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What Causes a Car to Stall While Driving
Engines don really want to run; it in their replica birkin handbags nature to just sit there as inert lumps of metal, until we add just the right ingredients, in just the right proportions as just the right times to make them run. If any one of those is off, even in the slightest, the engine will revert to its natural state as a 700 pound paperweight. There are literally thousands of reasons that this might happen; but if your engine just up and dies while driving, you can trace down a few of the likely causes according to when it does.
Modern cars will usually stall because of a sensor failure. All fake hermes bag of the sensors are important, but anything with "position" in the name is critical. The throttle , crankshaft and camshaft position sensors are three that your computer just can compensate for if they malfunction. Mass airflow sensors are important, especially at idle, because they tell the engine how much air is going in. If the MAF is dirty or malfunctioning, the computer will think there less air going in than there is. That could easily throw it into a "lean stall" before the oxygen sensors have a chance to tell the computer that things have gone awry. Manifold air pressure sensors are almost as important, and just as important in cars that don replica hermes handbags outlet have MAF sensors. But the TPS, CPS and MAF sensors are always primary suspects in stalling.
Believe it or not, idling is one of the hardest things an engine has to do. At idle, engines are more sensitive to even the slightest variation in air, fuel and spark delivery. Often, engines that stall only at idle do so because they getting either too much air, or not enough fuel. Leaking vacuum lines and intake induction parts are the classic suspects, but these days you have to account for exhaust gas recirculation valves stuck in the open position, and idle air control valves doing the same. An IAC valve is like a metered air leak that the engine uses at idle. If the IAC is stuck open, the engine gets more air than it should, and can stall at idle. As mentioned, sensor failures are always suspect, but these kinds of failures will generally manifest as problems at higher rpm as well.
Pressing the gas pedal means opening the main throttle plate, which introduces more air into the engine. The engine has to respond by delivering more fuel, and more aggressive spark timing to set it off. Massive vacuum leaks can cause stalling under acceleration, but more often the cause goes back to a failure in fuel delivery. That means a bad fuel pump or regulator, or a clogged fuel filter or injectors. Bad gas or gas contaminated with chemicals or water is another possible cause here. A weak ignition system or bad ignition timing will also cause stalling under acceleration. Check your ignition module, plug wires and spark fashion cheap hermes handbags plugs on a newer car. Owners of older cars with distributors should check for proper timing advance. Stalling under deceleration almost always goes back to either excess fuel or not enough air especially when accompanied by a backfire. Check that you IAC is opening, and isn clogged with carbon and debris.
Sudden stalling under cruise conditions is usually electrical in nature. Air and fuel failures will generally cause the vehicle to surge and drop off in power before stalling; electrical or sensor failures will kill an engine outright, even if it already at cruise speed. Two often overlooked causes are bad engine ground connections and overheating ignition coils. A failing coil will get very hot under consistent use. The hotter it gets, the more it resists electricity, and then the hotter it gets. If your vehicle runs fine for a few minutes, and then starts acting up while you going down the highway, check the ignition coil or coils. They shouldn sizzle when you put a drop of water on them. Fuel pressure failures will also cause stalling under cruise, but it usually more gradual like running out of gas. If you get sudden, random stalls under cruise, check the electrical system first.
Engines don really want to run; it in their replica birkin handbags nature to just sit there as inert lumps of metal, until we add just the right ingredients, in just the right proportions as just the right times to make them run. If any one of those is off, even in the slightest, the engine will revert to its natural state as a 700 pound paperweight. There are literally thousands of reasons that this might happen; but if your engine just up and dies while driving, you can trace down a few of the likely causes according to when it does.
Modern cars will usually stall because of a sensor failure. All fake hermes bag of the sensors are important, but anything with "position" in the name is critical. The throttle , crankshaft and camshaft position sensors are three that your computer just can compensate for if they malfunction. Mass airflow sensors are important, especially at idle, because they tell the engine how much air is going in. If the MAF is dirty or malfunctioning, the computer will think there less air going in than there is. That could easily throw it into a "lean stall" before the oxygen sensors have a chance to tell the computer that things have gone awry. Manifold air pressure sensors are almost as important, and just as important in cars that don replica hermes handbags outlet have MAF sensors. But the TPS, CPS and MAF sensors are always primary suspects in stalling.
Believe it or not, idling is one of the hardest things an engine has to do. At idle, engines are more sensitive to even the slightest variation in air, fuel and spark delivery. Often, engines that stall only at idle do so because they getting either too much air, or not enough fuel. Leaking vacuum lines and intake induction parts are the classic suspects, but these days you have to account for exhaust gas recirculation valves stuck in the open position, and idle air control valves doing the same. An IAC valve is like a metered air leak that the engine uses at idle. If the IAC is stuck open, the engine gets more air than it should, and can stall at idle. As mentioned, sensor failures are always suspect, but these kinds of failures will generally manifest as problems at higher rpm as well.
Pressing the gas pedal means opening the main throttle plate, which introduces more air into the engine. The engine has to respond by delivering more fuel, and more aggressive spark timing to set it off. Massive vacuum leaks can cause stalling under acceleration, but more often the cause goes back to a failure in fuel delivery. That means a bad fuel pump or regulator, or a clogged fuel filter or injectors. Bad gas or gas contaminated with chemicals or water is another possible cause here. A weak ignition system or bad ignition timing will also cause stalling under acceleration. Check your ignition module, plug wires and spark fashion cheap hermes handbags plugs on a newer car. Owners of older cars with distributors should check for proper timing advance. Stalling under deceleration almost always goes back to either excess fuel or not enough air especially when accompanied by a backfire. Check that you IAC is opening, and isn clogged with carbon and debris.
Sudden stalling under cruise conditions is usually electrical in nature. Air and fuel failures will generally cause the vehicle to surge and drop off in power before stalling; electrical or sensor failures will kill an engine outright, even if it already at cruise speed. Two often overlooked causes are bad engine ground connections and overheating ignition coils. A failing coil will get very hot under consistent use. The hotter it gets, the more it resists electricity, and then the hotter it gets. If your vehicle runs fine for a few minutes, and then starts acting up while you going down the highway, check the ignition coil or coils. They shouldn sizzle when you put a drop of water on them. Fuel pressure failures will also cause stalling under cruise, but it usually more gradual like running out of gas. If you get sudden, random stalls under cruise, check the electrical system first.
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William and Kate's inner circle
While politicians and foreign dignitaries were out in force at Westminster Abbey for the Royal wedding between Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have been most thrilled by those who had gathered in Statesmen's Aisle in the abbey's north transept to see them marry.
This was the space, overlooked by statues of Disraeli, Gladstone and Palmerstone, reserved for some of the couple's closest friends.
Also among them were long time friends of the Royal family, wealthy landowners and aristocrats who have known Prince William all his life, together with the mentors who helped him cope with his mother's death and saw his bride transformed from commoner to future Queen.
The friends have remained low key throughout the couple's romance, but the jigsaw of who's who within the Duke and Duchess's inner circle can now be revealed.
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SET
Friends of the Prince's from his home county of Gloucestershire, who have been entertained at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales's country estate, were well represented.
Known fashion cheap hermes handbags as the "Glosse Posse", its most glamorous member is Arabella Musgrave, 28, said to have been a former flame of Prince William and once described as "the only woman who could make Kate Middleton" jealous.
Now head of PR at Gucci, Miss Musgrave met the Prince through friends at the Cirencester Park Polo Club, run by her father Major replica hermes handbags outlet Nick Musgrave, an old friend of the Prince of Wales.
A regular on the London party scene, until recently she dated James Tollemache.
Seated in front of Miss Musgrave is Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs. Known as "Nats" to friends, she met Prince William while attending Westonbirt School, which is close to Highgrove.
Lady Natasha, 27, sat on Prince William's table at his "Out of Africa" themed 21st birthday at Windsor Castle. The daughter of the Marquess of Reading and older sister of Julian, Viscount Erleigh, she is also one of Prince Harry's best friends.
Lady Natasha runs the fashion label Beulah, selling clothes made by women who have escaped the sex trade in India, of which her grandfather was viceroy in the 1920s.
She dates Rupert Finch, a former boyfriend of the Duchess of Cambridge. Described as "affable" and "handsome", Mr Finch, 32, was a final year law student at St Andrews University when Kate arrived to study History of Art in 2001. The couple dated for less than a year. Some have suggested that Prince William "stole" his future bride from Mr Finch, but others insist that the relationship had run its course. He is now an employment lawyer in London.
Tom and Victoria Inskip "Skippy" and "Tor" to friends have known Princes William and Harry since childhood. Mr Inskip, 26, attended Eton with the Princes and helped to organise his stag party with Guy Pelly, the nightclub entrepreneur who was sat elsewhere in the abbey.
Miss Inskip, 27, who also attended Westonbirt, is the best friend of Prince William's first serious girlfriend Rose Farquhar. A Chelsea based estate agent, she is also friends with Prince Harry. The Inskips were regulars at "Club H", the nightclub William and Harry set up in the basement of Highgrove,
She has also been a fundraiser for Sentebale, the African charity set up by Prince Harry. Claire Inskip, their mother, is a sculptress.
Seated next to Mrs Inskip, is Jamie Murray Wells, an old Harrovian childhood friend of Prince William from replica birkin handbags Gloucestershire.
Mr Murray Wells, Hermes birkin bags fake 27, is the son of Simon Murray Wells, an investment analyst, and his wife Alison, who are close friends of the Inskips.
Mr Murray Wells is believed to be a multi millionaire after founding Glasses Direct selling cheap spectacles online during his final term at University of Bristol in 2004.
Renowned for his sense of humour, he once reportedly sent sheep into Specsavers stores in Newcastle upon Tyne to illustrate his belief that customers were being "fleeced".
In a prank in 2006, he and Mr Pelly, raided Westonbirt School in a hunt for girls (the school was empty at the time), with Mr Murray Wells falling from a wall and breaking his leg.
He showed loyalty to the Duchess during her brief split with Prince William in 2007, escorting her to nightclubs.
FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY DAYS
Seated beneath the statue of Benjamin Disraeli are Sir Henry and Lady Cheape. Sir Henry, a landowner educated at Harrow and Newcastle University, and distant cousin of the Prince, rented Balgove House to the couple during their third year at university, where their romance was allowed to flourish away from scrutiny.
At the other end of the row from Sir Henry and his wife, Louisa, is Will Matthews, another old Harrovian. Known to his friends as "Stan", he lives in Fulham, where many of the couple's set have their London bases.
Mr Matthews is an associate in the country house sales department at Knight Frank, the estate agents and close friends with Rory Penn (seated beside him with his wife Francesca Penn) and Sir Henry.
All three attended Newcastle University, together with James Meade, Prince William's closest friend who, with Thomas van Straubenzee, delivered a joint best man speech.
Mr Penn, 30, is a City fund manager and a descendant of Sir Claude George Bowes Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the Queen Mother's father.
While politicians and foreign dignitaries were out in force at Westminster Abbey for the Royal wedding between Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have been most thrilled by those who had gathered in Statesmen's Aisle in the abbey's north transept to see them marry.
This was the space, overlooked by statues of Disraeli, Gladstone and Palmerstone, reserved for some of the couple's closest friends.
Also among them were long time friends of the Royal family, wealthy landowners and aristocrats who have known Prince William all his life, together with the mentors who helped him cope with his mother's death and saw his bride transformed from commoner to future Queen.
The friends have remained low key throughout the couple's romance, but the jigsaw of who's who within the Duke and Duchess's inner circle can now be revealed.
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SET
Friends of the Prince's from his home county of Gloucestershire, who have been entertained at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales's country estate, were well represented.
Known fashion cheap hermes handbags as the "Glosse Posse", its most glamorous member is Arabella Musgrave, 28, said to have been a former flame of Prince William and once described as "the only woman who could make Kate Middleton" jealous.
Now head of PR at Gucci, Miss Musgrave met the Prince through friends at the Cirencester Park Polo Club, run by her father Major replica hermes handbags outlet Nick Musgrave, an old friend of the Prince of Wales.
A regular on the London party scene, until recently she dated James Tollemache.
Seated in front of Miss Musgrave is Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs. Known as "Nats" to friends, she met Prince William while attending Westonbirt School, which is close to Highgrove.
Lady Natasha, 27, sat on Prince William's table at his "Out of Africa" themed 21st birthday at Windsor Castle. The daughter of the Marquess of Reading and older sister of Julian, Viscount Erleigh, she is also one of Prince Harry's best friends.
Lady Natasha runs the fashion label Beulah, selling clothes made by women who have escaped the sex trade in India, of which her grandfather was viceroy in the 1920s.
She dates Rupert Finch, a former boyfriend of the Duchess of Cambridge. Described as "affable" and "handsome", Mr Finch, 32, was a final year law student at St Andrews University when Kate arrived to study History of Art in 2001. The couple dated for less than a year. Some have suggested that Prince William "stole" his future bride from Mr Finch, but others insist that the relationship had run its course. He is now an employment lawyer in London.
Tom and Victoria Inskip "Skippy" and "Tor" to friends have known Princes William and Harry since childhood. Mr Inskip, 26, attended Eton with the Princes and helped to organise his stag party with Guy Pelly, the nightclub entrepreneur who was sat elsewhere in the abbey.
Miss Inskip, 27, who also attended Westonbirt, is the best friend of Prince William's first serious girlfriend Rose Farquhar. A Chelsea based estate agent, she is also friends with Prince Harry. The Inskips were regulars at "Club H", the nightclub William and Harry set up in the basement of Highgrove,
She has also been a fundraiser for Sentebale, the African charity set up by Prince Harry. Claire Inskip, their mother, is a sculptress.
Seated next to Mrs Inskip, is Jamie Murray Wells, an old Harrovian childhood friend of Prince William from replica birkin handbags Gloucestershire.
Mr Murray Wells, Hermes birkin bags fake 27, is the son of Simon Murray Wells, an investment analyst, and his wife Alison, who are close friends of the Inskips.
Mr Murray Wells is believed to be a multi millionaire after founding Glasses Direct selling cheap spectacles online during his final term at University of Bristol in 2004.
Renowned for his sense of humour, he once reportedly sent sheep into Specsavers stores in Newcastle upon Tyne to illustrate his belief that customers were being "fleeced".
In a prank in 2006, he and Mr Pelly, raided Westonbirt School in a hunt for girls (the school was empty at the time), with Mr Murray Wells falling from a wall and breaking his leg.
He showed loyalty to the Duchess during her brief split with Prince William in 2007, escorting her to nightclubs.
FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY DAYS
Seated beneath the statue of Benjamin Disraeli are Sir Henry and Lady Cheape. Sir Henry, a landowner educated at Harrow and Newcastle University, and distant cousin of the Prince, rented Balgove House to the couple during their third year at university, where their romance was allowed to flourish away from scrutiny.
At the other end of the row from Sir Henry and his wife, Louisa, is Will Matthews, another old Harrovian. Known to his friends as "Stan", he lives in Fulham, where many of the couple's set have their London bases.
Mr Matthews is an associate in the country house sales department at Knight Frank, the estate agents and close friends with Rory Penn (seated beside him with his wife Francesca Penn) and Sir Henry.
All three attended Newcastle University, together with James Meade, Prince William's closest friend who, with Thomas van Straubenzee, delivered a joint best man speech.
Mr Penn, 30, is a City fund manager and a descendant of Sir Claude George Bowes Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the Queen Mother's father.
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The end of the line for California automaking
LOS ANGELES AND FREMONT, CALIF. Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to abandon its assembly line in Fremont marks the end of large scale auto manufacturing replica van cleef arpels engagement ring in California, which over the years boasted a dozen or more plants building vehicles ranging from Studebakers to Camaro muscle cars.
The Japanese automaker said Thursday that it would end production at the plant March 31, throwing 4,700 people out of work, and return some production to Japan.
It's another hard blow replica van cleef & arpels ring price for California, a state already grappling with an 11.9% unemployment rate its highest since World War II and the fourth worst in the nation.
In addition to wiping out the jobs directly tied to the plant, closing the facility will send ripples through the web of suppliers that make components for the factory and through nearby stores, restaurants and bars that depend on its workers for business.
Overall, closing the plant could cost more than 40,000 jobs, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D Calif.), who has worked with other public officials to try to keep the plant open. But communications with Toyota eventually broke down, she said.
Operated as a joint venture between Toyota and the former General Motors Corp. since 1984, the plant saw its future put in doubt last month when GM pulled out of the arrangement as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
Executives of the venture, New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., told union members Thursday morning about Toyota's decision. It is the first time that Toyota has ever closed a major auto assembly plant.
Assembly line worker Jose Hernandez, 40, who commutes 75 miles to the plant from the Central Valley town of Ceres, said the news was a bit surprising because the plant had been busy since the government's "cash for clunkers" program jump started auto sales this month.
"What can I do, look for a job, which is going to be very difficult right now?" he asked.
End of an era
Shutting down the plant will be another milepost in the long erosion of California's once thriving auto industry a decline that is being only partly offset by the rise of a new breed of start up car companies specializing in such advanced technology as all electric drivetrains.
The old plants with their union payrolls provided a vital boost into the middle class for many Californians.
"The auto industry was very important in this state," said Jack Kyser, economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "You could be a less than stellar student in high school and go to work on an assembly line, and pretty soon you were making good wages with good benefits."
Many of the shuttered plants were either bulldozed or converted into shopping malls, where paychecks for retail clerks typically are much skimpier. The old GM plant in Van Nuys is now a shopping center anchored by Home Depot, for instance, and a Samson Tire Rubber factory in City of Commerce was turned into the Citadel mall.
Analysts say those better paying union jobs, along with other costs of doing business in California, are big reasons that California's auto production has fled overseas or to other, lower cost states. auto plant with a union workforce. beginning in the 1980s, they often have opted for states such as Kentucky, Texas and Alabama, where union shops are more rare.
"It just made sense for Toyota to pull the plug," said Dennis Virag, president of the Automotive Consulting Group in Ann Arbor, Mich. "When you look at states like Kentucky and Tennessee, California just isn't competitive in manufacturing with its taxes, regulations and overall cost of doing business."
The costs apparently outweighed a package of incentives put together by state and local officials in an effort to persuade Toyota to stay in Fremont. The incentives included tax breaks, lower utility rates and publicly funded road and rail improvements around the plant, according to Feinstein.
State Sen. It also said that producing cars at Fremont wasn't "economically viable" given the current auto market, the worst in decades. The automaker, which reported its largest ever annual loss this year, has been cutting production in Japan and elsewhere amid falling sales.
Atsushi Niimi, a Toyota executive vice president, said the replica van cleef and arpels engagement ring price union presence didn't influence the decision to close the plant. But he acknowledged that "California's cost of living is relatively high, which leads to higher labor costs compared to other regions."
LOS ANGELES AND FREMONT, CALIF. Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to abandon its assembly line in Fremont marks the end of large scale auto manufacturing replica van cleef arpels engagement ring in California, which over the years boasted a dozen or more plants building vehicles ranging from Studebakers to Camaro muscle cars.
The Japanese automaker said Thursday that it would end production at the plant March 31, throwing 4,700 people out of work, and return some production to Japan.
It's another hard blow replica van cleef & arpels ring price for California, a state already grappling with an 11.9% unemployment rate its highest since World War II and the fourth worst in the nation.
In addition to wiping out the jobs directly tied to the plant, closing the facility will send ripples through the web of suppliers that make components for the factory and through nearby stores, restaurants and bars that depend on its workers for business.
Overall, closing the plant could cost more than 40,000 jobs, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D Calif.), who has worked with other public officials to try to keep the plant open. But communications with Toyota eventually broke down, she said.
Operated as a joint venture between Toyota and the former General Motors Corp. since 1984, the plant saw its future put in doubt last month when GM pulled out of the arrangement as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
Executives of the venture, New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., told union members Thursday morning about Toyota's decision. It is the first time that Toyota has ever closed a major auto assembly plant.
Assembly line worker Jose Hernandez, 40, who commutes 75 miles to the plant from the Central Valley town of Ceres, said the news was a bit surprising because the plant had been busy since the government's "cash for clunkers" program jump started auto sales this month.
"What can I do, look for a job, which is going to be very difficult right now?" he asked.
End of an era
Shutting down the plant will be another milepost in the long erosion of California's once thriving auto industry a decline that is being only partly offset by the rise of a new breed of start up car companies specializing in such advanced technology as all electric drivetrains.
The old plants with their union payrolls provided a vital boost into the middle class for many Californians.
"The auto industry was very important in this state," said Jack Kyser, economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "You could be a less than stellar student in high school and go to work on an assembly line, and pretty soon you were making good wages with good benefits."
Many of the shuttered plants were either bulldozed or converted into shopping malls, where paychecks for retail clerks typically are much skimpier. The old GM plant in Van Nuys is now a shopping center anchored by Home Depot, for instance, and a Samson Tire Rubber factory in City of Commerce was turned into the Citadel mall.
Analysts say those better paying union jobs, along with other costs of doing business in California, are big reasons that California's auto production has fled overseas or to other, lower cost states. auto plant with a union workforce. beginning in the 1980s, they often have opted for states such as Kentucky, Texas and Alabama, where union shops are more rare.
"It just made sense for Toyota to pull the plug," said Dennis Virag, president of the Automotive Consulting Group in Ann Arbor, Mich. "When you look at states like Kentucky and Tennessee, California just isn't competitive in manufacturing with its taxes, regulations and overall cost of doing business."
The costs apparently outweighed a package of incentives put together by state and local officials in an effort to persuade Toyota to stay in Fremont. The incentives included tax breaks, lower utility rates and publicly funded road and rail improvements around the plant, according to Feinstein.
State Sen. It also said that producing cars at Fremont wasn't "economically viable" given the current auto market, the worst in decades. The automaker, which reported its largest ever annual loss this year, has been cutting production in Japan and elsewhere amid falling sales.
Atsushi Niimi, a Toyota executive vice president, said the replica van cleef and arpels engagement ring price union presence didn't influence the decision to close the plant. But he acknowledged that "California's cost of living is relatively high, which leads to higher labor costs compared to other regions."
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The code ahead
Simon Singh is not a man to shirk a challenge. In 1997 he replica van cleef wedding ring set out to make a documentary about the solving of the world most famous (some would say infamous) mathematical problem, Fermat Last Theorem. Having bamboozled the planet finest mathematical minds for 350 years, Fermat challenge had finally been laid to rest by the retiring English mathematician Andrew Wiles. The solution, which took up more than 1,000 pages of densely packed equations, cut a swath through some of the most fiendishly difficult areas in all of math. How on earth could this be presented to a television audience? The marvel is that despite the impenetrability of the math, Singh produced an immensely human and poignant film seen in the United States on the PBS series He later turned the subject into the bestselling book Enigma, which, he tells me, he wrote as an exercise just to see if he could.
Trained as a particle physicist at Cambridge University his research topic was the elusive quark Singh spent several years working at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) before swapping a life in the lab for one behind the camera at the BBC science department. Who could be better, then, to tackle the subject of cryptography? In his recently published Code Book, Singh follows the development of secret codes from ancient Rome to the latest advances in quantum cryptography. At the end of the book he invites readers to test their own code breaking skills with a forbidding looking cipher challenge. The first person to crack all 10 codes will be rewarded with a prize of $15,000 from Singh own purse.
It strikes me that there is a continuity between your two books solving Fermat Last Theorem was like cracking a huge mathematical puzzle, and that is not unlike solving a complex code.
If you look at code makers and code breakers, they driven by the same things that mathematicians are driven by. They obsessive, they love puzzles, they love conundrums. There a certain innocence about the code breaker, but at the end of the day, what the code breaker does has a major impact on wars, battles, lives, deaths and so on. Yet all that at a much higher level the political level, the military level. The actual code breaker sitting at his or her desk is a puzzle solver, so there is that in common with mathematicians.
It interesting that history is often seen as an impediment to presenting science. You get the idea from many scientists that all the really good stuff has happened in the last few years, if not last week, and that anything older is out of date and irrelevant. But in both books you put the science into a historical context, telling stories with great characters like Mary, Queen of Scots, and Charles Babbage and lots of human drama.
From a professional point of view as a scientist you always have to strip out the personal perspective. When you write up research papers it always in the passive voice: beaker was heated, not heated the beaker, and actually that replica van cleef and arpels frivole ring day I was feeling pretty good. So often it difficult for scientists to put in emotional content though there are some extraordinary exceptions who do. For me, coming from television where people will switch off if they aren engaged you have to put in the characters and emotional drama. So I write the way I make TV programs.
Is there one story that particularly stands out for you in the history of cryptography?
The story of the British discovery of public key cryptography [a form of encription technology crucial to the process of putting powerful privacy tools in public hands]. The science of secrecy is a secret science, so often cryptographic work cannot be talked about publicly, sometimes for many years. This story actually only emerged while I was writing the book, this 25 year old untold story of the greatest discovery in the history of cryptography. It turns out that some years before the Americans came up with public key encryption, British mathematicians working secretly at the GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] had already discovered this, but it was all hushed up because of the military significance. This was the first time these three code makers James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson could have their story told, and I feel honored to be able to tell it. The tragedy is that Ellis died just three weeks before the announcement was made, so he never lived to see the credit he deserved.
That doesn undermine the work of the American discoveries of public key encryption. The work they did was quite independent. Furthermore, if they hadn made their breakthrough GCHQ might never have gone public, and the information age would never have been where it is replica van cleef ring replica now if we didn have this breakthrough.
Speaking of secrecy, do you think there are advances in cryptography at the moment way beyond what public knowledge?
The whole book is really about the ongoing battle between code makers and code breakers. At the moment most people would say that the code makers are clearly ahead. So it doesn really matter if people are coming up with new codes because the ones we have are already very strong. The question is whether there is someone who made a big breakthrough in code breaking that we don know about so that the assumption that there this big lead isn actually true. You can never be sure, but I think it unlikely. Although the NSA [National Security Agency] is the world largest employer of mathematicians, there are lots of brilliant mathematicians elsewhere who haven found any major new algorithms.
So in fact public knowledge at this point in time may be a real reflection of the secret knowledge, so to speak?
Yes, I think that the case.
The subtitle of the book is Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, and early on you make the point that cryptography proceeds in a very Darwinian fashion with a kind of information arms race propelling developments on each side.
It is an evolutionary process, with code makers continually coming up with new developments, and then the code breakers having to respond by evolving new methods for penetrating those defenses. It is like the evolution of predator prey relationships. It interesting too because there are selection pressures. Sometimes it only when you desperate enough that new breakthroughs happen. For example, when the Germans developed the Enigma code between the wars and ultimately it was the Poles who were sandwiched between both the Germans and the Russians, and were therefore desperately worried about their national security who made the first big breakthroughs in cracking these codes. The work was then smuggled out to the British. The Poles are often forgotten in the story, but it really was extraordinary work they did, driven by this pressure of adversity.
We seem to be living at a time when there is a general obsession with codes: not just cryptographic codes, but computer codes and genetic codes we got the Human Genome Project on the verge of sequencing the entire DNA code of human beings. You also have books like Neal Stephenson
It funny, but when Enigma came out there was also Will Hunting (which was wonderful) and (which was terrible), and there were books like Man Who Loved Only Numbers [by Paul Hoffman] and Beautiful Mind [by Sylvia Nasar]. There was a whole series of math films and math books that seemed to enter popular culture at the same time. And now you have a Hollywood film like of the State with Will Smith, and last year Rising with Bruce Willis, about the NSA. Also in literature. I sure this won be the only book on codes. I not sure what triggered this.
Just one of those things that in the air. It seems to me that an interest in codes is actually pretty widespread. Children love making up codes and creating secret little languages. Lots of people love the idea of being part of some select group with its own secret passwords, like the Freemasons.
As soon as you express yourself in words, and especially once you start putting words down on paper whether it 10,000 years ago or children today there a realization that you may need to keep these things secret, whether it your personal diary or a military strategy. So it quite natural that children do this. And it empowering. One of the reasons children make codes is to hide things from their parents. To children, parents are almost like Big Brother. We worry about the CIA and the NSA; children worry about their parents. We both use codes to try and protect ourselves.
Lots of people in this country have Big Brother concerns. What do you think about these fears that the government or big corporations are spying on our lives?
If people have that concern then they should just use encryption. The great thing is that encryption is extremely strong, we think there is this big lead, so it should really protect them. The fear is what might happen if governments crack down on encryption and restrict its use. That might happen in Burma or China, but I can see it happening in the rest of the world. All the trends are in the other direction.
For the last decade there been this big debate between civil libertarians and governments and law enforcement and it been who going to win this debate. But what we now realizing is that there a third force business, who are on the side of the civil libertarians, because they want strong encryption so they can conduct their business. In France, for example, they recently lifted almost all restrictions on encryption because they didn want e mail companies going off and setting up their businesses elsewhere.
What about the argument that we need governments to be able to crack all encryption codes so they can fight crime, especially organized crime?
If governments ban encryption software it doesn really mean much. You can ban a shop from selling software, but you can ban somebody downloading it from the Internet or getting access some other way. Even if they did ban all use of such software, there are other ways of proceeding. For instance, I could use a form of steganography and hide a message in a digital image. Whatever the government is doing, people will find ways around it.
Also, the evidence that restricting encryption would help against organized crime is not enormous. If that important then you need to find other ways, like [The so called attack is a method whereby you park a van outside someone house and monitor the distinct electromagnetic signals given off as they type each computer keystroke.] Or you can send special monitoring viruses into the computers of the people you are watching. There are other technologies you can use that are being developed for these purposes.
My view is that widespread use of encryption would not increase the rate of crime. In fact restricting encryption might do the opposite. If we can encrypt our credit card details properly, that might make it easier for criminals. At the moment I don see this as a great threat to society quite the opposite. In 10 years, of course, we might have to reevaluate the whole situation.
Finally, I have to ask about your Challenge. You giving away $15,000 of your own hard earned cash to the first person who cracks all 10 codes at the back of your book. Do you expect anyone to solve it?
I think so and I be happy to give the money away. You can win $15,000 on TV from answering trivial questions, so if anyone can solve this they deserve the prize! The great thing is there such a diversity of people working on it. I recently spoke to a Field medalist who doing it. [The Field Medal is the mathematics world equivalent of the Nobel Prize.] But when I left England a few days ago, the person who was the furthest along was a 15 year old girl.
Simon Singh is not a man to shirk a challenge. In 1997 he replica van cleef wedding ring set out to make a documentary about the solving of the world most famous (some would say infamous) mathematical problem, Fermat Last Theorem. Having bamboozled the planet finest mathematical minds for 350 years, Fermat challenge had finally been laid to rest by the retiring English mathematician Andrew Wiles. The solution, which took up more than 1,000 pages of densely packed equations, cut a swath through some of the most fiendishly difficult areas in all of math. How on earth could this be presented to a television audience? The marvel is that despite the impenetrability of the math, Singh produced an immensely human and poignant film seen in the United States on the PBS series He later turned the subject into the bestselling book Enigma, which, he tells me, he wrote as an exercise just to see if he could.
Trained as a particle physicist at Cambridge University his research topic was the elusive quark Singh spent several years working at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) before swapping a life in the lab for one behind the camera at the BBC science department. Who could be better, then, to tackle the subject of cryptography? In his recently published Code Book, Singh follows the development of secret codes from ancient Rome to the latest advances in quantum cryptography. At the end of the book he invites readers to test their own code breaking skills with a forbidding looking cipher challenge. The first person to crack all 10 codes will be rewarded with a prize of $15,000 from Singh own purse.
It strikes me that there is a continuity between your two books solving Fermat Last Theorem was like cracking a huge mathematical puzzle, and that is not unlike solving a complex code.
If you look at code makers and code breakers, they driven by the same things that mathematicians are driven by. They obsessive, they love puzzles, they love conundrums. There a certain innocence about the code breaker, but at the end of the day, what the code breaker does has a major impact on wars, battles, lives, deaths and so on. Yet all that at a much higher level the political level, the military level. The actual code breaker sitting at his or her desk is a puzzle solver, so there is that in common with mathematicians.
It interesting that history is often seen as an impediment to presenting science. You get the idea from many scientists that all the really good stuff has happened in the last few years, if not last week, and that anything older is out of date and irrelevant. But in both books you put the science into a historical context, telling stories with great characters like Mary, Queen of Scots, and Charles Babbage and lots of human drama.
From a professional point of view as a scientist you always have to strip out the personal perspective. When you write up research papers it always in the passive voice: beaker was heated, not heated the beaker, and actually that replica van cleef and arpels frivole ring day I was feeling pretty good. So often it difficult for scientists to put in emotional content though there are some extraordinary exceptions who do. For me, coming from television where people will switch off if they aren engaged you have to put in the characters and emotional drama. So I write the way I make TV programs.
Is there one story that particularly stands out for you in the history of cryptography?
The story of the British discovery of public key cryptography [a form of encription technology crucial to the process of putting powerful privacy tools in public hands]. The science of secrecy is a secret science, so often cryptographic work cannot be talked about publicly, sometimes for many years. This story actually only emerged while I was writing the book, this 25 year old untold story of the greatest discovery in the history of cryptography. It turns out that some years before the Americans came up with public key encryption, British mathematicians working secretly at the GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] had already discovered this, but it was all hushed up because of the military significance. This was the first time these three code makers James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson could have their story told, and I feel honored to be able to tell it. The tragedy is that Ellis died just three weeks before the announcement was made, so he never lived to see the credit he deserved.
That doesn undermine the work of the American discoveries of public key encryption. The work they did was quite independent. Furthermore, if they hadn made their breakthrough GCHQ might never have gone public, and the information age would never have been where it is replica van cleef ring replica now if we didn have this breakthrough.
Speaking of secrecy, do you think there are advances in cryptography at the moment way beyond what public knowledge?
The whole book is really about the ongoing battle between code makers and code breakers. At the moment most people would say that the code makers are clearly ahead. So it doesn really matter if people are coming up with new codes because the ones we have are already very strong. The question is whether there is someone who made a big breakthrough in code breaking that we don know about so that the assumption that there this big lead isn actually true. You can never be sure, but I think it unlikely. Although the NSA [National Security Agency] is the world largest employer of mathematicians, there are lots of brilliant mathematicians elsewhere who haven found any major new algorithms.
So in fact public knowledge at this point in time may be a real reflection of the secret knowledge, so to speak?
Yes, I think that the case.
The subtitle of the book is Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, and early on you make the point that cryptography proceeds in a very Darwinian fashion with a kind of information arms race propelling developments on each side.
It is an evolutionary process, with code makers continually coming up with new developments, and then the code breakers having to respond by evolving new methods for penetrating those defenses. It is like the evolution of predator prey relationships. It interesting too because there are selection pressures. Sometimes it only when you desperate enough that new breakthroughs happen. For example, when the Germans developed the Enigma code between the wars and ultimately it was the Poles who were sandwiched between both the Germans and the Russians, and were therefore desperately worried about their national security who made the first big breakthroughs in cracking these codes. The work was then smuggled out to the British. The Poles are often forgotten in the story, but it really was extraordinary work they did, driven by this pressure of adversity.
We seem to be living at a time when there is a general obsession with codes: not just cryptographic codes, but computer codes and genetic codes we got the Human Genome Project on the verge of sequencing the entire DNA code of human beings. You also have books like Neal Stephenson
It funny, but when Enigma came out there was also Will Hunting (which was wonderful) and (which was terrible), and there were books like Man Who Loved Only Numbers [by Paul Hoffman] and Beautiful Mind [by Sylvia Nasar]. There was a whole series of math films and math books that seemed to enter popular culture at the same time. And now you have a Hollywood film like of the State with Will Smith, and last year Rising with Bruce Willis, about the NSA. Also in literature. I sure this won be the only book on codes. I not sure what triggered this.
Just one of those things that in the air. It seems to me that an interest in codes is actually pretty widespread. Children love making up codes and creating secret little languages. Lots of people love the idea of being part of some select group with its own secret passwords, like the Freemasons.
As soon as you express yourself in words, and especially once you start putting words down on paper whether it 10,000 years ago or children today there a realization that you may need to keep these things secret, whether it your personal diary or a military strategy. So it quite natural that children do this. And it empowering. One of the reasons children make codes is to hide things from their parents. To children, parents are almost like Big Brother. We worry about the CIA and the NSA; children worry about their parents. We both use codes to try and protect ourselves.
Lots of people in this country have Big Brother concerns. What do you think about these fears that the government or big corporations are spying on our lives?
If people have that concern then they should just use encryption. The great thing is that encryption is extremely strong, we think there is this big lead, so it should really protect them. The fear is what might happen if governments crack down on encryption and restrict its use. That might happen in Burma or China, but I can see it happening in the rest of the world. All the trends are in the other direction.
For the last decade there been this big debate between civil libertarians and governments and law enforcement and it been who going to win this debate. But what we now realizing is that there a third force business, who are on the side of the civil libertarians, because they want strong encryption so they can conduct their business. In France, for example, they recently lifted almost all restrictions on encryption because they didn want e mail companies going off and setting up their businesses elsewhere.
What about the argument that we need governments to be able to crack all encryption codes so they can fight crime, especially organized crime?
If governments ban encryption software it doesn really mean much. You can ban a shop from selling software, but you can ban somebody downloading it from the Internet or getting access some other way. Even if they did ban all use of such software, there are other ways of proceeding. For instance, I could use a form of steganography and hide a message in a digital image. Whatever the government is doing, people will find ways around it.
Also, the evidence that restricting encryption would help against organized crime is not enormous. If that important then you need to find other ways, like [The so called attack is a method whereby you park a van outside someone house and monitor the distinct electromagnetic signals given off as they type each computer keystroke.] Or you can send special monitoring viruses into the computers of the people you are watching. There are other technologies you can use that are being developed for these purposes.
My view is that widespread use of encryption would not increase the rate of crime. In fact restricting encryption might do the opposite. If we can encrypt our credit card details properly, that might make it easier for criminals. At the moment I don see this as a great threat to society quite the opposite. In 10 years, of course, we might have to reevaluate the whole situation.
Finally, I have to ask about your Challenge. You giving away $15,000 of your own hard earned cash to the first person who cracks all 10 codes at the back of your book. Do you expect anyone to solve it?
I think so and I be happy to give the money away. You can win $15,000 on TV from answering trivial questions, so if anyone can solve this they deserve the prize! The great thing is there such a diversity of people working on it. I recently spoke to a Field medalist who doing it. [The Field Medal is the mathematics world equivalent of the Nobel Prize.] But when I left England a few days ago, the person who was the furthest along was a 15 year old girl.
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Another year of chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts for children and church leaders cleaning their teeth in readiness for their annual fiery sermons, and why? Since Christmas, the shops have been preparing us to spend big, having brought out their hot cross buns before the tinsel had even been taken down, and why? The Christian parliamentarians will have their annual day of reflection before once again displaying their rapier hearts in their election round of posturing, and why? Did Jesus have to die to witness this? Is this the depth of our understanding of His death? If the reason for His death is explained by our annual celebration, I think He wasted His time. And we replica Hermes belt france are wasting His. Who feels the burden He felt which gave Him reason to pour out His life as He did? Who weeps over the poverty of what is left of the church? We need some men who really are His brothers, walking like Him, revealing in their lives the reason for which He lived and died. As it is, we see the church, dressed in spiritual rags, limping along and the world living for what it always has lived for, its own self aggrandisement. Together I can already see them making plans for next year's feast and nothing will have changed.
Greg Mansell, West Ulverstone, Tas
The Easter message has been packaged and peddled by the church for two millennia with a range of liturgies and obligations, but in 2016 the use by date for that particular range is well and truly up. The institutional Christian response to the Easter story is more aligned with rolling the stone against the hopes of the vanquished. It could be so different. The church could be at the forefront of calling for marriage equality and the affirmation of diversity to counteract a culture of bullying and brutal conformity. The testimony of Cardinal George Pell at the royal commission and the frenzy of objections to the Safe Schools program and marriage equality from Christian lobby groups has highlighted the gulf between the Easter narrative of rescue and inclusion and peace. You may well find a connection with the real hope of Easter in an inclusive Christian celebration, but many will find it in acts of kindness and hope or in other unexpected places.
The Venerable Peter MacLeod Miller, Archdeacon of the Hume, St Matthew's Anglican Church, Albury
A precious moment to pause together
Please, AFL Commission, don't introduce football games on Good Friday. If Easter means nothing, then perhaps we should ditch the Easter holidays altogether? While we're about it, we could play cricket on Christmas Day and ditch those holidays hermes brown belt imitation as well. Then, of course, why should we have Sundays off? Let's just focus on work all year around. Oh all right, our unions fought valiantly to give us annual holidays, but these would not necessarily match up with the holidays of many others, let alone our nearest and dearest. So we would be and feel more cut off. Not good for our mental health. Our Christian heritage has deeply affected our values, language, arts and history. It's not generally appreciated that the word Easter derives from oestrus, the fertile period in female mammals. The Christian feast was superimposed on the existing pagan spring festival celebrating fertility and new life, and hence was associated with Jesus's resurrection. Consider the popular symbols of Easter: eggs and rabbits. What further evidence is required?
Rosemary Sceats, Macleod
Some sensitivity, please
Dear Malcolm Turnbull, I fake hermes belts whosale am appalled by the insensitive political opportunism of your speech in which you lectured European nations about your perceptions of their shortcomings in ensuring the security of their peoples. You appear to have barely noticed that 31 people have just died and more than 200 have been injured in terrifying circumstances in Brussels. Their relatives and friends are only just beginning to grieve. They do not need some smug leader on the other side of the world offering what appear to be ignorant, politically motivated opinions.
The developments in replica Hermes belts france Europe since WWII leading to greater integration and freedom of movement have been singular achievements which have reduced the likelihood of a third war between European nations to close to zero. In the face of terrorism, it is going to be difficult to protect these advances.
However, your observations contribute nothing. In fact, European countries should take some comfort from insisting on defending their hard won freedoms. There is a price to pay, of which they are well aware. Unfortunately, your self satisfied assertion that Australia is dealing with terrorist threats more effectively than the Europeans may come to haunt you. But what convictions, what ideas? The convictions and ideas that made the West so successful and resilient include tolerance, individual rights, freedom of speech, free enterprise, equal opportunity and progress, among others. None of these ideals is absolute; each is qualified by all the others. Consent, not regulation, has achieved this fine balance.
The expectation that these values would be shared by all was usually enough to ensure they were. But they are in danger of decay. If the West recommits to those ideals, we will triumph over IS, just as the West triumphed over fascism and communism.
Michael Angwin, Surrey Hills
Living with difference
Please, Seb Potter (Letters, 24/3), multiculturalism is not blind acceptance of violence, be it "theirs" or "ours". Multiculturalism is the hard work of living with differences and condemning all violence. For Belgium, the recent bloody disasters in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Rwanda that cost more than a million lives were a direct result of the conduct of the great grandparents of the current population of Belgium.
Adrian Jackson, Middle Park
Face up to the past
At the time of the Brussels atrocity, the US carried out a drone strike in Yemen killing "dozens of people". In two strikes over the past month, they have killed more than 200 people. Same explosions, same carnage. Does no one put these acts together? The current threats to the West are the result of 250 plus years of colonial exploitation. The open slavery, genocide and looting may have ended but the oppression goes on. Wouldn't you expect some blowback?
Western powers are fixated on the short game, predicting attacks, cracking down, limiting freedoms, but there's always been a very long game in world affairs, of which we will always be the victims until governments face up to the consequences of their past actions.
Another year of chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts for children and church leaders cleaning their teeth in readiness for their annual fiery sermons, and why? Since Christmas, the shops have been preparing us to spend big, having brought out their hot cross buns before the tinsel had even been taken down, and why? The Christian parliamentarians will have their annual day of reflection before once again displaying their rapier hearts in their election round of posturing, and why? Did Jesus have to die to witness this? Is this the depth of our understanding of His death? If the reason for His death is explained by our annual celebration, I think He wasted His time. And we replica Hermes belt france are wasting His. Who feels the burden He felt which gave Him reason to pour out His life as He did? Who weeps over the poverty of what is left of the church? We need some men who really are His brothers, walking like Him, revealing in their lives the reason for which He lived and died. As it is, we see the church, dressed in spiritual rags, limping along and the world living for what it always has lived for, its own self aggrandisement. Together I can already see them making plans for next year's feast and nothing will have changed.
Greg Mansell, West Ulverstone, Tas
The Easter message has been packaged and peddled by the church for two millennia with a range of liturgies and obligations, but in 2016 the use by date for that particular range is well and truly up. The institutional Christian response to the Easter story is more aligned with rolling the stone against the hopes of the vanquished. It could be so different. The church could be at the forefront of calling for marriage equality and the affirmation of diversity to counteract a culture of bullying and brutal conformity. The testimony of Cardinal George Pell at the royal commission and the frenzy of objections to the Safe Schools program and marriage equality from Christian lobby groups has highlighted the gulf between the Easter narrative of rescue and inclusion and peace. You may well find a connection with the real hope of Easter in an inclusive Christian celebration, but many will find it in acts of kindness and hope or in other unexpected places.
The Venerable Peter MacLeod Miller, Archdeacon of the Hume, St Matthew's Anglican Church, Albury
A precious moment to pause together
Please, AFL Commission, don't introduce football games on Good Friday. If Easter means nothing, then perhaps we should ditch the Easter holidays altogether? While we're about it, we could play cricket on Christmas Day and ditch those holidays hermes brown belt imitation as well. Then, of course, why should we have Sundays off? Let's just focus on work all year around. Oh all right, our unions fought valiantly to give us annual holidays, but these would not necessarily match up with the holidays of many others, let alone our nearest and dearest. So we would be and feel more cut off. Not good for our mental health. Our Christian heritage has deeply affected our values, language, arts and history. It's not generally appreciated that the word Easter derives from oestrus, the fertile period in female mammals. The Christian feast was superimposed on the existing pagan spring festival celebrating fertility and new life, and hence was associated with Jesus's resurrection. Consider the popular symbols of Easter: eggs and rabbits. What further evidence is required?
Rosemary Sceats, Macleod
Some sensitivity, please
Dear Malcolm Turnbull, I fake hermes belts whosale am appalled by the insensitive political opportunism of your speech in which you lectured European nations about your perceptions of their shortcomings in ensuring the security of their peoples. You appear to have barely noticed that 31 people have just died and more than 200 have been injured in terrifying circumstances in Brussels. Their relatives and friends are only just beginning to grieve. They do not need some smug leader on the other side of the world offering what appear to be ignorant, politically motivated opinions.
The developments in replica Hermes belts france Europe since WWII leading to greater integration and freedom of movement have been singular achievements which have reduced the likelihood of a third war between European nations to close to zero. In the face of terrorism, it is going to be difficult to protect these advances.
However, your observations contribute nothing. In fact, European countries should take some comfort from insisting on defending their hard won freedoms. There is a price to pay, of which they are well aware. Unfortunately, your self satisfied assertion that Australia is dealing with terrorist threats more effectively than the Europeans may come to haunt you. But what convictions, what ideas? The convictions and ideas that made the West so successful and resilient include tolerance, individual rights, freedom of speech, free enterprise, equal opportunity and progress, among others. None of these ideals is absolute; each is qualified by all the others. Consent, not regulation, has achieved this fine balance.
The expectation that these values would be shared by all was usually enough to ensure they were. But they are in danger of decay. If the West recommits to those ideals, we will triumph over IS, just as the West triumphed over fascism and communism.
Michael Angwin, Surrey Hills
Living with difference
Please, Seb Potter (Letters, 24/3), multiculturalism is not blind acceptance of violence, be it "theirs" or "ours". Multiculturalism is the hard work of living with differences and condemning all violence. For Belgium, the recent bloody disasters in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Rwanda that cost more than a million lives were a direct result of the conduct of the great grandparents of the current population of Belgium.
Adrian Jackson, Middle Park
Face up to the past
At the time of the Brussels atrocity, the US carried out a drone strike in Yemen killing "dozens of people". In two strikes over the past month, they have killed more than 200 people. Same explosions, same carnage. Does no one put these acts together? The current threats to the West are the result of 250 plus years of colonial exploitation. The open slavery, genocide and looting may have ended but the oppression goes on. Wouldn't you expect some blowback?
Western powers are fixated on the short game, predicting attacks, cracking down, limiting freedoms, but there's always been a very long game in world affairs, of which we will always be the victims until governments face up to the consequences of their past actions.
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Investor state dispute settlement an integral part of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal allows companies to sue entire countries for costing them money when laws or regulations change. Cases are decided by extrajudicial tribunals composed of three corporate lawyers. Buzzfeed, in a multi part investigationlaunched Sunday, called it "the court that rules the world."
Although the ISDS process has existed for years,TPP would drastically expand it. The most common criticisms of the system are that it's secret, that it's dominated by unaccountable big firm lawyers, and that global corporations use it to change sovereign laws and undermine regulations. That's all true.
The ISDS system which is now written into over 3,000 international trade treaties, including NAFTA was designed to solve a specific problem. When corporations invest abroad, they fear that their factories might be nationalized or their products expropriated by governments that also control the local courts. ISDS is meant to give companies confidence that if a country seizes their accounts or factories, they'll have a fair, neutral place to appeal.
But instead of helping companies resolve legitimate disputes over seized assets, ISDS has increasingly become a way for rich investors to make money by speculating on lawsuits, winning huge awards and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.
Here's how it works: Wealthy financiers with idle cash have purchased companies that are well placed to bring an ISDS claim, seemingly for the sole purpose of using that claim to make a buck. Sometimes, they set up shell corporations to create the plaintiffs to bring ISDS cases. And some hedge funds and private equity firms bankroll ISDS cases as third parties just like billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker Media. housing debt for pennies on the dollar. As The Huffington Post reported in May, the financiers were betting they could use lawsuits and lobbying to influence the political system in favor of the creditors like them and reap huge rewards.
Indeed, the damage of ISDS goes far beyond the money that investors manage to extract from public coffers and extends to the corruption of a political system by investors who buy off scholars, economists and politicians in pursuit of whatever policy outcome leads to a payoff. And there's nothing stopping plutocrats with agendas that go beyond profit making from getting involved again the way Thiel did with Gawker. That alone changes the power dynamic: If you're the government of Thailand, the billionaire you're negotiating with has one extra threat at his disposal.
So called third party funding of "international arbitration against foreign sovereigns"has been expanding quickly, according to Selvyn Seidel, a pioneer in the litigation finance industry and now CEO of the advisory firm Fulbrook Capital Management.
"You can get an award for billions of dollars when that award would never come out in domestic law," said Gus van Harten, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. "It's just a jackpot for speculators."
Here's an example. In 2008, the Spanish government, under pressure from the eurozone to cut its budget during the financial crisis, began to reverse generous subsidies for solar energy. Spain reduced support for solar in stages. It changed the definition of its replica van cleef diamond ring main solar incentive program in 2008, reduced the subsidies through two measures in 2010, placed a moratorium on subsidies for new solar plants in 2011, and added further restrictions in 2013.
Renewable energy activists could only shout into the air. But a group of investors hatched a plan.
Between November 2011 and December 2013, 22 different companies sued Spain in seven different cases over the subsidy changes not in Spanish courts, but using ISDS.
RREEF, an investment fund subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Bank, and Antin, a private equity firm owned by French bank BNP Paribas, purchased their Spanish solar thermal power plants in 2011, three years after the country began to roll back subsidies. But when they went to ISDS, they claimed they had expected subsidies to continue not to continue declining.
"It feels like they acquired [the solar plants] in order to sue," said , a campaigner for Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels based research organization. Those two cases are still pending; a tribunal order allowed the RREEF case to advance in June.
The facts suggest that these investment funds made their purchases based not on the potential success or failure of the business they bought, not out of a concern for climate change and its consequences, but with the expectation that the Spanish government would continue its subsidy rollback, allowing the funds to sue in a special court unavailable to Spanish citizens. (To be fair, HuffPost can't prove this to a certainty.) ISDS represented the purpose of the investment or, to phrase another way, the use of ISDS was an asset building strategy. Spain's renewable energy subsidies have not been restored. Instead, a cash strapped government is being forced to spend scarce resources defending a decision that was forced upon it.
Spain isn't the only government defending these sorts of ISDS claims. Potov Banka of the Czech Republic bought sovereign debt from Greece in early 2010, well after rating agencies haddowngraded the nation's bonds. Two years later, after European leaders forced a restructuring of all Greek government bonds, Potov and its shareholder, Istrokapital of Cyprus, filed an ISDS claim, contending that the restructuring cost them millions.
Maybe Potov bought the distressed bonds knowing that it could use arbitration as a fallback. Or maybe it bought the bonds with the intent to sue and gain a favorable return on its money through ISDS.
In several other cases, investors appeared to opportunistically purchase a company that had the ability to file an ISDS claim at exactly the right time.
In 2004, through one of its investment funds, the French bank Socit Gnrale purchased a 50 percent stake in a public private partnership to distribute electricity in the Dominican Republic. The purchase included intermediary companies from California, Delaware, Nevada and the Cayman Islands, and the corporate structure is nearly impossible to ascertain. (SocGen explained to arbitrators that it also arranged a "deferred purchase fee"). And the heart of the dispute the Dominican Republic's alleged failure to pay negotiated compensation occurred years before SocGen made its purchase, according to the country, which argued SocGen was merely "buying a claim."
Nonetheless, an ISDS tribunal ruled that "the principal objective of the transaction was the potential profitability of the investment." It found that the Dominican Republic's violations were ongoing and, through a settlement, awarded SocGen $26.5 million.
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Since Greek and Roman times, the wealthy have placed bets on the outcomes of court cases. Under English common law, financing someone else's lawsuit, known as champerty, was illegal. But the modern version of that,litigation finance which began in Australia in the 1960s has spread widely over the past two decades. Investors seeking higher returns on their savings have looked to courtrooms instead of stocks or bonds, agreeing to bankroll cases and taking a portion of the cash awards if they win.
Third party funding replica van cleef arpels ring shields corporations from the upfront costs of litigation, making it easier to sue. Since companies generally don't have to disclose that they've received third party funding for an ISDS case, and since international arbitration usually proceeds in comparative secrecy, pursuing a claim through ISDS can shield companies from the public criticism that accompanies challenging a law in regular courts. "You can actually ask for enormous amounts of money without anybody criticizing you," said Verheecke of Corporate Europe Observatory.
With ISDS permitted under some 3,000 treaties,there are a huge number of opportunities to sue. And "unlike some other legal systems, the default remedy is a cash payment," said Todd Tucker, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute with a decade of experience researching trade and investment policy. The awards are also uncapped, meaning they can be enormous. If a corporation sought damages on future profits in perpetuity and the arbitrators agreed, the sovereign would have no recourse. Dozens of cases have resulted in awards of over $100 million, according to afrom van Harten, the law professor.
Defenders of ISDS argue that the outcome of any case is uncertain and that companies win only about one quarter of the time. But that's only the cases that have been publicly identified and it doesn't include settlements, where the corporation can also extract a monetary award. If funding ISDS suits was really such a bad bet, the industry probably wouldn't be expanding so quickly.
Investor state dispute settlement an integral part of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal allows companies to sue entire countries for costing them money when laws or regulations change. Cases are decided by extrajudicial tribunals composed of three corporate lawyers. Buzzfeed, in a multi part investigationlaunched Sunday, called it "the court that rules the world."
Although the ISDS process has existed for years,TPP would drastically expand it. The most common criticisms of the system are that it's secret, that it's dominated by unaccountable big firm lawyers, and that global corporations use it to change sovereign laws and undermine regulations. That's all true.
The ISDS system which is now written into over 3,000 international trade treaties, including NAFTA was designed to solve a specific problem. When corporations invest abroad, they fear that their factories might be nationalized or their products expropriated by governments that also control the local courts. ISDS is meant to give companies confidence that if a country seizes their accounts or factories, they'll have a fair, neutral place to appeal.
But instead of helping companies resolve legitimate disputes over seized assets, ISDS has increasingly become a way for rich investors to make money by speculating on lawsuits, winning huge awards and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.
Here's how it works: Wealthy financiers with idle cash have purchased companies that are well placed to bring an ISDS claim, seemingly for the sole purpose of using that claim to make a buck. Sometimes, they set up shell corporations to create the plaintiffs to bring ISDS cases. And some hedge funds and private equity firms bankroll ISDS cases as third parties just like billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker Media. housing debt for pennies on the dollar. As The Huffington Post reported in May, the financiers were betting they could use lawsuits and lobbying to influence the political system in favor of the creditors like them and reap huge rewards.
Indeed, the damage of ISDS goes far beyond the money that investors manage to extract from public coffers and extends to the corruption of a political system by investors who buy off scholars, economists and politicians in pursuit of whatever policy outcome leads to a payoff. And there's nothing stopping plutocrats with agendas that go beyond profit making from getting involved again the way Thiel did with Gawker. That alone changes the power dynamic: If you're the government of Thailand, the billionaire you're negotiating with has one extra threat at his disposal.
So called third party funding of "international arbitration against foreign sovereigns"has been expanding quickly, according to Selvyn Seidel, a pioneer in the litigation finance industry and now CEO of the advisory firm Fulbrook Capital Management.
"You can get an award for billions of dollars when that award would never come out in domestic law," said Gus van Harten, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. "It's just a jackpot for speculators."
Here's an example. In 2008, the Spanish government, under pressure from the eurozone to cut its budget during the financial crisis, began to reverse generous subsidies for solar energy. Spain reduced support for solar in stages. It changed the definition of its replica van cleef diamond ring main solar incentive program in 2008, reduced the subsidies through two measures in 2010, placed a moratorium on subsidies for new solar plants in 2011, and added further restrictions in 2013.
Renewable energy activists could only shout into the air. But a group of investors hatched a plan.
Between November 2011 and December 2013, 22 different companies sued Spain in seven different cases over the subsidy changes not in Spanish courts, but using ISDS.
RREEF, an investment fund subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Bank, and Antin, a private equity firm owned by French bank BNP Paribas, purchased their Spanish solar thermal power plants in 2011, three years after the country began to roll back subsidies. But when they went to ISDS, they claimed they had expected subsidies to continue not to continue declining.
"It feels like they acquired [the solar plants] in order to sue," said , a campaigner for Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels based research organization. Those two cases are still pending; a tribunal order allowed the RREEF case to advance in June.
The facts suggest that these investment funds made their purchases based not on the potential success or failure of the business they bought, not out of a concern for climate change and its consequences, but with the expectation that the Spanish government would continue its subsidy rollback, allowing the funds to sue in a special court unavailable to Spanish citizens. (To be fair, HuffPost can't prove this to a certainty.) ISDS represented the purpose of the investment or, to phrase another way, the use of ISDS was an asset building strategy. Spain's renewable energy subsidies have not been restored. Instead, a cash strapped government is being forced to spend scarce resources defending a decision that was forced upon it.
Spain isn't the only government defending these sorts of ISDS claims. Potov Banka of the Czech Republic bought sovereign debt from Greece in early 2010, well after rating agencies haddowngraded the nation's bonds. Two years later, after European leaders forced a restructuring of all Greek government bonds, Potov and its shareholder, Istrokapital of Cyprus, filed an ISDS claim, contending that the restructuring cost them millions.
Maybe Potov bought the distressed bonds knowing that it could use arbitration as a fallback. Or maybe it bought the bonds with the intent to sue and gain a favorable return on its money through ISDS.
In several other cases, investors appeared to opportunistically purchase a company that had the ability to file an ISDS claim at exactly the right time.
In 2004, through one of its investment funds, the French bank Socit Gnrale purchased a 50 percent stake in a public private partnership to distribute electricity in the Dominican Republic. The purchase included intermediary companies from California, Delaware, Nevada and the Cayman Islands, and the corporate structure is nearly impossible to ascertain. (SocGen explained to arbitrators that it also arranged a "deferred purchase fee"). And the heart of the dispute the Dominican Republic's alleged failure to pay negotiated compensation occurred years before SocGen made its purchase, according to the country, which argued SocGen was merely "buying a claim."
Nonetheless, an ISDS tribunal ruled that "the principal objective of the transaction was the potential profitability of the investment." It found that the Dominican Republic's violations were ongoing and, through a settlement, awarded SocGen $26.5 million.
You can actually ask for enormous amounts replica van cleef arpels between finger ring of money without anybody criticizing you.
of Corporate Europe Observatory
Since Greek and Roman times, the wealthy have placed bets on the outcomes of court cases. Under English common law, financing someone else's lawsuit, known as champerty, was illegal. But the modern version of that,litigation finance which began in Australia in the 1960s has spread widely over the past two decades. Investors seeking higher returns on their savings have looked to courtrooms instead of stocks or bonds, agreeing to bankroll cases and taking a portion of the cash awards if they win.
Third party funding replica van cleef arpels ring shields corporations from the upfront costs of litigation, making it easier to sue. Since companies generally don't have to disclose that they've received third party funding for an ISDS case, and since international arbitration usually proceeds in comparative secrecy, pursuing a claim through ISDS can shield companies from the public criticism that accompanies challenging a law in regular courts. "You can actually ask for enormous amounts of money without anybody criticizing you," said Verheecke of Corporate Europe Observatory.
With ISDS permitted under some 3,000 treaties,there are a huge number of opportunities to sue. And "unlike some other legal systems, the default remedy is a cash payment," said Todd Tucker, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute with a decade of experience researching trade and investment policy. The awards are also uncapped, meaning they can be enormous. If a corporation sought damages on future profits in perpetuity and the arbitrators agreed, the sovereign would have no recourse. Dozens of cases have resulted in awards of over $100 million, according to afrom van Harten, the law professor.
Defenders of ISDS argue that the outcome of any case is uncertain and that companies win only about one quarter of the time. But that's only the cases that have been publicly identified and it doesn't include settlements, where the corporation can also extract a monetary award. If funding ISDS suits was really such a bad bet, the industry probably wouldn't be expanding so quickly.
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"Sharon" sat down on the large blue sofa along with the other women. As always, I asked the ladies how they were doing since our last meeting a week ago. "I'm having a problem with some of the women here," Sharon said. (She was referring to those at the battered women's shelter where our meetings are held.) "Last night I told my roommate to turn the light off so I could go to sleep and she got nasty with me. Then, when I got up the next morning to go to my appointment, no one told me the van was leaving so I missed my ride. Later, I was using the pay phone and moved the garbage can into the hall because it was in my way. A staff member yelled at me and told me I had to put it back. I told her it's a free country and I can do what I want. She got nasty with me so I got nasty back. I'm tired of these btches pushing me around!"
She proceeded to congratulate herself for not hitting anyone. "I've been to anger management before. I don't need this group. I didn't hit anyone like I used to."
I, too, applauded her for the progress she had made. This was impressive for someone who grew up where violence is an acceptable way of life. But I needed to take her beyond where the other group left off. "Let's take a look at the role you played in each of these situations so you can do things differently in the future and avoid further problems. In the first, did you ask your roommate politely or were you rude?" "I was rude but she didn't have to get nasty with me so I cursed her out!" "Could you have asked politely?" I inquired. "Yes but even so, she didn't have to be a 'b'!"
I proceeded: "You do know that the van leaves precisely at 6 am every morning, don't you?" I asked. "Yes", she replied. "What could you have done differently to ensure you were on time?" "I could have gotten up earlier." I could see she was becoming agitated that I was focusing on her role in each of the arduous situations. "This is a shelter and they have rules everyone is expected to abide by. To move a garbage can into the hallway presents a fire hazard and is in violation of the town's fire code. Staff was only doing their job." "That's ridiculous!" she shouted. "It's a stupid garbage can, for God's sake! I could move it if I want to!" I was not surprised when she left the group.
The hardest thing we ever have to do in life is face the truth about ourselves. We are quick to credit ourselves for the right choices we make while failing to acknowledge our defects. Finding fault with others is effortless as it requires no self examination and effort on our part to change. But only when we are willing to acknowledge our role in what isn't working in our lives do we have the power to effect positive change.
Live in truth, no matter how (temporarily) painful: it is where your true personal power lies to prosper. Postal Service, AT Hoffman LaRoche, Rutgers University, Carnival Cruise Lines, United Way, YWCA, New Jersey Education Association, Care One, Insurance Restoration Specialists, Learning Annex, William Paterson University, Catholic Community Services, Passaic County Community College, American Business Academy, Bergen County Police and Fire Academy, Cook's College, Kean University, Rotary, Ocean County College, Kiwanis and more. State Certification in Domestic Violence and is a consultant and instructor at a battered women's shelter.
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She is a former columnist for the Daily Record and hosted her own cable TV and radio shows. Family. She has recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fusion, Alaska Business Monthly and more than 50 other publications.
As an inspirational speaker and private consultant, Janet is a frequent guest on radio and TV and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, The 700 Club, Lifetime, NBC News, Fox, CBS News, The Harvest Show, TruTV, Celebration and more than 100 top radio stations. She appears as a regular guest on WGUN Radio (Relationship Thursdays with DJ Kay and Janet Pfeiffer) and is a regular guest on replica van cleef and arpels ring price Ebru Today.
Janet runs "The Antidote to Anger Group" for court ordered offenders and those with issues of anger. Additionally, she is a member of EAPA, NJAWBO, ISBOG, MVP Seminars Speaker's Bureau and Visions in Motion Speaker's Bureau.
She has been nominated for many prestigious awards including the Russ Berrie "Make a Difference Award", 2010 NJ Governor's Jefferson Award, and has been presented with SOS "Positive Life Force" and "AOH" awards.
In 2001, she founded "Reunion of Hearts", Reconciling and Reconnecting Estranged Families", the nation's first non profit support group of its kind dedicated to the emotional healing and reuniting of estranged family members.
My anger management group is no place for the weak. While I am very compassionate and respectful, I have zero tolerance for denial, blame, self pity and the like. Monday night was no exception.
"Sharon" sat down on the large blue sofa along with the other women. As always, I asked the ladies how they were doing since our last meeting a week ago. "I'm having a problem with some of the women here," Sharon said. (She was referring to those at the battered women's shelter where our meetings are held.) "Last night I told my roommate to turn the light off so I could go to sleep and she got nasty with me. Then, when I got up the next morning to go to my appointment, no one told me the van was leaving so I missed my ride. Later, I was using the pay phone and moved the garbage can into the hall because it was in my way. A staff member yelled at me and told me I had to put it back. I told her it's a free country and I can do what I want. She got nasty with me so I got nasty back. I'm tired of these btches pushing me around!"
She proceeded to congratulate herself for not hitting anyone. "I've been to anger management before. I don't need this group. I didn't hit anyone like I used to."
I, too, applauded her for the progress she had made. This was impressive for someone who grew up where violence is an acceptable way of life. But I needed to take her beyond where the other group left off. "Let's take a look at the role you played in each of these situations so you can do things differently in the future and avoid further problems. In the first, did you ask your roommate politely or were you rude?" "I was rude but she didn't have to get nasty with me so I cursed her out!" "Could you have asked politely?" I inquired. "Yes but even so, she didn't have to be a 'b'!"
I proceeded: "You do know that the van leaves precisely at 6 am every morning, don't you?" I asked. "Yes", she replied. "What could you have done differently to ensure you were on time?" "I could have gotten up earlier." I could see she was becoming agitated that I was focusing on her role in each of the arduous situations. "This is a shelter and they have rules everyone is expected to abide by. To move a garbage can into the hallway presents a fire hazard and is in violation of the town's fire code. Staff was only doing their job." "That's ridiculous!" she shouted. "It's a stupid garbage can, for God's sake! I could move it if I want to!" I was not surprised when she left the group.
The hardest thing we ever have to do in life is face the truth about ourselves. We are quick to credit ourselves for the right choices we make while failing to acknowledge our defects. Finding fault with others is effortless as it requires no self examination and effort on our part to change. But only when we are willing to acknowledge our role in what isn't working in our lives do we have the power to effect positive change.
Live in truth, no matter how (temporarily) painful: it is where your true personal power lies to prosper. Postal Service, AT Hoffman LaRoche, Rutgers University, Carnival Cruise Lines, United Way, YWCA, New Jersey Education Association, Care One, Insurance Restoration Specialists, Learning Annex, William Paterson University, Catholic Community Services, Passaic County Community College, American Business Academy, Bergen County Police and Fire Academy, Cook's College, Kean University, Rotary, Ocean County College, Kiwanis and more. State Certification in Domestic Violence and is a consultant and instructor at a battered women's shelter.
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She is a former columnist for the Daily Record and hosted her own cable TV and radio shows. Family. She has recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fusion, Alaska Business Monthly and more than 50 other publications.
As an inspirational speaker and private consultant, Janet is a frequent guest on radio and TV and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, The 700 Club, Lifetime, NBC News, Fox, CBS News, The Harvest Show, TruTV, Celebration and more than 100 top radio stations. She appears as a regular guest on WGUN Radio (Relationship Thursdays with DJ Kay and Janet Pfeiffer) and is a regular guest on replica van cleef and arpels ring price Ebru Today.
Janet runs "The Antidote to Anger Group" for court ordered offenders and those with issues of anger. Additionally, she is a member of EAPA, NJAWBO, ISBOG, MVP Seminars Speaker's Bureau and Visions in Motion Speaker's Bureau.
She has been nominated for many prestigious awards including the Russ Berrie "Make a Difference Award", 2010 NJ Governor's Jefferson Award, and has been presented with SOS "Positive Life Force" and "AOH" awards.
In 2001, she founded "Reunion of Hearts", Reconciling and Reconnecting Estranged Families", the nation's first non profit support group of its kind dedicated to the emotional healing and reuniting of estranged family members.
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Nick Romano, 17, was in the passenger's seat of his 17 year old friend's 2005 Infiniti G35 coupe when police said the vehicle veered into the opposite lane of traffic and collided with replica birkin handbags a van. at the Wayne Valley High School gym, according to students.
The Wayne Police Athletic League (PAL) has raised over $10,700 for the Romano family in just six hours to help pay for funeral costs.
Police said the operator of the Infiniti lost fake hermes bag control of the vehicle near the intersection of Doremus Lane moments before striking a Chevy van operated by a Paterson resident, but did not elaborate further.
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The Wayne Valley girls lacrosse team wrote Romano's initials on their arms as a tribute to their late classmate during their 14 4 victory over Westwood on Saturday. Grieving students also took to social media sites to offer prayers and share memories of their late classmate.
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