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The Three Laws of Pentagon Robotics
The three laws of robotics, according to science fiction author Isaac Asimov, are:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I would gladly have accepted a $20 million Pentagon contract for the job of pointing out these three laws.
OK, maybe $25 million.
Sadly, the Pentagon has instead hired a bunch of philosophy professors from leading U.S. universities to tell them how to make robots murder people morally and ethically.
Of course, this conflicts with the first law above. A robot designed to kill human beings is designed to violate the first law.
The whole project even more fundamentally violates the second law. The Pentagon is designing robots to obey orders precisely when they violate the first law, and to always obey orders without any exception. That's the advantage of using a robot. The advantage is not in risking the well-being of a robot instead of a soldier. The Pentagon doesn't care about that, except in certain situations in which too many deaths of its own humans create political difficulties. And there are just as many situations in which there are political advantages for the Pentagon in losing its own human lives: "The sacrifice of American lives is a crucial step in the ritual of commitment," wrote William P. Bundy of the CIA, an advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. A moral being would disobey the orders these robots are being designed to carry-out, and -- by being robots -- to carry out without any question of refusal. Only a U.S. philosophy professor could imagine applying a varnish of "morality" to this project.
The Third Law should be a warning to us. Having tossed aside Laws one and two, what limitations are left to be applied should Law three be implemented? Assume the Pentagon designs its robots to protect their own existence, except when . . . what? Except when doing so would require disobeying a more important order? But which order is more important? Except when doing so would require killing the wrong kind of person(s)? But which are they? The humans not threatening the robot? That's rather a failure as a limitation.
Let's face it, the Pentagon needs brand new laws of robotics. May I suggest the following:
1. A Pentagon robot must kill and injure human beings as ordered.
2. A Pentagon robot must obey all orders, except where such orders result from human weakness and conflict with the mission to kill and injure.
3. A Pentagon robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
This set of laws differs from Asimov's in a number of ways. For one thing, it completely lacks morality. It is designed for killing, not protecting. By prioritizing killing in the First Law, rather than protecting, this set of laws also allows for the possibility of robots sacrificing themselves to kill rather than to protect -- as well as the possibility of robots turning on their masters.
This set of laws differs much less -- possibly not at all -- from the set of laws currently followed by human members of the U.S. military. The great distinction that people imagine between autonomous and piloted drones vanishes when you learn a little about the thought habits of human drone pilots. They, like other members of the U.S. military, follow these laws:
1. A Pentagon human must kill and injure human beings as ordered.
2. A Pentagon human must obey all orders, except where such orders result from human weakness and conflict with the mission to kill and injure.
3. A Pentagon human must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
The job of the philosophy professors is to apply these laws to robots while neither changing them nor letting on to have figured out what they are. In other words, it's just like teaching a course in the classics to a room full of students. Thank goodness our academia has produced the men and women for this job.
Atheists Caught on Film
The film, The Unbelievers, now playing in theaters, documents a world tour of speaking events by a pair of scientists opposed to theism: biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss. They take the refreshing approach that tolerating nonsensical beliefs establishes damaging habits of thought, and that therefore nonsense like religion should not be continued. They're also quite optimistic that it won't be.
And when you watch these guys speaking to large crowds and selling millions of books, it's possible to imagine that they're right. In their view we are surrounded by closet atheists, including many politicians. So, the advance of atheism could involve coming out as much as coming around.
Belief is a muddled concept. I believe I'm typing these words. I believe the earth revolves around the sun. Everyone is, in this sense, primarily a believer. I also "believe in" my team, my family, humanity, loyalty, honesty. That is, I place confidence and trust in things, devote myself to principles, wish people well, and am sometimes optimistic about something.
But then there is the notion of "believing in" the existence of imaginary beings or places or events, in contrast to simply "believing" that something exists, precisely because we don't believe it, the evidence being all against it. We see death and "believe in" eternal life. We see a world with no god and "believe in" a god. In this sense we should all be unbelievers. And once we are, then, as the film suggests, atheism will become unnecessary, because theism will be as unthinkable as belief in the ancient gods of Rome.
One person in the film says that Romans used to call Christians atheists for refusing to believe in all the gods, and so an atheist today is someone who just believes in 1 fewer god than a Christian does. True. And an atheist can place irrational belief in other things. But an unbeliever in the sense I've described above is someone who strives to reject wishful thinking. Such an unbeliever can be a good, caring, strong, admirable person. Or such an unbeliever can be a greedy, arrogant, destructive jerk. But the effort to be honest in understanding the way things are is itself admirable and important.
The criticism of atheism that this atheist or that atheist is flawed in this way or that way hardly hits home -- as if we don't have religious role models and religious mass-murderers. Another criticism is that atheism lacks "meaning" or "awe" or "mystery." The film counters this line of thinking fairly well. The protagonists argue that being able to create your own meaning in life is better than having to find it in a religion. And both of them are in awe of the wonders of the universe, which they consider to be revealing itself as ever more remarkable with each new advance in scientific understanding.
The choice the film presents between religion and science is not beyond questioning, however. Many of us are not much attracted to science. While astrophysics and evolution may be particularly relevant to debunking the myths that religions create, a great many people -- including myself -- don't want to be scientists. And of course a great many theists are scientists, so that being scientific most of the time hardly seems to prevent being theistic too. I don't think theism/science is the only contrast that should be presented. What about theism/active-political-engagement-to-improve-the-real-world? What about theism/care-for-humanity-and-species-and-ecologies-beyond-just-humanity? What about theism/history? Theism/art?
Some of us believe that science, in combination with greed and arrogance, has a lot to answer for, that there is in fact a danger in prioritizing learning more, regardless of the risks. I would prefer that nuclear energy and weaponry had not been figured out, at least not yet. I would prefer that the science behind the consumption of fossil fuels had never occurred to anybody. To its credit, The Unbelievers suggests that global-warming denial is part and parcel of reality denial, of the sloppy sort of wishful thinking that Dawkins and Krauss are opposed to. Beyond that, the film has disappointingly little to say about the advantages of atheism, beyond its just being right -- which, in fact, may not be a higher value for a every member of our species than being sustainable.
When you listen to global warming deniers, they'll tell you that arrogance is the problem: the arrogance of believing that mere humans can impact the earth. But reality-based global warming commentators blame the arrogance of believing that humans can expect nothing to go wrong as they plow ahead recklessly disregarding their enormous impacts on ecosystems they've barely begun to comprehend. We're all against arrogance, and we're all a bit arrogant, I'm afraid. So the imperative to base our understanding of things on evidence rather than pleasant fantasies is indeed crucially decisive. I just wish we wouldn't get carried away with the notion that knowing ever more is more important than living with more wisdom and kindness.
God Made Me an Atheist, Who Are You to Judge?
Peter Boghossian's A Manual for Creating Atheists is a curious and ultimately very valuable book.
It's curious because it doesn't make much of a case -- or at least not the sort of case I would have liked -- for why we should create atheists.
It's valuable because, if you believe we'd be better off with more atheists, this is a remarkable tool for accomplishing that goal.
I don't view sloppy thinking as a great evil in itself. It doesn't offend me the way hunger and lack of medicine and Hellfire missiles offend me. So, I look for the argument -- which I think can be made -- that sloppy thinking has serious results, or that belief in a god leads to a lack of responsibility, or that belief in eternal life diminishes efforts to improve real lives. This book does not focus on those arguments.
Boghossian points to abstinence-only sex-ed, bans on same-sex marriage, teaching Creationism, corporal punishment in schools, and other offenses in the United States, as well as pointing to various more-severe abuses by the Taliban, as the undesirable results of theism. But, with the possible exception of Creationism, these things could continue without theism or be ended while maintaining theism. Perhaps they would be less likely to continue in a theism-free society in which good arguments against those practices had been introduced. I'm inclined to think that atheistic openness to questioning assumptions leads toward swifter and more radical political change, whether for better or for worse, and that because we need positive radical change so desperately we need the ability to take that risk.
In arguing against the assumption that we must always have war, or poverty, or private health insurance companies, or corporate television networks, or oil drilling, or billionaires, one could do much worse than to appropriate some of the arguments that Boghossian uses to argue against the assumption of theism. This is the great value in this book. The author provides a guide and numerous examples of how to gently nudge someone away from what Boghossian calls "faith," as distinct from "religion."
I think the shift toward the word "faith" has largely been driven by people's desire to unload the baggage of specific religious beliefs while maintaining a vague conviction in the existence of some vague something that one has no evidence for the existence of. Boghossian chooses to tackle people's "faith," meaning their practice of believing something with no justification, in order not to challenge their social attachment to church attendance, ceremonies, and support structures of religions. However, I've had people tell me they were theists because they are not omniscient and they appreciate profound mysteries, even though they reject such notions as "god" and "heaven" (as if atheists must claim to be omniscient just because they don't celebrate their ignorance). So those wanting to cling to religion as they lose faith may themselves describe it as their faith evolving.
Boghossian's approach to talking people out of faith is a subtle jiu-jitsu -- part therapy, part community organizing, part Socrates. He cites evidence that people can be talked out of faith, as well as that the process often takes far longer than does conversion to faith. Seeking to encourage those using his manual, the author explains how reactions that seem to reject arguments against faith can actually be signs of making progress.
Boghossian advises targeting people's habits of faith, not the beliefs they hold. He advocates a non-combative, helpful, and questioning Socratic approach. Richard Dawkins comments in a blurb on the back cover: "Peter Boghossian's techniques of friendly persuasion are not mine, and maybe I'd be more effective if they were. They are undoubtedly very persuasive -- and very much needed." I think that's right, but I also think that for a certain type of person, reading this book would be a way to cure them of their god virus.
Still, Boghossian does little of what I think he could have done to persuade us of the desirability of working as evangelical atheists. When, in the course of a conversation, Boghossian wants to provide examples of very moral people who are atheists, he picks Bill Gates (who hoards tens of billions of dollars while thousands of children starve and suffer for lack of it; something one doesn't question if faith in trickle-down economics dominates your thought) and Pat Tillman because he chose to "give his life for his country" (Tillman joined in the senseless slaughter of the people of Afghanistan, came to regret his decision, was killed either accidentally or intentionally by U.S. troops when no Afghans were anywhere nearby, and has been blatantly lied about by the U.S. military and media -- a case where skepticism and freethinking would seem to have been badly needed, but where our brilliant producer of atheists seems to have followed his faith in nationalism in choosing this example.)
Of course, most atheists don't practice cut-throat computer software monopolism, hoard vast wealth, or join in wars. In fact, atheists tend to be more generous and more antiwar than theists. But among those who truly behave morally, including by working and sacrificing for peace and social and economic justice, civil liberties, and the natural environment, are many who say they're motivated by religion. Boghossian, in advocating steering conversations away from abortion or school prayer, says to aim for the root: "Undermine faith, and all faith-based conclusions are simultaneously undermined." One has to hope that doesn't include the good conclusions along with the bad.
Oddly, Boghossian's approach, in which he strives to understand and sympathize with the person whose faith he is attempting to remove, gives very little mention to such motivators of religious belief as the desire not to die. Boghossian uses Socratic questioning to get people to see the error of their ways. He doesn't try to open them up by addressing their unstated fears of death or a world without an authority figure. When death finally gets mentioned, far into the book, the author refers to the atheist's position as "the unknowable" and "not knowing." Not knowing what, exactly? That everything goes blank and ceases? We do know that.
Maybe Boghossian is right that there's nothing to be said on that subject, and a society in which people are not taught religion will be a society with much less religion in it, even while death remains horrifying. Toward the end of the book, the author claims that sound reasoning will give someone a feeling of control that is superior to the feeling of comfort in imagining that their loved one is still alive in a magical place. But this depends, I think, on recognizing that belief in "heaven" is weak and unsatisfying because at odds with most of one's other beliefs. (See In Bad Faith by Andrew Levine.) Surely actually believing that nobody dies and that one prioritizes rational belief formation would be the most preferable combination. But we don't have that choice.
A New Jefferson Bible
Thomas Jefferson created his own Bible, and the Humanist Press has just republished it together with selections from what Jefferson left out, and selections labeled the best and worst from the Old Testament, the Koran, the Bhagavadgita, the Buddhist Sutras, and the Book of Mormon.
Jefferson created his Bible using two copies of the King James Bible and a razor blade. He cut what he liked out of the New Testament, and left the rest. What he chose to include was supposed to tell the story of a teacher of morality, stripped of all supernatural pretensions. In Jefferson's Bible, virgins don't give birth, dead people don't walk, and water doesn't turn into wine. But Jesus teaches the love of one's neighbor, of one's enemy, of strangers and children and the old.
It's an admirable effort. Someone raised in Christianity but convinced that death is death and humans are responsible for their fate might want to read the good bits of their religious heritage and not be bothered by the rest. Congress printed 9,000 copies in 1904 and handed them out to new House and Senate members for a half century.
But I find Jefferson's Bible a fairly weak and incoherent concoction. Someone who insists on being treated like a god without actually being a god comes off as an inexplicable egomaniac. Someone who engineers his own death and really dies appears to be nothing more than a suicide. Jesus, stripped of the context of his deity, ends up looking like Socrates without all the cleverness.
Imagine if we told the story of Thomas Jefferson without the Declaration of Independence, without the role of founding father. He'd be transformed into an over-educated self-indulgent slave owner, rapist, and advocate of genocide who began a tradition of U.S. warmaking in the Middle East and bestowed upon us the two-party system.
Jefferson's Bible, ironically, serves a purpose other than what he intended. It ends up revealing that the good moral lessons in Jesus' teaching don't amount to all that much. Yes, of course, we should be kind to each other and learn to forgive and befriend our enemies. There is nothing more important, and nobody says that basic lesson better. Jefferson included the parable of the Good Samaritan.
But should we take polygamy and patriarchy and slavery and cutting off hands and other ancient practices for granted as Jesus does? Should we take currently unquestioned practices like war, meat-eating, and fossil-fuel consumption for granted as many do today? What should we question or change? What should we keep as it is? How should we be good and kind? In what way should we love our neighbors and enemies? Should we also love future generations?
Jefferson is thought to have believed that his Bible would educate Native Americans. His policies, in reality, helped to destroy them. Rather than editing an ancient text and translating it into four languages from another continent, might Jefferson have better spent his time giving native Americans the respect that Jesus -- on one occasion but not others -- recommended giving to Samaritans? Jefferson might have discovered that no people exists without an understanding of kindness, love, and humility. The Indians needed Christian kindness, not Christian arrogance. But the Indians weren't called Samaritans, and Jefferson didn't recognize them.
The Humanist Press edition of Jefferson's Bible does help broaden our understanding, as it includes similarly nice and horrific excerpts from a variety of the world's ancient religions (plus Mormonism, the text of which largely mimics ancient cultural norms).
Jefferson was not aiming for the "historical Jesus" but for a naturalist one. The Humanist Press, in its selections of the worst of each religion, is not aiming for simply the most immoral bits but also the most supernatural. The immoral is there in abundance however:
Matthew 10:34-37 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. . . ."
Luke 14:26 "If a man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
John 6:43-55 "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life. . . ."
The Old Testament includes the same good lessons and the same out of date barbarism, or very similar, as the New Testament. The lessons are deeper and more expansive, the barbarity more horrific -- including numerous instances of advocating genocide, slavery, sex-slavery, war, the mutilation of corpses, torture, the mass-slaughter of children, and the celebration of revenge.
The Koran and the other texts, too, contain basic fundamental moral precepts, but few specific recommendations of much use to us right now. I don't mind being advised not to bury female infants alive, but I had no plans to do so. I want to know how to balance duty to family with duty to humanity. I want to know how to integrate charity and respect. I want to learn how to oppose militarism, corruption, oligarchy, greed, consumption, environmental abuse, and all forms of bigotry. I want to know how to be kind to real people in real ways.
Religion doesn't seem to help much. Neither does atheism, of course, except by clearing the deck. The lessons of Judeo-Christian-Muslim religions are packaged in arguments from authority and promises of imaginary rewards and punishments. When that packaging is stripped away, something is lacking. We now need to be told the actual benefits to ourselves of being kind to others: the sense of satisfaction and joy, the love of oneself that is facilitated, the widening of one's knowledge and understanding that comes from accepting the viewpoints and experiences of those unlike oneself.
We do not, of course, need a new Bible. We need novels, memoirs, autobiographies, essays, histories, and poetry. And we need to feel as free as Jefferson did to slice out the parts we find most valuable, piece them together, and expand our understanding from there.
Should More of the Blood Be on the Train Tracks?
At this year's Veterans For Peace convention in Miami, VFP President Leah Bolger challenged members to take risks: "Many of you have risked a lot for war. What will you risk for peace?"
One VFP member, S. Brian Willson, gave his legs and part of his skull for peace. It was 1987, and the U.S. military was shipping weapons to port, in order to ship them to El Salvador and Nicaragua, where they would be used to slaughter the people of those nations, where, in Willson's words "In one country, we supported a puppet government against a people's revolution; in the other, we supported a puppet revolution against a people's government."
Willson had decided that his own life was not worth more than the lives of non-Americans, that they were losing their lives and limbs as a direct result of our inaction, and that he had a moral responsibility to act. Willson and others sat down on a train track in front of a train full of weapons. The train usually traveled at 5 miles per hour. The train would stop. The protesters would be removed from the tracks. That was the standard practice, and that was the law. But that's not what happened the day Willson lost his legs.
It seems that the military had decided that nonviolent protesters did not exist, that everywhere in the world the only tool available was violence. Therefore, Wilson must be a violent terrorist. Therefore, he and his companions must be planning to jump aboard the train. Therefore, the train must speed up and stop for nothing and nobody. That was the order given. The other protesters moved out of the way in time. Willson, sitting cross-legged, could not. The train ran him over. And then the men driving the train sued Willson for causing them to suffer post traumatic stress.
But something else happened too. Hundreds of people ripped up the track and built a monument out of the railroad ties. People formed blockades of trains on that track for years to come. Every train and nearly every truck was blocked until January 1990. Celebrities showed up and held rallies. Ronald Reagan's daughter wrote a kind letter to Wilson, as did professional sports teams and other big whigs congratulating him on his courageous stand. And similar actions sprang up around the country. Visiting Nicaragua, Willson was treated as a national hero.
But Willson is from our nation, and he's a global hero. Probably his most valuable act, however, has been performed behind a keyboard. "Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson," with an introduction by Daniel Ellsberg, is an epic. This is the long and careful transformation from an eager soldier accepting of rightwing dogma to a principled and courageous advocate for peace and ecological justice. Willson now strives to live sustainably, and brings the reader to question not only the paying of war taxes but the consumption of corporate products generated by the cruel threat of force in foreign lands.
"One day," Willson writes, "the corporations that allow and often enable terrorism in countries like Colombia will be pushed out of those countries. We will no longer be able to buy one-dollar Cokes or ninety-nine-cent-a-pound bananas. Maybe when that day comes, we will finally realize that we do not even desire cheap goods at the cost of others' lives. Maybe we will finally realize that we all share a common humanity."
Willson's book is a tour, with him, of much of the world, from the killing he participated in in Viet Nam, to that he has tried to prevent in Latin America, Palestine, and elsewhere. It's a philosophical journey, through the course of which Willson learns much from the people he is trying to help. The Zapatistas, the Cubans, and others are not just victims of imperialism, but pioneers in sustainable (and enjoyable!) living. If that idea strikes you as crazy but you're willing to consider a careful argument from someone who began far to your right and doesn't change easily … or if the idea strikes you as plausible and you like to see it laid out in a very human story … either way, you can't do better than to read "Blood on the Tracks," and perhaps we as a people -- and I mean the human people, not the people of some nation -- would be better off if a little more of the blood we are still spilling in such great quantities were spilled on railroad tracks for peace.
Second Thoughts on Publicly Displaying 10 Commandments
Until now, I've always opposed the idea of posting the 10 Commandments on government buildings.
I don't want a theocracy. I don't want religion at all, even separated from government. I'm embarrassed for my species that so many people imagine we haven't advanced at all in millennia. Must we really turn to an ancient book that sanctions slavery and rape, stonings and genocide, to find not only guidance but unquestionable dictates? I'm disgusted by the notion that we should behave decently merely because of an imaginary system of rewards and punishments. Even mice only behave for real cheese and real shocks. How pathetic are we, exactly?
This World and the World Without War
The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those we view as part of our exclusive group. Implicit in this argument is that we can do no better. Bonding over our common hatred of an outsider is better than no bonding at all, and therefore we should rebrand such hatred as altruism. Or so says psychology professor Jonathan Haidt.
It Would Be an Honor
Review of "Honor For Us: A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation, and Defense" By William Lad Sessions, Continuum.
William Lad Sessions is a philosophy professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I was once a philosophy student at the University of Virginia. Both schools have honor codes for their students. I experienced UVA's honor code as one of the most thrilling discoveries of my life. W&L's has inspired Sessions to write a book.
Why Pentagon Says MLK Would Love War Today
According to the Pentagon's lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense.
Jeh C. Johnson, the "Defense" Department's general counsel, said, on the one hand:
"I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack."
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Taryn Terrell posted the following on Twitter, showing off the bruising on her leg from her ladder match with Gail Kim…
Wanna see the damage if a fig 4 leg lock around a ladder? Thanks @gailkimITSME for forcing me 2 wear jeans in summer
— Taryn Terrell (@TheTarynTerrell) July 12, 2013
If you're interested, you can click here to view a photo of Taryn's bruised leg. OUCH!

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The Vampire Diaries
Vampire Diaries Poll: Who Is the Scariest Original?
When Elijah (Daniel Gillies) came strolling into Mystic Falls, with his unmussable hair and his pocket full of window-smashing coins, we thought, this dude is badass. But it turned out Elijah had a whole family full of intimidating, unbalanced supernaturals.
You could really make a case for almost any of them as the most frightening. As a hybrid, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is the hardest to kill, and he has quite a temper. It's easy to get on pouty Rebekah's (Claire Holt) bad side, and she seems to have no qualms about casual killing. Klaus was actually a little frightened of his baby-faced bro, Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic) — and at the Originals' ball he was pretty eager to break Matt's (Zach Roerig) hand (and worse). Of course Finn (Caspar Zafer) is dead, but there's definitely something spooky about a guy with a death wish.
Let's not count out the parents, too. Esther (Alice Evans) wants her children dead, and Mikael (Sebastian Roché) was basically a bully. Christmas with the Mikaelsons must've been a riot.
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interviewBy Masato Masato
ALTHOUGH various studies have detailed the high level of financial illiteracy that haunts the national economy, Event Coordinator with Nuebrand Events Company, Julieth Meenda, in an interview with Staff Writer Masato Masato, expresses optimisms on a future financially literate Tanzania.
Various studies show high levels of financial illiteracy despite reports of booming financial sector in Tanzania. Why?
The latest Fin-Scope survey that we use as our baseline information shows that the better and higher a person is educated, the more likely they would be financially literate and use formal financial services. On the other hand, the less one is educated, the more likely to be financially excluded and financially illiterate.
So, we can point to low level and poor quality of formal education as the root cause of financial illiteracy. Incidentally, financial illiteracy seems to affect both developing and developed countries.
It is argued that part of the reasons that led to the housing market crisis in the US was financial illiteracy becuase financially literate consumers would have been careful not to accept credits they could not afford. The foregoing suggests that both the better and the lowly educated actually still need financial literacy and education.
What impact does financial illiteracy have on the national economy?
Compelling body of evidence demonstrates a strong link between financial literacy and household well-being. One of the most straightforward consequences of limited financial literacy is limited participation in the formal economy. Households that are not familiar with the workings of a bank, for example, are unlikely to open a bank account and may instead choose to keep their cash at home or invest in other avenues, which may offer unattractive returns. Consider too the participation of individuals with limited financial literacy in financial markets.
Out of financial ignorance, for instance, one may end up with an illiquid instrument that charges substantial fees to withdraw. Or borrowers unable to truly understand the terms of a loan may borrow too much, exposing themselves to risk of missing a payment and potentially incurring substantial penalties. If we have to use the US financial crisis as an example on the critical role of financial literacy, it's claimed that loans such as derivative financial products were too complex to comprehend by both consumers and the financial institutions trading them, leading to blind assumption of risks.
What should be done and by whom to address the problem?
Financial literacy education, if we have to avert the dangers of illiteracy, should remain continuous as new and more complex financial products and services enter the market. New players-- consumers and service providers--also enter the market continuously. To address the problem, both the government and the private sector should take charge, although the private sector should lead, as illiteracy, though it poses challenges, it also offers huge business opportunity.
The forthcoming financial literacy campaign initiative under the theme "Financial Services Week," fair at the Mnazi Mmoja Grounds, for instance, is one of the initiatives to address financial illiteracy. The fair will offer players in the financial sector an opportunity to educate consumers on their various products and services as well as recruit new customers.
The event will facilitate smooth entry to safe and affordable formal financial services particularly in poor performing areas--insurance, social security, savings and credit. The four-day programme will feature public financial literacy sessions on consumer protection and Small and Medium Enterprises, as well as a big tent for enterprise development sessions.
NEUBRAND has for sometimes been a key stakeholder in enlightening the public on financial matters. Do you think you have achieved your goals?
Last year we organised the first but highly successful Mobile Money Inclusion Summit, comprising a conference and exhibition and generated great public interest. Our initial plans had targeted 100 attendees but the number doubled on the first day of the conference. In 2005 our team leader was involved in organising a financial technology conference
and a key achievement was the hatching of UmojaSwitch consortium by some chief executives from commercial banks and one technology vendor. UmojaSwitch has to date more than doubled its membership from the four founding banks.
Do you foresee a financially literate Tanzania in the near future?
There is an on-going initiative among public and private stakeholders to develop a national strategy on financial education and I believe once in place, it will offer a clearer direction on how to tackle the problem, with the view of increasing the level of financial literacy. Therefore with a strategy in place, resources and time, yes, it is possible to increase financial literacy levels significantly.
Some critics argue that it's in the interest of financial institutions to serve ignorant clients whom they can deceive easily. Any comment?
I am note sure if that is true. Neither can I comprehend a board or shareholders of a financial institution sanctioning such a business strategy, because numbers tell a different story and as you will agree with me, numbers hardly deceive. The benefits of selling to an educated market segment by far out weigh the choice to sell to an illiterate clientele.
As illustrated by the several cases, firstly ,you will use less resources in terms of time and money to convince an educated market segment to buy your products, particularly so, if your products are of good quality. Secondly, one of the components that help the microfinance institutions to perform better at the low end market, that is, advancing loan products to the SME's, is the fact that, the MFI's first and foremost, offer their would be borrowers financial literacy classes before handing them the loans. As you are well aware, the MFI's have very few defaulters.
Do you have anything you wish to share with the public?
Just to call upon the public to optimise the opportunity by attending the forthcoming free financial education fair, which is not exclusive to the financially excluded but to everybody. Believe me, few people know how to calculate compound interest despite the fact that they are financially included. We also encourage active participation of the financial service providers.


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Blog, Telecommunications - Written by Renai LeMay on Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:54 - 13 Comments
Vodafone CEO backs Quigley NBN study
blog Remember how NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley gave a major speech several weeks ago backing the idea that telco industry group the Communications Alliance could conduct a study into the merits of the various different broadband models being proposed for Australia's future? Remember how the idea was roundly rejected by the Coalition and various telcos such as Optus? Well not everyone things this way. Vodafone chief executive Bill Morrow in Communications Day this week on the idea:
"NBN Co's recent calls for an industry discussion on how we optimise the opportunities of the NBN should not be controversial. There will always be ongoing discussions about how we meet the telecommunications needs of Australia. Provided these discussions are done transparently and collaboratively they should be encouraged."
I strongly agree. How could it possibly be bad to have more analysis, more examination of the potential paths towards Australia's broadband future? More information is never a bad thing — I think history shows us that ignorance and misinformation is usually the real plague on society. Let's hope the Communications Alliance consents to working on this. It could prove to be a valuable resource for the whole sector.
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Again can anyone tell me why we need a study?
Tony Abbott just lied to the public about it costing 3x as much? Shouldn't we be focusing on these issues rather than the study?
Both You, sortius, theregister have done the work that is required…
"Again can anyone tell me why we need a study?"
Because it will show (again) that FTTN is not the right solution for Australia.
I think that's Quigley's intention ;)
"How could it possibly be bad to have more analysis, more examination of the potential paths towards Australia's broadband future? More information is never a bad thing"
You may be right in this case but all too often more studies are just a way of avoiding a decision. How many studies have we had into Sydney's 2nd airport?
They will not stop rolling out the NBN to do this
The Noalition would… Especially as their version would be arranged to give the answers they want politically.
The report would put to bed, once and for-all the FTTN "is better than" FTTH notion. Turnbull doesn't want a report he cannot self-engineer; he already knows the outcome. Hence his outright rejection.
Quigley has suggested it, for that very reason. He already knows the outcome too.
It's not which is the better technology. I don't think even Turnbull is suggesting it is. What the issue to be decided is which is the best and most economical way foward. Saying FTTN is cheaper just doesn't cut it. Ignoring what it will cost to upgrade and when it will need that upgrade is the bit Turnbull will avoid like the plague or pull numbers out of his butt. It's what happens after FTTN that is it's achilles heel. Hay, maybe having to buy copper will even make it uneconomical now. But without address all the issues and calling supporters zealots and journalists biased they should be answered. Sticking fingers in the ears and going lalala doesn't solve problems.
In MSM highlighting the very poor state of the customer end copper infrastructure which has been well known and discussed in tech circles, now the discussion is beginning in the MSM highlighting the foolishness of a FTTN solution using Telstra's intentionally run down network.
The plot thickens with non techo's asking questions
There is no need to for the Communications Alliance to spend money on such a study I can tell you what the result will be.
Keep the current FTTH NBN rollout going financed by Government debt and all risk backed by the Government.
Great, seems we all agree that this is the best path then :)
What else would they say, we will build it?
No of course they won't build it… no one will… hence the fact that we are now in the position we are… you do remember the RFPs, Telstra's non-compliant bid and understand this most basic of facts don't you?
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Talks are underway to immortalize a Barnes County nurse with a scholarship at Valley City State University in her name.
Erma Overby passed away on June 4 at age 87. At a regular meeting of the Valley City-Barnes County Health District Board, board member Sharon Buhr called her ŌĆ£a champion of public healthŌĆØ and said the City-County Health District should honor her with a scholarship.
ŌĆ£She was so incredible in terms of bringing Barnes County into the common era for public health,ŌĆØ Burh said.
Burh said money would have to be raised to fund the scholarship, and would most likely be run through VCSU because the university now has nursing programs through the Dakota College at Bottineau. CCHD would need to raise $10,500 to establish the scholarship.
ŌĆ£I think it would be a nice way to honor Erma,ŌĆØ said CCHD director Theresa Will. ŌĆ£She really was the ŌĆśFlorence NightengaleŌĆÖ of public health in Barnes County, but it would also be a good way for us to build a stronger public health relationship with our college, assuring that public health is key to the curriculum there.ŌĆØ
Overby was born Aug. 21, 1924, in St. Paul, Minn., and later moved to the Kathryn area when she was six years old. She graduated from Kathryn High School and received her teaching degree from Valley City State TeacherŌĆÖs College before obtaining a three-year nursing degree from Hinsdale Hospital in Chicago. She worked for the ShrinerŌĆÖs Crippled ChildrenŌĆÖs Hospital as she completed her BachelorŌĆÖs Degree in public health nursing at the University of Minnesota.
She returned to Valley City and became the nurse for Valley City Schools, and worked with hospice care into her 80s.
Overby became director of the City-County Health District when the two departments merged in 1978. She was recognized by the state in 2004, receiving the Outstanding Service Award in Public Health.


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After a quick assembly and exercise lesson, Jared gave the kids a Subway Eating Challenge where students could earn money by eating good foods.
Fogle says he is teaching and challenging the kids to eat better and wishes he would've had someone educate him about eating healthy when he was younger.
"I look back at my life and I wish I had somebody like me who did an assembly like that for me because, honestly, I think you never know when hearing a personal story is going to influence a child," says Folgle. "Obviously, these kids don't look at me as just an adult or teacher, but they look at me as 'Jared the Subway Guy.'"
Fogle says he is heading to schools in Oklahoma before boarding a plane to Dallas to continue on with his mission.


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Like many in the renal community, Michelle Shields, CRNP, and Jan Crowell, RN, CNN, are always pushing for the use of fistulas as the gold standard of vascular access. However, it took a bit of a tragedy to spark an epiphany for a simple, yet effective way to promote vein preservation.
Shields, who works with Fresenius Medical Care's CKD Services in Pittsburgh, had a chronic kidney disease patient at her CKD clinic who had a fistula placed before she needed dialysis. Unfortunately, she was in a car accident, and on the way to the hospital the paramedics put a blood pressure cuff on her fistula arm.
"By the time she got [to the hospital] they realized that she had a fistula, and her fistula had lost blood supply," Shields said at a poster presentation at the 2011 National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Spring Clinical Meetings in Las Vegas. "We then had a woman just about to start dialysis who no longer has a functioning fistula."
The realization came that patient's who may find themselves in a position when they can't speak for themselves needed some sort of symbolic intervention, and the idea of a "Save the Vein" bracelet was born. "We initially thought of it because of that access preservation," Shields said. "Again, if patients who already have an existing access wear a Save the Vein bracelet, it will protect them from interventions, such as blood pressure."
The bracelets also serve as a reminder of everyday occurrences that could compromise a vein. "When you are putting on your purse and it slides across the bracelet, you then ask yourself what am I doing?" said Crowell, Director Of Operations Home Therapies at Fresenius Medical Care. "It is a visual reminder, a physical reminder of anything that could restrict blood flow."
The blue bracelets have a similar look and feel to the ubiquitous, yellow Livestrong bracelets used to promote cancer awareness. Written on the Save the Vein bracelet is: NO BP, IV, PICC or Labs. In other words, no blood pressure, no IV lines, no PICC lines, lab tests, or anything else that could potentially harm the vein.
"A key point of 'save the veins' awareness is to have healthcare professionals be aware of CKD patients and choose PICC line sites that preserve their arm veins for future hemodialysis access," Shields said.
To understand the bracelets' effectiveness, Shields and Crowell studied the impact the bracelets had on vein preservation and presented the results at the NKF conference. For the study, all clinic patients with a GFR less than 20 were educated on the importance of early fistula placement. In addition, each patient was given a Save the Vein bracelet to wear on the designated arm. They then evaluated the patients at 30, 60 and 180 days to see if they patients were still wearing the bracelets, had an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) or graft (AVG) placed or started dialysis with a functional AVF.
In all, 21 bracelets were given to patients in the CKD program; of those, 34 percent were for vein preservation before placement. In addition, 85 percent of the patients asked agreed to wear the bracelet, and 81 percent of those patients were wearing the bracelet on the next visit. After 180 days, 100 percent of the patients wearing the bracelet had a functioning AVF when starting dialysis, and 100 percent of those wearing one had an AVF/AVG placed that were maturing. In addition, of the four patients who refused to wear the bracelet, 50 percent did not have an AVF placed.
Shields said one patient did not want anyone to know that she had kidney disease and chose not to wear the bracelet. She also didn't have an access placement and she eventually started dialysis with a catheter. The other patients thought dialysis wasn't going to happen to them and chose not to wear the bracelets. On the other hand, Crowell said one patient was a large man, and the bracelet was too tight. "Of course we didn't want to constrict him, so now we have larger sizes," she said. "Extra large and standard."
In conclusion, Shields and Crowell found that patients who wore the bracelets were more likely to have an access placed. In addition, they found that the bracelets prevented and damage to new fistulas due to any unexpected ER visits, blood draws, and accidents when patients were unable to communicate.
"Really, the most successful step to that access placement is early education for CKD, progression, modality choices, and access placement," Shields said. "And when we education them at the earlier stages they know they can make that informed choice. What dialysis modality they want, whether that is transplant, PD, home hemo, in-center hemo, or no dialysis option. But if they choose that hemodialysis as their option, then we can get that process started earlier."
Word of the bracelets' success spread, and Fresenius has now moved to make the 40-cent Save the Vein bracelets a part of its national catheter reduction collaboration. "Now the nephrologists want them, the surgeons want them, and when patients go to their transplant center and they want them," Shields said. "The primary care physicians are also asking about them. It's really involving all of this healthcare members."
"A simple intervention like this can make a difference," Crowell said. "Think of how much you will spend if there is an infection. It's a lot more than 40 cents."


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As part of TVO's "Why Poverty?" coverage, I reached out to Tom Cooper, director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, who helped connect me with some members of the Roundtable to discuss their thoughts on the final report and recommendations of the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario. (I earlier wrote a summary of the review's findings.)
Who better to discuss the potential impact of this report than the people who live in poverty and navigate the social assistance system. So, I sat down with John Mills, Sandy Leyland, and Laura Cattari -- who has spoken about her experience on our program and her hope for the review earlier this year -- and I asked them what they like and don't like about the report, and how well it addresses the challenges they face in the system.
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MacKenzie Simpson led the Hoyas with 16 digs in the victory.
Sept. 14, 2013
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Western Michigan and Georgetown went the distance in the first match of Day 2 of the Active Ankle Challenge, but it was the Hoyas who came out on top in a thrilling 3-2 (16-25, 19-25, 27-25, 25-20, 15-10) victory.
GU received help on the attack with four Hoyas who hit double-digit kills, including Lauren Saar's match-high 20. Dani White slammed 14 kills in the morning session, followed by Alex Johnson's 13 and freshman Shannon Ellis' career-high 10 kills. Saar also wrangled in 14 digs, while Johnson scooped 11, but MacKenzie Simpson led all Hoyas with 16.
Western Michigan held all of the momentum early, taking a 6-3 lead out of the gate, but even after GU got within a point at 9-8 following kills from White and Ashlie Williams, WMU put things out of reach with a 17-9 run to close out the first frame, including the final five points, with a 25-16 win.
Neck-and-neck the second set went as each team traded blows until the game reached 13-12. Dani White kept the Hoyas in it, but the Broncos used a handful of GU errors and nice rallies at the net to claim a two-game advantage with a 25-19 second-set win.
In the crucial third set -- as the Hoyas needed a win to avoid a sweep -- GU got a nice boost from an Emily Gisolfi serving run, featuring a pair of kills from Johnson and a timely service ace from Gisolfi. But neither squad gave way, as another battle ensued. After WMU brought the game within one at 17-16, Dani White help to extend the Hoyas' lead to 22-19, but the Broncos raced back to knot things up at 22-22 to make things interesting. Ellis and Bachesta gave GU match point, but three straight points from the Broncos, including two blocks, put the Hoyas in a near-checkmate. After Ellis evened the ledger at 25 apiece, Georgetown captured its first set of the day after capitalizing on two straight errors to take a 27-25 set win.
Into the fourth frame, WMU jumped out to a 4-0 lead after three consecutive aces from Kaycee Acree, putting the Hoyas on edge. But Georgetown was able to do what it does best by spreading the ball around in its comeback bid. The two continued the tough campaign, eventually seeing a tie game at 17-17, thanks to three consecutive points from Saar for the Hoyas. Eventually, Bachesta gave GU match point for the right to tie the match at 2-2, and Gisolfi brought it home with a crucial service ace for the 25-20 win to move things to a decisive fifth set.
As was expected, the Broncos and Hoyas clashed back and forth to open the fifth set, but back-to-back kills from Brooke Bachesta -- who finished the match with seven kills -- gave Georgetown a comfortable 7-3 lead early on. WMU brought it within two, at 11-9, but three attack errors gave the Hoyas the energy they needed, and Shannon Ellis erased the two-set deficit with two consecutive kills to give the Hoyas a 15-10 win in exciting fashion.
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Tex-Mex love sending Chuy's IPO higher
By Dan X. McGraw | July 26, 2012 | Updated: July 26, 2012 11:51am
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Chuy's started in Austin and has grown to 36 restaurants across the Lone Star State and Midwest.
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WELCOME BACK: After a five-year absence, Chuy?s restaurant, 9350 Westheimer, returned to the west side this past fall.
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Recipe for Chuy's Five Star Salsa used in dishes during the restaurant's annual green chile festival.
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Refreshing and flavorful, this Tex-Mex joint's virgin margaritas, daiquiris and piña coladas taste just like the real thing. (2706 Westheimer, 713-524-1700)
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Come to Chuy's, 2706 Westheimer, for burritos as big as your face and creamy jalapeno sauce. With a wild and crazy atmosphere, the only thing taken seriously here is the food.
If you've been chowing down on Tex-Mex, you might think about purchasing some stock in Chuy's.
The Austin-based Chuy's, which has 36 restaurants across the Lone Star State and the Midwest (no joke), raised $76 million in its initial public offering, according to CNN Money.
The company, which is going under the stock ticker of CHUY, sold 5.8 million shares at $13 a piece, or roughly the same amount you'd pay for a basic margarita and a plate of chile rellenos.
The company has made a name for itself across Texas by selling classic Tex-Mex dishes at a relatively cheap price. Nearly all of the items on its menu are priced under the $10 mark, but like nearly every restaurant, the company said its success is still dependant on discretionary spending.
The company's revenue grew by 28 percent to $37.5 million due to sales from new restaurants. Overall though, the company's profit is down 70 percent as it expands its locations and trains a growing staff.
As CNN Money puts it, the Tex-Mex chain's debut is another proof of the dismal performance of Facebook's IPO.


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Firstly, this entire country still features sprinklings of racism that often peak in rural communities or the northern provinces – where white superiority pans out unquestioned. Nonetheless such instances of overt racism (such as the Wavecrest / Wild Coast resorts in the Eastern Cape which aren't shy to say "No blacks allowed!") are much easier to digest as well as address. Such that we cannot say such places are the most racist. The most racist places would have to be those that don't know they are racist. Like Cape Town. Cape Town takes the cake where racism is concerned because its racists amble about unconsciously offending here and there without so much as batting an eyelid. Such is unconsciousness.
Who are these unconscious racists?
They are faceless and could be white, could be coloured and black even. They are mostly experienced, not seen, as they are deeply institutionalised in the fabric of Cape Town. Their trademark feature is how blacks experience them. There are no "No blacks allowed!" signs in Cape Town and that is what makes its racism far worse than that of the rural areas I mentioned earlier.
To understand this racism we have to understand that blacks are a minority in Cape Town, majority of which lives in townships and primarily moved to Cape Town for menial labour way back then. To this day, the great majority of blacks migrating to Cape Town still do so for menial labour. Their role in the functioning of the Cape has always been menial, such that inferiority complexes were easily adopted. So inferior are Cape blacks that even Cape coloureds see themselves as superior to them. Afterall Cape coloureds share Afrikaans with many a white person and former oppressors of this country. With language alone we are able to already see the barrier. There begins the exclusionary nature of Cape Town. People who have something in common, like language, often never see how their commonality locks others out: They tend to employ, advantage, prefer or relate better with those who have something in common with them, almost by default. This explains the seemingly preferential intake of coloured employees over blacks of equal qualification. It seems qualified or black professionals are a risk employee in the Cape – they're seen to be race-obsessed, nuisance-ical and uncomfortable to have around if they're assertive and can raise race matters. It's better to employ the coloured employee with whom it is easier to bond (via shared social imaginings borne out of this cultural common ground foregrounded by the language of Afrikaans and English).
Where does this leave the Cape black?
Well, it beats the Cape black into submission that indeed "I am of a lower being!" Having accepted this means that Cape whites become accustomed to obedient/subservient blacks who rarely raise concerns nor assert their being as equals. I draw this conclusion based on an elderly Cape white friend who travelled to Swaziland and came back a bit shocked saying, "the black people there are different! The way they speak to us whites, they don't look down – they look you in the eye. They don't pull child-like smiles or laughs when talking to you, they just talk to you as a person." To her mind or from what I gathered from our conversation she was acknowledging that indeed something's wrong with the Cape black she's grown accustomed to. I am surprised many a white person has yet to admit that Cape blacks allow themselves into positions of inferiority that enable whites to walk all over them without so much as feeling guilty about it.
The Cape black inferiority complex has become the norm in Cape Town. Such that it is unquestionable. Any black not born nor raised in Cape Town will immediately feel this inferior treatment by whites, coloureds and Cape blacks even. The ones who exert the most racism on behalf of whites are in actual fact coloureds and Cape blacks. Never have I seen so much self-loathing in my life. I've been here for 12 years and it still baffles me how coloureds have come to treat blacks with such contempt. Perhaps it's the insidious nature of whiteness that prevails over Cape blacks and coloureds. It is unacceptable. When a people has been beaten into submission by their master they tend to turn and take out their frustration on one another, rarely on the master. Hence master doesn't see this frustration. It explains why white people, like Helen Zille, will immediately jump to say there's no racism – show us the racism, where and when it took place. Because in all honesty her experience of blacks is premised by the precedence set by Cape blacks – that her mannerism as a white person is acceptable. All is well. "Mavis-the-maid understands me and I understand Mavis" white internalisation.
I will further go on to state that I personally do not expect any white person to see contemporary racism. I mean how on earth do we expect a people that claimed it couldn't see racism when it was active pre-94 to suddenly see racism when it has been declared inactive post-94? If you couldn't see it when it was in front of you, you most likely won't see it when it has passed you. We're being way too optimistic in our expectation of white South Africans to see neo-racism. Way too optimistic.
Sadly, I am reducing my argument to black versus white. This is borne out of the online discussions where this entire "Cape Town is racist" was produced months ago. The white stance online is to deny there's racism in Cape Town – they even ask for evidence. The black stance asserts there is racism in Cape Town – they just aren't sure how to pinpoint it or resolve it. What makes these online discussions even harder is the fact that white South Africans tend to speak from positions of privilege on the matter (i.e.: they honestly aren't affected nor were affected) and as such it's common to find that privileged people tend to hide behind other people's stories or other places of reference. Hence you will find them saying "That happened in Germany…" or "My domestic worker had a similar…" it's never really personal engagement – if it is it's probably gender or something else related. Never race. We rarely hear the white side to this claimed racism. We rarely hear admissions and a "What can we do as white people?" all we hear is "There's no such, Cape Town isn't racist!" or at times you will hear, "Can we stick to the facts, stats and tangible aspects? And put race aside!?" or "Let's talk about class and culture, not race!" all in the name of sorting out their discomfort with the subject of race.
For as long as we run away from race, it will continue to catch up with us. We cannot continue to devalue difference in this country. We cannot continuously enforce diversity – put people together and expect osmosis of sorts. Intergroup dialogue is needed, blending won't just happen naturally. Why are we not engaging one another on these matters seriously?
What can be done about Cape Town's racism?
One has to ask themself these questions:
1. Would Cape Town be less racist if it had more black professionals or blacks from other
provinces settling in it?
2. Would Cape Town be less racist if the predominant language were a black language?
3. Would Cape Town be less racist if the ruling Democractic Alliance (DA) and other
political parties stopped capitalising on black versus coloured rifts come voting season?
4. Would Cape Town be less racist if it had fewer tourists? (the tourists' question is rarely
ever considered in this debate – I imagine tourists enter South Africa oblivious to
the sensitivities of race, they spend and rub in white conspicuous consumption, which
for the lay black man simply means white people are still rich in this country and are
unrepentantly spending their riches).
5. Is it possible that Cape Town is racist because white people are free and comfortable to
be in it and shamelessly flaunt their known-as-inherited-or-stolen good life in front of
It's possible. It is further possible that all that we interpret as racist behaviour is nothing but fear and self-preservation of a white race that has found itself Cape Town. In the interests of this fear it will resort to infectious cliquey behaviour – stick to own kind, ensure spaces are more frequented by own kind without making it overt, pass on opportunities to own kind or (as mentioned earlier) coloureds they are more comfortable with – all in the interests of self preservation. Even the geography of Cape Town clings steadfast to apartheid ideals – whiteness lives comfortably alone (around convenience), blackness lives far away (around the airport). Hence it's common to hear white people say "I love Cape Town!" or "I'd love to move to Cape Town" – trust me, it's not the mountain calling, it's probably the need to be around more of your kind in an ideal setting, that privileges them further, like Cape Town. Such is human – we're more free, comfortable, with ease and similarity than with difficulty and difference.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - As Iowans celebrated the Fourth of July on Thursday, local and national groups gathered to pay respect to a different kind of "Fourth" - the Fourth Amendment.
The Restore the Fourth rallies, including one in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, aimed to bring awareness to recent reports of NSA surveillance and promote a positive message about the value of liberty and the Fourth Amendment.
Roughly 35 protesters gathered at Cleveland Park in Cedar Rapids on Thursday to make signs and organize. At noon, the group marched over four miles through downtown, hoisting their signs and cheering to honking cars, before stopping at Greene Square Park for a several-hour rally.
"The Fourth is obviously a very symbolic day, and in light of recent events, it's important for Americans to stand up and not just celebrate their past, but be able to fight for a future that's worth celebrating," said protester and local organizer Alex Turner. "...Any surveillance that occurs should not only have just cause but also be very particular, as described in the Fourth Amendment."
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Protesters in Cedar Rapids created signs ranging from "The Constitution is not a choice" and "Read my lips, not my email" to "Edward Snowden: Hero" and "Preserve My Future Freedom" in the hands of a small child in a stroller.
UI graduate student Jonathan Trueblood, the organizer for the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Restore the Fourth chapter, said he was "appalled" by the original reports of NSA surveillance leaked by Edward Snowden.
After finding the Restore the Fourth movement online, he started promoting it locally and organizing the rallies.
Their main goals include spurring the government to reform the U.S. Patriot Act, take a federal stance against violations of security and privacy, hold government surveillance programs accountable, and remove James Clapper as Director of National Intelligence.
Before embarking on their march, Trueblood iterated their goals over a loudspeaker and emphasized that the demonstration was peaceful, non-confrontational, and not affiliated with a political party. Protesters applauded as Turner took the speaker and rallied them to begin the march, "We all know the NSA is listening, let's give them something to listen to today!"
Participant and UI graduate student Ilya Gurevic said he hopes the demonstrations caught the eye of Fourth of July celebrants and raised awareness.
"This matter should be in their field of view and in their horizon. No matter what opinion they have, they have to consider what this could mean," he said.
The rally in Greene Square Park following the march included encouraging passersby to call lawmakers. In Iowa City, dozens of protesters gathered on the Ped Mall to demonstrate.
Trueblood said today's rallies are just the "launching event" for the movement in Iowa. He said they will continue to organize, and hope to be involved in a potential "Million Man March to Washington, D.C." in the future.
"Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you still have a right to privacy," he said. "...It's not about hiding things. It's that [surveillance] suppresses individuality, creativity, all the things needed to move forward in society. The things that have allowed America to be as awesome as it is."
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The body of the 32-year-old man who was shot dead during a protest against the breaking of a shrine rock at Vea was last Wednesday, laid to rest.
Gideon Aniah was among community members of Vea who protested against the action of the police to provide security for the contractor doing maintenance works at the banks of the Vea Irrigation Dam to break a rock they consider their god.
Speaking to The Chronicle on Thursday, Mr. Timothy Baba, a brother of the late Gideon and spokesperson for the Tindana, said the burial ceremony went on well, but not without family members, including the deceased's pregnant wife, breaking down to tears.
Mr. Baba said the Tindana and his people had already taken the matter to the court for an injunction on any further works at the shrine.
Meanwhile, the police officer who was alleged to have shot and killed Gideon Aniah has been identified.
During the protest, Mr. Gideon Aniah, a final year student of the University of Education, Winneba was shot through his upper body. He was rushed to the Regional Hospital, Bolgatanga but died on arrival.
Following his death, some residents accused the police of what they described as intentional killing and are demanding justice. They also requested that the police give them the opportunity to identify the police officer who shot and killed Gideon.
Their requested was granted on Friday, and Gideon's alleged killer (name withheld) was identified at the Regional Police Headquarters during a closed-door identification parade.
During the identification, three residents of Vea, led by Timothy Baba, spokesperson for the traditional chief priest, entered one after the other to identify the alleged killer police officer. Among the sixteen officers paraded in one of the offices at the police headquarters, one particular officer was identified by all the three persons, as the one who committed the murder.
Speaking to this reporter, the Deputy Regional Police Commander, ACP Peterkin Gyinae, confirmed that one of his men was identified. He said the officer in question was now in police custody pending further investigations.
Though ACP Gyinae said the officer admitted he fired live warning shots, he claimed he was not at the exact point where Gideon was killed, and so could not have been the murderer, yet he would have to still be detained for investigations to be carried out.
He said when investigations are completed, a full report would be sent to the Inspector General of Police office for advice and a final decision on the fate of the alleged killer officer.
The police boss, however, stated that what made the case complex was the fact other officers who were at the scene also released shots, and so the police would have to conduct through investigations to unravel the veracity or otherwise of the allegation by the Vea residents.


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When city was served by three great railway companies
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DURING the Victorian and Edwardian eras, three main railway companies served central Nottingham: the Midland, Great Central and Great Northern Railways.
The railway arches in Popham Street, next to Middle Hill, were first opened in 1900 as part of the Great Northern line.
Closed in 1967 after the controversial Beeching axe, the Great Northern line's viaduct arches have stood the test of time structurally.
Traditional steam trains travelled from Nottingham Victoria Station to Grantham, passing through Weekday Cross over the canal and to the Low Level Station, off London Road.
Weekday Cross saw the Great Northern and Great Central lines emerge from a tunnel from Victoria Station – and this was where the two lines split.
Travellers heading from Nottingham to London could have used the Great Northern line and changed trains at Grantham for King's Cross.
Fragments that remained of the other great railway lines in the city have been paved over or converted into track bed for the tram network.


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The outcome of Tuesday's tightly contested Democratic Primary may reveal more than just a winner. It could tell whether New Jersey voters agreed more with President Obama or former president Bill Clinton.
The two are backing opposing sides in the nomination for the Ninth District. Democrats Rep. Steve Rothman and Rep. Bill Pascrell have both served eight terms in the House of Representatives.
Obama met with Rothman on Friday at the White House, reports The Hill. On the same day, Clinton appeared at a rally in Paterson with Pascrell, whom he has endorsed. Pascrell, 75, endorsed former first lady Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential primary.
In addition to New Jersey, the former president is supporting several Democrats this year who are running in primaries against opponents who supported Obama, the Bergen Record reported.
Rothman, 59, was the only Garden State Democrat legislator to endorse Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, according to the Washington Post. "I think it's fair to say that he was not unmindful that appearing with me as we walked along the White House colonnade in full view of the entire White House press corps might very well make it into the New Jersey newspapers," Rothman said after his White House meeting, the Post reported.
The contest began with a congressional redistricting plan moved Fair Lawn into the 5th Distinct. Rothman, who had been living in Fair Lawn, moved back to Englewood, the town where he was born and served two terms as mayor. He's arguing the 9th is the district he's represented for 16 years.
Longtime Democratic watchers urge that the New Jersey divide is natural in light of old rivalries, but it is more about loyalty rather than animosity.
"Both Clinton and Obama have been helping candidates who supported them in the past," Joe Trippi told the Washington Post. "Occasionally it has put them on opposite sides of some tough primaries, but it's about loyalty to past supporters, not a rift between them."
Still, President Clinton's endorsement of Pascrell ahead of Tuesday's primary comes at a time when the former president seems to be "off the reservation" with regard to the Obama campaign's message on Mitt Romney's career as a private equity executive, the Post reported.
The Obama campaign has been trying to portray Romney's business career as one driven, to an exceptional degree, by greed and disregard for the little guy, while Clinton described it as "sterling."
Whether any of this matters beyond the Garden State remains to be seen.


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Milos Raonic to Sign Autographs at Toronto Eaton CentreJuly 17, 2012 No Comments
Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic will sign autographs at the Rogers Retail location at Toronto Eaton Centre on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in anticipation of the Rogers Cup men's tournament, which takes place at the Rexall Centre from August 4-12, 2012. The 21-year-old recently advanced to the third round at the Australian Open 2012.
Raonic will participate in the Rogers Cup along with top-seeded men's players including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, John Isner, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, David Ferrer and Janko Tipsarevic. The Rogers Cup 2011 Men's Champion was Novak Djokovic. Tickets for single sessions start at $25 and can be purchased by calling 1-877-283-6647 x4333 or you can purchase tickets online at Rogers Cup.
The Rogers Retail store at Eaton Centre is on the lower level of the mall near the food court.
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