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Eugenics in North Carolina

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Eugenics/Sexual Sterilizations in

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Number of Victims

Over 8,000 sterilizations were approved by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. The total number of victims actually sterilized is estimated to have been over 7,600 (Winston-Salem, Lifting the Curtain on a Shameful Era). Of this number, females represented approx. 85% of those sterilized (State Library, Statistics, p. 1). By the late 1960s, the sterilization of men was virtually halted, as women made up 99% of those sterilized (Sinderbrand, p. 1). African Americans represent 39% of those sterilized overall; by the later 1960s, they made up 60% of those sterilized, even though they made up only a quarter of the population (Sinderbrand, p. 1). Of those sterilized up to 1963, 25% were considered mentally ill and 70% were considered mentally deficient. In each of these categories, females account for over 75% of the sterilizations. North Carolina ranked third in the United States for the total number of people sterilized.

Period During Which Sterilization Occurred

Sterilizations started in 1929 with the passage of the sterilization law and continued through 1973, when the last recorded sterilization is known to have been reported.

Temporal Pattern of Sterilization

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Internet Governance Outlook 2014: Good News, Bad News, No News?

What does the crystal ball say for the Internet in 2014? Here are three scenarios for what could happen with the global Internet Governance Eco-System in the coming 12 months:

Three Scenarios

In the worst case scenario the Internet gets more and more fragmented and re-nationalized. A growing number of governments start to define a "national Internet segment" and develop policies to surveil, censor and control access to and use of the Internet. National firewalls will separate the "domestic Internet" from the global Internet and an exit and entrance regime into networks is introduced where users need passwords, handed out by governmental authorities on an annual basis, to go from one domain to another. Political battles among governments over critical Internet resources, cybersecurity and human rights will dominate international discussions, no global agreement can be reached, the voice of non-governmental stakeholders is ignored and the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum is not renewed.

In the best case scenario we will have a more secure Internet at the end of 2014 with more freedoms, more privacy and more involved stakeholders which enhance their cooperation on equal footing in a further growing global Internet Governance Eco-System. Surveillance is put under the rule of law and restricted on the basis of proportionality to cases where clear evidence is available for illegal activities. The next billion of Internet users will go online. We will see a new wave of innovative services and applications where objects are linked to the Internet creating new market opportunities, jobs and spaces for all kind of commercial, cultural and social activities improving the quality of life of billions of users around the globe.

Between the two scenarios 2014 could also become just another year in stumbling forward, as the former US president Bill Clinton has once described Internet Governance. We will see hot political debates with numerous papers and controversial proposals but little outcome. Some small steps could be taken as the successful start of some new top level domains, some arrangements on confidence building measures to enhance cybersecurity or a global agreement on some high level non-binding basic principles for Internet policy making. But a lot of other open and orphan issues under discussion will remain unresolved and postponed into the year 2015.

Internet Governance Eco-System as "Rainforest" of the 21st Century

An important role will play how the numerous involved governmental and non-governmental actors understand the nature of the complexity of the Internet Governance Eco-System. Already the terminology "Internet Governance Eco-System" signals that the Internet is not just "another policy issue" which after the revelations of Edward Snowden has been pushed now for policy decision makers from "low priority" to "high priority". The problem is much more complex.

The Internet is not a "single issue" which needs to be regulated in one way or another. The Internet, as it has evolved over half of a century, has penetrated all areas of the political, economic, cultural and social life around the globe. It constitutes more and more the environment in which individuals and institutions do live and learn, do their business, buy and sell, make love and fun and have all kind of individual or collective activities. The Internet Governance Eco-System constitutes to a high degree the virtual environment of the 21st century. Life without the Internet is meanwhile unthinkable for the young generation which are the decision makers of tomorrow. From the 20th century we know about the consequences of the pollution of our natural environment. The lesson learned from those disasters is that we should be very careful with all kinds of pollutions and keep our real and virtual environment as healthy as possible.

The Internet Governance Eco-System can be compared a little bit to the rainforest. In the rainforest an uncountable number of diverse plants and animals live together in a very complex system. In the "virtual rainforest" we have also an endless and growing diversity of networks, services, applications, regimes and other properties which co-exist in a mutual interdependent mechanism of communication, coordination and collaboration. One thing which can be learnt is that the rainforest as a whole is not managable. It can be neither governed nor controlled, but it can be damaged and destroyed. In the Internet Governance Eco-System many players with very different legal status operate on many different layers, on local, national, regional and international levels, driven by technical innovation, user needs, market opportunities and political interests.

As a result we see a very dynamic process where from a political-legal perspective a broad variety of different regulatory, co-regulatory or self-regulatory regimes emerge, co-exist and complement or conflict each other. The system as a whole is decentralized, diversified and has no central authority. However, within the various subsystems there is an incredible broad variety of different sub-mechanisms which range from hierarchical structures under single or inter-governmental control to non-hierarchical networks based on self-regulatory mechanisms by non-governmental groups with a wide range of co-regulatory arrangements in between where affected and concerned stakeholders from governments, private sector, civil society and technical community are working hand in hand.

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Master plans should be followed for development works: J&K govt

Jammu, Jan 1:

Jammu and Kashmir government today asked state officials to adhere to the provisions of Master Plans while undertaking development works and preserve the eco-system at tourist spots.

While undertaking development of eco-tourism and facility creation, development authorities should strictly adhere to the provisions of Master Plans and in no way allow anybody to tamper with the natural ambiance and beauty of the tourist areas, Tourism Minister Ghulam Ahmad Mir said here.

The maintenance of eco-system and preservation of natural beauty at tourist spots should form the necessary ingredient for facility creation and infrastructural development plans, Mir said while reviewing the performance of Baderwah Development Authority at a high-level meeting.

He said that the Centre has approved projects worth Rs 7.83 crore for developing the Baderwah-Thatari-Baleesa tourist circuit and added that work would begin after completion of necessary formalities.

He said under the project Tourist Reception Centres would be built at Baleesa and Thatari besides construction of wayside amenities, parks.

The Tourism Minister asked the concerned authorities to formulate the project reports for upgradation of additional accommodation facilities for tourists at potential spots.

(This article was published on January 1, 2014)

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Cyborg – Wikipedia

Der Begriff Cyborg (eingedeutscht auch Kyborg) bezeichnet ein Mischwesen aus lebendigem Organismus und Maschine. Zumeist werden damit Menschen beschrieben, deren Krper dauerhaft durch knstliche Bauteile ergnzt werden. Der Name ist ein Akronym und leitet sich vom englischen cybernetic organism, (dt.: kybernetischer Organismus) ab. Da Cyborgs technisch vernderte biologische Lebensformen sind, zhlen sie nicht zu den Robotern und sollten auch nicht mit deren Untergruppe, den Androiden, verwechselt werden.

Der Begriff stammt aus dem Kontext der Raumfahrt. Der sterreichisch-australische Wissenschaftler Manfred Clynes und der US-amerikanische Mediziner Nathan S. Kline verwendeten den Begriff in einem gemeinsamen Aufsatz in den 1960er Jahren das erste Mal.[1] Sie schlugen die technische Anpassung des Menschen an die Umweltbedingungen des Weltraums vor, als Alternative zur Schaffung einer knstlichen erdhnlichen Atmosphre innerhalb von Raumschiffen. Ausgangspunkt dieser berlegungen ist die natrliche Evolution, die hier als fortschreitende Anpassung der Lebewesen an neue Umweltbedingungen verstanden wird. Mit Hilfe von biochemischen, physiologischen und elektronischen Modifikationen sollten Menschen als selbstregulierende Mensch-Maschinen-Systeme im Weltraum berlebensfhig sein.

Die grundstzliche Idee, technologische bzw. knstlich hergestellte funktionale Bestandteile in organische Systeme einzufgen, ist allerdings wesentlich lter als der Begriff Cyborg. So kann z.B. von einem Zusammenhang zwischen dem Zeitalter der Aufklrung und der Prothetisierung der Welt (Bernd Flessner) gesprochen werden.[2] Auch in der Science-Fiction finden sich Cyborgphantasien schon, bevor der Begriff geprgt wurde.

In der modernen Biotechnologie gibt es Bestrebungen, biologische Elemente (in diesem Fall Menschen) mit technischen Elementen zu verbinden. Dieser technische Bereich wird als Bioelektronik bezeichnet. Im medizinischen Kontext ist die Verwendung komplexer binnenkrperlicher Technologie nichts Neues mehr. Menschen mit technischen Implantaten wie Herzschrittmachern, knstlichen Gliedmaen, komplexen Prothesen oder Implantaten in Auge und Ohr (Cochlea- bzw. Retina-Implantate) sind dem Begriff nach bereits Cyborgs. Ungefhr 10 Prozent der aktuellen Bevlkerung der USA sind vermutlich im technischen Sinn "Cyborgs" , schreibt N. Katherine Hayles im Cyborg Handbook.[3]

Es gibt unterschiedliche Vorstellungen ber die genaue Verwendung des Begriffs. Nach Ansicht des Philosophen Walther Christoph Zimmerli, Prsident der BTU Cottbus, stellt der moderne Mensch generell ein Wesen dar, welches in einer symbiotischen Verbindung mit der ihn umgebenden Technik lebt. Er ist demnach Teil eines solchen Mensch-Maschine-Komplexes.[4] Entsprechend wre ein Cyborg bereits eine Person, die sich mit Technik umgibt, etwa in einem Auto sitzt oder auch nur eine Brille trgt. Gerade hier aber ist strittig, wie der Begriff Cyborg verwendet werden soll. Ist er ein Synonym fr den Menschen als ein anthropologisch unhintergehbar auf Technologie verwiesenes Wesen im Sinne Arnold Gehlens oder Helmuth Plessners? Oder soll der Begriff fr solche Verbindungen von Leib und Technologie reserviert werden, bei denen, wie zum Beispiel Dierk Spreen meint, Technologie unter die Haut geht?[5] Um dies zu verdeutlichen, hat Spreen das sogenannte Reglermodell vorgeschlagen, wonach sich die Technisierung des Krpers wie ein Regler auf einer Skala zwischen lowtech body und hightech body verschieben lsst.[6] Demnach ist der hightech body ein Cyborg mit einem organisch-technologischen Leib. Dagegen ist der lowtech body von Technologie und Medien lediglich umgeben. Der Autor weist mit dem Modell allerdings auch auf die Bezge zwischen der technischen und medialen Durchdringung der Soziosphre, die ja auch schon sehr krpernah sein kann (MP3-Player, Smartphones, Notebooks usw.), und der technischen Durchdringung des menschlichen Leibes in der modernen Medienkultur hin.

Gewinnt man kein Differenzkriterium, wrde das Wort Cyborg nichts bedeuten, was nicht bereits im anthropologischen Begriff des Menschen als konstitutiv technischem Wesen aufgehoben wre. Aufgrund seines spezifischen, durch die Philosophische Anthropologie hervorgehobenen weltoffenen Wesens kommt der Mensch als solcher um die Mglichkeit des Umbaus seiner eigenen Physis, seiner Positionalitt, nicht umhin, von der Eugenik bis zur individuellen Europlastik.[7] Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint es sinnvoll, den Begriff Cyborg fr bestimmte Formen des Verhltnisses von Krper und Technik zu reservieren, nmlich solche in denen sich Organisches und Technisches zu einer hybriden Lebensform verbinden. Menschliche Cyborgs (Chris Hables Gray, Dierk Spreen) wren dann in diesem Sinne hybride Menschen.

In einer solchen Sichtweise verbindet sich der Begriff des Cyborgs nicht automatisch mit Vorstellungen einer post- oder gar transhumanen Gesellschaft. Transhumanisten befassen sich mit Prognosen und Ideen ber die Zeit nach dem Menschen. So schreibt der Transhumanist Max More: Wir knnen hhere Gipfel erklimmen, wenn wir nur unsere Intelligenz, unsere Entschlossenheit und unseren Optimismus dafr einsetzen, die menschliche Puppe zu durchstoen. Die Evolution hat trotz unserer Bemhungen unser Verhalten in bestimmte Richtungen geleitet, die in unser Gehirn eingearbeitet sind. Unsere Krper und Gehirne beschrnken unsere Kapazitten.[8] Fr More sind Cyborgs Ausdruck einer neuen Evolution, die vom biologischen Menschen zu posthumanen Wesen fhrt. Daher sind die Implikationen der Rede von menschlichen Cyborgs nicht unstrittig.

Verwendet man aber den Begriff Cyborg im eingeschrnkten Sinne, d.h. nach dem Unter-die-Haut-Kriterium, kann er nicht mehr umstandslos auf jede krpernahe Technologie angewendet werden. Sinnvoller ist es, ihn als Problematisierungsdiskurs zu verstehen, der die zunehmende Relevanz von binnenleiblicher Technologie und die damit einhergehende Vermischung von Knstlichem und Natrlichem sichtbar macht. Die amerikanische Feministin Donna Haraway etwa weist darauf hin, dass Cyborgtechnologie auch die patriarchalen und herrschaftlichen Codes der symbolischen Ordnung durcheinander bringt und dadurch Emanzipationschancen erffnet. Auch das nun zunehmend denkbare Upgraden des Krpers zur Verbesserung oder berwindung seiner natrlichen Eigenschaften (Christoph Keller) erffnet Problematisierungen.[9] Hinzu kommt, dass das cyborgisierte Individuum sich stndig mit seinen inneren Technikfolgen konfrontiert [sieht], da sich Schnittstellenprobleme nicht vermeiden lassen und die Anbindung an auerkrperliche Wissens- und Kontrollinstitutionen fr diese Technologien charakteristisch ist.[10]

Solche Fragestellungen fallen in den Bereich der Cyborg-Anthropologie. Dies bezeichnet ein Forschungsprojekt der American Anthropological Association (AAA), das im Dezember 1992 in San Francisco aus der Taufe gehoben wurde. Hauptziel der Cyborg-Anthropologie ist es, to study ethnographically the boundaries between human and machines that are specific to late twentieth century societies.[11] Dieses Projekt versteht sich als a serious challenge to the human-centered foundations of anthropological discourse[12] und sucht Anschlsse an die Science and Technology Studies (STS) und an feministische Untersuchungen. In Deutschland sind Krpersoziologie und Philosophische Anthropologie der Rahmen, in dem der gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Problemhorizont Cyborg vor allem diskutiert wird.

Nach der Auffassung Donna Haraways erffnet die Cyborgisierung Emanzipationschancen, weil Cyborgs aus dem blichen Kategoriedenken herausfallen. Ein Cyborg sei von Natur aus weder mnnlich noch weiblich, und doch wieder beides. Cyborgs knnten nicht ohne weiteres einer Kategorie, einer Lebensform und -art, zugeordnet werden. Aufgrund dieser Eigenschaften werden Cyborgs gerne im Problematisierungsdiskurs als Veranschaulichung genommen, um darzustellen, dass es kein streng weibliches und mnnliches Verhalten oder gar Wesen gebe. Sie zeigten, dass zum Beispiel Geschlechterrollen durchwegs konstruiert seien, und Eigenschaften des vermeintlich anderen Geschlechts auch auf das eigene zutreffen und gelebt werden drften, ohne zum Tabu zu werden.

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Cyborg sharks connected to Twitter to warn surfers and swimmers when they’re close

To combat a spate of deadly shark attacks in Western Australia, hundreds of cyborg sharks will now automatically send out a tweet if they come within a kilometer of a beach, to alert swimmers and surfers of the potential danger. The tweet includes the size and breed of the shark, along with its approximate location.

Western Australia (the entire western third of the country), following the death of surfer Chris Boyd in November the sixth person to die in two years is now the most deadly place in the world for shark attacks. Historically, helicopters and boats have patrolled the coastline looking for sharks, but following the large number of deaths the local government has decided to take things to the next step. Thus, scientists are now attaching tracking transmitters to hundreds of sharks, to keep tabs on their location. When the receiver network detects a shark, a tweet is pushed out to the Surf Life Saving WA Twitter account.

The sharks are tracked using acoustic tags devices that transmit specially coded pings that are then received and decoded by hydrophones (underwater microphones). Acoustic tags (pictured below) can either be attached to a sharks fin, or placed inside a sharks stomach (by getting the shark to eat some meat that has the tag hidden inside). With a large network of hydrophones (which Western Australia has), its possible to triangulate (in three dimensions) the position of the shark. Beyond being a neat safety measure, the tags also provide a lot of useful data about the sharks behavior, aiding the scientific community. (See: Thoughts inside a fishs brain, captured for the very first time.)

The local authorities arent stopping with merely tagging sharks, though. They have recently signed off on a new scheme that allows fishermen to kill large sharks found in regions used by surfers and swimmers, and theyve started a new program of placing bait in the water, far away from the shore, to keep sharks away from the beaches. (Read: The secret world of submarine cables.)

All of these moves, of course, are being faced by resistance from environmentalists, conservationists, and generally concerned citizens alike. These are big, expensive programs that might save a couple of lives per year. The money could almost certainly be spent in better ways. The argument, as far as the authorities are concerned, is that a single shark attack can affect local tourism in a big way. Matters of the marine do seem to have a disproportionately large impact, though: I mean, just look at the pandemonium caused by small-scale whaling, compared to the millions of cows and pigs that we slaughter every year.

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Beaches in Chicago – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The beaches in Chicago are an extensive network of waterfront recreational areas operated by the Chicago Park District. The Chicago Metropolitan waterfront includes parts of the Lake Michigan shores as well as parts of the banks of the Chicago, Des Plaines, Calumet, Fox, and DuPage Rivers and their tributaries.[1] The waterfront also includes the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Sanitary and Ship Canal.[1] Historically, the waterfront has been used for commerce, industry, and leisure. Leisure, such as fishing, swimming, hunting, walking and boating, was much more prevalent throughout the river sections of the waterfront system early in the 19th century before industrial uses altered the landscape. By midcentury, much leisure shifted to Lake Michigan as a result of industrial influence. The first City of Chicago Public Beach opened in Lincoln Park in 1895.[2] Today, the entire 28 miles (45km) Chicago lakefront shoreline is man-made, and primarily used as parkland.[3] There are twenty-four beaches in Chicago along the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan.[4]

Typically, Chicago beaches take the name of the east-west street that runs perpendicular to the lake at each beach's location.

Early beaches were generally funded by private entities such as hotels and private clubs.[5] Late 19th century city ordinances prohibited public bathing, but popular norms created demand for public beaches.[5][6] Proponents saw public beaches as an opportunity to accommodate demand for public baths and eliminate the expenditure of enforcement resources on ordinance violations for public bathing.[5] The city responded by opening the first public bathing beach in 1895 in Lincoln Park primarily as a response to the efforts of the Free Bath and Sanitary League (formerly the Municipal Order League).[5] Spaces were designated for public use and the city accepted responsibility for maintaining the beaches. By 1900 the lakefront was divided into zones of recreational, residential, agricultural and industrial uses. Lake Michigan water quality concerns lead to the reversal of the Chicago river with deep cut of the Illinois & Michigan canal in 1871 and the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal at the start of the 20th century.[1] The 1909 Burnham Plan led to development of the lakefront.[1] Recreational development on the city lakefront became a priority due to the influence of Aaron Montgomery Ward. His belief that the public's access to the Lake left its impression on the development of Jackson, Burnham, Grant and Lincoln Parks.[3] Continued popular support, led to the opening of several municipal beaches in the second decade of the 20th century.[5]

The far north Rogers Park neighborhood contains a series of small "street-end" beaches that unlike most Chicago beaches are often separated by private property and therefore, unconnected to each other by public parkland. This accounts for the seemingly large number of beaches in this one neighborhood.

Juneway Terrace Beach is the northernmost beach in Chicago. It is located at 7800 north and Lake Michigan.[7] It lies within Rogers Avenue Beach and Park. It is separated from Rogers Beach by a stretch of rip rap protecting three apartment buildings.

Rogers Beach lies in Rogers Avenue Beach and Park at 7705 north.[7] Barely one block long, the park also has tennis courts.

Howard Beach lies in Howard Street Beach and Park at 7600 north,[7] which is just south of Howard Street. It is perhaps 213 feet (65 m) long.

Jarvis beach located at 7400 north and Fargo beach is located at 7432 north.[7] Offshore stretches of riprap act to reduce erosion of this beach, which is about three blocks long.

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Located at 7032 North Sheridan and extending for eight blocks, Leone Beach is Chicago's largest.[8]

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