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Owen Paul Honors, Jr. (Born ca. 1961) is a U.S. Navy officer who served as captain of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) prior to being relieved due to a scandal arising from videos he made and showed aboard the same vessel while serving as executive officer.

Early life and education

Honors, the son of Owen Paul Honors Sr, was born and raised in Clay, New York.^[1] He graduated from Cicero High School in 1979.^[2] In 1983, Honors graduated with a BSc degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. He then went on to obtain a master of arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Military career

Designated a Naval Aviator in September 1985,^[3] Honors completed initial F-14 training with the “Grim Reapers” of VF-101. Honors was then assigned to the “Be-Devilers” of VF-74, and deployed aboard USS Saratoga (CV 60) to the Mediterranean Sea. During this tour, he attended U.S. Naval Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and was selected to attend U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, graduating in 1990. His tour was completed at the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate in Patuxent River, Md., in the carrier suitability department.

On June 4, 1992 Owens suffered minor injuries when his T-45A Goshawk training jet skidded off the runway.^[4] He delayed ejecting until he could prevent a collision with a nearby occupied van.^[5]

In April 1993, Honors joined the “Black Aces” of VF-41 for his department head tour deploying on board USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). While attached to VF-41, he served as both Operations and Maintenance Officer conducting combat operations in the former Republic of Yugoslavia and Iraq.

Following his Master's degree from Naval War College in September 1996, he reported to U.S. Atlantic Command for joint duty as the Joint Reconnaissance Center Branch Head. During this tour, Honors was selected for aviation command.

In October 1999, Honors reported to the “Fighting Checkmates” of VF-211, deploying on board USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Honors assumed command of the “Checkmates” in February 2001. While attached to the “Checkmates,” he deployed twice to the Western Pacific/Persian Gulf. His second deployment was on short notice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom soon after the events of 9/11.

Honors reported to the Bureau of Personnel (BUPERS) as the head junior officer detailer in May 2002. He was selected for carrier executive officer in October 2002 and departed BUPERS in October 2003 to begin Aviation Nuclear Officer training. He reported as Executive Officer of USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in July 2005, deploying twice prior to departing in September 2007.

In January 2008, Honors assumed command of the U.S. Sixth Fleet Command Ship, USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) homeported in Gaeta, Italy. In September 2008 Honors commanded USS Mount Whitney during Operation Assured Delivery as the ship supported humanitarian assistance missions in the Republic of Georgia during its armed conflict with Russia. Honors was quoted as saying that the mission was, "...not a show of force—it's a show of solidarity."^[6]

He has 3,400 flight hours in 31 types of aircraft with more than 700 landings on 15 carriers. He has flown 85 combat missions in three different theaters.

On 6 May 2010, Honors was appointed the 21st commander of the USS Enterprise. Replacing Capt. Ron Horton, he was scheduled to be the last commanding officer of the ship before it is decommissioned.^[1] On 4 January 2011, he was relieved of this command.

Controversial videos

On 3 January 2011, Honors was under investigation for videos he produced, one set entitled "XO Movie Night," filmed on the USS Enterprise, and aired via closed circuit television on select Saturday evenings, while he was Executive Officer of the Enterprise.^[7] Three complete videos, produced for distributon over the ship's closed circuit video system, have been released by The Virginian-Pilot.^[8][9][10] One video shows two male Navy sailors standing in a shower stall pretending to wash each other, and two female sailors pretending to shower together to conserve water; sailors parading in drag; some language that has been described as homophobic slurs; and there are scenes of simulated masturbation and a simulated rectal exam.^[11]

The videos were shown on board in 2006 and 2007.

When officers higher in the chain of command became aware of Honors' videos in 2007, he was instructed to cease their production but no further action was taken.^[12]

On 4 January 2011, as related in the New York Times:

Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the commander of the United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon that Captain Honors was removed for demonstrating poor judgment. “The responsibility of the commanding officer for his or her command is absolute,” Admiral Harvey said in the statement. “ While Captain Honors’ performance as commanding officer of U.S.S. Enterprise has been without incident, his profound lack of good judgment and professionalism while previously serving as executive officer on Enterprise calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command.”^[13]

Admiral Harvey also said in the statement that after viewing the videos, he had lost confidence in Captain Honors’ ability to lead effectively.

Honors was reassigned to an administrative role. The admiral said the Navy continues to investigate the case of the videos from 2006 and 2007 and will look into what other officers aboard the USS Enterprise knew about them.^[14][15]

Awards and honors

Honors is the recipient of the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, multiple Air Medals, Meritorious Service Medal, and various campaign/unit awards.

Sources

External links

• Global Security .com's info on the Enterprise Strike Group's (ENTSG) "MED 06" deployment.
• Global Security .com's info on the Enterprise Strike Group's (ENTSG) "MED 07" deployment (7 July 2007 to 19 December 2007) led by the strike group commander, Rear Adm. Dan Holloway.
• The Navy's Official Bio on RADM Rice states that he is on the staff of the Joint Forces Command.Wikipedia:DEL and Policy content such as WP:IDL that directly address the conduct of discussion should be the only standard.

DEL#Reason does not limit itself to its own provisions because policy does not automatically inform editors, should an exception come up. Essays such as Fancruft are not an exception, or they would have been listed; they are based on subjective assessments. Objective reasoning, not interpretations, is the way to make arguments in AfD. That is the reasoning behind IDONTLIKE (a discussion conduct rule); editor's subjective impressions of things are not good policy. Everything outside of DEL, that does not obviously present itself as being a problem necessitating additions to DEL, is Policycruft. Fancruft is particularly insidious because it allows what would be a strength in other articles, depth of information, to be used against articles on games, films, TV series and music. It is just systemic bias turned into an essay. Political articles are deleted without as much regard to rules, based solely on the political biases of the closer and 'voters'.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blogs Withdrawn from AfD

cat:Microfinance sub of Banking | Credit | Development | Mutualism cat mutualism sub of Social movements | Cooperatives | Social systems | Insurance

The International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions Cooperative Banking Alternative finance microfinance microcredit microgrant microloan

The International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI) is an umbrella organization of microfinance operations spanning 38 countries across 3 continents: Asia, Africa and Latin America. With a mandate to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), INAFI seeks to alleviate poverty, provide access to health care and education, as well as promote gender equality through its 118 member organizations.

External links

• INAFI
• INAFI Asia
• INAFI Africa
• INAFI Latin America

http://www.maduraisymposium.in/symposium05/docs/INAFI-Micro_Insurance.pdf 2005 conference

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Justin Capră

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Justin Capră (born 22 February 1933) (Iustin) is a Romanian inventor. He was born in Măgureni, Prahova, Romania.

He invented and built small vehicles that consumed very little fuel. Before that, he invented an individual jet device, which allows a person to fly by jet.

His invention has never been patented or applied.

Without support from the Romanian government or private companies, he built his tiny vehicles mostly on his own. Capra's most famous car was the Soleta 150 Ecor; it had a total weight of 95 kg and was capable of covering 100 km on 0.5 liters of fuel.Template:Citation needed He also produced another model, the Soleta I.C.200, which could reach 67 km/h. None of his cars have been produced commercially.

References

• MaÅŸina cu cel mai mic consum at hotnews.ro ( Sâmbătă, 26 May 2007)
• Justin Capră: inventator, măturător, filozof ÅŸi pustnic at gandul.ro (14 February 2008)

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Wikipedia:Primary Global Research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Primary_Global_Research Crooks that got caught. Older version of the page is more ad spam, but also less whitewashing of the crimes.

Primary Global Research, LLC (PGR) is an award-winning, independent investment research firm that provides buy-side financial institutions with primary market intelligence generated through a global network of industry experts. PGR is an innovator in the delivery of primary information with varied options for clients including carefully matched, direct consultations with experts; data with additive insight and analysis generated by PGR’s in-house analyst staff and interactive access to its entire information universe via a proprietary digital information portal.

Founded as a technology industry specialist in 2003, PGR has grown and maintained its award winning technology coverage and expanded its business coverage to include eight key industry sectors: technology, alternative energy/cleantech, healthcare, financial services, real estate, energy, industrials and commodities, retail and media and Internet. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with satellite offices in New York City, San Francisco, Taipei and the Philippines.

Corporate Overview

Primary Research

Unlike financial analysis in which a sell-side firm or independent sell-side analyst favorably or unfavorably compares a company's operating and stock valuation to a financial and/or industry peer group based on structured filings with the SEC and informational meetings with senior management at the company and its suppliers and customers, primary or fundamental company or industry research is focused strictly on the development of data that illustrate the competitive advantages of a company, a market and/or a technology.^[1]

Expert networks are primarily utilized by hedge funds, long-only investors(mutual funds and pension funds), private equity investors and corporate clients. Expert network research services were originally used by corporations and consulting firms that looked for advice from industry experts to gauge their competitive environment, time product launches, or assess potential pricing and revenue that could be achieved.^[2] Research conducted by expert networks involves a transfer of knowledge from an expert to a client. The three components of the network are: 1)the client/investor, 2) the intermediary(expert network), and 3) individual experts.

Until the advent of PGR, expert network-based research firms did not usually provide advice, analysis or recommendations nor did they typically have a direct role in consultations, except for providing assistance in scheduling and interpretation where there is a language barrier.^[3]

PGR Differentiated Model

PGR was one of the first expert-network research firms to offer clients value-added analytical services in addition to expert consultations. This stemmed from the founders’ collective experience and expertise in the their respective industries and led to the development of customized research reports, group meetings and conferences, and specialized network surveys in addition to access to industry experts.

This specialization has contributed to PGR’s reputation for exact matching of client requests with expert knowledge and information. PGR added to its in-house expertise by adding staff analysts that brought in-depth knowledge as a specialist in a specific industry sector or sectors and whose background facilitated the development of an extended and global network of experts along with the familiarity to connect clients to exactly the right industry expert.

As acknowledged in independent assessments of the company, one of PGR’s key strengths and points of differentiation is its ability to view and understand information as it exists within a complex web of interdependent forces — what PGR refers to as an “ecosystem” — in manufacturing, shipping, product development, geographic demand and supply and production economics.^[4]

PGR's analysts are well regarded^[5] and frequently contribute insight and commentary in leading business and financial news publications^[6][7][8] and broadcasts, including Bloomberg Business News, Bloomberg TV, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's among others.^[9][10][11]

Going beyond specialized in-house expertise, PGR has been an innovator in how primary data is delivered to clients outside the traditional one-on-one method. The company created and refined a unique digital media portal through which clients and experts initiate and develop research projects as well as access information and insight from experts and analysts working in every industry sector PGR covers.^[12] This access includes current and historical primary information on companies, markets, geographies and entire industries and makes it possible for clients to conduct in-depth primary research from their desktop in real time.

Trading Desk

Another differentiating element in PGR's business model is the creation of a trading desk operation, PGR Securities LLC, member SIPC and FINRA. The trading operation is a client service for those that prefer to work on the basis of direct trades for services.^[13] Clients can trade via the agency-only model, under which PGR does not take a position and that allows investors to trade without competing with their internal trading desk.^[14]

Industry Sector Coverage

PGR currently provides independent investment research and consulting services in eight key industry sectors. The firms coverage includes: technology, healthcare, retail, alternative energy/cleantech, financial services, media & internet, real estate, and energy & industrials. Each sector led by a Vertical Manager who draws on data channels to stay informed, evaluate data, and share ideas and expertise.

Technology

In 2010, PGR was named the Top Pick in technology industry research by Integrity Research, an independent online news and information services about the sell-side research industry.^[15]

Healthcare

Healtcare sector coverage includes medical devices, biopharmaceutical industry, biotechnology industry, clinical research, healthcare consulting and the managed care industry.

Retail

Consumer goods and retail sector covers apparel retailers, retail department stores, retail brands, consumer electronics, personal care, consumer packaged goods, sports and gaming, and the hospitality industry.

Alternative Energy & Cleantech

Alternative energy and cleantech sector covers alternative and/or renewable energy sector (wind, solar, biofuels), also energy efficiency (smart grid, utilities, grid infrastructure) and cleantech industries.

Financial Services

Financial services sector covers a broad range of financial services industries, from consumer lending and homebuilding to insurance and legal services.

Energy, Industrials & Commodities

The energy, Industrials & Commodities sector gathers information from sources ranging from C-level exceutive to manufacturers to provide information on industries including metal & materials, specialty chemical & synthetics, paper, iron & steel, and automotive among others.

Media & Internet

PGR Media involves film studios, TV & cable networks, cable & satellite, exhibitors, home video, newspapers & publishing, videogames, out-of-home and media technology. Internet sectors include internet media, ecommerce and chinese Internet.

Real Estate

Coverage in PGR’s Real Estate sector includes commercial, mall, office and resort, residential, single and multifamily, industrial and specialty, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), mortgage origination, servicing and collections, securitization and collateralized products, Government-sponsored enterprises (GSE), and Homebuilding and property development.

Real-time Information Delivery

Push Technology

PGR provides its clients with a push-based research model that delivers written notes and updates i.e., information on new developments and outcomes as they occur, from experts from all sectors and geographies in the PGR network.

The information is collected, verified, organized and issued to clients based on their individual interests via e-mail, the network portal or a phone call from an in-house analyst.

According to a comprehensive independent study conducted on expert networks, PGR's 'push' research model is a unique service among expert networks.^[16] The push model allowed clients to gain additional value from PGR's network, even when they were not engaged in direct consultations.^[17]

Network Portal

PGR offers institutional investors access to a real-time stream of new information and thousands of industry experts through an online network portal.^[18] Clients can access the network portal to find new information and industry consultants, view detailed biographical information on PGR's experts, and set up calls or face-to-face meetings with an expert. PGR's "Network Views," written summaries of reports initiated by the firm's in-house analysts, can be viewed on the portal. The portal allows clients to view the biographies of GATE experts and view the individual responses of the experts that are questioned on a "Network View" topic.

ExpertPulse

ExpertPulse is the newest of PGR’s digital information portals and provides experts and clients with the ability communicate directly and independently. With ExpertPulse, clients can query individual experts or a community of experts to generate information, thoughts about particular premises and in-the-moment information needs. Conversely, experts and PGR analysts can push specific information to specific clients based on their stated interests.^[19]

PGR developed and implemented ExpertPulse in 2009 and continues to improve the technology to improve its responsiveness and relevancy to client interests, uses, and the dissemination of expert and PGR analyst information.

Compliance

PGR’s compliance program assures compliance from clients, Experts, PGR Vertical Managers, and PGR’s Trading Desk operations. The standard of quality, accessibility and clear implementation of PGR’s comprehensive compliance program assures and maintains clients’ confidence in the information PGR delivers. To this end, PGR regularly reviews its compliance policy and practice to assure it is in force as intended across its Expert Network base, its broker-dealer and securities trading operations and the organization as a whole.

Three-Step Compliance

PGR assures its information’s honesty and applicability with a rigorous compliance program that is manifested in three components: policies, processes and tools.

• PGR’s policies clearly state the rights and responsibilities of everyone involved in the enterprise, including its clients.
• PGR’s business processes include training modules and implementation and review of best practices that help ensure that individuals understand and follow policies.
• PGR’s software tools help individuals understand and comply with these policies and processes.

These three components form a compliance program that is self-reinforcing, clearly set out and consistently implemented across PGR’s entire Expert network and its organization.

Federal Probe of Insider Trading

In late 2010, one of the firm's top sales executives and three of the firm's former 'consultants' were arrested on insider trading charges.^[20] Primary Global sales manager James Fleishman was arrested on December 16 for "arranging for clients, including hedge funds, to speak with consultants knowing that consultants would provide confidential information, including inside information, to clients."^[21]

The three 'consultants' worked for technology companies and are alleged to have stolen inside information and peddled it to Fleishman. The three are Mark Longoria, a supply manager with AMD; Manosha Karunatilaka, a now-former account manager with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co; and Walter Shimoon, 39, senior director of business development at electronics manufacturer Flextronics International.

Wiretaps related to the Galleon Group insider trading case^[22] lead federal investigators to Primary Global. A cooperating witness in that case who was arrested in November 2010 is Don Chu, now 'separated' from Primary Global as their Taiwan liaison.^[23]

References

External links

• www.pg-research.com

Wikipedia:Chickamauga Indian

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Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky

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The Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky are descended from "half blood" or "mixed-blood" Cherokee, a group of passionate Cherokee who signed the Treaty of New Echota with the US Government in 1835, which signed away much of the sovereign Cherokee territory in the southern Appalachian Mountains in exchange for lands in northeastern Oklahoma. The primary signatories of the treaty were subsequently assassinated by Pin Cherokee also known formally as the Original Keetoowah Society. A secret organization formed by a Christian missionary, and controlled by John Ross Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike wrote in 1861 that the Pin organization “was established by Evan Jones, a missionary, and at the service of Mr. John Ross, for the purpose of abolitionizing the Cherokees and putting out of the way all who sympathized with the Southern States.” ^[1][2]

History

The Southern Cherokee of Kentucky have gone by many names: They were originally known as the Overhill Cherokee, Chickamauga Cherokee, the Treaty Party, and during the American Civil War they became known as Southern Cherokee, and finally the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky. The Treaty of New Echota was rejected by most of the Cherokee Nation, but the US Government enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830 in what came to be known as the "Trail of Tears". An estimated 4'000 of 15'000 died during this enforced removal to Indian Territory. Most of those who had accepted the Treaty fought on the side of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. Ironically, at the end of the war many of the "Southern Cherokee" intermarried with "Freedmen", former Afro-American slaves that were also removed on the Trail of Tears. Subsequent warring between the Pin Cherokee and the "Southern Cherokee", and the death of Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie in 1871, resulted in the fleeing of Southern Cherokee refugees across several States which included Kentucky.

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, (CNO), are recognized as the official Cherokee Nation, while those of the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky, Southern Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the Sovereign SOUTHERN CHEROKEE Government are not Federally recognized. However, The treaty of 1866 was made with the Southern Cherokee to ensure they were protected from the Pin Cherokee. This treaty also guarantees all Southern Cherokee a separate government and jurisdiction.

Status

The Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky is a state recognized tribe now headquartered in Henderson, Kentucky, which is situated on the high banks of the Ohio River in an area once known as Red Banks by Native Americans. The Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky was recognized by past Governor John Y. Brown (1835–1904) on "Executive Letter Head" on December 26, 1893, and then by Governor Ernie Fletcher, via proclamation, on November 20, 2006. The city of Henderson, Kentucky also issued a proclamation recognizing the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky on February 24, 2009. The Cherokee Nation of Kentucky is officially recognized in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by the Executive Branch of their host government. ^[3][4][5][6]

See also

• Cherokee freedmen controversy
• State recognized tribes

References

External links

• Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky official website.
• Southern Cherokee Nation of kentucky groups.yahoo.com
• Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky new world encyclopedia.org
• Native American Tribes of kentucky
• Henderson recognizes Southern Cherokee Nation state-journal.com

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4th Amendment Violations & Start Dates of Security Theater Metro Timelines

2 Jul 2004: MBTA Transit Police conducted random bag searches for a limited time before and during the Democratic National Convention in 2004 -MBTA Democratic Convention Bag Searches

21 July 2005: New York Starts to Inspect Bags on the Subways -NYPD Bag Searches

• Paul J. Browne, deputy commissioner of the New York police, “We periodically find illegal weapons and drugs, but we have not uncovered explosives as part of a terrorist plot”

5 Oct 2006: MBTA Security Inspections -MBTA Bag Searches

14 Jun 2008: Los Angeles Metrolink abolishes the Fourth Amendment, begins bogus "random bag searches" -LA Metro Bag Searches

27 Oct 2008: Random Bag Searches on Metro -Metro Bag Searches

29 Apr 2009: TSA To Take Over Subway Bag Check From NYPD -TSA NYPD Bag Searches

• city's overall budget cuts are apparently hitting the NYPD right in the subway bag check area. "Transportation Security Administration bag screeners from Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports will be replacing most NYPD cops in the subway that screen bags for explosives." "About 30 TSA screeners a day will be pulled from the three area airports Monday through Friday to inspect bags at various subway locations throughout the city. At each location they'll be teamed up with one police officer instead of the two or three officers you currently see at inspection sites."

16 Dec 2010: Security Theater, D.C. Metro Edition -DC Metro Bag Searches

Making Commuters Less Safe

WMATA bag searches make transit less safe, not more

Court Cases Regarding Suspicionless Checkpoints - Random Bag Searches

MacWade v Kelly (NYPD)

Court finds random bag searches in NYC subway constitutional

City of Jersey City/PAPD v Cocchi

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Wikipedia:Primary Global Research http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Primary_Global_Research&oldid=403092797 Evil co. got caught and now everyone wants their puff piece deleted. Welcome to Wikipedia, the wiki about the festering heart of darkness that anyone can edit, as long as they only have nice things to say. http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo121610.htm http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F12%2F16%2FBUO21GQG0L.DTL Anarchangel 20:51, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Lifeboat Foundation AfD with sources survivalist space colony

Lifeboat Foundation

The Lifeboat Foundation is a non-profit organization aiming to reduce existential risks to ensure the survival of human civilization. It focuses on both natural and man-made threats by initiating a variety of programs and undertakings on its website. The foundation seeks to inform the public of the dangers of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic and nanoengineering.^[1] The misuse of such technologies by only a few individuals, it argues, could produce devastating results. It maintains a system—called GETAS—for alerting the public about changes in existential threat levels. It also has in its mission to encourage scientific and technological advancement. In the long run, the Lifeboat Foundation is promoting the establishment of self-sufficient space colonies to help preserve human society.

The foundation was created by American entrepreneur Eric Klien shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11. It has several Programs and its Advisory Boards include over 1000 scientists and specialists. Lifeboat Foundation sponsors conferences, competitions, and research grants. It is funded entirely through membership dues (as of 19 November 2010: 1 232) and donations (as of 19 November 2010: 249) by individuals and corporations.^[2]

Mission

In its mission statement on the lifeboat website, the organization states it is "dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards the Singularity." As part of its mission statement, the website indicates it is "pursuing a variety of options, including helping to accelerate the development of technologies to defend humanity, including new methods to combat viruses (such as RNA interference and new vaccine methods), effective nanotechnological defensive strategies, and even self-sustaining space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail."^[1]

History

Origins

Template:Refimprove Founder Eric Klien's interest in Libertarian principles led him in 1993 to start the Atlantis Project: "to build a floating city in the Caribbean Sea that would be free of the bureaucratic limitations of modern governments". The city was to be called Oceania.^[3] The project was eventually abandoned due to lack of funding.^[4]

The September 11th attacks led Klien to found a humanitarian organization "bent on the preservation of human life, against all odds".^[5] The Lifeboat Foundation was established as a permanent nonprofit organization in October, 2002. Several of those who previously worked on The Atlantis Project joined the new foundation. The Lifeboat Foundation has steadily grown in its membership, financial position, and public exposure since its inception.

Guardian Award

The Guardian Award is presented annually by the Lifeboat foundation to "a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them".^[6] The following persons have received a Guardian award:

• 2004 Martin Rees^[7] (English cosmologist)
• 2005 Ray Kurzweil^[8] (American inventor, author)
• 2006 Robert A. Freitas Jr./Bill Joy^[9] "proposing solutions to the dangers of advanced technology since 2000."
• 2007 James Martin^[10] "in recognition of the achievements of his Future of Humanity Institute in studying global catastrophic risks and impacts of future technologies."
• 2008 Stephen Hawking^[11] "in recognition of his continuous warnings that global catastrophic risks will eventually come and therefore it is unsafe and unwise for all of humanity to be on a single planet."
• 2009 Peter de Jager^[12] "in recognition of his 1993 warning which alerted the world to the potential disaster that might have occurred on January 1, 2000."
• 2010 Russell Schweickart^[6] "in recognition of his efforts for humans to escape the fate of the dinosaurs."

Conferences

The Lifeboat Foundation has co-hosted and sponsored conferences related to its mission. It cosponsored the Global Catastrophic Risks summit in Mountain View, CA.,^[13] and the June 2010 H+ Summit.^[14] The foundation was also media sponsor for the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City^[15]

Structure

The Lifeboat Foundation is structured with advisory boards, a board of directors, and a general staff. The board of directors includes founder Eric Klien as chairman, and four other directors; the advisory boards comprise a diversity of societal and scientific specialists; and the staff had 21 employees on November 12, 2010.^[16][17] The foundation also has a technology research department that is charged with tracking new technological developments. The Lifeboat Foundation intends to operate as an umbrella organization; in case of growth, it plans on funding larger research grants and prizes rather than hiring more employees.^[18]

Advisory Boards

The organization has formed advisory boards consisting of over 1000 specialists in various disciplines. Board members develop programs, or propose new areas in which the Lifeboat Foundation should be involved.^[19]

There are also over a dozen Scientific Advisory Boards (SABs). The SABs are specifically focused on scientific questions, such as cosmology and neuroscience. Some of the SABs are dedicated to more technical fields like economics and information science. They comprise scientists from around the world, including Nobel Prize winners Clive Granger and Wole Soyinka.^[19]

Finances

The Lifeboat Foundation is funded by donations and membership fees. Donations can go to either the general fund or a specific fund. The general fund is called the Lifeboat Fund and its website states a value of US$ 466,394.62 on October 29, 2010.^[2]

Activities

GETAS

The Global Existential Threat Advisory System (GETAS) is the mechanism the Lifeboat Foundation uses to disseminate information about current existential threats. GETAS consists of five threat levels plus an emergency condition. The levels are designed to be cumulative; that is, the recommended precautions of each level build on those of lower levels. The current GETAS condition is displayed on the Lifeboat Foundation's website, and visitors can subscribe to receive email notifications if the level changes.

The goal of the warnings is to "to create a common vocabulary, context, and structure for an ongoing international, global discussion about the nature of the threats that confront our species on planet Earth and the appropriate measures that should be taken in response."^[20] The system uses the internet to communicate rapidly to subscribers.

GETAS levels are set by "the Executive Director of the Lifeboat Foundation in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Boards".^[20] The levels (and the explanations given by the Lifeboat foundation website) are as follows:

Programs

The Lifeboat Foundation's website states programs to help assess and reduce existential risks. "Shield" programs are attempts to explicitly identify and mitigate threats posed by misuse of a particular technology. Examples include:

• AsteroidShield, aiming at detecting and altering the trajectory of asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth, thus avoiding impact events.^[21]
• BioShield, aiming at preventing and countering the effects of attacks with biological agents.^[22]
• Space Habitats, designing and encouraging the technology for human colonies in space. The organization's website mentions design on a habitat called Ark 1, a "self-sustaining space habitat being designed to ensure the survival of humanity in the event Earth becomes uninhabitable".^[23]

See also

• Existential risk
• Eschatology
• Man-made or Natural disasters
• Human extinction
• Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
• Survivalism
• Technological singularity
• Technological escalation
• Space and survival and Terraforming

External links

• Lifeboat Foundation

References

Hunt-the-Pixel

Gonna break down and add computer games articles. Many will hate this. But that is kind of the point. Not that I want to inconvenience anyone, it is just that there is a widespread prejudice (in the sense of judging something before knowing all the facts), and on WP, systemic bias (with the result of comp games articles being really in an atrocious situation), against video games.

They are violent. They stimulate the acquisitive instinct without giving actual content as a reward. But they do not have to be. This is proven by the rare exceptions. Ultimately, I see vid games as the next incarnation of storytelling in the continuum: Play, film, TV, video games. And it is not coincidence that actors in plays were once looked down on society, whereupon they gradually became famed and respected, whereupon film was looked down upon, etc.

This particular article is a game mechanics article, which means that it discusses games in much the same way that an article about chess moves discusses chess.

Pixelhunting sample (part of blue square)

Hunt-the-pixel (also pixel hunt) is a term used to describe some computer game interfaces involving point and click with a mouse. The term is usually applied to adventure games in which the primary difficulty with some portion of the game lies in finding an object on the screen. In some cases, the required object is quite small, and may be only a few pixels in size. The player may not have any idea what to look for, but often the game cannot progress without finding it. Players often apply the term to any game in which the gameplay is hindered by the frustrating task of determining precisely where on the screen to click. It can be an example of using the deficiencies in the game interface as a challenge, in the same way as treacherous allies and Artificial Stupidity.

An example of pixel hunting appears from The X-Files: The Game, where a vital clue is a bullet exactly 2x2 pixels in size. Other examples can be found in Dark Seed, where the player must locate a small bobby pin lying on the floor of a library, or in Beneath a Steel Sky, where the player must identify and use (without prompting) such tiny items as a 2x2 pixel lump of putty, a thumb-sized metal plate in a poorly lit club, and a barely distinguishable light socket in an abandoned metro tunnel. Pixel hunting is also crucial in Future Wars, where items are not only hard to find and required relatively late in respect to their original location but also, to successfully find an item, the player character has to stand close to its location on the screen. Dreamweb actually incorporates a "magnifying glass" effect with a sighting reticle into its interface to assist the player in locating the many infinitesimal hotspots scattered thickly through its rooms. The problem was endemic in the controversial adventure Limbo of the Lost, which featured minuscule, crucial objects in deep shadow, sometimes off the edge of the screen or obscured by the game's status bar.

Missed objects will not always lead to an unwinnable situation, but sometimes will offer just better alternative approaches to future puzzles, being thus something like Easter eggs.

Some games made by Sierra On-Line, including Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and portions of the Space Quest and King's Quest series, featured interfaces that at times required a hunt-the-pixel approach. One situation in LucasArts's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, which required the player to locate a particular book among several screens full of book stacks. However, LucasArts games have the advantage of a status line indicating the object the cursor is currently over. Another remedy was to make essential objects flash, or some other method to make the element more visible against the benign background, as is done for example at the beginning of King's Quest VI with Alexander's twinkling insignia ring on the beach. In LucasArt's Sam and Max Hit the Road the cursor will have a red border when above a clickable location. The Simon the Sorcerer series avoided pixel hunting all together, by allowing the player to press F10 at any time to highlight all the hotspots on the current screen.

Pixel-hunting is extremely common in games of the escape the room genre. Players must not only find and click on very small items, but sometimes must also find very small arbitrary, and invisible hotspots in order to trigger a change in point of view. Many authors of on-line Flash point-and-click adventure games have disabled the tab key to prevent players from easily cycling through all the hotspots.

The rendering done for objects added to the environment and the environment itself are almost always different, and this makes it easier to find such objects. In particular, panning the player view camera makes such objects pixilate rapidly. This is an effect noticable in MMORPGs and FPS games also.

See also

• Point-and-click adventure game
• Syntax guessing
• Where's Waldo?

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Photographers of erotica (male subjects)

Status quo rescidivism of skin-deep values or expansion of the only free and, apart from some drugs, non-fattening pleasure of mankind? I can never decide. Held til AfD close

List of photographers

Male nude taken by Edgar de Evia in the 1970s.

A-D

• Clive Barker
• Crawford Barton
• Bruce Bellas
• Peter Berlin
• Ruth Bernhard
• Tom Bianchi
• James Bidgood
• Andreas Bitesnich
• Rick Castro
• Pierre Commoy (of Pierre et Gilles)
• Larry Clark
• Imogen Cunningham
• Van Darkholme
• Fred Holland Day
• Edgar de Evia

E-L

Caino, (1902), by Wilhelm von Gloeden

• Thomas Eakins
• Laurie Toby Edison
• Bernard Faucon
• Jim French
• Vincenzo Galdi
• Tierney Gearon
• Klaus Gerhart
• Wilhelm von Gloeden
• Anthony Goicolea
• Greg Gorman
• Emmet Gowin
• Bill Henson
• Peter Hujar
• Sarah Kent
• Bruce LaBruce
• Annie Leibovitz
• Herbert List
• George Platt Lynes

M-R

• Sally Mann
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Will McBride
• Duane Michals
• Yevgeni Mokhorev
• Dianora Niccolini
• Nicholas Nixon
• Dino Pedriali
• Jack Pierson
• Guglielmo Plüschow
• Brad Posey
• George Quaintance
• Herb Ritts
• Frederick Rolfe

S-Z

• Jan Saudek
• Francesco Scavullo
• Hugo Simberg
• Hedi Slimane
• Jock Sturges
• Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
• Wolfgang Tillmans
• Bill Travis
• John Trobaugh
• Steven Underhill
• Arthur Tress
• Ellen von Unwerth
• Carl Van Vechten
• Bruce Weber
• Edward Weston
• Clarence Hudson White
• Minor White
• Joel-Peter Witkin
• Jerome Zerbe

See also

• List of photographers

Henry Sternweiler / Wikipedia:Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)

WASt translates to Armed Forces Information Office for War Losses (Casualties?) and POWs + Translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/5617/_ich_habe_gedacht_die_spinnen_doch.html&ei=iF8eTeDqB4n0tgOt4PHWAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3D1946%2BArchivar%2Bder%2BWehrmachtsgeschichte%2B%2522Ich%2Bhabe%2Bgedacht,%2Bdie%2Bspinnen%2Bdoch%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Divns

or use Translate on:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,17311&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=1946+Archivar+der+Wehrmachtsgeschichte+%22Ich+habe+gedacht%2C+die+spinnen+doch&cp=74&qe=MTk0NiBBcmNoaXZhciBkZXIgV2Vocm1hY2h0c2dlc2NoaWNodGUgIkljaCBoYWJlIGdlZGFjaHQsIGRpZSBzcGlubmVuIGRvY2g&qesig=NkFh1qwV_lhCq7TqkTVCHQ&pkc=AFgZ2tkh0Q8B6NVwpL0ry1dpf9uHKXvY_Hn5A9m-FSFvWTszFLM77TyOIXQiYaDhuU9SeZN7HXMXe_zIMsodTBXMeBjkuJlFkQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=1946+Archivar+der+Wehrmachtsgeschichte+%22Ich+habe+gedacht,+die+spinnen+doch&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=e64ee6e4e8056c32

Henry Sternweiler (born in 1918 or 1919 in Ulm, Germany, died 27 April 2010 in Fairview Park, Ohio) was a United States lieutenant during World War II who is notable for saving millions of military records in Germany after sidestepping an order.^{[1] [2]}

World War II

Sternweiler was drafted into the United States army in 1942 and participated in D-Day plus 1.^[1]

Saving the records

Following the war, Sternweiler flew to Germany, leading a team that processed 18 million military records.^[3][4] Daily, they sent out 12,000 notices to families seeking closure or information. A few weeks later, he was ordered by the United States to destroy the records - however, he helped stall the situation and eventually the French seized control of the records, saving them.^[1]

For his efforts, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on 7 December 2009 by Germany, the nation's highest civilian honor.^[1]

Miscellany

He was discharged from the military in 1956 as a major.^[1]

References

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Int'l law redlinks on WP

on WP:'List of European Court of Human Rights judgments'. Probably deleted. A. and Others v. the United Kingdom. Very similar in name to two other ECoHR judgements, and for some reason, very little documentation online, so easy to delete. Legal term used: Derogation.

PDF of the entire text: http://www.icj.org/IMG/A_and_others_v_United_Kingdom_-_JUSTICE_intervention.pdf

Relisted AfDs

A good percentage of the AfDs today are relisted ones. I can read two things into this: one, it would seem to be a good thing. Fewer AfDs, perhaps, are being nominated, so there are fewer vultures to hover over things. Or maybe no one is left who bothers with topics they don't have an agenda for. Either way, should end up with fewer deletions. Two, maybe they wacked all the good articles already, and I missed it.

I used to be able to see some kind of thread of a rationale in deletor's arguments. Is it that I am so good at ignoring BS now that it does not affect me any more, or are they just getting stupider? It's not me getting stupider, that's for sure, I can see their motivation, in this case anti-science, specifically anti-psychology and anti-philosophy. I think they are actually stupider, as SYNTH used to be given some reason, or at least it was applied to sources or a specific argument. Now they are just saying synth without any target at all. Even one of the Keep arguments is bogus, as it recommends merging an article about death -anxiety- to one about death -fear-. A list of expert theories in the field is ripped for being "an editor's selection and summary of various theories with no RS to tell us why these are "worth mentioning" or how they relate to one another (or to anything else, for that matter" The title itself says how they related to each other, for god's sake. I just don't see how these people can write in English, if they cannot read it.

AfD

• Wikipedia:Women's superiority
• Wikipedia:Libertarian Party UK
• Wikipedia:Individuals with powers of arrest
• Wikipedia:Nguyá»…n Văn Minh Tiến

Absolute proof that idiots can nominate things for AfD. The 1st thing nom says it is not notable, when a Google search shows obviously otherwise.

Only thing is: is a stub about some Viet Nam vigilante for AP? A neat story about the triumph of the individual in an age that doesn't care? A triumph for communist encouragement of social involvement or an example of its excessive propaganda-fed zeal? Bit of all of em I think.

Death anxiety

Theories of death anxiety have mainly evolved around the issues of death anxiety and its adjustment. ^[1]

Sigmund Freud’s work

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) postulated that people express a fear of death, which he called ‘thanatophobia’. However, this was merely a disguise for a deeper source of concern. It was not actually death that people feared, because nobody believes in his or her own death. The unconscious does not deal with the passage of time or with negations. That one's life could and would end simply “does not compute”. Furthermore, that which one does fear cannot be death itself, because one has never died. People who express death-related fears, then, are actually trying to deal with unresolved childhood conflicts that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge and discuss openly ^[2].

Ernest Becker’s work

Ernest Becker's existential view turned death anxiety theory towards a new dimension. It stated that death anxiety is not only real, but also that it is people's most profound source of concern. He described this anxiety as so intense that it can generate fears and phobias in everyday life. Fears of being alone or in a confined space are some examples of its impact. According to this theory, much of people's daily behavior consists of attempts to deny death and thereby keep their basic anxiety under control ^[3].

Martin Heidegger’s work

Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, on the one hand showed death as something conclusively determined, in the sense that it is inevitable for every human being, while on the other hand, it unmasks its indeterminate nature via the truth that one never knows when or how death is going to come. Heidegger does not engage in speculation about whether being after death is possible. He argues that all human existence is embedded in time: past, present, future, and when considering the future, we encounter the notion of death. This then creates Angst. Angst can create a clear understanding in one that death is a possible mode of existence, which Heidegger described as “clearing”. Thus, Angst can lead to a freedom about existence, but only if we can stop denying our mortality (as expressed in Heidegger’s terminology as “stop denying being-for-death”). This, in turn creates space for authenticity, where death becomes an enriching, liberating, rather than frightening, aspect of human experience. Unfortunately, Heidegger, as a philosopher, did not make any suggestions as to how to arrive at this state of awareness ^[4].

Paul T P Wong’s work

Through the works of Meaning Management Theory ^[5] Paul T. P. Wong showed human reactions to death as complex, multifaceted and dynamic. His “Death Attitude Profile” identifies three types of death acceptances as Neutral, Approach and Escape acceptances. Apart from acceptances, his work also represents different aspects of the meaning of Death Fear that are rooted in the bases of death anxiety. The ten meanings he propose are finality, uncertainty, annihilation, ultimate loss, life flow disruption, leaving the loved ones, pain and loneliness, prematurity and violence of death, failure of life work completion, and judgment and retribution centered. Most importantly, his Meaning Management Theory itself proposes that 1) Humans are bio-psychosocial-spiritual beings, 2) Human beings are meaning-seeking and meaning making creatures, 3) Two primary motivations for human beings are to survive and to find meaning and reason for survival, 4) Meaning can be found in all situations, and 5) The motivational tendencies of avoidance and approach may complement each other. This theory has a good potential to be utilized in working with people struggling with end-of-life issues.

Mohammad Samir Hossain's work

Mohammad Samir Hossain, a researcher of death attitude ^[6], postulated Death and Adjustment Hypotheses ^[7][8]. In 2007, Mohammad Samir Hossain’s book Quest for a New Death: Death and Adjustment Hypotheses, postulated, in two parts, that adjustment to death is hampered by our preconceived misconceptions about the phenomenon of death. The prevailing perception, in fact our predominant one, is that our entire existence absolutely ends with death. According to Hossain’s theory of adjustment, it should be converted to something like ‘death does not cause an absolute end to existence’. If our conceptualization is changed in this way, it might enhance our adjustment to death. But, as per the second part of this theory, this can only be established when our morality attains a certain level, because decay or deterioration in relation to the concept of death, is very much connected to our code of ethics and beliefs ^[9][10][11].

Other works

Other approaches to death anxiety were introduced in the late twentieth century. Terror management theory is based on a study finding that people who felt better about themselves also reported having less death-related anxiety ^[12]. Another approach named “regret theory” was proposed in 1996 by Adrian Tomer and Grafton Eliason. It approaches the way in which people evaluate the quality or worth of their lives. The prospect of death is likely to make people more anxious if they feel that they have not accomplished, and cannot accomplish, something good in life.

References

• Karen Meyers (2009). The truth about death and dying 2nd Edition, Infobase Publishing.
• Lifespan Development Topics.
• Anxiety and Fear.

Citations

External links

• http://www.meaning.ca
• http://www.deathreference.com
• http://www.zurinstitute.com/ernest_becker_course.html
• http://www.samirhossain.org
• http://www.wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/PSY_376_Death_anxiety
• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078883601/680442/Additional_Lifespan_Development_Topics.pdf

Powers of arrest =

Agree with merge to Powers of arrest; if not done, or not done correctly, merge it all to here.

United Kingdom

England & Wales

The following persons all have various powers of arrest within England & Wales in various capacities:

• Police Constables
• Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs)
• Prison officers
• Members of public (any person arrest)
• SOCA officer
• Court bailiff
• Court officer
• Immigration officer
• Customs & Excise officer
• Military Police
• Environment Agency officer
• Water bailiff
• Interpol
• Officer or agent Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
• Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

United States

• Police Officer
• State Troopers
• FBI
• Sherriffs
• Marshalls
• Prison officers
• Members of public (any person arrest)
• Immigration officer
• Military Police
• Interpol

Template:Criminal procedure

Where's Wal..Mohammed Nasim article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2010_December_22#Mohammed_Nasim_.28Guantanamo_captive_849.29 multiple articles in one AfD, plus another afd for a single name the same day