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Many M Flight members had the opportunity to attend the 2012 M Festival at the Nurburgring during the 24hr Race (18-20 May 2012), which celebrated BMW M's 40th anniversary.
The first day started out for the group at Pentagon Car Sales in Ramstein-Miesenbach, which they set out from for the Nurburgring. Upon arriving at the Ring, all members parked their Ms in the M Parking Garage. The M Shuttle then brought the group to the M Gallery where they were received by Brian Watts (BMW … CONTINUED
We can finally confirm that the next generation M3 (F80 / F82) will be powered by an inline 6 cylinder engine. We spoke to the President of BMW North America, Mr. Ludwig Willisch, at the ongoing M6 convertible / 6 Gran Coupe US press launch and he has officially confirmed that the next generation M3′s engine will indeed feature an inline 6 layout and not a V6.
Until now, there has been no official confirmation (nor denial) from BMW on whether the F80 sedan and F82 coupe's … CONTINUED
We've been saying it for a while now, but here's finally proof of the MY2013 BMW M3 coupe (E92) and convertible (E93). Here are the official ordering and pricing guides for the 2013 M3 (download PDF below), which shows few changes other than a $200 retail price increase over the 2012 M3 models. Production of the 2013 M3 will begin in July for deliveries beginning late August – early September.
The E92 M3 coupe will be produced until mid-2013 and the E93 M3 until a few … CONTINUED
BMW UK has released a video teaser for the new limited BMW M3 M Performance Edition coupe models that it will offer for the UK market. Each M3 M Performance Edition model will feature an unique Frozen (matte) paint color – Frozen Blue, Frozen Red, and Frozen White. Just ten units of each color will be produced, for a total of only 30 cars.
BMW recently launched the M Performance Parts catalog for the F20 1 series, F30 3 series, and F10 5 series, but has yet … CONTINUED
Now that the new M6 coupe/convertible and M5 have all debuted, our thoughts often turn to the next M3 – the F80. And although we've previously rendered the F80, here is our take on what the next generation M3 may resemble now that the M6 has been revealed. So far, the multitude of F80 M3 spy photos / videos we've posted have not been very telling in terms of the lower front bumper design, but we've used our imagination based on the new M6 and M5 … CONTINUED
VAC Motorsports has put together an impressive dedicated M3 track car build for a customer, in which they managed to drop several hundred pounds off the factory M3′s weight – to just 3200 pounds.
The build was done to the customer's specs, down to the color scheme, and all the work was done in-house. Here's the full specs of the build.
Some highlights:
-3230lbs ~400lb savings
-Grand Am spec cage with L/R NASCAR door bars and dash bar. Done 100% in house.
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An exclusive new BMW M3 Coupé Frozen Silver Edition model has been announced as part of BMW M GmbH's 40th anniversary year. Just 100 of the high performance coupés will be sold in the UK and the model features unique content to make it a truly collectable item.
The new BMW M3 Coupé Frozen Silver Edition features BMW's class-leading 420hp V8 engine with power transferred to the road via the standard seven-speed M DCT transmission and variable M differential. The car comes with a 10mm lowered suspension … CONTINUED
An M3POST member shares with us his european delivery journal, recounting the experience of picking up his stripped down basic configuration E93 M3 coupe in Individual Fire Orange exterior.
We've seen all variety of frozen (matte) colors on BMWs since the trend started a couple of years ago, but this is the first time we've seen it in one of our favorite BMW blues of all time – Estoril Blue.
What makes this color on the car even more unique is that it wasn't achieved with a vinyl wrap, which has been the preferred method for applying a matte color to a car, but was actually a full respray of the car.
Other modifications on … CONTINUED
We've previously featured an Atacama Yellow M3 sedan and now here's the first E93 M3 convertible in Atacama Yellow.
Atacama yellow is currently only available on the Z4 and must be ordered as a BMW Individual color for any other models, including the M3. The yellow looks great against the contrasting carbon fiber and black aero piece and wheels. Check out the full set of photos inside.
Here's a great road trip journal featuring an M3, 4000 miles of travel, Tail of the Dragon, and a high performance driving event at Homestead track.
M3POST member LM3 traveled from Michigan to Florida and back in his E90 M3. He documents the more interesting parts of the trip for us through words, photos, and videos. Check it out inside.


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Diamond expert explains why grading reports are 'not carved in stone'
DENVER - Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States. However, when it comes to purchasing one, there's a lot more to diamonds than sparkle and shine.
Neil Beaty is a certified Independent Gem Appraiser based in Denver. He talked with 7NEWS Investigative Reporter Amanda Kost about a side of the diamond industry he says few consumers know about. It has to do with diamond grading reports, produced by gemological laboratories and potential misrepresentation from jewelers.
"The stone is whatever it is, the lab doesn't make it, the lab is just grading it, but the price is going to be based on the labs, explained Beaty.
A diamond is graded based on four aspects, commonly known as the "four c's," cut, color, clarity and carat.
Those qualities are graded by the labs, driving the market price for each diamond.
"People believe that these grades are carved in stone as it were, and they are not," said Beaty.
Dozens of different gemological labs grade diamonds and Beaty tells us standards also differ from one lab to another. 7NEWS found stores and retailers often send a diamond to several labs for different reasons. Although, according to Beaty the most common reason normally involves the price retailers can charge for a diamond.
"The usual reason to choose a lab is because it produces the most money for a stone," explained Beaty.
7NEWS obtained several diamond grading reports consumers rarely see side by side when shopping for diamonds in the store. In one case, we reviewed two diamond grading reports for the exact same one carat round brilliant stone.
The first grading report was analyzed by the Gemological Institute of America, commonly referred to as GIA. GIA's report graded the diamond as near colorless and given the designation "J" on their scale. Clarity was graded at I1, meaning some inclusions or blemishes are visible to the naked eye. GIA listed the diamond's cut as poor, which is its lowest cut grade. Beaty explained how based on the specifications provided by GIA, the diamond's retail price would be around $3,200.
The second report we reviewed for that exact same one carat round brilliant stone was produced by the European Geological Laboratory, International (EGL International). Based on its report, Beaty said the retail price would be nearly double GIA's starting at $6,000. The diamond's color was graded two levels higher as near colorless at level "H." Clarity also improved to SI2, meaning inclusions or blemishes were only slightly visible to the naked eye. EGL International's report also did not list a cut for the diamond, which GIA had rated poor.
"The fact that a particular one has been eliminated will go unnoticed," said Beaty.
Kost then asked, "Do they keep that off every report?"
"No," replied Beaty.
Beaty explained to 7NEWS that out of all the gemological laboratories, GIA is the standard in the industry.
Kost asked, "So why would anyone go to anyone else?"
"Because they can get a higher price," said Beaty.
"If the jeweler is properly representing what they have, I don't really have a problem with these EGL's, the problem is when they say things they know are false," further explained Beaty.
Kost and producer Jennifer Kovaleski went undercover in five metro-area jewelry stores to find out what sales associates would say about diamond grading systems.
At each location, Kost asked for a GIA graded diamond with the same specifications "ideal cut, one karat, SI2H." Even though Kost asked for a GIA graded diamond, only one store was able to show her one. At the other four stores, diamonds graded by different labs or in-house gemologists were offered.
"We don't have a paper on each stone, our gemologist just does the appraisal," said the fourth store they visited.
When they asked employees how grading standards differed from lab to lab, every sales associate had a different answer to their questions.
"The standard, the scales are the same," said a sales associate at the third store.
Kost then followed up by asking, "You're saying for clarity, color, cut, all that?"
The sales person answered, "Yeah, there's like an overall - like the Diamond Council has an actually, has a standard."
"That's what matters, what's prettiest to you, what sparkles the most, what you like, not what is printed on the paperwork," an associate from the second store told them.
"If you go to an honest jeweler you don't need to get a GIA cert [certification]," said the sales associate at the fourth store.
"So they're going to give you the exact same specs [specifications], it's just different people certifying it," said an employee at the first store.
The fifth store provided this response, "Not all HSI1's or HSI2's are going to be the same. It depends on who they are graded by."
When Kost and Kovaleski asked for further clarification, sales associates at three of the stores explained the value of a GIA diamond grading report.
"They have the strictest guidelines as far as grading."
"Everybody in the industry kind of considers GIA the world authority."
"The truth is GIA is God in this business."
Employees at the other two metro area jewelry stores, stuck with their pitch.
When Kost asked, "This is a different lab, are they using the same standards as GIA?"
A sales associate from the first store quickly responded, "Oh, exactly."
At the other jeweler, a saleswoman from the third store explained, "Like, there's an overall guideline, it's just a different company.
"So they're going to give you the same [specifications]?"
The woman replied, "Yeah, they should be."
Beaty showed 7NEWS several examples of different grading reports for the exact same diamonds where the findings varied drastically. As an independent diamond appraiser, he said he has seen hundreds of examples like the ones he showed us.
"These guys [EGL International] are selling sales documents, these guys [GIA] are selling consumer protection documents to consumers," said Beaty. "But merely because you bought an EGL [International] diamond, does not make it a bad diamond, it does not make it in anyway defective. It might be defective, we don't know."
Beaty's advice to consumers is to insist on a diamond that is graded by GIA and ask to have an on-site gemologist confirm that's what they're getting. He also recommends consumers ask for a receipt that clearly states the grade of diamond they are purchasing.
"Then get it checked out by your own guy," further explained Beaty. "It's an important issue, that's why I'm talking to you about it."
7NEWS reached out to all five metro-area stores for comment regarding the labs each company uses to grade its diamonds as well as how each company trains its sales associates. To date, only the Zale Corporation has provided us with the following response.
"Zale Corporation uses independent laboratories for diamond certification. Diamond certification is not done in house. We provide extensive training to our Jewelry Consultants on the technical aspects of diamonds including diamond certification and how to read the cert. 75% of our eligible Jewelry Consultants have completed Diamond Counsel of America (DCA) training. We also provide our own proprietary training on diamonds and on our exclusive, branded collections (Vera Wang LOVE and The Celebration Diamond Collection)."
We also reached out to EGL International for comment on our report, but never heard back.


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"I'll show you how valuable Elle Woods can be!" Inspirational words from the Legally Blonde heroine.
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Like, please like, stop with the dumb blonde jokes.
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All is fair in love and war and movies.
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Because we totally need something better than Legally Blonde.
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In the last 14 years, the 21st century has already offered some incredible additions to the musical theater pantheon. These are the best new musicals, both on and off-Broadway.
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Like, it's not a hair color, it's a lifestyle.
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If you're having a not-so-great holiday, here are some films that will put a smile back on your face.
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Bend and snap, people.
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Now that the bio movie about the SNL and Animal House legend is seemingly going to happen, it's time to make sure the right man gets the job.
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You're going to find the perfect costume and look totally fetch. What, like it's hard?
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Danish Study Targets HIV Reservoir, in Latest Search for HIV CureDanish researchers have begun testing panobinostat, an HDAC inhibitor, in 15 patients, in an attempt to find an HIV cure. HDAC inhibitors, which are traditionally used to treat cancer, are now being studied for their potential to flush HIV out of... Read more »
Very Early HIV Treatment May Limit "Seeding" of Latent HIV Reservoirs, Study FindsEarly HIV treatment, specifically during acute HIV infection, can limit the virus from forming HIV reservoirs in central memory CD4+ cells, according to study results presented at CROI 2013 in Atlanta, Ga. Researchers in Thailand screened 52,767... Read more »
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your opinion about reservoir hivHi,Just read an article here on scientists finding that hiv still infects cells by attraction rather than in a hidden reservoir. I wish I could find it again and I might sound more intelligent. I got the idea that it just shut the door on a...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS FoundationHi.Relax Max! These discoveries actually bring us closer to a cure (either functional or total eradication)! As the author states: "Determining the location of viral reservoirs in the body, as well as mechanisms that maintain it, are important... Read more »
Radiations to destroy HIV in reservoirs?If radiations would target directly the cells where HIV latently hides is there a possibilty the virus could be destroyed like cancers? A study suggested that with the help of nanotecnology antibodies could be carried with radioactivity in order to...
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Stanford University, School of MedicineYes radiation could kill HIV infected cells. The strategy you cite might be possible if it could be designed to not kill other bystander uninfected cells or result in any long term complications associated with radiation.... Read more »
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University of North Carolina - Chapel HillDear John,I agree with your affection for your gray cells. As Woody Allen said, "My brain?! That is my second favorite organ."David Margolis is trying to use valproic acid to inhibit cellular processes that keep HIV latent (or inactive)... Read more »
viral reservoirsCan you please explain how HIV exists in reservoirs in the body? My partner has undetectable viral load, yet his doctor, for whom I have great respect, explained to me about viral reservoirs when I asked why he continues to be ill (fungal infections...
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Heroine Liza's brother is taken by the Spindlers and she makes the journey to the underworld to save him.
Lauren Oliver uses wonderful imagery, imaginative creatures, and excellent character development throughout "The Spindlers."
I love Lauren Oliver's young adult novels, and her middle grade/children's book, The Spindlers, is just as fantastic!
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Los Angeles Opera announced their 2014/2015 season today. After browsing the press release (seen in its entirety below), here are my top of mind thoughts and observations: A little surprised that the number of main stage productions is still at six (well, seven productions if you count the double bill as two separate operas). That … Continue reading
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LA Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Beilman dance their way through an impressive season opener
(Publisher's note. I'm thrilled to introduce the first-ever guest writer on All is Yar: Fiona Bryan. Fiona has a BM & MM in Violin Performance from Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University and University of Missouri, respectively, and has performed in various orchestras across the country. More recently, she's been working in marketing, PR, and … Continue reading
Soprano Delaram Kamareh, Knussen's Winnie the Pooh steal the show at Southwest Chamber Music
Last Saturday night, Southwest Chamber Music opened the 20th anniversary season of their annual Summer Festival. Stravinsky's Octet and Mozart's Gran Partita provided the primary motivation for attending, especially if one happened to be a fan of wind instruments. But deep in the hundred acre woods of The Huntington where Jeff von der Schmidt and … Continue reading
For your consideration: Kenneth Branagh's version of "The Magic Flute" finally available on DVD in the US
Kenneth Branagh filmed his cinematic adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute in the middle of the last decade as part of the 250th Anniversary celebrations for that opera. It was screened at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals in 2006; however, it was not shown in United States theaters nor was it released on DVDs that … Continue reading
A magnificent "Marriage of Figaro:" LA Phil's modern staging of Mozart classic is a huge success on all fronts
This past Friday night, the Los Angeles Philharmonic unveiled the latest foray into its three-year "Mozart/DaPonte Trilogy" project, the first ever performance (staged or otherwise) of The Marriage of Figaro in the orchestra's history. It was glorious in every respect: visually striking, dramatically compelling, and musically excellent. Before a single note was played, one marveled at … Continue reading
Photos from opening night of "The Marriage of Figaro" at Walt Disney Concert Hall (UPDATED May 21)
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LA Chamber Orchestra struts its stuff with program of Mozart, Stravinsky, Bach, and Handel at Royce Hall
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra often plays larger symphonic works — and does so quite well — but one of the joys and privileges of having a standing chamber group like them is the chance to hear pieces written for small to medium-sized ensembles that a full-sized orchestra would not take on. Their most recent concerts … Continue reading


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Welcome! My name is Mr. Elliott and I will be your instructor for this online math class.
Some students may find the idea of taking this class to be somewhat intimidating. Maybe this will be your first online math class or your first math class in several years. Maybe math is not your easiest subject or you're concerned about the modality of instruction. Regardless of your past experience, I believe completing this class is absolutely attainable for any student who has the time, devotion and persistence to dedicate to the class for the entirety of its duration - unless, of course, your learning style is inconsistent with the class format.
If you are on the class roster, please be sure that your email address and your name are current with Cuyamaca College. I send out emails from the class rosters and you may be dropped if you miss the directions given in those emails.
Here are a few very important things about the class that each of you should know BEFORE you commit taking this class.
As noted in the syllabus, you are REQUIRED to take the FINAL EXAM in person(there are a few exceptions) at Cuyamaca College. You must verify with me that you understand the final exam will be on Friday, December 12th. You will accomplish this by completing Lab 0, which is due on Monday, August 25th.
(If you do not live in the area, you MAY be able to make alternate proctoring arrangements with me. If you enroll in one of my online classes, you can take your proctored assessments at an alternate location IF you can find a suitable proctor. I'm happy to allow you to take your proctored tests with an approved proctor should you choose to enroll in my class.
As noted in the schedule of classes (both the printed version and the online version), there is a mandatory online orientation for all students enrolled in my online classes. You must complete the entire orientation no later than 11:59 pm on the first day of instruction for your class (or within 24 hours if you add the class after the 1st day of instruction). Students not completing the entire orientation by this deadline will be dropped from the class for non-attendance.
As soon as you add the class, please begin your mandatory class orientation. Please note that part of your mandatory orientation requires you to complete some work in your required online materials (MyStatLab/Course Compass). So, you will not be able to complete the orientation without purchasing your required online materials. Thus, please do not add this class if you are not able to purchase and perform work in the online class materials before the orientation deadline. If you cannot afford the online materials at the time of enrollment then please read on as you will find information regarding temporary access later in the orientation.
Please feel free to go part-way through the
orientation even if you are not currently enrolled in the class.
Just DO NOT purchase the class materials unless you are actually
enrolled in the class. You can complete Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, and
a portion of Step 4 without purchasing the required online
If the class you want fills before the first day of
instruction, get on the wait-list. I will give out Add Codes via
email based on the Wait List and how many slots are available. I
(the instructor) have NO control over enrollment/wait list issues
until AFTER the start date of the course. Therefore, I will
not be providing any response to email/phone inquiries regarding add
codes or other enrollment issues.
Your required online materials are called MyStatLab.
It contains the eBook for the class as well as all homework, quizzes
and other online assigned activities.
Registration into MyStatLab will be needed in order to complete your mandatory orientation. You will not be able to enroll/register in MyStatLab until Thursday, August 14th. Failure to purchase and register in this required material will result in you being dropped from the class.
Please note that NON-DIAL UP internet access will be needed to access MyStatLab from your home (if you wish to work from your home computer). All the computers in the STEM (STEM) center at Cuyamaca College are already configured properly. It is NOT required that you have your own computer at home for this class; you may use the computers in the STEM for your entire class. The STEM is open in Fall and Spring for the full 16-week semester and for the first few days during Finals week. Hours are TBA for the summer session. Note: the hours for this session have not been released. Please contact the college to find the hours that the H-building will be open during the upcoming semester.
If you have technical difficulties with your computer/browser and you are not able to resolve them immediately, you need to plan to to use the campus computers (or some other computer) to continue taking this class. While you have access to Technical Support from your online class materials (there's a link on the top-right page of MSL), technical difficulties are NOT a valid excuse for getting behind in the class. More information about MyStatLab, as well as much more information about the class (including the assessment schedule), can be found in Step 2 of this mandatory orientation.
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CEOP announces 'record results' in child protection battle
Child protection net-cop quango the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre has announced what it describes as "record results" in its fifth annual statistics. According to the agency, during 2010-2011 CEOP was responsible for the safeguarding of 414 children, the arrest of 513 child sex offenders and the …
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WTF has a "brand" got to do with it? You're not selling soap. Reality detachment getting worse by any chance? You keep concentrating to "purpose" before you forget what it is. Or means.
Think UK Now? Presumably some sort of UK citizenship awareness programme? Why is CEOP ingvolved in pushing that to kids?
The productivity numbers for the 5-year plan are in...
Quango with "Child" and "Protection" in its title claims "record results"...
Expect self-serving political B.S., positioning for a larger role in the State Security Apparatus as well as so much hot air that you dry your hair in mere seconds.
Just a thought
The bit about "continuing to address the self-generated risk that children place themselves in"
i.e. kids snaping a shot naked in front of a mirror and texting it to whom ever
I know if I try and photocopy a banknote I get nothing but a black blob, could sometime in the future
all digital cameras including those on phones detect when a child is being photographed and replace them with a black blob?
Why not, try going to a sports day with a camera see how far you get
Kid's sports day? Not a problem at my kid's school.
Depends if you get a sensible head of the school or a complete anti-paedo Nazi!
The school where my kids go they allow cameras and video cameras on assembly days and sports days, so long as none of the footage or pictures that include kids other than your own, are put online. Only parents and grand-parents with at least one parent present are allowed in and allowed to take pictures.
It's not perfect and still far too PC for my liking but at least the school is trying to be reasonable without coming over like a bunch of raving anti-paedo Sun readers!
I should maybe point out
...that on topics involving children on El Reg the most rabid comments tend to come from those who clearly have none, and so no REAL experience, of their own.
RE: try going to a sports day with a camera see how far you get
That's not for protection of children though... Just think - who would they otherwise be able to sell you some awfully edited and authored DVDs picturing your child for about 5 seconds at extortionate prices made by the nephew of the head master?
Brand? Record?
"Record results are an excellent way to celebrate our fifth anniversary,"
You would have thought they'd be celebrating a drop in results, assuming they were doing their jobs properly. I though part of the remit of law enforcement was to reduce criminal activity, not break open a bottle over a rise.
Jobs for the boys
"we know that we will go into that future with our brand, purpose and operating model intact. We have government endorsement for that and we have stakeholder and partnership support like never before – CEOP is very much open for business"
'Brand' WTF - this current mob in Downing Street were crowing about getting rid of useless Quangos. Is anyone thinking of the children or just thier own fucking pockets?
Is this like 'Over the past year numbers of terrorist suspects were arrested (but we're not telling you that only three were actually charged with anything)?
Record results?
I guess CEOP results are measured by the number of appearances on television or the national press by CEOP leadership or by the number of sites sporting the stupid CEOP red button, as a means to gain more budget and higher grades/salaries.
Small but important detail...
CEOP, whilst feverishly bigging themselves up, refer only to the arrest of 513 "suspects". Even they didn't equate being arrested with being a proven "child sex offender". Though that clearly is the inference that will be drawn by crazed mobs and lazy journalists.
"record results" is like when people say "we are a quality organisation" . What sort of quality? High? Low? What sort of results? Record high? Record low? Convictions? Arrests? Preventions?
Record results. Sounds great though doesnt it?
>safeguarding of 414 children
Quite honestly this number is so small that the whole CEOP business (it is a brand after all) is hardly worth the effort. The money would be better spent on social services and protecting children in their own homes.
>the arrest of 513 child sex offenders and the disruption and dismantling of 132 child sex offender networks
These are either very small networks or they are letting a lot of offenders through the net.
the arrest of 513 child sex offenders
They are only sex offenders after they have been convicted. Or did they just go around to 513 convicted sex offenders houses and arrest them for putting recyclable rubbish in the non recyclable bin.
And how many of those children safeguarded (meaning removed form their homes I assume) were actually in danger?
513 Suspects?
Try supervising an internet chatroom, you could get that many "suspects" in less than week.
132 *networks*?
Given the *huge*publicity of the 4 person network (including 3 women) you'd think *132* would be splashed all over the UK newspapers.
That'd be 2-3 networks a *week*.
My BS detector is redlining.
record results!!!!
Reminds me of a Fire Birgade presentation boasting how many more fires they had attended. I asked whether they should be really celebrating more fires, but the management twerp putting these figures forward didn't understand why his 'good message' could be a bad thing.
Any oversight on this?
They SAY they have 'safeguarded' these kids, they 'say' they have arrested people - but how do we know any of this is valid? Is this all in the UK? Were charges brought? How many 'safeguarded' kids were kids taken off men *suspected* of offences?
I have to say, I dont' trust these people an inch. Particularly when they're as intent on talking up their 'brand' (wankers) as anything else.
Somehow, when I think the words "safeguarded children" I have a vision of lobotomised, brain-washed, cleanly shaven kids with blank staring eyes, mumbling monotonously "thank you, Father Ceop, for our happy childhood..."
Sends shiver down my spine...
Clarification required
Hmm. I send a question to CEOP on their website asking how many of those arrested were charged and found guilty of those crimes, and what the comparison was with past figures. I got the automated reply below, that says my details, not my query, have been sent to CEOP - should I expect a visit / inclusion in the next number of arrests?
Contact us
Thank you. Your details have been sent to CEOP Centre.
Missing information
Having read the full report I note that there is a lot of information missing and many terms left undefined.
There is no breakdown of the 'arrests'. How many are actually charged (this would have to be the number charged during the 12 month period which would include arrests from previous years and exclude those not charged from this year's arrests). How many are prosecuted and found guilty? How many fined? How many imprisoned? How many added to the sex-offender's register? (How many lives ruined by arrests made in error?)
No breakdown of the geography of the arrests, UK vs Europe vs Asia vs North America vs ROW?
No definition of what 'safeguarding' a child actually means. No definition of what 'protecting' a child actually means. And no split of the numbers in each category. No breakdown of the geography of these activities, UK vs Europe vs Asia vs North America vs ROW? (On page 10 there is a reference to 'safeguarding' 42 children in a Cambodian orphanage, were they perhaps 'safeguarded' as a result of the imprisonment of one offender? Or is there more to it than that?)
I note that the actual description of the category with 132 in is "The number of high risk sex offender networks disrupted and dismantled". So although the word is "and" the meaning is "or" i.e. networks that were either disrupted or dismantled. There is no definition of what 'disrupted' means, it could be as little as removing one subscriber.
Perhaps The Register could ask such questions so we might know these things?
And next week....
...the Police announce a wonderful new record number of murders and muggings in their area, the fire brigade joyfully announce more fires and deaths than ever and the Ambulance service annouce an all time record of number of people dying whilst waiting to be helped.
All rejoice in a our new wonderful world.
"Perhaps The Register could ask such questions"
Someone certainly ought to.
Some sound like perfectly valid Freedom of Information questions so if journalists aren't willing or able to get them answered, perhaps the blogosphere (well if CEOP are going to talk about branding I can BS too) can have a go.
What they don't say...
... is that, for instance, Colin Blanchard, the man who persuaded Vanessa George and three other women to abuse children, was only caught *by accident*
So despite all of their empire building and "panic buttons" and new laws making drawing illegal and so on, this man was only arrested and his "network" broken up by sheer dumb luck.
Of course that wouldn't play so well in the media, so instead we hear that 414 children have been "safeguarded" (how?) that "513 child sex offenders" have been arrested (how do you know they're "offenders" if they've only been arrested? Surely they're only offenders when they're actually prosecuted?) and "132 child sex offender networks" have been "dismantled" (what is the definition of a "network" here? How were they "dismantled"?)
In other words, a lot of hot air, but not much detail.
Oh and in other news:
"Paedophilia warning over King's Park pupil dress sense
"Parents have been advised not to dress their schoolchildren in short skirts and tight trousers amid fears they could be targeted by paedophiles."
Perhaps they should switch to Burkhas?
Surely they're only offenders when they're actually prosecuted?)
Although the powers that be, especially Plod, would undoubtedly like your definition, they're only offenders when they have *been found guilty* of something.
Perhaps it would be better if kids were kept at home until they reach the age of 16, with no contact outside the family unit? Of course that wouldn't stop dodgy Uncle Roger...
@Pete B
"Surely they're only offenders when they're actually prosecuted?"
Fine, add the word "successfully" in between "actually" and "prosecuted". Ok?
No conviction for mr paedo Plod however..
Of course, if it's Plod that is the paedo no sex offenders time for him.
History repeating itself
more or less. All this nonsense is reminiscent of the "morality movements " of the late 18th and early 19th centuries - the Society for the Suppression of Vice and the like - and look what that led to, the hypocrisy of the Victorian era.
Question everything
I learnt a long time ago to question everything about figures put out by self-interest groups.
I remember a shocking statistic put out by an anti-rape group that a quarter of all women had been raped. After investigation it was found that their definition of rape had included those women who did not feel like sex but did it anyway to keep their boyfriend happy.
Haven't this lot cleared off yet..?
I thought this lot (CEOP) had cleared off, after enjoying untrammelled license to fear monger under NuLabour's indulgence..? Didn't I see Theresa May only too happy to accept 'Big' Jim Gamble's resignation and then set about sweeping CEOP into the dusty annals of history, under the heading 'Delusional Moral Panics of the Noughties'.
Seems not. This lot have a way of resurfacing like a bad smell. A bad smell that not only refuses to go away, but insists on charging the tax payer for the privilege of hanging about. How difficult is it really to dismiss the services of a bunch of expensive, self-aggrandizing social pariahs, leeching off the proceeds of their own fear mongering and misinformation?
I despair.
Careful now, say what you mean
That description might well cover the senior management of virtually every organisation I can think of, but certainly not the grunts who actually do the work, who work long hours for low pay, compared to us IT professionals.
Senior Management's knowledge of what their "Businesses" actually do, is inversely proportional to the size of their pay packets. They also like to boast about measurable results, without actually knowing what they are measuring.
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