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Imaginary crimes…
One of the things that has brought human beings far ahead to every other animal on the planet is their conception of society. It wasn't intentional; evolution drove us to it. We were evolving to be increasingly difficult to take care of as infants and it became necessary for humans to be closer to one another than they ever were. To ensure there was harmony among the members in a society, it was essential that they come up with a few ground rules. 'Do not kill another one of us', was a pretty reasonable request – so much that murder is universally considered a crime, almost. Somehow, the rulebooks of every single culture got that right. Of course, humans are not perfect as is evident from many of our fellow primates' insistence to, most often physically, hurt those who abide by a different rulebook than theirs (which is basically what religious fundamentalism, fanaticism and patriotism is all about).
Needless to say, completely made up crimes get listed in the rulebooks once in a while. Penalisation for theft and murder, I can understand. I wouldn't want my things stolen or my life prematurely taken away. I didn't need a book to tell me that it would be awful if I were to do that to others; I've got empathy for that. I can tell when something should or shouldn't be a crime. Sadly, scriptures have managed to override an average human's natural empathy and as a result they've learnt to assimilate atrocities effortlessly while getting outraged at imaginary crimes.
What I mean by imaginary crimes
We're, as children, taught to accept that certain actions are inherently immoral. We're almost never given any reasonable explanation as to why they are thought of that way; perhaps they themselves are unaware of the reason. Those acts might not necessarily harm anyone and, on closer inspection most of them are indeed harmless. I know a few…
Apostasy is the act of giving up one's religious affiliations. It doesn't necessarily mean they've turned irreligious. One could embrace a different religion than the one they were born into; they thus become an apostate to their birth religion.
Birth religion: the religion one was indoctrinated into before they had a chance to develop their critical thinking faculties.
Apostasy seems like a pretty harmless thing and it is. The only real danger it poses is to the religion itself, which is why the religion of Islam prescribes the death penalty for apostates. The countries that enforce the death penalty as of right now are Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, UAE and Yemen. Mauritania offers one a three day grace period to re-embrace Islam. In some cases Brunei might go for upto thirty years of imprisonment instead of the death penalty; in that time, one could "repent their apostasy" to be acquitted of the crime.
Algeria, Comoros, Egypt, Gambia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman and Syria are among the countries that penalise apostasy with punishments like imprisonment, flogging, and a revocation of certain civil rights. It's a bit more than a coincidence that all of these countries have a Muslim majority and many of their laws are built around the Quran. This, of course, is not to say that Islam is the only religion of it's kind. Christianity too considers apostasy as a crime, but the punishment for it now is as imaginary – an eternity in hell – as the transgression itself. It is past its phase of executing freethinkers.
The Torah, of Judaism, asks for death to apostates by stoning. We don't hear about them as they've long given up the practise. The punishment for abandoning Judaism today is exclusion from Jewish rituals. They might also not be allowed to be buried in Jewish cemeteries which shouldn't really matter much as they'll be dead. Religions like Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism do not have a concept of apostasy in their scriptures and is not a part of their central doctrine. They claim not to have anything against apostates, however, ostracism against them by members of those religions isn't unheard of.
To think of apostasy as a crime is to think that belief is a matter of choice. It's not. One cannot just choose to believe as they please. The concept of apostasy as a crime was clearly invented to deter people from escaping a religion.
One might argue atheism as an imaginary crime should've been listed under apostasy, but the evidence suggests atheism is a totally different subject altogether. It's true that the prime victim for anti-apostasy laws are atheists who had previously been Muslims. However, people of other religions, as long as they're not converts from Islam, are allowed to live. 'Believe in whichever god you like but believe.', is essentially what they're saying.
This is an area where statistics are hard to find because atheists are almost universally discriminated against for "being godless". Many countries that call themselves secular don't do enough to protect one's freedom from belief. Atheists are shrugged off as a minority and their opinions aren't valued. They're shunned by their relatives and very often forced to leave their homes. The lucky ones are those who have managed to leave their homelands to live in a country that would grant them asylum.
The not so lucky ones have to pretend to believe in a deity for the rest of their lives. The ones who speak out are attacked. There have been numerous instances of atheist writers beaten to death for their disbelief in the past few years. Atheism is punished by death in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but it usually hasn't anything to do with laws. It's the mob that gets them. There actually might be more atheist executions than that we hear of; not every instance of violence against atheists get reported.
In the US, atheists are the most untrusted group of people. In Brazil, they're the most hated group. In Algeria, a person found to be an atheist will have their marriage annulled; they cannot take custody of their children and neither can they inherit.
India has a more peculiar outlook toward atheists. On the one hand there are a few Hindus who assert that Hinduism allows atheism and on the other there are millions who will disown their children for failing to bring themselves to believe in a deity.
Blasphemy is the expression of views that contradict those of a religion. Cultures throughout the world have had varied opinions on what counts as blasphemy. Once upon a time, the Christian church would torture those who asserted facts that conflict with their pet fictional account of reality. By that standard every scientist and historian today ought to be labeled blasphemers.
The thing about anti-blasphemy laws is that it severely restricts free speech. One is not allowed to criticise a religious belief as it might offend them. Anti-blasphemy laws are rarely consistent. One could simply profess their religious beliefs and get charged with blaspheming against every other religion, but that never happens. Like with apostasy and atheism, persecution for blasphemy is very common in Muslim majority nations and is mostly punishable by death. If that weren't horrifying enough, note that things like describing Mohammed's personality and speculating what he might have done were he alive could count as blasphemy.
I would've loved to mention a few fascinating details about Mohammed, but I enjoy staying alive. The internet is a vast resource for self-study. Use it. Learn about Mohammed and never speak of it again.
Anti-blasphemy laws have been a bane to free speech everywhere when in effect. The most notable case is that of Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian rationalist, who was exiled for debunking a supposed miracle. More importantly, the ones responsible for his exile were Christians – goes to show it's not an Islam specific problem. This happened in a country where the majority religion claims to not have a concept of blasphemy, as long as you stick to only ever saying flattering things about them.
Sedition is similar to blasphemy except it's related to public proclamation of ideas that are counter to the agenda pushed forth by a nation rather than a religion. This is an especially stupid concept as it curtails one's freedom of expression, a freedom the state claims to grant every individual it governs.
One is said to have had a seditious intent when their actions cause a non-trivial disruption of public order as is codified by the government. While almost all sovereign states have some kind of a sedition law, it is hardly every implemented consistently, which is what makes it dangerous. There is no telling where the line is between acceptable behaviour and sedition. India recently, in 2012, witnessed an incident in which an act as harmless as publishing cartoons, that put the government in a bad light, could get one imprisoned under its sedition law. The charges against Aseem Trivedi were likely dropped because of the media community uproar.
Depending on the government in power and their ideology, the state can charge anyone with sedition. India's sedition law, like most Indian laws that exist, defines sedition so vaguely that any act that appears to be disdainful can be punished. As far as imaginary crimes go, this is perhaps the worst offender. This is one arena where Muslim majority nations are probably not worse than others, although it must be because sedition and blasphemy are identical concept in those places.
An adulterer is a person who indulges in sex with one who is not their spouse or one whose spouse is not them. Adultery, while meaning no more than just extramarital sex, is a word with exponentially greater negative social connotations. It has the power to demonise people, human beings who are slaves to their biological urges. Extramarital sex definitely happened way too often throughout history; they wouldn't have a word for it otherwise.
The human being is not a naturally monogamous creature. While humans excel at social monogamy – the practice of pooling a couple's resources together to mutually enhance their lives through a somewhat symbiotic relationship (the contemporary term for which is 'marriage') – they're not built for sexual monogamy. That extramarital sex is a thing people do, in spite of being punishable by death in some cultures, is a glaring proof of the fact. No creature on this earth would need to be forced into compliance through a fear of death if they could naturally fall into place. It is ridiculous to expect sexual monogamy from human beings – a fact that should be crystal clear the moment you admit to yourself, after a thorough assessment of your biological urges, that you too wish to have sex with people other than your spouse or your significant other – and yet, somehow, we live in a world where humankind collectively decided to opt for the most masochistic – sexual fidelity as their de facto setting – of the many choices they had.
It will come as no surprise (and Islam certainly makes it hard to not seem like we're disproportionately picking on them specifically) but the punishment for adultery in Islam is flogging. It's not however practiced in all Muslim countries; those instead support stoning. A significant portion of the population of Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria are in favour of stoning. If that were not enough, there have been instances of victims of rape being sentenced to lashes for the crime of adultery because it technically fits the definition of the term in their scripture.
Christianity and Judaism are not any better in this regard. The Bible and the Torah contain well described variants of adultery one may commit and the different kinds of punishments for each of them. Luckily, these holy instructions are not followed this day.
The weird thing about adultery in the Indian context is how it is defined in the Indian Penal Code. Section 497 makes it impossible for a woman to be classed as an adulterer and thus only the man is prosecuted. Rather than treat the two as adults with the ability to decide for themselves what they want to do with their bodies, it infantilises women and treats the men as criminals.
Homosexuality is the tendency of having romantic or sexual attraction and sexual behaviours between people of the same sex. While only a small percentage, about 3 to 5 percent, of people are homosexuals, that number range is consistent between broad enough demographics. Homosexuals have existed for a long time now and throughout history, either as a group of highly creative intellectuals or interspersed among the crowd doing unobjectionable common people stuff to keep themselves from being found. Whether it's a heritable trait or a lifestyle choice, the fact is that they've been a part of every culture, like it or not. They're just not very well known, because they actively hid themselves or their homosexuality had no bearing on what they brought to the society's proverbial table.
The problem starts with people preventing homosexuals from living their lives as they please. While western countries now allow people to live as openly gay, they have until a decade ago had to endure opposition from the Christian right citing the god of Abraham disapproved of sex between two men. As with everything, the Islamic world wants you to take that god a little more seriously. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Sudan and Nigeria punish homosexuality with death. Qatar, Algeria, Uzbekistan, and the Maldives punish homosexuality with prison time or a fine.
India is the place where there exist monuments, depicting same-sex sexual acts among other things, in full public display and protected as a part of its heritage by the constitution. That same India had its ruling, decriminalising homosexuality in July of 2009, overturned in December of 2013. The culprit is a piece of legislation called section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which was instituted during the British rule of India to supposedly prevent "carnal intercourse against the order of nature". In a country where developing a scientific temper is a citizen's fundamental duty, it is surprising that their highest court would take such a regressive step. Funnily Britain has no problem with homosexuality anymore.
To think of homosexuality as a crime, is to arbitrarily limit the concept of free expression. Humans are natural experimenters and it's the deviant and aberrant behaviours that propel society forward.
Premarital sex
Premarital sex is a weird term. It assumes that marriage is a requirement for sex and that getting married is the default navigational path through this maze we call life. As always, religions have strong opinions on premarital sex. Islam surprisingly has no problem with it.
No problem under a singular circumstance that is. In Islam, a male slaveholder having sex with his female slaves is not an issue. It's only when you don't own people, that it becomes a problem. The punishment varies for other people. It's either getting a hundred lashes in public or death by stoning. Death is no escape however as you're also said to be chastised in your afterlife. In the recent past there have been quite a few instances, in the Islamic world, of rape victims being punished for premarital sex
While Christianity has had a chequered past in regards to premarital sex, it doesn't seem to kill people for it anymore, although devout Christians still consider it immoral. You would be "living in sin", but that phrase is now used rather in an endearing tone than a condemning one. In Judaism, premarital sex is only a problem if at least one of the participants were betrothed.
Hinduism condemns premarital sex and, while India as a government does not penalise it, it is considered to be a shameful act. Honour killings have been a serious cause for concern in orthodox Hindu communities. It shows that people give an arbitrary ritual more importance than human life.
Sin and its inheritance
This is the most insane one of the lot and not just because every person on this planet is claimed to have been cursed for the mistake of their ancestors. No, it is a troublesome notion because it teaches its believers that knowledge is a bad thing and nowhere in the Abrahamic trinity of religions have they attempted to hide that fact. If you get me started, I could go on and on about the ways in which I'm surprised people still fall for this obvious con, but I guess it would do better in a future article.
The success of Christianity's pitch entirely relies on your being convinced, that the first people that lived on this planet committed a grave sin – they disobeyed god to satiate their curiosity. It tells you that obedience and belief are higher virtues than one's drive for investigation. It doesn't stop there, it makes it your duty to fix an issue that you never caused. With that, it brings a barrage of other arbitrary mindless rituals you need to perform to be a part of an exclusive club of those saved from their merciful loving god's wrath.
You don't owe anything to those you have never known, met or interacted with. You do not deserve to be labelled a sinner for not having it in you to lower your standard of evidence. Sin is the ultimate imaginary crime created to sell an imaginary cure.
I hope you found this piece entertaining and somewhat informative. The imaginary crimes about which I've written are by no means an exhaustive list. If you can think of more, let me know.
As always, you can send my way your requests for debunking articles and media you think makes spurious claims. I will address them eventually. If you find this piece factually inaccurate or can suggest a way to expand its contents, let me know that too. For generic communication, you can visit the contact page of this website.


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Cook the Book: Southeast Asian Pork Satay
Today's Cook the Book recipe, excerpted from Grill Every Day by Diane Morgan, is for Southeast Asian Pork Satay. The spicy marinade (composed of lemongrass, ginger, cumin, coriander, and red pepper flakes) can be prepared up to three days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator, making it an ideal choice for a busy weeknight family meal. But keep this recipe in mind for your next dinner party as well—it would make a terrific appetizer.
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- Yield:4 servings
- 12 10-inch bamboo skewers, soaked in water for 15 minutes, then drained
- 2 pork tenderloins, 10 to 12 ounces each, trimmed of excess fat and silver skin
- 1 stalk lemongrass
- 4 quarter-side slices peeled fresh ginger
- 1 shallot, quartered
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
Immerse the skewers before lighting the grill, so they have plenty of time to soak. Prepare a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill or preheat a gas grill on medium-high.
Remove the tenderloins from the refrigerator 20 to 30 minutes before grilling. Cut the pork on a sharp diagonal, across the grain, into 1/8-inch-thick slices and place in a large bowl.
Cut off and discard the dried, grasslike top half of the lemongrass. Trim the base from the bulb end and remove and discard the tough outer leaves. Using only the white and light green parts, cut in half lengthwise, and then cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces.
In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine the lemongrass, ginger, shallot, sugar, salt, cumin, coriander, and red pepper flakes and process until finely minced. With the machine running, add the vegetable oil through the feed tube and process until a paste forms. Transfer the paste to the bowl with the pork and brush or rub the paste evenly over the meat.
Thread the pork onto the skewers, dividing it evenly and weaving each slice to pierce it 2 or 3 times. Bunch the meat a bit, so it covers about 8 inches of each skewer.
Oil the grill grate. Fold a foot-long piece of aluminum foil in half lengthwise and lay it on the grill grate. Arrange the skewers so the exposed bamboo is protected from the flame by the foil and the meat is directly over the fire. Use 2 pieces of foil if necessary. Grill the skewers, turning them once, until the pork is cooked through and the edges are slightly caramelized and charred, about 3 minutes per side. Serve immediately.

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HOUSTON, Jan 21, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Houston-based Leslie Doggett Industries, through its division the Doggett Truck Group, announces the acquisition of 3 Freightliner and 1 Western Star Truck Dealership from the Opus Kane Truck Group and Eddy Vaughn Freightliner. The transaction for San Antonio and Laredo (Opus Kane) was finalized on December 16, 2013 while the transaction for McAllen (Eddy Vaughn Freightliner) was finalized December 19, 2013.
Purchase price is estimated to be approximately $30 million. Freightliner (a wholly owned Daimler-Benz Subsidiary) is the largest worldwide and North American manufacturer of highway, vocational and severe duty trucks with an overall 30+ percent market share of the Class 8 North American market in 2013.
These transactions lift Leslie Doggett Industry's estimated annual revenues above $700 million (for the first time exceeding $2.5 million in equipment sales and support services every business day) and increase full-time employees to approximately 900.
"This acquisition complements Leslie Doggett's existing John Deere construction and forestry dealerships and our Toyota forklift business, allowing contractors, manufacturers and distribution companies doing business in South Texas to have a single provider of heavy equipment services expanded to include heavy haul and highway trucks," said Brian McLemore, chief financial officer with Doggett. "With our team's focus on world-class support services, Doggett's mission is to be the number 1 provider of heavy equipment services in all of its markets."
Leslie Doggett Industries provides John Deere construction and forestry products for Louisiana, east and southeast Texas, including all of the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Brownsville, Texas through 18 John Deere dealerships. The company is the largest Toyota Industrial Equipment dealer with distribution for southern Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico through 8 Toyota Industrial full service and sales dealerships. Doggett received Toyota's highest honor (President's Award) 6 out of the last 7 years culminating in Doggett's Toyota Group achieving one of the highest market share percentages in North America for Toyota.
These acquisitions by Doggett are the 18th and 19th in the past 20 years. The purchase of South Texas Freightliner dealerships follows Leslie Doggett's acquisition of the Houston John Deere Construction Equipment Business from Rush Enterprises (rush:NYC) for $62 million in 2010 and 11 dealerships for $103 million from Nortrax, company-owned stores operated by John Deere & Company DE, -2.36% in 2007.
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Broadly speaking, there are three main approaches to ocean zoning: government or centralized zoning, community zoning, and decentralized zoning based on property rights. Centralized zoning is a top-down process of government rule-setting for the permissible uses of different parts of the ocean. Community zoning allows communities to decide on their own rules for allocating ocean space. Decentralized zoning involves the establishment of transferable property rights, leading to the emergence of what is essentially a market for ocean space. Of course, these approaches are not mutually exclusive and various hybrids are possible. For example, a centralized approach may be used to identify areas for fishing and a decentralized approach – such as individual tradeable quotas or ITQs – may be used to allocate fishing rights within this area among fishermen.
In 2008, Massachusetts became one of the first states to enact into law the equivalent of a centralized zoning plan for state waters. A key part of the Massachusetts Oceans Act relates to so-called siting decisions that determine what parts of the ocean are open to specific activities. Specifically, in opening part of the ocean to a particular activity, the Act calls for a "demonstration that public benefits clearly outweigh the public detriments." As part of the Center's effort in this area, Senior Research Specialist Porter Hoagland worked with Summer Student Fellow Lily Steponaitis from the University of North Carolina to assess the extent to which the process by which siting decisions will be made is based on a consideration of public benefits and costs. They found that this process does not, in fact, ensure such a consideration and instead is subjective, arbitrary, and at least partly reflective of political pressures. In particular, this process reflects a continuing preference for traditional uses like fishing—which is essentially exempt from zoning rules—and navigation over innovative uses like ocean energy and aquaculture, irrespective of the costs and benefits to the public.
The Massachusetts experience underscores a major challenge to centralized ocean zoning. Historically, the management of ocean space has been based on tradition rather than on a true consideration of the benefits to society. Efforts to reverse this will come up against entrenched interests. These interests are well within their rights to use the political process to maintain the status quo. Although there will continue to be progress in this area, we should expect it to be slow.
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|Business Week on Amazon/EBay Web Services
|Cashless Society.....
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|Internet is a great help to the consumers; no doubt on it. Internet is one of the results of our modern technology. Websites such as Amazon and ebay designed for those who want to save time and money by means of shopping online. They sell millions of items per day – eBay is technically the world's 26th largest economy. These days online transaction is very prominent; our transactions consist more of electronic payments than they do with cash payments. But online transactions also consist of disadvantages to the people such as online fraud. At this moment online fraud is at alarming rate. And as we've observed America is becoming a cashless (http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/02/26/cashless-society/) society. The invention of the debit card no doubt had a lot to do with taking our society cashless. Eventually, the lines of communication will have linked all economies and currencies. We will likely see a day in the near future where the world has gone cashless (http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/02/26/cashless-society/) .


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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most aggressive of the major adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders. Despite important progress in the understanding of ALS pathogenesis, there is still no effective therapy, and patients with this disease typically die within only three to five years after onset of the first symptoms. The last couple of years have seen exciting progress in slowing down the disease in transgenic mouse models of ALS, but prognosis for patients with motor neuron disease has not changed. This study from Belgium has investigators revisiting old concepts, which might help to bridge the "therapeutic gap" between mouse and man.
The group of Peter Carmeliet of the University Leuven has demonstrated that chronic delivery of a specific recombinant growth factor (vascular endothelial growth factor) directly into the intraventricular space of rats with motor neuron disease significantly delays onset and slows progression of paralysis. This is the first report to show conclusively that administering recombinant growth factors can have a beneficial effect in experimental ALS.
Like all neurons, motor neurons depend on neurotrophic factors for their sustained survival. Providing trophic support to the ailing motor neurons of ALS patients has therefore been a compelling therapeutic concept for quite a while. However, serious practical issues have hampered the successful implementation of this strategy. Several clinical trials using intramuscular injections and even intrathecal application of a range of different growth factors have been profoundly disappointing. These setbacks have left investigators struggling to figure out whether their failure was a problem of the choice of growth factor, a problem of adequate delivery, or both.
Somewhat unexpectedly, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), better known for its effects on blood vessel growth, has emerged as a powerful and rather specific promoter of motor neuron survival. This surprising insight was quickly translated into a remarkably successful therapeutic mouse trial using intramuscular injections of lentiviral gene shuttles to deliver VEGF. Together with a similar study using viral vectors to deliver insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), this approach has put the spotlight on viral delivery of therapeutically effective growth factor genes. But successful clinical implementation of viral gene therapy is fraught with important safety concerns, so the finding of the Carmeliet group should be welcome news for all those hoping to start clinical trials quickly.


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PORTLAND — Tony DeMarco, the undisputed world welterweight champion from a golden era, rang the ring bell Wednesday to mark the return of professional boxing to the Portland Expo.
Bob Russo, director, promoter and trainer at the Portland Boxing Club, has announced a mixed pro-amateur fight card for Nov. 16.
"Some people say boxing is dead and dying," said Russo to a small crowd in the Expo lobby. "I'm here to tell you it's alive. We are ready. The time is right."
Russo's fight card will feature Ryan Kielczweski (17-0) of Quincy, Mass., a junior lightweight with contender potential, and Russell Lamour (5-0) and Jorge Abiague (3-0) of Portland, and Brandon Berry (3-0) of the small Kennebec River valley town of West Forks. All four attended Wednesday's news conference, which was more a celebration of boxing's return.
The Portland Exposition Building opened in 1914 and had its first fight card a year later. In the spring of 1940, a standing-room-only crowd at the Expo watched Henry Armstrong beat Paul Junior of Lewiston on a third round TKO. One of the world's great welterweights, Armstrong once held world titles in three weight classes at the same time.
DeMarco fought in the Portland Expo twice in one week in 1951. In 1955, the Boston native and hero of the city's North End won the undisputed welterweight title.
Willie Pep and Sugar Ray Robinson fought in the Expo. Throughout the 1960s, hundreds of fighters fought in bouts promoted by Boston-based promoters Sam Silverman and Rip Valenti. Al Valenti, a grandson and fight promoter, was at the Expo on Wednesday serving as master of ceremonies.
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When you finally rescue your guys from Russia and you are in the tower were they were holding your guys, go all the way up the steps in the tower and keep going till you see the bell.
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If you want to destroy the car first, then the tank next it won't matter much, the car really does nothing to you.
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Wednesday 8 August 2012 saw the launch of the new, permanent public artwork Peckham Peace Wall by Garudio Studiage.
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Relevant Results blog, part of the CNET News site, have posted a thorough and engaging piece on the current state of the real-time Web.
It is interesting to see how the major search engines are filtering real-time results, determining what is relevant and when real-time search becomes important. As summed up by Tom Krazit on Relevant Results:
The major search players have the luxury of comparing spikes in their search query logs with spikes in certain topics from the feeds they receive from real-time information sources like Twitter. When activity around the same topic is spiking on both search query traffic and real-time publishing platforms, the search companies know something is happening.
Moving from here, the point when a significant event is happening, to deciding which post, Tweets and news articles are most pertinent is the real trick of real-time. As the search engines get to grips with relevancy in this respect, it is clear that a myriad of factors from quality of Followers to semantic estimates will need to be taken into consideration.
With Bing, Google, and Yahoo all throwing their weight behind real-time search, doing deals with the various platforms, then we can expect to see our search results evolve over time:
So if search engines are to remain relevant themselves, they'll need to make sense of this content. And unless social-media networks are able to make their content discoverable, they won't turn into the types of content-discovery engines that their public-relations people like to imagine are already here.
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Discussion in 'Critique Forum Archives' started by LilCujo, Jul 22, 2005.
Does the head look way blown out or can it be fixed?
its a little blown, but i think it could do very well still! whites in harsh sunlight tend to get that way quick!
great composition though!!!
so its prety much ok the way it is? doesn't distract from the rest of the bird?
I wouldn't call it way blown. The area behind the eagle's left eye is the only part that is distracting with the white. Perhaps this could be tweaked somewhat. I have one question... was this taken at a zoo, it lookes like a zoo Bald Eagle to me.
Yeah its a zoo eagle, it would be awesome to shoot one in the wild..hmm that didn't sound right... there were two, one lost one of his wings from a powerline and the other was shot by a hunter.
I know what you mean. There are quite a few at the cabin I go to in the UP during the summer. I have even seen them fishing in the lake and during the winter they sit on the edge of the ice watching.
I have not seem them since I got my 75mm-300mm USIII lens though. I am also amazed at how different a wild Bald Eagle looks when compared to one in a zoo. It is odd, but the wild bird looks more majestic and cleanly trimmed. These are amazing creatures.
Keep up the great work.
IMO, yes, the white area on the head is blown and distracts from the photo. if someone can fix this without cloning i'd like to see it.
The head is definately blown, but it doesn't subtract from the composition nearly as much as that strange bluish cast all over the bird. (especially on talons and bottom of white head feathers.) Good otherwise though. I agree with the earlier comment, comparing to wild birds. They just seem so much healthier.....
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Stewart, in London until November shooting "Snow White and the Huntsman," noted her take on Snow White is far from the cutesy Disney version. "It's more based on the original telling of it, which is fairly dark…it says a lot of great things about vanity and image and strength and standing up for what's right," she said, describing the title role as a Joan of Arc type.


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Topeka Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday said she would hold her nose and give the Kansas Supreme Court a Republican school finance plan that could increase funding by $125.2 million and signal a rush for local property tax increases.
"Despite some patchwork progress that provides more money for schools, I still see no long-term plan, especially in funding public education for years to come," Sebelius said after the House approved the plan 76-48. "In the end, this bill fails Kansas children, fails their families, and fails our schools."
But Sebelius said she would deliver the plan to the court without her signature in hopes the court will act and "the process can move forward as quickly as possible."
Democrats opposed
Sebelius' criticism echoed that of other Democrats. The Republican-driven bill attracted only one of 52 Democrats in the 165-member Legislature.
On Jan. 3, the state Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers failed their constitutional responsibility to provide schools with adequate and equitable funding.
The court gave lawmakers until April 12 to fix the school finance plan and Wednesday's vote finalized the Legislature's response.
Alan Rupe, the Wichita attorney representing schools that sued the state over funding, said the Legislature's proposal was "insulting more than anything."
He noted a consultant study that showed Kansas schools needed a $1 billion increase to provide an adequate education.
"I'm afraid we are going to fail another generation of kids," Rupe said. He said he would ask the state Supreme Court to appoint a special master to oversee a new finance plan.
Republican support
But supporters of the plan said it addressed concerns raised by the court by increasing funds for programs directed to at-risk, bilingual and special education students. They also touted the proposal because it doesn't increase state taxes.
"Most of the real dollars in this goes into the poorer districts," said House Speaker Doug Mays, R-Topeka.
"I do believe it answers many of the court decisions," said Rep. Kathe Decker, R-Clay Center, who was the chief sponsor of the bill.
|The 76-48 vote today by which the House approved a plan to increase spending on public schools by up to $127 million annually, sending the measure to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Of the 83 Republicans, 75 voted "yes" and eight voted "no." Lawrence's House delegation, Democrats Barbara Ballard and Paul Davis and Republican Tom Sloan, all voted against the bill.
But opponents said the funding increase was inadequate and unsustainable without a statewide tax increase.
And they said the lack of a statewide tax increase was a ruse for the fact the bill would allow local districts to increase property taxes up to nearly $500 million statewide.
"It has got the largest property tax increase in the state's history," said Rep. Bruce Larkin, D-Baileyville.
The Lawrence school district could see a $2.2 million funding increase under the proposal, or about $229 per student.
The district would be allowed to raise its local property taxes to 30 percent of its general fund budget. The cap is currently 25 percent. In addition, Lawrence is one of 17 districts statewide that would be allowed to raise local taxes again to raise funds for teacher pay.
Mays said local districts should be allowed to make the decision whether to increase taxes. But opponents said increasing the local component of funding would further widen the gap between wealthy and poor districts.
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Pope Francis relatives killed in Argentina car crash
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Just hours after Pope Francis pondered that he may only have "two or three years" left to live, he received news that two of his great-nephews and their mother were killed in a car crash in Argentina.
The pontiff's relatives had been travelling on the Cordoba-Rosaria highway in central Argentina when their car collided with a grain truck. One of the pope's nephews, Emanuel Bergoglio, had been driving the car and was seriously injured in the collision, which took place at just after midnight on Monday.
Mr Bergoglio's wife Valeria Carmona, and two children, eight-month-old Antonio and two-year-old Jose died in the crash. "The pope has been informed and is deeply grieved by the tragic news. He asks all those who share his pain to join with him in prayer," read a statement on the Radio Vaticana website, reports the Guardian.
Raul Pombo, who had been driving the lorry, told a local television channel that he had felt an impact and left his cab to find the family's car underneath the rear of his truck. Pombo was not injured and said: "I began stopping passing cars to ask for their fire extinguishers because the car was on fire."
Television footage showed the mangled remains of a small car. The accident happened as the Bergoglios were believed to be returning to the Argentine capital after a holiday weekend. Mr Bergoglio's wife and children died before reaching hospital, while he remains in a critical condition, reports suggest.
News of this fatal crash comes shortly after Pope Francis returned to the Vatican from a five-day trip to South Korea. On this trip the pope mused that he may have just a few years left to live.
On the flight back the pontiff is reported to have said: "I see it as the generosity of the people of God. I try to think of my sins, my mistakes, not to become proud. Because I know it will last only a short time. Two or three years and then I'll be off to the Father's House."


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Fiji Time: 3:30 PM on Friday 23 March
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
VATEMO Ravouvou may have got more than what he bargained for.
It's rare for a newbie to get a winning debut in a HSBC Sevens World Series tournament but the 23-year-old Nadi flyhalf has achieved that dream.
Now he is eyeing another in the Mecca of Sevens — the Hong Kong 7s tournament in So Kon Po.
For Ravouvou, the opportunity to play in the Hong Kong 7s has come after years of hard work and dedication.
"This is a lifetime opportunity to fulfil my dream of playing in Hong Kong. It took me four years to fulfil my rugby dream and now there will be no looking back," he said in an earlier interview.
"It's an honour to represent the country and to play in Hong Kong is a moment that I will always treasure."
Ravouvou, the former Ratu Navula College student, was used as a substitute by Vodafone Fiji 7s coach Ben Ryan in the Tokyo 7s over the weekend.
He scored a try in the quarter-final win over Kenya and successfully kicked three conversions to tally 11 points in his first tournament.
Ravouvou hopes to better that performance this weekend.
"I can't promise anything but we have a good team and we will do all it takes to win the title," he said.
"We ask the people of Fiji to support us through prayers."
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(a) The common on usual name of the food product that conforms to the definition and standard of identity described by § 161.175(c)(6) of this chapter, except that the food is made from comminuted shrimp and is not in raw frozen form, shall be "___ made from minced shrimp," the blank to be filled in with the words "breaded shrimp sticks" or "breaded shrimp cutlets" depending upon the shape of the product, or if prepared in a shape other than that of sticks or cutlets "breaded shrimp ___ made from minced shrimp," the blank to be filled by a word or phrase that accurately describes the shape and that is not misleading.
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Low Power, Wide Supply Range, Low Cost Difference Amplifiers, G = ½, 2
Features and Benefits
- Wide input range beyond supplies
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The common-mode range of the amplifier extends to almost triple the supply voltage (for G = ½), making the amplifer ideal for single-supply applications that require a high common-mode voltage range. The internal resistors and ESD circuitry at the inputs also provide overvoltage protection to the op amp.
The AD8278 and AD8279 can be used as difference amplifiers with G = ½ or G = 2. They can also be connected in a high precision, single-ended configuration for non inverting and inverting gains of −½, −2, +3, +2, +1½, +1, or +½. The AD8278 and AD8279 provide an integrated precision solution that has a smaller size, lower cost, and better performance than a discrete alternative.
The AD8278 and AD8279 operate on single supplies (2.0 V to 36 V) or dual supplies (±2 V to ±18 V). The maximum quiescent supply current is 200 μA, which is ideal for battery-operated and portable systems. For unity-gain difference amplifiers with similar performance, refer to the AD8276 and AD8277 data sheets.
The AD8278 is available in the space-saving 8-lead MSOP and SOIC packages, and the AD8279 is offered in a 14-lead SOIC package. Both are specified for performance over the industrial temperature range of −40°C to +85°C and are fully RoHS compliant.
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At least one model within this product family is in production and available for purchase. The product is appropriate for new designs but newer alternatives may exist.
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The design of this board emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. This board comes with a ready assortment of connection options (BNC and RCA connectors), and many configurations are set by jumpers.
The AD8273, AD8277, AD8279 data sheets, available at www.analog.com, cover the details of the device's operation. Using these data sheets for reference will help designers in their end application. The data sheets are helpful for understanding the operation of the AD8273/AD8277/AD8279 evaluation board, especially during the initial configuration and when powering up for the first time.
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ADIsimPE Linear and Mixed-Signal Circuit Simulator – Personal Edition
ADIsimPE, which is powered by SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, is a circuit simulation suite optimized for the design and development of analog and mixed signal circuits. SIMetrix mode is ideal for the simulation of general non-switching circuits. It provides full Pspice compatibility for use with industry-standard SPICE models. SIMPLIS (SIMulation Piecewise-Linear System) mode simulates the operation of switching circuits with vastly improved robustness, speed, and accuracy compared to standard SPICE. It is particularly useful for switching power supply, PLLs, and ADC/DAC applications.
ADI has always placed the highest emphasis on delivering products that meet the maximum levels of quality and reliability. We achieve this by incorporating quality and reliability checks in every scope of product and process design, and in the manufacturing process as well. "Zero defects" for shipped products is always our goal.
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After Mike Fossum and others reported earlier that Netflix was still advertising with Rush Limbaugh, people started calling the company, Tweeting, and canceling services.
@Netflix -- it's time to #boycottrushContinuing to advertise on Limbaugh's show may prove an even stupider business move than Qwikster,
@netflix account on hold. As long as they support Rush Limbaugh w/ their advertising, I don't want them to have my $.I just put my
@netflix & told 'em if they don't quit advertising on Limbaugh, we're done. NETFLIX: 1-866-579-7115I called
#Netflix! I posted the Limbaugh question on your Facebook page and within a minute it was taken down. Bad form. #Xfinity looking good.Wow,
Dear Netflix, pull your rush Limbaugh ads. I can totally live without you.
After all this controversy, Netflix had to say something. They made a statement about their buy of ads on Limbaugh's show.
"Netflix has not and does not purchase advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. We do buy network radio advertising and have confirmed that two Netflix spots were picked up in error around the Rush Limbaugh show. We have instructed our advertising agency to make sure that this error will not happen again."
Reports are coming in that insurance giant Geico, who was thought to have stayed with Limbaugh as well, is also claiming their spots were local market buys and will not happen again.
@julie19612009 Thank you for your comments. GEICO is not a sponsor of Rush's program.


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During the past 10-15 years, the use of syrup of ipecac (SOI) to induce vomiting as a treatment for poisoning has fallen out of favor. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that SOI "should no longer be used routinely as a poison treatment intervention in the home" and that everyone should safely dispose of any SOI currently in their homes. The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) similarly published a position statement which recommended SOI use only under very limited, restricted circumstances. This change of direction has come about for several reasons, including the fact that no studies demonstrate beneficial outcomes from its use, the risk for serious complications if SOI is given for the wrong indication, and the potential for serious toxicity with chronic misuse and abuse by patients with bulimia or other appetite disorders. Statistics compiled by the AAPCC reveal that SOI was administered in 15% of all poisonings reported in 1985, while the incidence of its use has dramatically declined to 0.0484% in 2008. Read more »


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[This information is from Vol. III, pp. 976-977 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
The Hiltons of Amsterdam, New York, are descendants of the old and prominent English family of Hilton so prominently identified for many years with the cities of Liverpool, Manchester and Oldham, where the family is still numerous.
(I) Thomas Hilton, the founder, born in Oldham, England, about 1826, died about 1880 in Amsterdam, New York. Oldham lying so near Manchester draws largely upon the former's place for mill operations, and Thomas was early employed there in a cotton mill, where he learned to be a spinner. He was an expert workman, and after marriage decided the United States offered better opportunities for advancement. He settled in Amsterdam, New York, where he followed his trade until his death. He was successful in life and highly respected for his many qualities. He married, in England, Martha Hill, born May, 1847, in Manchester, England, daughter of Marshall and Mary (Sands) Hill, lifelong residents of Manchester, where Marshall Sands was a merchant. Children:
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Martha (Hill) Hilton, married, John Nelson, a native of Hamburg, Germany, born 1855, came when a young man to Amsterdam where he became a color sorter in a broom factory. So educated is his eye that the broom corn is assorted into seven classes, each of a different shade of coloring. They have no issue.
(II) Andrew Johnson and brother, Abraham Lincoln, born on the eve of the tragic death of the "Great Emancipator," received his name and that of his successor in office. Andrew J. was reared and educated in Amsterdam, where at an early age he began his business career as a clerk. After a time he began business for himself with a partner, but they soon closed up. He then entered the employ of the Inman Box Company, where he remained nineteen years, becoming an expert and rapid worker, said to have no equal in eastern New York. Always possessed of a love for things beautiful, he was particularly susceptible to the beauties of plants and flowers, and interested in their culture. During his many years at the box works he had accumulated some capital and started a greenhouse for the growth and sale of flowers. He has been very successful, his business has greatly outgrown its original quarters and he has been forced to remove the salesrooms to commodious quarters on Market street, to build a large greenhouse on Bunn street. He is highly regarded in the trade as capable, reliable and enterprising. A feature of his business from the start has been the raising of animals for house pets. He is a member of the Baptist church, and an adherent of the Republican party. He married, in Amsterdam, May 31, 1879, Hannah M. Lepper, born near Amsterdam, May 6, 1861. (See forward.) Child:
Mrs. Hannah M. (Lepper) Hilton is a daughter of Fred and a granddaughter of Joseph Lepper, who emigrated to the United States from Germany over a century ago, and purchased a large tract of land in Montgomery county, near Akin. With the rapid development of the county and the building of the New York Central Railroad, his timber, sand and other products of his farm came into a profitable market. He became wealthy, owning a great deal of property in other states. He lived to be ninety-seven years of age, was twice married, was the father of twelve children, six by each wife, six are still living, all near or over eighty years old, and all widowed. Fred Lepper married Catherine E. Dixon, of English parentage, born in Mayfield, Fulton county, New York, 1837, died January 7, 1895.
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Okay, that's admittedly kind of a long goofy title, so what is Steve talking about here? Well, let me phrase it this way – a few days ago I saw a question flying around that went something like this: I have folks that work for different departments in my organization, like Sales, Finance, etc. When someone types in a query for something like "sales management pitch" then I would like to be able to also have it show people that work in the Sales department. Okay, sounds like a pretty cool use of the new Query Rules feature in SharePoint 2013.
To start with, let's take a step back and look at a related enabling feature we're going to use here. In SharePoint 2013, when you do a profile import from Active Directory it automatically populates a special termset in the Managed Metadata Service. In fact, it actually creates a master group called "People" and populates three termsets: Department, Job Title and Location (NOTE: I can't guarantee that all three of these will still be there when the product ships, it may only end up being two of these). During the profile import process each term set will be populated with the unique values across all users for each of those properties. This really helps out a lot for this problem, because when I look at my MMS, I see that in my list of Departments it includes "Sales", since I have users with that value in their Department attribute in AD:
Okay, that's great, so now let's go and create a query rule. As I mentioned in my first post on query rules (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/23/using-query-rules-result-types-and-display-templates-for-a-custom-search-sales-report-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx), the first thing we're going to do is set the condition when my rule should fire. In this case we're going to use the Advanced Query Text Match option, and choose the last selection, which is Query contains an entry in this dictionary:. Now it has a drop down selector, which is unfortunate because it's a little misleading. Really what we want to do here is click the Import from taxonomy link that's directly below it. When we do that we'll see a standard MMS picker, and so I just expand my local MMS instance and click the Department termset, because I want my rule to fire when the query text contains a word that is a Department in my organization.
For the next part of my rule, I check all three checkboxes for looking at the query terms. So if an entire query equals a Department name, or if the query starts with or ends with the name of a Department, then I want my rule to fire. Finally, for the last part of the rule configuration, if there is a match then I want to assign the match to {subjectTerms}, and the remaining terms to {actionTerms}. So if we use the example above of searching for "sales management pitch", then since the query terms starts with "sales", which is a valid Department value in MMS, my query rule should match – "sales" will be the {subjectTerms} and "management pitch" will be the {actionTerms}. Here's what that configuration looks like:
Now when my rule fires, I want to add some folks from the Sales Department to the top of the query results. So I start working on the next part of my query rule, which is the action I'm going to take. I click on the Add Result Block link and open up that dialog. In this case I want to add a Result Block that will display people results, so the first thing I do is click on the Search this Source drop down and change it from Query's orginal source to Local People Results (System). I do this first so the query builder will use that source when I modify and test the query. With that done, based on my matching rule I know that whatever Department has been found will be in the special term "{subjectTerms}". In order to use that, I click the Launch Query Builder button so that I can modify the query. I delete any existing text that's in the Query text edit area, and then click on the Property filter drop down and click on the –Show All Managed Properties—option. That repopulates the drop down with all the managed properties, and from that list I select Department. In the qualifier drop down I change it from "Contains" to "Equals", and then in the Select value drop down I choose {subjectTerms} – the matched dictionary entry from Department and then click the Add property filter button. This is what it looks like:
This is shaping up pretty nicely. Now I want to add a more personal touch to it, and to do that I click on the Sorting tab in the query builder. In this case instead of just using the default sorting model, since I'm going to be showing people I'm going to sort by social distance. So not only will I show people in the results, but the list of people will be ordered based on which ones are closest to me in social distance. To do that I just use the Ranking Model drop down and select People Search Social Distance Model, like this:
Now I can click on the Test tab and try out my new query. By default you should see zero results, and that's because it doesn't have a value for the {subjectTerms} variable. To test it out with real query criteria click on the Show More link and then type in sales in the {subjectTerms}*: edit box and then click on the Test query button. I try this with different ranking models to make sure that it's all working as desired – it is – so I click the OK button to save my query changes.
Now the last thing I want to do for my query rule is display a link at the bottom of my block that someone can click on to find all people that work whatever Department was found. Before I go any further on that I'm going to tell you something in the interest of full disclosure – I have a picture that I will show in a bit of the final results, and you will see a SHOW MORE link. For this particular post, I actually combined two pictures – one that had the "SHOW MORE" link and one that did not. The reason for that is because the "SHOW MORE" link functionality is working inconsistently in beta 2. All the kinks should be worked out by RTM but for now sometimes it shows up for me, but more often it does not. I just happened to grab a screenshot on an early set of results I was working on that included it. I mention that here so that you don't become overly frustrated if you are working on beta 2 bits and find that sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't.
That being said…in order to implement this functionality that I described in the previous paragraph, I select the option of "More" link goes to the following URL and typed in the following: peopleresults.aspx?k=Department:{subjectTerms}. I also decide to show three matches, and as described above, have them show up at the top of all the search results. So now my complete Result Block dialog looks like this:
Now that it's done I can go test it out. So I do a query for "sales management pitch" and here's what my results look like:
(Note that this is where you see the "SHOW MORE" link I had to paste in at this point). What is kind of cool is that Rocky shows up in the top of the search results because in my organization I am his Manager, so we see the social distance ranking algorithm at work. If I hover over any of the people in the results then I can see a list of documents that they've recently published:
Finally, when I do click on the SHOW MORE link it takes me to the people search results page, and I'll see all people that work in the Sales department; when I hover over any one of them I can see what they've done, see their profile page, etc.
So that concludes our exercise. We took a very real customer requirement, and we used the new query rules and profile import features in SharePoint 2013 to create a solution that required no coding at all, and provides a LOT of functionality. I hope you'll continue to look at and work with query rules.


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Racism, by definition, is advocating or teaching the superiority of one race over another. When talking about this we usually bring up the example of Nazi Germany, which made racism a state practice.
But is discussing race or bringing race up when talking about certain issues also racism?
Labour MP Diane Abbott caused a storm of outrage and cries of racism after she used Twitter to comment on the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. In case you don't know, she said "White people love playing divide and rule. We should not play their game."
Now I'm no fan of Ms. Abbott, who I consider a dilettante on some key issues. But it seems to me her words were just an expression of opinion, not a racist rant. And did anyone challenge her view? All we got were condemnations from Tory MPs about it being racist.
Every other week some athlete is accused of making 'racist' remarks. And worse, the UK's anti racism and hate crime laws are now routinely brought into play for alleged crimes that are often petty in nature and may not be racism in the first place.
This results in two main things. It creates a climate of fear in the country where people become afraid to bring race up in any discussion, And second, it cheapens overt racist acts by lumping petty non crimes in with real racist actions such as the Lawrence murder. There's nothing wrong in civil society with laws dealing with race and religion hate crimes. But they should be aimed at overt racists.
The essence of intellectual debate on issues such as racism and race hatred, is having all sides presented and the challenging these views.
America, with all it pretensions of freedom and democracy, has long been an anti-intellectual nation, choosing to maintain and a defend bigoted beliefs as a matter of religious conviction, upbringing or political correctness. Sadly this has now become the case in the UK, with laws, initially designed to protect minorities, being used to keep the population politically correct.
Yet this is nothing new here. Before WW2 British society maintained civility through class and people knowing their place. This, along with the highly civil practice of not speaking negatively about people in public, was an early form of PC.
As the old order broke down following the War and the UK became a multi-cultural society, white-on-minority racism became widespread among the lower class and lesser educated UK population.
However, gradually the Asian and Afro-Caribbean minorities began exhibiting anti white sentiments. And Abbott's tweet illustrating this is the controversy's most important aspect...that negative racial sentiments are a two-way street. This is not saying she is a racist, but it does show how whites are viewed by some members of minority groups.
Much of this sentiment, from whites and minorities, is due to a lack of jobs, especially for young people, people with too much free time on their hands and too little self respect.
The main difference in poverty UK and US style is that in the UK poverty seems to be an equal opportunities condition, entrenched in white and minority society. In America, most grinding poverty is located in black and Latino ghettos, with White areas isolated and insulated from these ghettos. You won't find council high rises in Beverly Hills.
I guess racism today depends on how society or governments define it. Using the standard definition of advocating racial superiority, if stretched, could even apply to Christianity and Islam, two faiths that maintain their superiority over other faiths and people not of their faith.
An example in the news is US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. For years his main drawback amidst the rank and file of Republican voters is the fact he is a Mormon. No matter how good a leader he might be, the Christian right doesn't consider him a Christian, and thereby not fit to be president.. This is far more serious than Abbott's remark, yet who would accuse religions of being racist. And how many clergy members are arrested as charged with racist offenses?
Still to cry racism every time someone utters a racial view or joke is wrong and only creates more fear, resentment and a limitation on free speech.
There's a big difference between telling one of those "did you hear the story about" jokes and calling for genocide or ethnic cleansing. These may be in bad taste...and culprits should be held accountable, but not as criminals...just twits on Twitter while saving the race hate laws for yobs such as the Lawrence killers.


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Its fine to dislike it but my point was against nitpicking not just in this film but in any film today. Some people don't seem to be able to watch films these days without that critical eye. Its the age if the internet we constantly get comments like oh if they'd done this or they should have done that is people trying to be smarter than the material. If you actually read my comments above you'd see I never said people couldn't dislike the film.
Well, it's internet, a superhero movies forum. Criticism and nitpicking are expected.
But I'll always encourage having a critic mind before anything.
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Tbh I'm not surprised you too particular offence seen as though you seem to hate the film.
Rating a movie 3/5 is not hating it.
But then again coming and saying what you said in the thread that's specifically done to talk about your complaints with the movie feels really off.
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