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Fifteen minutes ago, a dog was shot and killed by a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the execution of a search warrant. Two hours prior, another dog was shot by an officer in Florida. According to the more passionate critics of officer-involved canine shootings, a dog is shot and killed by a police officer every ninety-eight minutes. However, there is no database, no pool of statistics or way to calculate the facts of officer-involved canine shootings. In a world where law enforcement (LE) has restricted its officers (LEO's) to the point where they can fire on a human only if said human is not just armed and dangerous but so close they can practically feel spittle on their skin and the metal of the barrel on their cheek, LEO's have been given nearly free rein when it comes to shooting dogs. Are we in the midst of a LE-backed dog-shooting epidemic?
Back on the 21st of March, 2011, a LEO by the name of Josh Boren reported to his supervisor that he was "in trouble." Officer Boren had come across a stray dog, and instead of following protocol, which at the time involved turning the stray over to the South County Animal Shelter – and which he knew very well, having worked as an animal control officer – he pulled his .22 rifle out of his squad car and began taking pot shots at the terrified dog. One round ricocheted off the passenger-side door of his vehicle, and the resulting report conveniently left out the dog's fate, including whether or not it was hit by any of the rounds. As a result of the shooting, Officer Boren was suspended without pay for thirty-six hours. A reprimand was added to his file saying there was "not enough evidence to support criminal charges" while admitting the incident indicated a "serious behavioral problem." Sadly, the story does not end there.
On the 16th of January, 2014, Officer Boren again fired his weapon against regulations. This time, however, he shot and killed his wife, their two small children, and his mother-in-law. A friend of his late wife's said Kelly Boren wanted a divorce and told her Officer Boren had "rage" problems. But before they could talk about it in greater detail, Kelly Boren was dead at her husband's hand. Three years had passed since Boren shot at a frightened stray dog on the street. Three years and he turned his rage to humans – to his entire family.
Although Boren's actions are an extreme example, the fact remains that there seems to be an escalation in officer-involved shootings of dogs. In February of 2013 in Fresno County, California, five dogs labeled as pit bulls – an inaccurate, generalized label in many cases - were dropped off at the local animal shelter. When a LEO present found out the veterinarian in charge of euthanasias would be unable to put the dogs down until the next day, he took matters into his own hands. Right there inside the shelter, the officer methodically shot each dog, much to the shock of the employees on scene. In Colorado, a three-legged dog named Chloe ran away from the woman who was dog-sitting her for a neighbor and proceeded to relive her own version of "Born Free" in the neighborhood, where she was a well-known and cheerful presence. Both a LEO and an animal control officer (ACO) came on the scene, and the LEO responded by immediately tasering the dog, who, terrified, attempted to hobble away from him. The ACO then managed to loop a catch pole around Chloe's neck, and that should have been the end of it. But much to the horror of the ACO holding the pole, and the incapacitated dog, the officer then shot the defenseless, frightened, and already-tasered three-legged dog four times, killing her on the spot.
One case actually resulting in a fairly length investigation – largely due to public outcry and threats – is Officer Tarek Hassani's, in Filer, Idaho. In February of 2014, Hassani responded to a complaint of loose dogs at a private residence where a little boy was having a birthday party. Rather than honking his horn, activating his lights, or otherwise attempting to alert the homeowner to his presence, Hassani walked onto the property kicking and shouting at the dogs. The dogs, seen on his dash cam, are barking, not attacking. They appear to have been warning their people that a strange man with a drawn weapon was walking into their front yard while kicking and screaming at them. One of the dogs, Hooch, a black Lab, was the homeowner's service dog for his Parkinson's, and he is the dog the officer shot to death there in the snow. The dog's tortured cries can clearly be heard in the footage. Another police department (PD) investigated, and although they asked why Hassani did not either call for backup or at least attempt to contact the homeowners when he saw the two Labs in the front yard, they recently reinstated him. Citizens of Filer, outraged by Hassani's return to the force, filed a petition to remove Mayor Rick Hall from office, along with all four members of the city council. The first group of petitions did collect enough signatures, which means if the citizens can collect at least 201 more signatures within seventy-five days, a recall election will be held. As of April 2014, Hassani is back to work and the people of Filer are collecting those 201 signatures.
Not even a family pet playing with one of their human children is safe. In Memphis, Tennessee, in October of 2012, a one-year-old Labrador Retriever playing with his family's nine-year-old child, was shot while right next to the child. According to accounts, the officer approached while the Lab, Pepper, was playing with the child in the family's front yard. Without saying a word, the officer drew his weapon and shot Pepper. Thus wounded, Pepper attempted to run away, and the officer chased him down and shot him again, this time fatally.
Owning a dog and a home security system is also cause for concern. When an Oakland, California family's house's burglar alarm went off in the fall of 2010, they never expected the police response in their absence to result in loss of a different kind. Officer Victor Garcia was a responding officer, and as officers checked the residence, the homeowner's yellow Lab, Gloria, wandered out the open back door. Garcia claimed Gloria "ran at him", so he shot her to death. However, those who knew Gloria said the 11-year-old Lab was more than slightly harmless and unthreatening. Gloria was the second Oakland PD animal shooting in a short timeframe, also. Just a month prior, officers shot a deer in a citizen's backyard. Those officers were actually punished – one was demoted while the other was suspended. In Gloria's case, the police chief called it "unfortunate" and moved on. And when the family returned from running errands that day, they found a note on their front door saying Gloria had behaved in a threatening manner, so the police killed her. Unfortunately, such thoughtless notes happen more than one might believe.
It may seem unsurprising to find that these shootings sometimes result in lawsuits, but sometimes it's the officer doing the suing. This time, the shooting took place in Alabama, and once again, the local PD did nothing. Officer Mike Azwell, a motorcycle cop, was taking a break when, he reported, a big, brown pit bull-looking dog and a white pit bull dog, charged him. The purebred chocolate female Lab, Sonic, was the one he shot to death. The other dog was a little white Boxer, not a pit bull, and had recently given birth. A number of witnesses said they heard only gunshots and no growling or barking. And even more witnesses, including the manager of Sonic's long-time veterinary clinic, stated the eight-year-old dog was overweight and suffered from severe hip dysplasia. Due to the crippling pain in her hips, Sonic, they said, was unable to "run at" or "charge" anyone, and due to her sweet nature, she never would, anyway. One of those neighbors bearing witness was Deborah Bosch, who made it quite clear she felt Officer Azwell was wrong to kill the elderly purebred Lab. Azwell is now suing Bosch, claiming he is suffering from "loss of sleep" and "emotional problems" due to Bosch's trying to have him held accountable for the shooting. Perhaps Sonic's grieving owners are suffering from grief and trauma as well.
And when it comes to personal trauma, there is the case of two dogs shot during a search. Police knew they were entering a potentially dangerous situation, first because they were searching the residence for a firearm allegedly used in the commission of a crime by a relative of the homeowner, and second because there were four possibly dangerous dogs in the home. Officers also knew there were children in the home. A few things went wrong, from the fact that they were meant to knock at the door and serve the warrant but instead, as one report put it, "barged in," to the way they handled the dogs. Immediately upon entering the residence, an officer shot and killed one dog, Kano, right where he lay on the living room floor. Another officer, identified as Chad Fuchs, entered the kitchen where the homeowner's three-year-old daughter was eating breakfast. At the toddler's feet, under the kitchen table, was Remy, a German Shepherd-Pit Bull mix. Without hesitation, Officer Fuchs fired "multiple" hollow-point rounds into Remy, killing the dog, who had been hoping for a breakfast handout. The little girl sitting with Remy was splattered with her pet's blood and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is now seeing a therapist. After an investigation, the PD admitted they could have handled it better and made a monetary payment to the family. And the firearm the police believed their suspect had left in the residence? It was nowhere to be found, and the homeowners were not charged with anything.
Owner stupidity is also not an excuse for executing a dog. During a robbery call, where local LEO's had barricaded a road in June of 2013, Leon Rosby was out walking his Rottweiler – on a leash – behaved foolishly, and paid the ultimate price. While police were trying to force the suspect from a building, the man used his cell phone to videotape the goings-on while also playing the radio in his nearby rental car. After apprehending the suspect, officers requested he put his Rotty in his car. He complied, but left the windows down due to the potentially-deadly summer heat. When the officer handcuffed him, the dog, Max, became agitated and jumped through the open window. A second officer dealt with the barking dog by immediately shooting him. Another bystander, who was also, ironically, videotaping with his cell phone (but, unlike 52-year-old Rosby, that amateur cameraman was not arrested), caught the incident on camera. Max did not die immediately, and can be seen lying on the pavement, screaming and crying in pain and terror, hind legs kicking, as he died.
Whether or not we are facing a serious problem with law enforcement officers (LEO's) shooting and killing dogs is a matter of some controversy and debate. Due to the lack of an information database and the spotty reporting of the shootings, it is impossible to say how often these incidents actually occur. It is, however, difficult to argue that there seems to be both an increase in the frequency of the shootings and a double standard when it comes to who does the shooting. In March of 2014, a family pet attacked one of the children in the home, and the child's father responded by fatally shooting the dog, a Doberman. Police, responding to reports of shots fired, immediately charged the protective father with animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm. And police in Washington, D.C., debated about the charges against a man who saved a child's life by shooting and killing one of a pack of dogs that was mauling the child in the street. And yet when an officer shoots a dog, the local PD's have a serious tendency to not bat an eye. Countless interviews have taken place where superior officers tell the media an aggressive dog should simply be shot. And their idea of what an aggressive dog actually is seems to be skewed.
There is a significant difference between a vicious, charging dog and a barking one that is alerting its owner to the presence of an intruder. Countless dogs have been shot during the execution of search warrants, warrant services, and officer responses to various private-residence reports, from whooping burglar alarms to pursuits across private properties. Many of the dogs shot seem to be on or near their own property, and if a LEO shot a human with the wanton disregard for life that they use on canines, the entire nation would be in an uproar.
Perhaps officers need training in how to read canine body language. An angry-appearing dog can be quite intimidating, but does not immediately make murder an appropriate response. In fact, dog-naïve officers might be surprised to find just how effective even a firmly bellowed "No!" can be. Too many of the dogs shot are being killed in the rather half-hearted defense of their homes – barking, but not advancing, or, worse yet, happy to have the company, or even while backing or running away. Dogs are also being shot by one officer while another is wrestling their owner to the ground, and although it is easy to jump to a stereotype and assume that the dog must be as bad as its owner, it is not necessarily accurate. Most dog owners are well aware how their dogs would react if a strange person entered their home and handcuffed them. The fact that the stranger would be wearing a uniform certainly would not matter one iota to your dogs as they witness what they see as an assault of their owner. One outdoor dog was shot when his owner's elderly father tried to keep him inside so officers could search the yard for a fleeing suspect, and when the dog excitedly – not aggressively – slipped back outside, they shot him to death.
Not to say, of course, there are no justified shootings of dangerous dogs. It is absolutely true situations exist in which an officer is completely right to protect themselves by fatally firing on an advancing dog. And much like the rule of 21 feet when it comes to attackers with knives, there is only a finite amount of time to respond to a canine threat as well. But when training in a particular area is lacking, the instinctual response tends to be neutralizing the threat – permanently. Why has it not occurred to anyone that if they must shoot a dog, why not simply fire at their legs, much the same way they would at a human's legs in the same situation? Police are drilled endlessly about how to handle shooting at people, and deadly force is never meant to be their one and only response. But when it comes to dogs, the death sentence seems to have become the only option.
Although local PD's would doubtlessly argue that training officers in canine body language and the proper use of firearms when dealing with dogs would be cost-prohibitive (and not what they consider the best use of their resources), it is something to consider. Perhaps if local, qualified dog trainers volunteered their services for weekend sessions, complete with tests, the cost would be negated enough for departments to begin to see dog-specific officer training as a viable option. Of course, training is not the only issue.
Discipline matters. If there was more at stake when an officer shot a dog, they might think twice before pulling the trigger, or at least before aiming for a fatal shot. It is common knowledge animal cruelty laws are disturbingly lax in most states, and that laxity not only extends to but entirely envelopes officer-involved shootings of dogs. How rational is it, really, to arrest and charge a civilian for shooting a dog who is in the process of publically mauling a child but doing nothing more than shrugging their shoulders when an officer shoots a dog who dares to bark (or, heaven forbid, jump up and down while wagging its tail) when said officer enters the dog's residence. Yes, bad dogs exist, but so do bad shootings.
Chloe, Pepper, Hooch, Cali, Shiner Bock – these are just a few of the dogs who have fairly recently been shot and killed by police officers. As Officer Boren proved, disregard for the reality that taking a dog's life does matter can be a sign of a greater behavioral issue in certain cases. For another example we have the male officer who used a shotgun to kill a fleeing dog, exclaiming how "awesome" it was the way her collar flew off when the blast tore through her neck, severing her jugular artery. Those who argue police should not be wasting their time debating whether or not to shoot a dog would be appalled if that same disregard – and, often, humor - was applied to people. And those who say dogs do not have the same value as people, making their shootings a moot point, simply prove the point regarding lack of concern for canine well-being. No, dogs are not people, and yes, there are occasions when an officer is justified in shooting a dangerous canine - and dangerous humans. But on an increasing basis, an officer discharging his or her weapon into someone's pet does so without hesitation because they are well aware of reality: more often than not, animal cruelty charges for the shooting of a dog are for civilians, not officers. Perhaps it is time for some training – and a dose of accountability.
Author's Note: As a firearms aficionado and dog lover, I do believe there are instances where there is no choice but to discharge your weapon at a truly vicious dog. However, cases of dogs being shot and killed by law enforcement officers seem to be escalating at an alarming rate, and a great deal of those cases appear to have been avoidable. THIS ARTICLE AND SITE ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT TO BE USED AS AN OFFICER-BASHING OR NAME-CALLING FORUM.
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Russian badass Gennady Golovkin scored a third round TKO victory over Australian Daniel Geale to successfully defend the WBA and IBO middleweight belts Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) floored the 33-year-old Geale (30-3, 16 KOs) in the second and then continued to mercilessly stalk the bleeding Aussie.
Sensing a beaten man, Golovkin exchanged punches with Geale in the third and landed a savage right hand that again sent the former two-time middleweight champion to the canvas.
Although Geale managed to regain his footing, referee Michael Ortega compassionately halted the bout at 2 minutes and 43 seconds of the decisive frame.
A bruising, ferocious and accurate slugger, Golovkin has never been toppled in over 375 contests.
"I was patient in the first round and part of the second round, but once I figured him out I was able to attack aggressively. I knew it was a matter of time," said Golovkin, 32, who captured a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and now owns a 90 percent knockout ratio as a professional.
"I am very happy and now I only want unification fights. I want [Miguel] Cotto. I want to fight Miguel Cotto and I want to fight him next. I want prove to the world that without a doubt that I am the best middleweight in the world. That is very important to me."
Meanwhile, in a similarly dominating manner, the 33-year-old Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) pulverized Argentinean Sergio Martinez to earn the WBC middleweight crown in June.
Meeting at a maximum weight of 159 pounds, the 5-foot-7 Cotto grounded the 5-foot-10 Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KOs) three times in the first and once more in the ninth and was ahead 90-77 on all three scorecards when trainer Pablo Sarmiento wisely ceased the beating.
Looking reenergized and throwing fists with a noticeable confidence, Cotto became the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes.
Cotto is tentatively slated to reenter the squared circle in December versus an opponent to be named.
If the courageous Puerto Rican chooses to scrap the "Good Boy," the 5-foot-11 Golovkin will punish Cotto and record his 18th consecutive stoppage.
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say, it saves time.
You may call it "nonsense" if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!
'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played - all over the world - if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join -- though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.'She glanced rather shyly at the real Queen as she said this, but her companion only smiled pleasantly, and said, 'That's easily managed. You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to began with: when you get to the Eighth Square you'll be a Queen - '
Be what you would seem to be - or if you'd like it put more simply - Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
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Sprint's Samsung Galaxy Nexus gets its specs leaked, turns out it's identical to Verizon's
Oh, how sad it is to see the dreams of some Android fans squashed… It turns out that Sprint's upcoming version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be identical to what Verizon has been selling for a few months.
So no, there won't be any bump in processor speed, as was rumored at one point. Which is where the aforementioned sadness comes in.
Still, for those of you stuck on Sprint for one reason or another, apparently a few weeks are all that stand between now and the release of the Galaxy Nexus, which will be one of the Now Network's first LTE-capable handsets.
Training materials have been leaked to Android Life, and they pretty much tell us everything there is to know about the device. Well, everything except for the release date. The latest rumor/leak on the matter says April 22 will be it.
And the source who leaked the training materials is also thinking that the release should happen this month, as otherwise there would have been no reason for training to start so soon. Stay tuned.


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Social Host Law: for Faculty & Staff
#1: If you let underage drinking occur in your residence, you are committing a crime.
The law arguably changes Illinois' long-time legal position that those who choose to drink are generally responsible for their own decisions, placing greater responsibility on those who host underage drinkers. Specifically, the law provides that a person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor who authorizes or permits underage individuals to possess or consume alcohol in the person's residence. Violators are subject to arrest and fines between $500 and $2,500.
Additionally, if violation of this law directly or indirectly results in "great bodily harm or death" to any person, the social host is guilty of a Class 4 felony. This means a minimum of one year in jail, among other very serious fines and penalties.
What does this mean for you? Many staff and faculty commonly invite students to their homes for holiday parties, organizational meetings, class events, or other functions. This change means that special care should be taken to ensure that no one under 21 is consuming alcohol. If you host an alcohol event for students at your residence – even if it is BYOB or "just wine with dinner" – you may be breaking the law if you know some of the students to be under 21. Additionally, if someone who was drinking at your residence leaves and becomes seriously harmed or seriously harms another (think sexual assault, death, being beat up, car accident) because they became intoxicated at your residence, you could end up in jail and face other life-changing penalties.
#2: If you call for help to prevent underage drinking you may avoid criminal liability.
It is just as important to know that the law also creates a "safe harbor" for those who are responsibly trying to prevent underage drinking and need assistance doing so. Specifically, the new law provides that hosts "shall not be in violation" if they request police assistance (a) to remove an underage guest who refuses to stop drinking, or (b) to end the party because guests won't be compliant. There is one catch to this: if someone else (a neighbor, etc.) calls the police to complain before the host does, then no protection is available.
What does this mean for you? If you host an event and make it clear to your guests that underage drinking is not permitted, and you take reasonable steps to ensure it doesn't happen (check IDs, monitor consumption of alcohol by guests), then if you need to call Campus Safety or the police to help, then you cannot be charged. If you only call after the police have received complaints from your neighbors though, you may be out of luck.
This law is in effect already, so Campus Safety and the Chicago Police Department may enforce it at any time by arresting offenders. The Campus Coalition for Alcohol Initiatives (CCAI) is currently discussing how this new law might affect campus policies and University guidelines. Some possibilities include updating the Student Code of Conduct to include increased fines and the inclusion of specific policies directed toward social hosts.
Whatever changes may come to Loyola's policies, one thing is clear: this law is in effect now throughout Illinois and savvy staff and faculty members should take steps to inform themselves and ensure compliance. After all, underage drinking is illegal in Illinois, and there is nothing new about that.
Tim Love is Director of the OSCCR at Loyola University Chicago. Nothing in this article should be considered legal advice.


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The young adult genre has become one of the more successful commodities in film making. Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, and the Hunger Games have all had a great level of success. But for each of them they have been far too many films that have unsuccessfully attempted to be the "next" of each them. From Beautiful Creatures, To The Host, to Warm Bodies, each are trying to be the next by applying the formula to various genre without much success. The latest to try it, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, recently debuted on home video.
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is an intense, creative endeavor that implements one of the more imaginative perspectives on coming of age story as it creatively conjoins it with a number of various aspects from the world of fantasy. "Instruments" is a story that combines a nearly every element and character of make-believe to bring forth a very unique twist on the never ending battle of the good and evil. The movie stars Lily Collins (Priest), Jamie Campbell Bower (Anonymous), Lena Headly (Dredd), Jonathan Rhys-Myers (6 Souls), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), and Kevin Durand (Real Steel).
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is the first film to be based on the series of books by Cassandra Clare that was released in 2007. The other books are
"The Infernal Devices" and "City of Ashes." City of Bones is not a direct adaptation like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. "Bones" uses the books more as a basis as an inspiration for the film. The film manages to utilize nearly every character from the tales of the world of fantasy and magic. The characters that occupy the Mortal Instruments universe are the Mundanes (humans), Shadow Hunters (half human/half Angel), Vampires, Witches, Demons, Werewolves, Warlocks, and Demons all find their way into this.
The movie has good action that engrosses the audience and creates a good level of intensity within in its early opening moments. This is one of the few of these types of movies that actually find a balance in the love story aspect of these teen love stories. Unlike the other teen focused films like this, Mortal Instruments doesn't make the film strictly about the teen focused romance. It does an excellent job at focusing on all aspects of the story which makes it far more appealing to those beyond its initial target audience.
Just like all the other films within the Twilight mold, this one features the usual love triangle really detracts from the entertainment value of the movie. This one, however, adds an odd twist to the usual love triangle and makes it more of a love quartet and not the traditional emotional traffic jam. It makes it between four individuals and one even a same sex fixation.
The acting is first rate. Jonathan Rhys Myers is a very good villain a Valentine. Even with his limited screen time, he makes a profound effect on the film. He clearly gives one of the best performances in a well-acted movie. The young stars, Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower do well to hold their own in their respective roles.
The long withstanding effects of the incomprehensible Twilight Saga have reverberated throughout movie making. There are so many movies that are trying to steal some of its success. Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, however, is the first of these twilight-esque films to be good. This movie far exceeded my expectations for the film. It's a good watch that grabs hold of you from its opening moments. The characters and the action are on point. It's not some sappy love story that only makes since to teenagers and twenty year olds. This film is a creative endeavor that merges all of the elements of fantasy and makes sense.
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With over a hundred years of experience in providing home security solutions, ADT has perfected the formula of incorporating modern home security equipment combining the latest and greatest protection features with convenience for your Oyster home. This is one of the many reasons why they received the award for "Best in Home Security" from Consumers Digest. The technician who installs your ADT Monitored Home Security System will walk you through the simple steps to operate your alarm. You will also be shown how easy it is to use the built-in 2-way voice communication feature, which gives you direct contact with an ADT security expert.
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System Administration: Maximizing Linux Security: Part 2
So far, we have focused on security issues that arise in the context of a single computer system. However, most systems are connected to networks, and so must deal with the variety of threats which arise from that context.
Standard TCP/IP offers only limited mechanisms for controlling network access, and they are designed for convenience of access rather than true network security. In its standard form, the /etc/hosts.equiv file contains a list of systems trusted by the local host, and users with the same user name on one of these remote systems can log into the local system via the network without having to provide a password.
Under normal circumstances, this makes sense. The problem comes when an account on a remote system has been compromised; trusting that system then puts your own system at risk as well. Of course, this problem is magnified many times when it is a remote root account that has been broken into. For this reason, it is a very bad idea to allow password-less root access between systems, and the /etc/hosts.equiv mechanism does not do so (however, the other method for setting up account equivalence does),
Each entry in a .rhosts file contains a hostname and (optionally) one or more user names. It allows password-less access to the local account from the listed remote user names (or to a user with the same user name, if the entry contains only a hostname). For example, when the following .rhosts file is in user chavez's home directory, it will allow user vasquez on hamlet and user chavez on romeo to log in to her account via the network without a password:
hamlet vasquez romeo
The problem with the TCP/IP notion of trusted systems is that trusting another system has implications beyond the interactions between the local system and the trusted remote system. Inevitably, trust operates in a transitive fashion: if system A trusts system B, and system B trusts system C, then to some extent, system A trusts system C whether it wants to or not and whether it knows it or not. Such chains can go on indefinitely, and hackers are notoriously good at exploiting them.
Accordingly, the following precautions will minimize the risks of trusted network access to your system:
Include the minimum number of hosts in /etc/hosts.equiv.
Make sure there is no [cw]+[ecw] entry in hosts.equiv (this acts as a wildcard and trusts every system in the universe).
Use the - entries supported by the Linux version of this file as appropriate. A hostname preceded by a minus sign in /etc/hosts.equiv requires a password from every user from that system who wants to log in to the local system. It also nullifies any entries for that host in all .rhosts files on the system. Thus, this mechanism serves as a ways to override transitive trust.
The Linux version of /etc/hosts.equiv allows hostnames to be optionally followed by a username, which gives that user password-less access to any non-root account on the local system. I don't recommend using this feature.
No /.rhosts file should exist on the system; remote root access should always require a password (if it is allowed at all).
Monitor users' ~/.rhosts regularly for inappropriate entries.
The traditional hosts.equiv mechanism allows for only the crudest level of access control. The TCP Wrappers package, which is included with nearly every Linux distribution, provides for much more detailed control over which remote hosts use what local network services, as well as the ability to track and record network-based system access.
The TCP Wrappers package provides the tcpd daemon which introduces an additional layer between inetd, the primary TCP/IP daemon, and the score of subdaemons that it manages. Daemons for services like the telnet facility are started on an as-needed basis by inetd; once TCP Wrappers is installed, requests for telnet services go to it first and are granted only if the system configuration allows it.
Once the tcpd daemon is built, you simply modify inetd's configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf, placing any and all of its subdaemons under tcpd's control. For example, Figure 2 shows how to change the entry for the telnet daemon to use TCP Wrappers.
#service socket protocol wait? user program arguments telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
is changed to:
#service socket protocol wait? user program arguments telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
Access to network resources is controlled by TCP Wrappers' configuration files, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. The first file contains entries specifying which hosts may use which services:
in.telnetd : hamlet romeo in.fingerd : LOCAL EXCEPT juliet
The first entry says that telnet requests from hamlet and romeo will be honored, and the second entry says that remote finger commands may be run from any local system except juliet (a local system is defined as one not containing a period in its name).
The hosts.deny file contains entries denying specific services:
netstat : fool in.tftpd : ALL ALL : ALL
The first entry denies the use of the netstat service to host fool, the second entry disables the trivial ftp facility, and the third entry acts as a catch-all, denying everything that hasn't been explicitly allowed to everyone.
When tcpd considers a request for network services, it uses the following process:
If hosts.allow authorizes its use, the request is granted. The first applicable line in the file is used.
If no entry in hosts.allow applies, then hosts.deny is consulted. If that file denies the service, the request is denied, and again the first applicable line in the file is used.
If no entry in either file applies, the request is granted (note that an ALL:ALL entry in hosts.deny prevents this case from coming into play).
TCP Wrappers logs its activity to the syslog subsystem via its daemon facility. It generates lots of data which can be cumbersome to examine manually. The swatch package provides a useful way of automatically sorting through any output stream for events you specify in advance, and it is very useful in conjunction with TCP Wrappers.
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An Elizabethtown, Kentucky man allegedly admitted to wrapping a razor blade and small nails in slabs of meat and throwing them into his neighbor's yard because the barking of the dogs bothered him reported Wave3News.
On July 16, James Stotts, the owner a 14-year-old beagle named Nibbles, discovered their dog extremely sick for a few days; the dog wouldn't eat or drink and seemed to be suffering. When they took Nibbles to the vet, the dog suffered from a large blockage. Unable to afford the more than $600 required for surgery, the family had to have their dog humanely euthanized.
That same day, Stotts pulled something out of another one of his dog's mouth. When Stotts reached into the dog's mouth to remove the unknown substance, he found a small piece of a razor blade. Upon searching the yard, the family picked up two more pieces of the meat; one had another piece of a razor blade and the other piece contained small nails.
The family called the police who interviewed their next door neighbor, Robert Hamme, 60, who has allegedly admitted to carrying out the heinous deed.
According to wlky.com, Nibbles was cremated so it is impossible to ascertain the exact cause of his death. The Stotts have a two-year-old grandson who frequently plays in the yard and called this an evil act.
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Detroit's bankruptcy battle likely to be long and painful
People have already fled Detroit in droves. Forty percent of its streetlamps don't work. Don't get sick there; you'll wait a long time for an ambulance. There's even talk about stripping the art from the walls of the city's museums to help pay off more than $18.5 billion in city debt.
Detroit's bankruptcy filing brings into sharp focus the decades-long decline of the once prosperous hub of American manufacturing. In its heyday, it was the nation's fourth largest city.
The case is being closely watched by retired city workers, residents and investors looking for a resolution to a long-running, downward financial spiral that has left the city buried in debt and sparked an ongoing exodus of residents looking for a fresh start.
City officials are also looking for a fresh start, but they could have a long wait. Detroit already faces a slew of lawsuits and is girding for an epic legal battle with creditors. The Thursday filing for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history came just minutes before a state court judge was to hear arguments on whether to grant an injunction to block the city from taking the extraordinary step.
"Bankruptcy gives us breathing room," Kevyn Orr, the city's emergency financial manager, told reporters Friday. "We were being sued on almost a weekly basis. I pleaded for that not to happen."
That breathing room got a lot tighter Friday when an Ingham County judge said the bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution and state law and must be withdrawn. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina ordered that Orr and Gov. Rick Snyder take no further actions to try to cut retiree benefits.


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Is this true: Every ideal of $K[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ is generated by some subset with $\leq n$ elements?
It is true when $n=1$, since $K[x]$ is a PID.
I'm trying to prove it is not true for $n\geq2$, via the example $I:=\langle x^2,xy,y^2\rangle\unlhd K[x,y]$.
Does the SINGULAR code below confirm that $I$ is not generated by $1$ or $2$ polynomials?
ring R=0,(x,y),ls;
ideal I=x2,xy,y2;
From the SINGULAR manual:
5.1.76 minbase
Syntax: minbase ( ideal_expression ) minbase ( module_expression )
Type: the same as the type of the argument
Purpose: returns a minimal set of generators of an ideal, resp. module, if the input is either homogeneous or if the ordering is local.
What does a "minimal set of generators" mean? Minimal w.r.t. cardinality, or w.r.t. $\subseteq$?


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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — John Bowers, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2013. The award is the highest bestowed by the university on one of its faculty, and Bowers is being recognized for his "groundbreaking scholarship, outstanding research contributions and scientific leadership."
Bowers, who currently holds the university's Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology, and is the director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency, was described by one of his colleagues as "a great teacher, an outstanding public lecturer, a dedicated campus research leader, an accomplished entrepreneur, an effective collaborator, and an inspirational worker for the public good. He is widely knowledgeable, being expert in the fields of electronic devices, device physics, and materials."
"I'm very thrilled and honored to receive it," said Bowers. "Obviously, having your peers select you for the award is phenomenal and very appreciated."
Bowers is the 58th recipient of the Faculty Research Lectureship, since the award's creation in 1955. His lecture, which will take place on campus, will be free and open to the public. The date has not yet been determined.
Considered by his peers to be one of the foremost authorities worldwide in the area of optoelectronics — the study and manufacture of electronic devices to manipulate light — Bowers is best known for his work on integrated silicon photonics. His insights have led to advances in the field with the development of a bonding process to produce hybrid silicon lasers, advanced photonic integrated circuits, and hybrid photonic integrated circuits — a breakthrough that not only solved longstanding problems in the field, but will also pave the way for significant advances in computing, consumer devices, and communication systems.
In the area of high-speed optical components, Bowers developed theories that led to the understanding of performance limits of devices such as semiconductor lasers, modulators, and photodetectors, and he also developed the technology to test and measure their respective bandwidths.
Bowers joined the UCSB faculty in 1987, after working at Bell Laboratories and Honeywell. He received his Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University. He has published 17 book chapters, 570 journal papers, 840 conference papers, and has received 53 patents. Bowers has also published 180 invited papers and conference papers, and given 16 plenary talks at conferences. Fifty Ph.D. students have graduated under his primary supervision.
A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Bowers is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is the director of the United States Department of Energy's Center for Material for Energy Efficient Applications; cofounder of UCSB's Technology Management Program; and co-founder of three Goletaarea companies: Terabit Technology (acquired by Maryland-based Ciena), Calient Networks, and Aurrion.
Bowers is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Tyndall Award in 2012 — the highest award in the fiber optic field and the Nick Holyonyak Award in 2009 from the Optical Society of America. He and his colleagues received the EETimes ACE Award in 2007 for the "Most Promising New Technology", and were included on Discover Magazine's list of the top 100 achievements in 2006. They and also received the PC World Technical Excellence Award in 2006 for the Best Semiconductor Technology.
Bowers is also a founder of the Santa Barbara-based nonprofit Unite to Light, an organization that has been working to provide affordable, clean, and safe solar-powered LED light to communities in developing countries.
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2013: Made 15 appearances, including five starts ... Hurled two shutout innings in his debut at Texas Tech (Feb. 15) ... Went 3.1 innings in his first career start at Murray State (March 12) ... Threw a perfect inning versus Kent State (March 24) ... Didn't allow an earned run over four innings to earn his first victory versus UW-Milwaukee (April 3) ... Went a season-long 4.1 innings at Illinois State (April 9) ... Had back-to-back scoreless outings at Ohio and at Iowa (April 20 and 24).
AURORA CHRISTIAN Lettered in baseball and basketball at Aurora Christian ... Beacon News Player of the Year and Team MVP in 2011 ... Was team's Cy Young Award winner sophomore and junior years ... Suburban Christian Conference Player of the Year ... Twice named first team all-conference and all-area ... First team all-state in 2011 ... Was an academic all-conference pick junior year as well ... Won regional and conference championships, and was sectional runner-up with the Eagles in 2011 ... Team set conference record for most wins by champion ... Played summer ball with the Northern Illinois Reds ... Recorded 128 strikeouts, 9-1 record in 13 starts, and an ERA of 1.26 in 77.2 innings pitched as a junior ... Had an earned runs average of 0.82 in sophomore season, along with 98 strikeouts and a 5-2 record in 60 innings on the mound ... Hit .381 as a junior with eight home runs, eight doubles and 37 runs batted in ... Opened varsity career with .358 batting average and nine doubles. PERSONAL/MISCELLANEOUS Born June 20, 1994 ... Son of Bob and Kelly Kuntzendorf ... Enjoys fishing, hunting and hanging with friends ... Lists Mark Buehrle as his favorite athlete because he's a smart pitcher ... Would like to major in business.
CAREER HIGHS ENTERING 2014:Innings: 4.1 at Illinois State (April 9, 2013)Pitch count: 86 at Illinois State (April 9, 2013)Strikeouts: 3 versus UW-Milwaukee (April 3, 2013)Walks: 5 at Murray State (March 12, 2013)Runs: 7 (twice) last at UW-Milwaukee (May 14, 2013)


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College Hockey:Noonan's 51 saves helps Niagara to tie with RIT
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Niagara's Chris Noonan made 51 saves but allowed Rochester Institute of Technology's Chris Haltigin's third-period, power-play goal as the teams skated to a 2-2 tie on Saturday.
Chris Lochner and Jeff Hannan scored to give the Purple Eagles (15-10-9, 14-6-7 Atlantic Hockey) leads, but Jeff Smith and Haltigin answered for the Tigers (17-11-6, 14-7-6).
The tie meant Niagara fell one point short of a first-place tie with Air Force and finished second in Atlantic Hockey. RIT finished in a three-way tie for third with Holy Cross and Mercyhurst but took the third spot in the playoff seeding.
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"When a magazine calls me, I think they know that they're getting both a photographer and an editor, and that's what's unique to me. It's not just about what I shoot but also about how I shoot."
- Scott Schuman
Scott Schuman is a world-renowned photographer/blogger whose website, The Sartorialist, has become one of the fashion industry's most respected and buzzed-about destinations, with his increased notoriety earning him gigs at GQ and Style.com.
Scott Schuman BiographyScott Schuman was born in 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Even from a young age, Scott Schuman possessed an interest in fashion, with much of his teen years spent in the employ of men's clothing retailer Chess King. It didn't take long before Scott Schuman decided to pursue a career within the industry, and he subsequently majored in apparel merchandising and minored in costume construction at Indiana University. It was during his stint at the school that he got his first hands-on experience as a designer, as he took a series of courses in tailoring, dressmaking, draping, and pattern drafting, and even helped make tutus for the Indiana University Music School ballet dancers.
scott schuman works for bergdorf goodmanAfter graduation, Scott Schuman moved to New York City, where he quickly landed marketing jobs for such high-profile designers as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Rudolph Valentino and Helmut Lang. Scott Schuman's growing esteem within the industry eventually led to a job as director of men's fashion within world-renowned department store Bergdorf Goodman. It was also around that time that Scott Schuman opened his own showroom specializing in sales and press for up-and-coming designers, which exposed him to the more competitive aspects of the industry as he often had to assemble a designer's reputation from the ground up.
scott schuman the photographerThroughout his various endeavors, however, Scott Schuman always possessed a keen interest in photography. After the events of 9/11, Scott Schuman made the risky decision to close his showroom and focus exclusively on his photography. "I didn't want to become a 'fashion photographer,'" he says, "but I knew somehow that my loves of fashion and photography would eventually merge. I just never guessed it would be in the form of a blog." In September 2005, Scott Schuman got his chance to share his photos with the world following the creation of The Sartorialist website.
The goal of the site has always been to, in his words, "shoot people on the street the way designers looked at people," and it certainly didn't take long before The Sartorialist had become the online destination for fashion fans. The runaway success of the site allowed Scott Schuman to make it his full-time job within just a few months, and in 2006, he was hired by Vogue's official website to shoot a series of collections in such exotic locales as London, Paris, and Milan.


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Darren Bardati
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Darren BardatiBiography
Dr. Bardati earned his PhD and Master's degrees at McGill University, and a BA Honours in Geography from Bishop's. Since 1996, he has taught resource and environmental management courses in the ESG Department at Bishop's University. In 2008-10, he took a leave to serve as Director of Environmental Studies at the University of PEI. He is currently a Professor in the Environmental Studies and Geography Department at Bishop's University.
His research interests revolved around human use of natural resources and human impacts on natural environments (water, forests, agriculture, coastal resources, etc). He taught ENV 224 Field Course in Ecological Forestry in a one-week long, intensive experiential learning format. The course was taught entirely in the forests of the property of the Sir Andrew MacPhail Homestead in Orwell, PEI where Darren teamed up with Gary Schneider, supervisor of the MacPhail Woods Ecological Forestry Project.
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- Participation, information and forest conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia
- L'evaluation du processus deliberatif de la Politique nationale de l'eau par des indicateurs sociaux
- Barriers to collaborative nature conservatioin efforts in rural energy corridors
- The integrative role of the campus environmental audit
- Environmental assessment in Quebec
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- Human use of natural resources
- Human impacts on natural environments
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- University of Prince Edward Island
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- Charles Cheverie
- Roger Gordon
- Tracy Doucette
- Christian Lacroix
- Donna J. Giberson
- Robert Hurta
- James R. Kemp
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What Have 1D Been Up To In December?
It's nearly 2012 (in fact there's just over 12 hours to go), and One Direction are now an established boyband, selling millions of records and making girls swoon at the merest glimpse of the boys.
With H,L,L,Z & N set to resume their UK tour in a few days time here's a round-up of what they've been up to over the last couple of weeks.
Harry & Caroline Confirm Their Friendship
It's no secret that Hazza & Cazza have been dating on-and-off for the last couple of months, and now Mr Styles has said he definitely has an eye for the older ladies – but still finds some cougars frightening.
Speaking with Fabulous magazine, he said: "I was in the park the other day and a woman ran up to me and asked for my autograph". "She handed me a pen and I asked her if she had a piece of paper". "She just looked at me and got out her boobs!"
Harry said he refused her request and ran off!
Talking about the attention he receives on a daily basis, he said: "What 17-year-old boy wouldn't like it? It's still really wierd but a lot of fun."
Zayn Malik Vows to Give Up Smoking
Tut, tut Zayn, what are you playing at! Bad breath, smelly clothes, stained teeth, not to mention the negative health aspects. Give em up now!
Thankfully, Zayn has promised to give up the ciggies as part of his New Year's resolutions. Talking to The Sun, he said: "My New Year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it."
The rest of the band are also trying to improve their health in 2012, with Niall saying: "I definitely need to use the gym more next year".
Liam is a firm gym-goer and has been pressuring Niall to work out more, adding: "He never turns up, unless he's hiding under the weight bench lifting 40k and I didn't spot him". Cheeky!
TOWIE's Lauren Pope Fancies Liam
Hot on the heels of Caroline Flack, Lauren Pope has revealed that she fancies Liam Payne, and despite being more than a decade older than him, she said there's a cougar inside her waiting to get her hands on the teenage heartthrob.
Speaking with the Daily Star, she said: "I would love to go out on a date with him!" "There could be a One Direction cameo in TOWIE."
(Incidentally, Harry has recently spoke out saying he's now single, though we don't whether he's just trying to deflect attention).
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A more masculine name for a unitard, used for amateur wrestling.
Former U.S. Senatorial candidate and youngest man ever to serve as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. See also People, Politics.
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Arrow in the Blue: The Invisible Writing
By Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon may not be required reading anymore in universities, because Koestler is a dead white male who left the Communist Party. But The Invisible Writing, a 400-page volume of his four-part autobiography Arrow in the Blue, is still worth reading because it explains so much about the origins of the political culture (is there any other kind?) of the United States today — out of Alinsky by the C.P. You will find this history from three-quarters of a century ago surprisingly familiar today.
Koestler was from Hungary but spent much of the first half of the 20th century as a refugee, including some years as a political prisoner, when the Communist movement "travelled from the era of the Apostles to that of the Borgias" in three short generations. Why and how?
He writes that this closed system of thought, called the dialectical method or dialectical materialism, which inexplicably means talking about communism, is self-contained:
"My attitudes to art, literature and human relations became reconditioned and moulded to the pattern. My vocabulary, grammar, syntax, gradually changed. I learnt to avoid any original form of expression, any individual turn of phrase." (pp. 26-27)
Then he lists acceptable and unacceptable vocabulary: decadent for the capitalist bourgeoisie; petit-bourgeois for humanitarian scruples; and many more. Scare quotes were used in writing to identify unacceptable political views. Today, instead of an original turn of phrase, a literary or traditional expression can also be unacceptable or at least a waste of time as deconstructionists discern the "real" meaning of what seems to be a straightforward declarative sentence: only they have the key to the real meanings. Now this technique can also be found, for instance, in the detection of "covert racism" in everyday interactions. (Scare quotes added.) "Micro aggressions" may be undetectable to the racist perpetrator or the oblivious receiver. Today we have universities with speech codes so someone can tell you what you mean.
Koestler wrote that "every single educated Communist … has his own private and secret philosophy whose purpose is not to explain the facts, but to explain them away," or in Orwell's word, doublethink. A literary example was the idea discussed in a party meeting that "to regard poetry as a special talent some men possess and other don't is bourgeois metaphysics. Poetry, like every other skill, is acquired by learning and practice." (p. 30) Thus sources of inspiration, literary or religious, other than Party-spawned, were not acknowledged. As a literary man, Koestler rationalized this nonsense. For a while. Till his friends were killed one by one. Rationalization was harder about the intentional starvation of millions of people under Stalin — but not impossible. People did it for decades.
The resentment against bosses, whoever they are, has shifted slightly: "... it would merely change from partial enslavement by landlords, tax-collectors and money-lenders, to total enslavement by the State, which is landlord, tax-collector and money-lender all in one." (p. 117) Today in the West corporations are considered the enslavers but the State is posed as the antidote to corporate rule. Generally speaking, however, the State is armed. Corporations usually are not.
Regarding the Nazi threat:
"It is doubly painful to write about these seven years at a time when the mood of Western Europe is bent on repeating the same suicidal errors … that price of survival is the sacrifice of a distressingly large part of the national income over a distressingly long period; and that appeasement, however seductive and plausible its arguments sound, is not a substitute for military strength but an invitation to war." (p. 189)
More than half a century after Koestler's book was published, the Nazi threat is replaced by a renewed Russian threat and a new Islamic immigration threat in the form of jihadism (overt aggression) and sharia (pressure to change Western culture gradually). Relying on the United States for security since World War II, Europe poured its money into unsustainable welfare programs. Now we are doing the same but we don't have anything like the United States to back up the United States, whose leader is an appeaser. The enemy, and there's always an enemy, is redefined to suit the political winds. "It is so much easier to stand up in manly way to 'French militarism in 1936, and to 'American Imperialism' in 1953, than to the Nazi and Soviet Empires." (p. 191) Now many Americans love to say the enemy is us and ignore the barbarians at the gate. The Pogo, the swamp-dwelling possum, should be an icon for many Americans: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
In the old days, "everybody who was not on our side was a Fascist. The Socialists were 'Social-Fascists', the Catholics were 'Clerical-Fascists,' the Trotskyists were 'Trotsky-Fascists,' and so on." (p. 244) The word fascism or fascist is thrown about in media today but it's not quite clear what it means other than Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler: non-Communist tyrants? Who remembers them anyway? So the all-purpose attack word now is racism or racist.
In the '30s Koestler began writing a book about Spartacus and the slave revolt in Rome.
"The causes which led to these upheavals had an equally familiar ring: the breakdown of traditional values, a rapid transformation of the economic system, mass unemployment caused by the importation of slave labour and of cheap corn from the colonies, the ruin of the farmers and the growth of large latifundia [large farms worked by slave labor], a corrupt administration and a decadent ruling class, a falling birth-rate and a spectacular rise in divorces and abortions." (p. 263)
Substitute illegal migrant labor for slave labor, cheap imports from overseas factories whether owned by Americans or not — the rest needs no substitutes.
One of the most important lessons in Koestler's book is the description of the "People's Front" policy (or the Popular Front). In 1935 the European Communist parties were relatively small and not part of mainstream parties. These Front organizations represented the war "front" and also the Communist Party façade. The boards might be seeded with non-Communists, as in the Committee for Spanish Relief for instance. (p. 324) The names of these groups then and now sound benign, using words like Freedom, Relief, Labor, People (the definition of "people" always excluding human beings like the Kulaks who could be killed in good conscience, or aristocrats as in the French Revolution), and so on. Pierre Laval of the Vichy government once asked Stalin what to do if the Communists continued to make trouble for the Nazis. Stalin said "Hang them." (p. 325)
In the United States, anyone who suspected anti-war organizations or student groups during the Vietnam war of being infiltrated or controlled by the U.S. Communist Party was considered paranoid, but in fact Joseph McCarthy was correct, however crude he may have been. This was and is the Communist technique. Citizens of goodwill may (or may not) have solid moral principles and will defend them against perceived encroachers, but if the façade, the name, the associations are incorrect, they will ascribe evil to the wrong side. In Europe, Communists and Fascists were both evil yet people wanted to choose one side. When the Russian Communists, i.e. the International C.P., was with Hitler, so were the party members. When they were at odds, some members got confused but many went along with whatever Stalin said. "The men of goodwill of that era fought clearsightedly and devotedly against one type of totalitarian threat to civilization, and were blind or indifferent to the other." (p. 365)
Perhaps the most important lesson to come out of this history is the attempt to crush objective truth, which is evident in today's universities and churches.
"With our training in dialectical acrobatics it was not even difficult to prove that all truth was historically class-conditioned, that so-called objective truth was a bourgeois myth, and that 'to write the truth' meant to select and emphasise those items and aspects of a given situation which served the proletarian revolution, and were therefore 'historically correct'." (p. 387)
Today practitioners of relative truth are cruder, though, when they preach relativity for me but not for thee, and if they are unconvincing, they'll hire lawyers. Everyone has his own truth, except people they disagree with. Who are you to judge, since you're not them?
Deconstruction is political flim-flam, not intellectual subtlety. One of the grossest perversions of its own original aims has developed in the feminist movement. Now feminists (always leftists) have abandoned human principles of protecting women and children and gays against abuses such as are seen in the Islamic world, even when they are imported to the West. And it should go without saying that insistence on unlimited abortion protects neither the defenseless nor women, ignoring the obvious fact that half of the aborted are female.
The Soviet Union "represented 'our last and only hope on a planet in rapid decay'." (p. 389) No one could say this with a straight face anymore, but they can say it about, say, the Green movement. Radical solutions to problems and non-problems are the daily scare quotes in all conversation — and discussions on climate and other topics are closed until further notice, or until dissidents shut up. Hardly a scientific point of view. In his novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler writes, "It is necessary to hammer every sentence into the head of the masses by repetition and simplification. What is presented as right must shine like gold; what is presented as wrong must be black as pitch." (p. 396) People who question the cause of, or existence of, global warming are compared to Holocaust deniers, or even to Nazis.
We expect that people in power would have better sources of information than the average person has, secret information, greater understanding. But after World War II, when the Soviets ruled one-third of the world, it was hard for people to believe that it was the most inhuman regime in human history. This is still true even after the disclosures about Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and so on.
"The difficulty is almost the same for the illiterate Italian peasant as for a highly literate French novelist like Sartre, or for a highly realistic politician like the late President Roosevelt — who sincerely believed that … the only threat to post-war peace would come from Britain's imperialistic designs … in spite of all the available evidence about Communist theory and Soviet practice … [That] experienced democratic politicians all over the world could believe this, not to mention scientists, scholars and intellectuals of every variety, is an indication of the deep, myth-producing forces that were and still are at work." (p. 390)
Nowadays, the same myth psychology keeps leaders today from admitting that the Muslim Brotherhood meant what it said a century or so ago when it declared war against the world. An experienced politician like Obama is either naïve or at some level is a Popular Front in himself.
At last, Koestler knew himself:
"Yet hope that in spite of all this the Socialist Sixth of the Earth would in the end justify their expectations, unwillingness to part with a cherished illusion, and intellectual pride which would not admit that they had been fooled, made them remain silent about the horrors of which they knew, and by their silence endorse them. The same is true of thousands of Communist or vaguely sympathizing writers, painters, actors, journalists, academic teachers, including myself." (p. 412)
Despite the fall of the Berlin wall, Communism is not dead. It has shape-shifted.


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TUCSON, Ariz. – Junior Sumeet Shinde won his opening match of the prequalifying round at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. on Saturday.
Shinde defeated Nate Lammons of Southern Methodist in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3 to move on in the tournament.
The junior was the only Wildcat who competed on the day, as seniors Mario Urquidi, Fredrik Ask, and Kieren Thompson all had byes in their opening rounds.
The tournament will continue on Sunday, as Shinde faces Danilo Casanova of Hawaii at Manoa. He will be joined by Ask who faces Vukasin Teofanovic of Marquette, Urquidi who competes against David Fox of Middle Tennessee, and Thompson who will go up against Justin Butsch of Louisiana State.
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There Are a Few New York Chefs That Don't Have to Deal with Letter Grades
Open a restaurant in a market and health grades won't be an issue.
Note to restaurateurs looking to get around the city's whole "letter grading" thing: Just join forces with a market and open up there. That's why you won't see an A, B, or even a C adorning the exterior of places like Eataly or Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare. According to Diner's Journal, because Chef's Table "is in a market that earns 51 percent of its revenues from grocery sales, it is under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Market," and the state doesn't bother with letters, operating on more of a pass/fail basis. [Diner's Journal/NYT]