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Next time, just ignore drunk woman in bar
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I met a drunk, martini-drinking young woman at a bar on a very hot and sweaty night and she asked me to go outside for a cigarette with her. When we were back in the dark behind the bar, she grabbed me below the belt and said, "There's nobody around. Let's go!" I refused, suggesting she was way too drunk to be making decisions like that, and walked away.
She came around the corner and shouted, "You're gay. That's what's wrong with you!" I ignored that, although I heard a few sniggers from other people outside. I went back into the bar. She came running in after me and said, "Why don't you want me? What's the matter -- am I that repulsive to you?" Then she started bawling and the bar security came over and asked me to leave. I said, "Why?" and he said, "You're making this young lady cry and we don't want guys like you here."
So I got kicked out. I called the next day and the guy in the office said, "We don't kick guys out of our bar unless they deserve it." I want to do something about this but I don't know what to do. -- At a Loss, Winnipeg
Dear At a Loss: It's too bad you got treated like this when you were actually refusing her advances as a nice guy. But this is what you need to know as a young man going out at night: Bars with drunk people in them are often unfair environments. Your big mistake was going out behind the bar for a cigarette with a woman who was clearly bombed. When a woman is drunk and looking for sex, with angry emotions going on beneath the surface, you can be accused of all kinds of things you didn't even think of doing. The only smart thing you can do is get away and refuse to engage, and also alert security that the drunk person is way over the limit and shouldn't be served any more liquor.
A least a few people at most popular bars are drunk and irrational; some even hit on other people for sex. But it's the man who usually gets assessed as the problem, especially if the woman starts crying and the bouncers see this scene going on at a distance. When things start going south at the bar, it's a good idea to head in the opposite direction.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I just read the article regarding the young pup defecating in the house after being let outside. You indicated that experts suggest taking a dog for a walk so as to "walk it out of him." One important message that should be communicated is that dogs (typically deep-chested breeds) are prone to gastric dilation volvulus, which is very painful and almost always fatal. Dog owners should be careful with the amount of activity of their dogs have after they have eaten, and be aware how much the food being fed to the animal expands once water has been added. Knowing these two factors can really mean the difference to your pet. -- Concerned Pet Owner, Winnipeg
Dear Concerned: Thanks for the cautionary advice, and consider it passed on to pet owners. If anyone else has helpful suggestions for the upset owners of pup who waits until he's back in the house to let his bowels loose, please write in.
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 10, 2014 C2
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Those of you who recently picked up a Canon 5D Mark III have the comfort of knowing that your super-expensive DSLR was lovingly assembled by hand in Japan. That may not be the case for much longer: today a Canon spokesperson announced that the company would be moving towards completely automated production starting immediately. There's no definite date on when the transition will be complete, but Canon hopes to finish by 2015.

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there are also outlets in the stores, near all the registers, stockrooms, etc. i did it all the time for guests
there are also outlets in the stores, near all the registers, stockrooms, etc. i did it all the time for guests
How about a battery extender? Nice little devices that use either a 9v battery or a couple of AA batteries. That way you could just use available batteries and not worry about running out of charge. They are available for most cell phones. Beats plugging in and waiting.
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Swiss Gear Portable Battery Charger for iPod from Geeks.com. Despite the fact that the packaging says it's for the iPod, I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume it'd charge any device that can be charged via USB. Or, I suppose you could build one yourself if you had the knowledge, but the TSA might not like it.
I don't think I've ever actually used my cell phone at Disneyland. The only reason I would is if our party ever split up, but we never do. If your battery is dying that quickly, get a new battery/phone as soon as possible. Batteries that die like that are getting close to the point of leaking. In the meantime, I suggest a mobile charger like this one:
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You can get pretty reasonably priced batteries on eBay. I've gotten backup batteries for my last two phones on there that were probably less-than-half the cost that you would pay in a store.
I just can't imagine waiting for it to charge up in the park. It's not like you can just leave it somewhere to charge either. When you're phone isn't lasting a day, it's really time for a new battery.


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Recommended by PCWorld, BGR, LifeHacker, CNET, Gizmodo, XDA, Phandroid and many more technology media/websites.
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Remote Mouse
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• Customizable Interface
• Connect via IP & QR code
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• Works under Wi-Fi and 3G network
• Compatible with Windows 8, 7, XP, Vista, Mac OSX 10.5+
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Clean Master (Speed Booster)
When Do You Need Us?
CM is perfect for you if your phone has become laggy or runs out of battery easily, if it's stopped playing games smoothly, if it becomes too hot to hold, or if you want to free up some space to store more photos or songs.
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We make it easy to free up more storage from your phone and SD card, boost games and device memory, enhance speed & extend battery life, stop overheating and protect your device against malicious apps and vulnerabilities.
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Supported languages
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PC Remote (Beta)
We believe that you can enjoy your media contents on your PC relaxing on the couch, bed, or even from another room. We want you to sit comfortably and enjoy your multimedia rather than surrounded by keyboard and mouse. Use this app as Mouse and Keyboard to control your remote PC.
Key Features:
• Mouse: Left, right clicks, scrolling, zooming, drag n drop, multi finger gestures
• Keyboard: full keyboard support including control, shift, alt, tab, function and other special keys
• Volume control
• Remote Desktop
• Windows Media Center
• Zune
• iTunes, Spotify, Media Player Classic, XMBC, VLC, Netflix, Hulu
• PowerPoint remote
• Power controls: shutdown, logoff, sleep, hibernate, turn on/off monitors etc.
• Password protection, Encrypted data transfer, Domain network support
Features Coming Soon:
• Connectivity over Internet
• Files: view/transfer files
• Wake up PC
• YouTube: search YouTube in the app and with one tap play them on PC
• Custom remote
How To Connect:
1. Install PC Remote Server from http://www.pcremoteserver.com on the remote PC that you want to control.
2. Open PC Remote app and connect to the remote PC on the same network.
System Requirements:
1. PC Remote Server running on target PC (install from www.PCRemoteServer.com).
2. Target PC must be connected to the same network (WiFi or Ethernet).
3. Target PC must have Windows XP, or Windows Vista, or Windows 7, or Windows 8.
Google Cantonese Input
We provides multiple keyboards, include:
- Pinyin (Yale, Jyutping and Cantonese Pinyin standards)
- Cangjie
- Handwriting
- Voice
- Stroke
Key features:
- Cantonese and English mixed input
- Different Cantonese pinyin standards, Yale, Jyutping and Cantonese Pinyin
- Fuzzy typing and auto correction
- User history and contacts dictionary
- Output as both Traditional and Simplified Chinese
- Swipe on Cantonese keyboard to input digits, English letters and punctuation symbols
- Rich emoticons
Remote Desktop Client Free
Remote Desktop allows you to connect to any Windows computer using your phone or tablet. The app uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to any Windows that has support for Terminal Services.
* perfect for low speed connections. When you're on a slow speed network choose "High color 16 Bit" and 640x480 resolution. This minimizes the required bandwith.
* emulates the mouse. You can left-click, right-click and even double click. Drag & drop is also implemented.
* zoom and pan
* connect to any version of Windows starting with XP, except all Home and Starter versions. From all these editions Microsoft removed the Terminal Services.
1. Tap Add Connection
2. Fill all the Label, Host and Port
3. Tap the return button
4. Confirm you want to save the changes
5. From the list of connections tap the one you saved. A connection will be initiated.
6. To edit an existing connection tap the star icon next to it.
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Kids can enjoy favorites like Sesame Street, Thomas & Friends, and Dreamworks, online hits like Mother Goose Club, TuTiTu, and Super Simple Songs, plus anything else they're into — music, gaming, science, crafts, and more.
We're as focused on kids' safety as you are, so we've built the YouTube Kids app to be a family-friendly place to explore.
When your child browses the app's home screen, they'll find a vast selection of kid-appropriate channels and playlists. When families search in the app, we use a mix of input from our users and automated analysis to categorize and screen out the videos that make parents nervous.
And for added peace of mind, parents can quickly notify YouTube if they see anything questionable directly from the app.
You can turn off search for an even more contained experience. Or set the built-in timer to let your kids know when it's time to stop watching (so you don't have to). The app puts these settings behind a grown-ups-only lock, out of kids' reach.
YouTube Kids. Made for curious little minds.
Google Earth
* Fly through 3D cities like London, Tokyo and Rome
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* Browse layers like Wikipedia or Photos to learn more about a place
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Make sure that you check out the in-app tutorial to learn how to navigate like a pro.
Happy exploring!
Google Translate
• Translate between 90 languages
• Converse naturally and let Google translate
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Google Docs
- Create new documents or edit any that were created on the web or on another device.
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Use the Chromecast app to:
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• Set up backdrop and personalize your TV screen with art, personal photos, news and more.
• Manage your Chromecast settings (such as changing your device name, Wi-Fi password, etc.)
Hangouts Dialer - Call Phones
Download and install the Hangouts Dialer start making phone calls in the Hangouts app. After installation, you can access all voice calling features directly from Hangouts or use Hangouts Dialer for a shortcut to make phone calls from the dialer screen in Hangouts.
● Make phone calls over data from the Hangouts app (and all calls to other Hangouts users are free!).
● Call any phone number, including landlines.
● Connect with your Google Voice number to make VOIP calls in the Hangouts app from your Google Voice number.
Notes: Mobile carrier and ISP charges may apply. Voice calls to Hangouts users are free, but other phone calls might come with a charge. View our calling rates at http://www.google.com/hangouts/rates.
Google Now Launcher
Available on all devices with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or later.
Key features:
• Google Now on your home screen - it's easier than ever to get just the right information at just the right time.
• Just say "Ok Google" - when you're on your home screen, just say "Ok Google" to trigger voice input. Then say your search query. Or tell your phone what to do, like send a text message, get directions, or play a song.
• Faster search - tap the search box and you can enter your query immediately.
• Easy access to your favorite Google products and services, like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps.
• Larger viewing area - the status and navigation bars are now translucent, so your wallpaper pops from every pixel, and is even visible when you expand your apps drawer (when supported by device).
• Intuitive wallpaper picker - select any image that's stored on your device, or in the cloud. Position and preview your wallpaper before you set it.
Some features are unavailable in some areas.
Google Wallet
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• For added security, you can lock your app with a Google Wallet PIN.
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The Google Wallet app uses your location to show you nearby loyalty programs, stores that accept your gift cards, and more. If you would like to turn this feature off, please go to Settings and turn off Location Sharing.
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Capture what's on your mind
• Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. Pressed for time? Record a voice memo and Keep will transcribe it so you can find it later.
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• Color code notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
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• Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Android wearables. Everything you add syncs across all of your devices so your thoughts are always with you.
The right note at the right time
• Need to remember to pick up some groceries? Set a location-based reminder to pull up your grocery list right when you get to the store.
Available everywhere
• Try Google Keep on the web at http://keep.google.com and find it in the Chrome Web Store at http://goo.gl/pQvKtH.
Google Calendar
• A new Schedule View - See your schedule at a glance with photos and maps of the places you're going.
• Events from Gmail - Flight, hotel, concert, restaurant reservations and more are added to your calendar automatically.
• Assists to fill in your calendar - You can quickly create events with smart suggestions for event titles, places and people.
• Different ways to view your calendar - Speedily switch between viewing a single day to getting an overview of multiple days at once.
• All your calendars in one, easy place - Google Calendar works with all calendars on your phone, including Exchange.
Google Voice
Currently only available in the US.
- You must open Google Voice at least once after upgrading to route calls.
- When using Google Voice for Android, both domestic and international calls are placed through a US-based Google Voice access number, and will use the standard minutes from your cell phone plan.
Key features:
• Faster sharing: Select or take pictures and videos directly from the app and share easily. You can even send audio messages to your contacts.
• Easy search: Search through contacts and conversation threads to find exactly what you are looking for.
• Purposeful design: New, fluid, material design that is intuitive and delightful.
• More control: Ability to block SMS senders. No interruptions when you don't want them!
• More features: audio messages, emoji support 😃, colored text threads, message archiving and more.
Messenger is supported on devices running Android™ 4.1, Jelly Bean, and above.
Google Keyboard
When you can't find the right thing to say, you don't have to write at all. The new Google Keyboard supports hundreds of emojis, so you can express yourself in any Android app (Android 4.4 and up).
Key features:
• Material design themes
• Personalized suggestions, corrections, and completions
• Keypress popup animations
• Emoji entry point and layouts (Android 4.4 and up)
• Gesture Typing with dynamic floating preview
• Space-aware Gesture Typing: just gesture through the space bar
• Voice Typing
• Dictionaries for more than 25 languages
• Advanced keyboard layouts
• Works across your Android devices (tablets and phones)
YouTube, your way
* Check out all the world's videos and personalized recommendations
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* Enjoy all the music you love from your favorite artists, along with concerts, remixes, parodies, covers, and one-of-a-kind collaborations you can only find on YouTube
Inbox by Gmail
Your email inbox should help you live and work better, but instead it often buries the important stuff and creates more stress than it relieves. Inbox, built by the Gmail team, keeps things organized and helps you get back to what matters.
• BUNDLES - Similar messages are bundled together so you can deal with them all at once. And get rid of them with one tap.
• HIGHLIGHTS - Get the most important information without even opening the message. Check-in for flights, see shipping information for purchases, and view photos from friends right up front.
• REMINDERS: More than mail, you can add Reminders so your inbox contains all the things you need to get back to.
• SNOOZE: Snooze emails and Reminders to come back when you are ready to deal with them: next week, when you get home, or whenever you choose.
• SEARCH: Inbox helps you find exactly what you're looking for— from your upcoming flight to a friend's address— without having to dig through messages.
• WORKS WITH GMAIL: Inbox is built by the Gmail team, so all your messages from Gmail are here, along with the reliability and spam protection of Gmail. All of your messages are still in Gmail and always will be.
Google Opinion Rewards
Getting started is easy. Download the app and answer basic questions about yourself. We'll then send you surveys around once a week, although it may be more or less frequent. You'll get a notification on your phone when a short and relevant survey is ready for you, and can receive up to $1.00 in Play credits for completing it. Questions can range from, "Which logo is best?" and "Which promotion is most compelling?" to "When do you plan on traveling next?"


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Here's Looking at Euclid
I enjoyed this book. It was an enjoyable journey through multiple areas of mathematics. Numbers, euclidean geometry, recreational mathematics, probability and statistics and finally non-euclidean geometry are presented with motivating current everyday examples being enriched by the historical developments that underpinned them. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on mathematical devices, e.g. Curta, recreational mathematics, the chapters on chance and statistics. The mathematical discussions are interspersed with interesting personalities and personal anecdotes such as weighing baguettes 'in search of' the normal distribution, only to be thwarted by the heat…in the footsteps of Poincare.
A matter of luck
"Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal with it" (International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;34:215–220 [ doi:10.1093/ije/dyh299])is a very instructive paper.
I have taken the example and illustrated to demonstrate effect of between and within group variance and number of sample measurements.
The Improbability Principle
This is an excellent book. It is extremely well written. It fits well with "Black Swan" and "Thinking fast and slow" in importantly making us aware of underlying statistical considerations in interpreting coincidence, clusters, extreme value or apparently extremely low probability events. The author gathers these considerations under the "improbability principle" and through real examples and instructive toy examples beautifully explains very important biases and limitations. He provides helpful labels such: "law of truly large numbers", "laws of selection", :law of probability leverage" covering topics such as: hindsight bias, lead time bias, base rate fallacy, prosecutots fallacy, the effects of fat tailed distributions.
I enjoyed this book and sadly (but wonderfully) it exposed some of my own hidden biases and misconceptions. It is always good to be shaken out of complacent lazy and convenient thinking.
It has been a challenging time of late…the evanescence of life, I am a speck of dust floating aimlessly on a turbulent sea. Using some code from the talented MSE users( @RahulNarain and @MichaelE2) I digitized my handwritten ambigram and with Mathematica produced the animated gif…
Introduction To Probability
This is a wonderful textbook that complements Professor Blitzstein's Harvard STAT10 course.
I was very much looking forward to this textbook. I was not disappointed. The book follows closely the course. The concepts are clearly explained and the use of story and the examples work very well. The concepts accumulate gradually but steadily to increasingly complex subjects.
The book affirms Professor Blitzstein's aphorism: "conditioning is the soul of statistics" and helps to use this principle in tackling a broad and deep swathe of problems.
Beautiful Symmetry
It has been a very difficult time of late. The sudden unexpected passing of the person who has had the most significant developmental influence on my life continues to cast a long shadow over my life (as it should). My thoughts and focus has been poor. I still learn a lot and derive a lot of satisfaction from Mathematica Stackexchange.
This post is to share a beautiful answer by user ybeltukov that converts the problem to a simpler spherical one and exploits the symmetry. The answer is here (beautiful).
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
This is a readable book. I enjoyed it. It makes a valliant attempt to explain quantum theory. The click analogy is useful. However, I was less convinced by the style and approach than I thought I would. The authors are clear and deliberate and try to focus on concepts and use the minimum amount of Mathematics required to get their aim across.


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Erythronium umbicilatum
A harbigner of Spring to come...
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Column: The tea party and martyrdom
WASHINGTON — Hiroo Onoda, the last imperial Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, hid in a jungle in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that the war was over. He finally turned himself in, wearing his sword, cap and patched uniform, in 1974.
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The World Bank has joined the "doom and gloom" chorus on Venezuela's economy. And in Haiti, the Washington-based institution again appears overly optimistic.
On Tuesday, January 15, the World Bank released its latest global economic forecast, which projects 2013 global GDP growth at 3.4%, up 0.4% from its preliminary estimate for 2012 and down a half a percentage point from its previous forecast in June. The Bank emphasized that the low rates were largely a result of sluggish growth in the U.S. and Europe. As for Latin America and the Caribbean, the regional predicted growth for 2013 is listed at 3.6%, up more than half a point from the estimated figure for 2012.
As with many media commentators over the past few years, the World Bank predicts that Venezuela's economic recovery from the global recession cannot hold up. The Bank forecasts 1.8% growth in 2013, a sharp drop from an estimated 5.2% last year. Since the Venezuelan economy is not slowing, there is no obvious reason to predict a collapse in economic growth.
Furthermore, we can see that the projection numbers follow a trend. Both the World Bank and the IMF have been consistently underestimating growth projections in Venezuela.
Senator John Kerry, President Obama's nominee for Secretary of State, spoke for close to four hours at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. He discussed U.S. policy in the Middle East and Asia at length, mentioning Afghanistan thirty-five times, China thirty-three times, Iran twenty-four times and Vietnam twenty-one times, according to the Wall Street Journal. With the exception of Mexico – which came up a total of twelve times – hardly any of the hearing touched on the Western Hemisphere, which was mentioned only four times. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez, who is of Cuban-American descent, was the only one to ask a question about Kerry's vision for relations with Latin America.
Menendez started off his question by saying "2013 will be a year of great change in the Western Hemisphere," then mentioned "the impending change of leadership in Venezuela," the new PRI administration in Mexico, and the recently-launched peace talks in Colombia. "So," he asked Kerry, "can you briefly talk to me about your views and vision as it relates to what I think is a new and momentous opportunity in the hemisphere?"
Kerry's response [PDF] was indeed brief and elicited no reaction from his Senate colleagues. His statements suggested that, with Kerry as chief diplomat, U.S. policy toward the region will remain on automatic pilot, cruising along on more or less the same course that the State Department has followed since the Bush administration. His response also showed a startling disregard for the perspectives and policy priorities of the governments and peoples of Latin America. Here's what Kerry replied to Menendez:
Well I agree with you, Mr. Chairman. It is an opportunity that's staring at us, and I hope that we can build on what Secretary Clinton has done and the Obama administration has already done in order to augment our efforts in that region.
Once again it seems that Jamaica and the IMF are on the verge of a new lending agreement. And once again, it sounds like more of the same failed policies as before. Last week, after a three-day retreat with Cabinet members, the AP noted that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller "said the Cabinet recently signed off on all fiscal consolidation matters to forge a new IMF deal." Reason to celebrate? Not so fast. As Jamaican analyst Dennis Chung was quick to point out, "further expenditure cuts and tax increases will only pave the way for further economic contraction." The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is predicting even more job cuts in 2013 precisely because of the impending IMF agreement. Unemployment is already nearly 13 percent.
As Chung notes, also relevant to the discussion is the recent research by the IMF showing that austerity policies have much larger negative effects than previously thought (at least by the IMF). But one need not look outside Jamaica or do a regression analysis to see the deleterious effects of austerity. Faced with extremely high debt payments, and having spent the last few years trying to court the IMF by cutting spending (following a previous IMF agreement which mandated such austerity), Jamaica has been a prime example of the pitfalls of this failed economic policy making. Debt levels haven't come down, economic growth hasn't returned, and the downward spiral has continued apace. Even a few dissident IMF directors have expressed concern.
Jamaica was the only country in the Latin American and Caribbean region to see three consecutive years of negative growth from 2008-2010 according to ECLAC, and it hasn't exactly rebounded nicely since. GDP actually shrank in the first half of 2012 compared to 2011 and ECLAC predicts a paltry 0.1 percent growth rate for 2013, "assuming that an agreement is signed with IMF," as the Jamaica Gleaner reported.
Unfortunately, while Jamaica needs serious debt relief in order to free up resources for the type of investment that will get the economy moving again, that seems to have already been taken off the table. Last week Finance Minister Peter Phillips stated, "[l]et me make it clear, since there are lot of rumours around, no haircut is contemplated." The rumors concerned the possibility of a second debt exchange, but the main problem with the first one was that it never went far enough and there was no haircut. Just like with the continued austerity policies, the IMF in Jamaica is providing a great example of how not to learn from past mistakes.
The Associated Press recently reported that General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, who led the military-backed coup against democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, would himself run for president in this year's election. The move has been anticipated since late 2011, when Vásquez, along with a number of ex-military officers, formed the new Honduran Patriotic Alliance party.
Putting aside the irony of Vásquez' candidacy, his announcement serves as a reminder of the political violence and institutional breakdown that has plagued the Central American country for the three-and-a-half years since he executed the coup. In November 2009, 5 months after Zelaya was dispatched, the illegitimate government proceeded with national elections, hoping these would in effect white-wash the coup. The Obama administration did all it could to ensure that this effort was successful, and current president Lobo was elected under a cloud of repression and impunity.
Today, violence against dissidents, journalists, women, union leaders, activists, the LGBT community and others continues unabated. And while the State Department has withheld some aid to the Honduran military and police, it continues to work closely with the government on counternarcotics efforts with little accountability. The U.S. government has still not conducted an investigation into an incident on May 11, 2012, in which the DEA was involved and in which State Department helicopters were used, that left four innocent people dead.
Though political repression still runs rampant, the opposition LIBRE party, led by the former president and his wife Xiomara Castro, continues to organize in advance of upcoming elections. Party leaders have announced that they will escalate their presence through a series of public demonstrations, the first of which is slated for today, January 24. Yet as long as the U.S. government keeps supporting the Honduran armed forces and working directly and without oversight in drug interdiction efforts, those in power in Tegucigalpa may have little incentive to address the dire human rights situation.
On January 14th, a day marking the one-year anniversary of his administration, Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina presented his first annual report on the state of the country. In his speech, Pérez Molina, a former general, graduate of the School of the Americas and accused of being a war criminal implicated in the systematic use of torture and acts of genocide, hailed a "historic 10 percent reduction in violent crime" and "an almost five point drop in the homicide rate per every 100,000 inhabitants" from the previous year. Guatemala currently has one of the highest murder rates in the world (41 murders per every 100,000 inhabitants); it had a total of 5,122 murders in 2012. Ironically, while President Pérez Molina was reporting back to the nation on crime statistics and murder rates that morning, the mayor of the town of Jutiapa had just been shot down, dying almost immediately of sixteen bullet wounds.
In the 1980s, the "scorched-earth" campaign of the Guatemalan military tortured, slaughtered and massacred entire villages, resulting in the deaths of over 200,000 people. Under the dictatorship of General Efraín Ríos Montt from 1982-83 state violence in Guatemala has been said to have been the most brutal. A year ago, after years of attempts by human rights defenders to put him on trial, Ríos Montt was charged with genocide in Guatemalan courts. He has since filed two petitions to acquire amnesty from the law, the second of which is still awaiting a ruling. Last month Pérez Molina, who himself served under General Ríos Montt during the 1980s, issued and then suspended a decree stating that it would stop adhering to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on cases of crimes against humanity and genocide that occurred before 1987, which human rights defenders say could be an attempt to prevent legal challenges from taking place.
In 2011, when presidential elections were held, Guatemalan and international human rights organizations warned of the danger in electing a former general implicated in "scorched earth" campaigns and extrajudicial executions, pointing out that militarization and repression would likely escalate if Pérez Molina were to win.
Earlier this month my colleague Dan Beeton noted that the major media, after incorrectly predicting a close race in Venezuela's presidential elections, had quickly reverted to the familiar "gloom and doom" predictions for Venezuela's economic future. Additionally, many recent opinion and news pieces have echoed the Venezuelan opposition's view that the decision to postpone Chávez's inauguration was legally questionable. On January 8th, a Chicago Tribune editorial neatly summarized the prevailing wisdom: "Venezuela after Chavez will likely be plagued by political turmoil and economic struggle."
Just as it appeared that the current conventional wisdom on Venezuela had spread and hardened irreversibly throughout the major media, on Monday the UK daily The Guardian published an editorial entitled "Venezuela, defying predictions – again." The piece deftly takes on a few commonly held views found in much of the media coverage of Venezuela.
The postponement of Chávez's inauguration "is not a coup," the Guardian states. In fact, "the constitution allows for a president-elect to be sworn in by the supreme court, and the postponement has now been endorsed by the court itself." It's worth noting that head of the Organization of American States José Miguel Insulza, the government of Brazil and a number of other regional governments have also publicly agreed with this assessment, which we explored in detail last week. Few U.S. media reported on the international acceptance of the decision to postpone Chávez's swearing-in, instead preferring to focus on the views of members of the Venezuelan opposition, some of which lack consistency. For instance, opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the postponement, only to later reject the Court's determination that the move was constitutional.
The Guardian editorial also points out that the frequent predictions that rivals within the pro-government coalition "would begin falling out have not materialized" and that:
dire warnings about a mismanaged economy, with soaring inflation, crumbling infrastructure and currency control problems, also need examining with care. After all, the Venezuelan economy has grown for nine successive quarters, has a relatively low debt burden, and the fall in inflation indicates a government with the ability to control inflation while maintaining growth. Oh, and Venezuela is sitting on the world's largest oil reserve.
Honduran newspaper El Heraldo reports that a plan for the creation of "model cities" was reintroduced in the Honduran congress yesterday, months after the Supreme Court declared earlier such plans to be unconstitutional. Congress President Juan Orlando Hernández said that he did not expect the plan to run into the same legal problems as last year because he had taken into account the Supreme Court's arguments for its decision.
According to El Heraldo, the bill proposes the creation of the 12 special regimes of various kinds which "shall enjoy operational and administrative autonomy." Among these are "ciudades autónomas."
Earlier this month, NPR's This American Life profiled the "model cities" or "charter cities" concept for Honduras in a report that only presented one side of the debate. The report follows reporters Chana Joffe-Walt and Jacob Goldstein's previous account of the Honduran "model cities" concept for NPR's Planet Money, and an early examination of the plans in The New York Times Magazine by Planet Money co-creator Adam Davidson.
There is much important context that the This American Life "model cities" profile left out. First, the proposed "model cities" could impact the land rights of Garifuna (Afro-indigenous) communities in the area. There was little mention of opposition to the "charter cities" idea inside Honduras, outside of lawyers and the Supreme Court decision. And crucially, Honduras has been in a state of relative chaos since the coup, with a breakdown of institutions and the rule of law leading to, among other things, Honduras having the highest murder rate in the world (now at 91 per 100,000 people, according to the UN) (a fact that the This American Life report does note).
As The Americas Blog readers know well, there is a strong political dimension to this violence. As human rights organizations from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International to the International Federation for Human Rights have described, there has been political repression since the coup, targeting opponents of the coup and of the current Lobo government with assassination, forced disappearance, torture, rape, kidnapping, and other abuses. Journalists, lawyers, opposition party candidates, the LGBT community, and women have also been targets, with attacks against each of these groups spiking since the coup. The Garifuna communities are another targeted group, with, e.g., land barons in the Zacate Grande region attacking community groups and radio stations. Honduras is now widely recognized as one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, with some 23 journalists murdered since President Lobo took office in January 2010 according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Venezuelan government announced Tuesday that President Hugo Chávez will miss his swearing in on Thursday, January 10, when his new term is set to begin. The Supreme Court ruled today that his swearing in tomorrow would not be necessary for "continuity" of his administration, and that he could be sworn in before the Court at a later date.
Returning from a meeting with Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro, Brazilian Foreign Minister Marco Aurelio Garcia said Tuesday that Brazil regards as constitutional the extension of time needed to swear in Chávez as president for his new term, saying the current debate can be solved through "constitutional means," as Venezuela's El Universal newspaper reported. Several heads of state or other high level officials from Latin American governments will be present at events at the presidential palace in Caracas tomorrow.
Despite some confusion and deliberate distortions in the media and among Venezuela observers, the Venezuelan constitution (English PDF version here; Spanish version here) is clear on procedure regarding what is allowed if the president-elect is unable to be sworn in in Caracas.
For example, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL), who has infamously called for Fidel Castro's assassination in the past, issued a hyperbolic statement accusing Chávez of attempting to subvert the constitution:
The delay of his swearing-in is yet another example of the trampling of the constitution by this despot. The Venezuelan constitution states that the leader of Venezuela needs to take the oath of office on January 10 in front of the National Assembly or the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
But Article 231 states, in part, "If for any supervening reason, the person elected President of the Republic cannot be sworn in before the National Assembly, he shall take the oath of office before the Supreme Tribunal of Justice." No deadline is mentioned, contrary to what Ros-Lehtinen claims. Ros-Lehtinen also stated:
William K. Black, former deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement and now Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City takes on Alvaro Vargas Llosa and other "neoliberal" pundits in a long post today at Huffington Post. Noting how Vargas Llosa, P.J. O'Rourke and others have condemned the left-leaning heads of Latin American states as "idiots" and "stupid," Black examines the track record of the neoliberal economic model versus the alternatives being pursued by countries such as Ecuador:
We have run what economists refer to as a "natural experiment." At the same time that Latin Americans were overwhelmingly rejecting key neo-liberal aspects of the Washington Consensus the Eurozone and the United States moved rapidly in the opposite direction by adopting ever more extreme neo-liberal dogmas. These dogmas created what criminologists refer to as a criminogenic environment -- an environment where the incentives are so perverse that they can produce epidemics of "control fraud." These fraud epidemics directly drove the financial crises in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland and indirectly triggered crises by causing global systemic shocks. AVL does not wish to discuss the predation by the world's most elite bankers.
The loss of the young (through emigration), employment, output, income, and wealth and the growth of poverty and inequality that resulted from the most extreme neo-liberal policies are staggering. In the U.S., over 10 million Americans lost their jobs or could not obtain jobs that would have been produced by a healthy economy. Spanish unemployment is nearly 5 million. The crisis is so great that it is now common for Irish and Italian citizens to emigrate as soon as they earn their university degrees. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported that the loss of U.S. wealth in the household sector alone was estimated at over $12 trillion -- a trillion is a thousand billion.
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As we have previously noted, many pundits and much of the international media predicted a close presidential election in Venezuela in October, if not an actual victory by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. But in the end, the vote was not close, as we had predicted it would not be in a paper we released on October 4. Chávez won by 11 percentage points – just a little over the 10.7 point victory that poll averages had suggested. As we have also noted, the conventional wisdom on Venezuela in the U.S. media and the economics profession (including the IMF) has repeatedly predicted sharply more negative outcomes for the Venezuelan economy than have materialized.
Now, as speculation runs rampant over the state of Hugo Chávez's health, many of the same voices that predicted a close election in October are again predicting doom and gloom for Venezuela.
For example, in an op-ed just before the October election, the Inter-American Dialogue's Michael Shifter wrote that "the election appears to be very tight." In the New York Times' Room for Debate today, Shifter details a list of problems that he says Chávez's successor will need to tackle, "gradually" and tactfully in order to avoid some kind of catastrophe:
By now, it is easy to recite the litany of problems facing Venezuela.
At the top of the list are a huge fiscal deficit (around 20 percent) and high inflation (just under 18 percent), decaying infrastructure, mismanaged petroleum sector, shortages of basic goods, periodic blackouts and widespread crime and insecurity. All of these derive in some measure from severe institutional weaknesses, a product of Hugo Chávez's one-man, 14-year rule. Whether his successor comes from his camp or from the opposition, reform and improved governance will be essential.
In a quickly-dated October 5 op-ed titled "How Hugo Chávez Became Irrelevant," blogger Francisco Toro wrote, "Mr. Chávez is facing a tight re-election race against Henrique Capriles Radonski, a 40-year-old progressive state governor who extols the virtues of the Brazilian model," and a little over a week before that wrote "Two weeks out, though, two of Venezuela's three best-regarded pollsters show him in a statistical dead-heat with the president. By crafting a message to appeal to a truly nationwide audience, he's given himself a real fighting chance to pull off a stunning upset on Oct. 7th."
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