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OVER FOUR DECADES EARNEST ALBERT HOOTON became known nationally and internationally for his contributions to the study of human evolution, for his comprehensive comparisons of nonhuman primates, and for his management of mass-scale anthropometric studies both of skeletal populations and on the living. He also became well known to a generation of newspaper readers for his pithy and often irreverent comments on the human condition and for his advocacy of a woman president. As an early exponent of applied physical anthropology and human engineering, Hooton was responsible for improvements in clothing sizing, work space, and air frame and seating design. For years Earnest Hooton was the principal source of graduate students in physical anthropology and, through his students, was responsible for much of the growth and direction of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, on November 20, 1887, the third child and only son of an English-born Methodist minister married to a Canadian-born woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Both parents emphasized learning and made sure that all three Hooton children went to college, despite the meager salary accorded a clergyman. Besides, Hooton's small size and myopia made him a scholar from the start--"with my nose always stuck in a book." Hooton also demonstrated an ability for cartooning at an early age, and he enlivened both his high school and college annuals with cartoons and more serious artwork, a skill he maintained for the rest of his sixty-six years.
Earnest Hooton graduated from Lawrence College at the age of nineteen and went on to the University of Wisconsin, where he attained his Ph.D. degree in the classics, having great proficiency in Latin and more skills in ancient Greek. His 1911 Ph.D. thesis was titled "The Evolution of Literary Art in Pre-hellenic Rome." With this educational background and his outstanding academic record, he applied for and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, electing to study at Oxford. There he moved in succession from classical archeology to iron-age and Viking-period archeology, assisting in the excavation of Viking boat burials and description of the remains. At Oxford, under R. R. Marett, Hooton turned to anthropology, taking a diploma in general anthropology in 1912. He then worked with Arthur Keith, where he developed a lifelong interest in human paleontology, especially paleoanthropic fossils from England and the continent.
With Marett's strong support, Hooton was offered a teaching position at Harvard in 1913, and he remained there for four decades. Besides teaching introductory physical anthropology and iron-age archeology, he busied himself with descriptive analyses of skeletal remains, writing many addenda or technical notes to archeological reports and lecturing to alumni and professional groups on the relevance of physical anthropology to medicine and dentistry.
Though disqualified from military service because of his nearsightedness, requiring six diopters of correction, he volunteered for training at the Civilian Military Training Center at Plattsburgh, New York, becoming a passable rifleman at 100 yards but a wild shot at greater distances. Hooton also became involved in revising military recruitment standards, a necessity given the large number of smallish immigrants who could not qualify for service under the existing dimensional requirements standards.
During the 1920s, Hooton moved on from his earlier descriptions of individual skeletal remains found in the course of archeological digs and isolated fossil crania (like the La Quina skull) to metric and morphological analyses of large skeletal assemblages, including the remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands, originally collected in 1915. Studies on the remains from Pecos Pueblo, comprising over 500 individuals of all ages, marked a turning point in human skeletal biology, for the sample was large enough to allow attention to age changes in this prehistoric skeletal population, as well as a careful and detailed description of such pathological conditions as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, accomplished in conjunction with radiologists and pathologists.
Chapter X of the Pecos report (Pathology) included a detailed analysis of the age incidence and population prevalence of antemortem fractures (some 7 percent overall), with the highest age incidence in the elderly. The Pecos report also included appendixes on the dentition (by Habib J. Rihan) and a separate chapter on the pelvis (by Edward Reynolds). The entire study was facilitated by a sizeable group of devoted laboratory and statistical assistants, including Ruth O. Sawtell, who later wrote a series of popular detective stories featuring human bones and skeletal identification.
During the 1930s, Hooton turned his attention to anthropometric surveys and anthropometric studies of living human beings, including a very large series of criminals measured in ten different states, and years later, an anthropometric survey of the Irish. Such studies represented a major management task, keeping track of workers at distant locations, a major accomplishment in data handling (thousands of completed anthropometric and observational forms), and a major accomplishment in data analysis, made possible by the use of IBM punched cards and the Hollerith card sorter.
Though his criminal study (published as The American Criminal in 1939) was criticized as Lombroso-like in assuming the existence of criminal types, Hooton did demonstrate that different classes of felons differed substantially in body size and proportions, pickpockets being the smallest and forgers being the tallest and best educated. Self-selection and occupational selection clearly accounted for such dimensional and proportional differences, as we have since come to know also for different groups of Olympic athletes.
Hooton also operated an anthropometric booth at the New York World's Fair, gathering novel dimensional data on the visitors, and he was involved in annual anthropometric studies on Harvard freshmen, extending investigations originally initiated by Dudley Sargent at the turn of the century.
In the course of his anthropometric studies, Hooton developed a model for mass surveys and for data analysis using punched cards and card-sorting equipment located in his statistical laboratory atop the Peabody Museum. This model proved especially applicable to mass data surveys relating to equipment design, both civilian and military, which Hooton helped organize and provided direction. As a result, many of Hooton's students became involved in applied human engineering with the Air Force (previously the Army Air Corps), the Chemical Warfare Service (later the Army Chemical Corps), and the Quartermaster Corps, among others.
Gas masks, oxygen masks, aircraft seating, tank interiors, military uniforms, G-suits, and tank helmets all became more comfortable, better-fitting, and more user friendly because of Hooton's efforts and directions. It was his notion that equipment and garments should fit the user, rather than vice versa, and Hooton was a proponent of ergonomics long before the term was coined by Le Gros Clark. Many of the national and international nutrition surveys conducted well after the midcentury mark also reflect Hooton's designs and contributions, through the efforts of his students of an earlier period.
Hooton also conducted an anthropometric study of commuters in Boston's North Station in order to develop more comfortable train seats for the Heywood Wakefield Company, as described in A Survey of Seating (1945). (Hooton's principal assistant in that study later became the director of the Kinsey Institute.) From such endeavors Hooton was able to provide alternative employment for many of his students, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, for example, and at the Quartermaster Laboratories in Natick, so that academia was no longer the only source of jobs for physical anthropologists.
Besides technical monographs and book-length research reports (one over a thousand pages in length), Hooton also wrote several introductory texts that were widely used and lasted through multiple revisions. Up from the Ape (1931, 1946) was his best-known work, covering the scope and range of physical anthropology and providing detailed, illustrated instructions on anthropometry. Man's Poor Relations (1942) was the first comprehensive treatise on primates, primate taxonomy, and primate behavior. Their titles were sufficiently catchy to attract a wide and appreciative audience, and they were written in a friendly expository style so that students found them pleasant reading despite the wealth of technical material and the polysyllabic Greco-Latin names bestowed on individual fossils and primate genera and species.
Hooton also extended his writing to popularized accounts of his own contributions (such as Crime and the Man), and he was called upon to write a popular description of the Grant study at Harvard University. Since the study was dedicated to a biobehavioral understanding of normal college undergraduates, Hooton titled that popular work Young Man, You Are Normal.
Hooton also penned doggerel that has been likened to the work of Ogden Nash. Some of these verses were included in his scholarly texts, some found their way into his popular works, and others were used to enliven his classroom lectures and the lectures he was invited to give at conventions and conferences. His Ode to a Dental Hygienist was especially well received by dentists, who frequently invited Hooton to serve as a dinner speaker. Some of Hooton's more notable verses have been reprinted in volumes of poetry, and a representative selection (with illustrations also by Hooton) was reprinted posthumously under the title Subverse (1961). Like Ogden Nash, Hooton made use of unorthodox and surprising rhyme combinations.
Hooton became an accomplished cartoonist in his high school and college days and returned to this skill in the second half of his academic career. Some cartoons enlivened his popular works, and a selection can be found in Subverse, including his rather hilarious drawing of a Harvard faculty meeting showing Conant at the dais and a back view of Hooton himself lounging in the front row.
For three decades, 1920-50 approximately, Earnest Albert Hooton was the major source of Ph.D. recipients in physical anthropology in the United States and indeed the world. This preeminence in the supply side stemmed, in equal parts, from Hooton's location in the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, from the laboratory and statistical facilities he built, from his inspiring teaching, and from his personality. The Department of Anthropology, in the Peabody Museum, was rich in archeological and ethnological holdings and had access to a remarkably complete research library, with long runs of scientific journals in many languages. The bone lab grew under Hooton and came to include extensive primate collections as well as collections of human skeletons from many parts of the world. Hooton also expanded his statistics laboratory, beginning at the time he participated in the Civilian Military Corps during World War I, and with continuing cooperation of the International Business Machines Corporation thereafter, thus providing a facility for data reduction and data analyses without parallel in the field.
Hooton excelled as a teacher, teaching all of the courses in physical anthropology himself until the postwar expansion of physical anthropology demanded additional course offerings. With continuing programs of research, with expeditions to staff, and (later) with commercial and military projects, he was able to provide work-related training and financial support at a time when fellowships were scarce and uncommon.
Though a shy man in public, Hooton had a warm relationship with his graduate students, according each in turn the feeling of being most favored. While many professors doled out bits of research as thesis topics along their own lines of interest, Hooton encouraged his graduate students to look wide in search of investigative problems and then provided advice and counsel in the course of data acquisition and thesis writing. As a result, Hooton's students were diverse in their interests, some excelling in primate comparisons; some concentrating on prehistoric and protohistoric skeletal remains and skulls; other working in population biology, demography, and the secular (generational) changes of Americans or immigrant populations; and some in human genetics and histology.
Besides hour-long student conferences of the formal sort, Hooton had regular afternoon teas (especially on Saturdays), which provided social interaction, good conversation, and the opportunity to meet visitors from around the world. Thus, along with jasmine tea and shortbread, Hooton's graduate students (and other graduate students in anthropology) became acquainted with a wider academic world. As one of his former students calculated, getting a Ph.D. degree with Hooton included twenty-three gallons of jasmine tea, sixteen pounds of Scotch shortbread, and a surprising variety of people.
Most of the doctoral-level students produced by Hooton went on to professional positions in physical anthropology, thereby changing the composition of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which had been largely made up of anatomists and clinicians at the time of its inception. As their numbers grew, and as they gained in academic status, Hooton's students came to dominate the AAPA for decades, eventually providing all of the elected officers for years and the majority of the executive committee. Given this start and a long-term near-monopoly of graduate students, it is not surprising that many of Hooton's products were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, including Baker, Garn, Howells, Hulse, Shapiro, and Washburn.
It is difficult to evaluate Hooton or to rank him among his peers for he held a unique position in physical anthropology and was without parallel. Only Franz Boas at Columbia and Ales Hrdlicka at the Smithsonian had comparable stature and recognition in the scientific community.
Hooton's honors included membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology (he was the second recipient), and an honorary degree from Lawrence College. He was one of the founding members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, serving as president from 1936 to 1938 and associate editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology from 1928 to 1942, working closely with Hrdlicka. Hooton was also much esteemed as a guest lecturer and dinner speaker at various professional conventions, including the NAACP. Life magazine devoted a six-page spread to him under the title "Hooton of Harvard" (Aug. 7, 1939, pp. 60-66).
Hooton was often quoted in daily newspapers and news magazines, for his pithy comments were highly quotable. That and some of the titles of his popular books (Apes, Men and Morons, The Twilight of Man, etc.) did not sit well with more conservative colleagues and publicity-averse members of the Harvard faculty, including Harvard president James Bryant Conant. Hooton's comments were much appreciated by generations of Harvard undergraduates, however, and his popular "Anthropology A" course was long well attended by premedical students, liberal arts majors, and socialites alike. Lectures, according to Hooton, "need not be the same as a sleeping pill."
Though Hooton reached the official retirement age at Harvard after his sixty-fifth year, he was invited to return by a new and more favorable administration at Harvard and happily resumed teaching introductory courses that had decreased in enrollment. He was actively teaching "Anthropology 10" when he died unexpectedly of a vascular accident.
Shortly before his death, Earnest Hooton expressed a desire to visit England once again to renew his acquaintance with Sir Arthur Keith, his old mentor and friend and "hear his cheerful voice again." This was an unusual decision on Hooton's part, for he detested travel except to the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and his yearly treks to Pinehurst, North Carolina, to play golf.
Hooton was survived by his wife Mary Camp Hooton, whom he married in 1913, by two sons (Newton and Jay), one daughter (Emma Hooton Robbins) and two grandchildren. Though he had agreed to accept a doctor of letters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the award was made posthumously at the 1954 spring commencement. Thereafter, an Earnest Albert Hooton professorship was established at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and its first incumbent was, fittingly enough, a pupil of a pupil of Hooton's.


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The southern skirt of the Sierra de Gredos shows, in a few kilometers, more than 2.000 meters vertical drop, with diverse landscapes, gorges with cristallyne waters and a succession of Mediterranean bushes and forests from the middle of the Iberian peninsula with and a clear atlantic influence.
On the other side of the river Tiétar, large meadows of holm oaks and cork oaks which are the Imperial eagle ´s habitat and cranes and waterfowl ´s concentration site at the Rosarito reservoir.
Cultivations and plains full of bustards, little bustards , and big colonies of kestrels.
This area also preserves many celtic settlement remains and traditional landscapes where hand embroidery and ceramic are still present.
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- Sierra de Gredos Regional Park
- ASPB Tiétar Valley and reservoirs of Rosarito and Navalcán
- ASPB Llanos de Oropesa , Lagartera and Calera y Chozas
Commitment to sustainable tourism
- Sierra de Gredos Regional Park is accredited under the European Charter of sustainable tourism
- The ASPB Llanos de Oropesa, Lagartera and Calera y Chozas is en ornithological tourist destination within the project RETO Red Natura 2000
Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha) and Ávila (Castilla y León).
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Chuba Akpom revealed that Alexis Sanchez is getting a hard time by his team-mates in the Arsenal dressing room of late, having become the subject of ridicule since failing to secure a switch away this summer.
Both Yaya Sanogo and Chuba Akpom have been linked with moves this month, but have so far failed to secure one.
The former is into the final six months of his contract, so a permanent transfer was believed most likely, but we have either failed to drum up interest in his signature, or Arsene Wenger is willing to to give him six more months with the club to prove his worth.
The good news for Arsenal, and there is plenty of it right now after Pep Guardiola lost his first game in charge of Man City and with Manchester United continuing to struggle under Jose Mourinho, is how the Premier League table looks going into the second international break of the season.
Arsenal do have good striking options! by Sam P.
There is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the Arsenal fans at the minute, partly due to the fact that Arsene Wenger has once again been more careful with the transfer spending than all the other challengers for the Premier League title, but mainly due to the poor start we have had to the new season, in my opinion anyway.
The Arsenal squad, or those players that are fit and ready at least, have two more friendly games to go in the pre-season schedule, so hopefully the Gunners will perform well against Viking FK this evening and then Manchester City on Sunday. So far, though, it has been so good for Arsenal and with all the players that Arsene Wenger has had to do without, that did not look all that likely.
Not counting the teenage Nigerian sensation Kelechi Nwakali and the young Japanese international forward Takuma Asano, because they will almost certainly not be featuring for the Arsenal first team next season, Arsene Wenger has signed just two new players so far during this summer transfer window.
If you did not know, Arsenal fans, the first match of our pre-season schedule will take place against the French club Lens tonight and you can watch the game as it is being streamed live on the Arsenal website and they also have an app so make sure you go to Arsenal.com and are ready for it.
Is Chris Willock the next Young Gunner set for first team duties?
There have been a few rumours in recent weeks that Arsene Wenger may be looking to promote the likes of Toral, Hayden and Akpom to first team duties next season. However one name that was yet to be mentioned was young winger Chris Willock!


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Mainstreaming Report with Associated Review - Equality Outcomes and Employment Information
Queen Margaret University is pleased to publish this report, which sets out progress on mainstreaming equality and establishes a number of outcomes for the period 2017-2021.
Under the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) introduced in the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Regulations 2012, the University is required to report on how it is mainstreaming equality. The specific duties are stated as aiming to help listed authorities to better meet the general duty and are designed to help develop evidence-based policies and practices, improve transparency and accountability, and deliver better outcomes for everyone in Scotland.
To meet the specific duties, the University is required to:
- report on progress on mainstreaming the general duty into all functions;
- develop and publish a set of equality outcomes that cover all protected characteristics (or explain why not all protected characteristics are covered);
- assess the impact of policies and practices against the needs of the general duty;
- gather and use information on employees;
- publish gender pay gap information;
- publish statements on equal pay for gender, race and disability;
- have due regard to the general duty in specified procurement practices;
- publish information in a manner that is accessible.
In 2016, the Scottish Government amended the specific duties to introduce a new requirement on listed bodies to publish the gender composition of their boards and to produce succession plans to increase the diversity of their board.
We consider that there has been significant movement towards mainstreaming equality and diversity throughout the University in the period since the publication of the University’s original report in April 2013. Equally, however, we recognise that we need to continue to establish outcomes where we have evidence to suggest inequality, with such evidence providing the basis for targeted action, including enhanced policy and practice.
Throughout this Report, the University has had due regard to the general duties as specified under the Equality Act 2010, and which require the University to:
1. Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.
2. Advance equality of opportunity by having due regard to removing or minimising disadvantage, meeting the needs of a particular group that are different from the needs of others and by encouraging participation in public life; and
3. Foster good relations by tackling prejudice and promoting understanding.
The equality outcomes reflect the protected characteristics of Age, Disability, Faith/belief, Gender identity, Marriage/civil partnership, Pregnancy and maternity, Race, Sex and Sexual orientation.
The University also seeks to remove inequality created by social and economic deprivation in line with Scottish Government objectives and set out in the University’s Outcome Agreement with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
This Report has been developed through the Equality and Diversity Committee, the membership of which represents staff and student stakeholders, and includes representation from each of the recognised Trades Unions. The report and has been approved for publication by the Chair of the University Court under powers delegated to the Chair by the University Court at its meeting on 5 April 2017.
For further information, please view QMU's Equality and Diversity Page.

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As somebody who knows all too well how painful it is to hate yourself, I want to remind you that you are loved. What you see in the mirror or on the scales bears no reflection to the beautiful person the rest of us know. Like me, you are getting sucked in to viewing the world through a lens that focuses on thin vs fat as a decider of happiness. That lens is a liar. It blurs the other things in your life, until years have passed and you haven’t enjoyed the things you should have. Don’t let that be you, you deserve so much more.
Whatever your mind tells you, one more time (be it one more restrictive day, one more pound lost, one more laxative/sit up/purge) will never satisfy you. The feelings won’t go away by the methods that caused them.
As my friend, I hold you very highly in my life, and your happiness is important to me. In fact, seeing you succeed fills me with so much joy that it can make my own difficulties that little bit quieter.
You are deserving of love- the love you have in your life already, and the love you should be giving yourself. Body confidence and security is a challenge for many people, partly because lots of things around us are photoshopped or posed, and most people would only post their best bits on social media. It’s human nature to experience self doubt, as we all feel a little lost in life at times. However, you are beautiful and talented just as you are.
If health is your goal, your body will gain strength and vitality with you; if a diet is the focus, it won’t ever happen in the way you desire it. Of course, I’m not at the end of the journey either. In fact, right now isn’t so easy for me either. But that’s ok.
All the love in the world
Maybe some of you guys have a friend who might also need to hear this. Feel free to repost or share if you do!
It’s easier to read if I think about other people this would help. When I read it as addressed to myself, all my excuses and justifications kick in because my ED tells me I’m fat, ugly, undeserving, etc. My thoughts are awful and I hate to admit what I really think, however, one of the reasons I blog is to be open about what I think so others, who may have the same thoughts, don’t feel alone. So here it is:
If a person thinner than me (or someone I perceive to be thinner than me) compliments me my thoughts are that it’s easy for them to say that because I’m fat. If someone larger than me compliments me my thoughts are that they don’t see me, only my size which is coupled with overwhelming guilt for calling myself fat in front of them (or even thinking it). We have some BED (binge eaters) in the iOP I go to and they’ve commented more than once that we are what they want to be. It’s impossible to explain that no one wants to be what we are. For some of them, all they see is our size. And then, on top of all that, I fear that new people will think I’m BED because I’m no longer underweight. Isn’t that sick???
The truth of the matter is that body image is hard no matter what eating disorder a person has. It is even hard for people who don’t have eating disorders. It’s an unfortunate part of our current culture. Everyone struggles. I would love for your message to go viral so all can feel validated, and that you can also feel validated in your own struggle.
I know from personal experience that body image can be hard, even when the problem changes. I was bulimic for a period of time, and I hated my body then, too. In that moment, I wanted with every fibre of myself to be restrictive again and feel my bones and hear people’s comments. In some ways, knowing I was bigger and that I was bingeing made me feel less validated, that my ed was even less good, and even less important or serious. Really though, the emotional rollercoaster of bulimia took me to an extremely depressive state of mind.
Also, I totally relate to find excuses or “reasons” to explain away my problems. I’m ashamed, but I also take comments differently depending on the commenters size (and insert similar motives as you did for whatever they say to me!)
I love my friends, especially the beautiful human who inspired this post. She can’t be the only one who needs to hear this, so feel free to share xx

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UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules
Claims it will make it easier to amend ‘retained EU law’
The UK government is having a second pass at flogging the benefits of Brexit, as much as they exist, in a new bill that promises to accelerate work on AI and gene editing.
The so-called Brexit Freedoms Bill — its actual title will be decided by Parliamentary clerks — will also offer a "more agile way to regulate new digital markets and AI and [create] a more proportionate and less burdensome data rights regime compared to the EU's General Data Protection Directive."
The bill promises to make it easier to amend or remove "retained EU law" which was left in place following the UK's departure from the political and trading bloc.
It is set to give ministers more power to change retained EU law more quickly than before, without needing votes in Parliament.
The bill follows the policy paper from Sept 2021 which followed Sir Iain Duncan Smith's new Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform (TIGRR), a much-derided document designed to examine existing laws and identify future opportunities following our exit from the EU.
In terms of changes to data laws beyond GDPR, the government has already launched a consultation lead jointly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under the National Data Strategy, first announced in September 2020.
It is unclear how the Brexit Freedoms Bill will enable or interact with that strategy, although some of its more radical proposals appear seem set to be watered down.
It had proposed changes to Article 22 of the UK's GDPR implementation, potentially removing subjects' rights to challenge automated decisions. But Harry Lee, DCMS data protection and data rights deputy director, told a conference earlier this month that the government was looking to improve "efficacy of safeguards" relating to automated decision making, rather than remove them.
Whatever the government decides, it must walk the line between appearing to be independent of EU regulation and the need to be in line with GDPR to maintain the much-needed "adequacy" ruling to ensure data sharing between the UK and the EU is allowed to continue. Legal commentators have pointed out the adequacy decision is under review and could be jeopardised if the UK strays too far from GDPR.
The UK could also decide losing the adequacy decision might be a price worth paying. The government's efforts to strip away EU law seem to have hit an early constitutional roadblock though. Reports suggest Scottish and Welsh governments have expressed concern the move would affect devolved powers.
The regulatory reforms do promise work for government IT though. The earlier policy paper [PDF] describes plans for the Digital Transformation of Regulation.
- Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector
- UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros
- UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making
- It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m
The idea is to create a data store of regulation that uses "advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to make regulatory information more accessible and useful."
"At the heart of this work is a new database of all UK regulations affecting business, enriched with additional data that makes it easier to understand each regulation and its context. This database will be openly accessible so that organisations and individuals can use it to develop new digital applications that help people to understand and navigate the UK regulatory regime. The programme will also develop a tool for businesses, hosted on GOV.UK, that will help firms to identify the regulations that are relevant to them and understand what actions they need to take in response," the paper said.
Details of the Brexit Freedoms Bill are set to be outlined "in due course." ®


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After Salman Khan & Farhan Akhtar, Arunoday Singh is all set to...
Make his singing debut!
It's been so far actresses from Bollywood who have gone behind the scenes and microphones to enchant their fans with their incredible vocal skills.
An array of actresses from Alia Bhatt to Sonakshi Sinha to Priyanka Chopra have all shown their singing abilities. However it's actors who at best have been seen rapping their verses in special numbers, until now Barring exceptions of Farhan Akhtar, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and a few others.
The Blackmail actor, Arunoday Singh who currently is basking in the rave reviews of his comedic debut will soon make his singing debut. And a debut like no other.
A keen theater actor, Arunoday is playing one of the lead parts in Sound of Music, a musical production having it's shows in Mumbai. The show produced by ace theatre name, Raell Padamsee is going in for its second run from this Friday onwards at the Royal Opera House in Mumbai.
The actor is blessed with great vocal skills and was donned with role given his talent he possesses. He's been training to further his skills for live singing under the assistance and tutoring of Marianne.
The actor plays the lead role of Captain Von Trapp opposite Meher Mistry who essays the female lead.
Speaking about his debut as a singer, Arunoday said, "I am training with Marianne. She gets my voice where it needs to be. I think I manage the modulations quite well. Although when I started I sounded like gravel being crushed for live singing."


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From reading the international and national news you would probably never have known that last Thursday and Friday alone, over 700 people were killed in Syria at the hands of jihadists and pro-Assad forces. Muslim on Muslim, Arab on Arab, human on human, whatever you like to think of it as – Western media is doing an awful job of reporting these abhorrent incidences – and I think I know why.
My colleague Jonathan Spyer from the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, and fellow at the Middle East Forum (full disclosure: a position I also hold) noted it best today when he wrote:
“More than 700 people killed in Syria on Thursday and Friday, in the bloodiest two days of the conflict until now. A woman was executed for adultery in Raqqa. None of the above were killed by Jews, however. This presumably explains the total lack of interest by the western media, (and of course by the Islamist/far-left crowd who have been attacking synagogues and so on in Europe in recent days.)”
Yes the preoccupation with how many Muslims are killed by Jews, rather than how many are suffering at the hands of their fellow countrymen/co-religionists is a stark reminder of how natural it is for most people to still focus their attentions on Israel and the Jewish people respectively. Indeed it is this “everyday anti-Semitism” that leads the Guardian to depict the MH17 disaster in the same cartoon as that criticising Israel’s operation in Gaza as if there were some link, and indeed which forces thousands of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists onto the streets of London [link] to demonstrate against Israel – but not so much against ISIS or Bashar al-Assad.
The Asharq al Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday:
More than 700 people were killed in Syria over the course of Thursday and Friday, in what activists say were the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date.
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Rami Abdul Rahman, told Asharq Al-Awsat that this was the first time casualties had topped 700 in the space of two days since the conflict began in 2011. He contrasted the violence to the gas attack in the Ghouta region close to Damascus last year, which he said killed around 500 people.
The UK-based SOHR tracks casualties on both sides of the Syrian conflict by collating reports from a network of observers on the ground in the country.
The final toll was announced after the SOHR reported that 270 people had been killed in fighting between pro-Syrian government forces and militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), when the latter seized the Shaar gas field east of the city of Homs on Friday.
And yet our radios, televisions, and streets are filled with people seekings to condemn and deplore Israel and sometimes even ‘the Jews’.
Is it any wonder then, that France feels it has to ban so-called ‘pro-Palestinian’ rallies?
Finally, the French are ahead of the world on something: recognising anti-Semitism for what it really is… a looming and constant threat to an entire people, furthered by the media, and tacitly endorsed by an unassuming, do-gooder, left-leaning army of full time “activists”.

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The United Nations Human Rights Office of The Commissioner has totally condemns the killings of the #EndSARS peaceful protesters that took place yesterday October 20, 2020 at the Lagos Lekki Toll Gate and immediately requested for the total overhauling and reforms of the security forces in Nigeria as there was indeed total collapse in the intelligence community in Nigeria. The sooner it is done, the better that the New Nigeria would emerge out of the ashes of the gruesome killings of unarmed youths.
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For more than a decade, Steam has dominated the PC gaming market. More than 100 million people have amassed vast game collections on Valve’s platform, not to mention friends and communities. Now Epic is trying to muscle in on Steam’s turf, and a certain segment of PC game players are remarkably mad about that. Here are the reasons why.
“Unfair” exclusive games
The creator of Fortnite and Unreal Engine launched its PC game store stem the tide of toxicity that’s plagued Steam for years.
Epic had a few lower-profile exclusive games during this initial launch, such as Ashen and Hades. But when it began to accumulate a series of increasingly high-profile exclusive games from triple-A studios, like Walking Dead: The Final Season, The Division 2, and (for some reason) the collected works of David Cage, that’s when players began to get angry.
The tipping point was Metro: Exodus. Epic announced its exclusivity on January 28, just two weeks prior to the game’s launch. It was so close to launching that it already had its own Steam page, and many customers had already pre-ordered it on Valve’s service.
Valve itself then entered the conversation — rather than removing the game’s Steam page, it left it online and posted a note that read, in part, that “the decision to remove the game is unfair to Steam customers.” This gave Steam fans their rallying cry: Competition might be good, but Epic’s type of competition was not fair.
Review bombs of earlier games in the series on Steam followed, as did irate mobs on Twitter, Reddit, and other websites. In Metro’s case, some went after people who weren’t even involved in the decision, like Metro book series author Dmitry Glukhovsky.
This has now become standard practice when a high-profile game becomes an Epic exclusive, as most recently seen with Borderlands 3, which also resulted in review bombs and widespread rage.
Why, though, are people this upset? After all, it’s not like big companies haven’t tried to compete with Steam before. Most famously, Electronic Arts migrated its biggest series over to its own homegrown platform Origin back in 2011, causing Steam to miss out on more recent iterations of Battlefield, Titanfall, and Dragon Age, among others.. Origin is far from beloved, but it’s never prompted this kind of outcry, either. Plus, it’s not like these temporary Epic Games Store exclusives are skipping PC. People just have to download another, free launcher to play them.
Perhaps the difference is that Epic isn’t just taking its ball and going home — it’s snatching up a whole Dick’s Sporting Goods’ worth of balls, helmets, and cleats. It’s not just keeping its own games, like Fortnite, off Valve’s platform, but enticing away games from Steam. That seems to be the definition, here, of “unfair” competition.
Leaving Steam features behind
Epic is snaring lots of exclusives at a time when Steam is even more entrenched than it was back when the likes of EA’s Origin and Ubisoft’s Uplay launched. Players like Steam’s robust suite of extra features. Popping open Epic’s launcher means temporarily exiting the Steam ecosystem, leaving behind friends lists (if you choose not to import them), groups, and quality-of-life features with it.
It doesn’t help that booting up Epic’s store is like walking into a post-apocalyptic supermarket. It’s as barren as they come in terms of features, with next to nothing in the way of community tools, cloud saves, achievements, offline modes, wishlists, mod support, user reviews, forums, or other longtime Steam standards. Many of these things are planned, but they’re still a ways off.
Even minor Steam features can mean more to some people than you’d initially expect. As ex-Valve developer Chet Faliszek said over the weekend on Twitter, Valve’s trading card system is more important to some players than you might think. You can earn them by playing games, sell them on the Steam marketplace, and earn cash. “Between them and selling items when I was playing PUBG, I earned enough to buy multiple games,” Faliszek said. “That’s crazy powerful, especially in depressed regions.”
Concerns about “spyware” and/or conspiracy theories
People also accused the Epic Store of mining and sharing Steam data without permission, but Epic said it only sends that data back to itself if users opt into importing their Steam friends lists to the Epic launcher. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney did, however, acknowledge that there was something wrong with the feature as it launched, saying that the launcher should only access those Steam files “after the user chooses to import Steam friends. The version that raised eyebrows, he said, was a “remnant left over from our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite.”
Epic’s Store has also been dogged by security concerns, albeit largely ones stemming from Fortnite’s spotty history in that area. Similarly, Fortnite’s reputation for bad customer service has carried over to the store its countless cartoon millions helped construct, as well as a refund system that’s received mixed reviews. Epic believes that reputation is overblown.
Steam has also had its fair share of large-scale security fiascoes and customer service gaffes over the years. It’s also constantly collecting data about users. But for these same users, these things clearly have not been deal-breakers.
Then there are the Chinese conspiracy theories. Yes, it’s time to go down a rabbit hole. The conspiracy theories stem from the aforementioned spyware accusations and the fact that Chinese company Tencent, one of the biggest video game companies in the world, owns 40 per cent of Epic. The Epic Store’s most vocal opponents have decided that Epic and Tencent are selling users’ data to the Chinese government.
These fears are, to be clear, outlandish, but not entirely outside the realm of possibility, given that the Chinese government likes to buddy up with big companies, and some, like telecommunications giant Huawei, have been accused of colluding with the Chinese government in pursuit of espionage. However, Tencent also owns portions of Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Riot, Discord, and Paradox, among others, and there’s been no funny business to speak of. In addition, Epic says that Tencent is one of many investors, not a shadowy dictator.
Last week, Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney directly addressed the conspiracy theories in a Twitter thread. “I support everyone’s right to complain about tech industry stuff,” he said. “Epic’s store, with exclusive games and a spartan feature set, is a fine target for ire. But please help separate facts and opinions from the lies about spyware and foreign control. I’m the controlling shareholder in Epic Games, and have been since 1991. We have a number of outside investors now. Tencent is the largest. All of Epic’s investors our [sic] friends and partners. None can dictate decisions to Epic. None have access to Epic customer data.”
A vision of a fragmented PC future breaking up Steam’s convenient monopoly
On its own, Epic’s store is an inconvenience, a few extra clicks before you can play a cool new game. That’s literally it right now. It doesn’t force you to spend additional money just to install it, nor does it, say, delete Steam from your PC. But if everybody starts fleeing from Steam, PC gaming could become a jumbled mess of disparate game stores, collections, and communities, each with their own rules and quality standards.
Steam, for all its flaws, has unified and standardised PC gaming. However, it’s never been a complete monopoly. Blizzard games like World of Warcraft and, more recently, Overwatch have always had their own ecosystem. So has League of Legends. For years, though, games like that felt like outliers. In recent years, we’ve seen more continental drift, with Activision adding Call of Duty and Destiny to Blizzard’s launcher while Bethesda chose (at least, temporarily) to go its own way with Fallout 76.
Meanwhile, other major players like Discord have launched stores with their own, lower-profile exclusive programs. With these things in mind, you can see why some Steam users might have a dystopian vision of the future. Some imagine a world in which the Epic Games Store kills Steam and replaces it as the biggest PC gaming mega-mart in town, forcing people to re-buy games they’d previously owned on Steam. There’s no evidence this will actually happen, given that Steam is still doing just fine and Valve has more money than several real-world nations, but that hasn’t stopped people from extrapolating what’s happening right now into a potent worst-case scenario.
They’ve been dealing with Valve’s version of “fairness” for years
It makes sense that Steam users would view things like this through a lens of perceived “fairness” even if Valve hadn’t used the word itself. After all, their default for more than a decade has been Valve’s ecosystem and the messaging about openness and fairness that accompanies it. Valve has spent years implementing laissez-faire, free-market policies for everything from game releases to user reviews to community groups and then reacting to controversies stemming from those policies by opening things up even more.
In its messaging over the years, Valve has continually stressed a dedication to keeping Steam open and fair, at least by its own definitions of the terms. It has designed a series of systems and charts that, on their face, seem impersonal and unbiased. The core underlying structure of Steam is an algorithm that’s meant to serve up game recommendations to users on a meritocratic basis. Based on what players previously have seemed to like and other factors like prior popularity, review scores, and wishlists, games get more visibility or they don’t. Steam is, seemingly, guided purely by the market. All games are locked in gladiatorial combat for attention. Each one has an equal chance. The best games rise, while merely decent and, of course, bad games fall.
It is through this lens that Steam users define what constitutes “fair” and “unfair” competition. They can define what unfair competition looks like in a heartbeat. It’s any overt attempts to undermine this entrenched, often-taken-for-granted system. Within Steam, that might mean “fake” games intended to help people farm trading cards or achievements — games that aren’t traditionally “good,” but also aren’t really hurting anybody, by Valve’s measure. Despite this, these games have drawn a disproportionate amount of ire over the years, and Valve has historically done a poor job of shutting that ire down.
The same goes for developers who game the review system, or delete comments on forums. In the grand scheme of things, few developers actually do this, but Steam users view any instance of it as symptomatic of a larger rot. Epic, too, is gaming Steam’s ostensibly fair system. It’s throwing money around to lock down highly anticipated games for arbitrary periods of time on PC, where all borders are ultimately arbitrary and the default is Steam. Epic isn’t testing its mettle against competitors on an even playing field, the line of thinking goes; it’s giving itself an artificial advantage with heaping gobs of cash.
But that notion of fairness is ultimately illusory, born of the way Valve has run its business since Steam began making enough money for it to transform into an IRL version of the company from Portal. The algorithm is continually designed and updated by human beings, and has biases. Sometimes Valve performs experiments on it with unintended consequences that benefit big games over small ones. Other times, it works exactly as intended, but tends to prioritise games that are already popular.
The free market is rarely, if ever, actually free, and competition, especially inside a well-oiled money-making machine like Steam, isn’t fair. People game the system precisely because Steam is unfair. Success often comes down to who can ride luck, the wax and wane of genre preferences, timing, gimmicks, algorithmic shifts, and even underhanded tactics like lying about release dates to the top of a select handful of charts that go a disproportionately long way toward determining success or failure.
This inherent unfairness is present, too, in the competition between Steam and Epic, and it creates a similar sort of tension that Steam users can only vent through rage. In theory, “fair” competition would involve another service coming along with a better feature set than Steam and winning the day on merit alone. Easy enough. But, nestled within that sleek shell of simplicity is a briar ball of thorny particularities. What features could possibly lure Steam users away from their gargantuan game libraries on a store where everybody releases by default? In what sense is it “fair” that Valve has those things going for them? How can anyone hope to level that playing field and create a competitive environment that’s truly fair?
This is not to say that Valve has committed some great injustice by being so successful. Rather, the point is that there’s no such thing as fair competition at the scale Valve and Epic are operating on. The great equaliser (or un-equaliser, as it were) is, as ever, money. That’s infuriating to realise. It is the colossal bummer at the heart of capitalism. This has been like razor blades for Steam users to swallow because it seems to have been effective. Last month, Epic said that Metro Exodus sold two and a half times as many copies at launch as its predecessor, Metro: Last Light, did on Steam. It’s not just that Epic is using tactics that are perceived as “unfair.” It’s that those tactics are working.
The hate for the Epic Store stems from a variety of concerns. Some of them, like the store’s threadbare feature set, are legitimate, even if they don’t merit this degree of response. Other concerns, however, are conspiracy or conjecture, and all of the anger has been amplified by the megaphone of Steam’s own longtime rhetoric and structural issues. We’ve got a messy, drawn-out fight on our hands, and since Epic doesn’t seem like it’s finished snagging major exclusives for its store, things are probably just going to get messier before the dust settles.
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Philo Coming to More Devices This Summer
In an interview with CNET, Philo’s CEO disclosed that the live streaming service will be available on more streaming devices this summer.
“The live-TV streaming company will work on Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV devices this summer, CEO Andrew McCollum said last week. An Android mobile app is next on the roadmap.”
The $16 / month service has been dubbed the entertainment bundle because it includes many top channels from A&E, AMC, Discovery, Scripps, and Viacom, but has no sports or news channels. The biggest hold up for the service is that it only works on iOS, Roku, and your browser.
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That work costs a bit more money. Not always but sometimes.
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Beekman 1802’s #TimeToBeKind campaign is raising money for The Jed Foundation—with the help of mascot ‘Goatie’ & TikTok star Davis Burleson.
The beauty company, known for its goat milk skincare, launched its #TimeToBeKind campaign to challenge communities to spread kindness through TikTok challenges. The brand is also raising funds for The Jed Foundation.
“There’s Beauty in Kindness,” the brand says.
Jill Scalamandre, CEO, Beekman 1802, says, “As a goat milk skincare brand with Kindness in our DNA, we are excited to celebrate World Kindness Day today, and every day. Since the beginning, we have made it our brand’s purpose to develop efficacious skincare using Kind ingredients, like our signature goat milk, while spreading Kindness to the planet, animals, and our community.”
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“Goatie,” Beekman 1802’s mascot, will take over Ulta Beauty’s Herald Square location to spread kindness with complimentary goat milk laattes and “Goat Poop Hot Chocolate” from a bright yellow Kindness Coffee Cart.
TikTok megastar, Davis Burleson will bring his rapid-fire man-on-the-street interviews to Herald Square on Sunday November 13th, and alongside Goatie, he will ask shoppers about Kindness.
Penny Coy, vice president of merchandising, Ulta Beauty, says, “We are proud to be the exclusive retail partner to such an innovative, inclusive brand…Not only do our guests love their products, but they embrace how the brand values kindness above all else. Ulta Beauty is thrilled to welcome even more kind moments in our stores and appreciates all the important steps Beekman 1802 is doing to make our communities and the world a better place.”
Beekman 1802 co-founders Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell will host two Kindness Workshops on November 12th at Ulta Beauty, The Shops at Valley Square, in Warrington, PA.
After, there will be a meet and greet outside the store with special guests – baby goats.
Beekman 1802 will also host in-store events at 65 Ulta Beauty locations across the country, offering various gifts with purchase, skincare consultations, free swag, Instagram-worthy photo opportunities, Kindness activities, and more.


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The groups paint a picture of statewide confusion from poll workers and voters over acceptable proof of residency, along with a lack of preparation for the high voter turnout that was seen across Wisconsin during the June 5 recall election.
"What we saw were issues that could lead to disenfranchisement," said Andrea Kaminski, executive director for Wisconsin's League of Women Voters.
The league, along with Wisconsin Election Protection - a coalition that includes the American Civil Liberties Union, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, AFL-CIO and Milwaukee-based immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera - based the conclusions on reports filed by over 150 observers at polling places throughout the state.
Under a law passed last summer, voters are required to live at their voting address for 28 consecutive days before an election, up from the previous 10-day residency requirement. To register to vote, voters must prove residency using a limited list of identification sources.
Those rules, along with inadequate staffing and training for election officials, led to confusion, long waits and voters being improperly turned away, according to the Wisconsin Election Protection report. Both reports concluded that students, who are more transient and less likely to possess the documents needed to prove residency, were most likely to face voting difficulties. Because of changes in the law, parents could not corroborate the validity of college students living at home during the summer who did not have proof of residence.
In some respects, the reports' findings mirror claims of voting irregularities leveled predominantly by Republicans following the recall election and subsequent recount in Racine County. Unlike Republican leaders, neither the League nor the Wisconsin Election Protection alluded to the possibility of widespread voter fraud.
The reports called for increased staffing at polling places and improved poll-worker training, as well as restoration of voters' ability to corroborate a fellow resident's voting address.
The Government Accountability Board, the state agency tasked with overseeing elections, has already pledged to increase clerk training and preparation ahead of November's general election.
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A local candy store owner allegedly stabbed a homeless woman to death because she stole from his shop and was always outside.
On April 30 at 7:47 p.m., Tacoma Police Department officers responded to a call on South 9th and Market streets regarding a man assaulting a female. Police say the suspect fled the scene when a witness tried to approach. Officers located an injured 37-year-old woman and attempted lifesaving measures, but she died at the scene.
Tacoma Police say the suspect returned to the area and was arrested at 8:42 p.m. The victim’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
According to court documents cited by KCPQ-TV, a witness reportedly saw the suspect, Abdelhakim Choubabi, attacking the woman with a “long stick or pole.”
After the alleged stabbing, Choubabi and another man reportedly drove to a restaurant where he admitted to killing the homeless woman. The friend reportedly told him to speak with police, so they went back to the candy store.
The court documents say Choubabi, who had to speak via an interpreter, told police the woman urinated in front of his shop, stole things, and “smelled bad.” The day of the stabbing, Choubabi reportedly called police and asked to have her moved from in front of his store. Police reportedly turned around when they saw her leaving.
The woman also allegedly stole sunglasses and condoms from Choubabi’s store, and he followed her to take them back. She allegedly hit him, then he went to retrieve his sword.
Police reportedly recovered a “large Samurai-type sword” inside. Choubabi reportedly told police he “intended to kill” the woman.
KCPQ reports the woman’s cause of death was multiple stab wounds.
Pierce County Jail records show Choubabi was booked on a first-degree murder charge and his bail is set at $1.5 million cash or bail bond.

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Cute DIY Paint Chip Calendar Idea | Things You Can Make Using Paint Chips & Cool Craft Project Ideas For Teens By DIY Ready. http://diyready.com/fun-creative-diy-paint-chip-calendar/#
DIY sunshine. Ok, now that is AWESOME! I'm thinking our new welcome mat with a nice coat of polyurethane over the top
DIY Pallet Coffee Cup Holder
DIY - so many good ideas
Squares of burlap, fall stencils, and colorful ribbon are all you need to turn a Mason jar into a rustic autumn tableau.

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BALTIMORE — Baltimore County Police need your help in identifying three people in reference to a well-being check.
These three individuals were last seen Saturday in the area of Eastern Avenue at 1 a.m.
A police spokesperson says officers are looking into the well-being of the child and the woman in the photos. The male appears to just be in their company. We are looking to identify everyone pictured.
As of right now, the investigation is on-going. We will provide an update when more information is released.
🚨🚨#BCoPD needs your assistance! Help us identify/check on the well being of persons pictured below. Last seen in the area of Eastern Ave 21224 today at 1am. Please call 911 or (410) 307-2020 with any information ^GB🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/6qsOMtSkxV— Baltimore County Police Department (@BaltCoPolice) June 11, 2022


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Silers Bald has achieved unheard of success during its seven years as an independent band. The musical blend that Warren Bazemore, Jason Jacobs, Marcus Myers and Shane Williams put together, using strong melodies, beautiful harmonies and a mixed feel of music explain why. The ballad like sound of many of the songs, tied together with lyrics that reach out and touch you make Real Life a winner.
In their debut release with Essential Records, they jump right into it with Got Me Smilin'. The song itself reminded me a great deal of an early version of Steven Curtis Chapman. Real Life, the title track, continues the theme of excellent work. This song has a flow and feel that would make guitar legend Joe Satriani proud. Powerful lyrics on top of the pile made this one of my favorite cuts. The chorus speaks of something that all people, both Christian and non-Christian alike can relate to ... "I wanna live, I wanna breathe the air and touch the sky. I wanna live, I wanna fly high. I wanna live, I wanna be set free so catch me breathless with real life. It's what my heart was always looking for." My Heart will sing is a Celtic sounding ballad with beautiful lyrics and a good message. Feel, track six, was an interesting song with a definitely catchy tune. Other personal favorites of mine are Turn and Truly Gifted. Track List: Got Me Smilin', Real Life, My Heart Will Sing, Emmanuel, Carolina Line, Feel, So On, All I Can Be, Room Song, Turn, Truly Gifted
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Retired Special Forces Major F. Andy Messing, who founded the National Defense Council Foundation in 1978 to popularize the idea of low-intensity conflict, tells The Beltway Beat of a private meeting he had on Sept. 30, 2002, with Bush senior adviser Karl Rove, during which the veteran of the Vietnam War (among other conflicts) warned against a conventional U.S. military assault on Baghdad.
"My associate, (NDCF President) Milt Copulos, and I met with Karl Rove and his deputy in Rove's office in the White House," Messing reveals. "At that time, I warned Karl that a conventional military operation into Iraq was not a good idea, and that a 'commando' group should target (Saddam Hussein) and his main boys.
"I described how. I told him at the time that a conventional operation would cost over $100 billion and over 1,000 KIA (killed in action), which it did in the first phase - only to go up to $500 billion and 2,600 (U.S. war dead) now," notes Messing, who presented a modus operandi "to take out Saddam." (The Pentagon's current official count stands at just under 2,400 dead.)
Ironically, both White House visitors told Rove that a major energy crisis would likely follow on the heels of any major U.S. intervention in Iraq, affecting America's economy and possibly destroying the legacy of President Bush.
"I turned the meeting over to Milt, a celebrated energy expert, and he predicted in detail when it was going to happen, exactly how much gasoline (prices) would go to, and how it would ripple in and cripple the economy," Messing notes.
Rove, he says, requested additional proof beyond the briefing paper the pair presented him, which the NDCF later produced at a cost of $68,000.
"The bottom line is we tried to warn them - quietly, and as a team players - everything from radical Muslims were going to attack on Bush's watch, to conventional forces rolling tanks into Iraq was a bad idea, to the coming energy problem. They didn't listen," Messing states. "And the American people are taking it in the shorts."
President Bush wins "man about campus" honors this year, delivering commencement addresses to students and cadets of, to name several, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Perkinston, Oklahoma State University, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Tulane University in New Orleans.
Students at the latter institution, in fact, will be treated to not one, but a pair of graduation-day addresses on May 13, the second delivered by former President Bill Clinton. (There is no truth to the rumor that Clinton has been adopted by the Bush family.)
First lady Laura Bush will appear before Vanderbilt University's senior class, as well as graduates of Roger Williams College in Rhode Island. But top honors for the most creative graduation ceremony go to George Washington University, which will welcome on stage both former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, for a "commencement co-address," if you will.
Other notable 2006 speakers from the political arena include former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards, a Democrat, who will resurface at the University of Maine; his running mate, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a guest of Kenyon College in Ohio; retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who will appear at the University of Texas at Austin; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell at Arlington's Marymount University; Arizona Sen. John McCain at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University; Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as guest of Northwestern University; and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, who sounds off at Southern Methodist University.
From the pulpit, Australia's most prominent church leader, George Cardinal Pell, will join Christendom College's graduating class of 2006 in Front Royal, Va., while Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick will be welcomed to Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is honored guest of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg.
Crashing Fort Lauderdale this spring break will be Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," appearing no doubt under tight security at Nova Southeastern University. Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw is off to Florida State University, while Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan is to grace the beautiful campus of High Point University in North Carolina.
From the Fourth Estate, columnist Robert D. Novak hopefully will expand on the CIA-leak case during his remarks to students of Thomas More College in Kentucky. And last but never least, CNN's Wolf Blitzer will address esteemed graduates of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, this columnist's alma mater, which will confer an honorary doctorate of humane letters on "The Situation Room" host.
MEET THE BEETLES
Number of beetles that right-wing entomologists have named after Bush administration officials: 3 - Harper's Index, May 2006
1918 AND 1996
After reading Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter's new book about the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, it becomes clear why the ghost of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt chose 1996 - the year of President Clinton's scandalous affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky - to "converse" with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Actually, "commiserate" is a better word.
It was in 1918, while unpacking Mr. Roosevelt's bags after a trip to Europe, that Mrs. Roosevelt discovered a bundle of love letters to her husband from her former social secretary, Lucy Mercer, the author recalls in "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope."
While her husband's affair, like Clinton's in 1996, lasted only a few months, Mrs. Roosevelt's "wound would be permanent, but so was her determination to continue investing in Franklin's future," Alter notes. "In the remaining 27 years of their marriage, they formed a political partnership in which she became her husband's willing instrument."
As Mrs. Roosevelt recalled: "He might have been happier with a wife who was completely uncritical. That I was never able to be, and he had to find it in other people."
At the time of Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1962, reveals Alter, a tattered clipping was discovered atop her bedside table. It was the poem "Psyche," by Virginia Moore, with the lines: "The soul that had believed/and was deceived/ends by believing more/than ever before."
Scrawled across the top was simply: "1918."
"Promptly a few minutes before 12 I looked up from the desk and there stood Stalin in the doorway."
Or so we read for the first time in President Truman's personal diary, describing his first meeting with Josef Stalin on July 17, 1945. The diary is just one sample of a major exhibition entitled "Eyewitness: American originals from the National Archives" - letters, diaries, photographs and other materials selected from billions of documents in the holdings of the Archives - set to open in Washington this summer.


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World Without End follows Pillars of the Earth. A wonderful story of old England
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Comparable to Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett is a wonderful author who brings his characters to life. His research comes alive in his narrative of the characters of old England. I read Pillars of the Earth three times and I'm doing the same with World Without End. Follett's characters are so vivid I can imagine how they looked and how they lived their lives. Although World Without End stands by itself, I feel that reading Pillars of the Earth first gives more meaning to World Without End. I believe these two novels will be on bookshelves a hundred years from now.

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Disinflation, economic resilience, full employment... a soft landing seems to be on the horizon, despite the persistence of major macroeconomic and financial imbalances.
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A great unit to showcase magazines, comics or graphic novels. Face-forward covers are easy to browse and touch. A neat metal rail stops them flopping over and getting untidy. Perfect for children’s libraries or school libraries. Graphic novels and magazines are a good way of attracting reluctant readers and this Magazine / Graphic Novel Unit is the perfect way to capture their interest. Supplied with both Magazines and Graphic Novels graphics so you can choose a the header as you prefer.
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The First Amendment states that “congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This research explores American support for religious pluralism through an examination of attitudes toward religious freedom. Specifically, this project explores support for (1) the ability to choose one’s own religion, (2) the practice of religion in daily life without facing discrimination, (3) the practice of religious beliefs even when those are contrary to majority practices, (4) prayer or worship without fear of persecution, and (5) tolerance and respect regarding beliefs about God.
This research merges 2019 and 2020 Religious Freedom Index data to create a unique and comprehensive dataset of over 2,000 respondents. Preliminary analysis reveals that there are generational, racial, and gendered differences among attitudes toward religious pluralism freedoms. For example, Generation Z and Millennials are less supportive of religious freedoms than Generation X and Baby Boomers. In contrast, previous scholarship shows that religious identities have become more fluid leading younger generations to have higher interfaith tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. This research breaks the bounds of previous scholarship by exploring the potential reasons for this apparent contradiction. As technology advances and demographics shift toward greater diversity, our perspective on First Amendment freedoms is crucial to understanding fellow Americans and the future path of our pluralistic society.


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Educating Joey Essex has been our guilty pleasure ever since the first episode aired, and with the General Election just a month away, Joey has decided to film what could very well be the best episode ever.
Yep, the former TOWIE star is going to be questioning Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage and Prime Minister David Cameron for an ITV2 special all about politics ahead of the May 7 election – and he’s already got a chat and a selfie with Nick Clegg under his belt.
We genuinely cannot wait for this.
Joey’s first lesson? The name of Nick’s party. That’s the Liberal DemocRats, Joey, not the DemocAts.
We’re not sure what Democats are, but we’re assuming they’re a group of cats who record their own demo singles. Or maybe it’s a demo version of that ‘Cats’ game we used to play on our 90s computer.
Maybe Democats is slang for kittens.
Ahem. Anyway, Joey was attending a press conference for the Deputy Prime Minister and his political party as part of his Educating Joey Essex series when he made the faux pas.
The 24-year-old asked: “Why are they called the Liberal Democrats? It’s a long word, innit? It’s two words!”
Nick, 48, replied: “There used to be a Liberal Party and then the Social Democrats and they got together,” but was caught unawares and left confused later in their conversation when the reality TV star asked why the Lib Dems’ had ‘cat’s in their name.
Joey said: “I was wondering that. I thought it was quite a weird word in it – it’s got cats in it. What’s the cats about?”
Laughing, Nick replied: “It’s not ‘cats’, it’s ‘crats’.”
You learn something new every day, eh?
Luckily, Nick and the Liberal Democrats have seen a funny side to Joey’s misunderstanding, and have even changed the logo on their webpage to one of a cat. AMAZING.
As well as being truly educated, Joey even managed to blag a selfie with the Deputy Prime Minister, taking the opportunity to introduce the ‘strapsie’ into Nick’s life.
The accessory is apparently used to stop people dropping their phones when they’re taking selfies, which actually sounds like quite a good idea.
We’re not sure how many selfies Nick takes on a daily basis, but you just never know when these things will come in handy.
On a more serious note, Joey is hoping the series will teach him more about politics and will help him decide who he should vote for, which is an important decision to make.
He recently said: “I’ve never voted before, but I’m really excited about getting to meet some of the most important people in the country to help me make my decision. I reckon I’ll take some pretty reem selfies too.”
Nice one, Joey.
Joey will also get the chance to tour the Houses of Parliament during the series, and has already admitted that all he knows about Ed Miliband’s party is that it’s red.
Well, it’s a start.
The general election takes place on May 7, and you’ve got until 20 April to register to vote HERE if you haven’t done so already.
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