miss Lindenberg, a woman with deep roots in the little Brandenburg town, was "a symbol of another, greater farewell." It was a farewell to the Jewish communities in the countryside and small towns, which "will not be able to take up the harsh struggle for existence that the German Jews must now pursue."
The decline of such communities had begun in the mid-nineteenth century as a result of emerging urbanization, the allure of the big cities, and the advance of modernization. Rudolf Seligsohn believed it meant the loss of treasured values, of manual labor, and of a strong sense of connection with the soil. For him, this parting marked the end of endeavors to "lay the foundations of German Jewry afresh" by sustaining smaller communities. It also signaled the failure of hopes to achieve "a healthy and equitable distribution of the adherents of Judaism across our fatherland" by means of new settlements.
Seligsohn could not have guessed what the future would bring—"only a prophet could tell whether German Jews will enjoy the shining light of freedom again"—but he emphasized that "if the gates do reopen," the German Jewish community would have to renew itself. It would have to give precedence not to the path of nineteenth-century emancipation, the path "toward pure intellect, the path into the city," but instead to rootedness in the countryside. He saw the deceased woman and her family as "representatives of true Jewishness," of a Jewishness that "clings to its soil, straight from the root, robust and strong, constructing, preserving, and sustaining."
The funeral of Bertha Lindenberg, who "took her leave at a moment of historical transition," was the last to be held at Oderberg's Jewish cemetery, in use since at least 1750. The cemetery was desecrated during the Nazi period and many of its gravestones were lost, while others were simply thrown haphazardly into a heap. After the war the cemetery was cleaned up, and around forty monuments and fragments were reerected. They included Bertha Lindenberg's tombstone.
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Eulogy at the graveside of Fräulein Lindenberg in Oderberg (Mark) on 11 October 1933
We have come together today at an hour of farewell, and Providence has decreed that this farewell from one human being becomes a symbol of another, greater farewell. We have come here to a town where a Jewish community once blossomed and where today the Jewish cemetery is almost the last, lonely island of Jewry. Developments in many small towns of our fatherland have meant that only the cemetery is left of Jewry, of Jewish life. We German Jews have observed these developments with concern and trepidation: the move away from the soil, away from the countryside, away from manual labor; the move that has led us into the big cities where we cannot see the sky above us or the earth below, where the light of the sun does not touch us, the roots of the soil do not reach us. In the past ten years, we have begun to try to lay the foundations of German Jewry afresh; we have tried with all our strength to win back the land and the soil, to sustain and nurture the small communities in little towns. In the Jewish settlement movement, we saw the promising beginnings of a social reconfiguration, a healthy and equitable distribution of the adherents of Judaism across our fatherland.
But it was not to be. We say farewell to those efforts, knowing that the smaller communities will not be able to take up the harsh struggle for existence that the German Jews must now pursue. Perhaps it will be possible for the large Jewish communities in bigger cities to continue to exist and continue to care for German Jewry, for its existence, its culture, and its future. We say farewell to the countryside,
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farewell to these small communities. With each of their children, we bear a piece of the past to its grave, a piece of the past that we thought would become a hope for the future. We look to the coming days with great apprehension. It is not that each of us fears and worries individually for his own life, his well-being, and his property; but we who wanted to put down roots, we who were weary of the pressures of the big city, once again find ourselves facing a perilous tendency. Only a prophet could tell whether German Jews will enjoy the shining light of freedom again. But one thing we know: if the gates do reopen, then we will not follow the path chosen by Jews during the emancipation of the last century, the path upward, the path toward pure intellect, the path into the city. We will, if it is granted to us, delight in the sunshine of the countryside and the roots of the soil; in this hour of parting we sense what we lack, what we yearn for.
Yet in saying farewell to a part of our history, we do not forget the human being who embodied that part of history. Bertha Lindenberg—the name of her family has grown old, centuries old, in this town. She was the heir to rich traditions, she could look with pride at the circle of her kin. Her brothers did their duty in the war of 1870 and earned honor and respect for it—they were representatives of true Jewishness, of the Jewishness that clings to its soil, straight from the root, robust and strong, constructing, preserving, and sustaining. Bertha Lindenberg—we thank her at this hour, for she held fast to Jewishness and to the German soil, she was permitted to walk the path of blessedness. We will return, go back to
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the everyday life of the metropolis, back to the reality of duty. We will take with us an experience and a memory stronger than any that can be taught by the world history of the Jewish people: the memory of a family that brought honor and esteem to German Jewry, that embodied it more truly than many who offer themselves to the gaze of outsiders. For us who are saying farewell, for us German Jews, the time has come for working and for building. We have seen true building, building up from the soil, here before us. We recollect that the sacred language of the Jews is the only one in which the word for "man" is derived from the word for "earth": Adam—Adamah; we remember the ancient exegesis of our sages, which tells us that God asked the first man: What is your name? And that he answered: Adam, for I was created from the "dust of the earth," min haadamah. We Jews will not abandon this earth, we will not demolish our traditions. This is an hour of parting, an hour to take stock of ourselves. Bertha Lindenberg—she thanks those who show her honor, those who gave her respect during her life. Her name lives on in this town. She took her leave at a moment of historical transition; her dignity survives. We bless her memory.


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by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist
Whenever there is a steady series of public questions being raised about the "power" of Black Americans, you should always first consider the motive and purpose of the questions. Such was the case recently when Richard Prince wrote a column, which was posted on The Root, titled: "Is The Black Press Still Powerful?" Of course the answer is "Yes, the Black Press in America is still powerful."
What was the underlying motive for this question being asked? I wonder if Prince, a long-time employee of the Washington Post, has ever written a column titled, "Is The White Press Still Powerful?" I seriously doubt it.
There is a larger contextual reality that also needs to be considered. The truth is that during past year, there has been a consistent series of so-called "mainstream" news articles, editorials, and blogs that have questioned the relevance, power and legitimacy of Black-owned businesses and institutions.
In addition, during this same time period, the effectiveness and contemporary purpose of our traditional civil rights organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)have been called into question.
A few months ago the New York Times published story that questioned whether Howard University and other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were still relevant and worthy of continued existence.
It is not a mere coincidence that some of these news articles and blogs are being written again by supposedly "well-intentioned" African Americans. We certainly support and defend the right to freedom of the press and the right of all people to express themselves. Of course, the press has the right to be wrong. With that right, however, goes a responsibility not to distort the truth.
This is not about neither freedom of the press nor freedom of speech. This is about the issue of racism and its proclivity to define and question reality. This is about the fact that we still live in a society that continues to be under girded by the ideology of White supremacy that presupposes the false notion of Black inferiority. And as long as that is the case, there will be a need for powerful Black institutions.
The Black Church is powerful. The Black Press is powerful. HBCUs are powerful. The NAACP and SCLC are still needed. While we have made considerable progress in the last 50 years, we still have not overcome racism and its negative impact on Black America. And that fact is sometimes conveniently overlooked by Black journalists who work for such White-owned outlets such as the Washington Post and The Root.
For me and my co-defendants in the civil rights case known worldwide as the Wilmington Ten, this is a personal matter when someone takes issue with the present-day "power" of the Black Press. In 1972, the Wilmington Ten were unjustly sentenced to a combined total of 282 years in prison in the state of North Carolina. We were falsely accused and wrongly convicted of arson and conspiracy to assault charges doing a 1971 racial riot over public school desegregation in Wilmington. A little more than a year ago, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the Black Press USA, launched an effective national campaign to get an official "Pardon of Innocence" for the Wilmington Ten.
For more than 40 years, many in the established media in the U.S. had published articles about the alleged "guilt" of the Wilmington Ten. In fact, the New York Times published a story in the late 1970s under the headline: "The Case Against the Wilmington Ten." By the end of 2012, however, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue agreed with the NNPA-led effort as she issued an unprecedented Pardon of Innocence to each member of the Wilmington Ten. Gov. Perdue courageously stated, "This was a case of naked racism." We are, therefore, grateful to Gov. Perdue for her historic act and for her candor. We are also very grateful to all of the Black newspaper publishers and writers throughout the United States who continue to uphold the proud banner of the Black Press.
Let's us never underestimate the enduring value and respect of all our Black-owned businesses and institutions. Of course, we always open to constructive criticism and recommendations concerning how to strengthen the economic status of the businesses that are vital to our forward progress. However, it would be a tragic error to assume that because we now have a Black American as president of the United States, there is no longer a need to sustain the very institutions, organizations and businesses that have contributed so much to our progress.
I thank God for the powerful Black Press in America. We all should be more supportive of the Black Press, Black Church, HBCUs, and our ongoing struggle for freedom, justice and equality not only for Black Americans, but also for all people across the nation and world.


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VI.1 The Chairperson having suggested the setting up of possibly two working groups in order to facilitate the work, the Committee decided, on the proposal of Italy which was endorsed by Japan, Mexico and Niger, to set up a working group to discuss the International Assistance requests, and to organize, if necessary, the Committee's debate on the budget. It was likewise decided that this, as any other working group, would be open to all delegates and observers alike.
VI.2 The Committee also decided to create a working group which would prepare sub-items (a), (b), (c) and (d) of Agenda item 7 (reports on the state of conservation) for their subsequent discussion in the Committee in light of the debate at the Tenth session of the General Assembly of states Parties. It was also agreed that this working group, as proposed by Australia, would prepare for the Committee a set of options on the policy and methodology of systematic monitoring.


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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST – Review by Susan Granger
When is a sci-fi sequel also a prequel? When Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) time-travels 50 years into the past in a desperate effort to alter the course of history and thwart what could be doomsday for humans and mutants like. Read on…
Sometime in the dark, desolate, dystopian future, an army of gigantic killer robots, known as Sentinels, has almost succeeded in annihilating all the mutants and their human supporters. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his longtime friend/rival, Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen) are hidden with their few remaining allies in a remote Chinese safe house. Their only hope is to use Kitty Prude's (Ellen Page) mental powers to project Logan/Wolverine's (Jackman) consciousness back to 1973 to erase the Sentinel program from history.
Catapulting through world history, including JFK's assassination, the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's Presidency, cutlery-fisted Wolverine must convince reclusive, mentally/physically crippled Young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who's with Hank/Beast (Nicolas Hoult). And with the help of Wolverine's agile pal Peter/Quicksilver (Evan Peters), they manage to infiltrate the Pentagon, free anarchistic Young Magneto (Michael Fassbender) from incarceration and foil angry, blue-skinned, shape-shifting Raven/Mystique's (Jennifer Lawrence) plan to kill villainous, mutant-hating Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), since that would only accelerate the Sentinel program.
Loosely adapted from Chris Claremont's comic book with a story by Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg and Matthew Vaughn, the confusing, convoluted screenplay is credited to producer Simon Kinberg and adroitly directed by Bryan Singer with lots of astonishing CGI and visual effects. To keep track of the characters/timeline, it would certainly help to have seen all the other previous installments. With such a large cast, not everyone gets equal time – like Storm (Halle Berry), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Havok (Lucas Till) and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore). New additions include Blink (Chinese star Bingbing Fan), Bishop (Omar Sy), Sunspot (Adan Canto) and Warpath (Booboo Stewart).
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is a suspenseful, satisfying 7. Stay to the end of the credits for a glimpse of the next mutant-centric installment.


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HD Moore, CSO of Rapid7 and chief architect of the Metasploit Project, says BrowserScan is a way for organizations to determine the vulnerability of their end users without a major vulnerability scan at the desktop. It's for all types and sizes of organizations, including those that are unable to run full vulnerability scans or conduct full-blown patch evaluations.
"It uses a small tracking code that's an easy way to see how vulnerable your users are and where your patch problems might be," Moore says. It provides a baseline of how the state of browser add-ons are across the enterprise, he says.
Rapid7 is offering online registration for BrowserScan. Once registered, the organization then pastes its BrowserScan code into the HTML template or footer of websites its users frequent, including Outlook Web Access, SharePoint, and WordPress-based sites. The service then scans their browsers and reports information on missing browser or add-in updates, as well as other potential security weaknesses.
Browser plug-ins have become a popular attack vector over the past few years as browser software vendors have done a better job writing more secure browser code. Browser vulnerabilities are a topic near and dear to Moore, who masterminded the Month of Browser Bugs (MOBB) in 2006 that ultimately helped pressure Microsoft to beef up security of Internet Explorer.
Moore says BrowserScan is a way to keep tabs on plug-ins as well as updates to browsers, which occur regularly these days. "It's really a way to ... identify gaps there are today, and to verify your [security] policy," Moore says.
BrowserScan isn't the first service of its kind: Qualys also offers a BrowserCheck browser plug-in that looks for updates and other potential security holes in the browser. The main difference is that it runs an agent on the user's machine, Moore says, while Rapid7's BrowserScan does not.
There are four basic configurations of the service: transparent mode, where the scanner just silently gathers data; badge mode, where users get a small graphic pop-up alerting them of risks to their browsers; overlay mode, a full-page screen that shows up when the browser is at risk; and redirect mode, where the user can't access the site if his browser needs remediation, and he's sent to another page to take care of it.
Overall, the new Rapid7 service is more of a "good first step" for locking down browsers, Moore says. Other information, such as whether the vulnerabilities it finds in the browser are actually exploitable, is something that's still the job of the full-blown vulnerability scanner, he says.
Look for Rapid7 to also add support for scanning mobile browsers in the future, he says.
Moore's blog post on the new service, as well as a screen shot of the interface, is here.
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Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved new rules submitted by the national securities exchanges and FINRA to expand a recently-adopted circuit breaker program to include all stocks in the Russell 1000 Index and certain exchange-traded funds. The SEC also approved new exchange and FINRA rules that clarify the process for breaking erroneous trades.
The circuit breaker pilot program was approved in June in response to the market disruption of May 6 and currently applies to stocks listed in the S&P 500 Index. Trading in a security included in the program is paused for a five-minute period if the security experiences a 10 percent price change over the preceding five minutes. The pause gives the markets an opportunity to attract new trading interest in an affected stock, establish a reasonable market price, and resume trading in a fair and orderly fashion. The circuit breaker program is in effect on a pilot basis through Dec. 10, 2010.
A list of the securities included in the Russell 1000 Index, which was rebalanced on June 25, is available on the Russell website. The list of exchange-traded products included in the pilot is available on the SEC's website. The SEC anticipates that the exchanges and FINRA will begin implementing the expanded circuit breaker program early next week.
"These circuit breakers and this more objective guidance on breaking erroneous trades will help our markets retain the confidence of investors and companies," said SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro. "We have worked quickly with the exchanges to take these steps, and we will continue to be very focused on addressing weaknesses exposed on May 6."
The markets will continue to use the pilot period to make appropriate adjustments to the parameters or operation of the circuit breakers as warranted based on their experience.
The erroneous trade rules were developed in response to the market disruption of May 6. The rules will make it clearer when — and at what prices — trades will be broken by the exchanges and FINRA. As with the circuit breaker program, these rules will be in effect on a pilot basis through Dec. 10, 2010.
For stocks that are subject to the circuit breaker program, trades will be broken at specified levels depending on the stock price:
For stocks priced $25 or less, trades will be broken if the trades are at least 10 percent away from the circuit breaker trigger price.
For stocks priced more than $25 to $50, trades will be broken if they are 5 percent away from the circuit breaker trigger price.
For stocks priced more than $50, the trades will be broken if they are 3 percent away from the circuit breaker trigger price.
Where circuit breakers are not applicable, the exchanges and FINRA will break trades at specified levels for events involving multiple stocks depending on how many stocks are involved:
For events involving between five and 20 stocks, trades will be broken that are at least 10 percent away from the "reference price," typically the last sale before pricing was disrupted.
For events involving more than 20 stocks, trades will be broken that are at least 30 percent away from the reference price.
On May 6, the markets only broke trades that were more than 60 percent away from the reference price in a process that was not transparent to market participants. By establishing clear and transparent standards for breaking erroneous trades, the new rules should help provide certainty in advance as to which trades will be broken, and allow market participants to better manage their risks.
At Chairman Schapiro's request, the SEC staff is also:
Considering whether market makers should be subject to more meaningful obligations to promote fair and orderly markets.
Working with the exchanges to prohibit the use by market makers of "stub" quotes that are not intended to indicate actual trading interest.
Studying the impact of multiple trading protocols at the exchanges, including the use of trading pauses and self-help rules.
The SEC staff also intends to work with the markets and CFTC staff to consider recalibrating market-wide circuit breakers currently on the books — none of which was triggered on May 6. These circuit breakers apply across all equity trading venues and the futures markets.
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I AM that which began;
Out of me the years roll;
Out of me God and man;
I am equal and whole;
God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.
Before ever land was,
Before ever the sea,
Or soft hair of the grass,
Or fair limbs of the tree,
Or the flesh-colour'd fruit of my branches, I was, and thy soul was in
First life on my sources
First drifted and swam;
Out of me are the forces
That save it or damn;
Out of me man and woman, and wild-beast and bird: before God was, I
Beside or above me
Naught is there to go;
Love or unlove me,
Unknow me or know,
I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the
I the mark that is miss'd
And the arrows that miss,
I the mouth that is kiss'd
And the breath in the kiss,
The search, and the sought,
I am that thing which blesses
My spirit elate;
That which caresses
With hands uncreate
My limbs unbegotten that measure the length of the measure of fate.
But what thing dost thou now,
Looking Godward, to cry,
'I am I, thou art thou,
I am low, thou art high'?
I am thou, whom thou seekest to find him; find thou but thyself, thou
Art I.
I the grain and the furrow,
The plough-cloven clod
And the ploughshare drawn thorough,
The germ and the sod,
The deed and the doer, the seed and the sower, the dust which is God.
Hast thou known how I fashion'd thee,
Child, underground?
Fire that impassion'd thee,
Iron that bound,
Dim changes of water, what thing of all these hast thou known of or
Canst thou say in thine heart
Thou hast seen with thine eyes
With what cunning of art
Thou wast wrought in what wise,
By what force of what stuff thou wast shapen, and shown on my breast
To the skies?
Who hath given, who hath sold it thee,
Knowledge of me?
Has the wilderness told it thee?
Hast thou learnt of the sea?
Hast thou communed in spirit with night? have the winds taken counsel
With thee?
HaveI set such a star
To show light on thy brow
That thou sawest from afar
What I show to thee now?
Have ye spoken as brethren together, the sun and the mountains and
What is here, dost thou know it?
What was, hast thou known?
Prophet nor poet
Nor tripod nor throne
Nor spirit nor flesh can make answer, but only thy mother alone.
Mother, not maker,
Born, and not made;
Though her children forsake her,
Allured or afraid,
Praying prayers to the God of their fashion, she stirs not for all
That have pray'd.
A creed is a rod,
And a crown is of night;
But this thing is God,
To be man with thy might,
To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life
As the light.
I am in thee to save thee,
As my soul in thee saith;
Give thou as I gave thee,
Thy life-blood and breath,
Green leaves of thy labour, white flowers of thy thought, and red
Fruit of thy death.
Be the ways of thy giving
As mine were to thee;
The free life of thy living,
Be the gift of it free;
Not as servant to lord, nor as master to slave, shalt thou give thee
To me.
O children of banishment,
Souls overcast,
Were the lights ye see vanish meant
Alway to last,
Ye would know not the sun overshining the shadows and stars overpast.
I that saw where ye trod
The dim paths of the night
Set the shadow call'd God
In your skies to give light;
But the morning of manhood is risen, and the shadowless soul is in
The tree many-rooted
That swells to the sky
With frondage red-fruited,
The life-tree am I;
In the buds of your lives is the sap of my leaves: ye shall live and
Not die.
But the Gods of your fashion
That take and that give,
In their pity and passion
That scourge and forgive,
They are worms that are bred in the bark that falls off; they shall
Die and not live.
My own blood is what stanches
The wounds in my bark;
Stars caught in my branches
Make day of the dark,
And are worshipp'd as suns till the sunrise shall tread out their
Fires as a spark.
Where dead ages hide under
The live roots of the tree,
In my darkness the thunder
Makes utterance of me;
In the clash of my boughs with each other ye hear the waves sound of
The sea.
That noise is of Time,
As his feathers are spread
And his feet set to climb
Through the boughs overhead,
And my foliage rings round him and rustles, and branches are bent with
His tread.
The storm-winds of ages
Blow through me and cease,
The war-wind that rages,
The spring-wind of peace,
Ere the breath of them roughen my tresses, ere one of my blossoms
All sounds of all changes,
All shadows and lights
On the world's mountain-ranges
And stream-riven heights,
Whose tongue is the wind's tongue and language of storm-clouds on
Earth-shaking nights;
All forms of all faces,
All works of all hands
In unsearchable places
Of time-stricken lands,
All death and all life, and all reigns and all ruins, drop through me
As sands.
Though sore be my burden
And more than ye know,
And my growth have no guerdon
But only to grow,
Yet I fail not of growing for lightnings above me or deathworms below.
These too have their part in me,
As I too in these;
Such fire is at heart in me,
Such sap is this tree's,
Which hath in it all sounds and all secrets of infinite lands and of
In the spring-colour'd hours
When my mind was as May's
There brake forth of me flowers
By centuries of days,
Strong blossoms with perfume of manhood, shot out from my spirit as
And the sound of them springing
And smell of their shoots
Were as warmth and sweet singing
And strength to my roots;
And the lives of my children made perfect with freedom of soul were my
I bid you but be;
I have need not of prayer;
I have need of you free
As your mouths of mine air;
That my heart may be greater within me, beholding the fruits of me
More fair than strange fruit is
Of faiths ye espouse;
In me only the root is
That blooms in your boughs;
Behold now your God that ye made you, to feed him with faith of your
In the darkening and whitening
Abysses adored,
With dayspring and lightning
For lamp and for sword,
God thunders in heaven, and his angels are red with the wrath of the
O my sons, O too dutiful
Toward Gods not of me,
Was not I enough beautiful?
Was it hard to be free?
For behold, I am with you, am in you and of you; look forth now and
Lo, wing'd with world's wonders,
With miracles shod,
With the fires of his thunders
For raiment and rod,
God trembles in heaven, and his angels are white with the terror of
For his twilight is come on him,
His anguish is here;
And his spirits gaze dumb on him,
Grown gray from his fear;
And his hour taketh hold on him stricken, the last of his infinite
Thought made him and breaks him,
Truth slays and forgives;
But to you, as time takes him,
This new thing it gives,
Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom and lives.
For truth only is living,
Truth only is whole,
And the love of his giving
Man's polestar and pole;
Man, pulse of my centre, and fruit of my body, and seed of my soul.
One birth of my bosom;
One beam of mine eye;
One topmost blossom
That scales the sky;
Man, equal and one with me, man that is made of me, man that is I.


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Home burglaries, in particular, can be minimized when community residents take steps to make their homes less inviting and vulnerable to burglars.
Burglary, the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft, is generally considered a crime against property. It has, however, a high potential for death or injury to the victim who comes in and surprises an intruder. Through the well recognized concept of the Neighborhood Watch Program (NWP), a community-based program supported by the National Sheriffs' Association since 1972, residents of thousands of communities across the nation have discovered that they can make a difference in preventing crime.
The Role of the Community in Neighborhood WatchAsk anyone whose home has been burglarized - the shock and helpless anger accompanying the discovery that an intruder has entered one's home will not easily be forgotten. The damage may be minimal or major, the losses slight or catastrophic. The incident may or may not have involved injury to a family member - yet one hard fact remains: another statistic has been added to the ever-growing list of burglarized homes.
Is Your Neighborhood Ready to Resist Crime or is it a Target for Burglars? It's Up to You!Chances are good that a home burglarized today is located in a neighborhood where one vital prevention tool is missing: an active Neighborhood Watch Program. This community-based Organization of citizens working together with law enforcement has become the key to preventing burglary and crime nationwide.
The National Sheriffs' Association created the National Neighborhood Watch Program in 1972, with financial assistance from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, to unite law enforcement agencies, private organizations, and individual citizens in a massive effort to reduce residential crime. A work plan emerged for use by sheriffs, police, and citizens for putting together local neighborhood-based programs. Since its establishment, NWP has developed thousands of such local residential crime prevention programs in which individual citizens work to:
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- Cooperate with law enforcement through block and neighborhood groups to control crime through-out the community.


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Samsung Electronics has put its R&D focus on 14nm FinFET process development, looking to snatch A9 chip orders from Apple, according to Digitimes Research.
Apple is believed to have informed Samsung about not placing orders for 20nm A8, said Digitimes Research. The South Korea-based firm is still making other processors, including the new A7 chip, for Apple.
Apple remains Samsung's biggest foundry customer. Therefore, losing the opportunity of supplying A8 chips to Apple may result in some idle capacity that Samsung may have to fill starting mid-2014, Digitimes Research indicated.
To avoid the risk of idle capacity, Samsung is aggressively pursuing new customers, including Qualcomm and Nvidia, Digitimes Research said.
Samsung currently has four plants engaged in the manufacture of non-memory ICs with a combined monthly capacity of about 110,000 12-inch wafers. Its plant in Austin, US produces 40,000 wafers a month.
In addition, Samsung has resumed the construction of its Line-17 fab in Hwaseong, South Korea, which was put off previously. The new logic fab is expected to kick off volume production between the end of 2013 and early-2014, Digitimes Research said.
Samsung's planned Line-17 fab will mainly produce advanced 20nm and 14nm chips, and bring in an additional 50,000 12-inch wafers in capacity per month, Digitimes Research noted.
This article is an excerpt from a Chinese Digitimes Research report. Click here if you are interested in receiving more information about the content and price of a translated version of the full report.


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That's what one electronic road sign said in Casper on Saturday. The Wyoming Department of Transportation says a sign operator working from Cheyenne meant to type "35+" but mistakenly added another 5.
A local newspaper reports that the inflated wind gust message was posted for 17 minutes before the department noticed the mistake and corrected it.
The whirlwind on social media lasted longer.
One person posted a photo of the sign with the comment "CASPER WY. WHERE TORNADO ALLEY SEEMS PLEASANTLY BREEZY."


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You can tell a lot about filmmakers and their attitudes from the way they choose to frame a child...--Adrian Martin, "John Cassavetes: Inventor of Forms", Cinema Scope 8, 2001, p.42.
L'Enfance-nue - Maurice Pialat, 1968, 35mm
Passe ton bac d'abord - Maurice Pialat, 1979, 35mm
I start with a really long film, one that resembles the real world, and then I cut it down by playing with editing. Editing is useful because we can make a life out of useless fragments; however, it's also the worst crux of cinema. A necessary evil. I play with film fragments as little as possible - it's a lot of work. But all the same, it's play. Editing is all about physical contact, a manual mode of expression.--Maurice Pialat, interviewed by Christian Fevret & Serge Kaganski, Film Comment 40.3, 2004, p.38.
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble - Maurice Pialat, 1972, 35mm
The reality that cinema reproduces at will and organises is the same worldly reality of which we are a part, the sensible continuum out of which the celluloid makes a mold both spatial and temporal. I cannot repeat a single moment of my life, but cinema can repeat any one of those moments indefinitely before my eyes. If it is true that for consciousness no moment is equal to any other, there is one on which this fundamental difference converges, and that is the moment of death. For every creature, death is the unique moment par excellence. The qualitative time of life is retroactively defined in relation to it. It marks the frontier between the duration of consciousness and the objective time of things. Death is nothing but one moment after another, but it is the last.--André Bazin, "Death Every Afternoon", in Rites of Realism (ed. Ivone Margulies, Duke UP, 2002), p.30.
La gueule ouverte - Maurice Pialat, 1974, 35mm
"I think he also wanted to go beyond what he'd been able to do when his own mother died. For example, there was a scene we shot where he... When he buried his own mother, he'd had the urge to open up his grandmother's coffin to see what his mother would look like in 20 years. And he didn't do it. So when we shot the mother's funeral, the character played by Philippe Léotard asked to see his grandmother's vault. He had his grandmother's coffin opened up. It was gruelling for the actors, for Nestor Almendros, for everyone. There was a kind of... trail of powder. People were saying, "Pialat's opened the tomb!" But to be honest, it was something which I completely understand. That desire to see, that curiosity. I wasn't in that shot, I was in a later sequence. I was waiting in this little cemetery. It was very early in the morning. Hubert Deschamps was grumbling. He didn't want to go. Philippe was very reluctant too, but once they'd shot the scene he said, "Come and see. It's beautiful. It's reassuring." In our imaginations it's terrifying. We imagine creepy-crawlies. But it was very beautiful. There were the remains of a skeleton, of dust, of tissue. It wasn't at all frightening. It was actually quite calming. But he cut the scene. We shot a lot of scenes that he didn't include."--transcribed from a video interview with Nathalie Baye, 2004, from disc 1 of La gueule ouverte, MoC, 2009.
Ingrid Superstar - Andy Warhol, 1965,16mm
And that's the cinema. Films play back the same way every time. We return to them over and over again, even when they reveal unpleasant truths - or pose insolent questions, the answers to which it's up to us to formulate (not regurgitate), to construct with our own battered material. The movies are mentors: we keep coming back out of admiration for their moxie. They're a conversation, a sitting for self-examination. The 'characters' don't have a destiny because they don't need one. We do. For better or worse, we are the cinema.--Craig Keller, The War of Art, in Passe ton bac d'abord, MoC, 2009, p.22.


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The Pentagon has to cut a lot of costs. Humans are expensive. Humans need to eat and sometimes they get sick. But drones? They can fly and kill for hours—so the military's ordering a ton to replace flesh.
The WSJ reports that as a result of the government being broke and spending too much on guns, the Army alone will drop over active duty 100,000 soldiers. But at the same time, we're ordering 30% more drones—enough to prowl the skies in a serious way:
The Air Force now operates 61 drone combat air patrols around the clock, with up to four drones in each patrol. [Secretary of Defense] Panetta's plan calls for the military to have enough drones to comfortably operate 65 combat air patrols constantly with the ability to temporarily surge to 85 combat air patrols, officials said.
Eighty five drones at once? That's serious lethal overwatch, and possibly far more effective than boots on the ground in nebulous warzones like Pakistan's borders and Somalia. The drone buildup, which the WSJ says will happen over the next few years, will be joined by the expansion of small, light UAV airstrips, allowing sudden pounce attacks and the aforementioned 24-hour patrols.
This is the military of the future, not a temporary trend. Even if the Pentagon's hand weren't forced by tightening (though still thick) pockets, drones have been undeniably effective fighting both terrorists and political entities like Taliban. Drones are cheap—drones kill well. And when a drone crashes, nobody mourns. [WSJ]


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One hour of raw footage (!) of an interview of Richard Dawkins with Steven Pinker for "The Genius of Charles Darwin" (UK Channel 4 Television, 2008). Pinker explains again why music is not an adaptation but should be seen as a kind of 'supernormal stimulus' - adding the phrase "people in music hate this theory...".
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Honing, H. (2011). Muziek is geen luxe... maar wat dan wel? Academische Boekengids, 88, 2-4.
Honing, H. (2012). If music isn't a luxury, what is it? Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 5 (1), 114-117 DOI: 10.1386/jmte.5.1.109_5.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Is music a supernormal stimulus?
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Via: The New Yorker
by James Surowiecki August 16, 2010
The fight on Capitol Hill over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts is about many things: deficit reduction, economic stimulus, supply-side ideology. But at its core is a simple question: who counts as rich? The Obama Administration's answer is that you're rich if you make more than two hundred thousand dollars a year as an individual or two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year as a household, and therefore you should have your taxes raised. Conservatives suggest that this threshold is far too low, and argue that Obama would be taxing mostly small-business owners, or the people a Fox News host has referred to as "the so-called rich," rather than fat plutocrats. You might think this isn't really much of a debate. An annual income of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars puts you in the top three per cent of American households, and is more than four times the national median. You're rich, and a small tax increase isn't going to rock your world.
Good luck convincing people of this, though. Judging from surveys of how Americans describe themselves, most of the privileged don't feel all that privileged. Why is that? One reason is the American mythology of middle-classness. Another is geography: in a place like Manhattan, where the average apartment sells for nine hundred thousand dollars, your money doesn't go as far. And then there's a larger truth about how wealth is getting concentrated in this country. As the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez have documented, people who earn a few hundred thousand dollars a year have done much worse than people at the very top of the ladder.
Between 2002 and 2007, for instance, the bottom ninety-nine per cent of incomes grew 1.3 per cent a year in real terms—while the incomes of the top one per cent grew ten per cent a year. That one per cent accounted for two-thirds of all income growth in those years. People in the ninety-fifth to the ninety-ninth percentiles of income have represented a fairly constant share of the national income for twenty-five years now. But in that period the top one per cent has seen its share of national income double; in 2007, it captured twenty-three per cent of the nation's total income. Even within the top one per cent, income is getting more concentrated: the top 0.1 per cent of earners have seen their share of national income triple over the same period. All by themselves, they now earn as much as the bottom hundred and twenty million people. So at the same time that the rich have been pulling away from the middle class, the very rich have been pulling away from the pretty rich, and the very, very rich have been pulling away from the very rich.
The current debate over taxes takes none of this into account. At the moment, we have a system of tax brackets well suited to nineteenth-century New Zealand. Our system sets the top bracket at three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, with a tax rate of thirty-five per cent. (People in the second-highest bracket, starting at a hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars for individuals, pay thirty-three per cent.) This means that someone making two hundred thousand dollars a year and someone making two hundred million dollars a year pay at similar tax rates. LeBron James and LeBron James's dentist: same difference.
This makes no sense—there's a yawning chasm between the professional and the plutocratic classes, and the tax system should reflect that. A better tax system would have more brackets, so that the super-rich pay higher rates. (The most obvious bracket to add would be a higher rate at a million dollars a year, but there's no reason to stop there.) This would make the system fairer, since it would reflect the real stratification among high-income earners. A few extra brackets at the top could also bring in tens of billions of dollars in additional revenue.
There would be political advantages, too: the reform could actually make tax hikes on top earners more popular. Critics like to describe tax hikes as hurting small business, because small-business owners make up a sizable percentage of people in the top two brackets and because small-business owners, unlike Wall Street traders, are popular on Main Street. It would be harder to mount a defense of millionaires, which may be why this year a Quinnipiac poll found overwhelming support, even among Republicans, for a millionaire tax.
The explosion in wealth at the very top of the pyramid has given rise to what the commentator Matt Miller has called a "lower upper class"—doctors, lawyers, accountants, even some journalists, who make very good livings but enjoy nothing like the rewards that come to their peers in finance or in the executive suite. The lower upper class exerts a cultural influence out of proportion to its size, and so its anger toward the upper upper class—toward outrageous executive salaries and Wall Street shenanigans—could be a powerful force for reforming the way we deal with inequality.
This is one case where simpler isn't better. In a society that's becoming more stratified, a sensible tax system should draw more distinctions, not fewer. The U.S. is now a place where the rich and the ultra-rich really inhabit different worlds. (A couple of years ago, Barron's declared, "Yes, it takes more than $10 million to be seen as rich these days.") They should probably inhabit different tax brackets, too. ♦
What you can't say in "The New Yorker" is that these folks have manipulated corporate governance, the financial markets, and the federal tax system to their distinct advantage over the past thirty years. Their whining is intolerable. At a certain point, you do things for moral reasons, not because of some defunct macroeconomist's rantings. And it is time to let these people know that it was not they alone who created the wealth they have extracted from America.


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For some reason Adam Putnam, Florida's agriculture commissioner and governor wannabe, felt compelled to hold a press conference last week to boast about the number of concealed-carry weapons license holders in the state. That number will top 1 million this week, doubling in just five years.
The millionth permit will be handed out the same week that we will witness the memorial service for the 27 victims, 20 of them children no older than 7, of the Newtown school massacre, one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in this country's history. The act was perpetrated with America's most common, most worshipped and most protected weapon of mass destruction: the firearm.
Putnam just showed us how common and protected it is, and to what lengths politicians go to enable the arsenal of terrorism. This is one of the ways you make a name for yourself as a politician in Florida: you brandish your gun fetishism and praise its disciples. It is also what lays bare this state's—this country's—infantile attitude about guns, whose prevalence (300 million firearms in circulation in the United States) is inversely proportionate to mockeries that pass for gun regulation.
Floridians, Putnam wanted us to know in triumphalist language as he described what he called the "success" of the program, are pulling these permits at the fastest pace in the nation. He brought a chart with him showing the graph line of permits zooming up. I'm glad the line was drawn in red, though I doubt Putnam got the irony, particularly in light of the language he used. "Only" 7,244 licenses have been revoked in the 25-year history of Florida's concealed-carry program, he said. Only 7,244 licenses were awarded people who abused them or shouldn't have had them.
Here's a less triumphal look behind that "only." Florida has the 15th-highest homicide rate in the nation, with guns accounting for the overwhelming majority of the killings. Duval County alone, which will end the year with more than 100 homicides, has more murders by firearm in a year than in all of Britain, a nation of 63 million. Florida also has one of the highest suicide rates in the country, thanks to firearms, which accounted for 64 percent of the carnage in 2011 (according to Florida's Vital Statistics Annual Report).
Florida, whose enabling laws go as far as concealing the identity of conceal-carry permit holders, is part of the South's lethal romance for guns, where trigger-happy gun laws concentrate the nation's gun violence. But it's a national disease amplified by a national obsession that doesn't hesitate to lock and load the words "gun" and "hobby" in the same chamber while vilifying those who'd imply a connection with the consequences: Ten times as many Americans die of firearms, each year, as did on 9/11.
We have a number of gun epidemics in this country. Mass murder is merely the worst of them. Those mass murders—the movie theater massacre in Aurora, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the factory in Minneapolis, the mall in Oregon, just this year—do not happen except with guns. And it's the guns—the guns, not the men wielding them—that make massacres on that scale possible, refuting one of the most cynically idiotic one-liners of the gun fetishist: that people, not guns, kill.
Another miserable one-liner seeks to segregate the problem to law-breaking nut-cases while absolving all law-abiding gun owners, though most killings, including Newtown, are enabled by legally obtained guns. And even as guns claim a life every 20 minutes in this country, state and federal governments continue to let National Rifle Association propaganda derail sensible discussions about guns, let alone sensible gun regulations. As Putnam's spectacle illustrated so mindlessly, no other civilized country has the variety of laws that treat guns as entitlements.
Or the variety of alternately vile, absurd or survivalist arguments debilitating most discussions about guns. I still sympathize with Edward Abbey's argument that "the tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship," but not that "the rifle is the weapon of democracy." He's right to be suspicious of any government that would deny guns to its citizens. But that's never been the issue here, not even down the imaginary slippery slopes of NRA fantasist. The issue is strict regulation in proportion to the lethality of the objects in question. Firearms have one function, and one function only: to kill. You can dress it up all you like as hunting or target practice or testosterone therapy. It doesn't change a firearm's purpose. As Nicholas Kristof notes, ladders, which kill 300 people a year, are more regulated than firearms, while it's harder to adopt a pet than buy a gun.
On the absurdist side, there's the invented claim that liberals who'd never tolerate limits on the First Amendment would dance on the grave of the Second. Put aside the fact that slander and libel laws, speech codes, regulations and corporate controls would actually be an excellent model for the way to treat the Second: the fact remains that a word has never killed. Ever. In all of recorded history. And never will. A gun will kill sometime in the minutes before and after you read this piece. The First Amendment is overregulated. The Second is the one dancing on the graves of its victims.
And on the vile side, there's the insult to humanity we hear after every school massacre: that such things wouldn't happen if prayer hadn't been taken out of schools. It is of course an outright lie that prayer has been taken out of school: no child, no individual, is ever denied the right to pray or worship in school. Yet the suggestion that prayer can in any way affect these outcomes is deranged. Perhaps the victims of Hiroshima, Rwanda, 9/11 and Auschwitz should have prayed a little harder, too? If that's the case—and if anyone can still say that after learning of the manner in which Adam Lanza executed the 6- and 7-year-old children at Sandy Hook Elementary, shooting some of them up to 11 times at point-blank range in his little holocaust—then for god's own sake, I hope he doesn't exist, because if it takes praying to such a god to avert these tragedies, it is god himself who deserves the first bullet.
But an epidemic depends on a rich and resilient virus to live on, and gun worship is among the best of them, tallying up a death count in the United States at twice the rate of AIDS. It would make a graphic addition to Putnam's little chart. That epidemic would not be sustainable without the social and political accomplices of a violent, weapons-solve-all mentality. Nor would it be sustainable without the weapons-worshiping apologists who hide behind Second Amendment dogmas while America's soft-core terrorism, as apple pie as the munitions next door, kills on.
Pierre Tristam is FlaglerLive's editor. Reach him by email here or follow him on Twitter. This column is also syndicated through Florida Voices.


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Crews battling a wildfire near the U.S. border in Alberta are hoping an avalanche path will prevent the flames from spreading further into a national park that was badly burned last year.
Dry and windy conditions Friday afternoon pushed the Boundary Wildfire north across the border for the first time into Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta.
Parks Canada says in a news release the area received a small amount of rain overnight, but it was so small that it couldn't be measured, and Saturday's forecast called for strong winds and sun.
John Stoesser, a spokesman for Parks Canada, says the flames have reached a stretch of mountainside that has been swept mostly bare of trees by winter avalanches.
Stoesser says sparks have crossed the avalanche zone and ignited spot fires on the eastern side.
He says helicopters are dumping water on those spot fires to keep them from growing and burning further through the Boundary Valley towards the Waterton Valley.
"When the fire burns through those coniferous trees leading towards the avalanche path, those are a little bit more flammable. But then when it reaches that avalanche path, there's not as much trees there, there's not as much vegetation there so the fire activity slows right down when it gets to that line," Stoesser said in an interview Saturday.
"So that's why it's a good place to drop water from the helicopters."
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Parks Canada said two helicopters were on the job at the avalanche boundary on Saturday and that a third chopper was on its way.
Stoesser said it's an aerial effort at this point, since it's steep, rocky terrain. Once the flames are knocked down a bit, he said firefighters can go into the area and do what they can from the ground.
Waterton was devastated a year ago by a wildfire which consumed more than 190-square kilometres within the park and led to a two-week mandatory evacuation.
An evacuation alert was issued last month for Waterton Lakes National Park due to the fire that's been burning on the U.S side in Glacier National Park, but the alert was later lifted when the area got rain.
A Parks Canada news release on Saturday said the agency and U.S. fire managers are working together and are in constant communication about fire activity and response.
The fire is estimated to be about 11-square kilometres in size.
The Canadian Press


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Twitter has developed a button that Web publishers can integrate into their sites to let visitors easily subscribe to Twitter accounts, the company said.
The Follow Button is designed to make it easier for Web publishers to promote their Twitter accounts and will also simplify the process for website visitors to discover and subscribe to Twitter accounts.
Among the first wave of sites using the Follow Button are AOL, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, MTV and Sports Illustrated.
Twitter also offers Web publishers the Tweet Button, which lets visitors share and "retweet" links on Twitter right from the site they're visiting.
"Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo home page," reads the first Twitter blog post about @anywhere.
Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Twentieth Century Fox has today revealed 10 new character posters for James Cameron, Jon Landau and Robert Rodriguez's daring sci-fi epic, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, out in cinemas nationwide on 6 February 2019.
Based on the manga series by Yukito Kishiro, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL stars Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson, and showcases the talents of WETA Workshop.
When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past – she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she's grown to love.


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In the NY Times, economist Bruce Bartlett opposes the refund stimulus plan:
WITH unusual speed and cooperation last month, George W. Bush and Democrats in Congress agreed to a tax rebate set to be paid out beginning in May. Families will get checks for $300 to $1200 or more, and it is assumed that they will all rush out to spend this money immediately, giving retailers a boost that will raise economic growth.
Despite the bipartisan support for the rebate, few economists have supported the idea. They note that we have tried rebates in the past — most recently in 2001 — and there is no evidence that they have meaningfully stimulated either consumption or growth. By and large, people saved the money they received or paid bills (which is the same thing); very few used their rebates to increase spending.
I agree: most won't spend, unless they have to (and any whose income is that bad needs long-term financial help–$600 isn't going to cut it). While I disagree with Bartlett's suggestion to help Fannie Mae buy up some of the bad loans, he is right that it won't do much in the way of stimulus. What would help is if the $300-$1200 per household were split between the muncipality and the state in which that household resides.
Most local and state governments are suffering from budget shortfalls due to property tax revenue decreases and lower sales tax revenues. Most also have outstanding deferred maintenance problems. If given the money, they will spend it–all of it.