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Readers discuss Frank Bruni's criticism of "self-segregation" on diverse campuses.
To the Editor: Re "The Lie About College Diversity" (column, Dec. 13):
The subtext of Frank Bruni's complaint about the Balkanization of American campuses is that somehow minority students are to blame for what has been called "self-segregation." Really? Let me revisit two recent incidents that should be quite illuminating. The first is the video of Oklahoma University fraternity members singing a disgusting, racist ditty. The second is the alleged racial ban at a Yale fraternity party: "white girls only." These are most assuredly not "isolated incidents," but snapshots of the separatist tone and tenor of American life in general.
Minority students are not responsible for this dynamic, nor should they be forced to tolerate it. The universities cannot prevent such behavior, but they can provide places where minority students will not be subjected to it. To suggest otherwise is just another case of kicking the victim.
Stowe, Vt.
To the Editor: Colleges can achieve diversity with or without affirmative action. Getting students to accept the challenges that diversity demands is another matter. Frank Bruni seems to envision a one-size-fits-all student, a paragon of political correctness, who will spend summers volunteering in other countries and wearing the colors of the rainbow like a suit of armor. Many will, but there are those who will take the required courses in multiculturalism and then encase themselves in their own parochial cocoon. And who is to deny them their right?
In my 50 years as a college professor, I have seen interracial romances blossom. I have seen students of different ethnicities bond after working on a joint project. I have also seen students isolate themselves in their own secure corner of the classroom, preferring to mingle with no one except their own kind. Let colleges pursue diversity in their own way, let professors teach their discipline and let students find their own way into this highly complex and marvelously diverse world.
Teaneck, N.J.
The writer is professor emeritus of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
To the Editor: Frank Bruni is right that a demographically diverse campus does not guarantee meaningful interactions between diverse people. But he wrongly claims that affinity groups and safe spaces are troubling concessions to students' desires for self-validation. At schools like Princeton and Yale (where I have spent the last decade), a student of color is the only nonwhite person in the room over and over and over again.
A former student of mine who is black has written that he didn't have a black teacher, ever, until he was 20. Students of color at predominantly white institutions are in fact dealing with "diversity" every day, and not always in enriching ways. They need cultural centers and affinity groups not because they want "coddling" but because they spend their entire lives doing the hard work of engaging with difference, and sometimes they need to be in spaces where they are not outnumbered.
Mr. Bruni's model of diversity is attuned to the needs and experiences of people in the majority, but it ignores and caricatures the needs of members of minority groups. His argument is unwitting evidence that diversity is not an adequate substitute for justice.
New Haven
The writer is a lecturer in the English department at Yale.
To the Editor: The self-segregation found on college campuses today is often a product of the opportunities for "living-learning communities" where individuals can elect to live with similar-minded students, as mentioned in the article. Much of the reason, ironically, that growing diversity on campuses is not leading to more integrated campus life is that universities have beat the word "diversity" over their heads so much that students are frankly sick of hearing about it.
"Diversity courses" and required "sensitivity classes" build resentment among students of all colors, as the spoon-fed nature of the discussion makes diversity feel like nothing more than a token effort for universities trying to appeal to the liberal elites.
Successfully integrating people of all backgrounds on college campuses will happen only organically. Men and women of different heritages and socioeconomic backgrounds will discover for themselves what diversity means if given an unimpeded opportunity to explore it themselves.
Fairfield, Conn.
The writer is a sophomore at Fairfield University.
To the Editor: Frank Bruni decries the failures of colleges and universities in fostering inclusiveness within diversity with the statement, "That environment hinges on what happens after admissions." He cites problems as well as possible remedies. Yet the crux of this problem is not what happens after admissions, but what happens before admissions in K-12 public education.
De facto segregated public schools are the breeding ground for continued divisiveness. The Supreme Court got it right in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that separate educational facilities are unequal. That ruling has essentially been undone at the altar of home rule and states' rights.
We have a public education system based on wealth and housing that continues what was inherently wrong — a lack of real equal opportunities and supports for all students within an environment where they could work, play, learn and break bread together; that is, know one another.
Ocean, N.J.
To the Editor: Many years ago I was an interviewer of applicants at Wesleyan University. White students and those of color both cited the school's diversity as one of their main reasons for wanting to attend. Essentially, white students wanted to get to know black students, but black students, many of them from largely white high schools, were also applying to connect with other blacks, not necessarily with white students.
The desire by students of color to create their own vibrant communities within rigorous academic atmospheres should be applauded and respected, not disparaged because they are not meeting Mr. Bruni's hopes for majority (white) students to draw greater benefit from campus diversity.
To the Editor: Frank Bruni uses the word "diversity" to apply to defined social groups and to a college's obligation to see that these groups meet and mingle on campus to their mutual advantage. What is missing is any sense that these prospective students are unique individuals who may choose to identify with many different social groups or with none at all. They are not to be categorized. Where is the recognition of the incredible diversity of the individual human being?
Middle Village, Queens


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Dubai: Oracle has opened a data centre in Abu Dhabi as it bids to grab a bigger share of the region's cloud computing transition. This is the US software giant's 29th worldwide. Etisalat is providing the infrastructure.
Oracle had announced plans for the Abu Dhabi facility in January 2016, but the roll-out was delayed due to modernisation and legislation. Global vendors such as SAP, Alibaba Cloud and Amazon already have data centres in the UAE, while Microsoft is set to open its first ones in the region in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Oracle is also planning another facility in Saudi Arabia.
"Cloud has democratised technology and small-to-medium businesses are now able to do much more with limited resources," said Arun Khehar, senior vice-president of applications at Oracle Eastern Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. "About 77 per cent of our customers are on the cloud and we expect to attain 100 per cent in the next three years. We are the largest cloud player in the region today.
"We have over 2,000 cloud customers in the region and adding around 200 new customers every quarter."
According to Khehar, there will be greater regional opportunities for Oracle for three key reasons — the Smart City and Expo 2020, Saudi Arabia Vision 2030, and Abu Dhabi Vision 2030.
Oracle claims to have 600 applications on the cloud and Khehar said no other player had "this kind of width".
"Initial investments made by our customers was in one or two product areas, but now, in the last year and a half, the mindset has changed and the strategy is to get complete transformation across product suites into the cloud. It will be good to have a local data centre in a bid to cater to the public sector."
Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Bahrain
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on track to open a cluster of data centres in Bahrain in the first-half of the year.
AWS opened an office in Bahrain in 2017 and is set to open a bigger one on Sunday. "What we are opening in Bahrain is three or more data centres isolated from each other and that can withstand the failure of each other," said Vinod Krishnan, Middle East head at AWS.
In the UAE, AWS has two smaller data centres — DataMena and Smart Hub — as nodes and operational since August last year.
"Each availability zone is led by different power sources and networks," said Krishnan. "Even if one availability zone goes down, then others will be able to work for a customer without any incremental cost and can spread their applications across any zones."

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Migrant Cleaners Strike At Justice - And Other Locations
Migrant cleaners are to strike simultaneously at the Ministry of Justice and Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall on August 7-9. Meanwhile, self-employed electricians are...Read Full Article
Anglesey's new Menai Science Park (M-SParc), the first dedicated science park in Wales, required an iconic and modern flooring solution and consulted Flowcrete UK to advise.
Wholly owned by Bangor University, M-SParc is a facility where collaborations are encouraged and ignited by chance encounters in the shared spaces. The client was eager for this energy to be reflected in the building's interior.
The working environment is provided as offices, laboratories and meeting rooms. M-SParc delivers space, support services and outstanding facilities to businesses of all sizes.
Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, the building concept comprises a continuous white 'Ribbon', which wraps around the entirety of the Open Innovation Space and so a seamless, robust floor finish was required to match the pure white of the external Corian cladding. To achieve the aesthetic, two different materials were used to provide the ideal amount of contrast.
In order to complement the building's modern style, Peran Comfort from Flowcrete UK was chosen in Light Grey and Signal White for the stairs, landing and foyer areas of the Open Innovation Space. The noise reduction and durability properties of this flooring system are ideally suited to these areas, where heavy footfall and the accompanying noise is expected. The light colours chosen for the pathways inside the building help to reflect the light, creating the spacious and bright atmosphere.
In contrast to the matt, self-smoothing polyurethane-based Peran Comfort floor coating, Flowcrete UK's Rustik Natural Stone was utilised in the entrance. This material provides a natural texture to the space and a touch of glamour thanks to its crisp white colour and modern style. As well as generating a striking visual, its noise reduction, slip resistance and durability properties make it ideal for use in entranceways where heavy footfall is expected on a regular basis. Rustik's natural stone aesthetic also provides visual continuity with the paving in the external landscape, further emphasising how the design of the exterior is mirrored within the interior.
The designs incorporated into the surface were set out using stainless steel rims, which acted as borders between the two materials, before the Peran Comfort and Rustik Natural Stone systems were applied using trowels, rollers and squeegees. The installation process was concluded with a final sealer coat.
The application was completed within its two week schedule, in time for the grand opening ceremony attended by the First Minister for Wales as well as local businesses and dignitaries.
Picture: Flowcrete UK provide Menai Science Park with visually striking and stylised flooring solutions.
Article written by Robin Snow
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If you are blacklisted, this is not the end of the world. It is perfectly possible for you to improve your credit record. You just need to know what process to follow. Here you will find the details. You will get information and advice on accessing your credit rating and keeping it in good condition. You will also find an overview of the financial options which are available to you.
When you have a low credit rating, you have much lower chances of obtaining personal finance or a home loan. At the same time, consumers are tempted to borrow money due to the widely available and widely advertised credit products. As a result, they spend more than they can afford and very often use credit which they actually do not need.
It has been estimated that the people in South Africa use 76% of their net income for repaying debt. Then they spend what is left on food, fuel and the tuition fees of their children. The limited spending is not the only issue. People actually have very little, if any, money to save. Due to this, they have to use finance from lenders in order to make major purchases such as a car. While the use of credit is something natural and common in the modern world, it is certainly not normal for a person to be in debt for the rest of his/her life. Find out how to get out of debt and improve your credit rating.
Credit Record Access
There are two major credit bureaus in South Africa - TransUnion and Experian. They are required to provide one free credit report to each person with a credit record every year. In order to obtain your free report, you need to send the respective bureau an email with the copy of your ID. You will be contacted to go through a security check. Once your identity is confirmed, the report will be provided to you. If you need to request another report, the procedure is the same, but you will have to pay a fee. The fee is lower than R100.
Credit Record Maintenance & Improvement
You should do your best to pay all your bills at least a few days before the due date. This is because banks sometimes need more time to process the payment and the bill may be regarded as unpaid. You can keep a schedule for paying bills to make things easier and to avoid getting into trouble.
You should stay away from new loans, credit cards and other forms of credit. You should avoid even contracts for cell phones. Any such move can have a negative impact on your credit rating.
You should close all bank accounts that you are not using. When you have an open line of credit, this works to lower your rating, even if you are not actually using it. Similarly, you should not open an account in your name for someone else to use. This may cause issues which you may be unable to fix.
When you repay a loan or a credit card, you should get a settlement letter from the lender. That way, you will have proof to show to the credit bureau in case the repayment has not been taken into account.
The personal details on your credit record should always be up to date. Make sure that you change them timely, especially if you move to a new address or change your job.
Home Loans for Blacklisted
It is possible for a blacklisted person to obtain a home loan. Perhaps the most effective strategy is to use the professional services of an attorney who specialises in blacklisting cases. If you have repaid your debt, then the listing may be removed automatically. On the other hand, if you have not taken any action to repay the debt, your chances of getting a home loan will be minimal.
Another strategy which you can use is to place a large deposit, preferably over a third of the value of the property. This lowers the risk for the lender and boosts your chances of obtaining finance. You have to provide a satisfactory explanation of why you have been blacklisted as well.
You should definitely meet the loan officer in person to discuss your situation. With a letter of recommendation from your employer, you will achieve greater credibility despite the fact that you are blacklisted.
The Rent-to-Purchase Strategy
With this strategy, you have time to improve your credit record and to quality for a home loan at a later date. At the same time, you have to make a commitment. The property owner will ask for an upfront fee which will be used as compensation in case you do not purchase the house. If you use this strategy, you have to be certain that you will be able to buy the property before the set date for this.
Using a Personal Loan to Get a Home Loan
It is possible to take out one or more personal loans to pay a bond. However, this option is available only from loan sharks and it will most certainly get you into even more debt. You will have to make high payments and this will leave you with very little extra money to save. You should definitely avoid this option and go for a conventional strategy even if you have to wait for a while and rent a property.


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Posted on 23rd August 2018 by Jordan Holmes
As you all know by now, we're offering one lucky individual from our partner agents the opportunity to win three nights in New York for two people, with £1,000 spending money in our exciting new 'Christmas Starts in August' campaign. Last week we discussed Our Top New York City Hotspots to Visit in 2018. This week we will be looking at the local spots and hidden gems of the huge city. So, let's get started and cover some inside knowledge of the places we discussed last week.
The Cliché's – Let's start with the clichés; yellow taxi's, corn dogs, slushes and hot dogs. These are a great one off but can get very boring very quickly; they're not quite like a Greggs sausage roll. We suggest you try them for the novelty but don't expect to be blown away by the "delicacies". Regarding yellow cabs in particular, we suggest riding a couple of times but once you've stuck your hand out for the 100th time and seen the price you're paying to get everywhere at half the speed, you'll quickly change your mind their novelty.
Travel – The subway is your own personal chaperone to the city. A little dirty and overcrowded at times this is the best, quickest, and cheapest way to see the cities cites and squeeze in a full day's sightseeing. On your first day of exploring, we recommend taking one of the many hop-on-hop-off tour buses. You can get a 24-hour pass and just sit on the bus for the entire route, taking in the little spots you may not catch underground. Audio commentary is also available providing insights into all the landmarks you pass.
A Morning Must – A morning must is to take a walk along Brooklyn Bridge during Sunrise. The sun rising over the world-famous skyline is a magnificent sight. While the winter winds may make it a little harsher, you do have the bonus of not getting up so early to capture the amazing spectacle. When we say early, don't get too excited, you will still have to be at the Brooklyn Bridge for 7 am.
Central Park – As we mentioned in our previous blog, Central Park is an 874-acre gem of the city. However, 874 acres is a lot to cover in just three days, especially when you've got so much more to see. We recommend walking the park width ways and head towards a bakery called Levain, stated by our very own Tom as "THE best cookies in the world". On route you will be able to stop off at the John Lennon shrine as he was murdered nearby at The Dakota – A cookie will certainly cheer you up after that.
Time Square – Time Square will be unmissable, not because most of the hotels are there, but because of its bright lights and central location. We recommend a visit to take in the iconic location, however, don't stick around too long, it is very crowded and flooded with people. Once you've seen it, there's not much reason to return. While you're there, however, we recommend stopping off for a sweet treat at Milk. A patisserie whose founding premise was that they use the milk leftover after you've had a bowl of cereal as an ingredient in their baking. Off-putting we know but you can get a wonderfully named treat called a 'crack pie' – named after its addictiveness.
The Empire State building – You can queue for ages to get a great view of NYC or you can pick up a 'beat the line' ticket direct or from one of the hundreds of touts who will approach you outside; this will save you some valuable time. There is also a nice brewery called Heartland Brewery, under the Empire State Building that does some tasty ales and good food. Our advice on getting the best views of NYC would be to do the Empire State Building on a clear evening and go up the Rockerfella through the day, giving you fantastic views looking directly over Central Park.
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island – An iconic site and something not to miss, however with only three days you need to be smart. Ellis Island is very crowded, expensive and eats into your time with possibly the worst views of Lady Liberty. Our advice would be to get the free ferry from Battery Park to Staten Island and back. That way you get the best view and waste no time or money.
Dead Rabbit – Let's start with the best. Located in the financial district of Manhattan, Dead Rabbit is a must for any cocktail lover. While its appearance doesn't quite fit that of your usual cocktail bar, don't be fooled, this place has got it all, including the crown for World's Best Bar 2016 and the Best Bar in North America. This 2-story spot combines a lunch taproom with a parlour serving small plates and vintage cocktails – the perfect place to reignite your Irish spirit.
230 Fifth Rooftop Bar, Manhattan – A classier affair but a beautifully located bar. This rooftop bar just north of Madison Square Park on 5th avenue is a brilliant place for professionals to drink and take in the stunning views of the Empire State Building.
McSorley's, Manhattan – A time capsule in the heart of New York City that only sells dark beer or light beer. Nothing else – so we hope one of the two is for you. Mcsorley's is a unique and interesting bar to visit, located in the East Village just off Lexington Avenue. Like the choice in beer, the place hasn't changed much in 200 years, still having sawdust covered floors and only recently allowing women in about 15 years ago. Don't let that put you off though; if you want to step back in time and keep the old working traditions alive, then this is the place for you.
Hotel Chantel, Manhattan – A unique jazz bar on the lower east side of Manhattan that makes some of the best cocktails in the city. It also has some amazing live music. A particular performer to look up is Dandy Wellington, who sings jazz music from the 20s. He is there most weeks and is worth checking out. It takes you right back and makes you feel like you are in 1920s New York, perfect for adding some romance into a day of travelling.
Radegast Hall, Brooklyn – This is a prominent German place on Bedford and 3rd Street in Brooklyn. Half of it is a bar and restaurant, the other half is a beer garden. The site is like a traditional Munich style beer hall with big steins of beer and a delicious stand that does traditional BBQ'd German food. It's a whole load of fun, and with the communal seating, it's the perfect opportunity to speak to people who aren't just tourists.
Smalls Jazz Club, Manhattan – A jazz club located at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village. Established in 1993, Small earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene". Its jazz musicians are noted for being "talented, though largely unknown" while its music is characterised as "modern".
Tree Bistro, Manhattan – Located in the lower east side of Manhattan, Tree Bistro serves thoughtfully prepared bistro food in a casual friendly atmosphere, from small plate charcuterie delights to delectable standards like steamed PEI mussels or steak frites with parmesan truffle fries, along with a full and eclectic seasonal menu. In addition to a selection of delicious food, Tree has a well-rounded drinks and desserts list – the fried Oreos are a must. Guests can eat in the intimate dining room for a cosy meal, or in the more expansive canopied walled garden – an enchanting secret spot in the heart of the city, however, this may not be the top choice to sit in the middle of winter, so you may need to check for reservations.
Freemans, Manhattan – A very picturesque restaurant hidden in a back alley behind Chrystie Street just at the top of Little Italy. It's the perfect place to experience the delicious food Little Italy has to offer while capturing the traditional essence of hearty American indulgence.
Peter Luger, Brooklyn – If you want a steak, you must head into Brooklyn and check this place out. To say it does a good steak is a bit of an understatement. It has won best steakhouse in NY 27 times in a row. Again, you'll need a reservation (they are quite essential), but it is worth it. You won't have a steak like it.
Artichoke, Throughout NYC – If you want Pizza, then this is the place to go. Besides your everyday pepperoni and Margaretta, Artichoke also sells a creamy artichoke and spinach pizza as well as vodka pizza and much more. It is about $4 a slice, and we highly recommend the pizza they're best named after.
Katz Deli, Manhattan – No-frills deli with theatrically cranky service serving mile-high sandwiches in the East Village since 1888. While you shouldn't expect to receive the service of some of our other suggestion, we'd highly recommend buying their giant sandwiches – if you can finish them. It's also the spot where Harry met Sally.
Almar, Brooklyn – Almar is centrally located on Front Street in the historic area of Dumbo (an acronym that was first created to highlight the area's location – Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Dumbo is one of Brooklyn's most scenic neighbourhoods and well worth a visit if you have time. An authentic and much-loved local venue, Almar is the perfect spot for breakfast before you tour the waterfront, a quick and healthy lunch away while passing through Brooklyn, or a romantic dinner on the weekends.
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PC6051 - Forensic Psychology (2019/20)
|Module specification
|Module approved to run in 2019/20
|Module title
|Forensic Psychology
|Module level
|Honours (06)
|Credit rating for module
|School of Social Sciences
|Total study hours
|Assessment components
|Running in 2019/20
Module summary
The aims of this module are aligned with the qualification descriptors within the Quality Assurance Agency's Framework for Higher Education Qualifications. Specifically, this module aims to provide students with a solid basis of knowledge and understanding of the application of empirical research and theory in psychology to the study of contemporary issues and processes within the criminal justice system.
Through engagement with the teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities provided, students will develop skills in the integration, evaluation and critical application of psychological literature, the construction of argument, self-assessment and reflection.
A final aim of the module is to provide students with an insight into and understanding of the potential for the practical application of psychology within forensic settings. This will be of benefit to students in making choices about the possibility of pursuing further study or a career in forensic psychology.
Prior learning requirements
PC5005 Individual Differences and Social Psychology
The syllabus for this module includes coverage of the following areas:
Issues and processes in the investigation of crime, for example: eyewitness reliability; false confessions
Types of offenders and offences, for example: mentally disordered offenders; violent offenders
The prosecution and outcomes of crime, for example: courtroom psychology; vulnerable victim treatment and impact; treatment & rehabilitation of offenders LO1,LO2
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
This module will comprise interactive teaching sessions to deliver core material to students (e.g., key concepts, empirical literature and theoretical explanation). Sessions may combine lecture, exercises, discussion, and classroom assessment techniques (CATs). As well as delivering core content, these sessions provide a framework for independent study and reflection on learning. To make the most of the teaching and learning opportunities provided, students are responsible for engaging in key reading associated with each session, and for actively contributing to in-class activities and discussions.
Within the teaching sessions, consideration will be given to:
discussion of overarching themes or issues arising from the topics presented;
review of any areas identified for clarification as a result of CATs within the teaching sessions;
the professional role that a psychologist might have in the forensic contexts discussed. As part of their PDP, students will be encouraged to consider the extent to which their skills and values would be aligned with the roles, ethical and practical responsibilities, and working environments of these psychologists;
Teaching and learning sessions will therefore facilitate consideration of employability issues and personal development planning.
Finally, support for learning from and completion of the assessments will be available online and face-to-face. This support will include instructions for completing each form of assignment; guidance and tips for doing well on each form of assignment (including consideration of the assessment criteria); suggested sources for supporting knowledge acquisition and skill development; and tools for encouraging students to reflect upon their performance and upon employability attributes developed within this module.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
1. Select from, synthesise, and critically evaluate psychological literature in order to draw conclusions about, and make persuasive and evidence-based recommendations in relation to, case information for a professional non-psychology audience.
2. Construct, independently, under time pressure, and from permissible resources, an argument in which empirical findings and psychological theory are described, synthesised, structured and evaluated in order to address contemporary issues in forensic psychology.
Assessment strategy
Assessment for this module comprises coursework in the form of a 1,500 – 2,000 word forensic report (worth 50%), and an unseen open-book examination (worth 50% of the mark for the module). In the forensic report students will be asked to apply their knowledge of a module topic to a specific professional context. In the unseen open-book exam, students will be invited to demonstrate their skills in synthesising, summarising and analysing information in order to respond to essay-style questions.
Davies, G., & Beech, A. (Eds.) (2017). Forensic psychology: crime, justice, law, interventions (3rd edition). Chichester: BPS Blackwell.
Bonta. J.L., & Andrews, D.A. (2017). The psychology of criminal conduct (6th ed.). London: Routledge.
Crighton, D. A. & Towl, G. J. (Eds.) (2015). Forensic psychology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Howitt, D. (2012). Introduction to forensic and criminal psychology (4th ed.). London: Pearson Education.
Howitt, D. (2018). Introduction to forensic and criminal psychology (6th ed.). London: Pearson Education.
Huss, M. T. (2014). Forensic psychology: Research, clinical practice and applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Kapardis, A. (2010). Psychology and law: a critical introduction (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kapardis, A. (2014). Psychology and law: a critical introduction (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weiner, I.B. and Hess, A.K. (Eds), (2006). The handbook of forensic psychology (3rd ed.). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Limited.
Law and Human Behavior
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Psychology, Crime, and Law


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As the Daily News reports, singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur has been reunited with his missing van. Arthur's tale, the one forever immortalized in the ballad "Where Is My Van", ended yesterday when the musician and his lawyer Ron Kuby paid $5,500 in "ransom money" to purchase the van back from Bronx resident Jose Lopez.
The van, which carried several vintage amplifiers and paintings Arthur had done on stage, was towed on July 26th after Arthur neglected to pay $360.10 in unpaid parking tickets. Lopez bought the van for $1,000 at an auction on August 23rd.
Kuby called the transaction a "shakedown," adding, "[Lopez] had enough sense to make a forty-five hundred dollar profit. We recognize that the guy was entitled to make a few bucks, but this was sort of a hold up."
Kuby himself ponied up $3,300 to pay Lopez, proving that not all attorneys are soulless, money-hungry demons. In order to pay him back, Arthur and several special guests are holding a fundraiser on October 21st at NYC's City Winery.
Below, watch Arthur's epic struggle documented in the music video "Where Is My Van".


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Posted Mar 5, 2020 - Requisition No. 80466
Customer Account Management Support (CAMS) assist Sales by managing large client projects and helping to tackle ongoing or complex unresolved issues. By having a detailed understanding of Bloomberg processes and procedures, CAMS can act in advisory role to identify opportunities to improve internal efficiency and to enhance the client's experience.
The department is an exciting next step for somebody who excels at problem solving and project management, has strong communication skills, and who enjoys working directly with internal stakeholders and external clients. A passion for client relationship management and the ability to build a strong internal network within Bloomberg is crucial to be successful in this role.
Each CAMS rep looks after their own group of Sales teams and is encouraged to be independent in this area by looking for ways to grow their business and educate their teams. Client visits play an important part in this, and CAMS reps have the opportunity to visit clients to promote certain tools, gather feedback, and to act as a face-to-face point of contact for our clients and their Market Data.
We'll trust you to:
- Take ownership of escalated customer issues and bring them to resolution
- Serve as a liaison between customers, sales and all Bloomberg operational departments addressing customer requests
- Manage multiple projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and/or enhance the customer experience
- Support projects around company initiatives and sales with ad hoc reporting and requests
To apply for this role, you'll need to have:
- Fluent Japanese and English is a must
- Experience in a client facing role, and a proven track record for cultivating strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Strong communication skills, including negotiation and handling customer objections
- Tenacious and creative problem solving skills
- Self-starter with the ability to take a proactive approach in their role
- Proactive and persistent customer service
- Excellent writing, oral communication, and presentation skills
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Persistence Market Research has announced the addition of the "Sugar and Sugar Substitute Market imaginable Forecast 2015 - 2021" report to their offering.
New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/01/2017 -- Sugar is a naturally occurring nutrient used for adding sweetness to various food items, it is a mixture of carbohydrates along with starch. It is one the important source of energy as it contains carbohydrate. Food additives that resemble the taste of sugar known as sugar substitute. Sugar substitutes are of two types, such as natural substitutes and artificial. The natural substitutes are sorbitol and xylitol and artificial substitutes are artificial sweeteners.
The sugar and sugar substitutes market can be segmented by type as Brown sugar, granulated sugar; powdered-sugar and sugar substitutes. The market can also be segmented geographically into North America, APAC, Europe and RoW regions. The global market of sugar and sugar substitute is expected to grow with a single digit CAGR from 2015 to 2021.
The major driver is the growing food industry, as it is major source of taste and along with food it has vast applications in medication. Some of the restraining factors are raw material cost which is consistently increasing and cost associated with supply chain is also rising. Moreover eating food that has high content of sugar causes diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Consumers are opting for sugar free products as a preventive measure. The growing heath concerns among the people more than 45 years is expected to have positive impact on the demand for sugar substitutes.
The major distribution channels include supermarket/ hypermarkets, departmental stores, convenience stores and dollar stores among others.
Some of the key players in sugar industry are Agrana Beteiligungs AG, Andhra Sugars ltd, Bautou Huazi Industry Co Ltd and Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Ltd among others.
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What Is an APR? Annual Percentage Rate, Explained
Feb 20, 2019
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The annual percentage rate, or APR, is how much you'll pay in interest and other fees when you get a mortgage from a lender to buy a home. APR can also be considered the total cost for a debt over a one-year period.


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Every member of the WorldBridge team is an expert with deep roots in their industry. We are proud of the fact that our recruiters all have an average of 10+ years of industry and/or recruiting expertise.
Meet the dedicated, passionate experts who have completed more than 15,000 successful placements.
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Marcus joined WorldBridge Partners as an Executive Search Consultant in 2011 and was promoted to Partner in 2019. Marcus works diligently to identify, qualify and recruit associate and partner level attorneys for law firms nationally. He is especially adept at assisting law firms in their growth, merger and acquisition strategies and plans.
Prior to joining WorldBridge Partners, Marcus worked in the Athletic Compliance Department at Creighton University in Omaha. Marcus' experience as a legal consultant enables him to gather important insight into both firms and prospective candidates to make sure the fit is right both professionally and personally.
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Kuroko no Basuke PSP Game's 2 TV Ads Streamed
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Bandai Namco Games began streaming two 15-second television commercials for Kuroko no Basuke: Kiseki no Game (Kuroko's Basketball: Game of Miracles) PlayStation Portable game on Wednesday. The game is based on Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Kuroko no Basuke high school basketball manga. The simulation game has the player training a basketball team "with confidence."
The cast from the television anime adaptation of Fujimaki's manga are reprising their roles for the game. Bandai Namco Games will release Kuroko no Basuke: Kiseki no Game in Japan on August 9 for 5,230 yen (about US$66). The downloadable version will come with a code that will allow the player to download a custom Kuroko no Basuke theme for the PSP.
In the story, Taiga Kagami (played by Yuuki Ono) has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Tetsuya Kuroko (Kensho Ono) of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary "Generation of Miracles" basketball team. Together, Kagami and Kuroko aim to take their team to the inter-high school championship — against Kuroko's former teammates. Production I.G's television anime adaptation premiered in April, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series in various countries outside of Japan as it airs.


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Sombre Eve #1 (Australia) 1992
Sombre Eve #1 (Australia) 1992. Editors: "Shane" and "Tracey"
From down under, a crude DIY-hitter with a good mix of underground icons, death, black and cult doom, a Netherlands scene report (VERY brief, by Hans from The Gathering), reviews, a "what is doom?" survey, plus interviews and features/bio with Aetiology, Anathema, Beelzebub (NOR), Blasphemy, Decomposed, Entombed, Eternal (UK), Flesh, God Forsaken, Grief, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene, Master's Hammer, Mayhem, Necrotion, Herve from Osmose Productions, Pan-Thy-Monium, Portrayal, the Gathering and more…thanks to S.L. for the submission
Wounded #4 (Lithuania) 1993
Wounded #4 (Lithuania) 1993. Editor: "Minda "Plix" Lapinskas"
Lithuanian zine featuring a nice selection of early 90s-second generation underground favs, plenty of reviews (and even some early Mark Riddick work!) interviews and/or features with Anathema, Candiru, Devour, Edge of Sanity, Ghostorm, Gommorah, Impaled Nazarene, Meat Shits, Misanthrope, Mortem, Shiver Records – who ripped me off in 1993! Never forget! haha – Order From Chaos, Phlebotomized, Rage Magazine, Sapremia, Swans, The Gathering, and more…
Vital Wound #2 (Lithuania) 1992
Vital Wound #2 (Lithuania) 1992. Editors: "Sarunas Sabaitis" and "Mindaugas Lapinskas"
Interviews and features with Altar (SWE), Anathema, Ancient Rites, At the Gates, Balance of Terror Zine, Devastation, Edge of Sanity, Norwegian and Polish scene reports, Impetigo, Meat Shits, Nuclear Death, Rot, Seance, Thanatos, Fear Factory, Extreme Smoke and much more…


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Greeks have always been the pioneer in every aspect of life. They have been one of the most progressive civilizations all over the world. The same applies to their cuisine. The Greeks prepare delicious, healthy food and are never afraid of experimenting with it. Whether it is delicious hummus or kokoretsi Greek preparations have always been lauded around the world. Brighton in UK is home to some of the best restaurants in entire UK and perhaps the world. It is reckoned as the food hub of the world. The good news is Brighton has a formidable number of restaurants specializing in particular cuisines from the world.
There are quite a few restaurants in Brighton serving delicious Greek cuisine to the people.
ESTIA is one of the primary restaurants serving up Greek delicacies to the guests. It is a family run restaurant and is ideal for every purpose from romantic dining to group dining. They provide catering service for wedding and also have facilities for private parties. Take away facility is also available. Apart from excellent salads, the restaurant offers King Prawn Skewers with Village Salad and Rice, Pork Souvlaki with rice, Halloumi, Stifado and Kleftiko. Delectable dishes and amiable service will make you feel like home at ESTIA.
Archipelagos is a traditional Greek restaurant in Brighton serving delicious Greek food. Flawless service, great ambiance and mouth watering dishes make a deadly combination which will definitely allure you to the restaurant. Their menus are divided into lunch, mezedakia, meze, main meals and desserts. Their wine list is enviable. Some of the most delicious preparations include Moussaka, Mydopilafe, Stifado, Grilled Lamb Chops and Schnitzel. They have both vegetarian and non vegetarian options. Wind up the course with finger licking Greek desserts which include Metaxa, Halva or Greek Yogurt.
Aphrodite Taverna - the restaurant which draws its name from the Greek God of beauty and love serves authentic Greek cuisine in Brighton with lots of love to the guests. Visit Aphrodite and be greeted warmly by the co-owner of the restaurant and the wife of the chef. The treatment will make you feel like a star. Aphrodite Taverna serves both vegetarian and non vegetarian food. The meat meze they serve is one of the best in Brighton. The other dishes include Greek regular ones like Quails and Fillet Steaks, Klefitico and Stifado. The fish preparations are absolutely delicious and lip smacking. Aphrodte Taverna remains open from Monday to Saturday from 12 in the noon to 11:45 at night.
Hence, there is no dearth of Greek restaurants in Brighton. Visit the one that is easily accessible and enjoy the food.


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For rural areas across the country including those here in Arizona, the expansion of the Telecommunication Loan Program recently announced by the USDA is good news in a summer full of headlining disasters. The changes will make it easier for rural communities to fund projects related to emergency communications. The loan program provides funds for the construction of interoperable, integrated emergency communications networks, deployment of dual-use wireless networks, and implementation of next generation 911.
One goal of the expansion is to enable cross-agency communication during emergency situations. Creating a communication system that allows police, firefighters, emergency management personnel, EMTs, and other first responders to communicate with each other was one of the most important recommendations coming out of the 9-11 Commission report. In rural areas, this type of expanded communication is even more critical as the time it takes for first responders to reach the site of an accident or emergency is often longer.
The expanded program also enables rural areas like Mohave, Navajo, and Cochise counties to increase their broadband and wireless network coverage with dual-use technologies. Better accessibility for emergency personnel means better accessibility by everyone. The program can benefit every county and every citizen of Arizona. Even if you live in a county with a population center like Maricopa or Pima, there are still rural pockets in outlying areas that can benefit from these improvements. For the farmers and ranchers of Arizona, and the tourists and truckers that travel throughout the state, this means better wireless service and more consistent connectivity.
In addition to these benefits, the program also helps rural areas speed up the deployment process for next generation 911 including E911 capabilities. Projects aimed at increasing the service area of wireless networks in conjunction with these additional 911 capabilities will allow people to send text, picture, and video messages to 911 operators. In time critical emergency situations, information is crucial to saving lives and enabling callers to provide additional information in these forms enhances the effectiveness of responders. Advances in E911 also enable operators to identify the precise location of a caller for first responders, which in rural areas could be the difference between life and death.


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Does it really matter? Can you actually name a day when kids wouldn't love to do something nice for their grandparents or when grandparents wouldn't like to receive something nice from their grandkids? You can use everything on this page all year long.
The official date for National Grandparent's Day in the United States can be found here.
According to grandparents.com, although 72% of grandparents think being a grandparent is the single most important and satisfying thing in their life, 66% of grandparents have never celebrated grandparents day!
Layer Cake Lessons has developed a fun and inexpensive pack of great activities that will allow you to make any day Grandparents Day or to keep the spirit of Grandparents Day going all year long. It is available on Teachers Pay Teachers and has received many positive reviews. We know you'll love it.
This pack celebrates Grandparents all year long! It includes 4 printable craftivities and 10 differentiated writing activities.
To be clear, it would be totally impractical to try to do all of these grandparents activities at once. Rather, this pack can serve as your "go-to" place for a quick, no-prep activity when you want to practice a particular writing skill - and do something nice for grandparents at the same time!
Here is a small collection of cute Grandparents Day items available on Amazon.


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Tasmania is a little island with a diverse landscape. Each area, indeed each hill and valley has its own aspect and peculiarities that make it unique. As permaculture landscape designers we understand this island, and what makes each property unique, such as:
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In addition to this we understand local councils, economic potential of land, travel times, government services, wind exposure and more. We can lend our experience to your home hunt so that you can make one of the biggest decisions of your life with confidence.
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October 2018
After many years of leading photography workshops and photography tours in Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Brittany, we are sad to inform our loyal clients and followers that we will no longer be offering any workshops or tours for the foreseeable future.
This decision was not taken lightly as we have enjoyed teaching photography in the Channel Islands & Northern France and we have particularly enjoyed meeting so many enthisuastic photographers and helping you progress with your photography.
We intend of keep this website live for the time being so that you can enjoy viewing a selection of our images on our galler page. If you would like to buy any of those images as prints, please email email@example.com.
Our main focus is now our commercial photography business which we have been running in tandem with Fototonic - please take a look at http://www.setoro.com and you can follow us on social media - Facebook and Instagram
Thanks so much to each and every one of you that came with us on our workshops and tours and we wish you every success with your photography
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Resident architecture expert, David Hallett from Ask An Architect, gives us his opinion on The The Foxground Pavilion from Episode 4, Season 5 of Grand Designs Australia.
After carving out roads for a living, Joe's now carving out a place to live. Not a house, mind you…a place to live.
There's a difference.
A place to live is inspired by the people that live there – a family, their friends and relations. It's a place that's imbued with personality and filled with emotion. By contrast, a house is a collection of rooms separated by structure. It'll keep the rain out, but it can be pretty soul-less until someone makes it a home.
You have to admire anyone who hand-makes their own home, so what can we learn from Joe and Maura's?
A site with a south-facing view always presents a challenge, especially when it's toward the rear.
Big views call for big windows but south-facing glazing contributes almost nothing to a building from a passive solar design perspective. Heat loss during winter can be mitigated through the use of double-glazed units, however they won't ever admit sunshine to the interior (at least not south of the equator). North-facing glazing to a living area is always optimal, perhaps leavened with some east-facing windows for early morning sunshine. Properly protected, north-facing windows admit sunshine and warmth during the winter months to reduce heating requirements and feed the soul.
Perhaps a clerestory roof might have been worth considering to get some northern sunshine into the living areas?
Joe's use of rammed earth construction continues a centuries old tradition of building using local materials. Just as we might find a log cabin in a forest, so we find this home rising from the local soil.
Brewed from a mixture of clay, sand, cement and gravel, the walls beautifully reflect the colour and texture of the environment in which the home stands. Such an approach dramatically reduces the embodied energy consumed in construction of the building shell, as does the use of re-purposed bridge timber. Rammed earth walls also provide an extremely high level of thermal mass which will keep the house cool in summer, although they'll act as a heat-sink in winter. The thermal break between the walls and the slab floor is clever but the house will take some cooling down when warmer weather comes!
The planning of this home reflects the contemporary preference for separately zoned parents, kids and family areas. With majestic views toward the rear, the house appears to turn its back on the public realm – another current planning trend – but once inside, friends and family alike are treated to a warm welcome in a home that speaks volumes about the generosity of its owners.
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This is our village-based campus. Our buildings are located among the homes and businesses of the friendly community of Bluche. Perched half up way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps, we have some of the best views that a university can boast of.
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Chapter One
False Knowledge
It was nearly midnight on April 14, 1912, when the White Star liner Titanic, racing along on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, struck an iceberg many times larger than the ship itself. We now know from extraordinary new photographs that the seam along the starboard hull was ripped open by the impact. The ocean poured in, breaching the double hull, flooding the mail room, the squash court, and the third-class berths. It spilled over the "watertight" bulkheads to snuff out the giant steam boilers and pull the ship down in one of the greatest disasters of modern times. In the wake of this tragedy, the British government ordered that ice patrols commence along the major shipping lanes to guard against another disaster. They should have called for truth patrols instead.
There was nothing surprising about icebergs in the North Atlantic. All day the Titanic had received detailed information about the ice ahead, delivered directly to Captain Edward Smith and to other officers on the bridge. Two hours before the incident, the Mesaba sent the Titanic a warning of icebergs at 42° 25'N 50° 14'W, almost precisely where the accident later occurred. At least one report was given to Ismay, president of the White Star Line. Eager to set a new record for transatlantic crossing, Ismay calmly stuffed the note in his pocket. In spite of frequent and specific warnings, he made the decision to let the ship race ahead at full speed.
Ismay believed three things to be true: first, he knew from his own experience with other ships that the lookout would give him actual sightings of any iceberg in time to steer around it. Second, his team of engineers assured him that even if the Titanic struck an iceberg submerged or otherwise difficult to see, the ship would not sink. And third, if there should be an accident of any kind, there was a tight and mutually supportive community of ships nearby that would come to his aid. A truth patrol would have noted that he was wrong on all counts.
The night was not dark and stormy, but clear, cloudless, and spangled with stars; conditions for timely warning seemed excellent. But the lookout actually assigned to watch for ice couldn't see that well. Frederick Fleet had not been given an eye exam in five years and, in spite of his frequent requests, had not been provided binoculars. More important, the unprecedented size and speed of the Titanic were so great that, unlike other ships in Ismay's experience, this one could not be stopped or significantly turned in less than a mile with engines full astern. Even a lookout with excellent vision could not have spotted the iceberg at that distance.
Nor was it unsinkable. The Titanic was built to remain afloat even with its first four watertight compartments flooded, but the new design had not been tested. Ismay even overruled the worried engineers who built the ship, cutting the number of lifeboats from thirty-two to sixteen, the minimum required by the British Board of Trade. He later observed that the reason the Titanic carried any lifeboats at all was so they could rescue passengers and crew from other ships.
And finally, the Titanic was for all practical purposes alone. Ten miles away, the Leyland liner Californian had slowed down in the dangerous ice field when third officer Charles Victor Groves saw the lights from a large passenger liner racing up from the east. As he watched, the liner seemed to stop as if in trouble. He went to the radio room, found that the operator had gone to bed, and tried to operate the radio himself but was unable to make contact.
For the next two hours, Groves and his fellow officers studied the strange behavior of the Titanic. She seemed to float awkwardly on the sea, firing white rockets normally considered a signal of distress. When they reported this to Stanley Lord, captain of the Californian, he told them to try to make contact by Morse lamp, but this proved unsuccessful. Finally, when it seemed that the lights of the nearby ship were beginning to disappear, the officers went again to Captain Lord, who was lying down in his cabin. "Were they all white rockets?" he asked. And hearing that they were, he went back to sleep.
At the conclusion of the British inquiry, Lord Mersey, chairman of the inquiry committee, wrote: "When she first saw the rockets, the Californian could have pushed through the ice to the open water without any serious risk and so have come to the assistance of the Titanic. Had she done so, she might have saved many if not all of the lives that were lost.
Why didn't Lord take the distress signals seriously? He testified later that he believed the Titanic was "unsinkable," that the distress signals seemed ambiguous, and that he was in a dangerous ice field himself. His officers concluded from the same evidence that they were witnessing a disaster of unprecedented proportions, but they stood at the rail and kept their silence.
It is part of the Titanic legend that Robert Sarnoff, the twenty-one-year-old employee of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, stayed at his primitive radio for seventy-two hours, receiving and passing on the names of those lost at sea; the first major demonstration of the revolutionary new wireless telegraphy. It seems ironic that we should find there, at the birth of the technology that epitomizes our age, the specter of an ancient and enduring problem. The Titanic sank because of multiple failures to manage information correctly: failure by Captain Smith to heed warnings, failure by Bruce Ismay to credit evidence that was contrary to his ambitions, failure by Captain Lord of the Californian to act in the face of doubt. The Titanic sank because of false knowledge.
The errors that surrounded the sinking of the Titanic are not unusual. A number of recent disasters on a comparable scale indicate that the problem may be growing worse. Early warnings are often brushed aside by men and women in the thrall of their own dreams. Critical information is frequently delayed or lost in organizations blundering through a crisis. And at the last moment, when the situation could be saved, communication systems fail and dissenters often fall silent.
Every new age begins with a drum roll of novel disasters and ends in a fog of nostalgia. One of the unexpected problems of the Industrial Age, for example, was finding low-cost labor to come in from the farms and cottages to tend the mills, a task that precipitated bloody riots and decades of dissent. Now, with the onset of the Information Age, our information systems seem to offer new power over a complex world, but then those systems fail us. The warning is late, the message is confusing, the signal never gets through. Failures are attributed to some cause over which we can comfortably claim no control: equipment malfunction, system complexity, inadequate training, bad weather. Even our new disasters are understood in terms of old conditions.
It is customary in business management literature to say that, in such cases, the decision system failed. The one responsible for the final evaluation of alternatives was distracted, deluded, indecisive, unable to handle all the data, or emotionally ill-equipped for the stress. And when none of these conditions can be confirmed with certainty, those who rake through the ruins of an accident say he made the best decision he could, given the information available to him at the time. No one is to blame. The solution is to build more decision support systems, get more data, make better presentations, order extra computer checks.
But the reality is otherwise. Some of the information, though wrong, looks right. It fits neatly with the rest of the data. It comes from a trusted source. It has been reviewed and approved by several hierarchies of analysts. The danger is that we live in a world where the evidence and analysis always makes sense, but where, through personal and social processes we scarcely understand, the information gathered by the organization has come to include false knowledge. Everyone is to blame.
Our ability to determine the accuracy of information is increasingly inadequate. Smart men and women in the best organizations, surrounded by data, make the wrong decisions. We race ahead like Ismay on the bridge, charmed by the possibilities but betrayed by the facts. We are vaguely aware of the need for speedy and relevant information but insensitive to the limits of cognition and almost entirely ignorant about how information is distorted as it travels through an organization. We cling to the idea that a reasonable man in a position of authority should make these complex decisions alone, and we ignore the fact that the whole community—the engineers, the lookout, the signalman, the radio operator, the officers on the deck of the Californian—have already narrowed his choices and set the future in motion. We are trying to manage communities, businesses, and nations on the basis of garbled reports and unreliable message systems without having achieved the ability to test for truth—not as some philosophical matter, but as the basis for action in a complex world.
Even direct observation can often be misleading. Beyond a certain speed and level of complexity, the world we observe is a false one. The Titanic was effectively traveling blind: by the time Fleet spotted the iceberg, it was already too late to turn the ship. The collision had occurred downstream in time and nothing in his power could then undo it. Until that moment, a man's ability to observe nature had been approximately equal to his power to react. He could run from a volcano, dodge a screaming artillery shell, and steer a ship through a storm. But new technology has changed the rules. Some armies in history have marched faster than their supply trains and starved to death on the eve of victory. Fighter pilots joke that beyond the speed of sound there is no point looking out the window: all you see is the past. At Mach 2 another fighter coming directly at you appears as a speck a mile away, but within one second—faster than many pilots can react—the planes have passed each other or collided.
A hundred years ago, the truth was easier to establish. One could visit the mills, go to the market, see the laboratory, and reach a conclusion based on personal experience. Information was a record of market transactions, a notebook of observations from the mill, or a report of distant events. It could be confirmed by personal observation. But now, as organizations expand to undertake broader and more specialized tasks, financial trading systems have become the marketplace, software development is the mill floor, reports are the events. And the decision center of an organization is often too far from the relevant reality to check for accuracy. The real world we need to observe is deep in the reactor core, in the night sky on the other side of the world, or in the purchasing behavior of millions who will buy the product. We discover too late that our observations are not timely enough, or complete enough, or accurate enough to be relied upon. We design products for consumers we have never met. We prescribe medicine we have not tested ourselves for patients we scarcely know to treat illnesses diagnosed by others. We aim our missiles at nations whose language we cannot read or speak and we are betting our future health and productivity on genetic devices and nanotechnology we can no longer see or feel.
How shall we test the quality of complex information? How was Ismay to decide the truth of the message "There are icebergs ahead?" In the middle of a modern management situation, it is rarely possible to consult some long-standing authority. Events change quickly, and authority has a habit of hiding in generalities. Nor can we always measure the truth of a message by comparing it rationally to other information available. Too often the other information comes from the same source. The liar's art, after all, is to weave from ambiguous and dissonant data a "reasonable tale." It was certainly contrary to Ismay's style—and to the style of his times—to gather his officers together and evaluate the problem. And if he had, what good would it have done? The officers might have been more cautious but they were not better informed.
Consider three fields where information is the primary reality—medicine, finance, and international relations.
In the field of medicine, the inability to see errors in the patient's diagnosis or treatment has led to a startling increase in patient deaths. In 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study showing 225,000 deaths a year as a result of medical error: 12,000 from unnecessary surgery, 7,000 from medication errors in the hospital, 20,000 from other hospital errors, and 80,000 from infections occurring while the patient was hospitalized. One hundred and six thousand deaths resulted from "non-error" negative effects of drugs.5 The total number of deaths caused by medical error in the United States is roughly equal to the number of casualties from two jumbo jets crashing every day.
It is possible that doctors are trained to be more attentive to the problems of false knowledge than engineers, lawyers, financial analysts and intelligence professionals--as we shall see. In modern medicine, truth is their life's work. But the mistakes they make are more visible, and the results more personal. A study published in 2008 by the New England Healthcare Institute concluded that 8.8 percent of hospital patients in a sample of eight Massachusetts hospitals suffered from "preventable adverse drug reactions," ranging from a change in respiratory rate to a fever or a seizure to anaphylactic shock. "Conservative estimates show that nationwide, adverse drug events result in more than 770,000 hospital injuries and deaths each year.
And that's in the hospital, where a team of professionals works within the discipline of protocol, where outcomes are measured, and where insurance companies have a special interest in preventing mistakes. This doesn't take into account the errors committed by individual physicians treating patients in their own offices. Dr. Vincent DeVita, director of the National Cancer Institute at the US National Institutes of Health, said that of the 462,000 cancer deaths in the United States that year, at least 20 percent occurred because the doctor didn't have—or wouldn't use—information that was immediately available to him or her. In each case, the doctor reached a conclusion based on experience and prescribed the indicated therapy. In each case, the patient died. DeVita went further: the number of deaths "could be cut by as much as 50 percent" if doctors would (or could) take the time to look beyond their desktop for prevention and treatment knowledge already available.7 Although the information can be found in journals, textbooks, online databases, and university research departments, many doctors cannot or will not use it. Instead they rely on their own memory and judgment, heavily influenced by the desire to heal, and reluctant to use diagnostic tools that might define the disease in terms they don't recognize.
According to a study at the Harvard School of Public Health, 20,000 heart attack deaths a year could have been prevented over the last decade if doctors had accepted research findings when they were first published.8 Simple discoveries such as the value of aspirin in preventing second heart attacks were ignored for a decade because they were published in a statistics journal doctors don't read. It isn't that they couldn't get access to the journals; access is easy. The doctors couldn't come to grips with information that seemed foreign and contradictory, information that challenged their competence or caused confusion, information of unknown and indeterminable quality.
Herbert Simon, the Nobel economist, writing about how decisions are made, suggested that there are limits to reason. Individuals tend to identify a new situation as representative of a class of conditions they are familiar with. And as they decide how to respond, they remember successful or vivid responses in the past. People do what has worked before. But when the information is incomplete, people have to imagine what might be missing. When the experience is insufficient to explain what is going on, people have to search for other less familiar responses and make judgments about the efficacy of each one. Usually, Simon says, they choose the first combination of situation and remedy that seems to fit the facts. Not the best one, just the one that is, in Simon's language, most "available."9 In other words, they guess.
From 1996 through the summer of 2001, the executives of Enron engaged in fraud and asset manipulation to raise the price of its stock from $20 to $90 per share. By the second quarter of 2001, the company claimed that sales in the trailing twelve-month period had jumped from $52 billion to $171 billion. During this astonishing rise, financial analysts, accountants, and the media cheered them on, believing that the company's executive talent and the so-called new economy were the reasons for such success and the herald of happy days to come. According to "independent" analysts at many investment banks, Enron was a brilliant example of the executive's art that cast its glow on other financial schemes being offered by the sales side of the same firm. If you missed out on Enron, my colleague has something just as good. Even in the last month of trading, fifteen of the eighteen investment analysts covering the company rated it a "buy." Senior executives with years of experience couldn't see the crash coming:
I have been asked how I viewed the August 14, 2001 resignation of Enron's then-CEO Jeffrey Skilling. At the time, we viewed Kenneth Lay's return as CEO to be a positive development given his promise of openness and a commitment that Enron would shed non-core assets and focus upon its core business lines. Upon learning of Skilling's departure, I and my colleagues immediately arranged for a meeting with Lay, which was held in Alliance Capital's Minneapolis offices on August 21, 2001. At that meeting, we had a very detailed discussion about Enron's business, and our questions appeared to have been answered in a complete and satisfactory manner. (Alfred Harrison, vice chairman, Alliance Capital, in testimony to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation)10
But months before the meeting with Harrison, Lay, and colleagues, Bethany McLean, a thirty-one-year-old English major from Hibbing, Minnesota, wrote an article in Forbes calling the whole scheme into doubt. She said she couldn't understand how the business worked. Suddenly others began to notice the same financial reporting tricks, and within nine months the company had filed for bankruptcy, the largest in United States history. Shareholders lost $60 billion, much of it from the personal retirement funds of Enron employees.
On February 6, 2003, secretary of state Colin Powell stood before the United Nations Security Council and presented the case for the invasion of Iraq. Based on months of research and analysis by the CIA, the State Department, and the Department of Defense, Secretary Powell used satellite photographs, audiotapes, official documents, and captured material to show that Iraq had already developed biological weapons of mass destruction and was in the process of building nuclear weapons. He made three key points: first, the United States had seized precision-ground aluminum tubes on their way to Iraq, tubes whose only purpose could be as part of a centrifuge for the enrichment of weapons-grade uranium. Second, he said that the United States had actual documents showing Iraq's effort to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger—the only ingredient needed to complete its nuclear bombs. And third, Iraq had built mobile systems for producing nerve gas, anthrax, and other forms of biological and chemical warfare. "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent."
"My colleagues," Secretary Powell said, "every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence."
The heartfelt and articulate arguments from a man as honored and honorable as Powell seemed difficult to doubt, but they were known to be false in every case. The "suspected chemical weapons site" had been visited by the UN inspection team and was determined at the time to be an old ammunition storage area often frequented by Iraqi trucks. The mobile production labs, shown in artist drawings, were just what the Iraqis said they were: facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill weather balloons. The "decontamination vehicles" shown in the satellite photographs were really just fire trucks. The VX nerve gas Powell cited had already been destroyed, and the destruction had been confirmed by the UN. The existence of five hundred tons of chemical and biological warfare material had already been denied by a United States Defense Intelligence Agency report. The audiotape seeming to show that Osama bin Laden was in partnership with Saddam Hussein, when correctly translated, indicated that bin Laden was appealing to the Iraqi people and actually wanted Saddam Hussein dead.
The documents that showed that Iraq was buying yellowcake uranium from Niger had been declared forgeries by Secretary Powell's own State Department weeks before; an investigation by the Italian parliament later concluded that they had been forged in Washington by Michael Ledeen, Dewey Clarridge, Francis Brooke, and Defense Department consultant Ahmed Chalabi. The aluminum tubes had been a controversial issue for months, and as early as January, the Washington Post had reported that UN weapons inspectors were "confident" that the tubes were not part of any nuclear weapons program.
Years later, Powell said that he was merely reporting the truth as he and everyone around him understood it:
Do you feel responsible for giving the UN flawed intelligence?
I didn't know it was flawed. Everybody was using it. The CIA was saying the same thing for two years. I gave perhaps the most accurate presentation of the intelligence as we knew it—without any of the "Mushroom clouds are going to show up tomorrow morning" and all the rest of that stuff. But the fact of the matter is that a good part of it was wrong, and I am sorry that it was wrong.
What defense do we have against a complex description of reality that includes false information? What hope is there when the financial press is almost entirely, spectacularly wrong about the most dramatic business failure in history? Whom can we trust when hospitals—not just individual physicians—get the diagnosis and treatment so wrong that death from medical error killed four times more people than motor vehicle accidents in 2000, and fifteen times more people than died that year of AIDS? How do we survive in a complex world when the entire $40-billion-a-year engine of American espionage, diplomacy, and defense intelligence cannot tell whether another country is or is not preparing weapons against us?
It is not enough to say that people lied. We must also admit that we believed. The doctors certainly believed that they were doing the right thing. The investment managers and accountants put their own money down on Enron. Secretary Powell believed he was reporting the facts. But we live in a world of virtual truth where the information is so complex, so internally consistent, and presented in such a persuasive way that the false knowledge cannot be detected. The traditional tests for truth are all positive: the description is defended by men and women of authority and experience, the proffered evidence seems unimpeachable, and broad consensus supports the conclusions. But we pay too little attention to how easily an individual can distort the report. Wishful thinking colors the facts, new knowledge is twisted into old shapes, and self-interest beckons us toward a false conclusion through cognitive processes we have only recently begun to identify. And when the information is processed by a group, these errors are compounded by social forces we know too little about. Each individual in the chain adds his or her own misconceptions. Uncertainty is removed, and additional information is added to make a more "reasonable" story. Members of a group try hard to agree with each other even when they don't, and those who disagree are punished or fall silent. New information is subtly altered to be more consistent with the prevailing view of the world and slowly, inexorably, the description takes a turn for the logical, the complete, the flattering, and the persuasive. Somebody makes the slides. Somebody else sets up the chairs. Truth is lost and virtual truth has taken its place: a full, articulated, and flawed description of the real world, leading us into disaster.
Years ago, on a rainy evening, a World Airways cargo plane on its way from California to the Philippines was forced to approach the Cold Bay, Alaska, airport on instruments alone. Captain John Weininger consulted his charts and set the plane on the correct course, heading cautiously toward the runway. Thirty-five miles out, he asked the flight engineer for a position, but none could be determined electronically. "What kind of terrain are we flying over?" the engineer asked. "Mountains everywhere," said the captain. The crew decided to climb a little to four thousand feet, and the altimeter needle suddenly started to jump around. The first officer called out, "Hey, John. We're off course . . . four hundred feet from something." Six seconds later, according to the aircraft accident report, "the aircraft struck rising terrain." The three crew members and three passengers were killed.
According to the accident report, the fault lay with the captain, who deviated from approved approach procedures and descended into an area of "unreliable navigation signals and obstructing terrain." Pilot error. But a lawsuit filed by the family of one the crew members showed that the navigation chart Captain Weininger used was wrong. The altitude data gathered and distributed by the federal government had left out a mountain, and Jeppesen, the publisher that made the maps, hadn't checked the new version against the old.19 The entire community of pilots, aircraft controllers, and government officials accepted these maps as "accurate," but in fact there was no way to confirm the truth of the information on which they had been taught to risk their lives.
We are all in Captain Weininger's chair. We take the medicine, we buy the stock, we cast our votes, and we send our sons and daughters into war. We place our faith in the truth of the information that others have provided without an adequate understanding of how our modern systems can distort and belie reality. We have wandered into a world of virtual truth where much is simulated, where information and ideas pretend to be each other, where logic and consistency are man-made. The markings on the compass fade; the needle starts to jump.
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Hairy Diary Entry #4
Friday 1 June
So it has been a while since I wrote in my hairy diary. Since my last entry of burning myself and then self tanning, I haven't engaged in any other hair manipulation endeavours until today. My leg hair had grown to a considerable length but hadn't quite reach it full capacity shall we say. At this length I have felt that I'm not too bothered by it and forget that it's there. This has made me realise to not be so hard on myself of previous times when I have tried to go out with a full moon hairy legs. It's more about steps and slowly pushing my comfort zones further. I still for example don't feel comfortable to go dancing and wave my arms in the air and consequently my armpit hair like I don't care. And that's ok, it doesn't make me a person that loves their body any less, I simply still live in a society that doesn't love my body for how it is and sometimes I don't have the energy to be a salmon. Tomorrow is my birthday and I find birthdays and special occasions hard enough on their own ( a story for another day) so I decided to take the safety razor for spin!
After having armpit hair and leg hair for quite a while I feel like my brain has been slowly reconditioned away from the glossy images of smooth ladies that are non stop advertised and are advertised in such a way that sends us the message: to have smooth legs = sexy and desirable and leg hair is such an awful thing that it can't even be show so lets just show women shaving bits of body that are already hair free! ( I accidentally wrote awesome instead of awful to begin with! my brain really is learning to love leg hair!) Any way all these ramblings are to say that once I had removed the armpit hair, I felt and looked a bit off, not terrible or anything but my armpits just looked a little naked! I guess how it might look if I came home Adam my boyfriend had decided to shave his armpits.


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No, not those ones, silly, but the word "drug". For me (in the UK) the word has only ever been used to denote a pharmaceutical substance or possibly something from which a person obtains an illegal or legal high. However, I sometimes see the word used when I would write "dragged". I'm not referring to taking a drag on a cigarette but the action of dragging something along, either physically or metaphorically.
So is this one of those words that has different uses depending which brand of English one uses? I'm thinking of someone who is retrieving his heavy drug stash from some bushes while smoking a Marlboro: He drug some drugs from the bushes and drug on his Marlboro.
No, seriously now, is drug used for dragged in US English?