 dictionary, a nation-state is Modern state in which a government has sovereign power within a defined territorial area, and the mass of the population are citizens. The core debate appears from the “sovereignty” which assumed to be integral part of a nation state. In general discussion, state is the prime actor in global political discussion. State has exclusive control over its territory and domestic affairs. It entitles states to the practice of sovereignty. On this context, hyper globalists claim that today’s states are much different from the previous one. Today’s political structure is borderless in nature, particularly in economic perspective. They argue that economy is the mainstream road to achieve state interest and state has declined its actual border through neoliberal economy.

On the other hand, skeptics say that today’s state relation is as same as previous one. States are inter-related but have supreme authority over its borders and domestic affairs. They also argue that today’s world is not “globalized” but “internationalized”. Their point of view is that economical cumulating is not actually political globalization. There are some other theorists also like complex globalization thesis, new institutional thesis, and ideological thesis etc.

The institutional theory is based on global governance like UN. They believe that global could be better solved by international organization. By the discussion, someone says that the increasing activities of International Organizations are threat for nation-state.

So, before having a conclusion we would like to have some characteristics of today’s world.

The contemporary debate on political globalization and nation-state

The blurriness of domestic and international issues

If you think about to live a country without having treat of climate change while most of the countries have concern about it, it’s quite ridiculous. Even if you look forward to combat terrorism alone it won’t be possible. Such way, the blurriness of domestic and international issues accelerates political globalization. As a result, the need of multilateral forum has increased. For example, UK’s exit from BREXIT has become a matter of concern from many countries for their business and trade.

Depletion of sovereignty by situational complexity

After the experience of devastating World War, the world intensely felt the need of common rules and regulation. Then president of US Woodrow Winlson enacted 14 points which results the birth of international institution. Now, United Nations has passed a long journey with success in some aspects like social development. Global trade and business has increased rapidly in last half of the 20th century. Consequently, international financial organization like WTO and IMF has been emerged. States has become interdependent in such a way that EU has become an important actor in global politics. ASEAN has become a major trade body in global economy. In such circumstance, a single state can’t initiate any policy without considering regional and global perspective. So, it limits the state sovereignty.

Change in political structure

The post cold war US lead world system has seems to be declining. Other major powers have been emerging with responsive flow. Today’s political structure is more multi-polar than ever. The military and strategic alliance are seems to be dynamic more. In last century, many states emerged separating from mother state. Liberal democracy has been taken by states. “Arab Spring” has flowed through MENA region. Myanmar is on the way to democracy after long struggle. Now, states are more concern for international norms and laws.

Increase of regionalism in various patterns

Regional entities are more active in current politics. ASEAN, EU, OPEC and such supra national authorities are more vibrant in today’s politics. For, example EU sends its representative like diplomatic corps in countries. ASEAN stands for its political and economic interest of East Asian countries in global forum.

So, does globalization decline of nation state?

The nation-state can be described by the following attributes- territory, population and a government being able to have jurisdiction over territory and population and finally recognition from other states. A nation-state is therefore a territorial entity in control of several functions over a population being seen as authority from other states. It’s a critical question whether the globalization declining the nation state. As globalization is a reality, state is practicing limited but adequate sovereign authority. Though state is the prime actor in international relation and international politics it can’t escape from global complexity of interdependence. I would like to say that today’s world is under transformation. The increasing stalks of global economy results the spread of MNCs, IO has also become a not-state but important part of global politics. But national interest is top priority for states till now.

read article on One Belt One Road by China

Sharif Mustajib

student, International Relations

University of Chittagong

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<|endoftext|>Why can't I reset my laptop?

So, I tried to reset my laptop but it hanged and I shut it down. After a few days and then weeks the blue screen was the only visible one. Worst of all, when I try to reset it it says there's a problem with it. Please help.

And yes, maybe a virus came with the windows 10 pro code activation.

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== Plot ==
The film chronicles a mystery case set in the beginning era of Southern Song dynasty. It is set four years after Yue Fei's death (around 1146). A mysterious murder occurs at Qin Hui's residence when he meets delegates from the rival Jin Dynasty. A soldier and a commander become entangled in a large conspiracy as one of the Jin envoys perishes and a confidential letter is reported missing. Righteous vigilantes are responsible for the incident and want to kill a suspected traitor.

== Cast ==
Shen Teng as Zhang Da, a recruited soldier without rank
Jackson Yee as Sun Jun, the deputy commander of the guard battalion
Zhang Yi as He Li, the general manager of the grand chancellor bureau
Lei Jiayin as Qin Hui, the grand chancellor
Yue Yunpeng as Wu Yichun, the<|endoftext|>Fact-Checking the "PRT Boondoggle" Blog
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Friday, December 07, 2012

Sense of proportion

"King Kong was only three foot six inches tall."
Peter O'Toole to Steve Railsback
The Stunt Man
1980, 20th Century Fox
Scale. It's always good to put things in their proper scale. Context, if you will.

The history of this blog is replete with examples of us pointing out when Ken Avidor ignores or omits context, all the better to incorrectly portray Personal Rapid Transit technology. I bet he thought he could sneak two non-contextual photos by us in his November 15 post, Suncheon Bay Vectus "PRT" Revealed to NOT be Personal Rapid Transit (Berther, 11/15). We could probably call it a Screen Play -- a Big Lie, 'Suncheon PRT stations aren't offline', running interference for this:

Two pictures in which there is nothing familiar to impart a sense of scale. Sure, thought Ken, I'll just call them 'massive.' It's not like anyone can prove otherwise -- it's all the way over in Korea.

He thought wrong.

An examination of the photo of Station One and Depot in the official Vectus PDF does contain a good clue about scale: workers on the ground.

Let's propose those workers are 5'7."  That would make the station platform only about 28 feet above the ground. And the station roof only about 40 feet above the ground.

For even better sense of scale, behold these recently released photos showing a rather compact Suncheon Station 2:
PRT Consulting

PRT Consulting
As for the 'massive' main guideway to Station Two, it is holding 2 sets of rails, one going in each direction. Therefore that guideway is twice as wide as what's shown above at Station One. Here's a photo of 3 guys standing on single guideway at Suncheon, just imagine it twice as wide.

PRT Consulting
It's official: Vectus lists 'typical' guideway width as 1400mm (4.6 ft. Ref: page 23 here). But the vehicles are 2100mm/6.9 ft wide (p.22), so the little pods are actually wider than the "massive" guideway.

gPRT Massive Liar

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Laffable Luddite again displays ignorance of basic PRT concepts

I think we've pretty well established how Ken Avidor is the Worst Expert In The World when it comes to anything to do with PRT. So his new blog post "Suncheon Bay Vectus "PRT" Revealed to NOT be Personal Rapid Transit" can best be described as maintaining his pattern.

Avidor writes as follows (pay attention to what he has put in bold, they are not in the original):

The Vectus October update (PDF) has a preview of their much-ballyhooed Suncheon Bay project in Korea.
Station Two is currently under construction and due to be completed by the

 developed day by day. States are now morally bounded by international norms and regulations. For sake of state’s own interest, state herself is bound to bilateral and multilateral forums. In such circumstance, heated debate arises surrounding globalization is that does globalization limits state sovereignty? Are states no longer actors in global politics? Where does the “power” lies actually when states are more bounded with each other?

The debate on political globalization and nation-state

It is important to have a simple definition of nation state. Basically the nation state is defined as a country with particular population, recognized territory, de facto government and sovereignty. According to Elmer social science dictionary, a nation-state is Modern state in which a government has sovereign power within a defined territorial area, and the mass of the population are citizens. The core debate appears from the “sovereignty” which assumed to be integral part of a nation state. In general discussion, state is the prime actor in global political discussion. State has exclusive control over its territory and domestic affairs. It entitles states to the practice of sovereignty. On this context, hyper globalists claim that today’s states are much different from the previous one. Today’s political structure is borderless in nature, particularly in economic perspective. They argue that economy is the mainstream road to achieve state interest and state has declined its actual border through neoliberal economy.

On the other hand, skeptics say that today’s state relation is as same as previous one. States are inter-related but have supreme authority over its borders and domestic affairs. They also argue that today’s world is not “globalized” but “internationalized”. Their point of view is that economical cumulating is not actually political globalization. There are some other theorists also like complex globalization thesis, new institutional thesis, and ideological thesis etc.

The institutional theory is based on global governance like UN. They believe that global could be better solved by international organization. By the discussion, someone says that the increasing activities of International Organizations are threat for nation-state.

So, before having a conclusion we would like to have some characteristics of today’s world.

The contemporary debate on political globalization and nation-state

The blurriness of domestic and international issues

If you think about to live a country without having treat of climate change while most of the countries have concern about it, it’s quite ridiculous. Even if you look forward to combat terrorism alone it won’t be possible. Such way, the blurriness of domestic and international issues accelerates political globalization. As a result, the need of multilateral forum has increased. For example, UK’s exit from BREXIT has become a matter of concern from many countries for their business and trade.

Depletion of sovereignty by situational complexity

After the experience of devastating World War, the world intensely felt the need of common rules and regulation. Then president of US Woodrow Winlson enacted 14 points which results the birth of international institution. Now, United Nations has passed a long journey with success in some aspects like social development. Global trade and business has increased rapidly in last half of the 20th century. Consequently, international financial organization like WTO and IMF has been emerged. States has become interdependent in such a way that EU has become an important actor in global politics. ASEAN has become a major trade body in global economy. In such circumstance, a single state can’t initiate any policy without considering regional and global perspective. So, it limits the state sovereignty.

Change in political structure

The post cold war US lead world system has seems to be declining. Other major powers have been emerging with responsive flow. Today’s political structure is more multi-polar than ever. The military and strategic alliance are seems to be dynamic more. In last century, many states emerged separating from mother state. Liberal democracy has been taken by states. “Arab Spring” has flowed through MENA region. Myanmar is on the way to democracy after long struggle. Now, states are more concern for international norms and laws.

Increase of regionalism in various patterns

Regional entities are more active in current politics. ASEAN, EU, OPEC and such supra national authorities are more vibrant in today’s politics. For, example EU sends its representative like diplomatic corps in countries. ASEAN stands for its political and economic interest of East Asian countries in global forum.

So, does globalization decline of nation state?

The nation-state can be described by the following attributes- territory, population and a government being able to have jurisdiction over territory and population and finally recognition from other states. A nation-state is therefore a territorial entity in control of several functions over a population being seen as authority from other states. It’s a critical question whether the globalization declining the nation state. As globalization is a reality, state is practicing limited but adequate sovereign authority. Though state is the prime actor in international relation and international politics it can’t escape from global complexity of interdependence. I would like to say that today’s world is under transformation. The increasing stalks of global economy results the spread of MNCs, IO has also become a not-state but important part of global politics. But national interest is top priority for states till now.

read article on One Belt One Road by China

Sharif Mustajib

student, International Relations

University of Chittagong

Leave a Reply
<|endoftext|>Why can't I reset my laptop?

So, I tried to reset my laptop but it hanged and I shut it down. After a few days and then weeks the blue screen was the only visible one. Worst of all, when I try to reset it it says there's a problem with it. Please help.

And yes, maybe a virus came with the windows 10 pro code activation.

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A project of the PRT NewsCenter

Friday, December 07, 2012

Sense of proportion

"King Kong was only three foot six inches tall."
Peter O'Toole to Steve Railsback
The Stunt Man
1980, 20th Century Fox
Scale. It's always good to put things in their proper scale. Context, if you will.

The history of this blog is replete with examples of us pointing out when Ken Avidor ignores or omits context, all the better to incorrectly portray Personal Rapid Transit technology. I bet he thought he could sneak two non-contextual photos by us in his November 15 post, Suncheon Bay Vectus "PRT" Revealed to NOT be Personal Rapid Transit (Berther, 11/15). We could probably call it a Screen Play -- a Big Lie, 'Suncheon PRT stations aren't offline', running interference for this:

Two pictures in which there is nothing familiar to impart a sense of scale. Sure, thought Ken, I'll just call them 'massive.' It's not like anyone can prove otherwise -- it's all the way over in Korea.

He thought wrong.

An examination of the photo of Station One and Depot in the official Vectus PDF does contain a good clue about scale: workers on the ground.

Let's propose those workers are 5'7."  That would make the station platform only about 28 feet above the ground. And the station roof only about 40 feet above the ground.

For even better sense of scale, behold these recently released photos showing a rather compact Suncheon Station 2:
PRT Consulting

PRT Consulting
As for the 'massive' main guideway to Station Two, it is holding 2 sets of rails, one going in each direction. Therefore that guideway is twice as wide as what's shown above at Station One. Here's a photo of 3 guys standing on single guideway at Suncheon, just imagine it twice as wide.

PRT Consulting
It's official: Vectus lists 'typical' guideway width as 1400mm (4.6 ft. Ref: page 23 here). But the vehicles are 2100mm/6.9 ft wide (p.22), so the little pods are actually wider than the "massive" guideway.

gPRT Massive Liar

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Laffable Luddite again displays ignorance of basic PRT concepts

I think we've pretty well established how Ken Avidor is the Worst Expert In The World when it comes to anything to do with PRT. So his new blog post "Suncheon Bay Vectus "PRT" Revealed to NOT be Personal Rapid Transit" can best be described as maintaining his pattern.

Avidor writes as follows (pay attention to what he has put in bold, they are not in the original):

The Vectus October update (PDF) has a preview of their much-ballyhooed Suncheon Bay project in Korea.
Station Two is currently under construction and due to be completed by the end of December 2012. Both stations will feature in-line berths, platform screen doors and touch screen passenger information/destination selection facilities.
According to the Wikipedia PRT article which is mostly written by fans of PRT,  offline stations are  a defining characteristic of PRT:
In PRT designs, vehicles are sized for individual or small group travel, typically carrying no more than 3 to 6 passengers per vehicle.[1] Guide ways are arranged in a network topology,


body in the United States to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. The bill reads "members of Hawaii's congressional delegation are urged to insist that the Biden Administration call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza."

=== Asia ===
 Afghanistan: Voted in favor of UN resolutions ES-10/21 and ES-10/22, both of which called for an immediate ceasefire.
 Bangladesh: The Foreign Ministry issued a press statement calling for an immediate ceasefire and solving the conflict with dialogue and diplomacy. It condemned the armed conflict, expressed deep concern over the "tragic loss of civilian lives", and urged both sides to "exercise maximum refrainment".
 China: On 20 October, President Xi Jinping met with Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and was quoted as saying "The top priority now is a ceasefire as soon as possible, to avoid the conflict from expanding or even spiraling out of control and causing a serious humanitarian crisis".
 Pakistan: The Foreign Office<|endoftext|> neighbouring country.

24 Q. Let's look at page 3.

25 A. Yes. Delivery of weapons from Hungary.

Page 48912

1 Q. Page 3, third paragraph from the bottom, Loncar says, "We don't

2 want the problem we are discussing to be discussed in the OSCE forums."

3 A. Excuse me, Mr. Milosevic. The third page is missing from my copy.

4 Q. Very well. Then I will read from my copy. Only one passage that

5 I'll quote. At the bottom of page 3 - I hope the others have it - in the

6 last paragraph, end of last paragraph, the state secretary of Hungary

7 says: "The Hungarian government has stated in public that this is

8 regrettable and that the government -- that it has nothing to do with the

9 Hungarian minority in Yugoslavia or its organisations."

10 So they say that this event is regrettable. That's the position

11 of the Hungarian government.

12 In the same tab, further on, there is some information. Would you

13 please just take a look at it. It has to do with involvement of foreign

14 factors in the illegal import of weapons into Yugoslavia in October 1990

15 to January 1991. That's the time period.

16 A. Yes, Mr. President.

17 Q. At the bottom of page 1, under A, from Hungary.

18 A. Yes, here it is again.

19 Q. You have it?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Does it mention 20.000 automatic rifles, 7.62, and so on and so

22 forth?

23 A. It says that the transport was carried out --

24 Q. It doesn't matter which company transported the goods.

25 A. Well, it's important because the company's a Croatian one.

Page 48913

1 Q. Well, that's understood. There's no need to prove it. And then

2 it goes on to talk about this from Hungary, and then further on it says

3 everything from Hungary, the 18th, the 16th, the 7th of December, when

4 seven persons were arrested at the civilian airport in Budapest on the 7th

5 of December 1991, and then it goes on to talk about the 19th of December

6 1991 when a large quantity of projectiles were transported from Hungary to

7 Croatia. Then there is mention of weapons from Germany, from Austria, and

8 other countries.

9 So is this large-scale illegal import of weapons into Croatia?

10 A. The government of the Republic of Srpska Krajina had this

11 information in 1992 and 1993 for as long as the Krajina lasted, and here

12 one can see that what I said when answering one of your previous

13 questions, the intention towards Yugoslavia and the Serbs extended beyond

14 the borders of Croatia. It was no accident that criminals from so many

15 different countries could bring weapons into Croatia without the knowledge

16 of their state organs.

17 As we can see in this conversation between two ministers, one from

18 Yugoslavia and the other one from Hungary, this has been confirmed. This

19 document also mentions Austria and Germany. They wanted to break up

20 Yugoslavia, and that was at the root of all the misfortunes that occurred

21 later.

22 Q. Yes. We can see that this happened in 1990 and 1991.

23 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson, this has to do with

24 that question of yours, because you keep the asking about the indictment.

25 In the indictment, where individual criminal responsibility is mentioned,

Page 48914

1 it follows that what happened was a consequence of a policy or a plan of

2 mine, my behaviour, the behaviour of Serbia and so on, but it's evident

3 from everything there is that it was a consequence of the policy of armed

4 secession and the self-organisation of the Serbian people in Croatia for

5 purposes of self-defence.

6 The fact that individual crimes happened in all this, nobody

7 denies that, although I can't confirm it either because I don't know

8 everything that happened, but the cause and effect links are evident.

9 There was no joint criminal enterprise on the Serbian side. On the

10 contrary. This wave which began even before 1990 with expulsions and

11 murders of Serbs and all the other cruelty they suffered throughout this

12 period, and it culminated in armed secession and the consequences of armed

13 secession.

14 JUDGE ROBINSON: Thank you, Mr. Milosevic.

15 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

16 Q. All right. I'm sorry, Mr. Jarcevic, I omitted to go through a few

17 tabs before this tab number 5. So just for the sake of the documents

18 themselves, I would like to put a very technical question to you in order

19 to be able to tender the documents that we've gone through already.

20 Please, in tab 1 -- it's pretty late. Let's go through this as

21 fast as we can. What is in tab 1? Take a look at this. What is this?

22 On page 25 of this document there is a circle that is Wednesday, the 3rd

23 of March. It says: "[In English] The radioactive waste management in the

24 area of Croatia affected by war - Damir Subasic, Antun Stare, Marjan

25 Gunaric," et cetera. [Interpretation] And so on. In parenthesis,

Page 48915

1 "Croatia." What does this document say? And later on, you have

2 documents and all the rest.

3 A. Mr. President, this is an international conference on mixed waste

4 and environment restoration held in Tucson, Arizona. However, something

5 that precedes this document is far more important, and I hope that the

6 Trial Chamber will not mind if I say a few words about this.

7 Much earlier in Pecs in Hungary, yet another international

8 conference was held about radioactive waste as well. In 1991, the

9 Croatian delegation there presented a report stating that certain areas in

10 Croatia will be used for storing radioactive waste and chemical poison.

11 The maps that show where this storage will be overlap with the Serb

12 settlements there that were fully cleansed ethnically in 1991 and the

13 villages were razed to the ground, including the infrastructure.

14 Q. All right, Mr. Jarcevic. In order to use time as efficiently as

15 possible, are these documents that show that radioactive material, as

16 envisaged by the Croatian authorities, should be stored in areas where

17 Serbs lived?

18 A. Yes. And also, may I remind you of the fact that in 1991 the

19 Serbs were totally expelled from that area, Western Slavonia.

20 Q. All right. Thank you.

21 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson, could this tab number

22 1 be admitted into evidence?

23 JUDGE BONOMY: Sorry, what's not clear to me at the moment is what

24 this tab actually is. Does it relate to the Tucson conference or does it

25 relate to the Hungary conference?

Page 48916

1 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] May I answer?

3 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes. These are two conferences

4 independent from one another. One was in Hungary, one was in the United

5 States, geographically speaking.

6 JUDGE BONOMY: Does the document relate to both of them?

7 THE INTERPRETER: Could the witness please repeat what he said.

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] The document has to do with the

9 first conference in Hungary, with maps as to where radioactive waste is to

10 be deposited. We only have the programme of the conference from

 neighbouring country.

24 Q. Let's look at page 3.

25 A. Yes. Delivery of weapons from Hungary.

Page 48912

1 Q. Page 3, third paragraph from the bottom, Loncar says, "We don't

2 want the problem we are discussing to be discussed in the OSCE forums."

3 A. Excuse me, Mr. Milosevic. The third page is missing from my copy.

4 Q. Very well. Then I will read from my copy. Only one passage that

5 I'll quote. At the bottom of page 3 - I hope the others have it - in the

6 last paragraph, end of last paragraph, the state secretary of Hungary

7 says: "The Hungarian government has stated in public that this is

8 regrettable and that the government -- that it has nothing to do with the

9 Hungarian minority in Yugoslavia or its organisations."

10 So they say that this event is regrettable. That's the position

11 of the Hungarian government.

12 In the same tab, further on, there is some information. Would you

13 please just take a look at it. It has to do with involvement of foreign

14 factors in the illegal import of weapons into Yugoslavia in October 1990

15 to January 1991. That's the time period.

16 A. Yes, Mr. President.

17 Q. At the bottom of page 1, under A, from Hungary.

18 A. Yes, here it is again.

19 Q. You have it?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Does it mention 20.000 automatic rifles, 7.62, and so on and so

22 forth?

23 A. It says that the transport was carried out --

24 Q. It doesn't matter which company transported the goods.

25 A. Well, it's important because the company's a Croatian one.

Page 48913

1 Q. Well, that's understood. There's no need to prove it. And then

2 it goes on to talk about this from Hungary, and then further on it says

3 everything from Hungary, the 18th, the 16th, the 7th of December, when

4 seven persons were arrested at the civilian airport in Budapest on the 7th

5 of December 1991, and then it goes on to talk about the 19th of December

6 1991 when a large quantity of projectiles were transported from Hungary to

7 Croatia. Then there is mention of weapons from Germany, from Austria, and

8 other countries.

9 So is this large-scale illegal import of weapons into Croatia?

10 A. The government of the Republic of Srpska Krajina had this

11 information in 1992 and 1993 for as long as the Krajina lasted, and here

12 one can see that what I said when answering one of your previous

13 questions, the intention towards Yugoslavia and the Serbs extended beyond

14 the borders of Croatia. It was no accident that criminals from so many

15 different countries could bring weapons into Croatia without the knowledge

16 of their state organs.

17 As we can see in this conversation between two ministers, one from

18 Yugoslavia and the other one from Hungary, this has been confirmed. This

19 document also mentions Austria and Germany. They wanted to break up

20 Yugoslavia, and that was at the root of all the misfortunes that occurred

21 later.

22 Q. Yes. We can see that this happened in 1990 and 1991.

23 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson, this has to do with

24 that question of yours, because you keep the asking about the indictment.

25 In the indictment, where individual criminal responsibility is mentioned,

Page 48914

1 it follows that what happened was a consequence of a policy or a plan of

2 mine, my behaviour, the behaviour of Serbia and so on, but it's evident

3 from everything there is that it was a consequence of the policy of armed

4 secession and the self-organisation of the Serbian people in Croatia for

5 purposes of self-defence.

6 The fact that individual crimes happened in all this, nobody

7 denies that, although I can't confirm it either because I don't know

8 everything that happened, but the cause and effect links are evident.

9 There was no joint criminal enterprise on the Serbian side. On the

10 contrary. This wave which began even before 1990 with expulsions and

11 murders of Serbs and all the other cruelty they suffered throughout this

12 period, and it culminated in armed secession and the consequences of armed

13 secession.

14 JUDGE ROBINSON: Thank you, Mr. Milosevic.

15 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

16 Q. All right. I'm sorry, Mr. Jarcevic, I omitted to go through a few

17 tabs before this tab number 5. So just for the sake of the documents

18 themselves, I would like to put a very technical question to you in order

19 to be able to tender the documents that we've gone through already.

20 Please, in tab 1 -- it's pretty late. Let's go through this as

21 fast as we can. What is in tab 1? Take a look at this. What is this?

22 On page 25 of this document there is a circle that is Wednesday, the 3rd

23 of March. It says: "[In English] The radioactive waste management in the

24 area of Croatia affected by war - Damir Subasic, Antun Stare, Marjan

25 Gunaric," et cetera. [Interpretation] And so on. In parenthesis,

Page 48915

1 "Croatia." What does this document say? And later on, you have

2 documents and all the rest.

3 A. Mr. President, this is an international conference on mixed waste

4 and environment restoration held in Tucson, Arizona. However, something

5 that precedes this document is far more important, and I hope that the

6 Trial Chamber will not mind if I say a few words about this.

7 Much earlier in Pecs in Hungary, yet another international

8 conference was held about radioactive waste as well. In 1991, the

9 Croatian delegation there presented a report stating that certain areas in

10 Croatia will be used for storing radioactive waste and chemical poison.

11 The maps that show where this storage will be overlap with the Serb

12 settlements there that were fully cleansed ethnically in 1991 and the

13 villages were razed to the ground, including the infrastructure.

14 Q. All right, Mr. Jarcevic. In order to use time as efficiently as

15 possible, are these documents that show that radioactive material, as

16 envisaged by the Croatian authorities, should be stored in areas where

17 Serbs lived?

18 A. Yes. And also, may I remind you of the fact that in 1991 the

19 Serbs were totally expelled from that area, Western Slavonia.

20 Q. All right. Thank you.

21 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson, could this tab number

22 1 be admitted into evidence?

23 JUDGE BONOMY: Sorry, what's not clear to me at the moment is what

24 this tab actually is. Does it relate to the Tucson conference or does it

25 relate to the Hungary conference?

Page 48916

1 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] May I answer?

3 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes. These are two conferences

4 independent from one another. One was in Hungary, one was in the United

5 States, geographically speaking.

6 JUDGE BONOMY: Does the document relate to both of them?

7 THE INTERPRETER: Could the witness please repeat what he said.

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] The document has to do with the

9 first conference in Hungary, with maps as to where radioactive waste is to

10 be deposited. We only have the programme of the conference from the

11 United States of America, and it says --

12 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

13 Q. So the first page is the programme of the conference in the US?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. And then, under number 7, we see the radioactive waste management

16 in the area of Croatia affected by --

17 A. Yes. That was the only topic, Mr. President.

18 Q. All right. We see that. And the second document has to do with

19 the conference in Hungary.

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. And this map that shows the sites coincides with the map of the

22 area from where Serbs were expelled.

23 A. Exactly. Precisely. Can I say what document is missing here, and

24 if you're prepared to hear me out, I'll tell you what this has


ultze's interview with Obama last week... his crap about su[pporting this latest FISA giveaway, that it's OK because there's an "Exclusivity clause" in it...? Obama's full of shit.

It's CRAP!

With minor exceptions, FISA authorizes electronic surveillance only upon certain specified showings, and only if approved by a court. The statute specifically allows for warrantless wartime domestic electronic surveillance—but only for the first fifteen days of a war. 50 U.S.C. § 1811. It makes criminal any electronic surveillance not authorized by statute, id. § 1809; and it expressly establishes FISA and specified provisions of the federal criminal code (which govern wiretaps for criminal investigation) as the "exclusive means by which electronic surveillance...may be conducted," 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(f) (emphasis added).[2]

Read more here:

On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress

Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Independence Day

Possibly our last as a free people

I've sat here now for about 15 minutes as the weight and meaning of that phrase sink in. Everything I had planned to type went, "Poof."

Seriously, if next week's vote on the new Freedom Is Superfluous Act goes as it did in the house, we as a nation are truly fucked. Which makes me wonder a few things:

Will this be the day that Dubya wipes his ass with the genuine article, rather than a mere facsimile of the Constitution? Or will he wait for the day of the vote?

What will he claim as his new national holiday? The day of the above mentioned vote? 9-11?

So much for a nice happy cheery post on boozing and grilling and timing orgasms with the fireworks' grand finale.

Damn Refuckyoucans and "Centrist-Nazis... Harsh my fucking buzz.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

What Am I Missing Here?

Or am I missing anything?

I hear these fucking tools like Joe Scarborough, and even Dan Abrams talk about "Obama moving to the center," on issues like FISA. Goes along with the "B side" of their record that says he's "standing up to the left."

Since when is the 4th Amendment, which protects us, our persons, papers, effects (or is it affects?)... from illegal, unwarranted searches and seizures. Very explicitly, might I add. Since when is this some "leftist" idea? And the Constitution. Another collection of Leftist whimsical notions and masturbatory fantasies?

Did the founding fathers and the documents they wrote and defended with their lives and livelihoods become the inspiration for Marx and Hegel and Lenin and Trotsky and..?

Were Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin centrists?

How the fuck has normalcy been stood on its head?

How the fuck has Bush's version of Naziism become centrist? ya know I had to wonder back on Father's Day, when I got a card and a hug from the grandmonster, just what kind of times Dubya had as he sat on his Grampy Prescott's knee? How he mourned the failure of his attempted coup... how he wished and wondered what could have been if only we were the Nazi nation he so desired us to be... "George... you must succeed, where I have failed."

I watch Barack and listen to all this shit and I have to wonder:

Barack... Did you sit on Prescott's other knee?

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Fart 3 Times in the Toilet/Diaper if You Want Me...

Sweet Jesus I love the General. Tell me these are not fucking priceless.

Show that brilliant man some love.

I hope he forgives me for copying. If he even knows I exist.

Loophole, Schmoophole

OK, so by now I'm sure everyone has either caught Keith O's special comment live, on You tube or on Crooks&Liars. I caught it last night, and I have to say, I was NOT impressed. Lots of nice ideas on how Barack could cover his ass and not look like the traitor to the Constitution he will be should he continue in his lack of opposition to legalizing Bush's warrant less wiretapping.

It just don't fly in my sky.

For all of KO's quoting of and referring to John Dean, and the FACT that there IS a loophole, does anyone with a brain in their head and the memory capacity of a three year old, not remember the "lost" emails? The destroyed hard drives? The White House visitor logs that have been declared state secrets or some such nonsense? ??? Does anyone reallllllly think that these goons and thugs, these criminals and traitors are going to leave the evidence around that will convict them?

Keith... are you shittin' me? You think I'm that stupid? Fuck no.

Every fucking public record, or record that should be public, from Dubya's past is SEALED. If they even exist.

Thing is, this should all be immaterial. Barack should be opposing this version of FISA, simply because it's the right fucking thing to do.

Good Bye to Pottersville?

Anybody know where Jurrasic Pork went?<|endoftext|>in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia.
15 June — Al-Shabaab bombs a pickup truck carrying Major General Mohamed Dheere, commander of the 8th battalion of Sector 60 in Southwest State using IEDs in Ideeda, killing Dheere, a lieutenant, and other soldiers.
23 June — At least two children die from drowning, 11 houses collapse, and roads are washed out following heavy rain and flash floods in Mogadishu that affect 325 families.
28 June — Mohamed Osman Jawari, former two-time Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, dies in Mogadishu at the age of 79.
30 June — Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a suicide car bombing targeting a Somali military camp near central Beledweyne that kills four people.

=== July ===
8 July — Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a roadside bomb attack in El-Werigow village, approximately 70 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu. The attack results in the death of a Ugandan military officer and injures six other soldiers.
13 July —<|endoftext|>September 28, 2011

Homebrew & Health/Calorie Conscious Diets

I'm always amazed when I read homebrewers talk about how much they brew and how quickly they drink through it. Some people seem to drink beer at lightning speed and some people seem to have quite a few visitors that help eliminate their beer. When I hear how much people are drinking I am at first envious (because I like drinking beer) but then glad I don't because there's no way I could drink that much without getting enormously fat. I don't do manual labor so I sit most of the day, I don't have a particularly fast metabolism, and I eat poorly when I drink too much. I seem to believe most people who drink a lot are also overweight but it doesn't seem like that is always the case.

It often comes up on the boards that some homebrewers are trying to cut weight and beer is a big struggle. Yes, beer is a big problem when you are trying to cut your caloric intake for several reasons. First, alcohol is not processed into useful nutrients so it is "empty calories". Second, alcohol is a depressant that slows your metabolism and makes you more likely to want to eat and eat poorly. Third, beer is full of sugars that the body doesn't need but will readily store. Forth, most people drink at night when the body is least likely to need the calories so it is more likely to convert them to fat. Homebrew and craft beer tend to exacerbate the problem because we tend to consume beer that is in higher alcohol content (therefore more calories) than the typical mass produced lager.

One thing that helps is limiting your intake. I guess this is the obvious answer. The less you drink, the fewer the excess calories. Personally I only drink on three nights of the week (Friday-Sunday) and I try to limit Friday and Saturday to no more than three drinks and no more than two on Sunday (one if I can help it). Roughly once a month I attend pint night at a bar on a Tuesday because we get to drink beer and take home the glasses (and it is very reasonably priced).

Another thing that helps is to become proficient at brewing (and drinking) lower ABV beers. I know, those imperial beers are calling out to you. There are many sessionable beers with great flavor and I think the immediate future of craft brewing will be making lower ABV beers that are very flavorable but still easy to drink that will expand the options greatly.

Obviously working out and eating healthy will go a long way towards cutting weight. Avoiding eating late at night, especially while drinking, can have a very big impact. Including sufficient exercise and eating healthy are critical factors that usually require major lifestyle changes beyond just beer consumption. However they can be done if you are willing to commit the work to make the changes.

I'd love to hear other people share their tips on balancing a love of beer with a healthy lifestyle.

 and JFK.

So spying within the American government on itself is nothing new. Hell, I'll bet even Jimmy Carter wanted to know who had lust in their hearts, but to what end? WHY all the spying?

Knowledge is power, and while we KNOW Dubya has no love of knowledge, we also know that he is obsessed with power. He needs it even more than his booze and his coke. Having things done his way is... There is no other way, so...

We look at spying from an historical point of view, and we look at the Democrats rolling over time and again, and especially as they have since November '06; we look at how no one from Dubya's inner circle has appeared before Congress and we even look at how David Vitter and Larry Craig still DO sit there, and we, or at least I, have to wonder, like Thom did today:

What do those White House mother fuckers have on Pelosi? Hoyer? Reid? Obama? ???

Oh... If you heard Ed Schultze's interview with Obama last week... his crap about su[pporting this latest FISA giveaway, that it's OK because there's an "Exclusivity clause" in it...? Obama's full of shit.

It's CRAP!

With minor exceptions, FISA authorizes electronic surveillance only upon certain specified showings, and only if approved by a court. The statute specifically allows for warrantless wartime domestic electronic surveillance—but only for the first fifteen days of a war. 50 U.S.C. § 1811. It makes criminal any electronic surveillance not authorized by statute, id. § 1809; and it expressly establishes FISA and specified provisions of the federal criminal code (which govern wiretaps for criminal investigation) as the "exclusive means by which electronic surveillance...may be conducted," 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(f) (emphasis added).[2]

Read more here:

On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress

Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Independence Day

Possibly our last as a free people

I've sat here now for about 15 minutes as the weight and meaning of that phrase sink in. Everything I had planned to type went, "Poof."

Seriously, if next week's vote on the new Freedom Is Superfluous Act goes as it did in the house, we as a nation are truly fucked. Which makes me wonder a few things:

Will this be the day that Dubya wipes his ass with the genuine article, rather than a mere facsimile of the Constitution? Or will he wait for the day of the vote?

What will he claim as his new national holiday? The day of the above mentioned vote? 9-11?

So much for a nice happy cheery post on boozing and grilling and timing orgasms with the fireworks' grand finale.

Damn Refuckyoucans and "Centrist-Nazis... Harsh my fucking buzz.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

What Am I Missing Here?

Or am I missing anything?

I hear these fucking tools like Joe Scarborough, and even Dan Abrams talk about "Obama moving to the center," on issues like FISA. Goes along with the "B side" of their record that says he's "standing up to the left."

Since when is the 4th Amendment, which protects us, our persons, papers, effects (or is it affects?)... from illegal, unwarranted searches and seizures. Very explicitly, might I add. Since when is this some "leftist" idea? And the Constitution. Another collection of Leftist whimsical notions and masturbatory fantasies?

Did the founding fathers and the documents they wrote and defended with their lives and livelihoods become the inspiration for Marx and Hegel and Lenin and Trotsky and..?

Were Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin centrists?

How the fuck has normalcy been stood on its head?

How the fuck has Bush's version of Naziism become centrist? ya know I had to wonder back on Father's Day, when I got a card and a hug from the grandmonster, just what kind of times Dubya had as he sat on his Grampy Prescott's knee? How he mourned the failure of his attempted coup... how he wished and wondered what could have been if only we were the Nazi nation he so desired us to be... "George... you must succeed, where I have failed."

I watch Barack and listen to all this shit and I have to wonder:

Barack... Did you sit on Prescott's other knee?

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Fart 3 Times in the Toilet/Diaper if You Want Me...

Sweet Jesus I love the General. Tell me these are not fucking priceless.

Show that brilliant man some love.

I hope he forgives me for copying. If he even knows I exist.

Loophole, Schmoophole

OK, so by now I'm sure everyone has either caught Keith O's special comment live, on You tube or on Crooks&Liars. I caught it last night, and I have to say, I was NOT impressed. Lots of nice ideas on how Barack could cover his ass and not look like the traitor to the Constitution he will be should he continue in his lack of opposition to legalizing Bush's warrant less wiretapping.

It just don't fly in my sky.

For all of KO's quoting of and referring to John Dean, and the FACT that there IS a loophole, does anyone with a brain in their head and the memory capacity of a three year old, not remember the "lost" emails? The destroyed hard drives? The White House visitor logs that have been declared state secrets or some such nonsense? ??? Does anyone reallllllly think that these goons and thugs, these criminals and traitors are going to leave the evidence around that will convict them?

Keith... are you shittin' me? You think I'm that stupid? Fuck no.

Every fucking public record, or record that should be public, from Dubya's past is SEALED. If they even exist.

Thing is, this should all be immaterial. Barack should be opposing this version of FISA, simply because it's the right fucking thing to do.

Good Bye to Pottersville?

Anybody know where Jurrasic Pork went?<|endoftext|>September 28, 2011

Homebrew & Health/Calorie Conscious Diets

I'm always amazed when I read homebrewers talk about how much they brew and how quickly they drink through it. Some people seem to drink beer at lightning speed and some people seem to have quite a few visitors that help eliminate their beer. When I hear how much people are drinking I am at first envious (because I like drinking beer) but then glad I don't because there's no way I could drink that much without getting enormously fat. I don't do manual labor so I sit most of the day, I don't have a particularly fast metabolism, and I eat poorly when I drink too much. I seem to believe most people who drink a lot are also overweight but it doesn't seem like that is always the case.

It often comes up on the boards that some homebrewers are trying to cut weight and beer is a big struggle. Yes, beer is a big problem when you are trying to cut your caloric intake for several reasons. First, alcohol is not processed into useful nutrients so it is "empty calories". Second, alcohol is a depressant that slows your metabolism and makes you more likely to want to eat and eat poorly. Third, beer is full of sugars that the body doesn't need but will readily store. Forth, most people drink at night when the body is least likely to need the calories so it is more likely to convert them to fat. Homebrew and craft beer tend to exacerbate the problem because we tend to consume beer that is in higher alcohol content (therefore more calories) than the typical mass produced lager.

One thing that helps is limiting your intake. I guess this is the obvious answer. The less you drink, the fewer the excess calories. Personally I only drink on three nights of the week (Friday-Sunday) and I try to limit Friday and Saturday to no more than three drinks and no more than two on Sunday (one if I can help it). Roughly once a month I attend pint night at a bar on a Tuesday because we get to drink beer and take home the glasses (and it is very reasonably priced).

Another thing that helps is to become proficient at brewing (and drinking) lower ABV beers. I know, those imperial beers are calling out to you. There are many sessionable beers with great flavor and I think the immediate future of craft brewing will be making lower ABV beers that are very flavorable but still easy to drink that will expand the options greatly.

Obviously working out and eating healthy will go a long way towards cutting weight. Avoiding eating late at night, especially while drinking, can have a very big impact. Including sufficient exercise and eating healthy are critical factors that usually require major lifestyle changes beyond just beer consumption. However they can be done if you are willing to commit the work to make the changes.

I'd love to hear other people share their tips on balancing a love of beer with a healthy lifestyle.

September 26, 2011

Blended Brett Brown -- attempted oud bruin with no sourness


 symbol.

David Seiler
Thanks. That's unfortunate, but I suppose yes I'll write my own. I really like scheme for being so pure and having such beautiful functional goodness, but I've sort of resigned myself to learning the tangled, yet expressive common lisp. It's sort of like learning english rather than esperanto, you know?
+8  A:

Common Lisp has (loop ... collect ...). Compare

(loop for x from 1 to 10 collect (* x x))

with its equivalence using unfold:

(unfold (lambda (x) (> x 10))
  (lambda (x) (* x x))
  (lambda (x) (+ x 1))

In general, (unfold p f g seed) is basically

(loop for x = seed then (g x) until (p x) collect (f x))

Edit: fix typo

Hmm that's interesting. I've been playing around with loop for the past hour :P its great stuff! I love when programming languages have these little sort of embedded sublanguages which have their own syntax and set of rules to understand, like format strings. Loop is powerful stuff!
Welcome to the darkside.<|endoftext|>Komšić said Bosnia would support Ukraine. Croat and Bosniak members of the tripartite presidency, Željko Komšić and Šefik Džaferović, issued separate statements condemning the Russian invasion. The Serb member Milorad Dodik did not, instead stating that Bosnia and Herzegovina was neutral. He'd said the previous day that events showed it was good that Bosnia and Herzegovina had not joined NATO, and that the country would not support sanctions. Foreign Minister Bisera Turković said: "Bosnia and Herzegovina remains firmly committed to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and we call for an immediate end to fighting and shelling! OSCE principles, security and international law are under attack today. Hostility and suffering of innocent civilians must end immediately". Turković called on Russia and Belarus to refrain from using force in the interests of peace, and regional and global stability.
Dodik repeatedly visited Russia, including attending Eastern Economic Summit.<|endoftext|>free web
Just to Spite the Recession by Kawika Guillermo | Word Riot
Flash Fiction

October 22, 2016

Just to Spite the Recession by Kawika Guillermo

In Kerala an elderly Sikh invites you and Sophea into his small apartment to watch WWF wrestling. He feeds you Tandoori chicken, egg curry and scrambled eggs and tomatoes. He doesn’t speak a word of English, but you drink whisky and speak in your mother tongues as if you understand each other. Your hand goes around Sophea as you watch Triple H take down Mysterio. During the commercials, you watch the stock market meltdown.
“How is that possible?” Sophea asks, as if you know.
For some reason, you are overjoyed. Where will you be when it all falls apart? Apparently, India.
Panic has gripped Bangalore, aka ITocracy, aka calltopia, which houses one out of every three office buildings in India. Perhaps that’s why it’s the center for obesity and diabetes. At 3am, when the American workday ends, Bangalorians drink off the global crisis in jam-packed pubs, chaotic night markets, and large strip malls with rooms full of belly dancers. Here, in the IT revolution city, the economic plunge has hit hardest. Anxious young Indians in collared shirts jabber on headset headphones in a desperate, panicky English. The city is a surreal desert of nascent buildings still undergoing construction, and the only movement comes from migrant workers living in tent cities on every roadside. American multinationals aggregate in industrial parks; their incomplete buildings cast foreboding shadows that stretch from the rocky hills of HITECH City to Hyderabad.
The news of the stock market crash disappears in the sixteen-hour train ride, sleeper class, where you and Sophea lay on the upper berth of a crowded cabin, holding each other beneath a rusted fan. You easily grasp onto passing soft drinks, unappetizing samosas, or the coarse hair of children with sticky fingers. Outside the train, the sunset straddles the horizon of rice fields and electrical towers that look like steel angels in the dark. She sweats through sleep.
Expats flee Delhi to protect their assets, leaving you and Sophea to chase the red-tape fairy around the train station from one ticket counter to another. You fill out forms, get tickets stamped, all while carrying luggage on your backs. You new colonials suffer through the old colonials’ leftovers, foremost among them, the bureaucratic obsession with identifying you, sorting you out, helping you decide where you belong. But you and Sophea fit no stamp, you’ve both been gone too long, rejected America, Asia, love, and happiness. Boats without anchors, but in the end tethered together.
After hours of confusion at the train station you discover that there is no train left for Jaipur. Why go to Jaipur? A British man asks. Why travel when the world is melting?
We are poor, you answer. Too poor to care about an economic crisis. At home, nothing would change for us. We would still be eating ramen noodles and McDonalds. This crisis is just about you becoming like us.
Just to spite the recession, you buy first class.
In Chandigarh two high school boys chat with you in line for a Bollywood film: She your girlfriend? You kiss her? You fuck her? How many girls you do this with? Very common in America? They are obsessed with foreign women. Very naughty, very sexy they say. You ask them about Indian women. Very naughty, very sexy, they say. The first boy tells you he has proudly slept with seven to eight Indian girls, all of them his friends and prostitutes. The second boy has a meeker sex life, at two to three women.
The crisis grows more distant when you reach Amritsar, where Sikh pilgrims lie scattered on the white marble of the Golden Temple. Sophea invites a young Indian from Canada to share a Thali, and you can’t help scooting into his space. Moments later she sits him between you both on the bed of your hotel room. She places your hand on his thin jeans, letting you trace his thigh. He is the first to kiss you. You kiss back, until you are all drunk on wine, listening to the allahu akbar chant from a nearby mosque. Amritsar becomes your sacred space, a place where people must have touch, must express respect even in their style of eating, must cover their heads in humbleness.
The first night in Jaipur, the capital of Rajastan, a fuse blows out in your five-dollar hotel room. You and Sophea move to another room and that fuse blows out too. No money left, a man says. No electricity. The next day you relocate to another hotel for three dollars a night. It is ridden with ants, spiders, fleas, mosquitos, cockroaches. The mattress is a cot on wooden planks. It reminds you of your first cockroach-ridden apartment. You wake up with new places to scratch.
To find yourselves in a new city means you must survey the perimeter, ridding yourselves of the tourist monuments like passing difficult excrement. And after the tourist sites you pace towards whatever seems exigent—a broken down building, a gathering of Indians around a well-lit street, a strange figure in the dark. You and Sophea simply float within the crowd, you unthinking and unassuming defectors, imbibing in the aura of the city and its people, retreating from certainty, trusting the void wherever it leads.
And Jaipur is a city full of Gods, Kings, monkeys, and street children. The latter work in groups, perhaps. Although the world is melting, Sophea still gives rupees whenever she sees Mani, a fifteen-year-old girl with a baby covered in flies. Sophea likes Mani because she always takes money and never asks for more. She takes food too. The street children usually don’t take food. They scream “fuck you, cheap America!” But Mani gets it, so Sophea gives her money.
In Rajasthan, men follow Sophea with their eyes, their steps, their hands, and occasionally, with their lips, though none have been reciprocated. In the Guide it warns that “Indians are known for harassing women in Western style clothing.” This means asking for kisses, asking how many people Sophea has been with and whether or not she uses condoms. It means that when she orders beer the waiter assumes she is only doing it for the men in the room. It means constant whistles, taunts, and arms and hands falling upon different parts of her skin.
In Udaipur, breezes compensate for overhead fans. You can spot the scattering colors over Badi Lake. Back-up generators may fail the people, but never the tourist. You inhabit landmarks for three dollars a night. In the hotel bathroom you only find a squat toilet. You’re used to it now, and when you can’t find any tissue in your backpack you just grab the excrement with your left hand. After a year of wandering around Asia, this is what you’ve

 symbol for symbol.

David Seiler
Thanks. That's unfortunate, but I suppose yes I'll write my own. I really like scheme for being so pure and having such beautiful functional goodness, but I've sort of resigned myself to learning the tangled, yet expressive common lisp. It's sort of like learning english rather than esperanto, you know?
+8  A:

Common Lisp has (loop ... collect ...). Compare

(loop for x from 1 to 10 collect (* x x))

with its equivalence using unfold:

(unfold (lambda (x) (> x 10))
  (lambda (x) (* x x))
  (lambda (x) (+ x 1))

In general, (unfold p f g seed) is basically

(loop for x = seed then (g x) until (p x) collect (f x))

Edit: fix typo

Hmm that's interesting. I've been playing around with loop for the past hour :P its great stuff! I love when programming languages have these little sort of embedded sublanguages which have their own syntax and set of rules to understand, like format strings. Loop is powerful stuff!
Welcome to the darkside.<|endoftext|>free web
Just to Spite the Recession by Kawika Guillermo | Word Riot
Flash Fiction

October 22, 2016

Just to Spite the Recession by Kawika Guillermo

In Kerala an elderly Sikh invites you and Sophea into his small apartment to watch WWF wrestling. He feeds you Tandoori chicken, egg curry and scrambled eggs and tomatoes. He doesn’t speak a word of English, but you drink whisky and speak in your mother tongues as if you understand each other. Your hand goes around Sophea as you watch Triple H take down Mysterio. During the commercials, you watch the stock market meltdown.
“How is that possible?” Sophea asks, as if you know.
For some reason, you are overjoyed. Where will you be when it all falls apart? Apparently, India.
Panic has gripped Bangalore, aka ITocracy, aka calltopia, which houses one out of every three office buildings in India. Perhaps that’s why it’s the center for obesity and diabetes. At 3am, when the American workday ends, Bangalorians drink off the global crisis in jam-packed pubs, chaotic night markets, and large strip malls with rooms full of belly dancers. Here, in the IT revolution city, the economic plunge has hit hardest. Anxious young Indians in collared shirts jabber on headset headphones in a desperate, panicky English. The city is a surreal desert of nascent buildings still undergoing construction, and the only movement comes from migrant workers living in tent cities on every roadside. American multinationals aggregate in industrial parks; their incomplete buildings cast foreboding shadows that stretch from the rocky hills of HITECH City to Hyderabad.
The news of the stock market crash disappears in the sixteen-hour train ride, sleeper class, where you and Sophea lay on the upper berth of a crowded cabin, holding each other beneath a rusted fan. You easily grasp onto passing soft drinks, unappetizing samosas, or the coarse hair of children with sticky fingers. Outside the train, the sunset straddles the horizon of rice fields and electrical towers that look like steel angels in the dark. She sweats through sleep.
Expats flee Delhi to protect their assets, leaving you and Sophea to chase the red-tape fairy around the train station from one ticket counter to another. You fill out forms, get tickets stamped, all while carrying luggage on your backs. You new colonials suffer through the old colonials’ leftovers, foremost among them, the bureaucratic obsession with identifying you, sorting you out, helping you decide where you belong. But you and Sophea fit no stamp, you’ve both been gone too long, rejected America, Asia, love, and happiness. Boats without anchors, but in the end tethered together.
After hours of confusion at the train station you discover that there is no train left for Jaipur. Why go to Jaipur? A British man asks. Why travel when the world is melting?
We are poor, you answer. Too poor to care about an economic crisis. At home, nothing would change for us. We would still be eating ramen noodles and McDonalds. This crisis is just about you becoming like us.
Just to spite the recession, you buy first class.
In Chandigarh two high school boys chat with you in line for a Bollywood film: She your girlfriend? You kiss her? You fuck her? How many girls you do this with? Very common in America? They are obsessed with foreign women. Very naughty, very sexy they say. You ask them about Indian women. Very naughty, very sexy, they say. The first boy tells you he has proudly slept with seven to eight Indian girls, all of them his friends and prostitutes. The second boy has a meeker sex life, at two to three women.
The crisis grows more distant when you reach Amritsar, where Sikh pilgrims lie scattered on the white marble of the Golden Temple. Sophea invites a young Indian from Canada to share a Thali, and you can’t help scooting into his space. Moments later she sits him between you both on the bed of your hotel room. She places your hand on his thin jeans, letting you trace his thigh. He is the first to kiss you. You kiss back, until you are all drunk on wine, listening to the allahu akbar chant from a nearby mosque. Amritsar becomes your sacred space, a place where people must have touch, must express respect even in their style of eating, must cover their heads in humbleness.
The first night in Jaipur, the capital of Rajastan, a fuse blows out in your five-dollar hotel room. You and Sophea move to another room and that fuse blows out too. No money left, a man says. No electricity. The next day you relocate to another hotel for three dollars a night. It is ridden with ants, spiders, fleas, mosquitos, cockroaches. The mattress is a cot on wooden planks. It reminds you of your first cockroach-ridden apartment. You wake up with new places to scratch.
To find yourselves in a new city means you must survey the perimeter, ridding yourselves of the tourist monuments like passing difficult excrement. And after the tourist sites you pace towards whatever seems exigent—a broken down building, a gathering of Indians around a well-lit street, a strange figure in the dark. You and Sophea simply float within the crowd, you unthinking and unassuming defectors, imbibing in the aura of the city and its people, retreating from certainty, trusting the void wherever it leads.
And Jaipur is a city full of Gods, Kings, monkeys, and street children. The latter work in groups, perhaps. Although the world is melting, Sophea still gives rupees whenever she sees Mani, a fifteen-year-old girl with a baby covered in flies. Sophea likes Mani because she always takes money and never asks for more. She takes food too. The street children usually don’t take food. They scream “fuck you, cheap America!” But Mani gets it, so Sophea gives her money.
In Rajasthan, men follow Sophea with their eyes, their steps, their hands, and occasionally, with their lips, though none have been reciprocated. In the Guide it warns that “Indians are known for harassing women in Western style clothing.” This means asking for kisses, asking how many people Sophea has been with and whether or not she uses condoms. It means that when she orders beer the waiter assumes she is only doing it for the men in the room. It means constant whistles, taunts, and arms and hands falling upon different parts of her skin.
In Udaipur, breezes compensate for overhead fans. You can spot the scattering colors over Badi Lake. Back-up generators may fail the people, but never the tourist. You inhabit landmarks for three dollars a night. In the hotel bathroom you only find a squat toilet. You’re used to it now, and when you can’t find any tissue in your backpack you just grab the excrement with your left hand. After a year of wandering around Asia, this is what you’ve learned. No more fantasies. No more armor. Just a left-hand wiping the shit off.

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Kawika Guillermo’s stories can be found in Feminist Studies, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, Tayo, Smokelong Quarterly, and many others. He writes monthly blogs for Drunken Boat and decomP Magazine, where he serves as the Prose Editor. His debut novel, Stamped, will be released in 2017 by CCLAP Press.

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Abbas al-Dabs, a regional Hezbollah commander, is assassinated in the attack.
Veterans protesting outside the Lebanese parliament and the Prime Minister's residence are met with tear gas by security forces.
11 February – A five-story building collapses in Choueifat.
14 February – A rocket attack from Lebanon against a military base kills a person and injures others in Safed, Israel, while Israeli airstrikes kill three civilians in Souaneh and a Hezbollah fighter in Aadchit, in southern Lebanon; eleven others are wounded. Seven people are killed in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nabatieh.
26 February – Israel Air Force (IAF) jets conduct strikes on Hezbollah positions.

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2 March – An IDF strike on a car in the coastal road of Naqoura kills a senior Hezbollah official and two other members of Hezbollah's Imam Hussein Division. It is reported that among them was the grandson of Hassan Nasrallah.
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Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of damage, and it's going to take a long time to get everything fixed back up. Not everything succumbed to Sandy's destructive force, however. This little surfing robot, for example, survived on the high seas despite the storm, never failing to do its duty all the while.

One tough little Wave Glider robot, dubbed "Mercury" by its makers Liquid Robotics, had the misfortune of being about 100 miles east of Tom's River when that beast hurricane Sandy came rumbling towards land. But despite being caught in winds of up to 80 mph, the Wave Glider just kept on trucking, continuing to report home with the barometric pressure every 10 minutes regardless of rough seas.

Designed with a float that floats (duh) above the surface, and a submersible part below, Wave Gliders use mechanized wings to use the ocean's natural wave energy to push forward. And that's what Mercury did throughout the whole storm, even reporting a precipitous 54.3 millibar drop in pressure as Sandy neared the shore.

Mercury is still out there, just trucking along, proving these Wave Gliders can handle their fair share of punishment. Keep on keepin' on little guy. If you can get through, surely we can as well. [CNET]<|endoftext|>Horse Island

A novel I had started working on a while ago as part of a Humber College workshop on opening pages; i.e., how to attract the eye of acquisition editors.

Really need to get back to this.

Sasha had never had her breasts go numb before.

Sure, she’d lost feeling in her fingers and had suffered frostbitten toes more than once, but this was something else altogether. But then, she’d also never spent six hours prone on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.

Sasha had fought off sleep for the last two hours, listening to the rhythm of the waves that charged the beach that sprawled below her. Now that the sun had started to peek above the horizon, she could focus her attention on the dark shapes floating just offshore, knowing that not all of them would be pieces of driftwood slowly making their way from the seaside forests of Newfoundland.

“Get used to this,” she thought to herself. “You’ll probably spend your next four or five Springs this way.”

It was definitely a far cry from the relative civility of her life in Toronto—although maybe sterility was a better way of describing it. The sounds and flavours of the ocean did, however, remind her of the summers she spent with her grandparents at the family home just outside of Halifax.

Funny, she thought, this was the first time she’d thought—allowed herself to think—about her grandparents. All those years spent trying to escape the East Coast and here she was, smack in the middle of it again.

Adjusting her position ever so slightly, Sasha grunted inwardly, trying to remain the silent sentinel while allowing her blood to circulate to her chilled extremities. But even as she settled back in, she knew that something was different. Something had changed in the surf. Some of the driftwood had started to move with purpose, making a beeline for the beach.

It was time to prepare her kit and call the others.

(Okay, I don’t have any photos of Atlantic Canada, so I’m substituting this one from Tofino.)

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The Roselli Brothers

The mysterious Roselli Brothers are some of the most revered casino scammers of all time. It is thought that between 1995 and 2000 they stole approximately $37 million from casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and across the waters in Puerto Rico.

How They Did It

The Rosellis were no ordinary gangsters; whereas many scammers allowed greed to cloud their judgment and lead to their downfall these boys stuck to their plan to the very end. And their strategy was pure genius especially at a time when cyber-crime was still in its formative stages.

The group whose exact number has never been conclusively established employed the services of a hacker to acquire credit records of several well moneyed gamblers. But the criterion was not just money, the chosen few also had to have accounts in various leading casinos and possess an excellent credit record.

Once they had identified their targets they went on to use them as pawns to acquire their ultimate goal: exorbitant lines of credit. Basically, the brothers sought to gain the trust of leading casinos that in turn extended their credit. The first step in this part of the plan was to steal the identities of the affluent gamblers they had already picked and use these identities to open multiple accounts in major casinos.

With the accounts in operation, the Roselli Brothers funded them with $50,000 each and maintained a healthy yet ‘credible’ balance until the stipulated six month waiting period for credit application had elapsed. One might wonder where they got the money that funded the accounts. It is believed that the brothers were actually New Jersey gangsters and that this money was channeled from other illegal activities that they were involved in.

Having gotten into the casinos’ good books, the brothers went on to play like any other gambler; they ‘won’ and ‘lost’ in the usual manner and even paid back all their markers within reasonable timeframes. Casino officials who were yet to realize that a game of ‘offset betting’ was being played on them continued to extend the gangsters’ credit. Thus the group bounced around from one casino to the next without anyone raising and eyebrow.

The Aftermath

By 2000 the Rosellis were on top of their game, they had the casinos in their pockets and some of them had extended their credit to $1 million! Then one day, just as discretely as they first appeared the brothers were gone and of course they took every last dime that had been availed to them.

One has to hand it to them for staying under the radar for about five years. The FBI did not even get wind of them until they were nowhere to be found. Moreover, none of them was ever caught and the actual number of people that took part in the heist is still a mystery. However, it is widely accepted that the brothers may have been the generals but they must have had some foot soldiers to bring it all together.<|endoftext|>Friday, 15 July 2016

Online health and fitness apps in a platform society - José Van Dijck and Thomas Poell

by José Van Dijck and Thomas Poell

Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of health and fitness apps have flooded the internet. What are the promises these apps make and what premises are they based on? Many apps promise to offer personal solutions to medical problems while also contributing to the public good. Online platforms serve as personalized data-driven services to their customers. At the same time, they allegedly serve public interests, such as medical research or health education. In doing so, health and fitness apps often employ a diffuse discourse, hinging on terms like ‘‘sharing,’’ ‘‘open,’’ and ‘‘reuse’’ when they talk about data extraction and distribution.

Through three examples (23andme, PatiensLikeMe and Parkinson mPower), our recent article in Big Data & Society "Understanding the promises and premises of online health platforms" traces how the mechanisms of datafication and commodification introduce a new dynamic in health care and health research. In this domain, datafication means that every aspect of one’s physical or mental well-being is translated into data— vital signs, objective measurements, subjective experiences, medicine intake, personal information, test results, etc. Data can be private and personal (e.g., recorded symptoms, experiences) or they can be public and collective (e.g., clinical research data, health demographics, statistics); data can be user-generated and reported automatically through devices, such as electronic heartbeat apps, or users themselves can contribute data consciously, for instance through deploying pedometers.  What kinds of (user) data do platforms collect, how do they collect them, and how do they process and reuse those data?

These kind of questions are important when we try to

 the class Schizomycetes, bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes. Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles. Although the term bacteria traditionally included all prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotes consist of two very different groups of organisms that evolved from an ancient common ancestor. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea.<|endoftext|>This Sea-Worthy Robot Sailor Surfed Straight Through Sandy

Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of damage, and it's going to take a long time to get everything fixed back up. Not everything succumbed to Sandy's destructive force, however. This little surfing robot, for example, survived on the high seas despite the storm, never failing to do its duty all the while.

One tough little Wave Glider robot, dubbed "Mercury" by its makers Liquid Robotics, had the misfortune of being about 100 miles east of Tom's River when that beast hurricane Sandy came rumbling towards land. But despite being caught in winds of up to 80 mph, the Wave Glider just kept on trucking, continuing to report home with the barometric pressure every 10 minutes regardless of rough seas.

Designed with a float that floats (duh) above the surface, and a submersible part below, Wave Gliders use mechanized wings to use the ocean's natural wave energy to push forward. And that's what Mercury did throughout the whole storm, even reporting a precipitous 54.3 millibar drop in pressure as Sandy neared the shore.

Mercury is still out there, just trucking along, proving these Wave Gliders can handle their fair share of punishment. Keep on keepin' on little guy. If you can get through, surely we can as well. [CNET]<|endoftext|>Horse Island

A novel I had started working on a while ago as part of a Humber College workshop on opening pages; i.e., how to attract the eye of acquisition editors.

Really need to get back to this.

Sasha had never had her breasts go numb before.

Sure, she’d lost feeling in her fingers and had suffered frostbitten toes more than once, but this was something else altogether. But then, she’d also never spent six hours prone on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.

Sasha had fought off sleep for the last two hours, listening to the rhythm of the waves that charged the beach that sprawled below her. Now that the sun had started to peek above the horizon, she could focus her attention on the dark shapes floating just offshore, knowing that not all of them would be pieces of driftwood slowly making their way from the seaside forests of Newfoundland.

“Get used to this,” she thought to herself. “You’ll probably spend your next four or five Springs this way.”

It was definitely a far cry from the relative civility of her life in Toronto—although maybe sterility was a better way of describing it. The sounds and flavours of the ocean did, however, remind her of the summers she spent with her grandparents at the family home just outside of Halifax.

Funny, she thought, this was the first time she’d thought—allowed herself to think—about her grandparents. All those years spent trying to escape the East Coast and here she was, smack in the middle of it again.

Adjusting her position ever so slightly, Sasha grunted inwardly, trying to remain the silent sentinel while allowing her blood to circulate to her chilled extremities. But even as she settled back in, she knew that something was different. Something had changed in the surf. Some of the driftwood had started to move with purpose, making a beeline for the beach.

It was time to prepare her kit and call the others.

(Okay, I don’t have any photos of Atlantic Canada, so I’m substituting this one from Tofino.)

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The Roselli Brothers

The mysterious Roselli Brothers are some of the most revered casino scammers of all time. It is thought that between 1995 and 2000 they stole approximately $37 million from casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and across the waters in Puerto Rico.

How They Did It

The Rosellis were no ordinary gangsters; whereas many scammers allowed greed to cloud their judgment and lead to their downfall these boys stuck to their plan to the very end. And their strategy was pure genius especially at a time when cyber-crime was still in its formative stages.

The group whose exact number has never been conclusively established employed the services of a hacker to acquire credit records of several well moneyed gamblers. But the criterion was not just money, the chosen few also had to have accounts in various leading casinos and possess an excellent credit record.

Once they had identified their targets they went on to use them as pawns to acquire their ultimate goal: exorbitant lines of credit. Basically, the brothers sought to gain the trust of leading casinos that in turn extended their credit. The first step in this part of the plan was to steal the identities of the affluent gamblers they had already picked and use these identities to open multiple accounts in major casinos.

With the accounts in operation, the Roselli Brothers funded them with $50,000 each and maintained a healthy yet ‘credible’ balance until the stipulated six month waiting period for credit application had elapsed. One might wonder where they got the money that funded the accounts. It is believed that the brothers were actually New Jersey gangsters and that this money was channeled from other illegal activities that they were involved in.

Having gotten into the casinos’ good books, the brothers went on to play like any other gambler; they ‘won’ and ‘lost’ in the usual manner and even paid back all their markers within reasonable timeframes. Casino officials who were yet to realize that a game of ‘offset betting’ was being played on them continued to extend the gangsters’ credit. Thus the group bounced around from one casino to the next without anyone raising and eyebrow.

The Aftermath

By 2000 the Rosellis were on top of their game, they had the casinos in their pockets and some of them had extended their credit to $1 million! Then one day, just as discretely as they first appeared the brothers were gone and of course they took every last dime that had been availed to them.

One has to hand it to them for staying under the radar for about five years. The FBI did not even get wind of them until they were nowhere to be found. Moreover, none of them was ever caught and the actual number of people that took part in the heist is still a mystery. However, it is widely accepted that the brothers may have been the generals but they must have had some foot soldiers to bring it all together.<|endoftext|>Friday, 15 July 2016

Online health and fitness apps in a platform society - José Van Dijck and Thomas Poell

by José Van Dijck and Thomas Poell

Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of health and fitness apps have flooded the internet. What are the promises these apps make and what premises are they based on? Many apps promise to offer personal solutions to medical problems while also contributing to the public good. Online platforms serve as personalized data-driven services to their customers. At the same time, they allegedly serve public interests, such as medical research or health education. In doing so, health and fitness apps often employ a diffuse discourse, hinging on terms like ‘‘sharing,’’ ‘‘open,’’ and ‘‘reuse’’ when they talk about data extraction and distribution.

Through three examples (23andme, PatiensLikeMe and Parkinson mPower), our recent article in Big Data & Society "Understanding the promises and premises of online health platforms" traces how the mechanisms of datafication and commodification introduce a new dynamic in health care and health research. In this domain, datafication means that every aspect of one’s physical or mental well-being is translated into data— vital signs, objective measurements, subjective experiences, medicine intake, personal information, test results, etc. Data can be private and personal (e.g., recorded symptoms, experiences) or they can be public and collective (e.g., clinical research data, health demographics, statistics); data can be user-generated and reported automatically through devices, such as electronic heartbeat apps, or users themselves can contribute data consciously, for instance through deploying pedometers.  What kinds of (user) data do platforms collect, how do they collect them, and how do they process and reuse those data?

These kind of questions are important when we try to analyse how datafied information is transformed into (monetary) value. Some platforms sell health information products to customers, sometimes in combination with advertisements; other apps are free to users in exchange for their personal data, which may be shared with paying co-patients and most important industrial partners. Virtually all platforms collaborate with such partners: high-tech firms and pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies. Some also partner with universities, government services, or a combination thereof, mixing for profit and nonprofit. A minority of health platforms is operated via government or nonprofit organizations, intent on pursuing public values and yielding public goods. The question is which business model is used for what purposes, who owns and operates