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Time to talk about the music. Rather than bore you with a 10,000 word dissertation on The Hair of Amy Winehouse and the Decline of Western Civilisation I'll just briefly focus on a few highlights. Musically speaking (or listening) my best bits probably took place in the Leftfield Tent on Thursday night. They had CUD, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Glen Tilbrook on (all of whom were ace). Best of all though was Kid Harpoon. His voice kind of sounds like a teenage boy who's just discovered bourbon and wild, wild women. There's real ooomph behind his live performance that perhaps doesn't come across on some of his recorded stuff. There's a strong folky / sea shanty kind of feel to the music that makes it all sound timeless, there are echoes of laughing Lenny Cohen on some tracks (indeed he covers Len's First We Take Manhattan...and makes it his own). He has this curious dancing thing too where he sort of recoils from his mic stand like it's about to lamp him one. Brilliant...and worth the price of the Glastonbury ticket on his own.
Friday kicked off with a Guilty Pleasures set (hosted by 'DJ' Sean Rowley). This was basically a house band fronted by a different vocalist for each track (all covers of golden oldies that some would consider 'guilty pleasures' ...clever eh?). The crowd was fairly thin, so we got right to the front to see The Magic Numbers, Tim Burgess, Les (from The Bay City Rollers) and Suggs (pictured above) amongst others. Great fun.
Another unexpected highlight was the lovely Lily Allen. In between swearing like a trooper and chatting about big cocks, she introduced Lynville Golding (ex The Specials) as her special guest. I love The Specials and pondered aloud how great ot would be to see Terry Hall up there too. Then, as if by magic, Lily, in a Jim'll Fix It stylee, introduced Mr Hall too for a blistering version of Gangsters (which you can see here!)
Finally (like I say, these are just the edited highlights) I was blessed to see !!! (the band...I've not gone to sleep and leant on the ! key...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...sorry, I did then). They're a lot 'camper' in real life than I was expecting but the music is pure 'art disco' (what do you mean there's no such genre). If you want to know what makes them so great just listen to Must Be The Moon...a tribute to the Who's late drummer...probably...(I spotted, well he was standing right next to me so it wasn't hard, politicomic god Mark Thomas jigging to the !!! vibe too - good taste fella).
Right, that's it. Gotta dash. Off to another festival. Rootsvile this time. They're promising shelter from the predicted 2-3 inches of rain that's predicted today. Gawd bless 'em. Eavis, are you listening?


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Probe Stratego a Good Single Player game
Posted 03 March 2016 - 08:22 PM
When you play Probe you'll at least have a normal game, or the option of it, weak as it may be. Probe is far better than the web version single player for sure. MotF can't compare, unfortunately; literally, it can't be compared.
The complete GS&F Rules can be found here: http://forum.strateg...rum-rules-2016/
Draw Refusal Rules, specifically, can be read here: http://forum.strateg...931#entry468931
Posted 04 March 2016 - 07:55 AM
Gary, do you have any idea why this site's single player version is so weak? Jumbo started work on this site over five years ago. You'd think they would demand to produce the best. Or have they passed off this site to someone else? I'm not up on what's been going on here the past few years. I don't know if there will ever be an AI that can play Stratego at the level of a skilled human opponent, but it's not that big of a deal to write a program that at least forces someone to pay attention. Also, people hate Stratego programs that chase needlessly or fall into other robotic patterns; that can be hard to program out. And, finally, I can tell you that players love options, and those are not hard to implement. I've seen promises on this site of the "best ever' AI forthcoming, but I guess they haven't been able to deliver. It's a shame because this site has taken over the online Stratego community.
Maybe I'll send an e-mail to the author of Master of the Flag and ask him why he has implemented piece rank reveal the way he has. He and I haven't chatted in ages.
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Posted 04 March 2016 - 07:06 PM
Of course, all this is not touching upon the new team that came up with the new artwork. You can see some of that here: http://imgur.com/a/fw2oE
This is the game I play all the time because I'm always on my phone playing and not my desktop computer. It's shocking at first for most people. The single player still has Two Squares issues but they've fixed the chasing and robotics. It is better than the web version, yes. But the main improvement they've made is to allow one to make the game playable on a phone with the separate graveyard button. This allows for the pieces to be of an adequate size in portrait style on my Android phone. Of course, they could have done this in the old artwork also but they never did. And now the new team doesn't want to even mess with the old team's product, though most players on the site are here because of that product.
The admins here have said point blank that they will replace the current web version with the new version at some point. They have indeed already done so for the Android and iPhone versions and anyone new cannot obtain the old look any longer. I am in that group.
As far as AI goes, I've often thought that the game company AI Factory, Ltd. makes an excellent product with chess and checkers and reversi. But neither they, nor Probe, nor anyone else was allowed to do programming here, apparently.
The complete GS&F Rules can be found here: http://forum.strateg...rum-rules-2016/
Draw Refusal Rules, specifically, can be read here: http://forum.strateg...931#entry468931
Posted 05 March 2016 - 04:32 AM
Thanks, that's interesting, all the changes over time. Stratego AI is a tough nut to crack. A few years ago I corresponded with a professor of AI who had published quite a bit on strategy games. He announced that he was going to produce a Stratego AI that would "shake the world" (his words) and then delivered something that couldn't defeat my dog while she was napping. No disrespect to him, it's just the massive amount of tweaking that's necessary with Stratego, and that is discouraging for programmers who are used to aiming for objective targets, such as in chess.
I still have my notes for the design of a learning algorithm that I think would be promising, but dunno if I want to put in the time and effort. Perhaps some day an AI student will take up the challenge and produce something that can give you guys a run for your money.
Posted 05 March 2016 - 08:55 AM
Imer, are you familiar with Vincent de Boer's thesis "Invincible", and do you know if he or anyone else has tried to make an AI based on its ideas? I'm not an AI expert by any means, but I found his thesis quite impressive and it seems to me that it has the potential to play a pretty solid game.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 08:10 AM
Imer, are you familiar with Vincent de Boer's thesis "Invincible", and do you know if he or anyone else has tried to make an AI based on its ideas?
The Prof, Imer mentioned VdB here: http://forum.strateg...indpost&p=51295
The complete GS&F Rules can be found here: http://forum.strateg...rum-rules-2016/
Draw Refusal Rules, specifically, can be read here: http://forum.strateg...931#entry468931
Posted 17 March 2016 - 07:37 AM
Two takeaways from this article: First, the AI does not try to play like a human. Second, the participants in the discussion understand that "Games with vaguer boundaries and goals" represent an even bigger challenge than Go. Perhaps they'll undertake Stratego some day!
As to Vincent's paper, yes, I've read it. Vincent did try to write a program that played more or less as he does, and the result was mixed. Invincible played reasonably well for as little effort as he had put into it at the time, but over the course of several years it lost badly to Probe at tournaments. That's not encouraging when you consider that Vincent is one of the best Stratego players in the world whereas I never play Stratego at all. So I think it's a more promising course of action not to assume that a program should play like a human, but rather to ask what computers do especially well and write a program based on those strengths. The authors of the Go program are leaps and bounds better AI programmers than I, and it's not impossible they'd come up with something that could give top human players a run for their money. But if they did, I can guarantee it would be a program based on statistics and learning, and not the tricks of the trade human players apply.
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Posted 17 March 2016 - 09:57 PM
Thanks Imer, this was my favorite quote in the article: "It makes moves that no human, including the team who made it, understands."
Posted 18 March 2016 - 03:56 AM
Yeah, I loved that too. It's really an impressive achievement.
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In the past few weeks, predominantly the last few days of this Harvest Moon, there's been quite a bit of introspection bouncing around. A looking inwards, gazing at my mystical belly button. Ma bourrique. Coumme si ma bourrique y'avait les réponses...
2. Since yoga has taken a side step to 'miniscule', it's time to begin shaping and molding what my spiritual practice truly shall be. Exploring my connection with the Goddess only had a brief time to grow before Yoga à la majuscule 'Y' left no space for Her.
3. I need to begin reshaping my place in the world. For the first time in my life my future is settling down, growing large roots with the potential to get dusty. I'm married, I have a full time job and am thinking qu'un jour j'serai enfamille. Big Life Stuff. I imagine myself ten years ago and I had ideas of where I might go in life, write music and perform, travel to see Ireland, something a bit more glamorous. Don't get me wrong, I've traveled and met l'houmme de mes rêves, but will there be more? Just a slight mental readjustment of reality shifting into place and saying 'Hi!' to my dreams.
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What will save Detroit and other ailing big U.S. cities? Here's an idea from Conor P. Williams, a proud product of Michigan's public schools, and currently a senior researcher in the New America Foundation's Early Education Initiative. Follow him on Twitter: @conorpwilliams. This first appeared on the Shanker blog.
By Conor P. Williams
President Obama sent a veritable drawerful of his cabinet to Detroit last fall (and Vice President Joe Biden led a similar visit last month). While the Tigers were headed for the postseason, the big shots weren't in town for a glimpse of quality baseball. Attorney General Eric Holder, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx were in the Motor City to brainstorm with state and local leaders on ways to use federal resources to spark — and hopefully speed — Detroit's economic recovery.
While there are flickers of economic revival in the city, it's hard to imagine that this conversation was wide-ranging enough to break the spiral. Is there an easy long-term recovery to be found in Detroit—or are its considerable problems the product of a fatally flawed economic development plan? There's ample evidence for the latter.
Changing the city's course will require much more than budgetary tweaks. It's going to take a comprehensive rethinking of the area's approach to education and economic opportunities. It's going to require starting with the youngest Detroiters—and building a lasting foundation for economic growth.
It's not enough to invest more resources in Detroit's current model. With its tumbling population, crumbling infrastructure, shrinking tax base, and moribund economy, Detroit looks a prime contender for serial bankruptcy. Think US Airways. Think Donald Trump. Without a fundamental rethinking of the region's economic situation, we risk throwing good money after bad.
Gloomy as this sounds, it's not just a problem for Detroit and its surrounding environs. The Motor City's (most) recent implosion isn't just the product of local idiosyncrasies. Sadly, it's symptomatic of big, structural challenges facing the entire Midwest. Detroit is just a sagging anchor on a sinking ship. Things are only marginally better in other Midwestern cities: the 2010 census showed that Detroit surrendered 25% of its population in just a decade. Cleveland lost 17%. Even Chicago, the Midwest's cultural and economic capital, lost 7% of its population.
Without a substantive jolt, the Midwest's future looks a lot like Detroit's present. Changing that path is going to take a shift. How big does it need to go? Sell the Upper Peninsula to Canada? Offer collective manners tutoring to the East Coast?
Why not recover—and try—a great Midwestern idea? Invest in paste. And crayons. And construction paper, blocks, curricula, and especially teachers. Put it all together and they'd have top-notch early childhood education systems.
Don't misread that last line. When politicians say something like "top-notch," they usually mean "novel, but probably of middling quality." That's not what I mean. At all. When they say it, they mean Bud Light Lime—I mean Two-Hearted Ale. I mean extraordinarily good. I mean "let's make this the top political priority" good. I mean "envy of the nation" good.
As it stands, much of the region is cutting taxes to make their states "friendly to business." But as Chicago Council on Global Affairs Senior Fellow Richard C. Longworth persuasively argued in his 2007 book, Caught in the Middle, Midwestern states can't realistically win an immiserating race to bare bones competitiveness against the developing world. They can compete in little arbitrage wars against each other—Kansas cutting its corporate tax burden to snag jobs from Missouri, for instance—but this "solution" only lasts until the next neighboring state responds with slashes in its rates or changes to its collective bargaining policies.
Cuts in worker benefits and wages work similarly poorly. Worse still, they depress consumer purchasing power and economic growth in the state (and region). This is especially true when workers are forced to use more of their income to compensate for shrinking benefits. Remember, Midwestern workers are also Midwestern consumers—and they can't spend money they don't have.
So why not try something else? The Midwest recognized the value of high-quality pre-K well before the rest of the country. In 1962, researchers began a study of the Perry Preschool Project, a two-year, high-quality pre-K program for low-income three and four-year-olds in Ypsilanti, Michigan. What they found was astonishing.
As adults, students from the program earned over 25% more as adults and used fewer welfare dollars than peers who did not attend the program. They were one-third less likely to be arrested. They also saved the state money while still in school: they were less likely to repeat a grade and more likely to graduate.
Cost-benefit analyses found that each dollar invested in the program returned something in the neighborhood of $7 in benefits and cost savings to society: more income for parents who can work while students are enrolled, more earnings when the students grow up, less spent on prisons, fewer students enrolled in remedial or special needs programs, and less spent on the social safety net when students grow up.
Even better: the results weren't isolated. Numerous studies of other high-quality preschool programs across the country corroborate these results. Some show decreases in children born out of wedlock, lower percentages of students repeating grades during their K-12 years, and increases in high school and college completion.
It's not just something in the Ypsilanti water (which is fortunate, given that the area's longstanding industrial economy has given it a poor environmental reputation). The Chicago Public Schools' Child-Parent Centers (CPC) program also shows outstanding returns—estimates suggest over $10 in returns for every $1 invested in running the program.
More tax revenue? Higher incomes? Fewer inmates? More college graduates? This isn't just a policy no-brainer. This is one of the region's greatest ideas.
Like any good manufacturing hub, the Midwest has exported its expertise throughout the country. Oklahoma has dramatically expanded its state pre-K programs since 1998; 75% of four-year-olds are now enrolled. Guess what? Their leaders were inspired by the Ypsilanti study. Washington, DC has ramped up its public pre-K programs over the last decade; 92% of four-year-olds and 69% of three-year-olds were enrolled last year. One of the key local figures in the expansion was a former lead teacher in the Perry program. Iowa has been expanding public pre-K for the last five years—state documents cite Perry and the CPC in support of their efforts. Georgia's Department of Education does the same. Heck, the research is even an international export. In the 1990s, Quebec policymakers saw the Midwest's programs and funded universal pre-K (and child care).
Meanwhile, Michigan has no state program offering preschool to three-year-olds. Only 19% of four-year-olds were enrolled last year, and that number hasn't substantively changed in a decade. Indiana offers no state-funded pre-K at all. Ohio enrolls 1% of its three-year-olds and 2% of its four-year-olds in pre-K. In the region, only Iowa and Wisconsin enroll half of their four-year-olds—yet neither enrolls over 3% of their three-year-olds.
It's not as though Midwestern leaders are ignorant of pre-K's possibilities: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder toured the Ypsilanti program's facilities with Education Secretary Arne Duncan this May. Snyder successfully pushed for a 60% budget increase for his state's public preschool initiative this year. He's promised to ask for additional investments in next year's budget that would bring enrollment from just over 20,000 students in 2012 to nearly 66,000 in 2015. On this trajectory, Michigan would still only have about 50% of its four-year-olds enrolled in pre-K—far fewer than DC, Georgia, or Oklahoma. State Board of Education President John Austin summed it up nicely in February when he called Snyder's proposal "a modest investment."
Illinois, meanwhile, has an outstanding pre-K law on the books. As the Governor's Office of Early Childhood Development puts its, the state's "Preschool for All" program aims to "create and support voluntary, high-quality preschool for all three and four year olds." Good as that sounds, it's mostly vision at the moment. The program has never been adequately funded to make that goal a reality. In 2008, 31% of all Illinois four-year-olds and 20% of three-year-olds were enrolled. In 2012, those numbers were 28% and 20%, respectively.
Universal, high-quality preschool would be a legacy achievement for any politician. Even better, it would drive the region's economic growth in the short- and long-term. It would make Midwestern states more attractive to young families: by supporting children's growth, state programs would allow parents to develop their own careers. They would free parents to develop new, exportable ideas and products as part of a dynamic, growing economy. Most importantly, the research shows that these children would grow up to be better, more productive Midwestern citizens, workers, and consumers. That's not just a great homegrown idea; it's a sustainable long-term economic plan.


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Apple's new 21.5-inch iMac borrows much from previous versions, but a dive inside the desktop computer reveals a new Thunderbolt I/O port and a GPU that's relatively easy to swap out if your mad gaming skills blow it up.
The dirty work here was done by iFixit, which specializes in tearing apart the latest gadgets to reveal what's inside and offer advice on what you should and shouldn't touch if you try the same. In this case, iFixit used mainly suction cups and a T10 Torx screwdriver to get at the iMac's guts. (Other recent iFixit investigations have targeted the iPad 2's Smart Cover as well as the iPad 2 tablet computer itself.)
As for the latest iMac, more specifically the quad-core Intel Core i5-based EMC 2428 model, iFixit found the box relatively easy to open up and dissect (it scored 7 of 10 on the iFixit repairability index). The model it explored featured a 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM.
One nice surprise was that you can swap out the AMD GPU without replacing the whole logic board, which hasn't always been the case on Apple products. You are warned by iFixit, however, that exposing the Intel Core i5 CPU will void your Apple warranty and that you'll need to go through the tricky work of removing the logic board from the system to get at the CPU and GPU, says Miroslav Djuric, director of technical communication for iFixit.
Other findings included that the Thunderbolt interface boasts Intel's L102IA84 EFL integrated circuit, which is similar but different from the one found in a new MacBook Pro. "Thunderbolt claims to provide 10Gbps throughput for both input and output. It appears that both PCI Express and DisplayPort receive their own 10Gbps data channel. That's nice, as you don't want your display competing with your external hard drive for bandwidth," according to iFixit.
Other innards exposed include wireless components from Atheros (WiFi) and Broadcom (Bluetooth).
Some components of the new iMac, including the LG display, are the same as in previous versions. The new iMacs cost from £999 to £1,649 in their standard configurations.


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SMU 17, UTEP 0: How Did Mike Price Respond to Shutout Loss? [LINK]
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LAST week, I chaired a meeting at the House of Commons on the perennial topic of why there aren't enough women in politics. We were running through all the usual stuff - lousy working hours, sexist colleagues - when a woman in the audience asked a genuinely interesting question. Why, she said, were there women leaders in developing countries like Liberia, but vanishingly few in supposedly mature liberal democracies like ours?
I've been thinking about the answer the Labour MP Gisela Stuart gave her - basically that women often get their chance only when men have made a spectacular mess of it, as in wartorn Liberia - for days, because I think it goes much wider than politics.
Think of the two senior policewomen, Sue Akers and Cressida Dick, who have respectively taken over the phone hacking inquiry and the job of Met deputy commissioner following the weekend's mad flurry of resignations (it's rumoured the departing head of the Met, Sir Paul Stephenson, may also now be replaced by a woman). Think of Christine Lagarde, becoming head of the International Monetary Fund after her predecessor was accused (he says falsely) of raping a hotel maid. Like Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, elected after years of civil war and violent repression, these women are powerful symbols of a break with an old, tarnished male order. But why do they get called on only when it's time to clean up?
Perhaps it's partly explained by the so-called 'glass cliff' theory, which suggest women often get to run big companies only when the share price is crashing, male rivals steer clear, and boards become desperate enough to take the 'risk' of hiring a woman (imagine! ladies in charge!)
Or perhaps it's a variation on the classic Westminster reshuffle trick: stick a woman in a government job no woman has previously held, and hopefully the headlines will be more about shattering glass ceilings than why someone else got quietly fired. No doubt it also sends a useful signal, in industries that have clearly sailed too close to the wind, to hire a woman since women are seen as more cautious and conscientious than men (although as the arrest of News International executive Rebekah Brooks may or may not go on to prove, women have no monopoly on sainthood).
But I suspect the real reason women sometimes profit from a crisis is that they however high they climb, women often don't quite break into the inner circle: the lone senior woman in a clubbable, all-boys-together office is often not quite 'one of us'. That holds her back in good times. But when being 'one of us' suddenly means being tainted by association, nothing looks more desirable than an outsider: however briefly, everyone sees the point of having someone who thinks differently from the rest, who questions the way things have always been done, who isn't so much 'one of the lads' that they overlook the casual bending of the rules.
We saw it after the City crash of 2008, when there was much discussion of whether macho bank traders had developed 'groupthink' which blinded them to the risks involved in subprime mortgages, and we're seeing it now in the unravelling of the Met. But when the immediate crisis blows over, will anyone remember that it doesn't always pay to be one of the guys?
Monday, 18 July 2011
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Yes, the insider/outsider thing is probably key here. But I am reminded of this old Onion story: http://www.theonion.com/articles/black-man-given-nations-worst-job,6439/ReplyDelete
yup you are right - it's all about not belonging therefore having clean hands. so once david cameron falls my money is on Theresa May for PMReplyDelete
I think there has been a hint of misogny in the reporting and potrayal of Rebekah Brooks. She has suffered more personal attacks on her hair and personality than the men who are involved did. Even in the upper strata of power play women still suffer from discrimination.ReplyDelete
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By BURTON K. WHEELER, Senator from Montana
Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1945
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. XI, pp. 405-407.
FELLOW Americans, in the more than 2 weeks that have elapsed since the declaration of the Crimea Conference was flashed across the world, it has become perfectly clear that this echo of some of the mysteries that were recited within the secret chambers of a Yalta palace has not stampeded the American people into an unconditional surrender to the results.
In spite of the fact that the press and the radio have barraged the Nation with hysterical hallelujahs of praise, inspired by our playboys and poets in the State Department, it now appears that Mr. and Mrs. America have become so apprehensive as a result of past promises—unfulfilled—that they are now looking over the performances on the international stage with a "you"have-to-show-me" look in their eyes. The American people now know such grave decisions are in the making—both openly and secretly—that what we as a people have got to get straight, and quickly, is what future policies are still possible that will be to America's highest interest and to the hopes of humanity in the years ahead.
This growing uneasiness over the international situation which is reflected in the rapidly growing volume of my mail is only intensified by the violent contradiction in the Crimea report between the lyric splendor of the beautiful and noblewords in which it is couched and the ugly impudence of its decisions.
Let us recall for just a moment what was actually decided at Yalta. There was the cynical partition of Poland and what in fact amounts to the recognition of the Moscow-spawned Lublin Government. There was the betrayal of Yugoslavia—and we can only guess at what has happened to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—when we read in the New York Times dispatch of February 25 that only 3 days ago "large groups of armed Communists attempted to overthrow the Rumanian Government and install a Rumanian Soviet." Free elections were promised—but what is a free election without free speech, free press, a free radio—just a mockery—and even these elections obtain only where in the judgment of the Big Three conditions require. There was the determination to partition, dismember, de-industrialize, and enslave the German nation, all in the sweet name of peace. There was final agreement to permit any member of the Big Three to veto action against its own aggression. We are told there was agreement on the principle of trusteeship to be applied to over 600,000,000 colonial peoples. However, in lieu of any specific solution to the war-breeding problem of the British, French, and Dutch imperialism, it simply means that we are going to turn over the subject peoples of Africa, India, and Asia to their old masters. It has been further revealed that at Yalta an agreement was reached which, in effect, established a three-power—I should say one-power—control of the Old World in which we are supposed to be committed to enforcing, policing, and guaranteeing jointly with Russia and Britain the post-war settlements in Europe—whatever they may be. All of which provides a shocking violation of the principles of the Atlantic Charter. There are those who believe that the only solution of Europe's troubles is to turn them over to Russia. If that is the object, then we should do it with our eyes open.
Surely we need no more facts now to trace the old pattern of power politics around the world all shined up in new paraphernalia. Surely, we need no more proof than these decisions of the Yalta Conference to conclude that the principle of brute force has now become the criterion of what is right and the basis of all future action in international affairs. For these Yalta decisions are the incredible proofs that the Big Three have agreed to impose their collective will not only on the nations of Europe, but on the nations of Africa and Asia.
Despite attempts to suppress news of the resentment these decisions aroused in Europe, we now know that our own apprehensions are widely shared abroad. For instance, Raymond Daniell, the head of the New York Times' London Bureau, said in his first report on British reaction: "Whatever satisfaction there is tonight or tomorrow in the continued agreement of the major powers will be dissipated in the coming weeks." Concerning the reactions of the small nations of Europe, Mr. Daniell went on to say, "What it all amounts to, in the view of the several small governments in London is that the big powers have usurped sovereignty over all Europe and have accepted jointly the responsibility of running it, at least until they fall out among themselves." The reaction in France is clearly revealed in General de Gaulle's lamentable snub of President Roosevelt and in a United Press dispatch that "the French press displayed a distinct coolness toward the Big Three decisions." In Italy the reaction was much the same. The United Press stated that "Italian Government quarters were disappointed," and the same source went on to say that "authoritative Vatican quarters expressed anxiety lest the seeds of a future war were sown at Yalta." The premier of the Polish government-in-exile bitterly denounced the Polish decision saying, "The method adopted in the case of Poland was a contradiction of the elementaryprinciples binding the Allies, and constitutes a violation of the letter and spirit of the Atlantic Charter and the rightof every nation to defend its own interest."
We do not need to wait for any more crumbs of information to fall from another diplomatic love feast for us to see clearly what these Yalta decisions and reactions mean to us as a people. In the case of Poland it means that for the first time we are a party to a betrayal of one of our allies, and yet Mr. Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State, has recently remarked that, "for the immediate future, the decision on the Polish question was a great achievement," yet this decision is almost identical with the treacherous Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement of 1939 which both England and America so bitterly denounced and over which Britain eventually went to war.
But what concerns me most is that our formal recognition of such an immoral outrage can only contribute further to the bankruptcy of our moral and political credit in Europe and throughout the world. For instance, in Rumania, we have given Russia authority to act directly in our behalf. In Bulgaria our representative on the Allied Commission is an unwilling but helpless stooge of Russian policies which—according to eyewitness accounts—are liquidating, deporting, or terrorizing the helpless population, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies of the Axis Powers. It must have been to just such a predicament as this that Mr. Stettinius referred when he is reported to have said, "We are virtually the prisoners of our allies."
The British Government has just published a White Paper on the Situation in Greece from which I quote: "Ever since the Germans left, the small but well-armed Communist Party has been practicing a reign of terror all over the country. Men, women and children were murdered here in large numbers and thousands of hostages were taken. * * * Red terror soon leads to white terror." When we realize that at Yalta the decisions that were reached were the result of an abject appeasement of Stalin, we can better picture the grim nature of the struggle that is already going on between Russia and Britain in every country in Europe, toward which we will never be permitted to remain neutral. Furthermore, we now see the Nazi officials and the Nazi press using the Yalta decisions to try to stiffen German resistance, just as they used the Morgenthau proposals, at the cost of thousands of American lives. Even now, we are told by the press that Goebbels and company are engaged in telling the German people, "We told you so. It is far better that we died on the battlefields." While I am sure we all agree with the laudable decision of the Big Three to stand united "to destroy German militarism and nazi-ism" such a declaration becomes nothing but a costly psychological blunder when the Big Three continue to refuse the offer of a democratic and decent alternative to those Germans who are ready and willing to risk their lives to destroy the Hitler tyranny.
These are just some of the decisions we are now being urged to underwrite by accepting the present Dumbarton Oaks proposals. I am now and I have been at all times in favor of a genuinely democratic and international world organization to keep the peace and to prevent future wars. But the agreement at Yalta by the Big Three that their decisions will not even be permitted discussion at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, compels me to warn the American people that the Dumbarton Oaks proposals— as they now stand—represent nothing more than an international straitjacket—the blueprint of which was drawn up behind the scenes at Moscow, Teheran, and Yalta.
Whatever happens we must never be a party to the enslavement of free peoples by a dictatorship which Mr. Churchill has said, in speaking of Communism, "rots the soul of a nation," and which President Roosevelt has declared to be a "dictatorship as absolute as any in the world." I am sure the American people will never commit themselves to suppress, by force of arms, and with the blood of our youth, every future rebellion against such a tyranny.
I am further convinced there are still certain steps the American people can take to arrest and alter the present fatal trends in international affairs. First, if we are to have a genuine spirit of international collaboration there could be no simpler way to obtain it than for our allies immediately to accord our diplomatic, military, and press representatives the same courtesies and privileges we accord to theirs.
Secondly, a United Nations political council should immediately be set up in Europe to include representatives of the peoples whose destinies are now directly involved, with power not merely to talk but to act in the interest of humanity. I know of no other alternative to the domination of Europe by Russia.
Third, this council must be guided and implemented by policies that are directed towards the establishment of a United States of Europe. Again I see no other alternative to a Europe divided against itself and a return to its ancient power politics—this time with England and Russia pitted against each other in a struggle that cannot help but result in another bloody conflict—in which American boys will again be called to give up their lives.In conclusion, we must throw the full weight of our influence behind a demand that the principles of the Atlantic Charter be incorporated into any future plans for world organization. We must make certain that at least our American representatives at the coming United Nations conference insist upon the alteration and amendment of the present Dumbarton Oaks proposals to bring about the changes that are imperative, if this world is not to be run on the basis of brute force in the hands of a few. If we do not want to see our American way of life and the ideals for which we have fought dragged down into the muck and mire of the Old World's ancient evils and hatreds, and if we do not want our boys to have fought and suffered and died in vain, we must act now in the name of humanity.


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~Edit: Just saw the book on the Today Show! Can't wait to see other people's reactions!
Rating: On the Run (4/5)
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|Let's run!
|Sea Holly
|Field Bindweed
|Gullies Galore!
Further on we came to an area looking up towards Lossit Bay, and down below we could see seals on the rocks - bit far away to see for certain whether they were grey or common seals,
|What can we see?
We also found the skull of a Fulmar! You can just about see why they call these birds Tube-noses. Once we've got all the gunk off it we'll add it to our skulls collection in the Centre.
In amongst the dunes here we saw more wildflowers, including Devil's Bit Scabious just coming into flower (so called because its root looks like something's bitten through it) and which is the food plant of the Marsh Fritillary butterfly's caterpillars. See below for full list of what we saw.
|Devils' Bit Scabious coming into flower...
|...and one that's flowered a little more
|Moon Jellyfish
|Sea Lettuce and more
|Small periwinkle
A great time was had by all, and in the end the rain was hardly noticeable with so many interesting things to see! Our next one will be at Ardnave, details to follow - see you there! Mandy
|Currie Sands looking towards Orsay lighthouse
Plants: Sea holly, sea bindweed, sea rocket, sea milkwort, sea orach, bell heather, birdsfoot trefoil, devil's bit scabious, bog pimpernel, ling heather, ragwort, thrift, tormentil, silverweed, scentless mayweed, meadow vetchling, eyebright, hogweed, yarrow, an as yet unidentified domed umbelifer, red clover, white clover, ragwort, lady's bedstraw.
Insects: Bee, cinnabar moth caterpillar, soldier beetle.
Seaweed: Caragheen, spiral wrack, sea lettuce, Furbelows's holdfast, laver, toothed wrack.
Fungi: a jelly fungi.


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Music is a source of enjoyment. It creates a sense of belonging and offers new experiences. But it is also a vital source of knowledge of ourselves and our cultural history. Behind the scenes, Rockheim's staff is engaged in managing and researching Norway's pop and rock music, and in making it accessible to the public.
The visit to Rockheim begins in the spectacular "Top Box". From the main exhibit on the 6th floor you proceed down floor by floor. The music and stories are communicated by means of interactive exhibit technology and objects from the museum's collections. You are welcomed by Rockheim's guides, who will be your hosts and will answer your questions about the exhibits.
Guided tours in english of the main exhibit every day from June 24th to August 18th at 3 PM (included in the entry ticket)
The Time Tunnel
Rockheim's permanent exhibit, The Time Tunnel, is a journey through modern Norwegian musical and cultural history. In these exhibits you operate the playback of sounds, images, and music videos, and thus creating your own stories and experiences.
Rockheim Temporær
In the temporary exhibits on the 4th floor topics of music history and contemporary culture — local, national, and international — are treated in greater depth.
An exhibit about christianity and popular music in Norway
Rockheim Galleri
In the Rockheim Gallery on the ground floor extra attention is devoted to the visual expression of pop and rock music. There is no admission charge to view these exhibits.
Rockheim Hall of Fame
The Rockheim Hall of Fame is an institution honouring persons and groups who have played an essential role in the development and dissemination of Norwegian pop and rock music. The previous year's inductees are on display in the museum's vestibule.
In the quiet setting of Rockheim's media library you can immerse yourself in whatever interests you. Here you can read books and music magazines.
Rockheim Restaurant
The Restaurant is on the 5th floor, with a stunning view of the city and the fjord. It serves cakes and coffee, lunch and dinner — everything needed for an extended visit to the museum. The restaurant is open when the museum is open. You can visit the restaurant without paying the admission charge to the museum.
The Gift Shop
In the museum gift shop on the ground floor you can buy notebooks, biographies, t-shirts of all sizes, postcards, buttons, mugs, posters, and other gift items. You can shop without paying the admission charge.
Våkenatt by Bridges to be released by Rockheim
38 years after it was recorded, Våkenatt by Bridges is close to release. The album will be officially released August 15, 2018, by newly founded label Rockheim Musical Archives.
Våkenatt by Bridges was recorded by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Magne Furuholmen, Viggo Bondi and Øystein Jevanord in Oslo in December 1980 and January 1981.
A limited vinyl edition (green, 180gram) presented in a box, including a 16-page booklet, will be sold by Rockheim Musical Archives.
«It's not only an essential part of Norwegian music history, as the missing link between Bridges and a-ha; as I listened to the record, I discovered that it's a masterpiece which still feels fresh and relevant today,» says rock historian Terje Nilsen at Rockheim.
Pre orders for a limited amount of copies opens Friday June 22, 02.00 PM (Norwegian time - CEST, UTC+2) and ends on Friday July 13th
Pre order at www.rockheim-musical-archives.no
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|- type of ghost nodes the array have. Use one of DM_BOUNDARY_NONE, DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED, DM_BOUNDARY_PERIODIC.
|- stencil type. Use either DMDA_STENCIL_BOX or DMDA_STENCIL_STAR.
|- global dimension in each direction of the array (use -M and or -N to indicate that it may be set to a different value from the command line with -da_grid_x <M> -da_grid_y <N>)
|- corresponding number of processors in each dimension (or PETSC_DECIDE to have calculated)
|- number of degrees of freedom per node
|- stencil width
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|- Calls DMView() at the conclusion of DMDACreate2d()
|-da_grid_x <nx>
|- number of grid points in x direction, if M < 0
|-da_grid_y <ny>
|- number of grid points in y direction, if N < 0
|-da_processors_x <nx>
|- number of processors in x direction
|-da_processors_y <ny>
|- number of processors in y direction
|-da_refine_x <rx>
|- refinement ratio in x direction
|-da_refine_y <ry>
|- refinement ratio in y direction
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|- refine the DMDA n times before creating, if M or N < 0
The array data itself is NOT stored in the DMDA, it is stored in Vec objects; The appropriate vector objects can be obtained with calls to DMCreateGlobalVector() and DMCreateLocalVector() and calls to VecDuplicate() if more are needed.
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By: Ryun Anderson
After a week of scrimmages, the 2016 cross country season finally kicked off on Saturday! Hot temperatures are not uncommon on Labor Day Weekend here in the Mid-Atlantic, but runners were greeted Saturday with some very mild, fall-esque conditions. Montgomery County teams were present at four meets around the DC area this weekend, so here is this weeks recap:
- Northwest and Poolesville traveled up to the Brunswick Invite. The Northwest boys kicked off their 2016 season with a second-place finish in the large school divison; they showcased the tight pack that made them so good last year. Their top three runners - Chase Osborne, Komlan Attiogbe and Jose Infante - finished 11-13, with Ngoy Jeriel Yamitshi not far behind.
- Poolesville also had a strong first meet of the season. Sophomore Nandini Satsangi kicked off her season with a third-place finish in the large school division and fourth overall. Last year's 3A state runner-up is one of a group of girls looking to close the gap on Walter Johnson's Abigail Green this fall. After an injury-shortened 2015 cross country season, Andrew Lent made his return to the course with a fifth-place finish. Another piece of good news for the Falcons: junior Ryan Lockett is back after one year at Gonzaga. Lockett finished seventh, giving Poolesville a strong duo to start the season.
- Richard Montgomery's Rohann Asfaw kicked off the season by defending his Interstate Classic title at Clear Spring High School. He put nearly 20 seconds between himself and the next-closest runner, defending 1A state champion Will Merritt, showing why he's probably the top runner in the state right now. Nefret El-Masry finished fifth in the girls race, leading the Rockets to a second-place finish in the large school division.
- Good Counsel traveled down to Virginia for the Chancellor Invitational. The boys team finished second overall, led by Jimmy Vazzana's fifth-place effort. Make no mistake, this team won't be as good as last year's historically good squad, but they'll still look to contend for the WCAC title later this year. Their WCAC rivals Gonzaga looked good in winning the Seahawk Invitational in Anne Arundel County. On the girls side, Claudia Wendt also led the way with a fifth-place finish. She'll be looking to build on her third-place finish at the MD-DC Private School Championships as just a sophomore last year.
- Clarksburg, Sherwood and Whitman traveled over to South River for the Seahawk Invitational. After a promising time trial, the Whitman duo of Josh Engels and Aaron Bratt officially debuted together on the course with a great race, finishing fifth and sixth. They clocked blistering times of 15:44.90 and 15:53.30 on the course that is probably somewhere between three miles and a full 5K, but their high finishes in a loaded field speak for themselves. They could challenge Nakasaka/Fry and Asfaw/El-Masry as the top duo in the county this year. On the girls side, Whitman finished fourth and showed great depth with individuals winning both JV races, and the Sherwood girls packed their way to a sixth-place finish by putting six girls between places 37 to 44.
What's next: Saturday kicked off the 2016 cross country season, and most teams that didn't race this past weekend will start their seasons this week. The divisional meet schedule is pretty light this week, but Georgetown Prep's Woodward Relays on Tuesday will serve as a good preview for this weekend's invitationals, which include Track and Trail, Howard County and the Bullis Invitational right here in Montgomery County.
Runner dude
2016-09-05 15:55:59
What makes you think the Seahawk course is les than 5K?
Ryun Anderson
2016-09-05 16:47:25
Meet director came out today saying it was three miles. Was also 3.003 last year. Had been 5K in years prior
Sher Coach
2016-09-05 22:32:55
Spoke to the meet personnel. The man who measured the Seahawk Inv. course assured me the distance is 3 miles plus about 2 yds.
kinda obvious
2016-09-06 20:23:56
tons of guys broke 16, many of which hadnt broken 17 there before. Far cry from the old seahawk course. 3mi is generous if you cut the many loopy turns tight
Ryun Anderson
2016-09-06 21:29:35
As I mentioned in the article, this isn't to take away from any of the Moco performances, especially Engles/Bratt. They beat some really good runners there.
Runner Dude
2016-09-07 10:02:59
Agreed Ryun. It's just a shame they can't get the facts out at the beginning and not over excite kids and coaches with false 5K times. It was still a good meet with a lot of talent.
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When doctors told Marybeth Scheidts and David Levy they knew which embryos would result in a pregnancy through in vitro fertilization, the Philadelphia couple was thrilled.
"They just said, 'These are the great embryos. You'll have a baby,'" Levy, 41, said. "That's all we cared about."
What the pair didn't know was that when baby Connor arrived on May 18, he was the first child born through a new screening technique that identifies which embryos created by IVF are most likely to lead to successful pregnancies.
Current chromosome-screening tests are expensive, but an international team of researchers led by an Oxford doctor say the "next-generation sequencing" techniques will make the tests widely available. The screenings sequence a small part of an embryo's DNA to determine the number of chromosomes present; embryos with an abnormal number of chromosomes typically don't lead to a pregnancy.
"Many of the embryos produced during infertility treatments have no chance of becoming a baby because they carry lethal genetic abnormalities," Dr. Dagan Wells, the lead researcher, said in a statement. "Next-generation sequencing improves our ability to detect these abnormalities and helps us identify the embryos with the best chances of producing a viable pregnancy."
Scheidts, a 36-year-old mortgage banker, and Levy, a registered nurse, tried intrauterine insemination, a different fertility treatment, three times before signing up for IVF at Main Line Fertility, which is based in Bryn Mawr.
The couple had 13 IVF embryos to choose from. Cultures from each were sent to Wells at Oxford for genetic screening.
Most of the embryos appeared to be healthy, but just three had the correct number of chromosomes. One of those embryos was used, and Connor Levy was born in May.
Because of the new screening, their doctors "were highly confident that one would take" and advised against implanting multiple embryos, Levy said.
The couple froze the remaining two embryos, in case they want to expand their family later.
Dr. Michael Glassner, the Main Line Health System physician who worked with the couple, said he believes such testing will become routine. The screenings will boost pregnancy rates for couples going through IVF, and reduce miscarriages, he said.
Just about one-third of embryos chosen through standard protocols generate a pregnancy, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Especially in older women, a chromosome can "look perfect," but still be abnormal, Glassner said. The testing will allow doctors to detect those abnormalities, and the higher success rates may ease some patients' concerns about IVF.
"For a lot of patients, there's a fear of failure, a fear of the unknown," he said.
The new sequencing method is also less labor-intensive than current procedures, making it less expensive, Glassner added.
"It's just a remarkable test," he said.
That's a good thing for couples like Levy and Scheidts, who had looked into chromosome testing because of their difficulties while trying to conceive. But existing screening methods would have cost $6,000, and "we just couldn't afford that," Levy said.
A second couple also had the testing done; their baby is scheduled to be delivered in a few months.
Wells says he plans to conduct a randomized clinical trial to further evaluate the effectiveness of the approach.
Wells is outling the technique at this week's annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.


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Splitville is located where the House Of Blues once stood and has now turned into a 40,000 square foot, 2 story facility with floor to ceiling windows, outdoor seating and a patio that will overlook the beautiful and magical Downtown Disney District.
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Changed traffic conditions for controlled blasting at Austral Park Road and Tindalls Lane
21 September 2015
Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast, and Member for Kiama Gareth Ward has advised local motorists across the region of changed traffic conditions next week near Austral Park Road and Tindalls Lane for controlled blasting as work progresses on the Foxground and Berry Bypass.
The controlled blasting is required to break up hard rock as part of work on the NSW Government's $580 million upgrade of the Princes Highway between Toolijooa Road and Andersons Lane.
Mr Ward said that controlled blasting at Toolijooa Ridge has been ongoing since July 2015 and will be starting near Austral Park Road later this month and near Tindalls Lane in early October.
"The first blast near Austral Park Road will take place on Tuesday 29th September between 1pm and 3pm, weather permitting," he said.
"Up to 20 blasts may be required at two locations near Austral Park Road with a maximum of two blasts daily within 10 minutes of each other. Blasts at this location are planned to be carried out weekly on Tuesdays with a single short delay to traffic.
"Motorists should be aware an exclusion zone will be set up around the blasting site which includes some sections of the Princes Highway, Thompsons Road and Austral Park Road.
"Controlled blasting will also be starting near Tindalls Lane on Thursday 1 October, weather permitting. Up to 10 blasts will take place on the first day and one further blast per day would be carried out on Thursdays between 1pm and 3pm.
"For the safety of workers and motorists, traffic will be stopped with delays of around 10 minutes as blasting is carried out at each location," Mr Ward said.
"Nearby residents will be notified at least 48 hours before each controlled blast.
"Controlled blasting will also continue at Toolijooa Ridge on Thursdays. There have been a total of 12 blasts to date at Toolijooa Ridge which has moved an estimated 146,000 tonnes of rock to progress the bypass.
"It is expected all controlled blasting for the project will be complete by September next year, weather permitting.
"Road users are advised electronic message signs on the Princes Highway will display the most up to date information including changed times and dates of blasting work," Mr Ward concluded.
For the latest traffic information, please visit www.livetraffic.com, download the Live Traffic App or call the Transport Management Centre on 132 701.
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Week 11 - First Round of the Playoffs
The 2012 high school football playoffs have begun.
The first round saw upsets and more than a few minor surprises. Here are some
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Seven number four seeds won in the first round. They include: Briarwood Christian, Greenville, Hartselle, St. Clair County, Straughn Colbert County and Hubbertville.
Central Clay County and St. Luke's picked up playoff wins for the first time in team history. Chilton County (1996), Wenonah (1997) and Hubbertville (1999) ended long streaks of not winning a playoff game.
T.R. Miller with their 55-20 win over Abbeville has now tied Hazlewood with thirty first round wins. The Tigers are also closing in on Hazlewood's record of eighty five playoff wins with eighty two of their own.
Colbert County has won twenty second round playoff games. TR. Miller follows closely with nineteen. The Indians also have more playoff appearances than any other team with thirty six.
Teams that have never won a second round playoff game include: Central Clay County and St. Lukes.
Points scored in a playoff game
* Marion County set a record for points scored in a playoff game by thrashing Meek 83-6. The eighty three points topped topped the previous mark held by South Lamar in a 2008 79-46 win over Phillips Bear Creek.
* The seventy points scored by Dadeville rank as the eighth most in playoff history.
Margin of Victory in a Playoff game
* Marion County also set a record for largest margin of victory in a playoff game topping the old mark set by Hazelwood in 1989 when they thumped Georgiana 75-0.
Points Scored by Both Teams in a Playoff game
* Hackleburg and Donoho played a slugfest last Friday with Hackleburg prevailing 66-42. The score is the fifth highest scoring affair in playoff history behind Etowah vs. Oxford in 1991 when the two accounted for a final score of 69-63.
Teams that set a record for most wins in a season
* Central Clay County - 11
* Decatur Heritage Christian - 5
* Eastwood Christian - 1
* Ellwood Christian - 5
* Horseshoe Bend - 8
* Pope John Paul II - 1
* Restoration Academy - 12
* Saraland - 7
* Sipsey Valley - 6
* St. Lukes - 9
* Tuscaloosa Academy - 12
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