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Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the modern field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries.
The Kinsey Reports
Kinsey is generally regarded as the father of sexology, the systematic, scientific study of human sexuality. He initially became interested in the different forms of sexual practices around 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. It is likely that Kinsey's study of the variations in mating practices among gall wasps led him to wonder how widely varied sexual practices among humans were. During this work, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey Scale which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual; a rating of X, for asexual, was added later by Kinsey's associates.
In 1935, Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his view that "delayed marriage" (that is, delayed sexual experience) was psychologically harmful. Kinsey obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to inquire into human sexual behavior. His Kinsey Reports—starting with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female—reached the top of bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into an instant celebrity. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. Kinsey's reports, which led to a storm of controversy, are regarded by many as an enabler of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Indiana University's president Herman B Wells defended Kinsey's research in what became a well-known test of academic freedom.
Controversial aspects of his work
Kinsey's sex research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. He justified this as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. He encouraged his staff to do likewise, and engage in a wide range of sexual activity, to the extent they felt comfortable; he argued that this would help his interviewers understand the participant responses. Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research; Biographer Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy explained that this was done to ensure the films' secrecy, which would have caused a scandal had it become public knowledge. James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, amongst others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs.
Kinsey collected sexual material from around the world, which brought him to the attention of U.S. Customs when they seized some pornographic films in 1956; he died before this matter was resolved legally.
Kinsey wrote about pre-adolescent orgasms using data in tables 30 to 34 of the male volume, which report observations of orgasms in over three-hundred children between the ages of five months and fourteen years. This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation. Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. Little attention was paid to this part of Kinsey's research at the time, but where Kinsey had gained this information began to be questioned nearly 40 years later. It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single paedophile and presented it as being from various sources. Bullough suggests this was in order to avoid revealing it was from a single source. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects", which was weighed against the likelihood that these crimes would continue. The Kinsey Institute wrote that the data on children in tables 31–34 came from one man's journal (started in 1917) and that the events concerned predated the Kinsey Reports.
Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married", and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, particularly from Indiana, in his sample, which may have distorted his studies. It has also been pointed out he omitted African Americans in his research. Bullough explains that the data was later re-processed, excluding prisoners and data derived from an exclusively gay sample, and the results indicate that it does not appear to have skewed the data. Kinsey had over-represented people who were homosexual, but Bullough considers this may have been because this was stigmatized and needed to be understood. It was Paul Gebhard, in the 1970s, who removed all suspect data (e.g., pertaining to prisoners and similar respondents), and recalculated significant sets of figures against results given by "100 percent" groups. He found only slight differences between the original and updated figures.
Kinsey in the media
Detail of Time cover, August 24, 1953. Under Kinsey's name, the caption reads "Reflections in the mirror of Venus."
The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it." The first pop culture references to Kinsey appeared not long after the book's publication: "[R]ubber-faced comic Martha Raye [sold] a half-million copies of 'Ooh, Dr. Kinsey!'" Cole Porter's song "Too Darn Hot", from the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, devoted its bridge to an analysis of the Kinsey report and the "average man's favorite sport." In 1949, Mae West, reminiscing on the days when the word "sex" was rarely uttered, said of Kinsey, "That guy merely makes it easy for me. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints…We are both in the same business…Except I saw it first."
The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage: Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953, issue of Time. The national newsmagazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research career and new book, the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle. In the magazine's cover portrait, "Flowers, birds, and a bee surround Kinsey; the mirror-of-Venus female symbol decorates his bow tie." The lead article concludes with the following observation: "'Kinsey…has done for sex what Columbus did for geography,' declared a pair of enthusiasts…forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there…. Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must not be mistaken for the last word."


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On July 15 and 20, 1997, approximately one hundred members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, with the collaboration and acquiescence of State agents, tortured and murdered at least forty-nine civilians, destroyed their bodies, and threw their remains into the Guaviare River in Mapiripán. The Court found that the State violated the victims' rights to life, humane treatment, personal liberty, freedom of movement and residence, and judicial protection under the American Convention on Human Rights.
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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Osun State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of plans to "massively rig" the 2014 governorship election.
The party alleged that the PDP was working with the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to create chaos before and after the election, but the PDP debunked the claim.
In a statement by its Publicity Director, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, ACN alleged that the NLC leadership has been bought over by the PDP. The ACN said: "At a meeting in Osogbo, the state capital, at the weekend, PDP leaders gave graphic details of how to tamper with the voters' list in each polling unit, effect the mass transfer of non-corrupt security personnel outside the state and orchestrate massive ballot box-snatching like they did in 2003, when former Governor Bisi Akande was rigged out of office.
"We also have the privileged information that PDP is planning to set aside huge cash to influence labour unions to go on strike shortly before and until the end of the election process.
"The grand design of this plan anchors on collaboration with criminal elements in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja headquarters, and the exercise of federal power over the police to destabilise the tight security that has been put in place by the state command in conjunction with the state government.
"The PDP leaders at the meeting were said to be unanimous in their belief that with the tight state of security in the state, it would be impossible to create the kind of mayhem the party would need to rig the 2014 election.
"The PDP has put in place mechanism to ensure that Abuja displaces the current security arrangement in Osun state, just before the election, and gets INEC to disorganise the voters' list in each polling station to create maximum confusion and disenfranchise thousands of ACN supporters, whose name would have been transferred from their voting centres.
"A committee has been set up the PDP in each ward to copy the list of names in the register of each polling unit for transmission to Abuja, where a fake register would be compiled.
ACN warned that any attempt to rig the election would be resisted.
In a statement by its Publicity Director, Prince Diran Odeyemi, PDP said: "The allegation is funny. We have not even picked a candidate out of the six aspirants. How can we be planning to rig when we have not had our primary?"


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The preliminary results from the administrators' audit of the flailing Intellect Holdings Group (ASX: IHG) are in. And while so far the news is not good for the POS manufacturer, the administrators are engaged in discussions that could save the company.
The administrators, chartered accountants from Taylor Woodings, say their first act will be to apply to the courts for a two month extension while creditors work on a Deed of Company Arrangement, designed to convert the secured debt into equity.
The administrators said that the company's creditors have claims totalling a combined $36 million, or more.
On the other side of the ledger, sales from the company have been "virtually dormant", the administrators said. Further, the company has only a small amount of cash in the bank, and preliminary enquiries have found no recoverable assets.
But they added that IHG has assets in the form of 100% ownership of Intellect International BV, and a 26% interest in TAFMO Limited.


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Someone once told me, "Nothing matters if you don't have a story." To kick off the panel on Invest in Women, Change the World at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, I asked Melinda French Gates, Jacqueline Novogratz and Diane Von Furstenberg to share their personal stories: "Tell me a story about investing in women and girls and what that means to you, a story that starts with 'I saw, or I heard, or I learned' - a personal story." Watch the video below to see how each of these powerful women are fixing the challenges facing girls and women today.
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And here's what I saw, I heard and I learned from the panel members:
I saw the passion when Melinda French Gates talked about why she is determined to improve access to contraceptives to women in some of the world's poorest countries. While visiting Korogocho, a slum in Africa which literally means "standing shoulder to shoulder," Melinda met a mother who said, "I want every good thing for my child before I have another one." That's when Melinda said, "That's it. That's the universal truth of what we want to be able to have. And yet as a mother you can't give every good thing to your child unless you can plan for those births. And that's something that's just not happening around the world. We can talk about why that is, but it's been off the global health agenda for the last decade. And I think that's really a crime."
I heard Jacqueline Novogratz tell real stories about how hard philanthropy is: "Everybody wants to get clean drinking water to the rural poor. We built lots of wells and the first lesson we learned is 'build it and they do not necessarily come.' In fact, they usually don't when you're bringing something that no one's ever paid for before, like clean drinking water. We had to bring in marketers, which isn't a word that's always comfortable in philanthropy, and find a way to show the women that the water they were drinking from the free government source was full of biological contaminants." After a lot of testing and mistakes, now over 4 million people have clean drinking water. "But it was long, it was messy, and it required funders that were willing to go to the failures part and not just want to hear the good story side of what it takes. And that's leadership."
I learned why freedom is so important to Diane Von Furstenberg when she told a story about how her mother who was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp, taught Diane that fear is not an option: "She was lucky to have survived and therefore for me freedom is the most important thing. I personally found my freedom, my very simple freedom and independence through my work. And now my motivation and my mission is to be able to give as many women as possible the possibility of freedom. I have never met a woman who is not strong. All women are strong."


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Actually, this is a pretty good signing for us. Maybin is a good dude who keeps the clubhouse lite and would be a great mentor for Reyes and Stewart. He can play all over the outfield and doesn't need to be a starter. He will definitely help our OF defense when needed by subbing in for Stewart. An outfield of Reyes (RF), Jones (CF), and Maybin (LF) would be great defensively. I think he's a definite positive.
I would love for him to work with Reyes, Harold Castro, and Willie Castro on the art of stealing bases and Stewart on the art of playing the outfield. I like the signing. I can do without Demeritte on the roster for this guy.


text: Nicki Minaj's Controversial Show Goes On in Angola 6:47 AM PST 12/21/2015 by Billboard Staff FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Anheuser-Busch The Human Rights Foundation protested Minaj's performance in the country which has long been criticized for human rights violations. Nicki Minaj has performed a concert in Angola despite protests from a human rights group. Minaj on Saturday headlined Show Unitel Boas Festas, a so-called "Christmas festival" held in Luanda, the capital of Angola. The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) had earlier asked Minaj to not perform at the event by way of a strongly-worded statement. In a message posted late last week on its website under the headline, "Nicki Minaj Shouldn't Be Performing for Dictators," the HRF wrote: "Jose Eduardo dos Santos has ruled Angola since seizing power in the fall of 1979. A cunning tyrant, dos Santos survived a legacy of colonialism and devastating civil war to consolidate control over the presidency, military, and judicial system, all while crushing independent journalism and civil society," HRF notes in a statement on its website. "He uses rigged elections to fake democratic credentials, and his suppression of dissent is ruthless. As part of a national wave of arrests his regime has put 17 activists on trial for reading books on nonviolent resistance. Earlier this year, his security officers carried out and covered up a massacre of hundreds of civilians." For 36 years, HRF noted, dos Santos has "exploited Angola's vast natural resource wealth to build an enormous business empire, enriching his family and positioning them at the top of the country's key industries." The concert's sponsor Unitel is part-owned by the dos Santos family. Before hitting the stage, Minaj shared a photo of herself with the president's daughter Isabel dos Santos along with the caption: "She's just the 8th richest woman in the world. (At least that's what I was told by someone b4 we took this photo) Lol. Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!!" Oh no big deal...she's just the 8th richest woman in the world. (At least that's what I was told by someone b4 we took this photo) Lol. Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!! S/O to any woman on a paper chase. Get your own!!!! Success is yours for the taking!!!!! #Angola thank u to the women who brought me out here as well. ?? A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on Dec 19, 2015 at 3:26pm PST HRF's earlier note also accused the artist of "ignorance" and of "hostility to criticism" and noted "Minaj's payday is all the more jarring given that she and her managers joined the chorus of the Black Lives Matter movement. It appears that when those black lives happen to be in Angola, their lives matter less than a paycheck from a dictator." Minaj isn't the only artist to be targeted by the HRF. The organization has historically documented performances and visits from the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado, Kanya West and Erykah Badu for "tyrants in Gabon, Turkmenistan, Chechnya, Kazakhstan, and Swaziland in exchange for seven-figure paychecks." This article originally appeared on Billboard.com. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Billboard Staff firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Hope you are enjoying your summer and that the heat is not too much for you. Please be sure to wear your hats and sun glasses when you are outside as well as using sun screen and drinking a lot of water.
I have been asked to think about holding some kind of activity for the ladies while the men are taking part in the Reunion in October of this year. Since it is only a couple of months away I would like to start gathering ideas about what the ladies might like to do. I would like to hear from each of you, to have you share your thoughts and input with me, so I am asking you to join me at the August meeting and bring some ideas.
Someone has suggested going to Santana Row where the ladies could shop, go to the movies, or relax and visit. We could all meet for a lunch together or let everyone take care of their own. What do you think? Do you know if there is going to be a play in our area on October 25th, a dance performance or some special event that we might enjoy?
According to where we go and how many women attend, we may be able to have a bus so we would not have to worry about driving and parking our cars.
Please come in August with ideas and suggestions. Let's make this an event that we will all enjoy!
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Extreme Gullibility a Warning Sign of Dementia
Individuals with neurodegenerative disease — Alzheimer's disease and dementia are good examples — have a difficult time detecting lies and sarcasm, according to a study at the University of California, San Francisco.
The researchers asked a group of older adults (a mix of both healthy adults and those with neurodegenerative disease) to watch videos of conversations, some in which people were telling the truth and others in which they were not.
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the scientists were able to determine which parts of the brain govern a person's ability to identify sarcasm and lies. The images revealed the associations between the deteriorations of particular parts of the brain and the inability to detect insincere speech.
"These patients cannot detect lies," said UCSF neuropsychologist Dr. Katherine Rankin, a member of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and the senior author of the study. "This fact can help them be diagnosed earlier."
The research is part of a larger study at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center examining emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative diseases as a way to better predict, diagnose and prevent these conditions.
"We have to find these people early," said Rankin. Overall, scientists suggest that early diagnosis will provide the best opportunity for intervention when drugs become available.
The ability to tell a lie from the truth resides in the brain's frontal lobe. In diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, the frontal lobe is one of the areas that will continue to degenerate because of a build-up of damaged proteins known as tau and the death of neurons in those areas. People who age normally without neurodegeneration, on the other hand, generally do not suffer a significant decline in their ability to understand sarcasm and deception.
The frontal lobes are strongly associated with complex, higher-order human thinking; thus being unable to detect a lie is only one of several ways the disease may manifest itself. Early symptoms may include any number of differences in behavior, including acting out in socially inappropriate ways or experiencing fundamental shifts in beliefs — changing political views or religions, for example.
Ironically, these symptoms are often overlooked because they are misattributed to depression or a severe midlife crisis.
For the study, the research team recruited 175 volunteers, more than half of whom had some form of neurodegeneration. The participants watched videos of two people talking, one of whom would occasionally tell lies or use sarcasm — a fact that was made obvious through both verbal and non-verbal cues. Then the volunteers were asked yes and no questions regarding the conversations.
Healthy participants could easily tell the difference between sincere and insincere speech. However, those with frontotemporal dementia were less able to discern among lies, sarcasm and fact. Patients with different forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, did a better job.
The scientists used MRI to generate extremely accurate images of the subjects' brains. The images revealed that differences in the volumes of certain brain regions correlated with the inability to detect sarcasm or lying.
According to Rankin, the research should help raise awareness of the fact that severe gullibility can actually be an initial symptom of dementia — something that might help more patients be correctly diagnosed and receive earlier treatment.
"If somebody has strange behavior and they stop understanding things like sarcasm and lies, they should see a specialist who can make sure this is not the start of one of these diseases," said Rankin.
Source: University of California
Pedersen, T. (2018). Extreme Gullibility a Warning Sign of Dementia. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 30, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2011/04/17/severe-gullibility-a-warning-sign-of-dementia/25397.html
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So there goes Fabio Capello, and maybe that's that for our bold experiment with foreign managers. It wasn't such a problem that Fabio is Italian. Indeed, one can look with wonder at the speed with which he became able to deal with the media in English, given his lack of fluency at the outset. He seemed able to blend into the system relatively well, with few arguments about club versus country during his tenure. Maybe there will be enduring benefits from the measured style of play he sought to impose, from the coaching regime he espoused. One would hope there will be some lasting benefit. We were paying him £6m.
But there is something significant about the manner of departure that's worth flagging up as he packs his bags. It's all very well looking abroad for the best talent. Commercial companies – not least the giants of the FTSE 100 – do it all the time. But when the job has a national and social significance, or just a lot of clout, isn't it vital that those recruited have some understanding of, and ideally some sympathy with, the cultural landscape they encounter?
We have reached a state in our social evolution which is rightly the source of some pride. When there is overt racism, or sexism or homophobia, we take it seriously. I spent quite a lot of time at the end of the Stephen Lawrence trial telling radio interviewers that there has been a step change in British attitudes over the 18 years it took to bring Stephen's killers to justice. And my argument was that one of the most obvious manifestations of that change was that when the England football captain stood accused of a single racist comment, the will of the people – as expressed by the judicial authorities – was that he should answer to that in court.
We are a far-from equitable society and as recession bites one sees challenges for cohesion, but our approach to serious allegations of discrimination represents progress many other societies have yet to achieve. Contrast the accounts of black footballers playing in Italy's Serie A with those who, by and large, are able to ply their trade in the Premier League and Football League without serial indignity.
Capello presents as a decent man, but his hissy fit over the Football Association's contention that John Terry – facing trial – should not carry the captain's armband into the European championships, suggests that he had not been able or willing to adapt to the cultural landscape. The FA thought the charges serious enough to preclude Terry leading out the team. The FA knew that the press would regard the issue as important enough to merit repeated questioning. The press would have continued to pose those questions because readers – and it should be said, many black players – would have discerned a mixed message in leaving Terry's status intact. Capello wanted business-as-usual. That showed a profound misunderstanding of his surroundings.
There will be other issues. Of course John Terry is innocent until proven guilty. Indeed he vehemently denies the charge. And Capello will have been outraged by the decision of the FA board to strip Terry of the captaincy without his say-so. But that only becomes a resigning issue if it was a decision he could not live with. The board saw the big picture. Capello, after four years here, appears not to have grasped it. The next manager, be he an Englishman or a foreigner, will need a more sensitively tuned antenna.


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Lindsay Lohan is expected to appear in court next week after missing a hearing, according to The Associated Press.
Her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, said the actress will show up Monday morning.
After missing Thursday's mandatory hearing for a probation progress report, the 23-year-old Lohan was to be arrested upon her return to the United States from France. But the arrest warrant was recalled when bond was posted for her.
Arrest warrant for Lindsay Lohan recalled
Under orders from Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel, Lohan's probation has been revoked and she will be banned from drinking alcohol once she returns. She also must be outfitted with an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and submit to random drug testing.
Holley told the court the actress was absent Thursday because her passport was stolen. Lohan is in Cannes, promoting her film, Inferno. Lohan's probation stems from two arrests in 2007.


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Happy New Year!
Well what a year 2015 has been. We have seen recovery in York go from strength to strength. Check out what we have been getting up to below in our snap-shot of the year! We would love to hear your thoughts on these events so please do feel to comment at the very bottom of the page!
December a�� The Recovery Xmas Party
York in Recovery (YIR) funded a Christmas Party in December. This was a fantastic recovery themed evening full of festive fun and packed with entertainment including a live pianist, solo artists, Oooooozea��s of raffle prizes, recovery themed visuals and Recovery Sings@LIAMS performing an array of both chart hits and traditional Christmas songs. People tucked into some a�?posh nosha�� and filled their boots!
The evening saw people go away with raffle prizes including some fantastic local artwork, a fully paid family meal at a local restaurant and dozens of other fantastic prizes all donated by local businesses and people in or around recovery. The event was so successful we are hoping to hold another this year. Watch this space…………
Did you attend the Xmas Party? Have a good time? Want to share anything. Perhaps you have suggestions for next time? We would love to hear your views.A�Please leave your comments on the section at the bottom of this page
October a�� Recovery Sings@LIAMS in York Minster
Recovery Sings@LIAMS performed in the Chapter House at York Minster and delivered some funk and soul to an audience of over 100 people including representatives from York City Council and Public Health England as well as people in and around recovery. Sharon Stoltz, the Interim Director of Public Health, opened the gig and the support was truly amazing. Songs performed included artists such as Robbie Williams, Nina Simone, Elton John, Madness, The Killers and Paloma Faith. Check out the video clips below. Recovery Sings@LIAMS will be performing again later on this year. Keep checking the York in Recovery website to keep updated with whata��s coming up in 2016!
Watch them in action! Click links to view performances
Madness – Our House
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
The Killers – Human
October a�� Public Health England visit The HUB
A big thank you to Duncan Selbie, the Chief Executive of Public Health England for dropping in to The Hub at St Bedes to discuss addiction recovery with the community in York. Lots of laughter and honest chat about the wonderful journey of recovery.
September – The UK Recovery Walk in Durham
YIR put their walking boots on and strutted their stuff in Durham last September. The walk brings people from all over the country together to promote recovery, raise awareness and show long-term recovery is a reality. Although the weather wasna��t on our side, it only made our smiles broader. What an amazing day. This year the walk will be in Halton near Liverpool on the 10th September 2016. Keep an eye out for updates here: www.facesandvoicesofrecoveryuk.org/the-walks/
July a�� The Dragon Boat Race
The paddles came out for the third year running at the annual Rotary Club Dragon Boat Race! The York in Recovery Team donned their wigs and shades to perfection and paddled up and down the river Ouse like there was no tomorrow. The strength of recovery was enormous and everyone involved gave it their all so a big thank you to all who took part in last yeara��s race. You raised a whopping A?761.33 to support recovery in York.
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We hope to secure a boat for the 2016 race. Check out the York Rotary Dragon Boat Challenge page: www.yorkrotary.co.uk/2016-race/4553896943


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Last summer I put out a list of the best things I ate in the Hamptons over my annual week with Gael Greene. Below is a list that spans the whole of 2015.
Last week I took in the Bridgehampton Inn's $40 prix fixe. It changes every week, just like the regular menu there. So you can't always get the mesmerizing Mushroom Fritters, but Chef Arie Pavlou makes fritters out of some delish ingredient every week. Previous weeks have included oysters, clams and corn. (The Inn will be closing on December 28 for a winter holiday, re-opening February 5.)
The Pizza at Harbor Market in Sag Harbor. I thought the arugula was my all-time fave until I tried the one with the fabulous fried egg on top (trust me—try it!). At a holiday party last week I grabbed a slice that looked like it had cubes of Buffalo chicken on it. It was butternut squash—even better!
Earlier this month I finally made it to Goodfood. in Mattituck, which opened in June. I know the work of its two owners well—empanada queen Luchi Masliah and canning/baking whiz Ali Katz. I fell hard for Katz's Bread Pudding. It's made out of croissants!
The Swiss Chard in my home garden is still green! And delish. Cooked down with just a bit of Art Ludlow's Mecox Bay Dairy jowl bacon, sprinkled with freshly ground pepper and splashed with red wine vinegar, it is what makes winter cookery a decent stand-in for summer salads.
Earlier this month a special dinner entrée, a savory Farro Dish at Wölffer Kitchen in Sag Harbor, blew me away. Every little piece was perfectly cooked and distinctly flavorful. Thanks go to their new chef Brian Cheewing. I'll be back.
Montauk Rum Runners Gin is very bracing in a good way. I had my first snort just last month. It does not taste the least bit of bathtub.
The California Cob Salad (yes, "Cob" is spelled with one "b" on the menu) at Le Chef in Southampton. The restaurant and the salad are reliable old standbys—but the salad's ingredients are FRESH. Juicy chicken chunks, avocado, bacon, bleu cheese, dried cranberries, hard-boiled egg and chopped romaine lettuce in a just-right raspberry vinaigrette.
Fresh Hamptons' Coconut Dahl. It is comfort/health food perfection in Bridgehampton. I get it every time I go there, which is most Mondays—to take in the live, local music scene.
The Black Truffle Mushroom Sauce at Vine Street Café on Shelter Island. It. Is. Crack.
The Red Bean Ice Cream Sandwich at Momi Ramen in East Hampton. Their ramen is great, but this "sandwich" is absolutely irresistible. Frozen just so and covered with two spongy pancakes, it is not too sweet. It is pluperfect.
The Clam Chowder that was labeled "#1" at the annual HarborFest chowder contest in Sag Harbor in September. I still don't know whose chowder it was. A delicious mystery to be solved through extensive "research."
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Try reading our guide for trading EUR/USD
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- High liquidity. The gold market is incredibly large. Not only is it relatively affordable to trade in gold in the currency market, there are large amounts of it available and the market does not have a tendency to fluctuate based on large trades; it's a global market that has quite a bit of stability. You'll be able to trade gold on any commodities forex market and the process of trading gold will be fast and simple for forex traders base currency.
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- Tips and tricks. Anywhere you go in the investor's world, you can get advice and tips about gold. Of course, the problem there becomes stripping out the experienced, valuable knowledge from the inexperienced guess work, but the advantage remains: you can learn quite a lot about gold in a fairly small amount of time. The investment community publishes a wealth of information and gold analysis, there are tips around every corner, and there are services such as trading signals that specialize directly within the gold market. All of this creates a market that has a spectacularly low barrier to entry compared to more obscured commodity trading.
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The support and resistance values of gold may steadily increase with inflation and market pressures, but it generally isn't as volatile. So while you still need to be concerned about your trading — especially when trading on a significant margin — there are ways that you can control your risk with gold that you can't necessarily do with other forms of commodity and trading.
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By far the easiest way to trade gold is to invest in trading signals.
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Learn more about Getting Started with Forex Signals
Whether to buy or sell, what amount to buy or sell at, when to take profit, and when to stop your losses. On the other hand, a trading signal will not tell you what quantity to buy — it cannot tell you how much to invest. In order to determine how much you want to invest, you need to be able to manage your money, your account, and your funds distribution. Keeping a diverse trading account is absolutely essential to developing yourself as a competent trader. In this way, trading signals take a lot of the pressure off of you to perform on a trade-by-trade basis while making it easier for you to learn the essentials of money management.
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- Technical indicators. In a popular market such as with gold, many investors will look at technical indicators: whether the commodity is currently being overbought or oversold. In gold, you have enough historical information to make these determinations with forex brokers that are regulated by the financial services. If the commodity is overbought, investors know that it may soon drop in price. If the commodity is oversold, investors know that it may be a good time to buy.
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If you're thinking about trading gold, the best thing you can do is to take note of our gold trading basics, start doing your research, follow the market, and invest in reliable trading signals.
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Every market is unique, including the gold market. The best thing you can do is start trading in a low risk way and slowly build up your account value as you learn..


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On Thursday September 13th, NSAL is hosting its annual Orientation Night. This important night gives parents an opportunity to meet their child's teachers, see what the curriculum will be for the year and learn about whats new and upcoming for the school year. This year, this evening will feature time to circulate and get to know the teachers, a Head of School address, Principal Information Session and an overview of this years use of technology from out IT department. Following the orientation portion of the evening is this academic year's first School Committee meeting. Come and join us for this informative evening.


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Imagine that you're at the grocery store, and you pause at certain locations from within the aisle and you toss items into your cart. This seems like a normal day at the store, but this is actually a new Virtual Reality Shopper that has been recently launched by System 1 Research.
System 1 Research, the research arm of the London-based marketing firm, System 1 Group, conducts behavioral and other research for brands. Earlier this year, System 1 Research it undertook a pilot project for a number of brands, including Hershey's, to build some grocery aisles that resembled a typical WalMart.
According to System 1 Research Managing Director Gabriel Aleixo, this virtual reality platform was designed to test shopping choices, and is now available for other clients. It was developed on the Unity gaming engine by Los Angeles-based software development shop SciFutures and employs the HTC Vive VR headset.
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Wenger reveals plan for playing Mkhitaryan and Ozil together
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Arsene Wenger insists he is not worried about trying to fit Mesut Ozil and incoming new signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the same Arsenal team. The Armenian's move to north London is expected to be announced imminently, with Mkhitaryan already having completed a medical and agreed terms on a move that sees Alexis Sanchez move to Manchester United in a straight swap the other way. But Arsenal already have a wealth of creative midfield options to choose from, while Mkhitaryan and Ozil both prefer to play in the hole.
Wenger is not worried, however, and believes the two playmakers can operate in the same side along with the rest of Arsenal's creative midfielders and attackers. Asked how he could fit Mkhitaryan and Ozil into the same team, Wenger explained: 'Just play the good players! They can always play together.
'[Against Crystal Palace] what have you on the pitch? They're all attacking players. [Alex] Iwobi, Ozil, [Jack] Wilshere, [Alexandre] Lacazette, [Granit] Xhaka. They're all offensive players, basically.' Mkhitaryan may not be the only January arrival at the Emirates, with Wenger also working on a deal to sign Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, which will create even more selection dilemmas for the Frenchman.
Asked what system he would play to get Aubameyang and Lacazette in the same side, he added: 'We are not as far as that to think about that problem!' Arsenal sent a transfer delegation led by chief executive Ivan Gazidis to Germany on Sunday to negotiate a deal for Aubameyang, though the two clubs are still believed to be some way apart in their valuations.


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FusionReactor Cloud Transport: Transaction Shipping
When licensed with a CLOUD-* key, FusionReactor will connect to FusionReactor Cloud and begin shipping metric data periodically.
Apart from numeric metrics like memory and CPU Usage, FusionReactor will also ship certain transactions to FusionReactor Cloud. These key transactions are visible in the Transactions tab, after selecting a server.
Transaction Shipping
Master (also known as 'parent') transactions are selected for shipping to the cloud based on a set of criteria buckets. There is one set of buckets per application. Only the first 100 distinct applications are tracked per minute, and there's also a global limit of 100 master transactions per minute too.
- Error Transactions – the first 4 transactions to close in error (e.g. web requests resulting in 500-series results) are selected.
- Long – the longest 4 transactions which ran longer than 500ms are selected.
- Slow – the longest 4 transactions which were slower than the threshold set in FusionReactor > Requests > Settings > WebRequest History > Slow Request Threshold are selected.
All of the subtransactions of these masters are also kept and transferred (but see the section on Subtransaction Trimming later).
Effect of Limits
If a transaction is seen which would fall into one of these buckets, but:
- It belongs to the 101st or laster application to be seen that minute, or
- There are already 100 transactions in all buckets across all applications,
… then that transaction will not be sent to the Cloud.
Subtransaction Trimming
Transactions can have a virtually-unlimited quantity of subtransactions. For example: a ColdFusion page (which is tracked as a parent transaction) can perform a CFHTTP call to a REST endpoint. That call will be detected and tracked as a subtransaction on the CF page. This could happen multiple times and they would all be tracked by FusionReactor.
In order to keep the size of shipped data within an acceptable margin, a culling algorithm ensures that at most, 500 subtransactions are shipped to the cloud.
The algorithm looks at culling subtransactions of the long bucket first, then slow, and then error last. We do it in this order so that the error transactions are less likely to be trimmed because they're most important.
If subtransactions were trimmed from the shipped data, this will be indicated in FusionReactor Cloud.
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Pastor Clabon Bogan Jr. poses in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Jericho in Deptford, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. Bogan is celebrating 20 years as the pastor of the church. (Staff Photo by Joe Warner/South Jersey Times)
DEPTFORD — He first heard the call in 1983. Now, Pastor Clabon Bogan is celebrating 20 years at the First Baptist Church of Jericho.
"Every one of us has been called to something," said the Vineland native in his sermon on Sunday. Bogan's message was one of faith — not just in God, but in yourself. With an easy, informal delivery, he told a story about being targeted by opposing players in a high school football game.
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Tammi Lee of Woodbury Heights has been a member of First Baptist for Bogan's entire tenure.
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Bogan, 65, was already in his 30s when he decided to become a minister.
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When Bogan spoke wih the pastor of his church to talk about his revelation, the man told him he had seen it coming. He got ordained shortly after and came to Jericho in 1994. In that time, he's seen the congregation grow from a handful of families to a crowd that extends throughout Gloucester County. A now-defunct radio broadcast and a strong web presence has helped the church reach even further.
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As part of the BBC Civilisation Festival, an ornate Chinese portable shrine will be on display in the museum from 1st March through to 25th April.
The shrine was found floating in Guangzhou harbour in Southern China in the late 18th century. Like Norton Priory's famous medieval statue of St Christopher, these shrines were believed to offer protection to travellers. They were carried in the trading vessels of the sea-faring people of southern China. Sadly, the owner of this example is believed to have foundered in a terrible storm over two hundred years ago.
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The Weinstein Company and Quentin Tarantino have selected Sony Pictures to internationally distribute Django Unchained. While Universal, which handled foreign distribution for Inglourious Basterds, lobbied hard for the film, sources tell Deadline that the movie went to Sony in an effort to sign Will Smith to the lead role. Smith has a long history with the studio dating back to 1997's Men in Black, and as we reported on Friday, Tarantino has offered Smith the role of slave-turned-bounty-hunter Django. The project is being billed as a "Southern", taking the tropes of a Western and transplanting them to the American south as an attempt to look at the region's ugly history of racism and slavery.
The role would certainly be a far cry from Smith's upcoming film, Men in Black III, and a huge risk for the actor, but it would be unlike anything else he's ever done in his career. If Smith signs on, he'll join Christoph Waltz who plays a German bounty hunter that trains Django and assists him in his quest to free his enslaved wife from a plantation owner.


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This felt like a great workshop to do in memory of Steve because it was all about movement, which felt like a celebration of what Steve loved doing with Firebird: dancing and making strong movements on stage.
|Joel working with us in the Clore Studio at Bristol Old Vic with the shoaling exercise
Joêl got us working in lots of different ways: we looked at how we moved together, as a group. This was called shoaling with different people taking the lead and the rest of us following. We walked together, using different movements, small movements to a rhythm, in a sequence, and keeping pace as a group.
Joêl helped us to explore a canon of repeated movements, clapping/rhythms to help us keep to a pace and making journeys together: fast and slow.
We worked on different levels and from chairs as well; we explored positioning on stage and focus.
We all liked working with Joêl and would like to work with him again on our new work. We liked the warm up he gave us and the way he explained things. He included everyone in the workshop, getting us to move one at a time and then altogether.
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There is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to Kanye West's hefty list of music accolades.
It takes about 13 scrolls to get through and highlights the rapper's 112 wins and 374 nominations at a host of award shows -- the Grammys, BET Hip-Hop, BMI Urban, and MTV Video Music awards, to name a few.
But nowhere among "Top Urban Song" and "Best Collaboration" ('Ye actually snagged an MTV Video Music Award for that unpleasant, alien-sex-glorifying collab with Katy Perry on "E.T.") is Kanye's other honor recognized: the WTF Lyric Award.
Yeezy is often praised for compelling lyricism on heralded albums like The College Dropout and Graduation, but the high-art, Kardashian-lovin' couture slinger has dropped some nonsensical lines that are truly harebrained (with plenty off his latest, Yeezus).
West has compared himself to Hitler, and he claims to be the Michael Jordan of music. Come on. He's got to be a little screwy.
Even though we love him, here are the ten most ridiculous Kanye West lyrics:
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10. "We on a galaxy that haters cannot visit/That's my reality so get off my Scott Disick." -- "The One"
I know 'Ye, you wanted to endow Scott with a smidgen of swag, but there's no saving him. As if the world hasn't worshipped the Kardashian tribe enough, we don't need the family's reckless rich boy feeling any more self-important about his schlong. Oh wait, and Disick is the star of the latest Yeezus trailer.
9. "Chasin' love, all the bittersweet hours lost/Eatin' Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce." -- "I'm in It"
This came from the Michael Jordan of music? Kanye West is known to feverishly expose racism in his rhymes, but he clearly fed (pun intended) into this stereotype.
8. "A monster about to come alive again/Soon as I pull up and park the Benz/We get this bitch shaking like Parkinson's." -- "On Sight"
Kanye's proved the size of his balls with this heartless gibe. The rhyme on Yeezus' opening track sparked stern criticism from Steve Ford, chief executive at Parkinson's UK, who said, "Kanye West has shown an inexcusable level of stupidity and cruelty towards people living with an incurable condition." What kind of example are you setting for baby North, 'Ye?
7. "At the mall there was a seance/Just kids, no parents/Then the sky filled with heron/(I saw the devil) in a Chrysler LeBaron/And the hell, it wouldn't spare us/And the fires did declare us/But after that, took pills, kissed an heiress/And moved her back in Paris." -- "Dark Fantasy"
Maybe Kanye is painting a dramatic scene of a youngster exploring his imagination, or maybe, the words just don't rhyme. "Pare-ahnts"? The verse is also classic pseudo-philosophical West, a yarn of adolescence corrupted by the Evil One. And of course, his satanic limerick needed a happy ending -- 1 Night in Paris?
6. "I just talked to Jesus/He said, 'What up Yeezus?'/I said, 'Shit I'm chilling/Trying to stack these millions.'" -- "I Am a God"
There's a 99 percent chance this convo would not go down like this.
Then again, Kanye's walked with Jesus before, and the rapper's new moniker hints at his godly lineage. Hey, that 1 percent is lookin' more plausible. But why would the Savior and Redeemer of the World give a hoot about his cash stack?
"I Am a God" is littered with WTF moments, from Yeezy's parrot talk (the phrase "I am a God" is spewed exhaustedly on repeat) to more trite food cliches ("French-ass restaurant" = "Hurry up with my damn croissants"). But this line really highlights 'Ye's hubris. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle..." Anyone?
5. "Don't try to treat me like I ain't famous/My apologies are you into astrology/'Cause um, I'm tryin' to make it to Uranus." -- Jadakiss' "Gettin' It In"
Almost every Kanye lyric list has ridiculed this gem. We know, the song title and this sestina express his "backdoor" motives. But a quick lesson on the difference between astronomy and astrology would have really helped him score.
4. "Uh, black girl sippin' white wine/Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign." -- "I'm in It"
The grotesque imagery on "I'm in It" deserves a revisit. I understand West's black/white juxtaposition with the clenched hand passion of civil rights activists, but, in the form of fisting someone's vagina?! I don't think the movement's pundits would be too fond of that.
3. "Pockets on shrek, rockets on deck/Tell me what's next? Alien sex/Imma disrobe you/Then Imma probe you." -- Katy Perry's "E.T."
According to Kanye West, Martians adhere to the same human adage of money, cars, and sex. Although the probing bit is creepy (kinky in a LARP kind of way), along with KP's "Fill me with your poison" chant, we'll consider this one of Yeezy's more exploratory endeavors.
2. "How much they hate it, very/Kiss girls like Katy Perry/I am never sprung but I Springer, Jerry." -- Jay-Z's "Hate"
I can't help but think Lil Wayne's vapid punch-line rap was Kanye's inspiration. Cue the unforgettable Weezy cameo on Shawty Lo's "They Know": "I am the shit/They just poop stains."
1. "By the way nigga, you should fuckin' quit, nigga." -- "H.A.M." with Jay-Z
OK, so no attempt to rhyme here. And this diss is kind of stale. Granted, out of context the line reads even more slow-witted, but that's not the point. If you're the His Airness of rap music, don't let Jay outrhyme you (which he effortlessly does on verse two). 'Specially if you're going hard as a mofo.
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This month marks the 25th anniversary of the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the strident anti-communist President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, met with his Soviet counterpart, the Secretary General of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev. Instead of an exchange of invectives, they stunned the world with news that the leaders aimed to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, no agreement to this effect had actually been reached.
The fact that it had been discussed was enough to give many around the world hope that the planet was stepping away from the brink of nuclear Armageddon. We've made progress toward that lofty goal since then with global reductions from about 70,000 nuclear weapons to just over 20,000, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
But the world's nine nuclear weapons holders -- the United States, Russia, China, the U.K., France, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea -- are on track to shell out a combined $100 billion this year on their nuclear arsenals. This enormous expenditure in the face of global economic uncertainty and rising unmet social needs prompted business, government and policy leaders gathered for the Global Zero Summit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to say we can no longer afford the cost of nuclear weapons.
"We (the United States) spend about $55 billion a year on nuclear weapons," said Lawrence Korb, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. "Over the next ten years we'll spend $600 billion," including $85 billion for the national weapons labs that was "essentially a bribe" to Republican Senator John Kyl for his support of START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
According to Korb, a recent Air War College study concluded, "all we need are 311 nuclear weapons for a deterrent" yet the U.S. maintains an arsenal of over 1500 warheads. If we reduced our arsenal to that level, "we could cut what we spend on nuclear weapons by two thirds," said Korb, and we "wouldn't need any new submarines or bombers."
He and others believe substantial cuts can be made without endangering our safety and that this would increase the moral authority of the United States while diminishing the threat of proliferation.
Sir Richard Branson at Global Zero Summit, courtesy Global Zero
Of course, the "nuclear priesthood would not like it," said Korb. But more and more business leaders like Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, see the need to shift our priorities recognizing that we can't have it all or do it all.
"If we retain the focus on Cold War relics our children will grow up without clean energy," said Branson at the Global Zero Summit. "If nations are looking for places to cut spending this is the first place to look."
Branson ticked off a list of other priorities for countries to pursue instead of nuclear weapons including a shift to funding new energy sources, high speed rail, cleaning up coal plants and energy efficiency.
"The public is on our side," he said. "The government needs to reset their priorities." Stressing the urgency of these decisions he pointed out, "there is no planet B."
Jeff Skoll at Global Zero Summit, courtesy Global Zero
The founder of eBay, Jeff Skoll, joined Branson's call to cut our spending on nuclear weapons. "As a businessman and an entrepreneur, I'm appalled that so much is going to waste," said Skoll.
"If the United States were to cut nuclear weapons budget in half we could produce millions of new jobs and produce revenue," that would reduce the deficit he said, "versus creating things that will devastate the world."
We could also, "educate all the girls in Africa," said Skoll and "lift millions out of poverty."
Attendees recognized that zeroing out or even reducing the world's nuclear arsenals needs to be a bipartisan and global effort. "It can't just be an American, Russian or Chinese initiative," said Ambassador Richard Burt, who was the chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and now chairs Global Zero.
The former Pakistan ambassador to the United States, Mahmud Durrani, wasn't convinced talking about cost was the best path to pursue. He pointed out that Pakistan has been able to develop its nuclear arsenal on the cheap and that it's able to maintain it for about, "half a billion dollars," a year. "This would not even be half a percent of $100 billion being spent by the nine nuclear states," said Durrani. If Pakistan's nuclear arms budget "were to be diverted to Pakistan's development budget, it would increase the development budget by a mere 0.2 percent."
Durrani acknowledged that half a billion US dollars is not petty cash but he wanted to show that even a "cash strapped country like Pakistan can afford such an amount if they felt their life depended on it."
He suggested that nuclear abolitionists instead focus on "the horrors of a nuclear blast unleashed even by one modern high yield thermonuclear weapon. We need to focus on the human and material cost of a single nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Or even the destruction caused by one nuclear bomb released by misjudgment or an accident."
Durrani argued that advocates need to make their arguments more personal and less global. "The impact of a nuclear war will be understood when a Pakistan and an Indian farmer understand that a land cultivated by his father, his grandfather and earlier generations cannot be cultivated today by his children and grandchildren; and not for many decades to come," because of lingering radiation said Durrani.
"The cost issue can be only part of our rationale," said Burt. Reducing nuclear weapons needs to be seen as "a strong, realistic and pragmatic component to good policy."
In the end, nuclear weapons are the not the solution to the new and varied problems we face, to terrorism, to failing states," said Burt.
"In fact, nuclear weapons make the problems more acute."
It's going to take more than a room full of policy wonks to get to zero and do the groundwork for a more peaceful planet but as President Eisenhower told Prime Minister Macmillan, "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
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