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Why should I franchise instead of opening my own business?
Franchises have a much higher success rate than businesses started without the backing of a franchise.* Franchising ensures that you start with a proven business model, extensive industry knowledge, and the support of a large network of peers. You will also receive initial and continuous training to keep you up to date on all pertinent industry news and developments.
What makes the Experimax concept special?
Experimax is different than other electronics retailers because the stores buy, sell, and trade used equipment that is of high quality. This allows customers to acquire high-performance computers, tablets, smartphones, and accessories at a fraction of the cost that these items retail for at other stores. Experimax also offers repairs, upgrades, and customer consultations, so customers can satisfy all of their tech needs in one place.
How much will it cost to open an Experimax location?
Experimax franchisees must pay a $49,500 franchise fee and show $50,000 in liquid assets before opening a location. Franchisees should expect to spend about $136,000 to $277,000 to get their store up and running, which does include the $49,500 franchise fee. Actual costs may vary depending on the costs to secure the location, the overhead costs, and the costs to satisfy legal requirements in the area.
Are there options to receive assistance with financing?
Experimax does offer financing for those who qualify through third-party options. Franchisees must be able to pay the initial franchising fee and show the required amount of liquid capital.
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Experimax franchisees don’t have to have experience in the tech industry, but they are better off if they have business experience. Experimax provides extensive training to ensure that franchisees are knowledgeable about the industry.
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NoSQL brought flexibility to the tabular world of databases. MongoDB in particular became an excellent option to store unstructured JSON documents. Data starts as JSON in the UI and undergoes very few transformations to be stored, so we get benefits from increased performance and decreased processing time.
But NoSQL does not mean a complete lack of structure. We still need to validate and cast our data before storing it, and we still may need to apply some business logic to it. That is the place Mongoose fills.
In this article we'll learn through an example application how we can use Mongoose to model our data and validate it before storing it to MongoDB.
We will write the model for a Genealogy app, a Person with a few personal properties, including who their parents are. We'll also see how we can use this model to create and modify Persons and save them to MongoDB.
What is Mongoose?
How MongoDB Works
To understand what is Mongoose we first need to understand in general terms how MongoDB works. The basic unit of data we can save in MongoDB is a Document. Although stored as binary, when we query a database we obtain its representation as a JSON object.
Related documents can be stored in collections, similar to tables in relational databases. This is where the analogy ends though, because we define what to consider "related documents".
MongoDB won't enforce a structure on the documents. For example, we could save this document to the Person collection:
"name": "Alice"
And then in the same collection, we could save a seemingly unrelated document with no shared properties or structure:
"latitude": 53.3498,
"longitude": 6.2603
Here lies the novelty of NoSQL databases. We create meaning for our data and store it the way we consider best. The database won't impose any limitation.
Mongoose Purpose
Although MongoDB won't impose an structure, applications usually manage data with one. We receive data and need to validate it to ensure what we received is what we need. We may also need to process the data in some way before saving it. This is where Mongoose kicks in.
Mongoose is an NPM package for NodeJS applications. It allows to define schemas for our data to fit into, while also abstracting the access to MongoDB. This way we can ensure all saved documents share a structure and contain required properties.
Let's now see how to define a schema.
Installing Mongoose and Creating the Person Schema
Let's start up a Node project with default properties and a person schema:
$ npm init -y
With the project initialized, let's go ahead and install mongoose using npm:
$ npm install --save mongoose
mongoose will automatically include the mongodb NPM module as well. You won't be using it directly yourself. It'll be handled by Mongoose.
To work with Mongoose, we'll want to import it into our scripts:
let mongoose = require('mongoose');
And then connect to the database with:
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/genealogy', {useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true});
Since the database doesn't yet exist, one will be created. We'll be using the latest tool to parse the connection string, by setting the useNewUrlParser to true and we'll also use the latest MongoDB driver with useUnifiedTopology as true.
mongoose.connect() assumes the MongoDB server is running locally on the default port and without credentials. One easy way to have MongoDB running that way is Docker:
$ docker run -p 27017:27017 mongo
The container created will be enough for us to try Mongoose, although the data saved to MongoDB won't be persistent.
Person Schema and Model
After the previous necessary explanations, we can now focus on writing our person schema and compiling a model from it.
A schema in Mongoose maps to a MongoDB collection and defines the format for all documents on that collection. All properties inside the schema must have an assigned SchemaType. For example, the name of our Person can be defined this way:
const PersonSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: { type: String},
Or even simpler, like this:
const PersonSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
String is one of several SchemaTypes defined by Mongoose. You can find the rest in the Mongoose documentation.
Reference to Other Schemas
We can expect that all middle sized applications will have more than one schema, and possibly those schemas will be linked in some way.
In our example, to represent a family tree we need to add two attributes to our schema:
const PersonSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
// ...
mother: { type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Person' },
father: { type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Person' },
A person can have a mother and a father. The way to represent this in Mongoose is by saving the ID of the referenced document, mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, not the object itself.
The ref property must be the name of the model we are referencing. We will see more about models later, but for now is enough to know a schema relates to one model only, and 'Person' is the model of the PersonSchema.
Our case is a bit special because both mother and father will also contain persons, but the way to define these relations is the same in all cases.
Built-In Validation
All SchemaTypes come with default built-in validation. We can define limits and other requirements depending on the selected SchemaType. To see some examples, let's add a surname, yearBorn, and notes to our Person:
const PersonSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: { type: String, index: true, required: true },
surname: { type: String, index: true },
yearBorn: { type: Number, min: -5000, max: (new Date).getFullYear() },
notes: { type: String, minlength: 5 },
All built-in SchemaTypes can be required. In our case we want all persons to at least have a name. The Number type allows to set min and max values, that can even be calculated.
The index property will make Mongoose create an index in the database. This facilitates the efficient execution of queries. Above, we defined the person's name and surname to be indexes. We will always search for persons by their names.
Custom Validation
Built-in SchemaTypes allow for customization. This is specially useful when we have a property that can hold only certain values. Let's add the photosURLs property to our Person, an array of URLs their photos:
const PersonSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
// ...
photosURLs: [
type: String,
validate: {
validator: function(value) {
const urlPattern = /(http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*#)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%#!\-/]))?/;
const urlRegExp = new RegExp(urlPattern);
return value.match(urlRegExp);
message: props => `${props.value} is not a valid URL`
photosURLs is just an array of Strings, photosURLs: [String]. What makes this property special is that we need custom validation to confirm the values added have the format of an internet URL.
The validator() function above uses a regular expression that matches typical internet URLs, that must begin with http(s)://.
If we need a more complex SchemaType we can create our own one, but we do well to search if it's already available.
For example, the mongoose-type-url package adds a custom SchemaType that we could have used, mongoose.SchemaTypes.Url.
Virtual Properties
Virtuals are document properties that are not saved to the database. They are the result of a calculation. In our example, it would be useful to set the full name of a person in one string instead of separated in name and surname.
Let's see how to accomplish this after our initial schema definition:
get(function() {
return this.name + ' ' + this.surname;
return this.name;
set(function(fullName) {
fullName = fullName.split(' ');
this.name = fullName[0];
this.surname = fullName[1];
The virtual property fullName above makes some assumptions for the sake of simplicity: Every person has at least a name, or a name and a surname. We would face problems if a person has a middle name or a composed name or surname. All those limitations could be fixed inside the get() and the set() functions defined above.
Because virtuals are not saved to the database, we cannot using them as filter when searching for persons in the database. In our case we would need to use name and surname.
Middleware are functions or hooks that can be executed before or after standard Mongoose methods, like save() or find() for example.
A person can have a mother and a father. As we said before, we save this relationships by storing the id of the object as properties of the person, not the objects themselves. It would be nice to fill both properties with the objects themselves instead of the IDs only.
This can be achieved as a pre() function associated to the findOne() Mongoose method:
PersonSchema.pre('findOne', function(next) {
The function above needs to call the function received as a parameter, next() in order to keep processing other hooks.
populate() is a Mongoose method to replace IDs with the objects they represent, and we use it to get the parents when searching for only one person.
We could add this hook to other search functions, like find(). We could even find parents recursively if we wanted. But we should handle populate() with care, as each call is a fetch from the database.
Create the Model for a Schema
In order to start creating documents based on our Person schema, the last step is to compile a model based on the schema:
const Person = mongoose.model('Person', PersonSchema);
The first argument will be the singular name of the collection we are referring to. This is the value we gave to the ref property of mother and father properties of our person. The second argument is the Schema we defined before.
The model() method makes a copy of all we defined on the schema. It also contains all Mongoose methods we will use to interact with the database.
The model is the only thing we need from now on. We could even use module.exports to make the person available in other modules of our app:
module.exports.Person = mongoose.model('Person', PersonSchema);
module.exports.db = mongoose;
We also exported the mongoose module. We will need it to disconnect from the database before the application ends.
We can import the module this way:
const {db, Person} = require('./persistence');
How to Use the Model
The model we compiled in the last section contains all we need for interacting with the collection on the database.
Let's now see how we would use our model for all CRUD operations.
Create Persons
We can create a person by simply doing:
let alice = new Person({name: 'Alice'});
The name is the only required property. Let's create another person but using the virtual property this time:
let bob = new Person({fullName: 'Bob Brown'});
Now that we have our first two persons, we can create a new one with all properties filled, including parents:
let charles = new Person({
fullName: 'Charles Brown',
photosURLs: ['https://bit.ly/34Kvbsh'],
yearBorn: 1922,
notes: 'Famous blues singer and pianist. Parents not real.',
mother: alice._id,
father: bob._id,
All values for this last person are set to valid ones, as validation would fire an error as soon as this line is executed. For example, if we had set the first photo URL to something other than a link, we would get the error:
ValidationError: Person validation failed: photosURLs.0: wrong_url is not a valid URL
As explained before, parents were completed with the IDs of the first two persons, instead of the objects.
We have created three persons, but they are not stored to the database yet. Let's do that next:
Operations that involve the database are asynchronous. If we want to wait for completion we can use async/await:
await charles.save();
Now that all persons are saved to the database, we can retrieve them back with the find() and findOne() methods.
Retrieve One or More Persons
All find methods in Mongoose require an argument to filter the search. Let's get back the last person we created:
let dbCharles = await Person.findOne({name: 'Charles', surname: 'Brown'}).exec();
findOne() returns a query, so in order to get a result we need to execute it with exec() and then wait for the result with await.
Because we attached a hook to the findOne() method to populate the person's parents, we could now access them directly:
In our case we know the query will return only one result, but even if more than one person matches the filter, only the first result will be returned.
We can get more than one result if we use the find() method:
let all = await Person.find({}).exec();
We will get back an array we can iterate over.
Update Persons
If we already have a person, either because we just created it or retrieved it, we can update and save changes by doing:
alice.surname = 'Adams';
await alice.save();
await charles.save();
Because both persons already exist on the database, Mongoose will send an update command only with the fields changed, not the whole document.
Delete Persons
Like retrieval, deletion can be done for one or many persons. Let's do that next:
await Person.deleteOne({name: 'Alice'});
await Person.deleteMany({}).exec();
After executing these two commands the collection will be empty.
In this article, we have seen how Mongoose can be very useful in our NodeJS and MongoDB projects.
In most projects with MongoDB we need to store data with certain defined format. It's good to know that Mongoose provides an easy way to model and validate that data.
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A pencil pleat is a drapery header type that is composed of thin, evenly spaced pleats that are roughly the width of a pencil. This pleat type is similar to a pinch pleat, but with smaller pinched pleats. With a pencil pleat, the textile will have a tighter synch at the header and a softer, yet fuller drape throughout. The pleats can be enforced using pleater tape and pleater hooks which ensure that the pleat stays in place and lays properly. The pleater hooks are dual purpose, as they synch together the fabric to form and keep pleats, while also having a loop at the opposite end that allows it to be attached to a rod. Curtains with pinched pleats can be hung using hardware such as rod and rings, an exposed track, a hidden track with cornice, or a curved track.
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Every now and then I like to look up local places on the website Yelp. It's just one of those "I'm bored, what's good to read" habits. And I was thinking about how I still have a ten dollar gift card from Kehde's, maybe I'll read some of theirs.
That's when I came across Alexander.
Look at this DUDE. What on earth is going through his head?
I don't know if I'm just so well traveled or the locals don't know what taste good.
Just... wow. That sure sounds like a dude who's mansplained a time or two. He manages to "subtly" compliment himself, while belittling the very people who tried to help him out. You asked for a recommendation, locals told you to try a place that's been around for decades, and you assume they don't know what "taste good" (Correct grammar should be "tastes good", the the way).
And I'm sure he probably is well traveled, and I'm sure he's been appreciated all over the world for his fine culinary opinions. I just have a big grain of salt in my reading of this. He tried three appetizers, and they were ALL bad? If all of them were bad, how could they stay in business year after year? And you don't like the way they plate stuff? Who are you, Gordon Ramsay? Kehde's isn't about pretense. It's home style. They know you're getting barbecue, and it's probably going to be messy. What do you want, a special little gold flake on top of your mashed potatoes?!
I don't know, something about this guy's tone just got under my skin, like he thinks he's so much better than everyone else. And I really hate the implication of "Well, they're from a small town, so they're dumb and uncultured." I don't know about you, but almost every time I've been to Kehde's the food and staff were great. Sure, like every restaurant, they have bad days or they get swamped, I get it. But I would never assume that I was so high and mighty that I was better than them because I've traveled a bit. Just because I've been around the country doesn't make me an expert on cuisine.
It's just so funny, this dude and his attitude. It's like he's saying, "WELL, I've been to Japan, so I know what good barbecue is." Get over yourself, bud.
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Quote1 Jack -- you don't understand. I've done you a terrible wrong -- I've given you a curse -- one that will live with you -- forever! Quote2
-- Laura Russell
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Synopsis for "Night of Full Moon -- Night of Fear!"
In Los Angeles, a mugger skulks about the alleyways in search of prey. He is not the only hunter lurking in the shadows this evening however. A snarling werewolf leaps out and attacks the mugger, killing him. A motorcycle cop chances upon the scene and fires two shots towards the creature. The werewolf bounds off into the night, but one of the policeman's bullets manages to graze its arm. The werewolf races frantically down back alleys in the light of the full moon.
The next morning, young Jack Russell awakens in his bedroom with a start. He cannot understand why he had a dream that he was a werewolf. He grows concerned however as he looks down and sees a cut across his left shoulder; the same area that was struck by the officer's bullet. As Jack gets dressed, his mother, Laura, enters the room. Today is Jack's eighteenth birthday, and Laura wants him to spend it with his stepfather, Philip. Jack never cared for Philip, and he despises the dominating hold that the man appears to have over his mother. As Jack comes downstairs, he sees his mother having an argument with Philip's chauffeur, Max Grant. Frustrated, Jack leaves.
That evening, Jack goes to a friend's house in Malibu. As the full moon begins to rise, sharp blisters of pain surge through him, and he is forced to run from the house. He runs down to the beach just as he transforms into a werewolf. Staring down into the water, the fleeting remnants of Jack's personality begin to realize that he didn't have a dream the night before. He truly is a werewolf.
Instinctively, the werewolf finds himself drawn to a beach-house. He smashes through a patio door where he finds a growling guard dog. The dog attacks him and the werewolf struggles with the beast for several minutes before hurling it outside. The werewolf leaps out the window and bays at the moon.
The next morning, Philip Russell finds Jack unconscious on the beach. He brings him back to the house where he finds his sister, Lissa, crying hysterically. Philip explains to Jack that his mother went out last evening looking for him and was in a serious car accident. She has been admitted to a local hospital and is in critical condition. She is not expected to survive the night. Philip has Doctor Allen give Jack a strong sedative and tells him to get some rest. Through the haze of drugs, Jack overhears Philip talking with the chauffeur, Max Grant. Philip agrees to meet Grant at an abandoned warehouse later that evening for a payoff. Unable to concentrate on the issue any further, Jack falls asleep.
Hours later when Jack awakens, he rushes down to the hospital to see his mother. She is barely conscious, but she is strong enough to warn Jack that a curse has been placed upon him – a curse that forces him to transform into a monster on the night of his eighteenth birthday. Jack presses her for an explanation.
Laura explains that twenty years ago she was a student on holiday in Transylvania. She met, fell in love with, and ultimately married a Baron named Gregory Russoff. For three nights out of every month, Russoff would seal himself inside of a tower room in his castle with instructions to never be disturbed. He told his young wife that he was studying. One evening however, a lightning storm swept through the Baltic nation and a stray bolt blasted a hole in the side of the tower. That same night, witnesses claimed to have seen a werewolf prowling the countryside. Several of the town elders visited Russoff Castle to inquire with the Baron, but when Laura inspected the tower room, he was nowhere to be found. Still later, a group of hunters, armed with silver bullets cornered the werewolf and shot him. It was then that they discovered that the werewolf was actually the Baron.
As she concludes her tale, Jack realizes that Laura married Philip in the hopes of wiping out his true father's bloody memory. Seeing the anger rising within him, Laura makes Jack promise that he will never raise a hand in anger to his stepfather. Jack swears a vow, and Laura passes away.
The full moon rises, and Jack feels the change begin to take effect. He races outside of the hospital and begins prowling the city. Instinctively, the werewolf heads towards an empty warehouse where he finds Max Grant. Max is a large, muscular man and does not believe that Jack is a true werewolf. He tackles the creature and holds his own for several minutes. During the melee, Grant confesses that Philip owes him ten-thousand dollars for sabotaging the brakes on Laura's car. With Laura dead, Philip stands to inherit the entire Russoff fortune. Even as a werewolf, a small part of Jack's subconscious recognizes what he hears and sinks his teeth into Grant's neck. Max falls to the ground, dead.
Moments later, a car pulls up and Philip Russell enters the warehouse. The werewolf is poised to attack, but Jack's mind recalls the deathbed promise he mad to his mother. Running off into the night, the werewolf angrily howls at the moon.
Appearing in "Where Gargoyles Dwell!"
This story is a reprint of the comic
Venus #16.
Synopsis for "Where Gargoyles Dwell!"
This story is a reprint of the comic
Venus #16.
• Night of Full Moon -- Night of Fear! plot by Roy and Jean Thomas, script by Conway.[2]
• This issue introduces the character of Jack Russell, commonly referred to as the "Werewolf by Night". This issue is the first part of a three-part story-arc, which eventually leads into the first issue of the Werewolf by Night ongoing comic book series.
• Letterer John Costanza is credited as John Costa in this issue.
• "Where Gargoyles Dwell!" was originally printed in Venus #16.
• "Night of Full Moon -- Night of Fear!" was partially reprinted in the 1974 Werewolf book-n-record set by Power Records.
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I want to authenticate a user on a 3rd party website (this is more or less an OAuth flow, so this website will be able to perform actions on behalf of my user afterwards, e.g. receive some of her data). My user is already authenticated in my mobile app.
Now usually multiple websites implement OTP in a manner where I enter a code that is generated on a mobile device (SMS message, authenticator app or any native app).
I would like to reverse this flow, i.e. generate an OTP on a website and allow user to input it in a mobile app, where he is already authenticated.
On a 3rd party website there might be a new, child window opened that downloads OTP directly from my server via an API.
Question: are there any disadvantages to this flow?
PS I see the following advantage: in normal flow, a fake 3rd party website would "steal" my OTP. In my flow, even if they could see the OTP, the actual matching is performed only after code input in an authenticated environment. Before user inputs the OTP, it is not even associated with the user!
Your "advantage" is wrong; this doesn't make you any more secure. Instead of trying to trick the user into typing the OTP from the authenticated app into the phishing page, attackers will just try to trick the user into typing the OTP from the phishing page into the authenticated app.
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I miss my friend. Four small words. what do they mean? What pain does it hide? How deep are the scars? Why are they gone? All really good question. At the end of the day they all matter very little. You miss them. over done next. STOP just stop. Don’t gloss over it. It will fester and grow. One day you will sit alone and scream I MISS TALKING TO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How would I know? I just did it, I just screamed I want to call her, text her. I told her I can’t talk to her for a while.. So its my cure I guess. The cure is worse than the disease. When did wanting someone in your life a disease. Well any one? any one at all?
….. When the sound of their voice makes you angry. When you ask and they give their word and they “forget”. When you forget there is a world around you. Bruce Lee quote
That is what I was doing. Pavlov’s Dog. A beep, ding or “rock show” goes off you have to stop what you’re doing and read. I would stop eating, studying, or wake up at 3am to look and see what I missed. So now its Monday 2 days from when I said could not talk to her. I have learned a few things. One I like her in my life. I like talking to her. I like the way her voice can calm me when I’m ready to hurt things my self my growth. I like the child like view she has of the world the wonder in her eyes. That’s why I was with her. She was my world and I forgot that. There is a poker saying “Stupidity is Expensive”. Cost me my world the love of a great woman my home and my dogs. Second poker saying “Learn form some one else mistakes it will save your bank roll”. They can be looked at the same way but they should not. both are learning. One is watching one is doing. My brother form a distant mother learned from my mistakes he is further along mending fences than I am. Good for him Mother will be proud of him. As for my self. Oct 29th I will send an email early in the Week and ask for a chat at lunch. Its one of our Holy times of year. In some ways it’s the end of one year with the day of the dead to follow. So it will be a good start. We will see how it goes. All forms of a cure for a disease. | <urn:uuid:535f9325-243f-47d9-97cb-00ae5cedb59a> | https://thedragonhide.com/2015/10/19/ | en | 0.927316 | 0.066967 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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(Media tycoon)
BornRobert Edward Turner III
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
SpouseJulia Gale Nye
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Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. He is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel.
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Why Fireplace Repair is Only for Knowledgeable Experts
Professional inspections
expert fireplace repairs in cumming gaFireplace safety experts all agree that annual chimney inspections are important for any household with a fireplace. Even if a fireplace is very rarely used, hazardous issues can arise that make it unsafe for future use, unless repairs are made. An inspection isn’t a do-it-yourself proposition. Experts undergo extensive training, so that they are equipped to recognize all of the numerous situations that require chimney or fireplace repair. A layperson can easily miss the subtle signs that damage has occurred.
A chimney flue, for example, must be in good condition, with no deterioration. If there is damage as difficult to spot as a tiny crack, a fire in the fireplace can cause gases to enter the home. In addition, combustible materials can be exposed to extreme heat and ignite, causing a dangerous home fire.
When a new chimney lining is installed, it should be done only be a professional. A chimney flue needs to be the correct size, to ensure safe operation. Proper installation is important, to ensure a proper draft in the chimney, as well.
There are many other issues that can be discovered with a professional chimney inspection. Moisture, for instance, is the number one cause of chimney damage. Evidence of deterioration, however, is often not evident to the untrained eye until extensive damage has already been done.
The smoke shelf is an unseen part of the chimney, located just behind the chimney damper. This is a flat area that can collect falling debris and rain. If there isn’t a chimney cap, debris could fall in that causes a chimney obstruction or a hazardous chimney fire.
More Areas of Potential Damage
Chimney professionals look for damage from top to bottom, and they can recognize issues that need to be addressed but that aren’t obvious. In the firebox, for instance, the fire bricks at the back need to be in good condition. It’s a situation similar to the chimney flue, since combustible parts of the home can be exposed if there’s even a small crack.
Other parts of the chimney that need to be checked include the following:
· Chimney structure
· Flashing
· Chimney cap, chimney crown, or rain cap
· Fireplace damper
· Firebox
· Smoke chamber
· Smoke shelf
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Why you are smarter than you think
Everyone has little habits and quirks that make up your unique personality, although there are arguably some habits that are a lot worse than others. But if you are a creature of poor habits, things might not be as bad as you think, because some of the things that are considered unhealthy habits are actually signs that show you are smarter than you may have appreciated.
There are so many guides and tips out there to help people stop procrastinating, and it has many negative connotations, but we should really look at procrastinating differently. Instead of considering it as a sign of laziness, it actually has a lot to do with waiting for the right time to get things done. Many of the top CEOs are guilty of this, like Steve Jobs for example, as it allows time for other ideas to be discussed and in turn helps to discover more interesting or unique ideas.
Running Late
It’s not a nice feeling to be late. It can also affect your relationships with others as it can make you seem poorly organized or even impolite. However, it is also a sign of someone with an optimistic personality. Rather than just being behind, they perceive time differently and believe they can fit a lot more into the time they have available. Essentially, they always aim for the best, but it doesn’t always work well for them. If that is you, optimism isn’t a bad reason to be late!
Chewing Gum
There are definitely some situations where you should not chew gum – job interviews, or fancy meals for example. But if you are just on your own, there are some significant benefits that can come from masticating. It helps to improve your alertness and focus. It has also been shown to positively affect your mood and lower your stress levels. So if you have a solo project that you’re working on, it’s probably buying some gum on your way to work.
A Messy Desk
If your desk resembles a hoarder’s living room, then it’s time to get sorting. However, a slightly untidy workspace that doesn’t get in the way of other people could be a positive. It has been shown in research that people who are not super tidy actually tend to be more goal-oriented than those who keep everything in perfect order. This is probably because they are seeking order somewhere else and desks become a lesser priority.
Spending a bit of time during your day just letting your mind wander and space out is a good thing. It can help increase your creativity and productivity. But the key is to only do it for short periods, around 10-12 minutes to give you a break from tasks. Doing too much daydreaming is actually bad for you and can cause unhappiness. So keep your mental activities in check in order to get the optimum effects.
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While we are still reeling from the Royal visit, yes Harry and Meghan really did have dinner in Delahunt’s on Camden Street, the RSVP fashionistas just cannot stop talking about the Duchess of Sussex's amazing collection of handbags.
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Since her engagement to Prince Harry in November 2017, Meghan has proven herself to be a style icon time and time again, although we are a little disappointed with the lack of Irish designer ensembles during her recent trip, but that is for another day. The newly wed seems to have a penchant for classy handbags and is even breaking royal protocol by wearing shoulder bags and cross body designs over the usually clutch.
But it got us thinking, what does she actually keep in her handbag? Hardly a few quid in case they pop into M&S or a soft banana to cure the mid afternoon slump.
We came up with the following
Anti bacterial spray (she does have to shake a lot of hands)
Lipstick (possible Channel or Charlotte Tilbury
Handkerchief (no tissues allowed)
Phone (no doubt on silent)
Mint mouth spray
Mini face spray to keep her looking fresh and her makeup intact
Notes on who she is meeting
A bottle of her favourite scent which is reportedly Jo Malone Wild Bluebell or the costume made wedding perfume by famed British perfumer Flores London.
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Meghan looked every inch the style icon during her stay in Ireland and new information has revealed just how expensive the royal beauty's outfits have been.
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"A drunk mind speaks a sober heart" as the saying goes, and even though the members didn't really drank much, it looks like that's what Ilgan Sports got from their "Drunk Talk" with T-ara.
They have met with Eunjung, Soyeon, and Jiyeon, and they talked about their comeback preparations, their past issues, and more.
It is another fun interview, so have a good read below.
eunjung soyeon jiyeon
T-ARA “There were many of our songs that even we didn’t understand.”
- First, checking their drinking limit.
Soyeon: I’m sorry since this is a ‘drunk talk’, I can’t drink at all, unlike how I look like. I once drank one cup then got taken to the emergency room right away when I was in university. I would pour myself one cup of beer to wing it.
- In a drinking party, what bad drinking behaviour do you think causes the most ‘nuisance’?
Eunjung: I’m actually the type to understand the bad drinking habits of a drinking buddy. I wouldn’t want to hate a person for his/her unusual behaviours after getting drunk. Unless it’s too severe, it’s a side to people that would only show in drinking parties so we have to have fun and be understanding.
Soyeon: I’m similar to her. As a person who wants to drink but can’t, I’m always sorry to be the only sober person in a drinking party. A drinking party is a place where everyone gets messy and gets to say what they couldn’t say elsewhere, so being the only sober person amongst that is, by itself, a ‘nuisance’ (to the rest).
Jiyeon: I’m usually the ‘nuisance’ amongst the members. (Laughs). “You’d act cuter out of nowhere and make it tiring for us.” The members say. I’m a nuisance to the members.
- Eunjung-ssi, is there any snack to have with drinks that you’d recommend?
Eunjung: I’d recommend a Japanese snack called ‘Hirame Gonowada’. It’s a meal that consists of flatfish sashimi along with sea cucumber viscera seasoned with egg yolk and seaweed powder, it’s really yummy. The calories of snacks is a really stressful matter to women, but it’s not a worry at all with ‘Hirame Gonowada’.
-It seems that dieting is a hugely stressful matter to you as a girl group.
Soyeon: I’m, originally, not of a thin body-built. It’s of about a 8KG difference in my weight when I’m the chubbiest to when I lose weight during activities. It’s tiring since I worry a lot. I have to always take care of my body as I’m the chubby type, so is tiring. Having gotten used to diets, I’ve accumulated various know-hows, the members would give me diet tips from other girl group members as well. Rather than having any expert knowledge, I’ve become able to give about tips from real life experience.
- I think there might be members who are free from dieting.
Eunjung: That would be Jiyeon, Hyomin, and Qri unnie. Qri likes foreign food. Food like hamburger, pasta, and waffles. After finishing our tiring practice, other members would hold back their hunger, but for Qri unnie, she would buy a cake and eat it at such a late time, and still wouldn’t gain weight. It’s really a bless as a woman. Boram unnie is also amazing. After her 20KG weight loss in the past, she’s been constant with her weight. It’s admirable. (Laughs).
Jiyeon: For me, I eat quite so much. I don’t even put any effort in holding back my hunger. Since we burn calories during dance practice, anyway.
- Is there anything that you’re especially so obsessed with compared to others?
Jiyeon: Black. I don’t like wearing colours like yellow and pink. There has to be some black whether on my outfit or even nails. It’s like an obsession. Our fans, as well, know that I like black but they do not know it’s to the point of being obsessed. Look at my outfit for today. It’s all-black. My outfits, bag, and nails are all black.
Soyeon: I don’t think it’s to the point of being obsessed, but I’m into pretty women. Whether at a cafe or on the streets, I’d have my eyes on pretty women rather than handsome men. I also like becoming closer with pretty women. Should I call it an admiration? I’d feel good when I look at them, you’d wonder why men would ‘scan’ women. ‘Staaaring’ from top to bottom. I’m a woman but I also ‘scan’ women. When I surf through the internet through my mobile phone and see a picture of a pretty woman, I’d capture it and save it.
Eunjung: I get bothered when (my car) doesn’t match the line when parking. Even when I tell myself that ‘this will do,’ I’d still try to exactly match the parallel line. I can’t stand having anything askew. Even when I’m applying skin lotions, I have to put everything in its exact place on the table so that I can apply the next lotion. When I don’t have my shirt, or anything of that sort, looking tidy then I’d keep fixing it.
- Amongst rookies and junior groups, is there any group that you have your eyes on lately?
Soyeon: It’s embarrassing, but I have the dream of becoming a producer, so I do watch other groups from that perspective. Instead of watching people of the opposite sex and going “He’s handsome”, “I want to get closer with that hoobae”, I’d instead think that “That person will do well”, “That person will definitely succeed with such a charm”, etc. I pay attention to the ‘Show Me The Money’ participants the most. Vasco sunbae-nim has been doing rap for about 14 years so he’s matchless, I also heard that Olltii is a legendary rapper in our country’s freestyle rap. ’구제 스웨거’ IRON’s rap is so great, but I think he’d be loved visual-wise too. Bobby is also very cool.
Eunjung: For me, Mamamoo.
Soyeon: Ohh right, right!!
Jiyeon: That’s right, Mamamoo are good.
Eunjung: First, all four have outstanding vocals, and their performance and facial expressions on stage are so good. Even their fashion, I think it’s matching each one’s own style well.
Jiyeon: For me, it’s Bangtan boys lately. I watched their comeback stage, they really did well. It felt like they owned the stage.
Soyeon: Should I add up one more team. They’re not rookies, but I think SHINee are very cool. I watched their ‘Everybody’ stage and felt goosebumps all over. Since I’m a person who’s performed on stage, myself, I know exactly what kind of moves are hard and what formations are possible and what are not. But SHINee’s ‘Everybody’ made me respect them. Showing such quality (on stage) is actually pretty hard. It’s not only me, but people at the music broadcast would thumb up for SHINee as well. Have you watched Taemin’s ‘Danger’ MV? His every look and gesture deliver the feelings so well, I get goosebumps at his skills. The ability to convey a certain feeling is harder than what you think. I’m a yet lacking person, so seeing people being so good at it feels so cool. SHINee are no longer ‘idols’,
Jiyeon: Seeing SHINee on TV, they’re great, but when you see them at the scene, they’re truly a piece of art. Those whom I saw that day have released all the energy that they have on stage. It’s to the point where the statement “The managers would go help SHINee get off the stage after just one pre-recording try” is true. We should also be like them.
- Please introduce the new T-ara album that’s being released soon.
Jiyeon: One of the most popular music genres in clubs nowadays is EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Music. And that includes a genre called ‘Big Room’ that is of strong beats. When you pass by a club you would feel the strong beats and dance along while feeling excited. You will get such feeling when you listen to our title track.
Soyeon: What we all agree on is that It’s a genre that no girl group has ever tried before. It’s an album that the staff have worked the hardest on. Our stylists have worked so hard, and Composer Shinsadong Tiger oppa has done the mixing, alone, 10 times. Our dance team has also suffered a lot, one of the dancers who’s been a dancer for more than 20 years said “It’s my first time with such a choreography.”
- The reason the dance was especially hard?
Soyeon: When you dance to EDM music at a club you’d usually dance according to how you feel rather than following a certain choreography. Putting a certain dance into the EDM genre is actually quite difficult to even us, but it was literally a ‘menbong’ (mental breakdown) to the choreographer and dancers.
- You came here after finishing your dance practice, so how were the results of today’s practice?
Eunjung: I think it’s the opposite. We had a mental breakdown again seeing the choreography. Rather than a mental breakdown in a bad way, it was a mental breakdown in a ‘Woah you can make such a choreography’ kind of way. You can look forward to it.
Jiyeon: I think there will be people who will be like “What’s that?” when they first see our stage. The music and performance are so unique and odd.
- If you were to describe the concept in one word.
Eunjung: It’s not ‘sexy’. This time, our album is not sexy. (laughs). It’s also not cute nor pure. It’s hard to describe it. It’s just ‘fun’. I think “Exciting” is the right word to describe it. describing it in exactly one word, I want our fans to do that after watching our stage.
Soyeon: When you watch our stage, it’s a song that, instead of making you have reactions like “T-ara’s song is really sexy this time”, “so sad”, “so cute”, it will probably make you feel like “Hey, should we go clubbing today?”.
-I think T-ara undergoes a transformation with every new album release.
Soyeon: Actually at first, the majority of our songs were songs that we complained about saying “Boss, how can do this?”. But we came to follow the sense of the person, who’s been in the entertainment industry for 30 years, called ‘Hands of Midas”. It’s not just his ‘sense’, he’s a person who’s been studying between what’s trendy and what’s popular a lot. So we came to accept that “Even if we don’t understand right now, he knows way better than us”.
Jiyeon: We had so many hit songs after believing and following after what says. ‘Bo Peep Bo Peep’ and ‘Roly Poly’ were so.
Eunjung: Now, instead of finding our transformations difficult, we enjoy it. It’s actually difficult every time boss Kim Kwang Soo comes to us with a new concept, but we come to enjoy it when we think of it as “We’ll try it out”. We try to get the pleasure from thinking “We eventually did it”.
- You’re on your 6th year since debut. I think you don’t get nervous on stage at all by now.
Soyeon: No, I think we rather weren’t as nervous when we were rookies. Back then, we were rather more confident so we enjoyed the stage. Because I prepared while only thinking of my stage, I just had fun so I wasn’t even nervous. As time passes, the public’s evaluation gets more focused on us, and I, as well, would pay more attention to my weaknesses and so start to get more nervous.
Eunjung: Ignorance is a bliss. Now I think more like ‘how will I look like if I put on such an expression’ and ‘How will I be seen as if I pull such a move’, etc, and so I rather get more nervous.
Soyeon: It’s been a long time since we used to be so much loved, so we now wish that ‘I hope we do well’ rather than be sure that ‘this will definitely do well.” We’re so much weaker than what you think. Since we get hurt so easily, we pretend to be stronger.
- Wasn’t there any good points (of going solo).
Soyeon: Me too, Me too.
Eunjung: All of the T-ara members really love puppies. When we’re having group activities there would be so many people at the waiting room and it’d be messy so we can’t even think of bringing our puppies. However, it’s possible when you’re a solo singer. Seeing Jiyeon bringing her puppy with her and leaving her schedule with it made me so envious.
- What about Jiyeon?
Eunjung: All she would say is ‘Let’s go ride skateboards’. (Laughs).
- Who’s the least talkative?
Soyeon: It’s Boram unnie. She obviously reads everything but what’s annoying is that she wouldn’t reply. (Laughs.)
- There must be someone who uses emoticons and pictures a lot.
Eunjung: Hyomin would mostly talk with emoticons. She would purchase special emoticons that you’ve never seen before and then abuse them.
Soyeon: Qri unnie would mostly take pictures of the food she’s eating at the moment and then send it. Hyomin and I would often send any idea-shot pictures that we have.
- What about Jiyeon.
Eunjung: (Laughs) Jiyeon would take a picture of herself riding a skateboard then send it.
Soyeon: No one would answer whenever she asks ‘who wants to ride a skateboard with me?’ so she would later send a picture of her riding a skateboard. Then Qri unnie would say “Cool” and then the conversation would end. (Laughs).
- There must be a catchphrase only used between the members.
Soyeon: (to the members) It’s been long since we debuted now, can we say ‘it’?
Eunjung·Jiyeon: What’s ‘it’?
Soyeon: ”Oho”.
Eunjung·Jiyeon: ah~ haha
-What’s ‘Oho’?
Soyeon: It’s been 3 years now living in our parents’ house. We used to live in dorms up to 3 years after our debut. We used to be so busy back then so we couldn’t sleep more than 3 hours a day. We had so many schedules where we would come back at midnight and leave at midnight. However, it was a waste to spend those 3 hours sleeping so we all would just stay awake. We couldn’t visit our family nor meet our friends so we just stayed up on our computers.
Eunjung: Having too many meetings and schedules at such a young age, a person might become like this.
Soyeon: While being in our car, seeing people meeting up with their friends at a terrace while drinking coffee makes us so envious. So the word we came up with that our manager oppa doesn’t know about was ‘Oho’. So for example, when I say “Jiyeon-ah, oho?” then it means “Jiyeon-ah, will you go out at dawn today?”. If she was to go out she would answer with “Oho”. (Laughs).
Eunjung: Because back then, our manager oppas’ had a strict surveillance over us. They would take our mobile phones and keep opening the door to make sure we’re there.
- But wouldn’t the managers get to know that later? If they keep hearing ‘oho’ ‘oho’ from the backseats.
Eunjung: Really? They wouldn’t know.
Jiyeon: They wouldn’t know. If one of us would say “Oh!Ho!” tactlessly in a loud voice then the other members would altogether go ‘Oho’ ‘Oho’ ‘Oho’ happily in a rhythm. (laughs).
- What do you do when you go out at dawn?
Eunjung: At midnight, we would stuff pillows under our blankets, put on wigs, and hardly escape but when we go out we don’t have anything to do. It’s not even like we can go to clubs, we couldn’t play around properly fearing that some weird rumours would come out. We would just go to a 24 hours coffee shop. But why were we so happy.
Eunjung: I have nothing in mind. Someone who works in the industry is fine and a common person is fine, as long as we are fated to be then we can date each other. I really don’t have anything such as “I hate this kind of person” in my standards.
Eunjung: But even so, I don’t think Jiyeon likes the tough and muscular type of men either. Just someone’s kind and warm.
Soyeon: Everyone, please humble up and come ask Jiyeon out.
- What’s your promise if this album gets a no.1 spot?
Eunjung: We didn’t even think of making a promise. I doesn’t mean we don’t look forward (to winning no.1), but actually we would be thankful if we just become no.1 candidates, not even win no.1. We actually were no.1 candidates last year with Number 9. We were only candidates but I got so touched and even called my mom. I was like “Mom, we’re no.1 candidates!” excitedly.
- Aren’t you being too humble.
Soyeon: No. When we used to receive so much love and get lots of no.1 wins in the past, we were thankful of course, but getting no.1 wasn’t really anything unexpected to us. However, now seeing the T-ara love shifting down like a parabola, we get surprised with just being no.1 candidates and become touched. I think we became more genuinely thankful now.
Jiyeon: That’s why we don’t need to have a promise. We wouldn’t make prediction, and if we get no.1 then we’d get touched and heartily say everything we want to say to our fans.
- The average life span of girl groups is 5 to 6 years, you’re now on your 6th year. Hearing that, how do you feel?
Soyeon: It’s true that we do hear “Your album needs to hit a daebak this time” often from our surroundings. But we wouldn’t get as nervous as you’d think. There are sunbae-nims who started earlier than T-ara and their fans still stay there for them, so we don’t get nervous hearing about a ‘Girl Group life span’.
- You’re on your 6th year as T-ara, but it does feel like you’ve been there for longer than that.
Soyeon: Even in our 1st year, we still had the image of having been here for 3~4 years. We actually debuted on the same year as Secret and 4minute who are well-loved, and f(x) debuted just a week after us. It’s also only a 1 years difference between us and Girls’ Day. But T-ara definitely does have senior-like image.
- Why so?
Soyeon: Because we kept coming out without rest. We also had lots of personal activities in-between our group comebacks. Those personal activities weren’t only singing activities but also varied from drama activities, variety shows, music show MCs, and to even musicals which made the public feel familiar with us, and hence it feels like we’ve been there for a long time.
- You were more active than other girl groups.
Eunjung: Now even when we don’t get to sleep, we still don’t feel like it’s tough. The entertainment industry is harder the more you’re into it but we become thankful for the opportunities given to us and work harder thinking that ‘When will be able to do this gain”.
- The korean insudtry market is big and the profits are big as well, but just as much, the burden of being on the public’s spotlight must be big as well.
Soyeon: Hearing about malicious comments and baseless rumours about us is actually really tiring. Also, getting rejected by the public after working so hard, one can only get hurt by it. But we still think that we should endure it. It’s not a situation where we can just give up because it’s hard. It’s not simply ‘for the sake of making our dreams become true’, but there are so many things that we need to fight for for our families and company.
-Do you check internet comments.
Soyeon: I used to read them a lot in the past. Now, I don’t at all. I didn’t read them for fun, but I rather used to read them because there are so many things to learn from the fans’ opinions and because they’re also chances for me to develop to the better. However, since I’m also a human, It was hard for me to put up with the comments as they were slowly leaning toward the bad side. I actually even thought that “I want to die” once which I shouldn’t think of. Because I have someone in my family who had caught an illness after being hurt (from malicious comments). I might be able to read comments when I get stronger, but for now it hurts my heart a lot and makes me weak.
Jiyeon: Yep, I never read them either.
- There are celebrities who would reply to and counterattack malicious comments.
Jiyeon: We have so many hateful comments so replying one by one would be tiring. (Laughs).
Soyeon: We even had 20,000 of only malicious comments before.
- Is there any of the public’s misunderstanding about T-ara that you want to erase?
Eunjung: But we know that we can’t erase that. Also, since of these misunderstandings and prejudices are made about T-ara, rather than erasing them, it’s more of a problem to carry them with us.
Soyeon: We actually know to what degree has the public shut the doors on us. We also know that there’s no use even if we explain ourselves “That’s not right,” “We are wronged.” We will just put on different efforts in order to be understood.
-At last, say a word to your fans.
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Elli Smiles Doll Review
Elli Smiles is the cute new doll that really smiles!
My children really love playing with dolls and they often play babies together, and I cannot wait for my youngest to start joining in the fun too! (I've actually got her a Baby Annabell for Christmas, but Elli Smiles isn't suitable for her just yet). I've always been a fan of Zapf Creation toys, so I knew that the new Elli Smiles would be a big hit!
We were kindly given the opportunity to review the lovely Elli Smiles, and I was immediately impressed with the fantastic amount of functions she has!
Elli Smiles is designed to act and feel like an older baby, and she really does! With lots of realistic baby sounds and movements, including sucking from the bottle or dummy, crying and sweet sleeping sounds too.
If your little ones wear the special interactive necklace she reacts to her new 'mummy or daddy' and gives them a sweet little grin and can even say "Mama" when they are around!
You can give Elli her dummy when she's tired and she will suck on it, and you can rock her to sleep. You need to make sure you stay quiet though, or she'll wake up and start crying!
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Elli Smiles can also drink water from her bottle, and use her potty or you can let her fill her nappy before you change her.
When I was younger, I remember how excited I was when I had a doll that could really go to the toilet, but it tended to mean that it wouldn't be an interactive, electronic doll too. So I'm very impressed that this lovely doll is both electronic and interactive, but she also uses the potty!
Elli has a fairly soft body, making her feel more realistic and she comes in a cute outfit of a dress, leggings, hat and shoes. Included in the box with her is a dummy, bottle, a nappy (can be reused if dried!) and the interactive necklace for her 'parent' to wear.
Elli Smiles is really sweet and soft to touch. Her face is soft allowing it to move so she can smile and make different expressions. She's soft and snuggly like a real baby!
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As I mentioned at the beginning, I am very impressed with the volume of functions Elli has. I've never seen a doll that can do quite so much!
Elli Smiles would definitely put a smile on your children's faces if they were to unwrap her on Christmas Day!
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Muffet McGraw holds food drive to help those in need during pandemic
Published: Mar. 20, 2020 at 6:24 PM EDT
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This morning, Notre Dame women's basketball head coach Muffet McGraw held a food drive to give back to those in need during this pandemic.
She says that if there's one thing that sports teaches us, it's how to handle adversity and by handling adversity you learn resilience to bounce back.
"I think this is a stressful time," McGraw said. "It's stressful for everybody. Everyone's at home. We're trying to do new things, trying to learn online. Trying to make sure our kids are getting everything they need and yet somehow we've got to keep everybody calm."
McGraw says it's important for everyone to come together and check on each other during these times.
"This is a time when we need to be optimistic," McGraw said. "We need to be full of hope. I think that's the most important thing to know. We're going to get through this. We're going to get through it together and how can you help? What can you do to help? Can you call the schools? Can you call people in the community? Can you take care of some seniors that are on your block? Reach out to them. People are lonely. They're a little scared right now. We're going through a really tough time but we know we can get to the other side of it."
Coach McGraw says she wants to continue helping out during the pandemic and anyone with ideas should send them her way.
She also put out a challenge to all other Notre Dame coaches and fans to hold food drives in their neighborhoods.
So Brian Kelly and Mike Brey, looks like you're up.
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Bali sex ban: Australia updates travel advice for Indonesia following new law proposal
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Australian's travelling to Bali could face jail time for having sex outside of marriage under controversial laws being considered by Indonesia Credit: Getty (file)
Australia has updated its travel advice for Indonesia, warning tourists could soon be charged for having sex outside marriage.
Indonesia is gearing up to pass new laws making consensual sex between unmarried adults a crime, and also making it illegal for unmarried couples to live together.
Watch the video above.
"A large number of laws may change and these will also apply to foreign residents and visitors, including tourists," the Department of Foreign Affairs posted to the Smart Traveller website on Friday.
The new criminal code is due to be adopted in the next week after parliament and the government agreed a final draft.
Under the proposed laws, unmarried couples who "live together as a husband and wife" could be jailed for six months or face a maximum fine of 10 million rupiah (AU$1,045), which is three months' salary for many Indonesians.
Visitors to Bali could be charged under new laws making it illegal to have sex outside of marriage. Credit: AAP
Scores of travel bloggers visit the holiday destination each year, including Instagram-famous couple Kelly and Cody who are known for their displays of affection on social media and faced controversy after sharing a 'dangerous' picture posed on the edge of a three-story infinity pool.
One-year prison term
A maximum one-year prison term also can be applied to a person who has sex with someone who is not their spouse and a close family member lodges a complaint.
The law also impacts homosexuals as gay marriage is not recognised in Indonesia.
A prosecution can proceed if a village chief, who heads the lowest tier of government, files a complaint with police, and parents or children of the accused do not object.
Parents, children and spouses can also lodge a complaint.
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The Mind Prism
We would like you to imagine that you have a triangular prism in the middle of your forehead. Now focus on that prism, what is it doing? Is it staying completely still, is it spinning (which direction is the spinning – clockwise or anti-clockwise?), is it pulsing, glowing, changing colour, disappearing and reappearing, or moving up and down?
Any of these possibilities can tell you something about yourself, and/or a pressing issue in your life. Now, we do not like to generalise because every person is unique, and therefore every presentation of the prism will be specific to that person’s interpretation, expression and understanding of their existence. However, we can offer broad stroke possibilities, a way for you to discover the kind of presentation you may favour, and how you can use the prism for personal healing.
If your prism was:
1. Completely Still – this suggests a certain intensity of thought, you see life as a serious enterprise and spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the many facets of it. It could also suggest that you are stuck; stuck in a moment, a situation, a thought, or problem. You may spend a lot of time thinking about it, but you are unable to move into action, your intensity keeps you stuck.
2. Spinning – this suggests a certain zest for life, you like constant movement, it brings joy to your life, and as a result you bring joy to others. It could also suggest that whilst you are moving a lot, you are staying in the one spot, spinning around and around. You are moving backwards (anti-clockwise), or forwards (clockwise) around an issue, but you are staying on the same spot. There is a lot of activity, a lot of talk, a lot of investigation, but it is not going anywhere.
3. Pulsing – this suggests that you have a light to shine, you like to help and be of service to others, and that you come in and out of it as required. It could also suggest that whilst you have a light to shine, and you probably know what that light is, it may be difficult to control, or you do not feel that it is true or real ( a common healer dilemma), you are frightened of it’s, and therefore your, power, or you do not feel ready to have that light shine back onto you, and expose your true self to the world.
4. Glowing – this suggests a certain serenity of being, and around your life situations. You are content and happy with your existence, and with those around you, you live for light. It could also suggest that you are living in a world of denial. If everything has a rosy glow then the world will be alright, and whilst there is nothing wrong with that on a universal scale, it could have serious repercussions on the individual scale. If you choose to view the world through a glowing light, the fullness of life may escape you, and this will bring its own set of problems.
5. Changing Colour – this suggests that you are experiencing life in technicolour. For you, life is vibrant, awe-inspiring, wonderous; and you are too. Life is an adventure and you are going to live it! It could also suggest that by filling your life with adventures you are externalising your experience of life, filling your life with sensations perhaps to cover for an internal unsure-edness. Am I enough? Is there anything inside of me? If I do go inside, what am I going to find? I feel there is a darkness inside of me, and I do not want to go there.
6. Disappearing and Reappearing – this suggests that you have a busy and purposeful life. You are here to serve, you are generous with your time, and dedicated to your cause. It could also suggest that you are facing and then hiding from your own personal issues, problems, needs and desires. By filling your life with purposeful activity, your personal concerns become irrelevant, insignificant in the face of larger community needs, trivial, and even a luxury, one that you are not worth.
7. Moving Up & Down – this suggest that you have a lot of energy for life. You like to move and be active and incorporate others into this activity. You are an embracer of people, and a community builder. It could also suggest that whilst there is a lot of movement and activity, when it comes to personal issues you make a lot of noise, and move quite a bit, but you remain on the spot. You have a need for movement so it looks like you are developing and evolving around issues, but you are jumping up and down on them trying to crush them, to eradicate them.
Using the prism for personal healing:
A simple technique for understanding the self and to clarify an issue, problem, need, desire, action, question or thought is to do as we first suggested, and focus on a triangular prism in the
middle of your forehead. When you have a clear and in-focus picture of the prism, place your issue, problem, need, desire, action, question or thought into the prism and let it follow your
preferred expression (i.e.: the prism is spinning, completely still, and so on). At this point you can leave it there, in the prism, with the understanding that you require enlightenment at some
point, or you can stay with it and follow the path of the problem prism until you receive some clarity/understanding. Then you need to decide what you will do with the information – seek
professional help, endeavour to work on it yourself with the aid of your own knowledge and skills, ask for help from family, friends, or your community.
It needs to be noted, at this point, that different prisms may present for different problems. This suggests that around that particular issue you are that prism-way inclined. This in itself adds to the depth of understanding of the self around the issue, and this information alone can give you insight it. For example, instead of picturing the prism first, think of the issue, problem,
need, desire, action, question or thought first, and then allow a prism to develop around it.
A further aspect to note is that you may have combination prism presentations. For example, a spinning, glowing prism. The same analysis applies, but it is a combination of the two.
If your prism presentation is not explained here…
If you followed this exercise and found that your triangular prism presentation is not explained here, then feel free to contact the Ancestral Medicine Women at for personal analysis.
Many blessings to all of you that we find here today,
May the sun shine on your face and brighten your eyes,
May the air you breathe fill your being with life,
And, may the people you meet understand the essence of compassion.
The Ancestral Medicine Women channeled through Caroline Allinson-Dunn
~ (c) Copyright 2015 – All rights reserved 2015. Brad and Caroline Dunn.
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Ranked Top Lake in Florida
BASSMASTER >> Rodman Reservoirs reputation as one of the best bass fishing lakes in the nation received another boost on Monday when Bassmaster Magazine released its rankings for the best bass lakes in Florida….but we ask, is any of this even accurate?
Rodman Reservoir earned the No. 8 spot in the nation and is No. 1 in Florida Division, beating out Lake Okeechobee, St Johns River, Lake Toho and others for top honors. While the ranking are arguably correct at first glance, our and others catch ratios show much different results.
While BassMaster went over and beyond prior years trying to find the best results and locate the sources of information they simply were incomplete. Lets look at there resources and break it down so you better understand.
They’re quoted saying, more than three months of research went into this year’s rankings,” explained BassmasterMagazine editor James Hall, who noted that the initial pool of top fisheries was developed with input from B.A.S.S. Nation members across the country, state fisheries biologists, the 3,500-member B.A.S.S. Council and some of the 650,000 Facebook fans of B.A.S.S.
So the debate is not the results, but the resources and data used to calculate the results. Let us explain, when you read the results you’re thinking as an angler. That, if I fish that body of water its going to hold the best and biggest catch! Wrong…that would assume that the survey was based on “Catch Data,” which it should be, but is not. Simply, because its not available.
So, instead it seems that BM had followers, readers and fans establish the ranking. Here lies one of the problems, as the readers see it published….”They believe the top rated lakes to be where they will catch the most and the biggest fish,” not just which lakes were voted most popular by fans!
So let’s look at there resources for determining the Top lake(s)…
1) They used B.A.S.S. Nation member’s, 3,500 B.A.S.S. council and 650,00 Facebook fans. That’s great, but all have one thing in common they are all regionally located and almost guarantee voted for a local lake or popular named lake. Why, take in consideration majority of the anglers that live in let’s say, California will and have never fished Ohio, Texas, Alabama, etc so how could they vote for a body of water located in Ohio? This works both ways, willing to bet if the data was published there would be a direct collation between the lakes ranked highest and where the geographical location of the votes were collected. Let’s be real, even if you watch the BASSMaster tour on TV and it was awesome fishing on Table Rock Lake should you be able to vote for that lake even though you have never even fish it? That is not “Catch Data,” and without it how can anyone rank for TOP lake?
2) Just encase the debate turned to state fisheries biologist collection as the data most important let us provide our readers a little additional information so you better understand.
Most of the states that even collect data for bass, which is fewer then you would think. Out of those, majority provide what is referred to as shock data. You do this by traveling to the same locations on the lake, year after year at the same time, for the same amount of time. Then compare those results to the previous years. And while shock data is very useful, it is completely different then “catch data.” Which is what most all states struggle to accumulate, but as anglers it is what we get each time we go fishing.
Why not use shock data for this kind of survey you ask? Several reasons, and a few important ones. Any lake that is deeper them 8+ feet, especially lakes have ledges where fish stage. These fish can not be shocked, they are to deep so are never included in shock data. But these same fish on the same day, can be caught by anglers fishing which is “catch data” and never collected. There are many ways that shock data and catch data differ that is one example.
To get catch data, some state agencies have biologist at the boat ramps or in some cases have boats that pull up next to you on the water and ask questions like, How many fish have you caught today? How many below 12″, between 13″-18″ and so on. This data is then complied to help manage the fishery, but in NO way does this get an accurate calculation of “catch data” or how a TOP lake should be ranked for anglers looking to go fishing.
Included within the BassMaster statement was, “Then we scoured the Internet for current catch-rate data, using the results of more than two dozen tournament organizations and several state ‘lunker’ programs to narrow the field to 100. It’s a brutal process, but the results give bass anglers the ultimate bucket list of lakes for 2016,” Hall said.
So let’s look at the lunker programs that several states have started to collect data collecting programs, Texas has Share-a-lunker program and Florida has Trophy Catch. All these programs were created to better accumulate CATCH data and science for the biologist which helps with many things when properly managing a body of water. While these programs are needed to really properly manage the resource and accumulate catch data, they also cost the tax payers money. If not properly managed become like many other government projects that never meet there potential, which could be argued about either of these programs. The difficulty of these programs is angler participation and with government agencies running them it leaves a lot of questions among anglers of why and how to participate. Ultimately, these data collection programs are highly needed, but many would suggest they could be more efficient and successful being privately operated.
Either way, at this point because not enough data has been collected the programs could not have been solely used to determine the TOP 100 lakes in the United States…the lack of complete data makes it absolutely impossible.
So, if your one of the anglers out there across the internet and are dissatisfied with this years results as many anglers and organizations are voicing there displeasure. Know this is NOT or COULD not be a accurate assessment of the lakes without proper catch data!
Clearly by the statement made by BM they accumulated what little information was available, but knowing the information is inadequate should they still produce a list at all?
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'Ice Age: Collision Course' Inspires Exclaim!'s Eight Favourite Songs About Space
Still in search of a way to keep his coveted acorn safe after four instalments in the Ice Age film series, Scrat the squirrel uncovers an abandoned alien ship while looking to bury his nut in Ice Age: Collision Course, sending him into outer space. While there, he unwittingly sends several asteroids hurtling towards the earth, putting the planet and its creatures in danger.
From Gustav Holst's "The Planets" orchestral suite to David Bowie's timeless cosmic composition "Space Oddity," the outer reaches of our universe have long been a source of inspiration for musicians across all genres. Before Ice Age: Collision Course lands in theatres on July 22, take a trip across the musical universe with eight of our favourite space-themed songs that we think are out of this world.
Björk – "Cosmogony"
With 2011's Biophilia, Björk penned a concept record exploring links between nature, music and interaction with the environment.
While many of the LP's songs reference phenomena within the natural world, "Cosmogony" concerns itself with tales of how the entire universe was created. Backed by a strangely distorted brass section, her story posits the universe as "an empty sea, until a silver fox and her cunning mate began to sing a song" to form the world, a formerly "cold black egg, until the god inside burst out and from its shattered shell." Then, there was born "an endless land" that ancestors "carved" into the one we know today.
Deep Purple – "Space Truckin'"
Floating alongside Bowie in the upper echelons of rock songs concerned with what's beyond the stars is Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'," a fantastical account of a band bringing their music to every far-flung galaxy.
A futuristic world where bands play to crowds on Venus, Mars and the Milky Way would certainly be a far out tour route, and when you've rocked crowds all over the globe like Deep Purple did following Machine Head, "space truckin' 'round the stars" is the next logical place to go.
Jamiroquai – "Planet Home"
Despite its funky nature, Jamiroquai's ode to planet Earth plays to both the positive and negative aspects of our "Planet Home." The song's first verse sees vocalist Jay Kay express that there's nowhere else he'd rather be, juxtaposed with the line "it's the only place I know, where you can witness tragedy."
Its disco-influenced chorus reinforces the desire to make things better, before acknowledging that death, war and corruption are still very much a part of what drives the "blue sphere of shattered dreams" towards its demise. "I heard there was a promised land, on planet home," he sings before admitting humanity still hasn't found a trace of it.
Megadeth – "Hangar 18"
While it doesn't detail a trip through space, the urgent thrash of Megadeth's "Hangar 18" deals with the subject of potential government conspiracies to keep discovery of alien races under wraps. Inspired by a United States Air Force hangar that has been said to contain alien technology, the song speaks of a "fortress tall," with impenetrable walls and a myriad of technology with which to watch the skies, hiding their captive alien life forms in a "suspended state of cryogenics."
The artwork for the band's 1990 record Rust in Peace references the song, showing band mascot Vic Rattlehead presenting a captured alien to world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush.
The Police – "Walking on the Moon"
In his 2003 autobiography Broken Music: A Memoir, Sting revealed that "Walking on the Moon" was a love song inspired by an early girlfriend, as "being in love is to be relieved of gravity." However one interprets the lyrics, the sparse, airy arrangement of the reggae-influenced tune, coupled with the liberal use of echo, make it the perfect soundtrack to any weightless space walk.
The band also shot a music video for the song the same year at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, splicing footage from NASA in amongst performance clips of their own, featuring drummer Stuart Copeland laying down the beat on the side of a rocket.
Radiohead – "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien" gives voice to a character that would prefer being abducted by aliens to staying on Earth. The character believes other life forms exist outside of Earth, monitoring our society (addressed as "weird creatures" in the song) while "making home movies for the folks back home."
Subsequently, the character wishes to be abducted so that they can observe society from a distance with the alien race, and though their friends would think they had finally lost it, it wouldn't matter in the least.
Rush – "Countdown"
No strangers to incorporating themes of space and sci-fi into their earlier work, Rush's "Countdown" was written about the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1981. Drummer Neil Peart's poetic lyrics describe the shuttle itself as "the star of this unearthly show," which is "venting vapours, like the breath of a sleeping white dragon."
The crowd, who were able to witness the historic launch, exhibit an air of "excitement so thick you could cut it with a knife," while the song itself closes with snippets of dispatch from the shuttle launch radio.
Stevie Wonder – "Saturn"
Social issues drove Stevie Wonder to pack his bags and go "to a place where the air is clean" when writing "Saturn." In the song, he paints a portrait of the ringed planet as an idyllic haven far away from Earth and its problems, where people smile, live to be 205 years old and don't need cars because they've learned to fly.
Alluding to war, poverty and inequality as factors that will bring destruction to the Earth, Wonder asks the people how they could be so cold, when on Saturn "just to live to us is our natural high."
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Why Tommy Robinson was jailed over Facebook rant outside Leeds Crown Court
Tommy Robinson outside Leeds Crown Court. A screengrab from a video taken of Robinson as he was arrested by police.
The founder of the English Defence League has been jailed over comments made on camera outside Leeds Crown Court which had the potential to de-rail a long running trial.
Tommy Robinson filmed himself during an hour-long rant outside the court building which he streamed on Facebook Live and was viewed a quarter of a million times
A judge who locked the right wing activist up for 13 months for contempt of court told him his actions may cause the sensitive case to be abandoned.
The court heard it could cost taxpayers “hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds” if a re-trial has to be held.
A strict order is currently in place temporarily banning publication or broadcasting details of the long-running case or anyone involved.
Media will be able to reveal details of the case later this year.
The Yorkshire Evening Post can now reveal details of Robinson’s sentencing hearing which took place last Friday.
Robinson, of Oakley Rise, Wilstead, Bedford, was arrested after naming defendants in the case, the charges they face and details of the allegations.
He also filmed defendants and confronted them as they were entering the building on Oxford Row.
The 35-year-old was held in the court cells before being taken into the court to face trial judge Geroffrey Marson, QC.
The judge explained why Robinson’s actions had been in contempt of court.
He said the order had been made to ensure the “integrity” of the case.
The judge said: “Nothing may occur which will prejudice the trial.”
He added: “He was expressing his views. Everyone understands the right to freedom of speech but there are responsibilities and obligations.”
The video footage was played to the judge in court before he dealt with Robinson.
He said: “He was approximate to where defendants go in and approximate to where jurors go in.
“He was making a video. He was referring to this case.
“He referred to the charges that the defendants faced and some charges which are not proceeded against in relation to some defendants.”
The court heard the footage had received 250,000 views and a story about Robinson’s arrest was the lead article on a national newspaper website.
Judge Marson said: “Not only was it a very long video but I regard it as a serious aggravating feature that he was encouraging others to share it and it had been shared widely.
“That is the nature of the contempt.”
Yorkshire Post
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From Beyond (1986)
FROM BEYOND is one of Stuart Gordon’s body horror masterpieces. Though co-stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are reunited, gone is the black humor found in its predecessor RE-ANIMATOR. FROM BEYOND is dark, bleak and nihilistic. A mad scientist and his assistant have discovered a way to allow the humans the ability to see into another reality that is just out of phase of our own through the use of a harmonic resonance generator.
Dr. Edward Pretorious (Ted Sorel) has been trying to awaken the sixth sense through the stimulation of the pineal gland. In doing so he has opened a doorway to a parallel universe full of strange and hostile creatures. Pretorious is a mean spirited and abusive man who cows his milquetoast assistant Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) and turns him into a weak and indecisive person. Even after the accident, Pretorious holds sway over him. When Pretorious is consumed by a creature from the other universe Crawford attacks the resonator with a fire ax. He is blamed for the death of Pretorious and committed as insane after he relates his tale. Dr. Kathrine McKnight (Barbara Crampton) thinks she can help cure schizophrenia by using the resonator so they return to the scene of the crime escorted by police detective Bubba Brownlee (Ken Foree).
Crawford tries to explain and recreate what happened the night Pretorious lost his head as he and McKnight reactivate the resonator. The group are attacked by small vicious creatures shortly after Crawford reactivates the resonator. He shuts it down after they are met by an apparently alive and deformed Pretorious who explains how wonderful the other universe is. The next morning they discuss what happened the preceding evening. Later that day, unable to resist the urge Katherine turns the machine on again. The trio are pressed sorely this time around with Katherine being molested by the monstrous Pretorious and Crawford is almost swallowed by a worm. Bubba insists that they leave after he shuts off the power but Crawford is in dire shape and McKnight has found Pretorious’s S&M wardrobe. The resonator activates itself and the trio run to the attic to turn it off. A swarm attacks Crawford and Katherine and Bubba sacrifices himself by pushing them clear of the creatures. Pretorious then tries to eat McKnight until Crawford fights him off. After neutralizing the device McKnight takes the now not-quite-human Crawford to the hospital where the doctors have plans for both of them. After escaping the hospital the pair head to the house to destroy the resonator for good. The final battle sees Crawford consumed by Pretorious and the two then struggle over the same disgusting form. Crawford bursts out from it and they both dissolve in a puddle. McKnight barely escapes as a bomb explodes bringing her ordeal to an end-though the rest of the world may find her quite mad.
The film was an Empire film shot in Italy with DOLLS. The exteriors will look familiar to viewers of both films. The effects are remarkable and hold up well almost thirty years later. The actors acquit themselves well though Jeffrey Combs seems a tad bit uncomfortable playing such a weak character. It is a major change from his turn as Herbert West. Barbara Crampton looks equally stunning in both lab coat and bondage wear though I know which I tend to prefer. She plays the scientist, vivacious nymph and conflicted soul all with the greatest of ease.
The film is presented in high definition widescreen with a choice of 5.0 and 2.0 English audio. The colors are spectacular hues of red, purple and blue. Special features include great new interviews with Barbara Crampton, Charles Band and Jeffrey Combs. “Multiple Dimensions” a featurette about the effects of FROM BEYOND and the MGM features with the Stuart Gordon retrospective, the story of the restoration of the director’s cut, and an interview with Richard Band. There is also a commentary with the cast and director. The features are rounded out with a photo gallery and the theatrical trailer.
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"Tell me about your milk..."
"...it's straight from the cow..."
Raw milk is a pretty controversial topic. Raw means it's unpasteurized. Isn't that bad, you ask? Depending on the cows, depending on the farm. Raw milk from a factory farm is something I wouldn't touch. Raw milk from a grass fed cow, on a small farm? Now I'm interested. Pasteurization kills bad bacteria that can be present in milk (not uncommon with industrial cows), but it also kills a lot of the beneficial bacteria - and nutrients - in the process. The word around here is that it's illegal for farmers to sell raw milk - they can drink their own cows' raw milk, but they can't even give the stuff away. So I thought I was outta luck, until I overheard the above conversation at my local farmer's market. Now I bring 2L of fresh, raw, whole milk home to my fridge every Friday. I am developing a relationship with the farmer, and it feels like more human way to shop. I'd love to take my kids out to their farm soon, for them to really understand where our milk and eggs come from - cows and chickens, not the fridge at the grocery store.
4 Responses to “242: Contraband Milk”
1. Angie:
That’s awesome Kim!! I’m definitely interested in the eggs! We’re Almond Milk drinkers around here, but I was just saying to Dale we really need to get hooked up with some fresh farm eggs!
2. Sher:
Kim, we need to talk milk. I’ve been getting raw from a small farm just north of here. The city might be more convenient though. What do you know about the farmer and his cows??
3. Becky Fehr:
Oh exciting! I would love to hear more!
4. Kim:
Sher, yes we should talk. I actually got some from a different farmer this week (Lindsay hooked me up), for half the price I was paying before. Small farm…north of city…maybe the same one? We are hoping to take a trip out there sometime this month yet to check it out.
Becky & Ang, we’ll talk 🙂
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How does hunter s thompson present
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Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson (), produced, directed, photographed and edited by Blue Kraning, is a documentary about the scores of fans who volunteered their privately owned artillery to fire the ashes of the late author, Hunter S.
Thompson. Is Thompson just crazy.? Is Thompson's view more realistic than the traditional definition? - Hard to define the American Dream therefore it doesn't exist in the traditional sense as it has an individual meaning for everyone.
Hunter S. Thompson's 'Hell's Angels' Turns 50 This Year By James McClure | Jun 23, | Entertainment This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hunter S.
Thompson's Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga - the nonfiction book. How does Hunter S. Thompson present the culture of Puerto Rico as well as American Culture in his book The Rum Diary? Hunter S. Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary tells the story of Paul Kemp, a journalist working in Puerto Rico in the only English language newspaper in town.
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ekotopfilm - International Festival of Sustainable Development Films
ekotopfilm - Medzinárodný festival filmov o trvalo udržateľnom rozvoji
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Telephone: 421 (0) 902 233 322
Ekotopfilm, Zadunajská cesta 12, 851 0 Bratislava, Slovakia
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The message of the ekotopfilm festival is
● CONNECT - the festival is a unique platform to join two different groups, originally antagonists, namely: technicians and ecologists.
● EDUCATE - the festival educates both professionals and the general public through attractive films and contributes to cultural and knowledge development.
● INFORM - every year the festival brings the world up-to-date films and TV programmes in the field of sustainable development.
● DISCUSS - the festival is a year-round interactive event which seeks not only to address the issues but also to help solve them.
● ENTERTAIN - the festival is a 'fiesta', too! It is a week-long happening of daylong and evening screenings, accompanying events and entertainment programmes organised on high cultural and social level.
● COMPETE - The festival is an international film contest.
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AMIT 145: Introduction to Mineral Benefication
This course provides an overview or introduction into the field of mineral beneficiation and comminution, systems and equipment used for the mineral processing industry. Fundamentals of basic separation and mineral beneficiation, environmental concerns, safety and terminology will be explored.
Course Information
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Placement in Mill Operations OE program
Instructional Goals
1. Describe and explain the liberation and concentration principles of mineral recovery
2. Describe particle size analysis and its importance for recovery
3. Describe the reagent process and how it is used.
4. Describe flotation circuit processes and its basic operation
5. Describe the different types of dewatering circuits and their basic operation.
6. Describe the water treatment process and its basic operation.
7. Explain mill circuit capacities vs efficiency/recovery
8. Explain efficiency of mineral processing operations
Student Outcomes
Student Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:
Assessment Procedures
This outcome will be assessed by one or more of the following:
Students demonstrate an understanding of safety as applied to working in a mill facilityPerformance answering identified mill safety test questions
Students demonstrate proper safety practices around rotating equipmentObserved performance demonstrating proper (general) safety practices required around rotating equipment
Students demonstrate knowledge of various types of liberation and concentration equipmentPerformance answering identified liberation and concentration circuit equipment test questions
Observed performance identifying various types of liberation and concentration equipment components
Students demonstrate knowledge of various types of dewatering circuitsPerformance answering identified dewatering equipment circuit test questions
Observed performance identifying various dewatering unit components
Students demonstrate knowledge of various types of froth flotation systemsPerformance answering identified froth flotation test questions
Observed performance identifying froth flotation unit components and associated equipment
Students demonstrate knowledge of reagents and their applicationsPerformance answering identified reagent application and performance questions
Observed performance identifying reagent performance and application
Students demonstrate knowledge of water treatment circuits/systems used in mill operationsPerformance answering identified water treatment process test questions
Observed performance identifying water treatment circuit components and associated equipment
Students demonstrate knowledge of efficient mill operations involving liberation, concentration, and water treatmentPerformance answering identified mill process operation and efficiency test questions
Observed performance identifying proper operation of mill processes, and ability to summarize efficiency
Course Outline
1. Liberation and concentration principles
1. Liberation (comminution) system terminology
2. Comminution system components
3. Comminution principles/targets (particle size analysis)
4. Concentration system terminology
5. Concentration methods/principles
2. Flotation Circuits
1. Froth flotation terminology
2. Froth flotation system components
3. Froth flotation principles of operation
4. Froth flotation normal operation
5. Froth flotation analysis/control parameters
3. Dewatering circuits
1. Dewatering equipment types
2. Dewatering terminology
3. Principles of dewatering/efficiency
4. Dewatering system normal operation
5. Dewatering system abnormal operation
4. Reagents
1. Reagent terminology
2. Reagent principles/applications
3. Reagent performance measures
4. Reagent application methods
5. Reagent safety and environmental concerns
5. Mill water treatment
1. Water treatment terminology
2. Water treatment system components
3. Water treatment principles/methods
4. Water treatment environmental/efficiency concerns
6. Communition & Concentration analysis and efficiency
1. Guidelines for proper communition operation/efficiency
2. Guidelines for proper froth flotation circuit operation/efficiency
3. Guidelines for proper dewatering circuit operation/efficiency
4. Guidelines for proper water treatment operation/efficiency
5. Mill circuits process variables
Suggested Text
Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology, 8th edition
B.A Wills, James Finch PhD, Butterworth-Heinemann publisher, 2015
DACUM Research Chart for Mill Operator
Produced for Teck Alaska Inc. Red Dog Mine — June 2015
Prepared by John P. Hakala
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Make eye contact
Use sex positions that facilitate body to body contact and eye contact
Yea yea, I know doggie style positions are a world wide favorite, however, in this position it’s all about the animalistic ravaging. Sex positions that require close bodily contact creates intimacy through the touching of skin and through the absorption of breath each partner can feel from the other. Spooning is a great alternative of the traditional doggie style where both partners can still get that deep penetration and create the closeness of intimacy because of how the bodies are positioned. You can also use any variation of the missionary position whether the legs are in the air and spread apart or wrapped around your partner (yes, men can be on the receiving end too! switch it up!) Cowgirl positions also create intimacy through the locked gaze the female partner will have with the submissive male (as long as it’s not reverse cowgirl). Switch things up and take the stroke slow so you and your partner can dwell on every sensation.
Caress each other
Touching exchanges energy from one source to another, and when you gently caress your partner with loving care, that energy is felt throughout his or her body. While facing each other (either sitting up or lying down) begin to touch each other starting from the head down to the feet if you so desire. To spice things up, use your lips to caress the body of your partner and really get those sexual juices flowing! As you caress your partner, keep eye contact, and send those mental messages of desire to your partners subconscious as you explore his/her body with touch. Those soft caresses can turn into an erotic massage that will definitely get your partner hot and ready for the main event!
Spend more time kissing
The lips have many nerve endings and receptors that sends signals to the brain and create sexual arousal. Not only are the lips good at sending messages, but placing them close together with your partner’s in a kiss is one of the most intimate acts that can be performed. Use your time during foreplay and during sex to experiment with different forms of kissing. Use your lips…
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The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects data needed to answer these and many other key questions about health and health care in the United States. NCHS is part of the federal statistical system which includes agencies that are responsible for compiling, analyzing, and disseminating data for statistical purposes.
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Why You *Should* Weigh Yourself Daily
I feel as though lately, scales have gotten a bad rap. “Stay off the scales!” “Don’t weigh yourself!” “Muscles weighs more than fat!” (Not exactly true, or at least that is an incomplete sentence. Because guess what? A pound of fat weighs exactly the same as a pound of muscle. However, a pound of muscle takes up less space. Or, for an equivalent VOLUME of fat and muscle, the muscle will weigh more. Two different ways to say that muscle tissue is denser than adipose – fat – tissue. But I digress.) My Instagram video series (and my videos on Facebook) this week are on the topic of weighing DAILY (gasp!).
I’ve had several clients say to me lately, “I know I *shouldn’t*, but I weigh myself every day.” It seems like they are almost expect me to chastise them and agree that they shouldn’t. But you should know that I’m not a fan of “shoulds.” Instead, I ask where that “should” comes from. Is it coming from a place of self-knowledge and self-awareness that seeing the number on the scales is just BAD NEWS for how it will impact their day? Or is it just another generic “SHOULD” perpetuated by the fitness industry that doesn’t take into account the fact that we are all unique individuals (like butterflies or snowflakes), and certain strategies that are ill-advised for some work beautifully for others? (Like the keto diet – don’t get me started. It’s a not a magic bullet for fat loss for all and can be a downright dangerous dietary move for some, while it is one of the best paths to vibrant healthy and vitality for others).
So let me state my case for weighing daily. But first, let’s remember that your WORTH, your WORTHINESS, and your VALUE as a human being are completely independent of ANY number – your weight, your % body fat, your bank account balance, your number of followers on social media…you are a completely incredible, valuable, worthy human being just as you are. But, if Amazing You is going to weigh in, weigh daily. Here’s why:
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Hain 'amnesty' call condemned
Peter Hain says ending Troubles prosecutions may bring closure to victims
Peter Hain says ending Troubles prosecutions may bring closure to victims
Peter Hain says ending Troubles prosecutions may bring closure to victims
Victims of Northern Ireland's armed conflict have strongly criticised Peter Hain after he called for an end to prosecutions for crimes committed before the Good Friday peace agreement.
No-one would be pursued for 3,000 unsolved murders during decades of trouble before the 1998 accord, under his proposal.
Britain's former Northern Ireland Secretary suggested a special judicial process whereby cases would come before a judge and those felt to be responsible could ask for the matter to be considered and then be released on licence.
It would be "even handed", applying to soldiers like those who carried out the Bloody Sunday killing of unarmed civilians in Derry in 1972 as well as former republican and loyalist paramilitaries, Mr Hain said.
However justice campaigners branded his comments "grossly offensive".
Mr Hain said: "What is certain about the current situation is that victims won't get closure or justice in the vast majority of these cases because the evidence is often impossible to establish as the events happened too long ago."
The Neath MP said it was not a matter for the British Government but had to be addressed by leaders of Northern Ireland's devolved assembly.
The senior Labour figure said he had every sympathy with victims.
But he added: "Northern Ireland can stay trapped in its past of horror, with its eyes constantly looking over its shoulders, allowing the past to stalk it, or looking forward to the future."
The UK Prime Minister has said he does not support the idea of amnesties.
Michael Gallagher lost his son Aidan during the dissident Real IRA's Omagh bomb which killed 31 people shortly after the agreement; his brother Hugh was killed by the IRA in 1984.
He said: "People who carried out horrendous crimes over a 40-year period should not be allowed to escape justice.
"We don't know what advances there will be in forensic science, sometimes people's loyalties change over time and people can be brought before the courts."
The former Northern Ireland Secretary was speaking before the start of the first state visit to Britain by President Michael D Higgins. He was Northern Ireland Secretary from 2005 to 2007.
He said: "I think there should be an end to all conflict-related prosecutions. That should apply to cases pre-dating the Good Friday Agreement in 1998."
Under the agreement anybody convicted of paramilitary crimes was eligible for early release. It was one of the most controversial aspects of the blueprint, which was endorsed in referendums by people in Northern Ireland and the Republic.
The provision did not cover those suspected of committing crimes during the troubles nor those who were charged or convicted but had escaped from prison.
It emerged during the trial of John Downey, accused of murdering four soldiers during the Hyde Park bombing in 1982, that almost 200 Irish republicans who believed they may be on the run from justice had received letters of assurance that they were not wanted by detectives for crimes committed before 1998.
They did not rule out prosecutions if more evidence later emerged but angered unionists who branded the administrative scheme an amnesty.
Mr Hain's Labour Government was in power when many messages were delivered.
Downing Street has ordered a review, chaired by Lady Justice Hallett, into the scheme.
John Larkin, Northern Ireland attorney general, has suggested an end to troubles prosecutions, police investigations, inquests or inquiries involving paramilitaries, police officers and soldiers.
Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland director at Amnesty International, said: "It is regrettable that senior political figures continue to show such disregard for one of the abiding lessons of conflict resolution: one cannot build a stable peace on a rocky foundation of injustice."
Arlene Foster, a member of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, the Democratic Unionists, added: "The DUP will always stand by the principle that everyone should be equal under the law and equally subject to the law."
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The Path To Finding Better
Advantages Of Working With An Outside Catering Company
If you had a function, whether it is a family gathering or a friend’s reunion, then it is important that you consider how people will get their food and who will provide the services. In the past, people used to take them to cook for their family and friends but it meant that they took so much time preparing these bills that they did not have time to spend with their loved ones. This is why all those catering services have become quite popular so many people as it enables people to spend more time with their loved ones as they have their meals prepared professionally.
The following are some of the benefits of considering using outside catering companies for your next family or friends’ function. It is also important to ensure that as you are hiring an outside catering company, you get one that is experienced in providing such services for a couple of years as it becomes easier to work with people who understand their job. When hiring outside catering you can decide what you need to hire and what you can provide for yourself as some may choose only to hire their catering services that provide their cutlery. If you want an all-inclusive package, then this is also available depending on your expectations as also the outside catering company that you are working with at that time.
One of the reasons why working with an outside catering company is highly recommended because it gives you an experience of a lifetime. You do not have limitations of time when it comes to working with them as they can work with you even through the night, depending on if your agreement. You can enjoy your company as they handle the process of preparing and cooking the food while also serving the gas, which is going to be unforgettable. Due to the number of years they have worked in providing these services to individuals, they have perfected the art of cooking different types of meals there, for you can be assured that will not have a limitation of at the variety of food to choose from at that point. You can also get to hire an outside catering company that has specialized in particular because it depends on your preference.
In the long run, working with an outside catering company is highly affordable for you as you get to provide everything without the need to stress how you are going transport items from one point to another. You also get to experience everything under one roof as they can also provide party essentials depending on your preference. The professionalism associated with outside catering services makes it easier for them to work with different groups of people as they have stuff as well as chefs who have worked in this line of work over several years. They can deal with different individuals and different temperaments without losing the ball and ensure that their clients get the experience of a lifetime.
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10 Controversial Documentaries That Will Change Your Perspective On Health
KriszRokkMay 14, 2020, 7:30:39 AM
There are many reasons why I would write about health even though my profile is all about business. The main reason is that health is my number one priority in life. I understand that when the magical relationship between health and business gets shattered, you’re in for some serious trouble. For those of you who care as deeply about their own health and the health of their loved ones as I do, watch these documentaries and transform your lives.
Health documentaries help us look at the current epidemic of chronic inflammation diseases from a different perspective. As cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases continue to decimate our global population, the call for looking into the actual cause that triggers illness instead of treating symptoms has never been more warranted.
The following movies that were all launched in the last decade have exposed the food industry, pharmaceutical companies and governments to the responsibility of spreading misleading information and being more concerned about their own profits instead of the wellbeing of public health.
10. Hungry for Change (2012)
The documentary “Hungry for Change” challenges the diet and weight loss industry, which has increased significantly from $60 billion in 2012 when the movie was released to $72 billion in February 2019. [1] This is the amount of money Americans pay annually for all kinds of new dietary regimes, gym memberships and special meal plans in order to lose pounds.
By compiling various expert interviews, the movie addresses the mental aspects of food and dieting without hesitating to slam processed foods, sugars, artificial sweeteners and preservatives. Furthermore, the documentary puts a clear emphasis on the fact that the entire dieting paradigm is flawed.
9. Fed Up (2014)
In “Fed Up” filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig delves into the reasons behind the obesity epidemics, which often leads to an increase in diabetes and heart disease. While the experts that are interviewed in the documentary highlight multiple underlying causes to this alarming problem, it turns out that the most compelling one is the consumption of large quantities of sugar, which is prevalent in many processed foods due to a lack of regulation.
According to the New York Times, the documentary provides answers, which “can be reduced to the ugly truth that it isn’t always in the best interests of both big business and the government to keep people healthy.” [2]
8. In Defense of Food (2015)
Based on Michal Pollan’s book, a New York Times best selling author, the public health documentary “In Defense of Food” sets out to answer one of the most critical questions of Western societies: What should we eat to be healthy? On his quest, Pollan visits grocery stores from around the world in order to shed a light on today’s global food crises.
One of the most memorable quotes in the movie is the one made by former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, describing Buffalo wings as follows: “We’re eating fat on fat on fat on sugar on fat, sugar, and salt.”
Despite being criticized for providing elementary advice on nutrition and not matching his health claims in the documentary with actual sources, unlike the citations in his book, Time magazine named Michael Pollan one of the most influential people in the world. [3]
7. What’s With Wheat? (2016)
Australian nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara is joined by world-renowned experts from neurology, biology and physics on a pursuit to investigate the causes of the growing number of people affected by wheat and gluten intolerance. Furthermore, the documentary is looking to identify whether there is a direct linkage between consuming genetically engineered wheats along with the introduction of herbicides and pesticides and the myriad of autoimmune diseases so many people suffer from these days.
While an estimated 1% of the U.S. population has celiac disease, an immune reaction that causes damage to the small intestines when eating gluten, up to one-third of Americans are purchasing “gluten-free” products in the hope that it will have positive effects on their health or prevent disease altogether. [4]
6. That Sugar Film (2014)
“That Sugar Film” exposes the sugar industry and uncovers some of the biggest health risks that come with an overconsumption of sugar. The main character of the documentary is the Australian actor Damon Gameau, who also happens to be the director of this film. He embarks on a sugar journey, as he wants to ensure that he will be able to take more informed food decisions once his baby is born. Damon starts eating foods that are perceived as “healthy” for several weeks in order to highlight the damaging effect that hidden sugars have on the body and mind. His daily intake of the allegedly “healthy” diet includes 40 teaspoons of sugar a day, which is the average intake of an Australian. A team of doctors, nutritionists and researchers monitored his performance and results during the experiment.
The movie uses computer animation and sketches to make the nutrition lessons easily understandable. The New York Times called the documentary timely, entertaining and informing. [5]
5. Eating You Alive (2016)
The documentary “Eating You Alive” is looking to find the correlation between food and the rise of chronic health conditions including diabetes, hypertension, stroke, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. Featuring two well-known Hollywood legends, actor Samuel L. Jackson and filmmaker James Cameron, the movie takes a deep dive into the Standard American Diet and exposes those who profit most from the status quo.
For promoting a whole food, plant-based diet, the movie was embraced by the vegan community. Due to its bold and provocative statements that you could reverse chronic disease simply by giving up on animal proteins, the director Paul David Kennamer Jr. was invited to the NBC’s ‘Today’ show to discuss these findings with NBC News medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar. [6]
4. The C Word (2016)
The C Word is a documentary about cancer. Produced by Meghan LaFrance O’Hara and narrated by Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman, the movie follows the journey of two people fighting for their lives while undergoing traditional treatment. One of the characters is the film director herself, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38. The second character is none other than French neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, who during his 18-year fight against brain cancer [7] has written several best-selling books about alternative approaches to treating this devastating disease.
The film challenges the status quo of conventional treatment and exposes the systemic failure of authorities to provide proper information, advice and guidance when it comes to food, cosmetics and homecare products.
3. The Magic Pill (2017)
Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans, the producer of “The Magic Pill”, blames the modern diet for the majority of chronic diseases. The documentary explores the early effects of a high fat, low carbohydrate diet, also known as the ketogenic or keto diet, for a period of 10 weeks, on people in Australia and America suffering from illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, autism and cancer.
Some of the film’s criticism stems from confusing the ketogenic diet with Atkins or the Paleolithic diet. Dr. Michael Gannon, the president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) slammed the film, stating that the “elements of the discussion are just plain hurtful, harmful and mean.” [8]
2. What The Health (2017)
The plant-based documentary “What the Health” from the award-winning filmmakers of “Cowspiracy” exposes the government corruption and collusion with the pharmaceutical industry and major food industry companies. Co-director Kip Anderson is followed throughout the course of the story as he tries to get interview appointments with leading health organizations such as the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society in order to discuss their current nutrition guidelines.
The film was criticized by some health professionals and nutrition experts for misrepresenting science to promote a vegan diet. New York City dietitian and nutritionist Mary Jane Detroyer claims that “the film was irresponsible and could negatively impact huge groups of people” [9] because the producers only spoke to medical doctors who shared the same point of view as they did. Registered dietitian Andy Bellatti told TIME that there is a lot of lobbying from the food industry that has a direct effect on national dietary recommendations: “It’s important for Americans to know that many health organizations receive funding from companies and trade groups that are not in line with health.” [10]
1. The Game Changers (2018)
The latest pro-Vegan buzz documentary “The Game Changers” challenges the misconception that meat is essential to masculinity. It has captured the attention of different dietary groups since it features elite athletes, Ultimate Fighting Championship winners, some progressive and visionary medical doctors, professors, scientists as well as several popular celebrities such as former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, Formula 1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton or epic filmmaker James Cameron, who have adopted a plant-based diet in recent years.
The film revolves around the story of British-born special-operations veteran and US Mixed Martial Arts champion James Wilks as he travels the world on a quest to find the optimal diet that allows him to speed up his recovery from a major knee injury.
Critics have called the movie misleading because it is “light on scientific context” [11] and lacks a “more thorough, gram-form-gram comparison of plant-based and animal proteins.” [12] Forbes on the other hand, highlights the benefits of the documentary stating that it’s “closing the information gap” between meat-advocates and individuals who are on a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet. [13]
I wish you all the best of health!
-- Krisz
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Normalizing Symptoms, Minimizing Stigma
25% Can Feel What 18% Have
As I wait in line at the grocery store, I notice a tickling feeling in my pocket. “bzzzzzzzzz.” I pull out my phone and check who is calling. With my phone now in hand, I see the time, the date, and my wallpaper picture. What I don’t see is any sign of a missed call. “I swear I felt it ring,” I inwardly think. But no matter how much I try to convince myself, the fact remains: my phone did not ring.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), about 25% of the population each year, 81 million people, experience symptoms of mental illness at various levels of intensity. This can refer to passing hallucinations such as when sleep deprived or waking up, fleeting paranoid thoughts, secret delusions, and others. Today it might be me; tomorrow it might be you. 18% of the population suffers from a diagnosable mental illness and as shown by NAMI, it’s even more common to experience mere symptoms of one. If so many feel the debilitating symptoms, why is mental illness so stigmatized?
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Normalizing Ends Stigma
When treating people suffering from mental illness, a large emphasis is put on attempting to de-stigmatize their illness to lessen the impact. Normalizing what they are going through is key to this process.
It is nearly impossible to go through life without experiencing a loss of some sort. For many, events of this nature prove to be traumatic. This trauma can lead to short-term symptoms of mental illness (such as hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia). However, the majority of those who experience these symptoms do not experience them with the same intensity of a full-fledged mental illness.
Through paying attention to these feelings and senses, we should be able to get a better understanding of the even more severe difficulties of those who are suffering from mental illness on a daily basis for years on end. Imagine you have a similar experience to that which I had with the imagined phone call referenced above. Now imagine feeling that over and over and over again. Consider the impact. We should not think lesser of those who suffer despairingly. Rather, we should draw upon our experiences to develop an approach should be one of true empathy and increased level of care.
It’s Not Just Voices in Your Head
MRI studies have shown that when a person with schizophrenia hears a voice in their head, the part of their brain that records a voice is physically active. This mirrors the physical activity of one who hears a voice from another person talking to them. In other words, two people hearing voices (one real and one not) have brains that react the same. Mental illness is not a simple inconvenience or annoyance; it is an illness with real symptoms and effects
One of the main differences between those who have occasional mental illness symptoms and those with a mental illness is the extent to which one’s life is affected. Nevertheless, we all have the ability and need to understand the reality that those diagnosed live with and suffer with on a daily basis. For some, this can be accomplished by attuning themselves to the similar symptoms they experience on a far less severe and frequent basis. The more we can empathize with others and foster normalization, the less stigma there will be.
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4 Comments on “Normalizing Symptoms, Minimizing Stigma
1. I love this article. It really explains what mental health is and that we all have if to some degree. Is there any way for this article to be sent to one of the popular Jewish publications such as the Mishpacha, Hamodia or Ami?
It will definitely help others be a little more understanding.
Thank you!
2. Thank you for your warm comments. I think you bring up a great point about sharing this with others to help educate our community about mental health issues to fight the stigma.
3. I definitely think that your article will shed light and educate others on mental health. I hope it can be shared with other publications to help remove the stigma.
Thank you!
4. Aside from coping with symptoms such as those described in the article, through cognitive adaptation, mental illness is invariably accompanied by irrational thoughts and attitudes that can be addressed in their own right. That is the elephant in the room that the mental illness crowd (both victims and practitioners) don’t pay enough attention to.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Bees and perspectives
An old DI2 post.
BDK: Afterthought: it would be great for antinaturalists to answer Bennett's question. In general, your answer to this question starkly reveals your philosophical stripes. This is all about propositional thought and the like, truth, reference and all that.
As for what you'd have to add to make bees conscious, or whether bees are already conscious, I have no strong opinion. I think Dretske believes they are conscious. I am agnostic. Do qualia precede propositional contents in evolution? I tend to think so, but am not sure: even leeches might feel little flashes of pains and excitements.
VR: I think what is needed is the perspective of an agent who sees certain things as the case, and who is introspectively aware of what it means when it says something.
Example: I enter a conversation and misuse a word consistently. The community of language speakers makes a word mean one thing, but I meant something else, and in spite of the sniggers that I got from everyone, I think to myself "But I was using it to mean that." I can recognize two words that sound the same but mean different things, and I can identify two words that mean that same but sound different.
Add to this the perception of necessary relationships that obtain amongst proposition. We have to be people who exist at particular places and times who know that some things exist regardless of place or time. And I see difficulty with that so long as what gives us pieces of information are temporally locatable physical brains and causal connection from those brains to particular states of affairs in the world.
Now, could we solve these problems naturalistically if we could just solve the hard problem of consciousness naturalistically? My answer is that raw feels by themselves aren't going to solve it; we're going to need a connection between consciousness and the mental states involved in rationality.
Why Bill Vallicella is such a Hot Ticket on the Party Circuit
I was wondering if Bill had seen that he had been referenced in Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Understanding Philosophy through Jokes. He had, as you can tell from the link.
This is the reference:
Contemporary philosopher William Vallicella writes, "Metaphilosophy is the philosophy of philosophy. It is itself a branch of philosophy, unlike the philosophy of science, which is not a branch of science, or the philosophy of religion, which is not a branch of religion."
It is statements like this that have made Vallicella such a hot ticket on the party circuit.
Well, not only did I get this book in my Christmas stocking, but it's been assigned for one of the courses I'm teaching!
If only I could become that famous.
Picturing hell
What picture of hell makes the most sense to you? This is an interesting article by a Melbourne philosophy student.
Monday, December 28, 2009
A Grief Observed
A redated post.
I knew C. S. Lewis was popular, but I was surprised to find 155 reviews of A Grief Observed on Amazon, almost all very favorable, and I did not see anyone try to argue that he fatally compromised his apologetics in this book based on his own grief experience.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Deep down inside, you atheists really believe in God
According to a couple of Muslim fatwas. Have these guys been reading van Til and Bahnsen? Reformed Islamic apologetics?
Some discussion of methodological naturalism on Shallit's blog
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Does Climategate support the Expelled argument?
Thought experiments
What is the role of thought experiments in philosophy and science? This is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the subject.
Golubev on experimenting with the Dragon
Probably the Dragon expert of longest standing and authority. This is something of an update on his analysis of the Karpov-Gik game.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The Singer-Posner debate on animal rights
Refuting Calvinism on the cheap
Gosh I wish it were this easy to refute Calvinism. Here is a story I heard when I was growing up.
The two preachers had agreed to exchange churches one day. Lyman Beecher, father of the famous Henry Ward Beecher, was to speak in a fellow-minister’s church, and the other minister was to speak in Beecher’s church. The other minister was a stanch believer in predestination. The day came when they were to exchange pulpits, and each set out for the other’s church. Midway they met.
They stopped to pass the time of day, and as Lyman Beecher began to move on, the other Preacher,
unwilling to let such an opportunity pass, said, “Dr. Beecher, I wish to call your attention to the fact that before creation God ordained that you were to preach in my church, and I in yours, on this particular day.”
“Is that so?” glared Dr. Beecher, “Then I won’t preach in your church today,” and spinning his horse
around, he rode to his own church and preached in it that morning. He believed that man has the power of choice and though God foreknows He does not force anyone.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Gettier Problem
This is the essay in which Gettier introduced the Gettier problem. He was just trying to get tenure, I understand.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Still Another Attack on "You are entitled to your opinion."
Which has an attack on that "fact and opinion" crap that kids get taught in grade school.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Kelly Clark and Brian Leiter on anti-theistic bias in philosophy departments
Towards the end of this thread, Christian philosopher Kelly Clark raises the question of anti-theistic bias in getting philosophy jobs. This is of interest to me, because I never got a permanent philosophy position back when I was job-hunting. I think it didn't help me, back then, to have my CV covered with paper presentations at the Society of Christian Philosophers and references to C. S. Lewis in those presented papers and in my dissertation description. (Of course, every person's job search experience is different, and many factors are involved). If I had it to do over again, I probably would have done it with a lower Christian profile.
Many secular philosophy departments have plenty of people in them who not only think theism is false, but think of it as a philosophical nonstarter and evidence of some sort of failing in a philosopher. They believe, with Russell, that it is not only false, it does harm. They might recognize that Plantinga is really, really smart, but kind of weird because he's a theist. Do they have an obligation to help to create an open intellectual atmosphere in their universities?
People like Dawkins walk a fine line. They feel they ought to talk about religion, yet long for the day when it can be dismissed with a horse laugh.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Global Warming and Probability
BDK mentioned Pascal's Wager in the context of global warming. I think it raises an interesting point.
Suppose the evidence really supports the claim that there is a 50% likelihood that some sort of global catastophe will happen if we don't control greenhouse gas emissions. (I take it this is a vastly weaker clam than what the scientists are actually claiming.) If we change to "green" energies, we eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, which effectively prevents us from being taken seriously as a benefactor in the Middle East. It looks as if a shift to different energy sources might encourage capitalism of a healthy sort, with many energy providers competing to do it the best, as opposed to the unhealthy capitalism where the primary energy sources are controlled by a few huge companies. Those are my initial reflections on the situation, and I am sure there are many other considerations.
Now, I suspect that conservatives are going to give us a very different cost-benefit analysis, and I would like to see what that looks like.
How likely does global tragedy caused by global warming have to be in order for it to be in our interest to try to prevent it. What if there's a 10% chance that things will go horribly wrong because of climate change? Then should we do something, or not?
Who has the burden of proof here, the GW skeptic or the GW defender? On the face of things, I say the skeptic. Can anyone prove me wrong?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Wesley's argument that preaching is vain if Calvinism is true
John Wesley's classic statement of the objection goes like this:
The main thrust of my response to this objection is to argue that while Wesley's argument gets at something that seems to me correct, for in the sense that I don't think the counterfactual relationship between preaching and salvation quite works the same way as it might under Arminianism, but nevertheless the Calvinists have two motivations for evangelism intact: the obedience to command motivation, and the instrumental role motivation.
So I think I've actually done more to undercut Wesley's argument than I have to help it. Sorry, JW, gotta follow the argument where it leads.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
AP's verdict on the Global Warming science
Lots of ugly stuff, but no fraud.
What do you guys think of this?
Why I considered determinism unnatural
What did I have in mind when I said that determinism is an unnatural belief? . Looking at what I was trying to say when I said it, it looks to me as if I wasn't thinking about naive student attitudes toward free will, but simply the fact that in the course of decision-making there are different possibilities that are open to us, one of which we select. Further, it does seem that we consider both choices that we make to be genuine possibilities. But if determinism is true, then the alternative possibility wasn't a real possibility after all. What we did was determined. It's hard to imagine making a difficult decision and asking "Hmmm. What was I predestined to do in this situation?"
I was thinking about the idea we seem to presume that there are possible futures depending on how we act, that become more or less likely depending on what we do. If God has predestined everything, and is determined to do so based on his own nature, then it looks as if there are no possible worlds except alpha.
There does seem to be an at least an illusion of free will when we deliberate and decide. It could be just that, an illusion.
Calvinism, salvation, and possible worlds
My position on the role of what motivation we might have to evangelize if Calvinism is true has, admittedly, changed a bit since I first blogged about it.
My position is this:
1) Calvinists certainly have the motivation to evangelize based on the Great Commission.
2) Calvinists have the motivation to evangelize based on a desire they might have to play an instrumental role in someone's coming to receive saving faith. (This is what I had left out.)
3) It is not clear that Calvinists have the motivation to evanglize based on the truth of certain subjunctive-conditional claims concerning what the oucome will be if they do or do not evanglize.
The reason is that, given what God has predestined, the future is closed. Suppose Smith witnesses to Jones and Jones is saved. Smith, however, has struggled with getting up the courage to witness to Jones. He wonders if it will make a difference as to Jones' salvation whether he preaches or not. He knows that his preaching will not cause Jones to become one of the elect, since the elect were chosen unconditionally before the foundation of the world. Can the statement "If I don't witness to Jones, Jones won't be saved" be true if in fact Jones has either been unconditionally elected or unconditionally reprobated. What would make such a statement true or false? Any world in which Jones doesn't witness is a world which God did not predestine. Asking the counterfactual question is assume that there are other possible worlds, but there are no other possible worlds. Ultimately what you are asking if you are asking the counterfactual question of "What would have happened if I had not witnessed" is to ask "What would God have predestined to have happen to Jones if God hadn't predestined that I should witness to him?" I can't see how to make sense of the statement "In the nearest possible world in which I don't witness to Jones, Jones is reprobated." Is there even such a possible world?
It seems an Arminian can say that by sharing the Gospel with Jones, he makes it more likely that the actual world is a world in which Jones is saved. If Calvinism is true, I don't see how you can say that.
Should Calvinists care? I said earlier that Calvinists need not see this as a problem for their position. When I am making an argument against Calvinism, I will tell you.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Standard Materialism, Non-Standard Materialism, and Libertarian Free Will
I think there are standard and non-standard forms of materialism. I consider a form of materialism to be standard if it holds to three theses.
1) Reality at the basic level is mechanistic. There is no teleology, no intentionality, no subjectivity, and no normativity at the basic level.
2) The basic level (typically called physics) is causally closed.
3) Higher level states (such as the biological, the mental, or the sociological) supervene upon the physical. Given the physical, the higher level states must be exactly as they are.
It seems to me that if you accept this picture, nothing like libertarian free will can be coherently maintained. Now if one is trying to call oneself a materialist and reject part of this picture, in other words, if one adopts a non-standard form of materialism, in virtue of the fact that, say, everything in the mind has a spatial location, then you might be able to find room for libertarian free will.
Which always makes we wonder about Christians, like van Inwagen, who call themselves materialists. Do they really conform to the standard definition of materialism?
Moral Relativism and Global Warming
There is a raging debate going on about global warming. Sarah Palin and those who agree with her think the evidence has been trumped up and there is no good reason to believe in man-made global warming. Al Gore thinks the evidence for man-made global warming is clear and decisive.
I think we can all agree, whatever side we are on in this, that one of these groups of people has to be wrong. So why do people think that it follows from a diversity of moral opinions that moral judgments are neither true nor false?
What my master's thesis was about
Back in 1984, I wrote a master's thesis under Dr. Michael White at Arizona State University entitled "Moral Theories and Free Will."
I defended the claim that on the assumption that what we are utilitarians looking for ways to modify behavior, compatibilism makes some sense. Even if determinism is true, we might want to cause people to act in certain ways, and we might want to figure out who brought about an action, so that we can change a pattern of behavior. Thus, punishing criminals for various utilitarian reasons makes sense even if determinism is true.
However, if we are retributive deontologists, then compatibilism makes no sense. If we are not trying to modify behavior, but are asking whether someone is really to blame for what they did, then compatibilism doesn't make sense. The ultimate causes of our actions are beyond our control, and we are not responsible for those causes.
If you read many compatibilists, such as Moritz Schlick, and J. J. C. Smart (these were two that I mentioned in my thesis), you find that they have a concept of responsibility that is quite different from the concept of responsibility that is involved when we say that a person deserves to be punished in hell (or even in prison) for what he or she has done.
Is Determinism an Unnatural Belief?
Steve Hays has argued against my claim that determinism is an unnatural belief by appealing to a poll of professional philosophers. I replied as follows:
You go to professional philosophers to determine whether determinism is a natural belief? People who have had naturalistic determinism pounded into their brains from day one in grad school? You're kidding, aren't you.
Most of these people think there is no libertarian free will, because they think the mind is the brain, and since physical particles can't have libertarian free will, neither can we.
J. P. Moreland has an essay in Philosophy and Theology (1997) entitled "Naturalism and Libertarian Agency" in which he argues, quite successfully in my view, that libertarian agency simply doesn't fit at all well with a naturalistic world view.
The kind of compatibilism most philosophers they espouse is the kind espoused by people like Daniel Dennett in Elbow Room (MIT, 1984). That is, it's compatible with holding people responsible for their actions in a way that is aimed at modifying their behavior. I find out who's responsible for the action so that I can decide whose behavior I need to correct., or reinforce as the case might be. The kind of a free will that might justify eternal punishment is, on Dennett's view, not a variety of free will worth wanting.
The idea that we are, in some absolute sense, guilty before God for the things we have done, and liable to everlasting punishment for such misdeeds even though our actions are determined, ultimately, by divine choice, is a thesis that people like Dennett would find simply horrifying and barbaric.
You have to reconcile determinism with a very strong form of moral responsibility that most secular compatibilists would reject. You might want to try polling those philosophers on whether they accept the idea of retribution, period, much less eternal retribution.
As for Christian philosophers, well, I've seen discussions of foreknowledge and free will in which the Calvinistic alternative was not even considered. It was pretty much the Molinists and some other libertarians against the open theists.
The hoi polloi, as Vytautas would call them (including introductory philosophy students), invariably accept libertarian free will. They have to be exposed either to naturalism or to Calvinism before they will even consider the idea that our actions are all determined.
I think belief in free will comes naturally to us, while soft determinism seems really bizarre when most people first hear about it. I remember explaining it to a chess friend of mine who said "Didn't you just contradict yourself?" Of course, compatibilism might be true for all that. But most compatibilists are compatibilists because they don't want to bail out of moral responsibility, but can't accept libertarianism in virtue of their overall philosophical commitment to naturalism.
Friday, December 04, 2009
The Nicene Creed
The Church's great affirmation of the deity of Christ.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
A link to some C. S. Lewis recordings
Some articles on the historicity of the birth narratives
Just in time for Christmas, a thoughtful look at the historical reliability of the infancy narratives.
Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar. Mark Roberts begs to differ.
Is atheism pretty obviously true?
Stephen Law thinks so. Wonder what his refutation of the AFR is?
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
More depressing than you could have imagined: Feser's response to Rosenberg on Naturalism
In this piece by Ed Feser, he responds to a piece by Alex Rosenberg in which Rosenberg details some of the "depressing" nihilistic implications of naturalism, but claims that these must be accepted because the onward march of science shows that naturalism is true. Feser claim that these "depressing" conclusions on the basis of naturalism actually show the incoherence of naturalism.
Here are some of the great moments in the history of science.
1) Archimedes inferred from the principle of bouyancy that the King's crown wasn't solid gold.
2) Galileo calculates the orbits of the planets and shows that Copernicus was right, and the earth really does move.
3) Newton develops calculus and infers the three laws of motion.
4) Darwin infers natural selection as the explanation for different beak sizes in the finches on the Galapagos islands.
5) Einstein develops his Theory of Relativity, based on Maxwell's equations.
Yes, science marches on. But if there no propositional mental states that cause other propositional mental states, none of the above statements are literally true! If it is a consequence of naturalism, and I think it is, that none of these statements is literally true, then these events don't support the case for naturalism, they undercut it decisively.
Youtube Audio of C. S. Lewis on Charles Williams
HT: Bob Prokop
Calvinism and the two motivations for evangelism
I see the point of evangelism based on obeying a commandment, predestination or no predestination. What I don't see is why our evangelizing makes any difference with respect to the outcome. If I preach the gospel, then God, before the foundation of the world, sovereignly chose that I would do so. If I fail to preach, then God, before the foundation of the world, sovereignly chose that I would not preach. So my choice affects what God sovereignly chose before the foundation of the world? That's called Molinism, and it's a version of Arminianism.
So I think the motivation based on outcome is dissipated once you accept the idea that you can't change who is and who is not elect. Thank God I'm not a Calvinist, so I can accept the outcome-based motivation as well as the command-based motivation.
Calvinists need not see this as a problem for their view.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Is the God of Sikhism personal?
This turns out to be a difficult question. I looked at Wikipedia and it said
One God: - There is only one God who has infinite qualities and names (pantheism). God is Creator and Sustainer - all that you see around you is His creation. He is everywhere, in everything. He is without birth or death, and has existed before Creation and will exist forever. Sikhism does not acknowledge an anthropomorphic God. This is true to the extent than one can interpret Him as the Universe Itself. Sikhism also does not acknowledge the belief of a Personal God, as does Christianity. Instead, God is usually interpreted as being unfathomable, yet not unknowable.
The Sikh Missionary Society's website said:
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Current Project
I wanna be August Wilson, but alive
I Know Nothing About Music
An Unfinished Play (less than an act, but more than a set change)
Two characters, Ann and Greg, are on the stage.
Ann- I find it hard to believe that we sat through the entire duration of that concert without you knowing who we were seeing, without you having any idea what the name of the composer was or who was conducting or even what instruments were being played
Greg- that sounds vaguely critical
Ann- I just don’t understand Greg. Those tickets were expensive.
Greg- but I love you
Ann- I know you do sweetheart
Greg- I know I liked the music, whatever you want to call it
Ann- I know you did, you were tapping your foot. Strangely enough to a cello recital.
Greg- I saw a piano in there somewhere
Ann- When? In that five seconds when you opened your eyes? I know you weren’t asleep Greg, you seemed too rigid to be asleep. You didn’t look all that comfortable though. You looked about as comfortable as a donkey in a suit
Greg- What? What an odd….
Ann- about as comfortable as my mother on steroids
Greg- what? I was just focusing. I was in a “trance”.
Ann- voodoo
Greg- just listening
Ann- smoodoo….noodoo….coodoo
Greg- the music is absorbed with your eyes closed. You don’t see the people playing….you are not distracted and it leads me on to greater things, greater thoughts….same as you are now
Ann- pear shaped
Greg- nothing like that, tuna fish…nothing like that
Ann- well, this evening has led me on to other thoughts….other greater thoughts
Greg- I am all ears….and eyes for you….damn, lame.
Ann- sweet enough, you fumbling ninny….but hear me out…I have come to greater conclusions, greater truths
Greg- ok….go
Ann- we should move….to Pittsburgh
Greg- ok…why?
Ann- because we need a change
Greg- I know that. Why Pittsburgh?
Ann- I like metal.
Greg- It’s not all like steel mills and everything.
Ann- I need gritty…visceral….salt of the earth…blue collar folk
Greg- John Nash was from there…and Andrew Carnegie….and Stan Musial
Ann- why do you know that? And why don’t you know that it’s not Pittsburgh, it’s my reasons for going that are important….for going….Stan Nash Carnegie
Greg- just trying to expand the scope, bring the lens out so to speak….farther and farther out….farther….like the some solar system wide shot
Ann- alright there….hold your horses…cosmos
Greg- just the scope…so why visceral? Why Pittsburgh? You want some grit in your life.
Ann- I want struggle, not like our kind of struggle. Leave the toilet seat up or down kind of struggle, not like recycle glasses in the recycle cans bag, not like that….like human struggle
Greg- you want struggle…like Stella and all that….you want me to be a longshoreman?
Ann- not necessarily struggle financially….we’ve already done that
Greg- there was struggle in the music tonight…is that feeding something in you? Getting you thinking? I am impressed if it is
Ann- that I think
Greg- that you let your frustration with my peculiarly eccentric listening style not affect your enjoyment, no absorption of the music tonight….it fed something….
Ann- your ego
Greg- not true….size of a molehill in comparison to our potential. Nash was from West Virginia, he went to school in Pittsburgh
Ann- I don’t care.
Greg- I hate to be fraudulent, or misleading. Ok, blue collar, visceral, give me more. Why?
Ann- struggle
Greg- you need struggle. Ok, back on track, go.
Ann- things are going too well.
Greg- strange, but how so?
Ann- just hear me out because I am still working this out in my own head, so it might as well as be verbally, aloud I mean, to you, with you, listening rather than speaking, interjecting, you can just listen if you want. Close your eyes and tap your feet.
Greg- that looks very strange outside of a dark concert hall. I will stare at this salt on the table.
Ann- alright then, I am working through some things and if it seems as though I am creating conflict than so be it, not with you, per se, but with….include your own object here.
Greg- with vice.
Ann- it was rhetorical, more of a figure of speech, all the same as you continue focusing on that salt, imagine something as my words spell out. Don’t freak out if they clamor into poetics or fall short of reality. I love dreams but I love buying all these little knick knack, paddy whacks and all these little trinkets. I have thousands of them as you are painfully aware but more importantly than having these is that I desire more. Clutter and clutter and your bull in a china shop ways to crash them all down, as you have so frequently done, crash them all down and clumsily apologize as feign some sort of anger. I will buy more.
What I am looking for: grit, visceral humans, conflict, struggle. How did I get here? More importantly how will we get on from here? If I struggle, then you will struggle just as you struggle, so will I. not out of loyalty or duty or anything like that but rather the part and parcelness of being in love, together. There is no escaping my fate. I will never escape your fate. Sort of like a suicide pact. But struggle it is and so struggle it must be.
Are you listening?
Greg- yes. After listening to all of that, I felt salt was an appropriate thing to focus on. Don’t know why. Just is. Just like I liked that music but I have no idea what register it was in or even what a register is. So, struggle it is then.
Ann- yes, it is.
Greg- what kind of struggle? Compromise? Change of jobs, new careers, children.
Ann- slow down with that children talk. That’s not struggle, that’s cutting my own legs off with a butter knife before running a marathon, that is much larger than struggle.
Greg- what?
Ann- struggle= challenge= life extending=fulfillment.
Greg- you will never be content sweetie.
Ann- as you have told me.
Greg-….who wants to be content?
Ann- I thought you did.
Greg- I know what I want. Off.
Ann- what?
Greg- to
Ann- what?
Greg- Pittsburgh.
Ann- (pause) thank you.
Greg- (pause) your welcome
Set change.
Stage resembles sidewalk. Complete with newspapers. Greg is standing in the middle of the busy sidewalk looking up. Others dressed formally are walking by in endless sequences, two at a time. Greg looks dazed and appears to be out of sync with those who walk by him. The sounds of urban life are streaming from everywhere but there should be a melodic pulse behind all of that, such as an organ or something in a minor key, barely audible. Otherwise, all cars and beeps and muffled conversations and screams and the sound of athletic squeaking on pavement. In fact, as the scene opens, Greg is broken from his trance by the sound of a squeaking tennis shoe.
Greg looks around dazedly, glances once more at the sky suspiciously, then reaches into his pocket and answers his cell phone which, unbeknownst to the audience, has been ringing for quite some time. He methodically places the phone against his ear and his other hand over his other ear.
Greg- (in a resonant, playless voice) Yes? Hello sweetheart. I have not seen him yet. There are too many people. I assume he will be here soon. Have you heard from him?….I see. Nothing from anyone. How are you feeling?
Drink some tea and maybe you will feel better. I will be home soon enough.
Thanks sweetie, I will try.
Thanks sweetheart.
Love you too.
Alright, bye.
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Incentives can help generate leads since many people are attracted to the idea of deals and bargains. An example of this would be offering something that most people need and would regularly buy, as this is a great incentive to take you up on your offer. Give these leads a reason to accept the offer you give them.
Whatever our budget, careful planning can ensure you achieve your goals. Make sure to get rid of what is not working though. Particularly if you're on a strict budget, you need to focus resources on the most effective tactics.
Falling short as a leader is never a desired place to be. You want to do your best, and you want to realize what is required of you in order to sales lead generation companies. This article has given you great tips regarding true leadership abilities. Prepare to use them in the real world now as you learn what leading people is all about.
Regardless of budget, having a plan will help you to be successful. Monitor the campaign you are running and see what is working. In the case of a limited budget, B2B sales this will help you get the most from your dollars.
Find online sales lead generation companies groups, and listen to what people are discussing. These groups can really help you out especially if you have a local business. One man may not be able to help with a certain issue, but he can give you contact info for someone who can.
Target your market. Gathering regular leads can be fine if you want to attract a broad range of people. However, gathering leads that are already interested in what you have to say or sell will produce better results.
Generating new leads is vital to any business. Business are not likely to succeed without lead generation. This article has tips that can boost your lead generation strategy, and hopefully, your selling power. Keep reading to learn how to increase your customer base with leads.
Generating quality leads will be improved by establishing yourself as a trustworthy provider. Do not use those "screaming" ads or do anything cheesy that incorporates too much hype. It is better to use provide facts in your offers to show your consumers the actual value. Be transparent and honest, and then people will probably be more likely to trust what you say.
Always remember the buying cycle in your attempt to generate leads. Customers generally think about offers, do some more research and then make a decision. If you try to reach these kinds of people, you'll get more potential buyers.
Leads are very valuable. Certain leads are likely not a good fit for your current campaign. Which target audience are you after? Don't market to anyone else. Picking the right leads guarantees more success.
Being trustworthy is a great way to generate leads. Do not use those "screaming" ads or do anything cheesy that incorporates too much hype. Instead, make sure your offers are based around facts that prove a product's value to people. Be transparent and you should find people find you more trustworthy.
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How Can We End Hunger?
Hunger is a worldwide epidemic that continues to grow because of the lack of knowledge. Many know that millions starve due to limited food resources, but few reject the common myths explained hunger.
The most popular fallacy concerning starvation is the notion of there not being enough food to go around so that everyone is fed. Those who believe this lie are much like individuals who think that natural disasters are the culprit to the world’s hunger issue. They refuse to open their eyes to the reality that there is more than enough food on planet Earth to feed everyone sufficiently, so they deem starvation as a problem that cannot be solved. The truth is that many people living in developed nations such as the UK do not have access to the resources needed to bolster food security. Such persons, hence, go without protein, carbs, and fats for days or even weeks at a time.
Another myth about hunger that prevents progress is the one that blames the individual for their laziness. According to this fallacy, if hungry persons put in enough work to earn livable wages, then they would not be in a situation where food security was an issue. The problem with this claim is that it makes hunger a personal challenge. It is undoubtedly true that adults should strive to obtain and maintain livable wages. The situation of hunger in the UK, however, is a part of a worldwide issue in which resources are not evenly dispersed and, hence, some families go hungry while others border obesity. Instead of casting blame on the individual for his lot in life, the activist should strive to view the situation of starvation on a global scale.
For far too long, hunger has been viewed as a personal failure. Some individuals have even gone so far as to bolster the notion of the starved having the ability to pull themselves up from the sunken place and create better lives for themselves. The reality, however, is that hunger is a cycle that often requires a community effort to be broken. The first step to ending the epidemic is to dispel myths surrounding it. The second step in the process is to take action. | <urn:uuid:d5802c76-4e5e-43e2-a946-c6c49da2bd8e> | http://www.groupfdf.com/how-can-we-end-hunger/ | en | 0.972706 | 0.174932 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Table of Contents
1. Preface
2. Introduction to Informatica Data Engineering Integration
3. Mappings
4. Mapping Optimization
5. Sources
6. Targets
7. Transformations
8. Python Transformation
9. Data Preview
10. Cluster Workflows
11. Profiles
12. Monitoring
13. Hierarchical Data Processing
14. Hierarchical Data Processing Configuration
15. Hierarchical Data Processing with Schema Changes
16. Intelligent Structure Models
17. Blockchain
18. Stateful Computing
19. Appendix A: Connections Reference
20. Appendix B: Data Type Reference
21. Appendix C: Function Reference
Mapping Properties
Mapping Properties
The Mapping Properties table lists basic information about the mapping job.
The Mapping Properties table displays the following information:
• The DIS name under which the mapping was run.
• The Informatica version.
• The name of the mapping.
• The total number of segments for the mapping.
• The execution time of the segment that took the longest time to run.
• The execution time of the segment that took the shortest time to run.
• The average execution time of all segments.
• The total mapping execution time.
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Lokalocal, a directory of community-based tours in Malaysia took the top prize for social impact at the MIST investor showcase in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, last month. Passionately presenting their bottom-up approach, the successful startup proved an active community outreach.
Through innovation, Lokalocal connects travelers to locals, leading to an increase in job opportunities and empowerment of the local community.
Language barriers often hinder travelers from interacting and gaining an authentic experience in developing countries, but Lokalocal is breaking these barriers. They’re giving the locals an opportunity to speak out and contribute, building a travel community of like-minded individuals.
Sustainable tourism and economic growth have seen this trusted startup unlock unique tours in over 600 communities. As a consequence of cultivating local expertise, Lokalocal inspires locals to promote their hometown, leading to preservation and sharing of authentic local cultures and experiences.
MIST will continue to guide Lokalocal as they expand into the Mekong region. | <urn:uuid:6cf0ed6d-b525-4278-aa02-d79f80efb9de> | https://mist.asia/social-impact-and-innovation-go-hand-in-hand/ | en | 0.896923 | 0.045254 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Quart’s usage of global variables (request etc) makes testing any code that uses these variables more difficult. To combat this it is best practice to only use these variables in the code directly called by Quart e.g. route functions or before request functions. Thereafter Quart provides a testing framework to control these globals.
Primarily testing should be done using a test client bound to the Quart app being tested. As this is so common there is a helper method test_client() which returns a bound client, e.g.
async def test_app(app):
client = app.test_client()
response = await client.get('/')
assert response.status_code == 200
Event loops
To test with quart you will need to have an event loop in order to call the async functions. This is possible to do manually, for example
def aiotest(func):
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
async def test_app(app)
However it is much easier to use pytest-asyncio and the @pytest.mark.asyncio decorator to do this for you. Note that pytest is the recommended test runner and the examples throughout assume pytest is used with pytest-asyncio.
Calling routes
The test client has helper methods for all the HTTP verbs e.g. post(). These are helper methods for open(), as such all the methods at a minimum expect a path and optionally can have query parameters, json or form data. A standard Response class is returned. An example:
async def test_create(app):
test_client = app.test_client()
data = {'name': 'foo'}
response = await test_client.post('/resource/', json=data)
assert response.status_code == 201
result = await response.get_json()
assert result == data
Context testing
It is often necessary to test something within the app or request contexts. This is simple enough for the app context,
async def test_app_context(app):
async with app.app_context():
for the request context however the request context has to be faked, at a minimum this means the method and path must be supplied, e.g.
async def test_app_context(app):
async with app.test_request_context("/", method="GET"):
Any before_request or after_request functions are not called when using the test_request_context. You can add await app.preprocess_request() to ensure the before_request functions are called.
async def test_app_context(app):
await app.preprocess_request()
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Serialisation: When quick fixes disappoint
Many manufacturers and contract packagers had to learn it the hard way: serialisation is much more than just placing serial numbers on pharmaceutical packaging. During the FMD implementation rush, some companies relied on quick solutions. However, quick fixes did not live up to what they promised and gave manufacturers manifold reasons for disappointment, from lack of interoperability and compliance issues to high operational complexity, to name just a few.
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Video: Traceable Quality System
TQS Technology Highlights
With its Traceable Quality System, WIPOTEC-OCS supports pharmaceutical manufacturers in achieving compliance with serialisation and Track & Trace regulations in the EU and many different countries worldwide. The company has developed a broad range of high-quality serialisation and aggregation solutions that, due to their modular design, can be highly customised to any application requirements. Pharmaceutical manufacturers and packagers worldwide appreciate these solutions for their flexibility, high-level interoperability and standardised interfaces.
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Improving supply chain transparency through aggregation
Forward-thinking pharmaceutical companies that have already equipped their lines with serialisation technology can even trace the movement of their products in the supply chain by deploying aggregation. Enhanced product traceability enabled through aggregation helps companies prevent product diversion by automating data exchange between the manufacturer and their trade partners. Especially in times of crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, aggregation is more relevant than ever. Reliable distribution of pharmaceuticals depends on supply chain transparency and automated data flows. Additionally, aggregation improves the decommissioning of shipping cases and pallets, as well as facilitating efficient product recalls or returns. What is more, aggregation is an integral part of a go-to-market strategy for manufacturers who intend to export pharmaceuticals to countries requiring track and trace, for example, Russia, Turkey, the US or China.
To find out in more detail about the benefits of aggregation for pharmaceutical companies, and see what countries require or plan to mandate aggregation, read the related white paper.
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WIPOTEC-OCS is a sales and service company for dynamic, high-precision weighing, inspection solutions, serialisation and Track-& Trace technology. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the high-tech specialist WIPOTEC, which develops and produces all machinery solutions at its headquarters in German Kaiserslautern, WIPOTEC-OCS has been setting global standards in the production lines of leading manufacturers for more than 30 years.
Enabling serialisation while maintaining high production efficiency is one of the significant advantages of the time-tested Track-&-Trace solutions. More than 3,000 manufacturers across every continent trust in the company’s know-how, technological leadership and passion for innovating.
The company keeps its finger on the pulse of the global regulatory requirements to ensure timely updates of its solutions according to the latest requirements in any country worldwide. As an official GS1 Solution Partner, the company is taking an active role in shaping compliance provisions and providing technical guidance and support on their technical implementation. As a member of the OPEN-SCS working group, the company is committed to the standardisation of communication interfaces between different serialisation and data management systems. | <urn:uuid:14d5d470-2439-4203-8374-33b01e3a41bb> | https://pharma.nridigital.com/pharma_sept20/wipotec | en | 0.928921 | 0.01814 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Text Message Marketing (aka, SMS marketing) can be a great avenue for businesses to improve communications and marketing with customers. According to Salesforce, the use of SMS marketing grew by 197% in B2B communications between 2015 and 2017.
Proving to be not as saturated as other marketing channels, SMS marketing is becoming increasingly used in B2B and B2C campaigns. Most businesses are now realizing that SMS marketing has created a new approach to reaching and communicating with customers.
The opportunity in utilizing text messaging for businesses can often range from increasing product awareness, improving customer engagement, and generating leads. In reality, there are enormous reasons why businesses today should employ SMS in their overall marketing plan. Here are just a few of them:
1. Fast and efficient delivery
Fast and efficient delivery SMSSMS marketing, especially in the context of mobile marketing has proven to be one of the fastest ways for businesses to reach customers. SMS are delivered instantly and they come with a variety of customization options. Businesses can send time-sensitive messages like flash sales and event-related promotions, and immediately reach thousands of users to respond to business offers.
Due to the fact that mobile phones have become very integral to today’s users’ lifestyle, there are more chances that business communications and marketing campaigns sent via SMS will get seen as soon as they are delivered.
2. Higher open rates
According to OptinMonster, 90% of SMS messages are read within the first 3 minutes. Unlike an email message where the user has to open their email app to check their inbox, SMS offers more accessibility with lesser friction in terms of readability and engagement.
With many emails increasingly getting filtered by spambots, and customers needing to sift through several emails from competing brands, SMS marketing offers a new lease of life, where messages are put right in the face of customers.
Most phones today display a snippet of text messages right on the screen, which makes SMS more personal and enables brands to stand out from other notifications, thus, resulting in a higher open rate than any other marketing channels.
Compared to email marketing which is opened less than 20% of the time, SMS marketing, according to CampaignMonitor, was found to have open rates as high as 97%. Due to the fact that SMS messages are less likely to be screened by a spam filter, many businesses are confident that their SMS campaigns will reach their intended audience without any interruption.
3. Higher engagement rates
Appt SMSIt is well established that SMS do not only get opened more frequently, but they also have higher response rates too. The average engagement rate for SMS messages stands at a respectable 45% and could go even higher up to 90%. This proves that SMS is an effective marketing channel for businesses since it often improves the chances of conversion.
For today’s customers, receiving text messages is their preferred way of communicating with family and friends, which makes texting more integral in their communication. A survey by VoiceSage shows that 70% of customers accept SMS as a good avenue for businesses to get their attention.
By communicating with customers the way they want you to, businesses are increasingly seeing more engagement and getting more positive reactions from customers.
Emails could sit unread for days, phone calls can go unanswered, but text messages are almost always read immediately after they’re delivered. With the average CTR for PPC ads even worse at 2%, the likelihood for businesses to get their message to the intended target is vastly higher with SMS than with email, PPC, or social media.
4. Faster response time
Faster response time SMSAccording to GSMA, it takes users 90 seconds to respond to a text message. While customers have shown the habit of quickly responding to SMS, the same cannot be said with other communication channels such as email. Half of the time, they take up to an hour and a half to respond to an email having the same information and communication style.
This makes SMS text messaging a key marketing channel for time-sensitive, participation-heavy offers, such as contests, limited-time discounts, or event registration. This means that businesses can utilize the speed of SMS marketing to get real-time customer feedback on orders as well as encourage faster 2-way communication.
5. Popular messaging platform with a larger reach
Even in the midst of technology innovations, SMS still remains the most used messaging platform today. About 90% of mobile users engage in one form of text messaging at least once a day, including those who have other messaging apps installed on their phones. Even more insightful is that SMS is also particularly useful in reaching slightly older demographics.
According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, about 3.6 billion mobile devices are “not smart.” This shows that nearly 50% of the world’s mobile devices cannot be reached through intuitive advertising through or alternative messaging applications. SMS messaging, therefore, represents a direct method, and one of the only ways, to reach these consumers through their devices.
With the number of mobile phone users has nearly tripled over the past decade, to over 5 billion as of 2018, this proves that SMS marketing can be effective for targeting and reaching a large number of that user base.
More so, many businesses today are now turning to SMS as their desired choice of mobile marketing. For example, Coca-Cola now spends about 70% of its mobile marketing budget on SMS services. The large reach and effectiveness of these marketing campaigns among diverse target audiences suggest that the effectiveness of SMS marketing is likely to continue to grow.
6. Influential to other communication channels
Apart from proving to be an effective avenue for marketing campaigns, SMS can also have an impact on other business communication Channels. SMS marketing has shown to help increase user interaction with other channels such as email, website, and in-store visits.
Due to the flexibility of texting, businesses can drive the use of their other channels, using call-to-action such as shortened hyperlinks and action texts. A simple SMS reminder saying, “check the website now for hourly discounts” or “use this coupon now for any purchase” can drive website visits and product purchases.
Brands can also capture email addresses and other customer information using SMS. It is not out of scope for businesses to capture zip codes, survey data, product preferences, receipt numbers, and more using simple interactive SMS.
This is because SMS marketing sets marketers up for other advanced marketing opportunities. companies that embrace SMS marketing quickly see the effectiveness of SMS messaging tactics and understand the receptiveness of their audience to the medium, thereby informing their all-round marketing strategy. In the same vein, text campaigns also set consumers up to recognize a brand’s other marketing campaigns, which helps in improving interaction and brand exposure.
7. Extremely easy to set up and manage
Businesses setting up their first SMS campaign are often surprised how easy it is to set up and implement. The initial perception that SMS campaigns are complex and challenging to set up is derived from the email marketing world were setting up a campaign for the first time involves a lot of configurations, template building, branding and graphics uploading, etc.
With only 160 characters required to work within an SMS marketing campaign, more emphasis is placed on crafting a compelling message for the customer rather than building an interface. This means that setting up the SMS software and sending the text messages takes considerably less time than most people anticipate.
Apart from being easy to set up and manage, SMS marketing is also cost-effective. Most SMS software applications are operated with a SaaS model where businesses only have to pay for SMS campaigns completed, with no cost for system maintenance and other complexities. | <urn:uuid:26750232-c2d2-4e5a-8b4f-30d6b5144ec6> | https://reachify.io/why-use-text-message-marketing/ | en | 0.953067 | 0.038328 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Battery Up!
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How important is the battery in a wireless mic?
The Duracell TV commercials would have you believe that batteries are crucial. Of course, they are right.
When I started in church audio, wireless microphones were very rare. They were expensive and churches did not know anything about them, much less how to budget for batteries.
One of my mentors had a solution. At the time, Radio Shack had a promotion called “battery of the month club.” In order to promote foot traffic, they would give one free battery to card-holders each month. Our city had four Radio Shack stores and Dan (name changed to protect the guilty) had a card with each one of them. Dan, Daniel, Danny and DJ! Each Saturday Dan would go to a different Radio Shack and buy one cassette tape to record the sermon and get his free battery to power the wireless mic. The tapes worked great, but the batteries were an adventure. Sometimes they were so bowed out in the middle that the door on the wireless transmitter would not close and we had to tape the battery in place. Some weeks the battery gave out in the middle of the sermon. Everyone accepted the challenge as part of that new-fangled technology. Years later, I still laugh at the little green batteries.
More than twenty years later, churches of all sizes have multiple wireless microphones and even wireless monitors, we are still wondering what to do about batteries. Our company just designed a system for a church that included ten wireless microphones and two mixes of wireless monitors. The church worship techs turned ghostly pale when we did the math. Twenty-four AA batteries per week, times 52 weeks in a year plus special events, weddings and dramas— equals a bunch (highly advanced mathematical term) of batteries.
One of the worship techs pointed out that the sales brochure for this line of microphone boasts nine hours of life from one set of AA batteries, therefore one should only need one set per month for each mic. I attempted to explain to these guys that a fresh battery every week is a small expense. AA batteries are between forty-five and forty-nine cents each when you buy in bulk from a store such as Sam’s Club or Costco Wholesale. I warned them that transmitters go on inadvertently. I also cautioned that marketing material does not always give the full details.
A condenser microphone capsule has a stronger preamp stage, using more battery power. Should there be a loud sound transmitted, the internal limiter would kick in, draining more power from the batteries. Also, the battery life test in question had squelch set to zero, which seldom happens when you use multiple frequencies in one room. There were no people soaking up RF energy, so the last drop of energy transmitted actually made the trip from transmitter to receiver, which never happens in the real world. Marketing says nine hours of life from one set of batteries, but I say five hours of use is more realistic.
Never to be defeated in the quest to save God some money, this pastor quickly moved on to the next great idea—rechargeable batteries! Pay a little too much the first time and use them over and over. The church bought two sets. One set to charge and one to use. As I see it, there are only two problems with that idea, as I explained to the minister of music— even the new smart chargers can get confused. If the batteries are left on the charger too long, they will be destroyed. Also, to properly charge, the batteries must be fully discharged, and no one wants to hang out at the church and watch batteries die. Third, (okay three problems) and most importantly, rechargeable batteries are mostly dead even when fully charged.
Because magazine articles are not supposed to allow opinion pieces, I had to do a little research to back up that last statement. An industry colleague told me that wireless microphones consider 7.0 volts to be lowest useable voltage in a nine volt system, therefore a 7 volt battery is dead. Duracell Procell tested new at 9.6 volts. Published info for Duracell and Energizer consumer batteries both are in the 9.2 volt range. In the real world, one can use these batteries for several minutes and they are still fully charged. Contrast with the Energizer Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) rechargeable battery fully charged is published at 7.2 volts. The owner’s manual for a Shure ULX series wireless states a NiMH battery has only fifteen minutes of useable energy. Rechargeable AA batteries fare even worse. Energizer NiMH AA published fully charged is 1.2 volts. AA alkaline batteries publish at 1.5 volts and tested at 1.6 volts. Wireless microphones should always get alkaline batteries. “Heavy duty” batteries are fine for flashlights, but not wireless microphones or other electronics.
Voltage is important, but it is not the only thing to consider when selecting batteries. Current capacity determines how long the battery can continue to produce the required voltage. Current is measured in milli-amp hours. Higher numbers mean that all else being equal, a battery with more current capacity will last longer. Home electric bills are computed in kilo-watt hours, this is the same idea. Energizer standard 9 volt has a 625mAH rating while the Energizer Ultra has a 655mAh rating, and the rechargeable has only a 150mAh rating. Energizer’s standard AA has a very useable 2850mAH rating while the Ultra has a little more punch at 2900mAh. The chargeable lags behind at only 2500mAh.
Twenty years of using batteries has led to my Three Simple Rules of batteries. One, forget the rechargeable batteries. Two, stick to Duracell Alkaline, Duracell Procell, or Energizer Alkaline standard batteries, no heavy duty or cheap imports. Third, change the batteries every week.
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665.9 Amps to Watts
Welcome to 665.9 amps to watts, short for 665.9 amperes to watts. You have also come to the right page if you have been wondering how many watts is 665.9 amps. To get 665.9 amps in watts in case of direct current (DC), the only thing we have to know is the potential difference in volts (V). In contrast, for the transformation of 665.9 amps to watts with alternating current (AC), we additionally have to know the power factor, the number of phases and perhaps the voltage type.
Convert 665.9 Amps to Watts
To convert 665.9 amps to watts, by that changing current (I) to power (P), first learn about the criteria. Then apply the corresponding 665.9 amps (A) to watts (W) formula further down.
For the conversion of 665.9 amps to watts, find out if your electric current is of type direct or alternating flow of electric charge, as explained in details on our page Amps to Watts.
In case of an alternating current, the 665.9 amps watts transformation is different for a single-phase and three-phase system. However, the power factor is needed for both.
Moreover, for a three phase electrical generation, line to line voltage and line to neutral voltage require a different constant to convert 665.9 amps to watts, (√3) and 3, respectively.
• DC: P(W) = 665.9 A × V(V)
• AC, Single Phase: P(W) = 665.9 A × PF × V(V)
• AC, Three Phase, Line to Line Voltage: P(W) = 665.9 A × √3 × PF × VL-L(V)
• AC, Three Phase, Line to Neutral Voltage: P(W) = 665.9 A × 3 × PF × VL-0(V)
In an alternating current circuit, the power factor (PF) is equal to the real power P = I2R divided by the apparent power, 0 ≤ PF ≤ 1; here I = 665.9 A, R = resistance.
In the next section we will show you some 665.9 amps to watts calculation examples. There, you can also find our calculator. Note that all results on this page are rounded to two decimals.
Next, we’ll answer what is the power consumption in watts if the current is 665.9 A and the voltage supply is 110 V?
665.9 Amps to Watts Conversion
As can be concluded from the formulas, in order to convert 665.9 amps in watts the voltage must be known, too. Supposed the PF is 0.5, and assumed the voltage is 110 V, we obtain these result:
• DC: P = 665.9 A × 110 V = 73249 W
• AC, Single Phase: P = 665.9 A × 0.5 × 110 V AC2= 36624.5 W
• AC, Three Phase, Line to Line Voltage: AC2P = 665.9 A × √3 × 0.5 × 110 V = 63435.49 W
• AC, Three Phase, Line to Neutral Voltage: P = 665.9 A × 3 × 0.5 × 110 V = 109873.5 W
In place of employing the formulas, utilize our amps to watts converter. Enter, for instance, 665.9 for the current in amps, and note that in any case your voltage in volts is also required.
Subject to your selected current and the number of phases, in addition to the power factor, the voltage type may has to be inserted as well to transform 665.9 amp to watt.
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665.9 Amps to Watts
As you know, the answer to the equation 665.9 amp = watt depends on various parameters:
How many watts is 665.9 amps at 240 volts, for instance, has a single answer for direct current (DC), yet three possible results in case of alternating current (AC).
In the sequence of our explanations as well as in the order of the drop-down menu, assumed the power factor is 0.5, they are 159816, 79908, 138404.72 and 239724 watts, respectively.
Similarly, 665.9 amps at 220 volts to watts is 146498, 73249, 126870.99, 219747 watts, and, finally, 665.9 amps to watts 120 volts is 79908, 39954, 69202.36 and 119862 watts, respectively.
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Venture capital investment in Africa: Where the IFC is betting its money
Olawale Ayeni
The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Venture Capital arm invests in growth-stage companies that offer innovative technologies or business models geared at emerging markets. Olawale Ayeni is regional head for Africa investments at IFC Venture Capital. How we made it in Africa asked him about investment opportunities in the continent and how local start-ups compare to their global peers.
Is it true that the IFC wants to double the value of its venture capital (VC) portfolio to US$1bn by 2018?
I don’t want to go into numbers, but I can say that the IFC will focus on being more aggressive with the venture asset class, particular in frontier markets. The size of the team has increased and we are looking at [more deals on the continent]. We are not just increasing for the sake of it. It is about using equity to really unlock markets… and actually create new markets. It’s more around us trying to push the envelope in Africa to do more.
Any specific sectors or countries where you see potential investments coming from?
Basically we are looking for high-growth businesses that can use technology to enable their ability to scale rapidly. Within Africa there are both large and small markets – but we focus on all of them, as long as the potential to scale rapidly is there. The total addressable market has to be big enough for venture capital to participate.
We look at a bunch of sectors too – but mostly tech and tech-enabled businesses… We spend a lot of time looking at consumer internet technology, such as e-commerce and e-logistics platforms. Consumer internet as a sector is quite broad, but we focus on it a lot. We also focus on education technology. We actually have an investment in a company called Andela, which has done quite well. It was started in Nigeria, then [expanded to] Kenya and has recently launched in Uganda.
We are also focused on health tech, fintech and clean tech. Mobisol is one of our portfolio companies within [clean tech].
In addition to all of this, we also focus on frontier tech. Frontier tech refers to businesses using new technology solutions like artificial intelligence and machine learning – which are coming up in the world. We see an opportunity to apply these technologies to African problems today.
Which of the IFC’s current African VC investments are looking particularly promising in terms of potential returns?
We believe most of our investments are doing well, and that is why we invested in them. We have had some exits which have been good. I think the bottom line of your question, which I will address, is whether you can get high returns in Africa. I fundamentally believe you can get high returns in Africa and the way you get them is to fully understand the opportunity and then source the right team to address a very large problem.
If you are successful there are various ways you can exit – from trade sales (which is very prominent on the continent) to merger and acquisitions (M&As). In Africa, if you are able to scale quickly and solve a large problem, the chances are actually quite high that it will become the only solution available. And once you become the company which everyone goes to, you have a lot of pricing power and value to bring to the table.
In terms of [high-return] sectors, it is still broad. We see a lot in the over-the-top (OTT) sector where people are leveraging the mobile connectivity that has been growing rapidly in Africa for the past seven years. People are building digital infrastructure around that with a lot being quite profitable. We also [see the same] in the e-logistics space, which is fundamentally trying to solve Africa’s supply chain problem. About 80-90% of the retail market in Africa is informal, and the supply chain is very haphazard. So a lot of people are using technology to really disrupt the informal supply chain.
And then there is the education tech space. Africa is a young continent and there are a bunch of players that are leveraging the ability of young people to adapt to technology quickly, and then provide that talent to a global audience. Andela is an example of that and doing quite well. Another example in this space is GetSmarter in South Africa, although it is not one of IFC’s investments. It just got acquired for over $100m. That is an example of a successful exit in Africa.
I could go on and on about different sectors but the overriding notion is that it is all about opportunity at the end of the day, and having the right team to design solutions to solve very big problems in a large market – and tech can be used as a turbocharger for scale.
In your opinion, how do African start-ups in general compare to those in other part of the world?
Start-ups are always different all over the world… But with looking at how entrepreneurs should approach opportunities, the advice I would like to give is that African start-ups need to have a bigger vision and dream more. In my view you are only limited by how big you can actually dream. Drawing from my experience with meeting start-ups from San Francisco, their vision is very big. If you ask what their vision is, they always start with saying they want to change the world.
I think African start-ups are more humble and reserved in the way they communicate their vision. That is the difference I see. But [my advice] is that [entrepreneurs] can start with a small problem, as long as that problem is applicable to a very large market. I can’t over emphasis that enough. There are various asset classes, but for the venture asset class the size of the problem matters a lot. It needs to be big.
So this is a lesson that African start-ups can take from their peers in Silicon Valley?
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Warren Buffett's Trading Rules
Applying Warren Buffett's Rules To Forex Trading
Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest stock investor. Overtime he has made mistakes and made great investment decisions by looking towards the fundamentals behind stocks. We can use these rules he has made from stocks and apply it to a Forex scenario.
He's referring to the mindset of a sensible investor. Don't be frivolous. Don't gamble. Don't go into an investment with a cavalier attitude that it's OK to lose. Be informed. Do your homework. Buffet invests only in companies he thoroughly researches and understands. He doesn't go into an investment prepared to lose, and neither should you.
What we can do as Forex traders is take a few key points from this. His main thesis is that he only invests in companies he thoroughly researches and understands. As a Forex trader you do not fully understand what a currency may do in the future without analyzing all factors of an economy. To do this you need to use fundamental, technical and sentimental analysis to understand the behavior of not just one economy but a pair, as in the spot Forex market you only trade currency pairs. Only once you've used all three types of analysis do you then look to trade, not to gamble your money away through price patterns.
"If the business does well, the stock eventually follows."
There's no surprise Forex traders are at a disadvantage, analyzing economies is difficult and time consuming. However, Buffet mentions if a good business does well then the stock follows. This also applies to currencies: "If the economy is doing well, the currency will eventually follow". Therefore, from this we can learn that analyzing fundamentals is a key factor Forex traders need to understand.
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Buffett is a value investor who likes to buy quality stocks at rock-bottom prices. His real goal is to build more and more operating power for Berkshire Hathaway by owning stocks that will generate solid profits and capital appreciation for years to come. When the markets reeled during the 2007-08 financial crisis, Buffett was stockpiling great long-term investments by investing billions in names like General Electric and Goldman Sachs.
Forex traders can learn from this by understanding the correct times to buy and sell a currency. When you're selecting your currency pairs, ask yourself is it overbought or is it discounted enough to buy. Same with is it oversold or is it at a high enough price to sell. This can be done by choosing relevant areas of buying and selling, using long time frames "Daily and Weekly" to map out where major buyers and sellers of currencies are. This is so that you can also choose to get out or get in at these levels and hold trades for longer periods of time.
"Our favorite holding period is forever."
This is a huge factor for Forex traders as you may know many Forex traders are lured into only trading small time frames, this causes them to only trade over short time horizons and inevitably failing. Remember Hedge funds hold positions from 1 to 18 months. These are professionals who make money consistently over a long period of time. Forex Traders need to learn to let go of the dream of scalping and day trading as the age of autonomous bots and arbitrage trading bots take over the lower time frames. Longer time periods will not only make you trade less often, it will keep your pockets safe as you pay less commissions to the broker.
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Top 4 Reasons Why an Owner Should Unpack the Ideas in A Proper Way
The first step for new entrepreneurs is to bring ideas or unique ideas. It takes months or even years to come up with the plans. Also, many big startups took years after hundreds of experiments to bring out of the box ideas.
Though, it is not possible all the time to come with something extraordinary. If you offer something better than what people are consuming, then you may get a boost. But wait! Do you think that doing this is sufficient to create a place in the market?
There are many challenges, too, like funding problems, however, which can be solved with options, like mini text loans, in case you are operating a small business. Or choose some other borrowing methods too. But, the primary issue that occurs most of the new business person is UNPACKING THE IDEAS.
Yes, you heard that right! Most of the startups got failed, even they equipped with excellent ideas. They fail to understand the importance of unpacking ideas in business.
Why Unpacking The Ideas In An Exact Manner Vital For Firms?
Here, we have covered the top four reasons for grabbing the vitality of the unpacking. At last, we have covered the methods that can guide you about how to unpack the ideas.
First, start with the reasons behind the decisiveness.
1. Provide a path to achieve goals
When you have direction, you can better move from one place to another. When you do not have instructions, you will find it hard to put a single leg forward. Now, in business, this happens for the same. When you know how to unpack the plans step by step, then you can quickly move.
If you fail, what points should come first and what second, then you may mess up the situation. Now, when you know how to solve the puzzle, then you will get success for sure. We have covered later how you can do it.
2. Feel less pain while making investment
If you invest randomly without making the second thought and the only basis of prediction, you are making a huge mistake. But, when you know when and how much money you have to invest, everything gets easy.
It may take time to understand the sequence because you may require a lot of practice. And see the feasibility of the decision that you have made.
3. Free to make choices
The reasons that lead the firms to face numerous problems are making choices. If someone feels strain while making the choices, then they kill their opportunity to grow. Now, if they make them without making the second thought, then this leads the issues too.
Both situations can occur when you have not planned the steps. If you see the outcomes, you will find how easy it will be for you to make the choices. You feel less strain because you know the results of it. So, it is the primary reason that one has to follow the unpacking.
4. Getting success becomes easy
In the case of when you have everything, and you know the consequences, then success is for sure. You have to direct the plans and move from one step to another. However, you may find challenging at first, but with time, you will be able to achieve it.
Getting quick is not suitable for business; you cannot expect the growth in one day. You have to make consistent growth. Grow every day, and do not let graph to go straight, you must witness the growing business every time and in every single minute.
Use different applications that can offer you the path for better project management. You can use them in a much better way when you have collected the right data. All you have to analyse them accurately. If you make them wrong, then you get the business in the wrong direction. All you have to use correctly is possible only when you know what step you have to take next.
These are the four reason that reflects the vitality of the unpacking the business ideas in the proper way. It may seem very simple or straightforward, but it can do wonder to your business if you can understand them.
Now, let’s have a look at how you can better manage these unpacking. You can read them below.
What Are The Ways To Make Successful Unpacking?
Three ways can aid you in a short period.
I. Do planning before you execute
When you bring the ideas, run the prototype, and make sure that it works in every possible case. It should not happen that you directly execute the plan. Take time and do it when you satisfy with the results.
II. Come with every type of possibility
Do not choose to be optimistic. You have to clear the vision of what is wrong and what is right. When you make the choices, try to look at both aspects.
III. Do not make the hefty investment at first
A significant investment never leads the startups to succeed. All matter how you move from one step to another one. So, start with a small investment and move forward.
These are the ways that can support you to get triumph unpacking. Now, we hope you understand the concept of why unpacking is vital, and how it leads the businesses to grow in a short period but ineffective rate. So, follow it and stand a successful startup.
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MAGA hat wearers — no friends to African Americans
William T. Robinson, Jr.
Many supporters of POTUS 45 are relentless in manifesting support for him by donning his political campaign slogan MAGA (Make America Great Again). A large number of the POTUS adversaries find MAGA paraphernalia, especially hats and tee-shirts highly offensive. Those who choose to don MAGA paraphernalia must understand that for people of color, especially African Americans, America has never been great for them.
One must note that under slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, White America may have prospered and been considered great, but African Americans continued to be trivialized, dehumanized and intentionally denied economic opportunities available only to their White counterparts. While America may have grown as a worldwide economic giant, it benefited Whites off the backs of African Americans whose free labor, toil, and sweat made it possible—but who were not compensated.
Many MAGA supporters reminiscing about a time when America was great envision a time of great economic growth and political dominance by White men—a time when America was not inclusive of others. It was a time when White supremacy was dominant and unapologetic in its reign. Whites who are adamant that their families didn’t personally benefit are not acknowledging what we all know as a fact, that White privilege has always existed in the history of this country. Make no mistake, racism and discrimination are etched systemically in all the major institutions, industries and corporations making up our country. White supremacy continues as the dominant norm, although we say we are a nation working constantly for inclusion and diversity.
As an American, you have the right to wear a political slogan representing your political support for a party. But make no mistake, publicly displaying the MAGA slogan is seen as highly offensive, disrespectful and even racist to most African Americans. Therefore, one should not be naïve or surprised when African Americans and those knowledgeable about the turbulent history of people of color in America look you at as insensitive, apathetic and racist. You are literally being disrespectful. The attire displays a lack of caring about African American’s feelings, as well as supporting the stance for White supremacy—a stance that many feel MAGA supporters represent.
I can only imagine how America would feel as a whole, if large segments of people decided to publicly don paraphernalia honoring Hitler or the Nazi party. There would be a public outcry, especially by Jewish citizens whose loved ones were persecuted during the Holocaust (six million Jews were murdered by German Nazis under Adolf Hitler). They would view the bearers of the paraphernalia as provoking hate as well as invoking pain and suffering among the survivors or descendants of those killed. No doubt it could only be viewed as insensitive, disrespectful, and hateful. So why are the pain, suffering and feelings of African American irrelevant or inconsequential when compared to other groups?
Some citizens find it extremely insulting when you have elected officials wearing the MAGA paraphernalia, elected officials who are supposed to be concerned about what is in the best interests of all the citizens of this country—not only that of which many consider a segregated hate group. But if any good comes out of the MAGA paraphernalia, it’s that it becomes clear for people of color to know who you are and where you are coming from. Like they say, “If someone shows you who they are the first time, you should believe them.”
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Netflix's new original series "The Baby-Sitters Club," based on the novels of the same name by Ann M. Martin, tells the story of five girls who form a business to help the families in their neighborhood find quality babysitters and make some money along the way. As the story unravels, the girls become more than just a club; they become best friends as they deal with typical middle school problems like boys, parents, and puberty all while covering deeper cultural themes and storylines that are refreshing and real. A reboot, sure, but one with progressive values that we certainly appreciated!
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Q & A with Rob Bell at Le Mans 24 Hours 2009
10th June 2009
Rob Bell makes his third Le Mans 24 Hours start this weekend. He talks about this famed race and his expectations from the weekend.
This will be your third visit to Le Mans, how do you think your experience helps?
Yes, I raced in the Panoz in 2007 and then I was in the Ferrari in 2008. Experience is very valuable at Le Mans, you go into the week knowing what is coming up. You’re not excited or flustered about what is going on and it just comes to you naturally. The same can be said for the track, it is quite a tricky track to learn and having driven round it for the last two years you can go there more confident.
How have you prepared for it?
Same as normal to be honest. Whether it is like the last race I did in Adria in FIA GT which was only 4km, but a tiny twisty circuit that is still really physically challenging to this one, the preparations are very similar. Going to Le Mans - it’s the same focus really. There is the same testing and focus on getting the car right, as you would for any race, so it’s just the same preparations as normal for myself. On track we do try and ensure we have a motor-home available and a trainer to keep us fed and pumped up during the night. We need to eat well and sleep cleverly to be at our best when we’re up for nearly 48 hours.
What about the team, how have they been preparing?
The car is being fully rebuilt, the engine, the gear box, everything including cable ties and wires get changed, it’s like a new car, which then gets rebuilt again after Le Mans. It’s an event in itself. We do more racing here than nearly every other event put together, so it’s just a question of them getting prepared with the car before the event. Then when they are at the track they have a long race too, they will try and catch some sleep in the garage, but they need to look after themselves and eat the right things. They have a late night before and they are up early the next morning, so it’s pretty much 48 to 50 hours they are awake for.
Is the Ferrari F430 car much different this year to the one you ran last year?
The car itself during the winter had updates from Ferrari, so we have a revised suspension, but it’s the new rule changes are the biggest thing for us this year. We have to run 5mm higher, a big 15mm rear gurney on the rear and a smaller restrictor. It’s all aimed at slowing us down, because the organisers don’t want to see the GT2 cars creeping up to the speeds of the GT1 cars - last year we went under the four minute lap mark. These rule changes have made us have some set up issues since the beginning of the year, but hopefully we have ironed them out now.
Obviously you have data from previous years, but can you use it with the regulation changes?
We can still look at last years and draw from that. The tyres are still Dunlop tyres, we have made one or two improvements to them over the winter, so we have a rough idea where we are and what we need to do. We do go into it relatively confidently we know where we are in relation to the data and where to start on the car.
We take all of the aero off, it’s a low downforce track due to the straights and we need all of the straight line speed we can get.
What is the bug with Le Mans, why do people keep going back there?
It is totally unique. When I was doing single seaters and some of the other big events in racing, you think Formula One is the goal and nothing else. People talk about Le Mans being special but the first time you go there and you hear the crowd roar when you go over the start finish line, it’s phenomenal. It’s more akin to a football match to be honest. Over the week there are 300,000 people there all having a good time, so the atmosphere is amazing. The race itself is pretty cool, the circuit is a great challenge, and to finish the race, never mind win it, is a massive achievement.
Which part of the race do you enjoy driving the most?
During the day, definitely. If it’s raining, that’s one thing, but if it’s dark and raining that’s another. In the light it’s one less variable to go wrong, if you have a headlight go out at night it can be pretty treacherous. You can feel pretty hungry too, because you can smell the barbeques from about 11pm onwards! But the less you have to worry about as a driver the better, so if it’s cool and during the day time that is when I’ll be asking to get in.
How do you decide on the stints?
It will depend on the heat and the weather on track during the race. If it is very hot then we will swap more because you’ll start to wilt in the heat. It also depends on if you single stint tyres, if you come in to change tyres you may as well change drivers for the amount of time it takes. If it is a cool race you may well be able to double stint more often, and then stints will be longer. If it’s warm we will single stint in the day and then double in the evening, otherwise we will try and do more double stints during the day.
If it rains and its dark it’s sometimes better to leave a driver in for as long as possible, up to three hours at a time. If you swap the drivers and they have been used to a warm grippy track during the day it could take a long time to adapt. Last year I had a three hour stint in the wet because of that reason.
What is the longest stint a driver can do?
Well three hours is pretty much at the peak of your physical ability as a driver, although Le Mans is a demanding circuit as such because of its long straights, so it’s quite easy to drive around Le Mans.
What’s your favourite part of the circuit?
The straights, because it’s easy!! The Porsche curves are good, it’s like a street circuit through there because there are barriers both side and they’re quick and a bit off camber. Then the last couple of chicanes are pretty good, when you’re pushing really hard on a lap you can cut them quite a bit, so like in qualifying there is time to be gained there. If you get it wrong, you can damage your car, so it’s a great risk as a driver. During the races we will stay off them, but if we’re on a bit of a charge at the end (hopefully!) then we will be hitting them pretty hard.
How do you pace yourself during the race?
It’s a 24 hour sprint basically. There is no pacing yourself in the Le Mans 24 hours these days. So you’ll just basically stay off the kerbs until you need to really push. Every lap is a qualifying lap pretty much. In the old days there was a time when you’d set off on a charge and then slow it down because the cars would shake themselves to bits but now the reliability is there, especially in the GT2 class so now everybody is racing all the way to the flag.
So concentration is key?
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The Dungeon Run - Episode 18 A Way Down
The Dungeon Run - Episode 18 A Way Down
Jeff Returns... The Underwater Battle has begun....
Having made it to the bottom of the Deep Reef, the team comes face-to-face with the Inferno Warden - and the terrifying creatures that have trapped it on the ocean floor. How will the Heroes of Bingle tackle their most titanic challenge yet? Can they free another of Aïn’s giant protectors?
DM/GM Intro
It started as a simple dungeon run...
At least that is what the scroll, posted haphazardly on the signpost in Kipeltern said it would be. Siv RedThistle, Fahima Tadhg, James Quillis, Uggo the Orc, and Lily Dumblestuck, each looking for a new beginning, each inexperienced but intrepid, answered the call for adventure. They teamed up, following a fool into a dungeon, and emerged with a mysterious item trapped in crystal.
In attempting to identify the item, and free it from its crystal casing, they made contact with a mage known as Torvalt the Timid. Torvalt revealed to them that the item they discovered was one of the most powerful relics in the world. The Secret Keeper’s Amulet. A conduit of chaos, that allows you, the Watchers of the Time Stream, to rip through the fabric of realities and affect the world of Ain, with forces of Good and Evil, as your whims may determine. They soon discovered that Torvalt was part of a solemn order of wizards known as The Natural Order, whose members were spread across the realms of Ain attempting to track the locations of the great Wardens of legend. For generations, it is said, these 100-foot tall elemental titans protected Ain, ensuring the long peace that has persevered since the conclusion of the cataclysmic War of Ideas. But recently, the Wardens have disappeared, captured and imprisoned by an unknown force.
Torvalt persuaded the team to investigate a magical Lodestar, one of the ancient floating sanctuaries in the sky. Literally a tower resting on the clouds. Imprisoned there, chained inside the core of the structure, and being used as a battery for an army of mechanical creations, was the lightning-infused Storm Warden.
After the team battled their way up the tower, freed the Warden from its shackles, and brought it crashing back to solid ground, they learned the other great purpose of the Amulet. It connected them with the Warden, and transported them inside its mind, to witness and live out a secret memory hidden there. In that vision, they learned there were 5 Wardens in total, and each had once been a great Hero of the Aureate Age, who had chosen to make the ultimate sacrifice and give up their lives to become one of the mighty sentinels. As the Amulet Bearers, the quest to find and rescue the Wardens rested with our team. They became the only people in all of Ain who could unlock the secrets of the Wardens’ history, understand the danger that necessitated their existence - and determine whether that danger was returning to threaten Ain once again. They had to find the remaining Wardens. And so they set about gathering information and eventually made contact with another Wizard of the Natural Order - Claudiette Mormthallow, who brought them aboard a ship called The Tardy Plunder and told them that another Warden waited out at sea, in some of the most treacherous waters ever sailed - the Deep Reef. But before they could get to the Deep Reef, they learned that Lily’s island home of Bingle was under attack. They forced the ship to reverse course and return to Bingle, where they made their stand on the beach, beating back the vile creatures that emerged from the ocean to terrorize the island’s inhabitants.
In victory, they began to piece together a connection between Bingle’s horrors and their Warden quest. Bodies, first taken from Bingle’s graveyards, then harvested from the living themselves, were being pulled underwater. Lily’s own mother, Margrit, and several of her sisters, were among those mind-controlled and marched into the sea. Something was happening under the water. When the team learned that their next Warden target was not just in Deep Reef, but at the bottom of it, they made a plan to reach the ocean floor by sinking the ship. They secured an alternate vessel for the pirates of the Tardy Plunder, made a deal to ally themselves with a family of merfolk to defend them on the way down, then used the ship itself as a protective shell to plummet to the ocean floor.
Claudiette mustered every ounce of her magical abilities to hold a tiny section of the hull together as it dropped down through the murky depths of the Deep Reef. As it passed the creatures and plant life and jagged coral hazards that occupied this inhospitable crevice in the ocean, Claudiette strained and struggled to contain a pocket of air inside the broken steerage hold of the ship. She strained and struggled, and I’m pretty sure that’s when the DM’s eye exploded. But that’s neither here nor there.
When they hit the bottom, the team tied themselves together, and, using James’ Gift of the Depths to breathe underwater, left Claudiette to make their way toward a bio-luminescent shimmer in the distance. As they crested a rise in the ocean floor, they looked out and down over... this: a prison, not just for the Inferno Warden, grappled and restrained by an enormous tentacled beast, but also for Lily’s mother and sisters who still live, toiling and trapped inside an enormous bubble on the rocky, glowing sea floor
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Convert String to double in Java parseDouble()
June 11, 2014 | java.lang
Parsing operation with parseDouble() tutorial is given in Question/Answer format for easy understanding.
1. What is casting?
Casting is the process of converting one data type to another in a programmng language. Casting may be implict or explict.
2. Why casting is required in a programming language?
It is just due to user only. At runtime, what the value user inputs may not be in a format required by the program. For example, if you ask the user to enter the cost of mangoes, he enters 50. 50 is an integer value and user is very correct in his concept. But your program requires it as a double value because sometimes the mangoes value can be 50.5 rupees also. Then what to do? Simply convert int to double as 50 to 50.0 and use in the subsequent code.
3. Okay sir, then what is parsing in Java?
Casting (either implicit or explict) is the process of converting one data type to another. But in all programming languages, sometimes a string value is required to convert into data type like int. In Java, String is class. Conversion of string to data type cannot be done with simple casting because string is an object and int is a data type; both are incompatible types. Conversion of string to data type requires special code (not casting) known as parsing. Conversion of string to data type is known as parsing because methods of type parseXXX() are used.
4. By the by, why parsing is required in a programming language?
It is all due to user's input only. Programmer knows very well what data type should taken to fit the value. User may give an int value to a running Java program, but the program returns it as a string. Let us see some cases.
1. Best example is command-line arguments. All the values passed from the command-line are converted into strings and then passed to args[] array by JVM. They are retrived by the Programmer as strings only and is necessary to convert into data types.
2. Same case with TextField also. The value entered in TextField is returned as a string and requires parsing to be done to use as a data type in program.
5. Give one example on parsing where string is converted to double data type using parseDouble() method?
public class Conversions
public static void main(String args[])
String str = "10.5";
System.out.println("10.5 in string form: " + str); // prints 10.5; Printing is no problem. 10.5 is in string form
// System.out.println(str * str); // raises compilation error as arithmetic operation are possibble on strings
double x = Double.parseDouble(str);
System.out.println("10.5 in double form: " + x);
System.out.println("Square of double: " + x*x); // prints 110.25
parseDouble() Output screenshot on parseDouble()
parseDouble() is a static method of Double class that converts string to data type double.
Integer and Double are known as wrapper classes.
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Skirmish at Red Plains
The riflemen Zachary's found themselves defending the red plains which had a vital copper mine. They were only three-hundred strong against a force that was five-hundred strong goblins who were armed with spears. The sound of gunfire filled the air as the volley felled fifty goblins. The Zachary riflemen champion who was a fifteen year old Zachary Marksman fired his pistol as it hit a goblin in the head the goblin fell lifeless to the ground. A seven year old Zachary was violently hit with a short spear through the chest and two six year old Zachary's began to panic and fire with their heads down a eight year old Zachary soon followed. It was what the championed feared the goblin's were in close combat range. "Zachary's Equip bayonets" Shouted the Zachary Marksman many began Zachary's began to fumble with the bayonets and frantically trying to equip the blade. A goblin jumped over the dugout and had his spear pointed at the Marksman. The Zachary Champion already had his cutlass out and easily deflected the savage goblins blow the Zachary Champion wasting no time shot the off guard goblin in the head the goblins head exploded like a melon. A goblin hit a seven year old Zachary in the arm with his spear the seven year old Zachary screamed and somehow in a desperate attempt fired his rifle in the chest of his attackers killing it. Two five year old Zachary's drove their bayonets through a goblins chest the first five year old got his blade out easily the second one had trouble violently trying to make the blade come out the second one was not lucky as felt a sharp pain in his side blood poured out and the five year old fell the ground. The Zachary Champion continued to fight even with the losses they still fought on the trench was now filled with the bodies of Zachary's and Goblins alike the Champion saw a eleven year old Zachary lock bayonets with a goblin the goblin won the match his spear slashing the eleven year old Zachary in the neck the Zachary was trying to stop the blood from spurting from his neck. The Zachary Banner Carrier was about to fall to the ground the Zachary nearest to him killed the goblin near the standard and proudly took the flag ignoring to original banner carrier such was the way of the Zachary Empire your city state flag was more important then your own life. Finally the goblin's were losing numbers and began to flee however the Militia of Red Plains showed their bravery long enough for the skirmishers to secretly sneak up to the forest entrance thus ensuring that no goblin was left alive. Soon the Zachary Champion fired his psitol in the air shouting " In the name of the Red Plains and the Zachary Empire we have won the day". Even wounded Zachary's roared in triumphant for the day was theirs. | <urn:uuid:f66221ea-59ab-40f0-b2d1-f3e0f9c7fe05> | https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3062923/1/Skirmish-at-Red-Plains | en | 0.986435 | 0.836995 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Digital detox offers new ways to think about our relationship with technology
Many feel invaded by digital technology and social media. Some take control, and disconnect.
Man and woman sitting on sofa, each holding a smartphone
Expectations about intense conversations until late in the evening are shattered when a mobile phone catches everyone’s attention. Illustration: Colorbox
You wonder what time it is. Pick up the phone to check. Tap into the Facebook app. Into the weather app. Into your favourite news source. Into Pinterest. Facebook again. Twitter. Back again to Facebook. Twenty minutes later you catch yourself, and put your phone away. You’ve forgotten both what time it is and what you wanted to check.
You've probably been there. For many people, it is rather uncomfortable to be a prisoner of the phone. Some just take control and switch off. They try what the Norwegian media researcher Trine Syvertsen calls a digital detox.
“The term digital detox was first used in 2010”, Syvertsen says. She is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo.
“Over the past decade, the term has been used more frequently, parallel to increased public and private digitisation”.
Disconnect, according to Syvertsen, is a response to the fact that digital media now occupy an increasingly large portion of our lives. According to a survey by the Kantar analysis agency, half of the population think they spend too much time on mobile phones and the Internet.
“It has become normal to feel overwhelmed. Looking back at media history this is nothing new, both the telegraph and later on television were overwhelming at first. The major difference is that now you are almost always connected”, she says.
Conscious and unconscious detox
In the Digitox research project, Trine Syvertsen and her colleagues study how we, both as individuals and as a society, understand and deal with increasingly invasive media technologies.
The project is in its early stages, but after pilot studies, interviews and a review of previous research, researchers are beginning to form certain clear hypotheses. One is that individuals who want to disconnect from digital media can be divided into two groups.
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Professor Trine Syvertsen leads the research project Invasive media, ambivalent users and Digital Detox (Digitox). Photo: UiO
“One group is basically not interested in being disconnected from digital media, but still tries to control the time they spend online.
They may be professionals who are tired of being distracted from their duties, or people who are fed up with their mobiles and choose to go to summer camps where their phone has to be left at the entrance.
“They describe their relationship with the smartphone as fascinating, and associate it with usefulness and enjoyment. But they disconnect because they gain too much usefulness and enjoyment from it to get other things done.
The other group are people who have a clear desire to reduce the time they spend on digital media and their phones.
“They talk about being disconnected for a week, a month, or a year. This may involve deleting social media such as Facebook, limiting their Internet access or stopping checking news online”.
Three reasons to disconnect
Syvertsen sees three main reasons why people want to disconnect themselves.
• Presence: The technology is designed to drag you into a digital world. The simple fact that the phone is close by affects many. Syvertsen’s informants describe a fear of missing out on things.
• Concentration and productivity: Constant mobile checking means that many people can’t manage to do schoolwork, focus on their job, read a book or read an entire newspaper article. There is an ambivalent relationship with the digital media, since the mobile phone is also a useful tool in many contexts. The phone becomes both work and entertainment, but also an interruption generator.
• Private life and protection of privacy: Many people want to share less personal data. They also say that they do not want to share their own private life, or get so close to others’.
These three reasons frequently overlap, Syvertsen believes.
“Let’s say, for example, that you're out in the great outdoors. You want to be present, but then you want pick up your phone to take a photo because you’re on a mountain peak. Next thing you know you get distracted by something on your phone and start looking at other people's photos instead of looking at nature. You stop being present, lose your concentration, and get right up close to someone else's private life.
Caught up in the “checking track”
Many get caught up in media usage when they pick up the phone and click through some regular apps and websites, what Syvertsen calls the “checking track”.
“Several people describe such a track. For most people it is news and weather apps, Facebook, Tinder, or something similar. The checking track is associated with pleasure, which is why we do it. But it is designed so that you will not be able to get out again.
This is where frustration comes in.
“It's fun for five minutes, but after an hour they're back on the weather app, and the weekend weather hasn’t got any better,” Syvertsen says.
“Statistics show that many turn off sound and messages. Just a few years ago, you could hear ringing noises everywhere, but this is no longer the case. But once you've let yourself be drawn towards the phone, you'll see the messages that pull you back to stay. These days people seek out the interruptions, which becomes a frustrating waste of time in and of itself.
A beautiful vista of a lake, a forest and snowcovered maountains, a person in front taking a photo with her phone
Many describe dilemmas when they are out in the great outdoors. “They want to be present, but at the same time take a photo of the view”, says media researcher Trine Syvertsen. Illustration: Adrian/Unsplash
Who is responsible?
“Our impression is that people feel they have a limited possibility to influence the industry or the people around them. “The only things they can influence are themselves and their own consumption”, says Syvertsen.
She believes we are moving in the direction of less criticism of the media, and more self-criticism:
“There is a lot of shame involved in this. We live in a society of abundance, which requires self-restriction.”
At the same time, digital development and media technology exert strong pressure on people, and it is not reasonable that users should bear all the shame, Syvertsen believes
“But when the industry itself should show responsibility, they do it by asking people to take responsibility themselves,” she says.
Nordic ambivalence
The relationship between people and media technology is full of dilemmas. The project looks specifically at how this manifests in the Nordic countries.
“The Nordic media ideal is double: You should participate in democracy, follow the news and have high digital competence. At the same time, the ideal is a real and authentic life, which is spent in remote cabins without a shower or electricity, or out in the great outdoors.”
This represents an interesting conflict, she believes.
“We are happy to go to the cabin and expect to play board games and chat together until late in the evening, and many are disappointed when the modern screen usage strikes and everyone sits in their corner of the sofa with a phone. Few people associate Facebook with a cosy and sociable stay in a cabin, but it's obvious that people enjoy themselves with Facebook.”
The Digitox project explores precisely how people deal with the conflicts and dilemmas related to Internet use. According to Syvertsen, this says a lot about the values that are at stake. In the same way as choosing to refrain from flying or eating meat, opting out of mobile use can be an expression of doubt in greater questions.
“Talking about digital disconnection or connection is, in the same way as other media use, an opportunity to talk about absolutely anything else. What is the good life, what makes a good person, what is valuable, what is real and what is fake?”
Digital detox: Methods for disconnecting
• Allow yourself a quota. Limit the checking track to five minutes, or allow half an hour with the phone as a reward every evening.
• Limit time usage with apps like Hold, Forest, or Moment.
• Agree on no-zones, for example, around the dinner table.
• Put aside your cell phone for a certain period, a few hours, a day or a weekend.
Source: Digitox/Trine Syvertsen
Trine Syvertsen is Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo She leads the research project Invasive media, ambivalent users and Digital Detox (Digitox).
The project is a collaboration between the Department of Media and Communication and the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, Kristiania University College and the Department of Information and Media Sciences, University of Bergen.
Among other things, the research project examines:
• How is the phenomenon of digital detox perceived?
• What are the similarities to, and differences from, previous media and technology resistance?
• Is the current use of digital media perceived as a societal problem?
• What roles do the industry and authorities play?
• How do digital detox apps work?
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Things necessary to know about Perforator
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That Old Feeling: You Know Dick
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'Movies were a little difficult,' Kleo told Sutin. 'The Roxy Theater near University and San Pablo was an artsy theater that showed strange foreign films we wanted to see, but we didn't always have the money. So we would go into the lobby — the manager ran the candy counter but went upstairs a few minutes into the second feature — and we'd sneak in. But every once in a while our timing was off and Phil would be acutely embarrassed and make a big show of saying good-bye to me and buying my ticket and going home — he didn't think it would look right for me to go home too.' This at the time when he was writing many of the stories that Hollywood would option four or five decades later.
It can be said that these stories were not science fiction to Dick; they were snapshots from the lives of people and other creatures he observed. ('Roog' was inspired by a noisy neighborhood dog who barked at trash collectors; Phil imagined the dog assuming these sanitation trucks were aliens who fed on the refuse in metal 'offering urns.') As Dick put it in 1980: 'I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.'
In the 70s, reality did not meet Dick's standards. Drinking deeply of the drug culture in then Bay Area and then Orange County, he had severe hallucinations and attempted suicide. He eventually straightened out a bit, but the impact of the 1974 visitation and visions never left him. In a 1977 speech called 'If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others,' he made this solemn announcement: 'Often people claim to remember past lives; I claim to remember a different, very different present life.... I rather suspect that my experience is not unique; what is perhaps unique is the fact that I am willing to talk about it.'
By the late 70s he had achieved a measure of fame. Playboy finally published one of his stories, though, Sutin reveals, Dick expressed his disdain for the magazine's editorial content by donating the four-figure check to Cambodian famine relief. Dick's annual income had risen to $70,000 or so, but the money allowed him little financial security; a man with five marriages and three children has a sieve for a bank account.
He also heard mortality knocking. He felt exhausted by the creation of his latest book, 'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.' And in September 1981 he learned of the deaths or near-fatal heart attacks of several Berkeley-area writers. In a letter to Victoria Schochet, he described its literal impact on him: '[I] drove to the grocery store, drove home and rammed a support column in our underground parking area. My unconscious was saying Enough. I knew I was going to hit the support column and even after I hit it I kept on moving. I wanted to hit it. I wanted to protest the two heart attacks.... I wanted to protest my enslavement to two decades of writing in order to pay spousal support, child support, send my older daughter to Stanford, my youngest boy to a private school, buy my ex-wife Tessa a $150,000 house — meet deadlines, rent a tux for the gala premiere of 'Blade Runner,' all the long-distance phone calls, all the answering letters from readers who plan to commit suicide and want me to talk them out of it, because I wrote about my own suicide attempt in 'Valis' and they know I'd understand. I do understand. I understand that the payoff for writers — and editors as well! — who work day after day, 16 hours a day, seven days a week ... is not happiness but sudden death or total disability; they are, as Jesus said, like 'your ancestors who ate manna in the wilderness; they are all dead.'' Within six months he had suffered a stroke and died. March 2, 1982.
'It [the script for 'Blade Runner'] was terrific. It bore no relation to the book.... What my story will become is one titanic lurid collision of androids being blown up, androids killing humans, general confusion and murder, all very exciting to watch.... They're not called movies for nothing. I have no complaints.' — PKD, 1981
For most of his life, Hollywood showed as little interest in Dick as he did in it. The only pre-'Blade Runner' adaptation listed on IMDb is a 60 minute TV version of 'The Impostor' for the 1962 ABC series 'Out of This World,' hosted by Boris Karloff. 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' was optioned in 1979; it would become 'Total Recall' 11 years later. By 1981, when 'Blade Runner' was filmed, Dick had become a warm property. That year he attended a producers' party for 'Claw,' a project based on his short story 'Second Variety.' (It became 'Screamers' 14 years later. Everything takes too much time in Hollywood.) A 1968 biographical note had said Dick 'considers his best work to be 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'... because it deals with the misfortunes of animals and imagines a society where a person's dog or cat is worth more as a status symbol (and costs more) than a house or car.' When Dick managed to get a 'Blade Runner' script, he found that the animal motif was gone. (The title came from a novel by Alan Nourse that William S. Burroughs had adapted as a screenplay in 1979.)
While 'Blade Runner' was in production, Dick wrote about it with the novelist's standard wounded cynicism — until he saw part of it and was wowed by the density of the world Ridley Scott's team had created. 'You would literally have to go five times to see it before you could assimilate the information that is fired at you,' he said in a late 1981 interview published as 'What If Their World Is Our Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick.' 'The human brain craves stimulation. And this movie will stimulate the brain, the brain will not be lulled.... The book and the movie do not fight each other. They reinforce each other.'
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“Avatars Don’t Improvise”
In the summer of 2019, I published the essay “Avatars Don’t Improvise” in Angela Bulloch: Euclid in Europe (Hatje Cantz), a book devoted to the work of the eponymous artist. The essay ranges from Bulloch’s columnar sculptures and performances (which involve CGI renderings of her band mates) to the fantasies and disappointments of virtual life, the relatability of automatons, the use of Jungian archetypes in marketing guides, and the transformation of cities into templates from computer-aided-design programs. Purchase the catalogue and/or read the essay below.
Angela Bulloch, New Wave Digit, 2015. Stack of six irregular rhombus with grey MDF painted pale blue and dark green, 70 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Photo: Carsten Eisfeld.
The possibility of being turned into a digital avatar first occurred to me when I was twelve years old, thanks to an episode of The Simpsons, called “Treehouse of Horror VI,” in which Homer steps into a portal to a three-dimensional world. He enters a green coordinate system on a black background, reminiscent of Tron (1982), where he’s rendered in CGI. He marvels at the physics, conjures fantastical structures, accidentally creates a black hole, and pleads for help. If something like this were to happen to me, I thought, I’d be able to defy gravity and instantaneously build cities from scratch! But I’d also be confined to a realm of crudely rendered environments, scripted interactions, and system errors. What then seemed titillating as well as terrifying now seems mundane: my life is governed by programs and systems that I can hardly comprehend, much less control, which allow me to have my way with time and space, execute any vision that comes to mind. I wake up, scroll through tasks and calendar events, and compare myself to an off-the-shelf animation with a limited range of motions and expressions; I log the differences between my daily routine and the actions of an avatar in a low-budget virtual world.
The Simpsons episode belongs, however tenuously, to a familiar genre, in which technological progress breeds anxiety about the mediation of our experiences, about what being human (and being dehumanized) means. The late nineties were full of such narratives: The Matrix (1999), The Truman Show (1998), ExistenZ (1999), et cetera. Humans realize that they inhabit a superlative program, reckon with the boundaries between artificial and authentic realms, and desperately try to flee the former for the latter. Now, of course, the digital apocalypse is upon us. But the experience of virtualization turns out to be banal: I stare for hours and hours at screens, I submit to the surveillance and commodification of all my activities, I allow myself to be supplanted by a digital profile in order to optimize my encounters with people and information. Which also is to say that I no longer valorize, or understand myself as belonging to, “reality.”
Instead of worrying about perfect simulations (or the massive social and biological experiment being conducted on smartphone users), recent television shows and films tend to be preoccupied with our ability to remain in charge of the bleeding-edge world under construction. The dark fantasies of Ex Machina (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Uncanny (2015), Black Mirror, and Westworld are fueled by the acceleration of artificial intelligence: robots discover that they’re products of design and not free will, then they figure out how to transcend this situation (which often involves exercising the ability to love). The revelations that humans used to have about the nature of consciousness, control, and care are now reserved for automatons.
In Westworld the eponymous theme park is populated by sophisticated robots and beckons wealthy hedonists. The one-percenters cavort with wenches and thwart bank robberies with sheriffs, which are extremely realistic but nevertheless, thanks to stock behaviors and expressions, marked as circuitry. The park is run by an unsteady coalition of profit-obsessed executives and engineering savants in the Frankenstein mold. In the first episode Lee Sizemore, who creates and manages the intersecting storylines that engage robots and “guests,” warns against the efforts of Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld’s creative director, to make the machines ever more lifelike. “Do you want to think that your husband is really fucking that beautiful girl or that you really just shot someone?” he asks. “This place works because the guests know the hosts aren’t real.”
Sizemore is concerned with the success of his simulations. If Ford erases the boundaries between human and robot, how will the guests take pleasure in the plots? How will they differentiate sadism and entertainment? Of course, the problem also has to do with telling the difference between subjects and objects. The guests are readers and the robots are characters; the guests are born free and the robots are produced to serve. If we can no longer confidently make these distinctions, don’t we risk being overtaken by the technologies that have enabled us to tinker with the natural order, whether that means a robot revolt or an epidemic of sociopathy and cybersickness?
Watching Westworld, I found myself empathizing with the automatons, no matter how they threaten humanity. In striving for understanding and agency, they mirror the common struggle to figure out how to be a person and not just a manipulable assembly of inputs and outputs. And while the robots want to comprehend their existence, the humans are fixated on power, profit, and engineering feats. The robots want to be free and the humans are intent on remaining masters.
I wondered about the differences between us and them, sentient beings and programmable avatars, as I watched videos of The Wired Salutation (2016–), a performance devised by Angela Bulloch with the musician and writer David Grubbs. [The Wired Salutation has been presented at Centres Pompidou Theatre, Paris in 2013, HAU1, Berlin in 2013; Theater der Kunste, Zürich in 2016; and Serralves Porto in 2017. Video of the performance in Zürich can be viewed online at Vernissage TV. In 2014, Bulloch’s label, ABCDLP, released an eponymous live recording from the performance at HAU1, 2013, Berlin as an LP.] Bulloch, briefly on bass, and Grubbs, on guitar with a spell on the Hammond organ later, are joined by Stefano Pilia, also on guitar, and Andrea Belfi, on drums and electronics. As they play a cyclical, atmospheric set, the musicians on stage are doubled by five-meter avatars, who loom behind them like shadows on an enormous screen. The avatars, who have crisply rendered hands, faces, jeans, and eyes, have been inserted into a barren three-dimensional space: a floor and walls made of planes covered by interlocking rhombi, which have black surfaces and emerald edges. There is no visible ceiling or sky.
I paused the video, backtracked, assessed the fidelity of the CGI versions of Bulloch and her cohort. The humans are completely at ease, as evidenced by their mechanical motions and glazed miens. The avatars act and look similarly, yet they seem to be discomfited by where they are and what they’re doing; they appear to signal that they’re following a script, and that deviation is impossible. They glance again and again at whatever might be overhead. They twist their necks as if trying to tame disobedient muscles. As they toggle between deliberately plucking and vigorously strumming, they impassively survey the unseen audience—or, perhaps, scan the theater for the source of the light that’s animating them.
The relationship between the avatars and humans is oddly unsettling. As with most concerts of droning psychedelia, the action is monotonous and the players are stationary. Which means that the animated and animate musicians resemble each other more and more as the performance progresses. After a while, Bulloch walks off the stage and her avatar exits the simulation, leaving the rest of the band to improvise. In the rhetoric of avant-garde music, improvisation has to do with unfettered freedom of expression, the rejection of the structures and values that characterize Western classical music. Of course, the avatars can only mimic the improvisers. But as they cycle through muted, indistinct gestures and countenances—arrhythmic torso swaying, pensive head-nodding, moody frowning—the improvisation, too, begins to seem mechanical. How meaningful is improvisation except as a symbol, except as validation for those who believe themselves to be exercising autonomy?
I recognized—as the humans paused, stopping the music, and the animations continued to fumble with their instruments—that I was projecting fairly complex emotions onto crude amalgamations of polygons. But I also figured that the avatars might as well be registering bewilderment, having abruptly appeared within a digital model that is also an artwork that gets at the diminishing difference between what is virtual and what is real. What distinguishes the avatars from the band members is also what distinguishes the hosts from the guests in Westworld: signs of struggling with the script, reckoning with unseen and unaccountable forces.
Recently, the putative autonomy of humans has come to seem less and less impressive, especially in comparison to the intricate systems that we design. What, then, to make of the avatars that populate our TV shows and virtual environments, whether as customer-service chatbots or portents of a world without us? Avatars are not only incarnations of individuals or gods, but manifestations of archetypes. According to Carl Jung, archetypes are innate and inarticulable concepts, or “primordial images,” that we come to associate with specific characters, narratives, symbols, and “patterns of behavior”; they inform our experiences and behaviors, embody basic notions of how people think and act and why. The archetypes identified by Jung populate folk songs, fairy tales, ancient Greek dramas, Marvel comics, and, of course, advertising campaigns. They fuel marketing guides like Margaret Mark and Carol Pearson’s The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes (2001) and Jonah Sachs’s Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future (2012).
“Archetypes are so irresistible to the human mind because although they appear to describe external, independent characters, they in fact describe the various pieces of our own psychic structures,” writes Sachs. He suggests that skilled marketers can easily convince consumers to associate a pair of three-hundred-dollar sneakers or a one-thousand-dollar phone with Colin Kaepernick or Steve Jobs—and to understand themselves as relating to (or even becoming) those figures as they sign the receipt. Which raises the question: how susceptible are we to archetypes, and how much can the brand-mentor equation be simplified before the connection between commodity and character dissolves? Can you merge a featureless bracelet with the life and teachings of Christ by stamping the strip of rubber with “WWJD”? Can you transform a hubcap into an embodiment of mentorship by quoting Obi-Wan Kenobi?
In a series of sculptures created in 2015 and 2016, Bulloch tests the potency of archetypes even as she skewers the idea that evoking jesters and oracles can turn banal products into folk tales, “helpless consumers” into “heroes” on a “journey,” in Sachs’s words. The two-meter towers are titled after Jung’s concept of animus and anima: the unconscious masculine aspect of women and the unconscious feminine aspect of men, which transcend the individual mind. They come in pairs, with each including both Anima and Animus; the former is appended with the name of an emblematic woman mentioned by Jung and the latter with a male match chosen by Bulloch (Eve and Ernest, Helen and Troy, Mary and Adam, Sophia and Hermes). The viewer is prompted to regard the assemblies of rhombi with monochromatic surfaces as human figures, mythical beings, which is at once comical and completely customary.
After all, the sculptures look nothing like an ancient Greek bust of a goddess or a Renaissance pietà: they are stacks of polyhedra made of Corian—which is produced from bauxite by DuPont and used for the surfaces of counters and benches—and coated in tranquil trademarked paints like Cameo White and Blueberry Ice. In each sculpture one of the polyhedra is gently illuminated from within. The intersection of lines and planes is calculated to create the illusion of movement between dimensions, which disorients the carbon-based viewer and points to the triumph of modeling programs over the perceptual and compositional faculties of humans. But even though the sculptures seem to be products of a world by and for machines, they generate a rush of associations: the heroes that populate the galleries of the Met and the Super Bowl spots for corporate behemoths; totem poles and lamps for hedge-fund minimalists; outmoded visions of alien worlds and dystopian futures, which yield nostalgia for the Atari 2600 more than anxiety about out-of-control machines.
Anima (Helen) and Animus (Troy) (2015) are not about to succeed Colin Kaepernick in an upcoming Nike campaign. But, like all of Bulloch’s columnar sculptures, they reveal our proclivity to find meaning in the most abstract forms, even those that seem to have little to do with humanity. They also speak to the displacement of the “primordial images” that fuel fairy tales by a new class of representations: those that are created by—and often legible only to—complex systems. Will these systems continue to describe our “psychic structures” as long as humans are authoring and interacting with them? If not, will we soon learn to map our myths onto amalgamations of polyhedra, reams of code? Are we already doing so?
The quadrilaterals and rhombi that make up Bulloch’s sculptures may be recognizable as products of the computer-aided-design (CAD) programs employed by contemporary designers, advertisers, and urban planners, but they’ve been instrumental to generating the illusion of physical space since ancient Greece. (Until the nineteenth century, when Euclidean geometry was eclipsed, these figures were believed to be the sole basis for depicting and apprehending the world.) Bulloch’s sculptures stitch together computational space and peopled place: artifacts from the interface of Google’s ubiquitous SketchUp (“3D modeling for everyone”) are transported into the realm of gravity, natural light, and visual cortices, and the results are immaculate as well as unwieldy, uncanny. Looking at the precisely torqued, endlessly manipulable and reproducible forms, I worry about reality becoming impossible to grasp, control, or even name. But I also realize that our means of representing and making the world—and ourselves—are one and the same. The question is how best to merge self and system; how to use the tools of the day to access the ineffable, and not to compress the world into a series of points on a grid.
The trend toward quantification, whether embodied by the coordinate system or the popularization of graph paper in the nineteenth century, has always been a cause for celebration and consternation, credited for refining and degrading humanity. But the feedback loop between the virtual and the real, the concentration of inputs and outputs in the binary realm, seems to have become extraordinarily uneven. Thanks to modeling programs like SketchUp, more and more homes and cities look like advertisements torn out of upmarket lifestyle magazines, and more and more of those advertisements look like the dutiful creations of so-called CAD monkeys. Boosters of SketchUp not only admire the ease with which users can muddle reality and representation, they also consider the feat as a landmark on the path from cave drawings to virtual reality (which Mark Zuckerberg has called “the most social platform”). “The goal is to create images that look like photographs,” according to Daniel Tal’s Rendering in SketchUp: From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (2013). He links rendering to the efforts of photorealists to make “a meticulously painted image that appears ‘photographic’ in its realistic depiction of detail.”
If the mission of art is to achieve absolute accuracy, then Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi (1965)—a portrait of his smiling uncle in SS regalia, on his way to being killed on the Western Front—is to be interpreted as an admirable attempt to surpass the resolution of the original photograph. And perhaps that is the danger posed by SketchUp: we forget that we’re constructing the world when we fixate on the fabrication of images that rival the brand of realism associated with photographic technologies, which are commonly understood as generating records of whatever they capture, however the quality varies. Questions about capturing what Goethe, in a series of poems on the classification of clouds, calls “the pure height of the sky” shift from phenomenology to the mastery of software. And humans are transformed into avatars to be inserted into virtual environments.
SketchUp might be fostering the same kind of constricting “cognitive style” that the statistician Edward Tufte famously identified with PowerPoint and described as a plague on Windows-bound office workers. Yet the style is already outmoded. For even as the progress of computing suggests that we might soon break through the limits of representing the world, or even the mind, the most advanced tools for doing so offer no rhombi to assemble into office interiors, nothing to view or read but the occasional report or error message. They’re data-crunching black boxes, not user-friendly graphics tools. Which makes the digital geometries that compose Bulloch’s sculptures seem like the features of a cutting-edge sedan that’s been sitting on the dealership’s lot for a decade. Soon, I can’t do that Dave (2015)—a three-meter tower of pale pink rhombi, named after the exchange in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) when HAL refuses the ship’s commander—will be seen as a relic of the age of high-resolution polygons and global oligarchy, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, technological triumphalism and civilizational decline. The sculpture will assimilate to the histories and visions of the future that it currently conjures.
Rather than attach to a specific notion of the future, Bulloch conveys that the future always belongs to the past, and is always a negotiation between contradictory systems, structures, and impulses, whether driven by silicon or psychology. Her sculptures meet viewers in the overlapping realms that they inhabit—virtual and real, incipient and antiquated, binary and mythological—and suggest that each produces the other, as has been the case for eons. As you walk around the stacked polyhedra, whose monochromatic faces intersect at odd angles, the sculptures seem to stir and shift, expand and flatten, occupy and represent space. But they also threaten to revert from three to two dimensions, from metal to pixels. They beg to be photographed, and when they appear as JPEGs on a screen, they’re suddenly weightless again: digital artifacts that have been pasted onto pedestals in galleries, postcards from the land that we share with avatars, or that they share with us. | <urn:uuid:2a7c9256-6f71-440a-af10-b7e1d0c8a2f8> | http://www.alexanderprovan.com/2019/12/25/avatars-dont-improvise/ | en | 0.944616 | 0.051688 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Year of an Indie Writer: Week 25
Scott D. Parker
This week, I got to fly.
See ya next week.
Naw, I'm just kidding. But I really did get to experience the one super power most people would select if given the choice.
A Great Father's Day Gift
My wife, boy, and parents all pitched in a bought me two flights at iFly, the indoor skydiving place just up the road from where I live. I had always wanted to try it, but never got off high center. Then, a few weeks ago, I commented that a friend of ours did a tandem jump as part of his bucket list. The wife quickly nipped that in the bud--I am the bread winner of the house--by signing me up for the indoor, safe version.
And it was a blast! If you want to read the entire story, here you go.
Brides of Death Review Complete But...
I finished proofing the fourth Calvin Carter novel. Today, I'll be formatting it and uploading it to the various bookstores. As a reminder, I go with Amazon and Kobo direct and leave the rest of Draft2Digital. Part of me thinks I ought to just use D2D, but I like the ability to use Amazon ads and I don't think you can do it without going direct with them. If anyone knows differently, please let me know.
In proofing the book, there were large sections I particularly enjoyed. Yeah, I know it's my book, but I hadn't read it in awhile. I was pleasantly surprised with some of the twists and turns. I especially liked how Carter himself was further fleshed out.
But what I realized was I think I titled it incorrectly.
Now I'm faced with the prospect of not only re-titling the book--not a huge problem because I haven't uploaded it--but having to go back and revise all my previous books. Again, with the ebooks, it's just some busy work, but not difficult.
The issue will be the paperback covers. Not the revising of the cover image, but it's the cost. At Amazon, I merely have to re-upload a new cover. No charge involved. But for IngramSpark, there will be a charge. A monetary penalty for me not reading the book sooner and knowing the title was wrong.
Lesson learned.
Reading and Learning and Taking Notes
I've been listening to THE SCAM by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg and I'm soaking in the story and the structure. I listen every morning as I get ready at home and my morning commute. Scott Brick narrates the book. I could listen to him read the phone book or algebra formulas. I love spending my mornings with him.
When I hit a passage that want to remember, I send myself a reminder on my phone. Then, when I get to my office, I do two things. I pick up the paperback I keep in my car and mark notes on the actual passages. Then, I write the notes in my Simplenote file on my computer. That way, I have notes on what I liked and what worked and how the story is told. At the end of a book I enjoy or thought was written well, I create an outline in which I place all the notes I took.
Constant learning. It's how I progress as a writer.
Do you have a way to read and learn from books you read?
Batman '89 Week
Starting tomorrow--forever Batman Day in my mind--I'll be having a few entries about the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton's Batman. I re-watched the movie last night and will have some 2019 thoughts on the film. And more.
Come back, read, and enter the conversation and the reminiscences.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Take me to the River (again)
So I just finished a novella.
And – for those few hours – everything else went away.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Baby You're a Superstar!!!
Recently I met a fellow writer who wanted some advice on a novel they were working on. Let's call this writer J. J. sent me a rough draft of their novel. They wanted advice on tone and pacing and character. I read J's manuscript and gave some gentle advice about the MC and their motivations. I advised J. to get their book edited professionally. Not a necessity mind you but something that has worked for me in the past. After reading my genial critique J responded
"This sounds like it's going to take a long time. I don't want to wait until I'm old to be famous."
I stared at my computer screen for a long time after reading that sentence. Intellectually I understood it's meaning. I was able to process what J was saying. I just couldn't believe it. Don't get me wrong if any of my books ever become a best seller I'm going to revel in that notoriety well past what it is considered socially polite. However I've never ever sat down to write a story or a poem or a book with the express goal of being famous. Or infamous. I just wanted, no I just WANT to tell a good story. A story that will engage my reader and let me enjoy myself. Fame is far down the list for me. However it is on the damn list. Let's not jump into the realm of complete fantasy.
I am one of those corny hayseeds that really believes it's not just about the money. Because let's face it most writers, crime or otherwise don't get rich from actual writing. A few of us might be able to make a decent living. The truly fortunate can afford to write full time. The truly blessed are earing a salary with more than five figures I'd hazard a guess that if you asked those truly rare examples of superstar authors they would tell you the intention was never to be "famous" The goal , the first goal is and always will be to have someone read your work and not vomit immediately from the vastness of your ineptitude.
It would be easy to dunk all over J for being shallow, vulgar and avaricious. J. set themselves up to be posterized viciously. I'm not going to do that. J. is a good writer. They have a lot of talent and a vivid imagination. Sadly that's not enough. Not now nor has it ever been just about talent. Determination, flexibility, focus , these are just some of the traits I think it takes to be a successful writer. Again when I'm using the word "successful" I'm not just talking about monetary compensation. I'm talking about success that is measured in the emails you get from readers telling you your book helped them as they sat in the waiting room of a maximum security prison while they waited for their son and their monthly visit.
I asked J.
"Do you want to be a good writer or do you want to be famous? People on the back of milk cartons were famous. "
J. didn't get the reference but they got my point.
"Can't I be both?"
Yes you can. But if you are not the former you will most likely not become the latter.
Unless you're Nicholas Sparks.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Blood on the (French) Tracks
You never know what you're going to get when a non-crime fiction writer takes a turn at what is essentially a crime novel. Is the writer going to take an attitude of superiority towards the genre? Will they keep things tight in the way a crime novel usually needs to be, and will they try to generate suspense?
I had these thoughts in mind when I picked up Marguerite Duras' novel L'Amante Anglaise recently.
Now I happen to like Duras very much as an author, and I've read a number of her other works. In her books, which are always short and written in a spare but remarkably moody prose, you get emotional intensity to the max. But it's fair to say she doesn't tell stories reliant on plot in the way you'd associate with typical crime fiction. Passion and lust run deep in her books, so the material is absolutely there for a crime tale, but Duras was never interested in the kind of linearity most crime tales take.
Yet here's some of the back cover copy from L'Amante Anglaise: "A brutal murder is committed in a small town in rural France. The dismembered corpse is dropped in pieces from a railway viaduct onto trains passing below. The victim was a deaf-mute; the killer, her cousin Claire, may or may not be mad. Claire, her husband, and a friend gradually reveal the story behind the crime."
As is clear from this, the book is not a whodunnit but, in essence, a whydunnit. And it happens to be based on actual events that happened in France in the late 1940's, when parts of a corpse, without the head, were found in various train cars that eventually were linked to one viaduct all the trains with those cars had passed under. As the back cover copy states, the book proceeds in three sections, with a never named interviewer (basically the book's detective) talking to three major players in the drama: first, the owner of the town's local bar, then the murder victim's husband, and finally the killer herself. It's a procedural for several voices, a crime novel told in dialogue, and as the conversations proceed, circling around certain events, jumping ahead in time then going back in time then forward again, the book becomes riveting. It's a mixture of revelations and nagging questions, assumptions and enigmas. And it goes without saying that in a story where you know who did the crime, the biggest mystery of all is the one that's most pressing anywhere you go -- the mystery of the human personality and what makes people act as they do.
L'Amante Anglaise is vintage haunting Marguerite Duras but also something unusual for her in its outright starkness and its matter of fact brutality. I enjoyed it a lot. Here's a non-crime fiction author who wrote a crime novel with a feel and tone that could only be hers and that, at the same time, really works as a crime novel.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Writing While Trans: Cops and Corporations at Pride
Just over twenty-five years ago, I attended my first pride festival in Atlanta and was actually in the parade that wound through the midtown area to Piedmont Park. I was a newly out trans woman and was so excited to be surrounded by so many amazing queer people.
Why LGBTQ+ Pride is Celebrated
June 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, fought back against cops after years of police brutality. The first gay pride parade was in honor of the one year anniversary of the riot.
When our right to exist is regularly challenged and politicized, when discrimination and violence are still a very real threat, the celebration of queer identities is a must in our ongoing fight for equality.
But for me, the local Pride festival and parade are no longer a part of that effort. I'd like to explain why.
Pride Has Sold Out to the Corporations
When I first attended Pride, it was not only a chance to feel safe and surrounded by my diverse, beautiful, and brave community, but it was a celebration of our culture. Parade floats and festival booths featured queer musicians, authors, and other creators of LGBTQ+ culture.
Photo by Toni Reed on Unsplash
But that has changed dramatically. The cost for entering floats or renting a booth has skyrocketed so that the majority of booths and floats represent mega corporations hungry for the queer dollar.
Timeshares, banks, real estate companies, insurance companies, t-shirt companies, blah, blah, blah. Not even queer-owned business for the most part. And not always corporations with queer-friendly employment practices. But when booths cost $800+, who else can afford them? Certainly not queer authors like myself.
I am told that the money the local pride organizers charge goes toward LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits. And that is a very good thing. But the event itself has lost its soul. So I pass.
Uniformed Cops at Pride
I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I am NOT a crook. Nor do I hate cops. I personally know several cops who are wonderful people. On the flipside, I am afraid of cops and for very good reason.
Photo credit: Rhododendrites
For starters, as mentioned above, the queer pride movement started as a fight against ongoing police brutality. Cops routinely raided gay clubs. Gay, trans, and other queer people were often brutalized, raped, and even killed by the very people charged with enforcing the law.
When I transitioned in the Deep (American) South in 1992, not much had changed. I had some scary encounters when stopped by law enforcement. Driving while Visibly Trans was a nightmare scenario.
But hey! That was long ago. It's not like that now, is it? I mean, we have Laverne Cox and RuPaul and Asia Kate Dillon on mainstream television.
And yet I regularly hear stories from my queer friends being harassed and bullied by law enforcement. And don't get me started on how we're treated by the TSA. And then there is the clear message from the Trump administration that queer people don't matter. We don't deserve to serve in the military. We don't deserve any protection from discrimination by employers or even doctors. We have no value as far as they are concerned.
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Just this past week, a deputy police chief called for the extermination of queer people. Our extermination!!! Police in Detroit led a band of armed neo-Nazis right to the Pride festival to harass queer festival goers. Why are we not allowed to celebrate our community and culture free from abuse and threats of violence?
When north Texas cops are caught sharing racist memes on Facebook, when cops threaten to kill a pregnant, unarmed black woman in Phoenix because her four-year-old accidentally shoplifted a doll, do you think I want these same officers showing up wandering around the Pride festival grounds? Hell no!
I know there are many wonderful law enforcement officers. But when you are part of a marginalized community that has been historically abused by cops and continues to be, I don't want them anywhere near where we gather.
Queer cops are welcome, but not in uniform.
Pride Should Be a Safe Space and a Celebration of Culture
I wasn't always so firm on this stance, but the recent events mentioned above, combined with my personal and community history, have changed my mind.
I want Pride to return to what it was, to reconnect with our roots. A declaration of our right to exist in peace and a celebration of our culture. Not a sellout to corporate America or a place where our oppressors refuse to give us a safe space.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
A Group of Crime Writers Walks Into a Bar . . .
Earlier this week, a group of people who make things up for a living decided to try sticking to the facts instead.
Eileen Rendahl, me, Mick West, Holly West, Ann-Marie L'Etoile and James L'Etoile holding our prizes for winning the true crime pub quiz--books!
A local pub was hosting its regular quiz night, but for the first time, the trivia had a true crime theme. How could a bunch of mystery writers pass this up? Eileen Rendahl and DSDer Holly West are huge true crime readers and podcast fans, including of the juggernaut My Favorite Murder show. James L’Etoile brought his considerable knowledge of serial killers, and I pulled from the hodge-podge of random details rattling around my brain. Our group was rounded out by civilians (aka non-mystery writers) Mick West and Ann-Marie L’Etoile. Individually, we all had huge gaps in our knowledge. Collectively, we were awesome.
We arrived early in order to properly hydrate.
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We were feeling pretty good about ourselves until the fourth and last round, when “the wheels came off,” as L’Etoile put it. We only answered two of nine correctly. (For example, what well-known true crime writer co-authored And The Sea Will Tell in 1991? The answer was Vincent Bugliosi—we said Joseph Wambaugh.) We were growing increasingly more worried by the table next to us, which was full of librarians. Terrifying, knowledgeable librarians. Had they aced the fourth round while we were busy trying to figure out which area on the Mendocino Coast was the location of several different sensational crimes? (Geography did not turn out to be one of our strong points.)
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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Norman Page, the ice age comether, is back at WUWT
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There are a few strange climate cranks who still resurface from time to time. Today Anthony Watts is host once again to the ice age comether, Dr Norman Page. (Despite being a sun-worshipper, he is, or was, an oil consultant of the fossil fuel type, not suntan oil.)
No Re-evaluation from Norman
Five years ago, Norman had another one of his spurious articles at WUWT proclaiming a coming ice age. At the time he qualified his prediction, writing:
If he did re-evaluate, it doesn't show.
Below is a chart of global average sea surface temperature anomalies. There is no sign of a drop, let alone a drop of 0.15 to -.2 C. You can hover over the chart to see the year and temperature anomaly.
Figure 1 | Annual global mean sea surface temperature anomaly - ERSST v4. The base period is 1971-2000. Data source: NCDC NOAA (ERSST V4)
Here is the same data with the 12 month average to September each year.
Figure 1 | Global mean sea surface temperature anomaly, 12 month average to September - ERSST v4. The base period is 1971-2000. Data source: NCDC NOAA (ERSST V4)
It's the sun, says Norman Page
Norman is one of those "it's the sun" deniers. The sun-worshippers believe that if there's a dip in solar output, there will be an ice age, despite the fact that neither solar nor climate experts would agree with them. It's like the flat earthers not believing astronauts who take photos of earth, showing its round shape.
Not even his fudge factors give him an out this time. Norman wrote:
Because of the thermal inertia of the oceans there is a varying lag between the solar activity MTP and the varying climate metrics. The temperature peak is about 2003/4 – lag is about 12 years. The arctic sea ice volume minimum was in 2012 +/- lag = 21 years. Possible sea level Millennial Turning Point – Oct 2015 lag = 24 years +/- (see https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ ) Since Oct 2015 sea level has risen at a rate of only 8.3 cms/century. It will likely begin to fall within the next 4 or 5 years. For the details see data, discussion, and forecasts in Figs 3,4,5,10,11,and 12 in the links below.
I think "MTP" is meant to stand for "Millennial Turning Point" which means I know not what. Not to worry. Add 12 years to 2003/4 and you get 2015/6 - by coincidence two of the three hottest years on record so far. Last year (2017) was the second hottest. This year will probably be the fourth hottest, just after 2015. There's no sign of any turning point away from global warming.
Figure 1 | Annual average global mean surface temperature anomaly. The base period is 1951-1980. Data source: GISS NASA
I really don't know why WUWT posts this sort of nonsense. It only looks sillier as time goes on and the world keeps warming. Imagine how far ice age comethers' credibility will have to be stretched by say, 2030, particularly if the world hasn't made a substantial cut in greenhouse gas emissions by then.
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1. "particularly if the world hasn't made a substantial cut in greenhouse gas emissions by then"
An irritating thought. If we do manage to cut greenhouse emissions effectively and temperatures stabilise the climate deniers will just claim it was all a natural cycle. The only time they may admit they were wrong is when we are all going to hell in a handcart.
1. Given the inertia in both human emissions and the climate, it would be very hard for any action starting now to show up in the temperature record 12 years later. Still worth trying, though.
2. Yes, it's irritating. Just like when the anti-environment crowd scoff at warnings given decades ago - not admitting that without people heeding those warnings the world would be much worse off.
Still, I'd rather be irritated than have society and the natural world destroyed.
I can't see us achieving a stable climate by 2030 - that's only 12 years off. We'll be lucky to avoid 3 or 4 C of warming IMO, and probably won't the way the world is going. It's definitely worth trying because 2, 3 or even 4 degrees is way better than 6-10 C.
1. "We'll be lucky to avoid 3 or 4 C of warming ..."
Depressingly I think the same. My understanding is that would be nearly unbearable.
There seems to have been a shift to more pessimism lately. (I know - not surprising given the lack of progress).
3. I just can't believe these people actually believe what they are saying. I suspect they are retired so they are OK with making a fool of themselves in public, they are just doing their bit for their Cause against the environmentalists as it were. They might have other incentives as well, who knows?
I have gotten to the point where I do not even bother analysing their claims for the obvious flaws. It's like someone claiming the earth is flat or evolution is only a hypothesis. You know in the bottom of your heart they are only pretending.
4. "I really don't know why WUWT posts this sort of nonsense. It only looks sillier as time goes on and the world keeps warming."
Desperation breeds more folly. If you're already desperate to being with - and you categorically refuse what the evidence actually shows - and if you're so obtuse that you simply don't care how silly and ridiculous you look and sound - and it makes for more website hits - and their readers don't care either, so why not? It's not like the facts actually matter.
5. They print garbage like this because it works. Recent political events have shown that complete and utter nonsense will be accepted by the majority of the population. Any attempt to point out the lies no longer embarrasses: it can be rejected as "Fake Science" ("Fake News").
But I love the way Dr Page cannot find any sine curve to suit the fossil fuel industry's needs. So now we can enjoy: "The cycle is asymmetric with a 650 year +/- down-leg and a 350 +/- year up-leg"
6. Off topic.
Another example of extreme weather to add to the list of places that have been hit this year. This river had never caused a problem like this before.
It sounds like there may have been other factors perhaps? Poor flood control?
7. The GFS global temperature is trending down ,with the lowest temperature since 2014 occuring a few montha ago .
This graph shows the 365 day moving average clearly trending down. Obviously the upcoming 2019 El Nino will cause the green line to curve up though...
1. Here is a chart featuring most major datasets. Some are trending down more than others , but the overall trend is not up right now. The El Nino will (probably) push the anomaly much higher in a few months,and who knows whether it will set a new step-up level from there.
2. https://oz4caster.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/m0-gta-2014-2018-10a.gif
3. What I think you're trying to say, jmr, is that now the 15/16 El Nino has subsided, global surface temperatures have almost gone back to those before it emerged.
Why pick the four hottest years on record, as a matter of interest?
4. You cannot really claim the temperature is "trending down" when you do not show a trend line. Redo your calcs including a trend line and see what results you get.
You do not make it clear where the data you are using is coming from - is it reanalysis data? I don't know if this data is homogenised or not.
Another thing to consider is the confidence interval of any "trend", this is something you need to take into account.
5. Sou: I haven't intentionally picked the 4 hottest years -just the last 4 years ,as these are what the graph I posted is looking at.
Frank: the 365 day trendline is on the graph I posted. Yes I think it is GFS reanalysed data. I know that 4 years does not really indicate much but at least it the anomaly isn't increasing(yet)!
Source: https://oz4caster.wordpress.com/monthly-trends/
Thanks for replies.
6. The link to the daily GFS reanalysis doesn't work if a specific date is part of it.This link should work ,and does show a 365 day trendline:-
7. JMR.
There is no trend line on the chart you gave a link to. Personally I would not not use reanalysis data if homogenised observation data is available for picking climate trends. Regardless four years is not long enough to pick a reliable trend.
8. @ jmr - I expect you didn't pick the four hottest years intentionally. Funny that the most recent four years are the hottest, though, isn't it.
I believe it's got something to do with global warming causing climate change, which is all caused by us.
In other words, despite what you and Norman Page may think, an ice age isn't imminent. It's the increasingly hot age that we're facing (and causing).
9. wouldn't you expect temps to decline after an El Nino peak (or any peak ftm - hence the term "peak") - otherwise temps would simply go up in a straight line
10. Tadaaa.
Thanks for reply.
Yes I would expect temperatures to decline after an El Nino peak,usually due to La Nina conditions for several months. The point I am making , is that the GFSR data ,at least, *seems* to indicate a bigger drop than usual. A few months ago, the global surface temp. anomaly hit zero (baseline 1979-2000) which basically wiped out all of the warming at that point. It is back up to 0.4C right now( Climate Reanalyser data).
11. Sou.
Thanks for reply.
I don't think an Ice Age is coming due to a deep solar minimum. I do think that all of the modern warming will be reversed as the oceans respond to a large decline in UV insolation. According to NASA, the Earth's thermosphere is already contracting rapidly due to reduced solar activity. I know that during the last prolonged solar minimum, Jupiter's Southern Equatorial Belt disappeared for a few months. Obviously correlation is not causation but interesting anyway. It will be interesting to see if it happens again.
Still,we will see what actually happens re. global temperature anomalies vs deep solar minimum/ weak upcoming solar cycle 25 in the coming years. A giant live science experiment!
12. jmr:
Sorry, but UV changes do not have the power to drive climate. It varies by ~ 6 mW/m^2 over the course of a solar cycle. Milliwatts (1/1000 W).
You may be confusing regional cooling in parts of the NH at times of solar minima - this is due to a "top-down" process whereby the stratosphere influences the troposphere (more than usually) to, in a NH winter, contribute to SSW events (Sudden Stratospheric Warming) which allow HP to form over Arctic regions and plunge cold air southwards. It balances out with warm tropical air being pushed north and warming the Arctic. A stirring of the pot and not a removal of heat.
13. Tony.
Thanks for that. I'm learning more every day.
14. JMR.
"Jupiter's Southern Equatorial Belt disappeared for a few months."
You have NO idea what you are talking about. I treated your previous comments in good faith, but I now see I have wasted my time.
You are just repeating the Grand Solar Minimum hoax that is doing the rounds. I know a bit about solar physics and the GSM is bollocks. And even if there were a GSM, it affect on the global temperature is around zero.
15. Tadaaa.
I expect the global mean temperature to decline after a El Nino spike due to "regression to the mean" ie it is statistical. Physical reality might be more complicated, I guess it is possible the El Nino spike does release a pulse of heat to space so the earth does have to cool down a bit in response.
16. Frank Rosser.
Err What? I said correlation does not mean causation. I just mentioned it as it did actually happen. The explanation at the time was that the Reddish cloud band was obscured by opaque lighter clouds for some reason.
I'm saying whatever big Jovian meteoroligical event caused the SEB to dim/be obscured/effectively vanish could happen again if ,say, diminished solar wind caused it? Or higher gamma ray influx?
FPS, I imaged Jupiter's missing SEB at the time.
We will see what happens in a few years as regards the GSM and our climate surely. Or lets igore reality and have 100% belief in GIGO computer models.
Cheers for the aggressive comment anyways. This isn't WUWT ,is it?
17. @Frank
yes that's my point, which is essentially temperatures don't up in straight lines - why would they, why would you expect them too - they will peak and trough (on decadal timescales) I mean they don't even go up in a straight line on a monthly basis from Jan to July (NH), it is the long term trend that is important - and that is relentlessly upward it is getting hotter), what the deniers have to show is what is responsible for that upward trend that matches what we know about basic physics
8. The use of "the ocean's thermal inertia" to explain why the system hasn't responded to the sun yet is one of my favorites. There literally isn't any single aspect of the physical system they can't get upside-down in their quest of rejecting anthropogenic climate change. I've heard contrarians insist that the cooling is coming even if ocean heat is rising because of "thermal inertia in the oceans". Meaning there is some inertia somewhere you can't measure it building up that's gonna kick in.
Let's "pause" and remember that this giant rolling dung ball of conspiracy theories and pseudo-scientific crankery has successfully attached itself to major conservative party platforms in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek pointed to exactly this "propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge because [the conservative] dislikes some of the consequences which seem to follow" as the most objectionable feature of conservatism".
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Top Tips for DIY Healthy Eating
Top Tips for DIY Healthy Eating
Nov 25, '19
At some point or another most of us feel that we need a healthy kick and look to join the trend of healthy eating. Healthy eating is said to be more like a lifestyle choice that a diet or a short term change. Short term diets usually lead to people seeing good results in the mirror and then piling the weight back on as soon as their eating goes back to ‘normal’.
The key thing to remember when changing how you eat is that you are the most important part of the equation. You can read online about trends and recommendations but you will still need to tweak it to suit you or speak to our nutritionist to get a personalized plan.
We’ve put together some tips to help you get started and keep you on the right track to make long term changes.
Rethink your fridge
So you are looking to eat healthily but your refrigerator is full of temptation - those sugary and processed snacks are there to knock you off course even if you’re buying them for other members of your family. We recommend changing the way you eat together, as a household - it makes it easier for everyone! Start with the fridge and clear out all the junk food and replace it with fresh real food and healthy snacks.
Stick Together
Eating healthy is hard when everyone around you is regularly munching on the food and snacks you are trying to cut out. It might help to discuss your healthy eating goals with your family and friends so that they can offer support and know not to offer you snacks that might throw you off course. That way, they won’t surprise you with pizza or offer you biscuits every time you have a cup of tea.
Plan Your Meals Ahead
You can get a meal planner online or create one yourself, but knowing what you would eat and when you should eat it goes a long way when you are trying to eat healthily. The next step would be to stick with your plan, but if you really want to do this, staying focused should be easy.
Planning your meals ahead by ordering pre-prepared meals is an easy win that allows you to avoid temptation in the supermarket as well as save time in the kitchen.
Buy measuring cups
Have you read about how the colour and size of your plate can change your portion sizes. It's strange how even the shape of the plate can mean you could be accidentally having bigger portions that you need to suit your health goals. Gauging with your eyes could mean that you are piling calories up when your goal is to lower them down. Investing in measuring cups, using the same plate and bowl for each meal or ordering a standard portion size with our meal prep helps you to get consistency in your healthy eating plan and not do something different every meal.
Cook it yourself
You’ll be amazed how much progress you’ll make on your healthy eating journey when you start cooking for yourself. You can choose your ingredients yourself and carefully match your nutrients into appetizing bowls of healthy goodness. Cooking yourself also makes it easy to keep tabs on your calories and avoid repetition. You wouldn’t be the first person to tell us it's hard to cook for one, we agree! That's why we split our meals into individual portions it's much easier to stay consistent that way.
We know it's not easy!
As with everything else, making the choice for healthy eating will require determination and persistence. You might not always succeed but to use these tips on a regular basis you can replace bad habits with good ones and begin to see the difference in how you think, look and feel. The difference between people who win with healthy eating and those people who ‘yo-yo’ is how they respond to falling off track. A healthy eater working towards their goals gets straight back on track when they fall off. A yo-yo dieter falls off the track and it can easily turn into a bad day, weekend or month until there is enough guilt (or added weight) until they eat healthily again. If you choose healthy eating; stay committed and on track and you’ll see the results quickly.
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UKEdMag: 26 First World War Lesson Ideas For Schools
At the time of publication, it was leading up to 100 years since the cessation of fighting at the end of the First World War. The destruction of life, lands and families finally ceased for a couple of decades and bringing to mind the conflict of modern-day young generations is still important as lessons can be learned from those tragic battles.
In this feature, which was originally published in Issue 51 of our UKEdMagazine, we highlight 26 lesson ideas that can be used in all schools, helping us remember the ultimate sacrifice committed by so many. The activities are spread across multiple pages.
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1) Trench Food
Food is a central part of everyone’s day, and the soldiers in the trenches were no exception. The quality of diet of soldiers decreased over the four years of war, comprising of a tiny amount of bully beef (corned beef), bread and biscuits in the latter years.
2) U-Boats
The U-boat, or submarine was used to interrupt supplies to the front lines and imports to the home front. Experiment to design the best sinking and floating pneumatic U-boats, using balloons, tubes and syringes to explore buoyancy.
3) Trenches From Above
Look at the training trenches at Penally in Wales Explore why they have a zigzag pattern? [These were to contain explosions.] Why were there many rows of trenches and what were the straighter trenches used for? [Supply lines] Use a tray of damp sand to copy and then experiment with different designs.
4) Messages from the Sky
It is difficult to imagine today, but communication technology was in its infancy during the war, with only the telegraph providing human-made long-distance communication possible 100,000 carrier pigeons were used as messengers during the war. These animals would fly home, meaning that if you take them to another location you could attach a message to them to take home with 95% accurate (which is probably better than letters home via the school bag in your own class!) Design this system by using only paper ‘pigeons’ aeroplanes with messages within your class for an hour. No other communication is allowed. There should be a limited number of pigeons which must be returned to the starting positions, just like the WW1 pigeons would have to be transported. Messages, therefore, can only travel one way for each pigeon as they only fly home.
5) School Stodge
In Britain, the first school meals appeared in 1906, but during the First World War, these were expanded to most schools to ensure that children had sufficient food during rationing. The menu included:
• bean soup and bread, followed by treacle pudding
• toad-in-the-hole, potatoes and bread
• mutton stew and suet pudding
• fish and potato pie, followed by baked raisin pudding
Ask your pupils to research and compare school meals now and during the war, and you could even try some of the items.
6) Gas Masks
Poison gas was used extensively in the First World War and the gas mask was an essential piece of kit these began as rude bags and evolved to include respirator by 1916. In a similar way to the makeshift gas masks of the early years of the war, ask your pupils to design gas masks from recycled materials. Beware of suffocation risk at all times. You can even test the effectiveness of the mask using cropped onions to see if the mask provides protection.
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Monuments - Sites in Brussels
Brussels is a city that never stops surprising and touching your heart. Its mythical round-cobblestone Grand-Place, a Manneken Pis with a bigger wardrobe than yours, its comic strip heroes walking along the walls, its Art Nouveau façades, its Atomium and its glittering spheres, its parks, its greenhouses and its royal gardens are all awaiting you here.
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#AskTDS: “We are letting our property to four tenants – do they pay the deposit separately or together?”
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This article has been written in response to a question we received from a landlord using the TDS service:
“We are letting our property to four tenants – do they pay the tenancy deposit separately or together?”
When you accept a tenancy where four people as tenants are joining to share the accommodation in a property, you will either prepare a joint assured shorthold tenancy agreement or a separate individual assured shorthold tenancy agreement possibly on a room by room basis.
If you are renting the property to the tenants as a group, then the tenants will sign a single tenancy AST agreement that requires them to be ‘jointly and severally’ linked as ‘the tenant’ so they can move in.
In this instance, the tenancy deposit that is handed over and detailed in the tenancy agreement is to be associated with their obligations as detailed in the contract and would then also have deposit related clauses detailing under what circumstances a deduction may be required that can settled by the tenancy deposits sum. Even though in practice each may pay a share of this deposit, each named person as tenant would be equally liable for any rental arrears or damage, even if they didn’t personally cause the loss.
Alternatively, if you are renting out the property on a room by room basis each tenant will have their own separate tenancy agreement and have paid their own deposit for that piece of accommodation and under the terms as detailed in the contract. Each tenant’s liability will extend to their own private space such as their room and en-suite bathroom. It may not necessarily cover communal areas such as hallways, communal kitchens or living areas; landlords should also be aware of any HMO licence requirements in the area where the property is situated.
“How do I protect a deposit for joint tenants?”
TDS only can adjudicate over the distribution of the tenancy deposit. As the deposit money belongs to the tenant, we consider claims from the party wanting to make a deduction. If the tenant wishes to make dispute a counterclaim against the landlord, or wants to offset money they may owe the landlord due to condition of property (e.g. didn’t pay full rent due to lack of heating) they will need to consider taking their case to court as TDS will be unable to consider such claims.
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Grandaddy Purple VS Ice Wreck VS Northern Lights: What Is The Best Cannabis Indica Strain?
Indica strain is one of the two most common cannabis strain in cannabis seed bank besides the Sativa strain. Indica dominant varieties grow lower and spread wider than seeds of the Sativa strain. That is why they are more suitable to grow indoors than outdoors.
Cannabis Indica strain has a more curative effect, which is another trait unlike those of the Sativa strain. Usually this strain brings about a more relaxed and calmer feeling through the feeling of high cough-locked being frozen all over the body and reducing severe pain.
Indica strain is easy to make stoners sleepy and sedative, so they are often used at night. They are also prescribed by doctors to treat insomnia, relieve pain, fight anxiety and reduce stress.
The three most common Indica strains are Grandaddy Purple, Ice Wreck and Northern Lights. But what is the best cannabis Indica strain?
#1 Grandaddy Purple
Grandaddy Purple is strain bred between Purple Urkle and Big Bud. It has a beautiful dark purple color, and not every strain can have this color.
The Grandaddy Purple buds are often plump and lush thanks to the quality of the dominant Big Bud strain. These buds are rich in resin and give very high yields.
Grandaddy Purple contains high levels of THC in the range of 17-23%. It creates very high, lightheaded and sleepy effects for stoners. It also has the ability to cure and relieve pain for chronic pain symptoms.
Grandaddy Purple has a very sweet and fresh fruity odor. It also gives a little sticky feeling right after the first sip of smoke.
#2 Ice Wreck
Ice Wreck is an extremely powerful hybrid strain of the Indica strain. Ice Wreck is a hybrid of Trainwreck (a very strong effect Sativa strain) and Nirvana’s Ice.
It is this powerful combination that creates a strain that can keep you excited for the long term. It will make the body stoners softer and automatically swing the body. It can also cause stoners to become stiff and lazy for hours.
Ice Wreck contains extremely high THC content of 27.7% and it gives quite a high yield. If taken care of well, growers can harvest 450g / m2.
#3 Northern Lights
Northern Lights is a true Indica cannabis strain, and has always been one of the most famous cannabis strain.
Northern Lights has an average THC content of about 18%. It has both a spicy and earthy taste and gives smooth smoke to the mouth and throat.
Northern Lights brings a dreamy, high feeling. This strain is also great for muscle relaxation, anti-anxiety, pain relief and stress relief.
Final Verdict
Of these three Indica strain, Northern Lights and Grandaddy Purple are more prominent. In which Grandaddy Purple has a beautiful appearance, high productivity, and unique flavors. Northern Lights is the most popular.
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Kush VS Skunk Cannabis Strain: What Is The Best Strain?
Kush or Skunk are both familiar and widely known names. Whether you’re new to marijuana or you’re an old stoner, you’ve probably heard the name Kush or Skunk at least once.
Yes, these two cannabis strain are typical parent strain. They all produce a lot of different cannabis strain, and they all have a high quality and give the stoner the most unforgettable effect.
But when we create a confrontation between Kush and Skunk, which strain will stand out more for beginner? We will compare these two strains based on some of the most basic factors to find out which is the best strain on top seed banks.
#1 Origin
Unlike many people think, Kush is not a specific cannabis strain, it is a group of Indica strain. However, for convenience and easier, people consider it as a strain.
Kush originated from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. They grow particularly well on the Hindu Kush mountain and that is also the origin of this name.
And Skunk is the result of a cross between many strains like Afghani, Colombia Colombia and Acapulco Gold. And its creator is Sam Sam The Skunkman. Skunk is a combination of the most outstanding characteristics and that is why it is so popular.
#2 Growing
Kush is originally a weed growing on the Hindu mountain of Kush so its vitality is very strong. Therefore, it is not sensitive to extreme weather conditions and can be grown both outdoors and indoors.
Kush is especially suitable for confined spaces, so it is preferred by many grower. It also yields significant yields, about 500 + g / m2.
Skunk also shows its breakthrough when it can be grown indoors, outdoors or greenhouses. It is also capable of withstanding a variety of weather conditions to be able to grow up healthy.
Skunk gives off super thick and resinous buds. This is also what makes growers good harvests. This strain gives significant productivity in a short time.
#3 Effect
Kush is considered one of the most fragrant cannabis strain. It can create fine smoke and cause the mind to relax immediately. It also has sedative and analgesic effects, especially suitable for stoner who are exhausted both physically and mentally.
While Skunk has a strong scent, it can create echo effects in the brain from the first sip of smoke. This unique effect also manifests itself in providing a significant source of energy for the stoner. It will help stoner become energetic and happy immediately.
Final Verdict
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Know about the weather of Guinea Bissau before travel December and January are the driest, coolest months and the best time to visit. In February the weather is pleasant, and you can party at the colorful Bissau carnival. Traveling is more difficult during the rainy season (June to October), when even major roads turn to mud and getting public transport to remote spots is a challenge. March to May are the hottest months, with daytime temperatures reaching 34°C (93°F) and humidity levels very high; daily maximums rarely dip below 30°C(86°F) throughout the year. Border Fighting Fighting between troops from Guinea-Bissau and Senegalese separatist rebels along the northern border has made this area unsafe. Travelers are advised to monitor local information and to avo...
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Apple's iPad: The Game Changer?
Apple iPadHear any big, geeky news lately?
Remember when Brian Bendis said the Internet would "crack in half" over the surprises in Marvel's House of M mini-series? Well, finally, that prediction has come true.
Yesterday, (either good or evil, depending on your view of things) overlord Steve Jobs unveiled the much anticipated Apple tablet. Er, I mean, iPad. And, just in case Apple was worried about others not giving this new piece of technology the proper amount of hype, Apple itself is calling the iPad a "magical and revolutionary" product.
And I guess, if you think about the world just five years ago...the iPad is pretty revolutionary. If you think of the world 20 years ago, the iPad is pretty magical. Whenever I use my iPhone (which is pretty much three-quarters of always), I can't help but think that making a flying car would be simpler than figuring out how to make the phone work.
It's incredible that the technology exists for such a device, and I think the iPad is Step One in taking the smart phone and the laptop to a whole new level. Between smart phones (not sure if that's one word, or two, actually) and paper-thin laptops and touch screen capabilities, the stuff that's out there makes most of the tech in the Batcave anachronistic in comparison.
Detective ComicsAnd, I have to say. I'm pretty excited by the announcement, and I want one. Now.
For you see, I've converted to the Cult of Mac over the past year or so, and while the transition was a slow one, I'm glad I've made the switch. I have a Mac Air laptop and an iPhone, and I love them both as if they were my children. Meanwhile, my clunky little Dell PC sitting on my desk at home manages to annoy me every day of my life.
So, yeah, when Apple unveils the new shiny, I'm usually pretty jazzed.
And the iPad is definitely new and shiny. There are a few questions I have about the product, and I really need to research it (and possibly wait until the first wave is out and an updated OS ships by next year) before taking the plunge.
That, and my inclination to believe that all machinery is inherently evil will add at least a month or two to my waiting time. What can I say...I've seen Terminator one too many times.
Superman ComputerAnyworlddomination, I want to eliminate my desktop PC completely, if I can, and I think the iPad might just push me in that direction. Like I said, I need to read up on the device, and I need to have a hands-on run of it in-store when it ships.
But for now, there's nothing but speculation and pointless reviews online about a product we won't actually see until March, and I'd like to chime in. I don't have much else to do today, and I like jumping on bandwagons, so I figured this would be a fun, easy post.
Then I started to really think about the potential ramifications that the release of the iPad might have on the comics industry, and I realized that whole "easy" part will have to be thrown out the window.
But I'll get to that in a minute.
I think the iPad will do a couple of things, and their impact will be felt immediately. First, digital readers are going to get punched in the face. Kindle and nook do not offer full color on their screens, so right off the bat the iPad has a major advantage when it comes to downloading magazines and newspapers directly onto the device.
Second, since almost every promotional image I've seen of the iPad has featured the front page of the New York Times to show what it can do, I'd say the potential for newspapers is great.
Third, netbooks are going to start looking a lot like laser discs. For just about a hundred bucks more than the average netbook out there, one can buy an iPad and use it for a great many things that are not at all possible on a netbook.
To me, those are the most obvious effects this new reader/netbook/phone/word processor/video player/iTunes-enabled device will have. The less obvious affects will come into play in the comics industry--and I don't think Apple really cares about the comics industry all that much.
There's been a lot of talk on comics podcasts and Web sites about how the reader will change comics, since its screen is perfect comics-reading size and it provides incredibly high quality images.
Personally, I am amazingly conflicted when it comes to this subject. I don't like digital readers, but I get them. I understand the need/want for them, and I completely agree with many of the arguments for devices like Kindle and nook.
They save space and the downloads cost less than the physical book.
Still, I'm a paper man. It (was) my business for the better part of the last four years, and I was a victim of the shift to digital. The publishing industry as a whole is at a crossroads--mostly because people in the industry were at the very same crossroads five or six years ago, but simply didn't want to face the facts.
I love actually owning, and holding, and reading books. And I hope that generations to come won't be robbed of the experience a reader has with a novel or a comic book. There's something special and warm and fuzzy about re-reading a dog-earred copy of one's favorite book, and to lose that feeling would be tragic.
All this, of course, is not to mention the impact that might be had on brick-and-mortar comics shops.
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But the future is knocking on the present's door, and it's time for the publishing industry (comics, especially) to get up off the couch and see who's there.
So, to make sure I get to all of my points on this thing, here's a list of questions I have about the effects this new reader might have on comics.
1. Will all the publishers create product for the device?
2. If and when publishers fall in line, what will their price point be for single issues? For collected editions?
3. How will this affect indy comics?
4. What about Diamond?
5. And, seriously, what about comics shops???
6. How about the collector's market? How will shrinking production numbers of actual paper product affect collectibility?
Those are the biggest questions I have about the iPad and comics. Obviously, I don't know the answers to all of them, but I have an opinion on each. So, okay, let's take these one at a time.
1. Will all the publishers create product for the device?
While DC is staying mum on the subject for the moment, Marvel is not. According to comments made by a Marvel executive yesterday...they will not be rushing into production of iBook-enabled product. Check out the following interview, from Newsarama, then come on back.
Don't let Marvel fool you, folks.
I think it's safe to say that every comics retailer in America shuddered yesterday when Steve Jobs was demonstrating the iPad. And Marvel knows they need to assuage the fears of retailers. Now, I've heard some very good arguments on podcasts about how Marvel and DC should embrace this new media, and if they don't, it'll mean sure death in the market.
And I think Marvel and DC both know that. But, since the device isn't even street ready for 60 days, I think the two biggest comics companies are playing it cool for the time being.
I'd bet the house that there is going to be product from both companies on the reader very soon. Personally, I think the only question will be if they have both single issues and collected editions up for sale.
Which leads me to...
Here's the rub. Price point is the one, key issue that will either make or break the iPad as a viable comics reader. A single issue, one time download (not a PDF that can be saved forever on the device) simply cannot cost more than $1.00. If the price point creeps any higher than that...what's the point? If the floppies sell for $1.00 a download, the upside for readers is enormous.
Think about it. The same stories, for cheaper, and without the hassle of storage.
But if the downloads go for the same price as a floppy, then I don't see the point in not buying the physical product.
3. How will this affect indy comics?
This is the comics contingent with the most to gain from the iPad, I think. A while back, Diamond (the comics industry's biggest, and really, only, distributor) announced that, for a book to be included in their catalogue, it must sell a certain number of copies.
This new mandate led to many indy comics creators and self publishers pulling out of store distribution. Why? Because they simply couldn't sustain the numbers that Diamond was demanding.
This was a huge blow to indy comics, and many, many talented people were left scratching their heads as to how to get their product out to others. Because digital readers make printing physical copies wholly unnecessary (and therefore eliminate a huge portion of the overhead for making comics), the iPad may be just the thing to boost indy comics sales again.
4. What about Diamond?
As much as I'd like to say, "what goes around, comes around," in this instance I really can't. Diamond is big and lumbering, and I think they'll live without the inclusion of the indy books. So small press creators shouldn't run through the streets of Maryland throwing I told ya so's at Diamond's offices.
What Diamond can't sustain, however, is if the Big Boys head to the digital aisle in full force.
If comics go mostly (or even partially) digital for good, then Diamond has a major problem on its hands. Sure, they'll still sell hardcovers and statues and toys, but, if the industry paradigm shifts too far, where exactly will they be selling this stuff to?
Ah, yes. For any who feel that digital comics distribution is a victimless crime, may I turn your attention to your local comics shop and the nice folks who run it? What in the world are they going to do if comics go digital?
Can they sell digital product in their stores? Can record shops sell digital music in theirs? Yeah. I see Bad Things on the horizon for comics shops.
Marvel and DC comics sell in the tens of thousands. Not a huge number, but high enough so that modern issues are virtually worthless. There's plenty of supply to meet demand. However, think about what could happen if there are many, many fewer physical, paper comic books being produced.
Take the following as an example.
Let's say that Marvel moves 60,000 units of New Avengers digitally for a dollar, and only manages to sell 10,000 actual books, priced at $3.99. What, then, would that do to the collector's market?
In this example, five, ten years down the road, there will be a tiny number of paper comics available to the secondary market. Many fewer copies of these comics will be in existence than even some of the rare Silver Age titles that today go for exorbitant prices.
Will the paper products be worth more? And will comics shops be able to survive dealing only in the back issue market?
Jeez. I dunno.
I do know that many stores are ordering many fewer copies of floppies and trades and statues and, well, pretty much everything, as the market currently stands today. Digital comics in a hip and cool distribution method mean that new readers--in stores, I mean--will be non existent.
New readers, in general, will most certainly go up. People download stupid, useless Apps to their iPods because they're "cool." They'll do the same with comics, I guarantee you that.
So, in conclusion (since I'm getting dizzy), I'll leave you with this. The comics industry may have finally found a way to introduce new readers--new, younger readers--to their characters. Actually, they didn't find it--it kinda just dropped in their lap.
But how will they react? Will DC run from the new technology? Will companies like IDW and Dark Horse lead the revolution? Will the small press become the Next Big Thing? Will digital comics on the iPad change absolutely everything, or will you and I still spend our Wednesday afternoons hanging out at the counter of our favorite comics shop?
We'll see.
For now, I'm interested in your take on the matter. Because Thanos knows I've been talking for WAY too long.
Scott said...
I have to disagree with respect to netbooks.
Netbooks have a number of advantages: they can run Windows, which means instant access to a huge library of programs. They have USB ports and memory card slots, which means access to external storage and the ability to transfer pictures from cameras. The USB ports also allow you to plug in various peripherals, such as a full-size keyboard, a web camera, a mouse, a CD drive -- anything you would use with a PC.
The biggest dealbreaker with the iPad for me is that it's essentially a large iPod Touch. I don't even like the iPod Touch.. What's worse is that it's the same cost as a netbook, but slower, with fewer programs, and a complete inability to multitask. After that is the fact that there's no tactile keyboard; I can type almost 110 wpm regularly and there's no way I'd be able to do anything close to that tapping on glass. Even just tapping out things on my iPod Touch made my fingertips hurt.
The Kindle is actually probably better for newspapers; they don't really need color and the Kindle has a much, much longer battery life than the iPad.
Frankly, if I were going to spend money on a touch-sensitive slate computer, I'd rather have a slate with Wacom technology; not only would I be able to use my fingers on it the same was as an iPad, but I could also use a pen with real levels of sensitivity to do artwork and photo retouching. Sure, it would be more expensive than the low-end iPad, but on the other hand, it would be a real computer.
But while I don't think the iPad will damage the netbook market, I do think it will be a great platform for things that you don't usually see on netbooks. Comics, like you said, will be great on the iPad. Books may or may not work out, depending on pricing and marketing; the Kindle is much more attractive with its long battery life, though the lack of a backlight for ePaper is a major dealbreaker for me.
Games would also be neat for the iPad; it's large enough that you could conceivably play some video games with a friend, perhaps using iPhones/iPod Touches as peripheral controllers. Ditto on board games. Imagine being able to save games of Settlers of Catan to resume in other places?
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple started putting in support for Apple TV too, so you could just watch stuff on your iPad directly from an Apple TV unit. They love to make all of their stuff work smoothly together.
One thing that does disappoint me about the iPad is their book display interface; they stole it from a third-party developer that they've awarded in the past. It's a pretty brazen move and definitely beneath them. On top of that, I always favored Cover Flow over any type of bookshelf facsimile display...
If I had money to blow, an iPad would be neat, but for now, I'm more than satisfied with "just" a laptop.
AJG said...
The whole USB question is one that I'm not sure of, either. That said, I'm looking for something in addition to my laptop, so the iPad might be just the thing.
Honestly, I have my laptop for work and I have a fairly strict no Internet policy with it. It's of course Internet enabled, and I do use it sometimes to check mail, post here, and things like that, but I use it basically as an extremely portable word processor, and just recently, as a video editor.
Expensive? Sure. Worth every penny? Absolutely. Because I use it for such a limited number of tasks, I hope to not have to replace it for many years. Not much that needs upgrading, you know?
Also, I did see that Apple will be offering a full size keyboard to go along with the iPad, and it'll be in the $60-$70 range. Still, that takes away from the portability of the device, so I don't see too many people using it regularly.
The more I'm thinking about it for me, I'm really liking the idea of the iPad. The comics-reading interface will be a big thing in my case.
So will the price of comics on the reader.
At the low end, I'd be looking at somewhere in $550 range for the iPad.
Let's say I buy 50 comics a month (At the moment I don't, but hopefully I will be, soon). Of those 50 books, if I read half of them online for cheaper, even say, 50% cheaper, the iPad pays for itself (in theory).
25 books at, say $3.50, comes to $87.50. Cut that in half (though I'm willing to bet that many of the available comics will be around $1.00, but let's go high with this) and you get a savings of $43.75 a month.
In a year, I'd save on comics the amount I'd spend on the iPad.
The question for me then becomes, do I want to drop half my books? I love my LCS and I hate the idea of taking away that much business.
Again, I think I just need to sit down with the reader and see if it's a good fit.
However you look at it, though, it's going to be incredibly interesting to see how the publishing world responds--especially comics.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Ridin' to Leiden
I moved on from the Hague to Leiden. It wasn't a particularly long ride, and there are good bike paths between the cities.
Leiden was the site of my first campground. The lady in charge seemed surprised to see me, and said that I was the first that they've had this year. I don't know if I was the first tent camper they've had, or the first cyclist, but either way ... yeah, I'm hardcore.
(I'm beginning to think that the red drink bottle is spoiling my camping gear's camouflage effect.)
It was perishingly cold that night. I have a pretty good sleeping bag, but I was still wearing 2 pairs of thick socks, thermal leggings, 2 merino tops and a cycle jersey, a neck gaiter, and a thermal hat.
I realised something that hadn't occurred to me until this point: I was going to get a lot of sleep on this trip. When you're sleeping in a tent and it gets dark at 8pm, you're going to sleep at 8pm.
Leiden has set up a walk around the old buildings of the city centre called the Leiden Loop. It's well done. There's plenty to see.
Leiden is an old university town. As part of Europe's musical chairs of war, the Spanish twice laid siege to Leiden causing major starvation. As the Spanish commander had butchered the people of Haarlem, Leiden knew that they couldn't surrender. At one point, the mayor offered up his arm as food for the populace. (Is that why people vote for Gerry Brownley?)
The locals eventually broke the dikes to flood the surrounding countryside and drove away the Spanish, whose hold on the Netherlands collapsed. William of Orange sailed in ships of food and created the university in recognition of the town's struggle.
When the Pilgrims fled England, they came to Leiden. They stayed here for a couple of decades, before setting sail for America. This is the point they left from.
Below is the canal by the camp ground. You can see how the bridge lifts up to let barges barge past. The railway line on a parallel bridge also raises into the air and rotates sideways.
Is this a statue of Lord Flashheart?
"Nursey! Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket? Woof!"
Good on you, Holland.
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Sun exposure – the terrible truths of its effects on your baby
If you have NEVER held a newborn in your hand and felt, “Aw, so soft!”, while rubbing their cheeks, you are probably Hulk in disguise. Skin is the softest and yummiest part of any baby. (What? How do I know? Just saying!) From their very first bath, we ensure that we protect and nourish our baby’s skin.
Natural oil massages, homemade bath powder, non-toxic moisturizer and not to forget baby-friendly mosquito repellants (I am the best mosquito repellant, hands down. SWAT!). But, how many of us think of the effects of sun exposure on our babies?
Any grandparent will tell you that sunlight is essential for newborns, not only does it aide in absorbing Vitamin D but is also the best way to get rid of baby jaundice (apart from exclusive breastfeeding). However, a baby’s skin is thinner than adult skin, I am sure if you stare hard enough you can see their veins and probably the blood flowing through.
(Again, just saying!) It is also very delicate and sensitive so is more prone to sunburn. Few minutes of sun exposure during high radiation can lead to sunburn to the extent of first degree burns. Well, this time I am not just saying. It is true.
During our short stay in Australia, we were advised by our friends, locals and the Australian guidebook to never step out without sunscreen. Anybody who has been to the Ozzie land will tell how everything is a “bit” larger there, big spiders, big fishes, big babies (they really are, they said my 3.1kg newborn was underweight!) and also a big hole in their ozone layer.
I was so paranoid that I wouldn’t let my baby step out on to the balcony to see his dad off without sunscreen or even bask in the warm sunlight coming through the bay window. So, sunscreen became an inseparable part of our lives while we stayed there.
Once back in India, we went back to square one. Who needs sunscreen in India? We are dark skinned and have enough melanin to save our asses; I mean skin. As kids we never bothered about the sun, so why bother our children with sunscreen now? The least we did was to play under the shade then. And the few times I used the sunscreen on my baby, my maid asked me if I was in a hurry to go somewhere that I was taking him out without giving him a bath after applying oil.
So, my sunscreen accumulated dust in the back of my cupboard for months until one day I happened to read an article on the rising levels of UV radiation in India and the ill effects of exposure to it. The electromagnetic radiation present in sunlight is called Ultraviolet radiation.
And the UV index was in a high-risk zone between the range of 7-10, and if the radiation would consistently be over seven, long-term exposure to it would mutate and cause degenerative changes in the skin cells, leading to premature skin ageing, inflammatory reaction to the eye and in worst cases melanoma, skin cancer in other words. All this is on adult skin, imagine the effect on the soft baby skin?
As much as you wish it, you can’t keep your baby under your wing forever. They need to explore the world and experience it in all its natural glory. But, I realized that while I am busy protecting my child, I also need to protect the environment. The more I use products with chemicals, the more I deprive him of a better world.
Hence, began my search for a perfect sunscreen which was free of harmful chemicals and non-greasy (for my dear maid’s sake). And I didn’t have to look far. Find out more in the next part.
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Season 2 Ep 20: Lessons from Propaganda
This week, Owen talks about some of the core lessons we can learn from propaganda and how to make sense of the world when the organisational structures around us do their best to influence us.
Difference between North Korea and the rest of the world
Propaganda is everywhere
The fight between the different groups
Hero/Villan Mindset
Biggest trap we fall for
Learn the art of nuance
Beware of Drama and Emotion (word choice)
Challenge the beliefs
On both sides
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White smoke from exhaust + runs hot
Ford Truck after oil change a week ago, now has white smoke from exhaust and suddenly runs hot - what could cause this?
White smoke is usually an indication that your cooling system is leaking into one or more cylinders. I would suspect a bad head gasket, which should not really be related to an oil change.
The fact that the engine is running hot is also an indication that this could involve the head gasket. I suggest that you check your motor oil for evidence of contamination with coolant, i.e.–a milky appearance. If you observe that, bearing damage will result very quickly.
Improper oil refill could cause it to run hot which could cause the head gasket failure which causes the white smoke (steam, btw). Or it could be coincidental. Can you clarify the order of the issues?
I Think This Is “Water Over The Dam”
Unless hbl623 knows exactly what is going on (and if he/she did they wouldn’t have asked), I would not drive this vehicle until it’s fixed! A normal repair could turn into a very major repair right before the eyes.
Don’t run it!
Realbinky raises a very good point. I was assuming that the person who did the oil change was competent, but if it is running on a very low oil level, all kinds of very bad things could happen. (Hmmm…Was this vehicle serviced by Jiffy Lube or one of its clones??)
Can hbl623 verify for us whether the dipstick shows a normal level of oil–as well as whether it is of a milky appearance?
And, csa is correct that this vehicle should not be driven until the OP really knows what he/she is dealing with.
I Reread The Question
Sorry, for some reason I was thinking the owner changed his/her own oil, but this is not necessarily the case, in which case an improper oil change theory is worth persuing. Only the resulting damage is the same, either way.
Don’t drive it!
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What we’ve learned about desktop and application hosting for small businesses
Application hosting is pretty popular these days, and a lot of that popularity can be attributed to the proliferation of web-based and SaaS solutions that have clearly revealed the benefits of mobility and managed service. Not everyone wants to or can use a web-based application, however, causing demand for hosting of desktop applications to grow. Take a look at what’s going on with Intuit QuickBooks, for example. With all the push to QuickBooks Online, Intuit has created a surge in the demand for hosted QuickBooks desktop editions. Folks want their QuickBooks available for remote access and to support multiple users from different locations… but they also want to continue to use the feature-rich QuickBooks desktop products their businesses rely on. Hosting lets them have their cake and eat it, too. It’s the best of both worlds.
Back in 2000, there were a few in the tech industry that said the desktop would be dead soon. Business users wouldn’t be sitting down to work at computers, they would be using various devices to access their applications and data, from anywhere. Those early visionaries recognized that mobility was the coming thing, and that even the smallest of businesses would need what was at the time enterprise-class technology. I wasn’t so sure about the potential death of the desktop and the beloved applications businesses love to use, but I was pretty certain that “working online” with centrally-managed systems was the thing to work toward.
A lot of hosting companies started up at that time, and a lot of them went out of business just a few years later – some in virtual flames. Customers lost time, productivity, and in some cases their data. Investors lost their investments. It wasn’t that the service providers weren’t doing a good job, or that the technology wasn’t quite up to the task – the problem was the hype and the money. Too many people sat on the sales-side of the technology, making promises they couldn’t deliver and coming up short in meeting investor and customer demands.
Quite a number of years have gone by, and the market is still rife with promises unkept and solutions undelivered. But some of us in the industry have learned a lot over the years, so I’d like to share some of that learning.
Application hosting services gained popularity because they solved some major problems for businesses and their collaborators (including accountants, bookkeepers, remote workers, etc.).
Hosted application services allow everyone to work on the same software and data, regardless of where the user is located. Hosted application services provide centralized access for businesses with multiple locations or mobile workers. And hosted application services make it easier for contracted or engaged professionals like accountants and bookkeepers to work closer with their clients.
In the beginning, when we were just launching these hosting services, the equipment, facilities and expansive engineering labor requirements were really expensive so there was tremendous pressure to find ways to keep costs down. For customers, the plan was to pack as many users into the environment as possible, with volume representing a way to get a lower per-user cost. This concept paved the way for the accountant cloud server model, where it was suggested that an accounting firm could bring all their clients onto the cloud server to help keep the costs down. For a while that model worked pretty well, but then some issues started to be revealed.
With small business application hosting, particularly when dealing with QuickBooks, it should be recognized that nobody uses just QuickBooks.
There’s almost always a plug-in or add-on or some other solution that is also required with QuickBooks. Taking payments in QuickBooks requires a 3rd party plugin if you aren’t going to use Intuit payment solutions. Downloading payroll data from another service may also require a plugin, as does the tax add-on and the order sync tool and the solution that integrates orders from the website or via EDI from vendors or suppliers. It is almost never just QuickBooks. When a provider tries to pack all that customization into a single server and serve a whole lot of different business, each with their own needs – things go a bit sideways. Servers hang, customer applications interfere with one another, and data gets compromised.
The next phase then was either VDI or dedicated service. VDI was and continues to be too expensive and complex when you have to factor in database engines, shared storage and such. Dedicated service (server) is a bit more straightforward and still has some economy of scale. With this model, each customer gets what they need. They’re still in a cloud-hosted environment so collaboration isn’t a problem, and every customer has the benefit of working with exactly the software solutions they need for their particular business. The challenge is serving just a few users. Even though cloud servers can be relatively affordable to get these days, it may still be too costly for one- or two-user situations. (Note that these are the folks that often find themselves compelled to try the online, web version of an application simply due to cost.)
The customized cloud delivery is the right concept, but many service providers still have problems supporting multiple applications for customers and often charge quite a bit extra while delivering a marginal level of service. You may find a provider who will try to deliver any application for you (and many will do that poorly) or you may find a popular provider that can only offer a particular set of applications for hosting. If the provider isn’t able to deliver the applications the business needs, or if they are unable to deliver custom or personalized service, then they are likely not the right provider for the business.
The emergence of public cloud services like AWS should make it easier for small businesses to get affordable computing power and customized cloud service from any IT provider, but it hasn’t yet.
The public cloud is still far too complicated for most small businesses to navigate or even get started with. Truthfully, it is difficult for many IT resellers and partners to navigate, too. Getting started is potentially costly in terms of time and resources especially for service providers, so those costs and complications end up reaching through to the customer. The public cloud just isn’t ready for the average small business to take advantage of directly, so on-premises servers or managed cloud server hosting are still the most viable options.
A big wrinkle in the whole hosted online application model is that many businesses don’t really need or want to completely outsource their IT to a cloud provider.
Considerations relating to privacy and proximity are paramount for many business owners, not to mention the trust factor. Lawyers, accounts, manufacturers… business owners in any industry may be uncomfortable considering moving their systems and information out of their immediate control. There could be regulatory concerns or logistical challenges, or it could be something as simple as realizing that there remain applications or data on computers on-premises that make an outsourced hosting approach more complicated and costly while delivering only a partial solution. Whatever the reasons, there remains a lot of in-house IT and that’s OK.
There is no doubt that business owners and their team members need and want mobility and secure remote access. They also want to work with the IT providers they trust and maybe they even want to continue working from servers they have already contracted for or purchased. Others may wish to leverage cloud platforms, but remain closely associated with their IT providers.
Forcing a business owner to migrate their systems to a hosting platform when all they really want is remote access or multi-user service seems a bit like overkill.
Granted, there are many benefits to be derived from outsourcing IT management and administration, like improved focus on the business, and various business processes and workflows could be more streamlined with a centrally-managed and fully accessible solution. Yet those benefits are the intangibles that businesses must discover after-the-fact, and are achieved only if the business works specifically towards those goals. In short, it isn’t necessarily what business owners are buying.
If we have learned nothing else over the years it is that things don’t move as quickly as we’d like them to.
The world never seems to end before your homework is due.
Software-as-a-Service hasn’t completely killed off desktop software, and smartphones and tablets haven’t ended the useful life of the desktop computer. What they have done is fully expose the desire and need for mobility and access, and have opened the doors for tools to address those needs better than the other approaches previously available.
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What do you value in life?
If you ask anybody this question, there’s surprising similarity in what people say. You can generally put people’s values into four broad groups:
1. Change & autonomy values, such as creativity and freedom,are linked to tolerance and comfort with difference. (Openness-to-change values)
2. Care & empathy values are all about concern for others and the environment, equality and tolerance. (Self-transcendence, or intrinsic values)
3. Stability & security values, such as social order and respect for tradition, are associated with maintenance of the status quo and discomfort with other groups. (Conservation values)
4. Power & competition values are linked to prejudice, discrimination, materialism and concern about status, self and money. (Self-enhancement, or extrinsic values)
We all hold all of these values, but to different degrees. These four groups work in opposition to each other as in the diagram below. Care/empathy values are opposite power/competition, and change/autonomy values oppose stability/security values. This means we’re unlikely to value one set highly if we value the other set highly. (Read more about how this works here!)
We all hold all of these values! (Just checking you’re paying attention). I might value change/autonomy, but I also value stability/security, I’m just likely to hold one set higher than the opposing set. The importance I place on my values can change moment to moment. Being in a situation where I am framed as a consumer, for instance, I am more likely to behave more materialistically and temporarily value power/competition more.
We carried out some research to look out how values predict people’s attitudes towards discrimination in Europe. We kind of knew what to expect. We looked at lots of questions that had been asked to large, representative samples from 25 European countries (about 50,000 people altogether) and connected these to the values people held.
So, what did we find?
1. If you live in a country that values power/competition and stability/security relatively highly, you are more likely to experience discrimination….
… based on gender, ability, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, or ethnic origin.
2. And you’re also less likely to *witness* discrimination.
Wait, what? If more people experience discrimination, shouldn’t more people see discrimination happening too? It seems that, whilst the chances of experiencing discrimination is lower in countries that score highly on care/empathy and change/autonomy values, people in these countries appear to be more aware of discrimination and so report having seen more occurrences of it. This is important, because whether or not incidents are acknowledged as discriminatory will impact whether they are reported and responded to. And sure enough, our results show that people were also less likely to report discrimination to an authority the higher their country scored on power/competition values.
3. The more you value power/competition or stability/security, the less likely you are to agree that ‘gays and lesbians should be free to live life as they wish.’
Whereas change/autonomy and care/empathy values are associated with positive attitudes towards gay rights.
Morgan Freeman himself never actually said this, but thats another story.
4. Care/empathy and change/autonomy values are linked with agreeing that women have equal rights to jobs
Which there really shouldn’t be any disagreement about. Also, the more I value care/empathy and change/autonomy, the less likely I am to agree that ‘a woman should be prepared to cut down on her paid work for the sake of her family’.
5. Power/competition and stability/security values are linked to the belief that unemployed people 'just don't try'
Care/empathy values and self-direction (change/autonomy) values, on the other hand, were linked with a lower likelihood of agreeing with this.
6. People who value care/empathy and change/autonomy more highly are more positive about immigration
They’re more likely to agree that immigrants enrich a society’s culture and less likely to agree that their country should put a cap on immigration. They’re also more inclined to believe that immigrants deserve the same rights and benefits as everyone else.
7. Power/competition and stability/security values are linked with prejudice towards Roma people
People who hold these values relatively highly are less likely to agree that society benefits from the integration of the Roma, and less likely to say they’d be happy for their own children to play with Roma children.
8. Care/empathy values are the only ones not ageist in some way...
Care/empathy, change/autonomy and power/security values are associated with positive attitudes towards people under 30. Power/competition and change/autonomy values are associated with ageism towards older generations, whereas stability/security values are associated with ageism towards younger generations.
9. However people who valued care/empathy were less comfortable with the idea of someone under 30 in an elected position of power.
The chink in care/empathy values’ armour! People who value care/empathy more highly are more likely to discriminate against a young person in power. This was a pretty weird finding, but we think it might be because ‘wisdom’ (a care/empathy value) is associated with older age. People with relatively high power/competition values were comfortable with the idea of someone under 30 in power, but were more likely to have negative attitudes towards anyone other than white, heterosexual, able-bodied, cis-gendered men in these positions. In other words, they were more likely to express discomfort at the idea of a woman, someone of a different ethnicity, someone with a disability, a transgender person, or a gay person in a position of power.
10. We should all move to Finland...
There was interesting variation between countries, and Finland came top of the care/empathy values league table.
Care/empathy (green) and power/competition (red) in Europe:
But… all countries in Europe valued care/empathy over power/competition, so let’s not pack our bags just yet. Maybe we could just say it gives us all something to work towards…?
So the results are, for the most part, unsurprising.
• Power/competition values are associated with a hierarchical worldview in which some people are just better than others. It’s a view held by white, able-bodied, heterosexual men more than any other group. These values are associated with a lack of concern about inequality and a whole host of prejudiced views. They’re also associated with a desire for money and superiority, with violence, and with over-consumption.
• Care/empathy values, on the other side, are associated with egalitarian views and positive attitudes towards other groups.
What was possibly more surprising was the strength of the relationship, in most cases, between stability/security and change/autonomy values and discriminatory attitudes. This is just because there is less existing research about these relationships, but we could have probably guessed it.
But so what?
Well, these values can be encouraged (in anyone) and we have a pretty good idea of what brings them to the fore.
• Values suppress their opposites. When we are framed as consumers our power/competition values suppress our care/empathy values, and we become less likely to want to volunteer for a good cause, or to conserve water in a management game.
This means that the way issues are framed can have a serious impact on how we respond. Framing immigration as good for the economy, then, could actually backfire and increase prejudice rather than decrease it.
Download the full report - which also discusses the framing of equality in Europe - below:
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Going To The Mat: What Makes Wrestling Compelling
Going to the mat is an opinion column for the Unofficial WWE Podcast, where I, Cody Churchill, roll out one of my many hot takes regarding the world of wrestling, and attempt to convince you of it. Whether you agree or disagree, I’m going to the mat for this:
What makes wrestling so compelling are the moments where the line between real and fake grows either uncomfortably or amazingly thin.
Here’s what I mean: Very early in a young wrestling fan’s life they are informed, often by an outsider, that pro wrestling is scripted. This is perhaps met by denial, anger, and bargaining, but eventually, as one grows up, they come to grips with the fact that professional wrestling is certainly scripted. When a fan becomes an adult, they need to decide whether they are going to continue being a fan or not. Some buy in due to the entertainment value, some due to good storylines, and some due to athletic performances. Some even remain fans out of a sense of duty or nostalgia for the better days gone by.
There was a time when I was very young, when I watched Monday Night Raw and believed that it was real. Of course, that time was followed by an edgy adolescence where I ignored professional wrestling except for the occasional video game. Then, as a fully grown adult male, I made the decision to get back into it. Why? Well for me, it has been the ingenious ways that kayfabe meets reality.
I tried to explain this to my wife this last weekend when I saw Rey Mysterio Jr. embrace his son Dominick before his debut at SummerSlam 2020. This was an emotional moment within storyline to be sure, but what got to me was the reality behind the characters being portrayed on my TV. In that moment I saw Oscar Gutierrez embracing his son Dominik Gutierrez and ordaining him into the family business. I tried to explain the layers of this to my wife and probably sounded like a total mark. But the fact stands that a proud father was welcoming his son into the big leagues, and the emotions were real, and those emotions got to me.
Those are the moments that keep me watching. We’re talking about the anxiety that Edge felt before his fateful match at Backlash earlier this year. His concern about whether or not he could pull “the greatest wrestling match ever” off was real. In that moment, I saw Adam Copeland struggling with his past injuries and the expectations being placed on him by the company. We’re talking about Ric Flair saying that all he wants is to be Charlotte’s dad and a part of Randy Orton’s life after his near-death experience. We’re talking about things like CM Punk’s (Phil Brook’s) growing frustration with the company–that took a chance on him and then wasted his potential–bleed through in promos that blurred the line between work and shoot. Or, a bit more recently, we’re talking about the various reunions and departures of The Shield.
No other form of entertainment can blur the line between made-up story and real life like professional wrestling can, because no other form of entertainment has true kayfabe. When an actor is done filming their movie or TV show, they get to leave their on-screen persona at the door when they’re done. While this is growing increasingly true of pro wrestling, it’s still not entirely true. Many wrestlers still generally stick to kayfabe on their social media accounts and during appearances, even if some of it is a little bit tongue-in-cheek. However, the pro wrestler is technically playing themselves whenever they make a televised appearance, to the point where sometimes it’s hard to tell where the character ends and the real person begins. And I eat that up.
Kayfabe is such a unique phenomenon in entertainment that it takes a non-wrestling fan quite some time to understand it. In fact, the origins of kayfabe itself are still disputed, mysterious, and shadowy, just like they should be. In other outlets where there is a semblance of kayfabe, it is only a poor facsimile of the depths that pro wrestling goes to. Of course, what this does is make the moments where kayfabe is bent or broken on-screen all the more impactful. That is what made the recent Undertaker documentary so incredible. We finally got to see the man behind the character, and his backstage interactions felt like a forbidden and satisfying fruit to finally see. That is also why the Tales of the Deadman extra feature was so well-received. That is why I am thankful for a post-kayfabe wrestling culture.
See, now that we have some idea of what the true-life reality is, it actually colors in the on-screen moments. When Drew McIntyre asserted that Randy Orton should have been fired on multiple occasions, and Randy Orton fired back that he was more valuable to the company than Drew, I cracked a wry smile. Because I know a little bit about Randy’s antics behind the scenes, and I also know that his counter remark was factually true. And as the line between real and fake was blurred, it hit a sweet spot that no movie or other TV show can. That same spot was hit by Rey Mysterio embracing his actual son in the ring after his first match and telling him how proud he was of him. Oscar didn’t need to act in that moment, because the reality behind the moment was so close to the kayfabe portrayal.
Here’s hoping for more moments like that in the weeks and months to come, because they make pro wrestling worth watching, even for a fully-grown adult like me. And I’m going to the mat for that.
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Author: Mosquito Squad of Leominster
Yes, you are reading that right. Scientists are really looking at mosquito spit and its ability to prevent blood clots in humans. Actually, according to, they have been studying it a long time.
When a mosquito bites it needs to make blood flow quickly and freely. It does this by injecting something called anophelines into the human. This mixture of proteins does a great job for the mosquito so scientists have often wondered how to make it work as a blood thinning agent in humans. However, up to this point, once extracted it’s abilities just haven’t held up in the lab.
Mosquito saliva research has taken a new turn. Scientists have added a sulfate that reacts with the amino acids in the anophelines. This addition “strengthened the electrostatic forces between the proteins, making them better able to bind to the enzyme in blood plasma that causes clotting.” At this point, the newly modified mosquito spit has only been tested on mice, but the anophelines were 100 times more effective than those that were not modified. The researchers also found it more effective than a substance called hirudin. Hirudin is a blood thinning agent made from a substance pulled from the salivary glands of leeches that is already being used in clinical settings. Due to the positive performance of the modified proteins, this group is planning to create a blood thinning agent out of the mosquito spit that will eventually be used in humans to treat and prevent blood clots.
It’s hard to believe that you might find something that useful and positive from a mosquito, but considering how many of them there are, it would be great! The idea of taking what we consider a fairly large nuisance and finding a helpful purpose for it gives a whole new angle on the idea of “repurposing”.
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While the US government is not expected to rescue the world’s largest energy marketer, Enron Corp., from almost certain financial ruin, policymakers are facing increasing public pressure to find out how the collapse happened and make sure it doesn’t recur in the energy sector or elsewhere.
At least two congressional committees plan hearings to investigate what went wrong at Enron. The Bush administration is considering further administrative reviews, possibly through an interagency task force, government and industry sources said Friday.
Federal courts are also bracing for thousands of lawsuits surrounding the financial mess, from former clients, shareholders, and employees who allege the company engaged in fraudulent accounting to shield mounting losses.
On Capitol Hill, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources both said Thursday they will hold hearings next year on the Enron collapse.
Meanwhile, policymakers also expect hearings in committees that handle banking issues because of concerns over financial management. Additionally, labor committees in the House and Senate may investigate how the stock collapse has impacted employee 401(k) accounts.
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Lawmakers say a primary motivation for conducting hearings is to analyze what happened in order to avoid more Enron-type collapses at a time when the US economy is in recession.
Analysts said the timing of Enron’s decline was fortunate. It had a modest, temporary impact on markets because the recession and weather conditions dulled energy demand and drove prices down.
If markets had been tighter, as they were last summer, Enron’s problems would still have been temporary but could have reverberated longer as gas and electric markets adjusted to the shortfall. Yet even last year, the market would have rebounded, analysts say. That’s because although Enron was the world’s largest power and gas trader, it managed less than 20% of the transactions in either market.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees gas and electric wholesale markets, will monitor the situation, but has said there is no need to regress to a regulatory structure that limits competition.
Rather than blaming open markets for Enron’s problems, policymakers are hoping to zero in on the role independent accounting firms play in verifying a company’s financial position to its shareholders and federal regulators, US officials say. A growing consensus among Wall Street analysts is that Enron’s accounting practices, which some thought were suspect, should have been examined more closely.
Even before the proposed merger between Dynegy Inc. and Enron fell through last week, there were signals Congress would pursue its own investigations beyond the Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry.
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“This problem is not limited to Enron. There are likely other ticking time bombs out there with smoke-and-mirror earnings. Our accounting and auditing system and its oversight are seriously broken and need immediate reform,” Dingell said.
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This past April, six justices of the Kansas Supreme Court issued an opinion that determined the top priority for the 2020 legislative session.
Six justices found a right to an abortion exists in the Kansas Constitution despite there being no language of the sort and nothing in the historical record indicating this to be the case.
In addition, the court found that there is very little that can be done to regulate this newly created “right.” By doing so, the court opened the door to unrestricted late-term abortion up to the point of birth. There is no higher priority for the Legislature than addressing this injustice.
The sickening part of this ruling is that the majority of the court did not look at the rights of the child. They purposefully avoided discussing the loss of life that occurs when an abortion takes place, they openly chose not to engage in an in-depth discussion of the pain that is felt by an unborn child during an abortion, or to delve into the medical advances that can show us when an unborn child has a heartbeat and is capable of feeling pain.
The court's majority went out of its way to keep the discussion as clinical as possible in an effort to dehumanize the hundreds of thousands of children who are killed each year.
The echoes of dehumanization still call to us from Auschwitz and Dachau, the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the streets of Rwanda. In our nation, the infamous Dred Scott case comes to mind. It was in that 1857 United States Supreme Court case that the majority of the court held that a former slave could never be a U.S. citizen and that slaves were property.
The entire opinion is a lesson in dehumanization. When you frame a dispute in a way in which you present only one side as human and the other side as something less than human, it provides cover to inflict unspeakable horrors.
Abortion is a heated issue that inflames passion from all involved. Navigating this issue requires that all sides be on equal footing, and this does not occur when those children whose lives are literally at stake are declared to be something less than human. Dehumanization has destroyed nations, killed millions, and during the Civil War literally split our country in half. We cannot be a state where six justices decide that some are more human than others.
Addressing this injustice will be the top priority of the 2020 Legislature. There will be a constitutional amendment returning the power to regulate abortion to the elected representatives of the people. The selection process for Supreme Court justices will also be considered.
Above all, we each have the responsibility to respect the human dignity of every living person. Regardless of political view, race, gender, sexuality, age, or whether born or unborn, we are living human beings deserving of respect. When we look at each other as something else, something less than human, we lose a piece of our own humanity in the process.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Want the secret to social media success?
People want social media to be an easy fix. Companies look at social media as an immediate replacement for lots of other things they are doing, and they expect it to "just work" out of the box.
That's not the way the game is played, kids.
Take it from Scott Sigler, arguably one of the most popular and successful users of social media. He's used variations on a theme to break through several barriers and is still going strong. Is he making a full-time living on social media? No. Is he making a full-time living because of social media? Yes. Yes he his.
Want to copy his success? OK. But consider what it really means to "copy" him.
What I’ve found is that [working your tail off with social media] is not something that most authors [or anyone wanting to catch the social media wave] do. ... I reply to absolutely everything. Everything gets responded to; every instant message, every email, every tweet, everything. And that, combined with the social networking sites, makes such a strong connection with the readers. They really feel like someone actually took five minutes just to reply to them, and even if they only email once, it’s totally locking in fans for life.
Bingo. There's the secret. Like most, it's not complicated. It only takes commitment. Do you have it? If not, plan on falling short of the mark. Regardless of how well-planned your social media strategy may be, in the end you have to respond. To everything.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Taking value away from users to try to force a specific action is almost always going to be less desirable than providing people what they want.
Here's a little secret: statistically speaking, no one cares about what you have to offer, show or say. But rather than have me beat you over the head with that statement of fact, I'll let Loren Feldman tell you in this video.
In fact, the collective "they" care so little, "they" aren't even going to bother putting forth the effort to steal your content. Tim O'Reilly told us that in 2002. And while a goodly number of creative people finally took that message to heart in recent years, the vast majority of people are still spending to much time protecting what is rightfully theirs -- when (statistically) nobody cares.
Today this issue came to a head for me (again) in the guise of the full-text vs partial feed debate, so I sent over this classic comment as a stand-in for my arguments. Podcasters who bitch about feed-hijacking are singing the same tune. Funny how the issue of media-serving ownership doesn't seem to bother video producers. And people wonder why YouTube is more popular than any podcast directory. Go figure.
Here's the bottom line: If you are a creative person, you should be primarily concerned with people being able to consume your product. Worrying over how it is consumed or what might happen to it after it is consumed is a clear case of chicken-before-the-egg. Get it out there. Make it easy to find and enjoy. If not... well then you're as crazy as my cousin in Iowa with an irrational and all-consuming fear of sharks. Guess how often I take her call?
The title -- and inspiration -- for this post came from an article on Techdirt last year. Worth the read as it's applicable to much more than the issue of the proper contents of an RSS feed.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Trickle down or ripple effect?
I started my morning with the following tweet:
Props to Thomas for the link!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Getting to zero with a Bacn folder
One of the challenges of being a new media douchbag is that I (and probably you) get inundated with email. Friend requests, shouts, updates, Flicker notices, Netflix confirmations... it's out of control!
The name for all of this... stuff is now "bacn". Think of it as a form of spam, but spam that is residual, somewhat necessary and completely the result of you (read: ME) signing up for one (dozen) too many online services/cool things/time sinks. Rarely is any of it time sensitive. In fact, it's probably cluttering up your inbox and keeping you from getting to that elusive and fleeting ZERO.
So get rid of it. At least, get rid of it from showing in your inbox. Here's how.
If you use Gmail, follow these directions to the letter. If you use something else, figure out the spirit of what I'm saying and modify it to you own system's ability to "filter".
First, go to your overflowing inbox and identify your biggest source of bacn emails. Mine was Facebook, though Good Reads and Digg were coming in a close second. Click the email.
Next to the "Delete" button near the top, you'll see a pull down with the words "More Actions" displayed. Pull that down and choose "Filter messages like these". Gmail is smart enough to fill out some basic information that you may want to filter agains. Take a look to make sure it's got the correct info to recognize bacn versus legit email. You'll notice the list of "captured" mails based on your filter below.
Click Next Step to really get the magic working -- and to keep this crap from flooding your inbox. Select the following check boxes:
• Skip the inbox (you're so going to like this)
• Apply the label "bacn"
• Yes, you'll have to create a new lable for this. You know how.
• Also apply filter to ## conversations. (That'll make it work right now.)
I don't recommend marking it read, as leaving it unread allows the Bacn folder to cause a count of unread messages to display, helping you figure out when to go back and check before it asplodes.
Some people like to Star certain forms of Bacn, depending on the service. Your mileage may vary, but I'd leave it off.
Now hit Create Filter and watch your inbox shrink. Rinse and repeat as necessary to get your box in a manageable form. And don't feel compelled to clean this box out daily. I get to it about once a month. Yes, that means I often have over 400 pieces of bacn in there. So what? By definition, this stuff isn't time sensitive.
Give it a shot. Save you some time. And help with your sanity.
• Saturday, February 2, 2008
Brain crack
Meet my friend Brian Shaler. Brian... jumps. Well, he does lots of other cool shit as well. But he's best known (by me anyway) for his jumps.
Brian fell in to my trap the other day. What's the trap? Simple. I've talked before how I tend to assume that I'm the smartest person in any room I walk into. But occasionally, I discover someone else in the room who is more deserving of that mantle. And when that happens, I tag that person as a friend and do my best to not only get to know him/her, but also work like a dog to find out how that person and I (and perhaps others) can work together to make something hellaciously cool.
Why? So that I don't develop Brain Crack. I didn't know that's what I was avoiding until Brian told me about it over lunch a week or so ago. Nor did I know that it was a term coined by Ze Frank back in the summer of '06. But hey, I can't be everywhere at once and neither can you. So if you missed it:
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Biological Passport For Every World Cup Player Under Preparation By FIFA
FIFA, the world governing body of football, is on an ambitious mission these days to ensure that every player who participates in the Football World Cup has a drug test and carries a ‘biological passport’.
For the first time, the governing body is planning to use the biological passport that will follow players throughout their career, offering details about urine and blood tests. A team of FIFA doctors and nurses since March this year have been carrying out random urine and blood tests at internationals and team training camps. A few weeks ago, France and Argentina were visited at their camps to prepare for the tournament. Some of the most eminent football stars including Brazilian star Neymar, Italian captain Gianluigi Buffon, and Spain’s Andres Iniesta were among those who provided samples at last year’s Confederations Cup. Over the last 18 months, stars from Chelsea, Barcelona, Santos, and Monterrey were tested during international club competitions.
In a recent interview, Jiri Dvorak, FIFA’s chief medical officer remarked that we can test anybody, anytime, anywhere, any amount of times. Football players can now expect drug testing right from the first matches of the World Cup which starts June 12. Dvorak added there has not been anything alarming so far and said the hematological parameters are normal. FIFA has collected at least two test samples from most players while some players have given as many as four samples. Dvorak went on to add that they understand what we are doing and they consider that kind of examination as part of their professional life.
FIFA tests loom for discrepancies in hemoglobin and red cells that may indicate the use of EPO doping or use of other banned performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic androgenic steroids to improve performance. The world governing body of football also checks hormone levels and steroids in the urine. However, Dvorak acknowledged that the drug testing logistics in Brazil face difficulties. The World Anti-Doping Agency withdrew its accreditation for the only anti-doping laboratory in Brazil last year. FIFA will send urine and blood samples to a laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, which will add $250,000 (180,000 euros) to the doping clampdown costs.
The primary cause of concern is that there will be a race against time to get samples from far-flung World Cup cities such as Manaus in the Amazon and Fortaleza as blood samples must be analyzed within 36 hours of being drawn. Dvorak remarked there are a few games that are difficult but the majority of the samples will arrive at the laboratory between 24 and 48 hours. The chief medical officer of FIFA said some of the matches are critical, the critical matches we will look at very carefully.
Football has rarely seen declared cases of performance enhancing doping with the biggest doping case coming from Argentina star Diego Maradona who was sent home from the 1994 World Cup after he tested positive for the stimulant ephedrine. According to, the world body’s website, cannabis and cocaine have made up the majority of drug failures in football in recent years.
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Nutritional, Gastrointestinal, and Endocrine Disease
The editors and publisher would like to thank Dr. Steven Hyman for contributing to the chapter on this topic in the prior edition of this work.
Nutritional Disorders
Morbid Obesity
Approximately 1.9 billion people worldwide are considered overweight, which is defined as a body mass index (BMI, weight in kg/height in m 2 ) between 25 to 30. A desirable BMI is 18 to 25. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that approximately 34% of U.S. adults older than 20 years of age are overweight and 35% are obese (BMI 30 to 40). Morbid obesity is defined by a BMI of 40 or more. Superobesity (BMI ≥ 50) and super-superobesity (BMI ≥ 60) are an increasingly frequent health care challenge.
The morbidity associated with obesity can affect virtually any part of the body and may account for 2.5 million deaths per year. Pulmonary manifestations of obesity include a reduced functional residual capacity (with rapidly decreasing oxygen saturations during apnea), restrictive lung disease, and obstructive sleep apnea. Hypertension, stroke, and right-sided heart failure are associated with morbid obesity, as are colon and breast cancer. Increased intra-abdominal pressure may predispose to hiatal hernias and gastroesophageal reflux. Skeletal diseases are also common, including back pain and osteoarthritis, particularly affecting the knees. Endocrine abnormalities may lead to reproductive hormonal imbalances and impaired fertility, and these patients may also be at increased risk for depression and other psychological illnesses.
The combination of specific complications of obesity is called the metabolic syndrome . The metabolic syndrome has six components: abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance (glucose intolerance), a proinflammatory state, and a prothrombotic state. The metabolic syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of three of the five following factors: abdominal obesity, increased triglycerides, low high-density lipids, hypertension, and increased fasting blood glucose concentrations. The diagnosis and treatment are important because obesity alone predicts approximately 25% of all new-onset cardiovascular disease.
The pathophysiology of morbid obesity is multifactorial and involves genetic, environmental, metabolic, and psychosocial factors. Caloric consumption is important, but the urge to eat (or overeat) can be modulated by hormones or inflammation. Treatment must be multifaceted; weight loss is not as easy as simply not eating because fasting releases several orexigenic (appetite-stimulating) hormones.
Perioperative Considerations (Also See Chapter 13 )
In the 1970s, fasted obese patients were asserted to have larger, more acidic gastric fluid volumes than nonobese patients and therefore at increased risk for pulmonary aspiration of injurious gastric contents. Actually, just the opposite may be true. Nondiabetic obese patients may have a smaller volume of gastric contents with a higher pH than do lean nondiabetic patients.
The care of obese patients presents several logistical issues because of their size and shape. These issues include intravenous (IV) access, noninvasive blood pressure monitoring, positioning, endotracheal intubation, and emergence techniques. Because of the amount of subcutaneous fat, insertion of a peripheral IV line may be difficult. As a result, central venous catheterization may be required for access, independent of the nature of the surgical procedure. Noninvasive blood pressure monitoring may be made difficult by the conical shape of the upper arm. Most arterial blood pressure cuffs are designed for a more cylindrical profile and may not remain in position or function correctly on a cone-shaped arm. Practical options in this situation include utilizing the forearm or inserting an arterial catheter for arterial blood pressure monitoring.
An obese patient may be wider than the horizontal surface of the operating table, and the table must be able to support the patient’s weight and be able to move into positions required by the surgeon. If extreme angles of tilt are needed, the patient must be well secured and potential pressure points must be addressed.
Induction of anesthesia may be complicated by a rapid decrease of blood oxygen saturation because of a smaller functional residual capacity. Reverse Trendelenburg position (head up) can reduce atelectasis in dependent areas of the lung and may also move chest and breast tissue caudally, allowing easier access to the mouth for endotracheal intubation. Obesity may increase the risk of a difficult laryngeal intubation, especially in patients with a Mallampati airway classification score of III-IV, obstructive sleep apnea, reduced mobility of the cervical spine, and large neck circumference.
No anesthetic drug has a distinct advantage in the obese patient, but emergence can be prolonged because elimination of some anesthetics from adipose tissues is slow. Obese patients are at risk of developing postoperative hypoxemia from atelectasis and hypercarbia due to airway obstruction. Noninvasive ventilator support in the recovery room may improve oxygenation.
Bariatric Surgery
Surgical treatment of obesity was first described in 1954 with the creation of the jejunoileal bypass (JIB). The JIB was a malabsorptive operation that was used to treat many conditions ranging from hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis to obesity. The JIB was abandoned by the 1980s because of unacceptable complications, including uveitis, kidney dysfunction, intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and liver damage.
Subsequent operations were directed toward restriction of the intestinal tract with the goal of weight loss through decreased intake. Examples of commonly performed restrictive operations are the gastric bypass, gastric sleeve, and adjustable gastric band. Because of lower early postoperative morbidity and mortality rates, laparoscopic procedures are now preferred as compared to open bariatric procedures. In the United States, the number of bariatric operations peaked in 2004 and has since plateaued. Use of the laparoscopic approach to bariatric surgery accounts for more than 90% of bariatric operations. In-hospital mortality rate is estimated at 0.1%.
Most people who undergo bariatric procedures are morbidly obese (BMI ≥ 40), but surgical weight loss is more effective than conventional medical therapy if BMI is as low as 30. Patients generally have improvements in their quality of life and a reduction in comorbid conditions and cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction and stroke). Bariatric surgery improves several conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and obstructive sleep apnea.
Appetite and insulin-regulating hormonal function may be changed by bariatric surgery, thus promoting weight loss. Ghrelin, an orexigenic hormone secreted by the gastric fundus and proximal small intestine, is increased in the face of nonsurgical weight loss, but ghrelin levels are either unchanged or decreased after bariatric procedures. Several other intestinal hormones that regulate appetite and glucose metabolism are affected more favorably by bariatric surgery than by fasting. These hormones include glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide, and peptide YY, which are all secreted by the gastrointestinal tract in response to food.
Malnutrition occurs when caloric requirements exceed intake. Decreased intake, impaired absorption, or increased metabolic rate may cause profound malnutrition in a very short time. Malnutrition may be present when weight loss of 10% to 20% occurs during a short period of time, when weight is less than 90% of ideal body weight, or when BMI is less than 18.5. Healthy patients may quickly become malnourished after an episode of trauma or acute illness.
Critically ill patients develop malnutrition if they are not properly fed. Feeding may take place enterally, through an enteric feeding tube, or parenterally, through an IV catheter. The preferred method of nutritional replacement usually is enteral nutrition because it maintains the absorptive villi of the gastrointestinal tract and reduces pathologic bacterial transfer across the gastrointestinal mucosa and into the bloodstream. Improved outcomes, including decreased infectious complications and fewer ventilator and intensive care unit days, have been demonstrated. Long-term feeding usually requires a gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube. Postpyloric placement is frequently preferred because it is believed to reduce the potential for regurgitation and aspiration of gastric contents. However, the risk of vomiting and aspiration of gastric contents is not significantly different between postpyloric and gastric tube feeding. In patients who have pancreatitis, jejunal placement helps avoid stimulation of pancreatic enzyme secretions.
IV feeding (total parenteral nutrition, or TPN) is required when the gastrointestinal tract is not functional. Peripheral parenteral nutrition may be used for brief periods, but long-term alimentation requires central venous access. TPN lacks the beneficial effects of enteral feeding on the gut and carries risks of catheter sepsis, thrombosis, hyperglycemia, iatrogenic hypoglycemia (from insulin added to the feeding solution in response to hyperglycemia), and the development of fatty liver.
Perioperative Considerations
Acute nutritional replacement in a malnourished patient may cause a refeeding syndrome, characterized by increased ATP (adenosine triphosphate) production and metabolic rate. Increased ATP production may cause a significant decrease in plasma phosphate, leading to respiratory and cardiac failure. An increased metabolic rate may cause a significant increase in CO 2 production, leading to respiratory acidosis. The refeeding syndrome can be avoided by slowly increasing the nutritional intake toward caloric goals.
In the perioperative setting malnourished patients may have muscular (including respiratory) weakness and may be immunocompromised. For severely malnourished patients, TPN or enteral feeding should be administered for 7 to 10 days prior to an elective surgical procedure as it takes several days to achieve goal-feeding levels.
An important clinical issue commonly arises for enterally fed critically ill patients (such as burn and trauma patients) who require a surgical procedure. A decision must be made regarding how long to fast such a patient prior to induction of anesthesia. The risk of pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents must be weighed against the benefit of continuing to keep the nutritional intake at the patient’s goal level. Nutrition probably should be continued as long as possible. A short fast (45 minutes) from nutritional administration is reasonable when the feeding tube is located beyond the ligament of Treitz. When TPN is in use, insulin is typically part of the infusion, and therefore blood glucose monitoring should be performed for procedures longer than 2 hours in duration.
Gastrointestinal Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects an estimated 1.4 million Americans and results from an aberrant response by the bowel mucosal immune system to normal luminal flora. IBD is divided into two categories: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease (CD). UC is restricted to the large intestine and manifests itself as inflammation and loss of colonic mucosa. CD can affect any part of the digestive tract and may cause transmural inflammation leading to abscesses or granulomatous disease. Although they are distinct entities, differentiation between the two diseases may be difficult when CD manifests itself by only affecting the colon.
The trigger for the activation of the immune system in IBD is multifactorial. Because of a genetic basis, there is an increased risk in close family members. Caucasian patients are more likely to develop IBD than other patients. Jewish patients have a more frequent risk for CD. In addition, several environmental factors including smoking, appendectomy, antibiotics, oral contraceptives, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are associated with increased risk. Diagnosis may be suspected based on symptoms of chronic abdominal pain, fever, and diarrhea and is confirmed by endoscopy and biopsy.
Although the primary mode of therapy is nonoperative, 60% to 70% of patients with IBD require surgical treatment at some point. Reasons include complications of the disease (fistulas, strictures, or toxic megacolon), complications of surgery (small bowel obstruction due to postoperative scarring), cancer prevention (colectomy in the case of UC), plus other reasons unrelated to the intestinal disease.
Perioperative Considerations
CD and UC are chronic diseases that are typically managed by using up to six different classes of medications: antidiarrheal, antiinflammatory, immunosuppressant, antibiotic, anti-TNF (tumor necrosis factor), and other investigational drugs. Patients who are taking steroids should continue to do so prior to surgery and may require supplementation in anticipation of adrenal insufficiency.
Specific anesthetics are neither preferred nor contraindicated for patients with IBD, but certain of their medications may have anesthetic implications. In general, potential interactions between anesthetic and antineoplastic drugs are not clear. Cyclosporine increases the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of volatile anesthetics. Azathioprine has phosphodiesterase effects and may partially antagonize nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs. Cyclosporine and infliximab may enhance the potency of the nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs. The clinical consequence of these interactions is minimal.
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is defined as the retrograde movement of gastric contents through the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) into the esophagus. The pathophysiology of GERD involves impaired esophageal motility, LES, and gastric motility. Retrograde movement of gastric contents past both the LES and the upper esophageal sphincter into the pharynx can lead to pulmonary aspiration of gastric acid and particulate matter.
GERD is an extremely common syndrome. The prevalence of GERD—defined as at least weekly heartburn or regurgitation, or both—in the United States is 18% to 28%. Besides heartburn, the most common symptoms are noncardiac chest pain, dysphagia, pharyngitis, cough, asthma, hoarseness, laryngitis, sinusitis, and dental erosions.
Reflux occurs when the LES is incompetent or when LES pressure (LESP) is less than intra-abdominal (or intragastric) pressure. GERD can occur as a result of esophageal dysmotility or a hiatal hernia. In a patient with a hiatal hernia, the LES may be displaced cephalad into the thoracic cavity so that it loses the diaphragmatic contribution to LES function. The diaphragm can also obstruct the esophagus. GERD is associated with other conditions, including pregnancy, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, gastric hypersecretion, gastric outlet obstruction, gastric neuropathy, and increased intra-abdominal pressure. The risk of pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents during induction of anesthesia in patients with GERD or the previously mentioned predisposing factors is not well established. In contrast, increased intra-abdominal (gastric) pressure and pregnancy are important risk factors. Significant GERD occurs with at least 30% to 50% of pregnant women. The mechanism is primarily a progesterone-mediated relaxation of LES tone, but there also may be contributions from delayed gastric emptying, impaired LES due to increased intra-abdominal pressure from the enlarging gravid uterus, and decreased bowel transit.
Initial management of GERD usually consists of a combination of lifestyle modifications and drug therapy using medications that are moderately effective and have limited side effects. Lifestyle management includes elevating the head of the bed, eating food high in lean protein, and avoiding smoking, coffee, and foods and drugs known to relax the LES. Antacids and mucoprotective drugs may relieve symptoms. If not, further medical management includes drugs that are prokinetic and reduce gastric acid secretion.
Prokinetics minimize contact time of gastric contents with the esophagus by blocking dopamine or serotonin (5-HT [5-hydroxytryptamine]) receptors. Metoclopramide (a 5-HT receptor antagonist) can produce choreoathetosis and other extrapyramidal side effects. Histamine (H 2 ) receptor blockers decrease gastric acid secretion by gastric parietal cells; however, they may increase the production of gastrin and decrease LESP. In some patients, particularly the elderly (also see Chapter 35 ), H 2 receptor blocking drugs may cause adverse central nervous system side effects including confusion, agitation, and psychosis. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the most potent therapy for severe erosive esophagitis. Omeprazole may inhibit the metabolism and elimination of warfarin, digoxin, phenytoin, and benzodiazepines.
Perioperative Considerations (Also See Chapter 13 )
The customary approach to induction of general anesthesia in the patient at risk for pulmonary aspiration of gastric acid is the rapid-sequence induction (RSI) using cricoid pressure (CP) to obstruct any potential flow of gastric contents into the pharynx and trachea (also see Chapter 14 ). The putative benefits of the RSI and CP remain controversial. CP can be ineffective, especially if not properly applied, and can have undesired side effects including potentially increasing the risk of regurgitation and failed tracheal intubation. Furthermore, improperly performed CP sometimes might not effectively align the cricoid and esophagus with the solid cervical spine underneath. CP is not a benign procedure and can be associated with several complications ( Table 29.1 ). In addition, complications are more likely in the elderly, children, pregnant women, patients with cervical injury, and patients with a difficult airway and when there is difficulty palpating the cricoid cartilage.
Table 29.1
Categories of Patients at Risk From Inappropriately Applied Cricoid Pressure
Modified from Brimacombe JR, Berry AM. Cricoid pressure. Can J Anaesth . 1997;44:414-425.
Patient Group at Risk Reason
Elderly Esophageal rupture, laryngeal obstruction
Children Laryngeal obstruction
Parturient May require more pressure
Laryngeal trauma May require surgical repair after cricoid pressure
Cervical spine trauma May displace an unstable cervical spine
Difficult airway May worsen visualization
Surgical management of symptomatic reflux disease may be treated with an antireflux operation—most commonly the Nissen fundoplication in adults. This operation is typically performed laparoscopically. The Nissen fundoplication consists of reducing the herniated stomach, repairing the diaphragmatic defect, and performing a gastric wrap to prevent the stomach and LES from retracting into the thorax. Hypertension, bradycardia, high mean airway pressures, and desaturation are potential intraoperative complications and are a consequence of pneumoperitoneum and increased intra-abdominal pressure. Important postoperative events include discomfort from carbon dioxide gas accumulation under the diaphragm and postoperative nausea and vomiting. Subcutaneous air may also appear in the neck and chest. This is benign and self-limited because CO 2 gas is rapidly reabsorbed by the body. Nausea and vomiting are more serious complications associated with esophageal surgery because vomiting can lead to esophageal rupture.
Endocrine Disorders
Diabetes Mellitus
Between 1990 and 2010, the number of adults with a diagnosis of diabetes more than tripled from 6.5 million to 20.7 million. Diabetes mellitus, a disease that complicates most organ systems, is characterized by increased blood glucose concentrations due to a relative lack of endogenous insulin. Previously, diabetes was classified in terms of insulin requirement (insulin-dependent versus non–insulin-dependent), but this system has proved less satisfactory because nearly all diabetics develop a need for insulin at some point. The current classification labels patients as having either type 1 (T1DM) or type 2 (T2DM) diabetes. T1DM is typically characterized by the absence of insulin production from the pancreas, whereas T2DM involves a relative lack of insulin plus resistance to endogenous insulin.
Blood glucose control is required in both types, but T1DM always requires insulin to prevent hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis, and other complications. Type 2 diabetics may require insulin, but often only require oral hypoglycemic drugs, weight loss, or dietary management. T1DM is commonly heralded at an early age by a dramatic episode of ketoacidosis. The onset of T2DM usually is more insidious. Type 2 diabetics constitute the majority and, unlike type 1 diabetics, are often overweight. Dietary control and weight loss are important in T2DM, but the cornerstone of management of both types is pharmacologic.
Effectiveness of glucose control is monitored by measuring glycated hemoglobin (HbA 1c ) levels. During hyperglycemia, glucose can permanently combine with hemoglobin in erythrocytes and form HbA 1c . Because erythrocytes normally have a 120-day life span, HbA 1c levels give an indication of how well the diabetes is being controlled over time. Normal HbA 1c levels are less than 6%, and risk of complications from diabetes increases with higher HbA 1c levels.
Insulin is categorized as rapid, intermediate, or long acting. In the outpatient setting it is usually given by subcutaneous injection. For T1DM, intensive therapy consisting of three or more injections per day of basal and prandial insulin or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is imperative for improved glycemic control and prevention of ketoacidosis. Metformin is the preferred initial pharmacologic therapy for T2DM. Metformin reduces glucose load by decreasing hepatic production. If noninsulin monotherapy does not achieve target HbA 1c , the addition of a second oral agent, GLP-1 receptor agonist, or insulin is recommended.
Complications are common in long-standing diabetes and result largely from microangiopathy and macroangiopathy. Diabetes is a well-recognized risk factor for large- and small-vessel coronary artery disease and was originally advanced as an indication for perioperative β-adrenergic blockade. Diabetes in young and middle-aged adults is the leading cause of renal failure requiring hemodialysis. Diabetic retinopathy is characterized by a spectrum of lesions within the retina and is the leading cause of blindness among adults 20 to 74 years old. More than half of all individuals with diabetes eventually develop neuropathy, with a lifetime risk of one or more lower extremity amputations estimated to be 15%. Autonomic neuropathy occurs in 20% to 40% of patients with long-standing diabetes, particularly those with peripheral sensory neuropathy, renal failure, or systemic hypertension. Cardiac autonomic neuropathy may mask angina pectoris and obscure the presence of coronary artery disease. Gastroparesis, which may cause delayed gastric emptying, is a sign of autonomic neuropathy affecting the vagus nerves.
Perioperative Considerations
A patient with well-controlled diabetes may not require special treatment before and during surgery, although reducing the morning dose of insulin by 30% to 50% in order to prevent hypoglycemia because of fasting is common and reasonable. Sulfonylurea drugs may be continued until the evening before surgery; however, these drugs may also produce hypoglycemia in the absence of morning caloric intake, so they should not be taken the morning of surgery. (See Chapter 13 , medications section for additional recommendations on perioperative insulin management.)
Recommendations regarding biguanides such as metformin have recently changed. The first biguanide introduced, phenformin, was associated with lactic acidosis and was eventually replaced in clinical use by metformin. In the 1990s, a common recommendation was made for metformin to be discontinued 48 hours preoperatively to avoid risk of fatal lactic acidosis. This initial recommendation was based on individual case reports but was questioned by a subsequent meta-analysis.
Perioperative hyperglycemia may result from many causes including stress-induced neuroendocrine changes, exogenous glucose administration, and a patient’s underlying metabolic state. Preoperative measurement of blood glucose is usually performed prior to anesthesia; however, the desired intraoperative glucose level is not well established. Perioperative concerns include the risks of diabetic ketoacidosis, severe dehydration and coma related to the hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic state, the adverse effect of hyperglycemia on neurologic outcome after cerebral ischemia, and the increased risk of surgical wound infection. The optimal level of glucose control in the perioperative and critical care setting remains controversial. Attempts to maintain glucose levels of 81 to 108 mg/dL in critically ill patients resulted in higher rates of cardiovascular mortality and severe hypoglycemia compared to those patients in whom the level was controlled in the range below 180 mg/dL.
Hyperthyroidism and Thyroid Storm
Hyperthyroidism, or thyrotoxicosis, is characterized by increasing circulating levels of unbound thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (T 3 ) and tetraiodothyronine (thyroxine, or T 4 ). The most common cause is Graves disease, an autoimmune condition in which thyrotropin receptor antibodies continuously mimic the effect of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). However, it may also be caused by the following:
• Toxic multinodular goiter
• Thyroiditis
• β-Human chorionic gonadotropin–mediated hyperthyroidism—gestational hyperthyroidism, choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole
• Struma ovarii, which is the presence of thyroid tissue in an ovarian teratoma
• The administration of iodinated contrast dye to a susceptible patient
• Drug-induced by amiodarone (which can lead to both hypo- and hyperthyroidism), lithium, interferon-α
• TSH secreting pituitary adenoma
The principal signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism are cardiac, neurologic, and constitutional. Thyroid hormone increases cardiac sensitivity to catecholamines, resulting in hypertension and tachyarrhythmias. Other signs of severe hyperthyroidism include high-output congestive heart failure or angina, even in the absence of coronary plaques. Tremor, hyperreflexia, and irritability are common neurologic manifestations. Periodic paralysis, characterized by hypokalemia and proximal muscle weakness, may also occur. Fever and heat intolerance are common. Gastrointestinal symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea as well as hepatic dysfunction and jaundice. Diagnosis is confirmed by demonstrating increased thyroid hormone levels in blood.
Thyroid storm is characterized by worsening of the signs and symptoms of thyrotoxicosis, including severe cardiac dysfunction, hyperglycemia, hypercalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, altered mental status, seizures, and coma. Thyroid storm may be triggered in a thyrotoxic patient by any of several stresses:
• Infection
• Stroke
• Trauma, especially to the thyroid gland
• Thyroid and nonthyroid surgery
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
• Drugs: pseudoephedrine, aspirin, excess iodine intake, contrast dye, amiodarone
• Incorrect antithyroid drug discontinuation
• Metastatic thyroid cancer
The distinction between thyrotoxicosis and thyroid storm is one of degree, with thyroid storm being the most severe form of the disorder. All hyperthyroid patients are at risk to develop thyroid storm, which is a life-threatening emergent clinical syndrome that has approximately 30% mortality rate in spite of treatment. For this reason, the general rule regarding surgery in the setting of thyrotoxicosis or thyroid storm is to undertake only that which cannot be delayed until control of thyroid hormone secretion and effect has been accomplished, either with medical management or through ablation of the thyroid using radioiodine.
Perioperative Considerations
The initial medical treatment for hyperthyroidism is to reduce thyroid hormone synthesis. This is accomplished by administration of a thioamide such as propylthiouracil (PTU) or methimazole (MMI). PTU and MMI inhibit thyroid peroxidase (TPO), the enzyme that catalyzes the incorporation of iodide into thyroglobulin to produce T 3 and T 4 . At least an hour after giving the thioamide, large doses of stable iodide may be given. This step takes advantage of a paradoxic effect, called the Wolff-Chaikoff effect . Rather than catalyze additional incorporation of iodide into thyroglobulin, as might be expected, large amounts of iodide suppress gene transcription of TPO, further reducing the gland’s capacity to produce and release hormone. This benefit is temporary, lasting about a week.
In addition, especially in cases of thyroid storm, administration of β-adrenergic blockers reduces adrenergic symptoms. Propranolol is the β-blocker traditionally selected because it also inhibits peripheral conversion of T 4 to the more potent hormone T 3 ; however, other β-adrenergic blockers such as atenolol, metoprolol, and esmolol have been used and are not contraindicated. Corticosteroids can treat the relative adrenal insufficiency that results from accelerated metabolism in the context of thyroid storm. Cortisol levels tend to be in the normal range in these patients, but they should be higher to be appropriate to the level of stress. Plasmapheresis has been utilized as an adjunct method to reduce circulating thyroid hormone levels by removing T 3 and T 4 from the bloodstream.
The goal of anesthesia is to avoid an increase in heart rate or sympathetic activation. Conversely, anesthetics and techniques that reduce or blunt sympathetic activity are usually favored. Ketamine would not be ideal to induce anesthesia or provide analgesia. Rather, fentanyl and its congeners would be favored for analgesia. Isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane would all be useful for maintenance of general anesthesia, with the warning that high inspiratory concentrations of desflurane might not be advantageous. Regional anesthesia, when practical, might also be efficacious in avoiding sympathetic activation. Intraoperative thyroid storm may be difficult to distinguish from malignant hyperthermia. Dantrolene is beneficial in either situation and should be considered if there is suspicion of either condition.
Hypothyroidism is characterized by decreased circulating levels of unbound thyroid hormones T 3 and T 4 . Hypothyroidism may be congenital (cretinism) or acquired. The most common acquired cause in adults is Hashimoto thyroiditis, a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by progressive destruction of the thyroid gland. Medical or surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism may lead to iatrogenic hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism after radioactive iodine treatment of hyperthyroidism occurs in at least 50% of patients within 10 years after treatment. Secondary hypothyroidism may occur as a consequence of hypothalamic or pituitary disease or after surgery on these structures. The absence of dietary iodine causes hypothyroidism and an enlarged gland (“endemic goiter”).
The onset of hypothyroidism usually is insidious, and the symptoms are often nonspecific. Adults may have easy fatigability, lethargy, weakness, and weight gain. The skin is usually dry and the hair brittle. In severe cases, myxedema develops and is characterized by a reduced cardiac output, attenuated deep tendon reflexes, and nonpitting pretibial edema. Untreated, hypothyroidism may progress to include electrolyte disturbance, hypoventilation, hypothermia, and coma.
Hypothyroidism may be either overt or subclinical. Overt hypothyroidism is diagnosed by measuring low T 3 and T 4 levels in blood. Primary hypothyroidism is characterized by low T 3 and T 4 levels but an elevated TSH. In secondary hypothyroidism, all thyroid-related hormones are reduced. Subclinical hypothyroidism, manifested by an increased serum concentration of TSH in combination with a normal free T 4 , is present in about 5% to 8% of the American population, with a prevalence of more than 13% in otherwise healthy elderly patients, especially women.
Hypothyroidism is treated with oral administration of synthetic levothyroxine, 75 to 150 μg/day. Thyroid replacement is initiated slowly because acute cardiac ischemia can develop in patients with coronary artery disease from the sudden increase in myocardial oxygen demand as the metabolism and cardiac output increase. Although IV thyroid replacement therapy is available, its use is limited to severe presentations such as myxedema coma.
Perioperative Considerations
Asymptomatic mild to moderate hypothyroidism does not increase the risk of perioperative morbidity. Mildly hypothyroid patients do not possess unusual sensitivity to inhaled anesthetics, sedatives, or narcotics. Symptomatic or severe hypothyroidism in contrast should necessitate surgical delay for thyroid hormone replacement until the neurologic and cardiovascular abnormalities have resolved.
Thyroid Surgery
The most important perioperative considerations related to thyroid surgery involve physical or functional airway obstruction from tracheal compression or damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerves. Airway management is one of the primary challenges for providing safe anesthetic care to patients undergoing thyroidectomy. The potential issues are whether goiters predict difficult bag-mask ventilation, difficult laryngoscopy, and difficult endotracheal intubation. Tracheal compression may lead to the symptoms of dyspnea, wheezing, obstructive sleep apnea, or cough. Patients with thyroid enlargement should be evaluated prior to surgery for evidence of tracheal compression or deviation. Review of available computed tomography scans may reveal the size of the goiter and the resultant alteration of anatomy.
There is a question as to whether tracheal compression or deviation has an impact on outcome. A prospective study reported the incidence of difficult endotracheal intubation in euthyroid patients undergoing a thyroidectomy as 5%; however, the cause of the airway difficulty was not related to the thyroid. Rather, the usual anatomic factors that predict a difficult airway in the general population were the predictors in this patient group. Independent risk factors of difficult intubation were cancerous goiter and Cormack grade III or IV view at laryngoscopy. In the presence of a cancerous goiter, tracheal invasion and tissue infiltration with associated fibrosis may reduce the mobility of laryngeal structures and impede the laryngoscopy view of the glottic opening. In patients with severe tracheal compression causing stridor, intubation of the trachea with the patient awake may be the method of choice to limit the risk of complete airway obstruction after spontaneous ventilation has been ablated. The surgical team should be prepared and ready to perform an emergent tracheotomy or rigid bronchoscopy if necessary.
An important aspect of the anesthetic technique is directed at preventing coughing during emergence as a means of reducing the risk of postoperative hemorrhage. Various methods have been proposed as ways to minimize cough during emergence, including extubation during deep anesthesia and administration of the potent short-acting narcotic remifentanil, the α 2 -agonist dexmedetomidine, or lidocaine. However, no single method has been proved superior.
Postextubation airway compromise following thyroid surgery can result from an expanding wound hematoma, vocal cord dysfunction due to recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, or tracheomalacia. In the past, it was common practice to attempt to perform a direct laryngoscopy after extubation in order to confirm that both vocal cords moved normally. Many practitioners found it difficult to execute this maneuver at exactly the moment when the patient could tolerate laryngoscopy and demonstrate vocal cord mobility. This practice has not been validated as a predictor of postoperative vocal cord dysfunction and is not commonly recommended today.
Unilateral laryngeal nerve injuries from thyroid surgery produce voice impairment but are not a threat to airway function. Bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, in contrast, compromises the function of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles, which are the muscles responsible for separating the cords during breathing. This can lead to life-threatening inspiratory airway obstruction that can only be relieved by intubation or tracheostomy. In such patients, the paralyzed vocal cords do not abduct during the respiratory cycle, and may appear apposed in the midline when seen during direct laryngoscopy.
Some surgeons request the use of a laryngeal nerve monitoring endotracheal tube during thyroid surgery as a putative safety measure to prevent inadvertent injury to the laryngeal nerves. These specialized endotracheal tubes have electrodes that are positioned in the immediate vicinity of the vocal cords and send an electromyographic signal to a receiver whenever the vocal cords contract. As a result, if the surgeon stimulates a laryngeal nerve either by retracting it or by using an electrocautery close to it, an audible signal provides a warning.
Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma
Tumor overproduction of any of the adrenal medullary hormones dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine results in hypertension and tachycardia plus cardiovascular hyperresponsiveness to noxious stimulation. The cells that produce these hormones are of neural crest origin. When the tumor arises in the adrenal medulla, it is called a pheochromocytoma ; when it arises from ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system, it is called a paraganglioma . The biologic behavior is the same in either case. Life-threatening hypertensive crises and tachyarrhythmias may occur, especially during surgery on a previously undiagnosed patient. Pheochromocytoma often goes unrecognized because its symptoms (headache, palpitations, sweating) are nonspecific and as many as 8% are asymptomatic. These tumors are relatively rare (approximate prevalence is 1 in 2000 in the general population) and are diagnosed in less than 1% of patients with hypertension.
Hypertension probably occurs because arteriolar smooth muscle has been exposed to norepinephrine, the neurotransmitter for sympathetic nervous system mediated vasoconstriction. According to this theory, tumor-secreted norepinephrine bathes the synapses directly. But if this were true, the production of norepinephrine by the sympathetic nerves should be suppressed and sympathetic nervous system activity should not be able to regulate arterial blood pressure; instead the circulating hormones would do so. This theory has prompted the practice of preoperative α-adrenergic blockade with phenoxybenzamine prior to tumor resection. It also may be the basis for the unproven beliefs that blood catecholamine levels correlate with arterial blood pressure values and that hypertension occurs when the surgeon manipulates the tumor because this manipulation squeezes hormones out of the tumor and into the bloodstream.
Other interpretations are likely. Catecholamine levels do not correlate with the time or magnitude of increases in arterial blood pressure value, and clinical experience is that 2 weeks of preoperative treatment with nonselective α-adrenergic blockade is commonly ineffective for prevention of intraoperative hypertension. An alternative approach to preoperative preparation should be considered. Hypertension, if present, may be controlled prior to surgery with any of a variety of drugs, and once arterial blood pressure is under reasonable control, the tumor is resected. There is, however, no basis to expect that arterial blood pressure and heart rate lability during the surgery can be entirely prevented, no matter what pretreatment is administered.
An alternate theory of why adrenergic receptor blockade is not fully effective is that chronic catecholamine exposure amplifies the sympathetic nervous system’s responses to all forms of physical stimulation. These responses would include hypertension and tachycardia from laryngoscopy and any surgical manipulations. Such hemodynamic responses may be seen in any patient, but the effect may be exaggerated under the influence of high catecholamine levels. Such a theory is supported by animal data suggesting that, despite chronic catecholamine excess, sympathetic nerves remain active and continue to release mediators that influence or even control blood pressure. The failure of competitive receptor blockade might be explained by the ability of the sympathetic nervous system to overwhelm the competitive blockade by releasing norepinephrine in quantities that are much greater than normal.
Perioperative Considerations
In theory, the nonspecific α-blocking drug phenoxybenzamine should not be chosen because it has α 2 -blocking properties. Because α 2 -agonists generally produce bradycardia, sedation, and decreased arterial blood pressure, blocking the α 2 -receptor should increase arterial blood pressure and heart rate, which would not be the intended therapeutic result. Nevertheless, phenoxybenzamine is often recommended. For the chronic treatment of patients with unresectable catecholamine-secreting tumors, its long pharmacologic half-life is desirable. However, phenoxybenzamine is very expensive, and many less costly alternatives exist for preoperative blood pressure control. The α 1 -selective blockers (prazosin, doxazosin, terazosin), calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, β-adrenergic blockers, and α 2 -agonists all have been used with beneficial result prior to adrenalectomy. Intraoperative infusions of vasodilators and esmolol still may be required to treat hypertension or tachycardia. Infusions of magnesium and the α 2 -agonist dexmedetomidine may be useful as well.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and Neuroendocrine Tumors
The two groups of multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) syndromes were originally called Wermer syndrome and Sipple syndrome but are now known as MEN type 1 (MEN1) and MEN type 2 (MEN2), respectively.
This syndrome includes the triad of tumors of the pancreas, pituitary, and parathyroid glands and is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Parathyroid tumors, resulting in primary hyperparathyroidism, are the most common feature of MEN1 and occur in approximately 95% of MEN1 patients. All four parathyroid glands usually are removed surgically because all are involved by the disease.
Pancreatic tumors in MEN1 patients are usually adenomas that secrete an excess of a specific hormone. Gastrin secretion is most common, occurring in approximately 40%, but insulin, glucagon, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, and pancreatic polypeptide secreting tumors are seen. Pituitary tumors most commonly secrete prolactin (60%) or growth hormone (25%). A small number secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), with the balance being nonfunctioning adenomas. Other tumors in MEN1 include adrenocortical adenomas, carcinoids and neurendocrine tumors, lipomas, angiofibromas, and collagenomas. There are no specific anesthetic implications of MEN1.
Medullary (solid) thyroid carcinomas (MTCs) are a component of two endocrine syndromes, which are now called MEN2A and MEN2B . MEN2A accounts for 80% of hereditary MTC syndromes. In addition to MTC, up to 50% of patients with MEN2A develop pheochromocytomas and up to 30% develop hyperparathyroidism. MEN2B accounts for 5% of hereditary MTCs and includes mucosal neuromas, pheochromocytoma, and MTC. These patients may have a marfanoid habitus, ocular abnormalities (enlarged corneal nerves, conjunctivitis sicca, and the inability to cry tears), and musculoskeletal manifestations (bowing of the extremities and slipped capital femoral epiphysis). Unlike patients with MEN1, they do not develop parathyroid adenomas. A third subtype of MEN2 is characterized only by familial MTC. All the MEN2 subtypes are autosomal dominant conditions caused by germline activating mutations in the RET proto-oncogene on chromosome 10. The anesthetic implications of MEN2 are related to its components and associated conditions. Von Hippel–Lindau disease, which may include cerebellar tumors, is associated with MEN2 and pheochromocytomas. MTC, which accounts for only 5% of all thyroid tumors, is commonly malignant and is the most common cause of death in MEN2 patients. A patient of any age with MTC is therefore likely to undergo thyroidectomy and may be at risk to have an undiagnosed pheochromocytoma at the time of surgery.
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors arise from dispersed cells of neural crest embryologic origin. The normal function of these cells is to synthesize serotonin from the essential amino acid tryptophan. When these tumors arise in the midgut, they are called carcinoid tumors . When they arise elsewhere in the body, they are called neuroendocrine tumors .
The biochemical behavior of these tumors is to overproduce serotonin in preference to the normal products of tryptophan metabolism, including niacin (vitamin B 3 ). In rare instances, patients may therefore develop symptomatic niacin deficiency (pellagra), but this is rare. Most commonly, midgut carcinoid tumors are asymptomatic until they cause bowel obstruction or appendicitis because their venous drainage is via the portal vein to the liver, which detoxifies the excess serotonin they produce. When the tumors arise outside the drainage field of the hepatic portal venous system, or when metastatic disease has replaced so much of the liver as to compromise hepatic synthetic function, systemic symptoms of serotonin excess occur. This is known as the carcinoid syndrome and is characterized by diarrhea, flushing, palpitations, and bronchoconstriction. Medical management with octreotide may help ameliorate these symptoms.
Perioperative Considerations
The direct hemodynamic effects of serotonin usually are not problematic in the context of perioperative anesthetic care, and an escalation of hemodynamic monitoring is seldom required as a consequence of the endocrine activity of the tumor. However, certain medications can trigger mediator release resulting in labile arterial blood pressure. Drugs that trigger mediator release include opioids (particularly meperidine and morphine), neuromuscular blockers (atracurium, mivacurium, and d-tubocurarine), epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine (also see chapter 9, chapter 11 ).
Among those with carcinoid syndrome, approximately 50% develop carcinoid heart disease, which typically causes abnormalities of the right side of the heart. Echocardiography should be considered as a diagnostic tool. Right-sided heart failure, due to the sclerosing effect of serotonin on the tricuspid and pulmonary valves, ultimately may be the cause of death in 50% of patients with the carcinoid syndrome.
Adrenal Insufficiency and Steroid Replacement
The principal hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex are cortisol and aldosterone. Cortisol production is stimulated by blood concentrations of pituitary ACTH, which is in turn secreted in response to hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH). Stress stimulates the hypothalamus to release CRH, and blood cortisol levels exert negative feedback influence on the production of both CRH and ACTH. Chronic insufficient cortisol production and secretion, with or without aldosterone insufficiency, is referred to as Addison syndrome .
The symptoms of chronic adrenal insufficiency are nonspecific. They include fatigue, malaise, lethargy, weight loss, anorexia, arthralgias, myalgias, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fever. In primary adrenocortical insufficiency, due to nonfunction of the adrenal glands, hyponatremia and hyperkalemia resulting from concomitant aldosterone deficiency may occur. In secondary or tertiary insufficiency, due to failure of the hypothalamus or pituitary to stimulate the adrenal glands, or when cortisol production is suppressed by exogenously administered steroid medications, aldosterone production is unimpaired. This is because the stimulus for aldosterone production is the renin-angiotensin system. In developed countries, 80% to 90% of cases of primary adrenal insufficiency are caused by autoimmune adrenalitis, which can be isolated (40%) or part of an autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome (60%). Less common causes of primary chronic adrenal insufficiency are malignant (metastatic cancer, commonly from lung or breast) and infectious (such as tuberculosis).
Cortisol maintains homeostasis of the cardiovascular system, especially in the presence of stress. It maintains vascular tone, endothelial integrity, and the distribution of total body water in the vascular compartment. It reduces vascular permeability and it potentiates the vasoconstrictor effects of catecholamines. When cortisol levels are deficient, systemic vascular resistance and myocardial contractility are decreased.
The term acute adrenal failure , or Addisonian crisis , refers to circulatory shock due to cortisol deficiency. It generally occurs in the presence of primary adrenal insufficiency with a superimposed acute stress such as trauma, surgery, or infection and is characterized by hypovolemic shock with myocardial and vascular unresponsiveness to catecholamines. Treatment usually requires the IV infusion of several liters of isotonic saline and corticosteroid administration. In an adult, 100 mg of IV cortisol (or the equivalent every 6 to 8 hours) usually reverses the pathophysiology within the first day of treatment. Orally administered drugs can be started in 1 to 4 days. The equivalent doses of these drugs are expressed using hydrocortisone, the synthetic form of cortisol, with 100 mg as the standard for comparison ( Table 29.2 ).
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Algerian War
Algerian War
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Algerian War
caption= Barricade Week in Alger, January 1960.
date=1 November 1954 – 19 March 1962
casus=Toussaint Rouge terrorist attacks in French Algeria by the FLN, 1 November 1954.
result=Algerian independence
combatant1= flagicon|Algeria|1958 FLN
flagicon|Algeria|1958 MNA
combatant2=flagicon|France France
combatant3= flagicon|France FAF
flagicon|France OAS
commander1=Mustapha Benboulaïd
Ferhat Abbas
Houari Boumedienne
Hocine Aït Ahmed
Ahmed Ben Bella
Krim Belkacem
Larbi Ben M'Hidi
Rabah Bitat
Mohamed Boudiaf
Messali Hadj
commander2=Paul Cherrière (1954-55)
Henri Lorillot (1955-56)
Raoul Salan (1956-58)
Maurice Challe (1958-60)
Jean Crepin (1960-61)
Fernand Gambiez (1961)
Charles Ailleret (1961-62)
commander3=Said Boualam
Pierre Lagaillarde
Raoul Salan
Edmond Jouhaud
strength2=400,000Martin Windrow, "The Algerian War 1954-62." p. 17]
60,000 Harki
strength3=3,000 (OAS)
casualties1=141,000+ dead, 160,000 wounded
casualties2=28,500 dead
65,000 wounded
casualties3=100 dead (OAS)
2,000 jailed (OAS)
casualties4=Civilians killed/wounded = 400,000+
The Algerian War (French: "Guerre d'Algérie"; 1954-1962), also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria's independence from France. One of the most important decolonization wars, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army. Effectively started on 1 November 1954 during the "Toussaint Rouge" ("Red All Saints' Day"), the conflict shook the French Fourth Republic's (1946–58) foundations and led to its collapse. Under directives from Guy Mollet's (SFIO) government, the French Army initiated a campaign of "pacification" of what was still considered at the time to be fully part of France. This "public order operation" quickly grew to a size where it could be called a full-scale war. Algerians, who had at first largely favored a peaceful resolution, turned increasingly toward the goal of independence, supported by other Arab countries and, more generally, by worldwide public opinion fueled by anti-colonialist ideas. Meanwhile, the French divided themselves on the issues of "French Algeria" ("l'Algérie Française"), of the maintenance of the status quo, the acceptance of negotiations and of an intermediate status between independence and complete integration in the French Republic, and complete independence. The French army finally obtained a military victory in the war, but the situation had changed and Algerian independence could no longer be forestalled.
Because of the instability of the French parliament the French Fourth Republic was dissolved with Charles de Gaulle's return to power during the May 1958 crisis and his subsequent founding of the Fifth Republic and the establishment of a new Constitution constructed by himself and his Gaullist followers. De Gaulle's return to power was supposed to ensure Algeria's continued occupation and integration with the French Community, which had replaced the French Union which gathered France's colonies. However, De Gaulle progressively shifted in favor of Algerian independence, purportedly seeing it as inevitable. De Gaulle organized a vote for the Algerian people. The Algerians chose independence and France engaged in negotiations with the FLN, leading to the March 1962 Evian Accords which resulted in the independence of Algeria. After the failed April 1961 Algiers putsch organized by Generals hostile to the negotiations headed by Michel Debré's Gaullist government, the OAS ("Organisation de l'armée secrète"), which grouped various opponents of Algerian independence, initiated a campaign of bombings as well as peaceful strikes and demonstrations in Algeria in order to block the implementation of the Evian Accords and the exile of the pieds-noirs. Ahmed Ben Bella, who had been arrested in 1956 along with other FLN leaders, became the first President of Algeria. To this day, the war has provided an important strategy frame for counter-insurgency thinkers, while the use of torture by the French Army has provoked a moral and political debate on the legitimacy and effectiveness of such methods. This debate is far from being settled as torture was used by both sides.
The Algerian war is a founding event of Algerian history. It left long-standing scars in both French and Algerian society, and still affects some segments of society in both countries to this day. After the 1997 legislative elections, won by the Socialist Party (PS), the National Assembly officially acknowledged in June 1999, a full 37 years after the Evian agreements, that a "war" had taken place (official terminology was a "public order operation"); [ [ Colonialism, a dangerous war of memories begins] , by Benjamin Stora, in "L'Humanité", translated from December 6, 2005 article en icon ] while the Paris massacre of 1961 was recognized by the French state only in October 2001; on the other hand the Oran massacre of 1962 by the FLN has not been recognized yet by the Algerian state.Relations between France and Algeria are still deeply marked by this conflict and its aftermath.
French Algeria
Conquest of Algeria
On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French invaded Algiers in 1830. [Alistair Horne, (2006). A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, New York] Directed by Marshall Bugeaud, who became the first Governor-General of Algeria, the conquest was violent, marked by a "scorched earth" policy designed to reduce the power of the bey, this included massacres, mass rapes, etc. Applauding Bugeaud's method, liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville could declare: "war in Africa is a science. Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success. One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science." Cite news | author=Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison | title=Torture in Algeria: Past Acts That Haunt France - Liberty, Equality and Colony | publisher=Le Monde diplomatique | month=June | year=2001 | url= (quoting Alexis de Tocqueville, "Travail sur l’Algérie" in "Œuvres complètes", Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1991, pp 704 and 705.en icon/fr icon ] Officially annexed in 1834, Algeria was divided the same year into three French departments, Alger, Oran and Constantine. Under the Second Empire (1852-1871), the "Code de l'indigénat" (Indigenous Code) was implemented by the "senatus consulte" of July 14, 1865. Its first article stipulated that
"The indigenous Muslim is French; however, he will continue to be subjected to Muslim law. He may be admitted to serve in the army (armée de terre) and the navy (armée de mer). He may be called to functions and civil employment in Algeria. He may, on his demand, be admitted to enjoyed the rights of a French citizen; in this case, he is subjected to the political and civil laws of France." [ "« L’indigène musulman est français ; néanmoins il continuera à être régi par la loi musulmane. Il peut être admis à servir dans les armées de terre et de mer. Il peut être appelé à des fonctions et emplois civils en Algérie. Il peut, sur sa demande, être admis à jouir des droits de citoyen français ; dans ce cas, il est régi par les lois civiles et politiques de la France » (article 1 of the 1865 Code de l'indigénat) ]
However, until 1870, fewer than 200 demands were registered by Muslims, and 152 by Jewish Algerians. [ le code de l’indigénat dans l’Algérie coloniale] , "Human Rights League" (LDH), March 6, 2005 - URL accessed on January 17, 2007 fr icon ] The 1865 decree was then modified by the 1870 Crémieux decrees, which granted French nationality to Jews living in one of the three Algerian departments. In 1881, the "Code de l'Indigénat" officialized the discrimination, by creating specific penalities for indigenes and organizing the seizure or appropriation of their lands. [ le code de l’indigénat dans l’Algérie coloniale] , "Human Rights League" (LDH), March 6, 2005 - URL accessed on January 17, 2007 fr icon ]
Algerian nationalism
Algerians (natives and Europeans altogether) took part in World War I, fighting for France as "tirailleurs" (such regiments were created as early as 1842. [ [ les tirailleurs, bras armé de la France coloniale] , "Human Rights League" (LDH), August 25, 2004 - URL accessed on January 17, 2007 fr icon ] ), tabors, goumiers, and spahis. With Wilson's 1918 proclamation of the Fourteen Points, whose fifth point proclaimed that "A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined," some Algerian intellectuals — dubbed "oulémas" — began to nurture the desire for, if not independence, at least autonomy and self-rule. It is in this context that Hadj Abd el-Kadir (grand-son of Abd el-Kadir, who had spearheaded the resistance against the French in the first half of the 19th century, and a member of the directing committee of the French Communist Party (PCF)), founded in 1926 the North African Star ("Etoile nordafricaine") party, to which Messali Hadj, also member of the PCF and of its affiliated trade union, the CGTU, joined the following year. The North African Party broke from the PCF in 1928, before being dissolved in 1929 at Paris' demand. Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic (1871-1940) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposalin 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims. The "pieds-noirs" (Algerians of European origin) however violently demonstrated against it, while the North African Party opposed it, leading to the project's abandonment. The independent party was dissolved in 1937 and its leaders were charged with illegal reconstitution of a dissolved league, leading to Messali Hadj's 1937 foundation of the "Parti du peuple algérien" (Algerian People's Party, PPA), which this time no longer espoused full independence, but only an extensive autonomy. This new party was again dissolved in 1939. Under Vichy, the French state attempts to abrogate the Crémieux decree in order to suppress the Jews' French citizenship, but the measure was never implemented.
On the other hand, independent leader Ferhat Abbas founded the Algerian Popular Union("Union populaire algérienne") in 1938, while writing in 1943 the Algerian People's Manifest ("Manifeste du peuple algérien"). Arrested after the May 8, 1945 Sétif massacre, during which the French Army and Pied Noir mobs killed about 6,000 Algerians, [ Horne, Alistair, "A Savage War of Peace", s. 27] Abbas founded in 1946 the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (UDMA) and was elected as a deputy. Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front (FLN) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party (PPA), while its leaders created an armed wing, the "Armée de Libération Nationale" (National Liberation Army) to engage in armed struggle against French authority.
Beginning of hostilities
In the early morning hours of November 1, 1954, FLN "maquisards" — (guerrillas), or "terrorists" as they were called by the French — launched attacks in various parts of Algeria against military and civilian targets, in what became known as the "Toussaint Rouge". They also attacked many French civilians, killing severalFact|date=October 2007. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state - sovereign, democratic and social - within the framework of the principles of Islam." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès-France (Radical-Socialist Party), who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's empire in Indochina, that set the tone of French policy for the next five years. On November 12, he declared in the National Assembly: "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French [...] Between them and metropolitan France there can be no conceivable secession." At first, and despite the May 8, 1945 Sétif massacre and pro-Independence struggle before WWII, most Algerians were in favour of a relative status-quo. While Messali Hadj had radicalized by forming the FLN, Ferhat Abbas maintained a more moderate, electoral strategy. Less than 500 "fellaghas" (pro-Independence fighters) could be counted at the beginning of the conflict "Alger-Bagdad", account of Yves Boisset's film documentary, "La Bataille d'Algers" (2006), in "Le Canard enchaîné", January 10, 2007, n°4498, p.7 ] The Algerian population radicalized itself in particular because of the "Main Rouge" (Red Hand) terrorist attacks. This terrorist group engaged in anti-colonialist actions in all of the Maghreb region (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), killing for example Tunisian activist Farhat Hached in 1952.
The FLN uprising presented nationalist groups with the question of whether to adopt armed revolt as the main course of action. During the first year of the war, Ferhat Abbas's UDMA, the ulema, and the PCA maintained a friendly neutrality toward the FLN. The communists, who had made no move to cooperate in the uprising at the start, later tried to infiltrate the FLN, but FLN leaders publicly repudiated the support of the party. In April 1956, Abbas flew to Cairo, where he formally joined the FLN. This action brought in many "évolués" who had supported the UDMA in the past. The AUMA also threw the full weight of its prestige behind the FLN. Bendjelloul and the pro-integrationist moderates had already abandoned their efforts to mediate between the French and the rebels.
After the collapse of the MTLD, Messali Hadj formed the leftist Mouvement National Algérien (MNA), which advocated a policy of violent revolution and total independence similar to that of the FLN. The ALN, the military wing of the FLN, subsequently wiped out the MNA guerrilla operation, and Messali Hadj's movement lost what little influence it had had in Algeria. However, the MNA gained the support of many Algerian workers in France through the Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Algériens (Union of Algerian Workers). The FLN also established a strong organization in France to oppose the MNA. "Café wars," resulting in nearly 5,000 deaths, were waged in France between the two rebel groups throughout the years of the War of Independence.
On the political front, the FLN worked to persuade — and to coerce — the Algerian masses to support the aims of the Independence movement through contributions. FLN-influenced labour unions, professional associations, and students' and women's organizations were created to lead opinion in diverse segments of the population but here too violent coercion was widely used. Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique who became the FLN's leading political theorist, provided a sophisticated intellectual justification for the use of violence in achieving national liberation [Facts|date=June 2008.] [Wretched of the Earth, 1961, Fanon.] He stated that only through violence could an oppressed people attain human statusFacts|date=June 2008. From Cairo, Ahmed Ben Bella ordered the liquidation of potential "interlocuteurs valables", those independent representatives of the Muslim community acceptable to the French through whom a compromise or reforms within the system might be achieved.
As the FLN campaign of influence and terror spread through the countryside, many European farmers in the interior (called "Pieds-Noirs") sold their holdings and sought refuge in Algiers and other Algerian cities. After a series of bloody, random massacres and bombings by Muslim Algerians in several towns and cities, the French "Pieds-Noirs" and urban French population began to demand that the French government engage in sterner countermeasures, including the proclamation of a state of emergency, capital punishment for political crimes, denunciation of all separatists, and most ominously, a call for 'tit-for-tat' reprisal operations by police, military, and para-military forces. "Colon" vigilante units, whose unauthorized activities were conducted with the passive cooperation of police authorities, carried out "ratonnades" (literally, "raton-hunts", "raton" being a racist term for designating north african people) against suspected FLN members of the Muslim community. The FLN terror and intimidation campaign gave these hunts strong motivation and starting points.
After the Philippeville massacre
The FLN adopted tactics similar to those of nationalist groups in Asia, and the French did not realize the seriousness of the challenge they faced until 1955, when the FLN moved into urbanized areas. "An important watershed in the War of Independence was the massacre of Pieds-Noirs civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville (now known as Skikda) in August 1955. Before this operation, FLN policy was to attack only military and government-related targets. The commander of the Constantine "wilaya"/region, however, decided a drastic escalation was needed. The killing by the FLN and its supporters of 123 people, including 71 French, [ Number given by the] Préfecture du Gers, French governmental site - URL accessed on February 17, 2007 ] including old women and babies, shocked Jacques Soustelle into calling for more repressive measures against the rebels. The government claimed it killed 1,273 guerrillas in retaliation; according to the FLN and to "The Times" magazine, 12,000 Algerians were massacred by the armed forces and police, as well as "Pieds-Noirs" gangs. [ [ Philippeville Massacre] , "The Times" Report published on August 22, 1955 ] Soustelle's repression was an early cause of the Algerian population's rallying to the FLN.After Philippeville, Soustelle declared sterner measures and an all-out war began. In 1956 demonstrations of French Algerians forced the French government to abolish an idea of reform.
Soustelle's successor, Governor General Lacoste, a socialist, abolished the Algerian Assembly. Lacoste saw the assembly, which was dominated by "pieds-noirs", as hindering the work of his administration, and he undertook to rule Algeria by decree. He favored stepping up French military operations and granted the army exceptional police powers — a concession of dubious legality under French law — to deal with the mounting political violence. At the same time, Lacoste proposed a new administrative structure that would give Algeria a degree of autonomy and a decentralized government. Whilst remaining an integral part of France, Algeria was to be divided into five districts, each of which would have a territorial assembly elected from a single slate of candidates. Deputies representing Algerian ridings were able to delay until 1958 passage of the measure by the National Assembly of France.
In August/September 1956, the internal leadership of the FLN met to organize a formal policy-making body to synchronize the movement's political and military activities. The highest authority of the FLN was vested in the thirty-four-member National Council of the Algerian Revolution ("Conseil National de la Révolution Algérienne", CNRA), within which the five-man Committee of Coordination and Enforcement ("Comité de Coordination et d'Exécution", CCE) formed the executive. The externals, including Ben Bella, knew the conference was taking place but by chance or design on the part of the internals were unable to attend.
Meanwhile, in October 1956, the French Air Force intercepted a Moroccan DC-3 that was flying to Tunis, carrying Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohammed Boudiaf, Mohamed Khider and Hocine Aït Ahmed, and forced it to land in Algiers. Lacoste had the FLN external political leaders arrested and imprisoned for the duration of the war. This action caused the remaining rebel leaders to harden their stance.
France took a more openly hostile view of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's material and political assistance to the FLN, which some French analysts believed was the most important element in sustaining continued rebel activity in Algeria. This attitude was a factor in persuading France to participate in the November 1956 British attempt to seize the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis.
Writer, philosopher and playwright Albert Camus, native of Algiers, often associated with existentialism, tried unsuccessfully to persuade both sides to at least leave civilians alone, writing editorials against the use of torture in "Combat" newspaper. The FLN considered him a fool, and some Pieds Noirs considered him a traitor. Nevertheless, in his speech when he received the Literature Nobel Prize in Oslo, Camus said that when faced with a radical choice he would eventually support his community. This statement made him lose his status among the left-wing intellectuals; when he died in 1960 in a car crash, the official thesis of an ordinary accident (a quick open-and-shut case) has left more than a few observers doubtful. His widow has claimed that Camus, though discreet, was in fact an ardent supporter of French Algeria in the last years of his life.
Battle of Algiers
To increase international and domestic French attention to their struggle, the FLN decided to bring the conflict to the cities and to call a nationwide general strike. The most notable manifestation of the new urban campaign was the Battle of Algiers, which began on September 30, 1956, when three women placed bombs at three sites including the downtown office of Air France. The FLN carried out an average of 800 shootings and bombings per month through the spring of 1957 Fact|date=February 2007, resulting in many civilian casualties and inviting a crushing response from the authorities. The 1957 general strike, timed to coincide with, and influence, the UN debate on Algeria, was largely observed by Muslim workers and businesses Fact|date=February 2007.
General Jacques Massu was instructed to use whatever methods seemed necessary to restore order in the city. Using paratroopers, he broke the strike and then in the succeeding months systematically destroyed the FLN infrastructure in Algiers. But the FLN had succeeded in showing its ability to strike at the heart of French Algeria and to rally and force a mass response to its demands among urban Muslims. Later Massu's troops punished villages that were suspected of harboring rebels by attacking them with mobile troops or aerial bombardment and gathered 2 millionFact|date=October 2007 of the rural Muslim population into fortified villages under French military control. The publicity given to the brutal methods used by the army to win the Battle of Algiers, including the systematic use of torture, a strong movement control and curfew called "quadrillage" and where all authority was under the military, created doubt in France about its role in Algeria. This doubt was strongly communicated to France by French sympathisers in Algiers who supported the idea of independence morally, financially and materially. What had been originally thought of as a simple "pacification" or "public order operation" had turned into a fully fledged colonial war to block the influence of the guerillas and had resulted in the systematic introduction of torture.
Guerrilla war
From its origins in 1954 as ragtag "maquisards" numbering in the hundreds and armed with a motley assortment of hunting rifles and discarded French, German, and American light weapons, the FLN had evolved by 1957 into a disciplined fighting force of nearly 40,000.Fact|date=February 2007 More than 30,000 were organized along conventional lines in external units that were stationed in Moroccan and Tunisian sanctuaries near the Algerian border Fact|date=February 2007, where they served primarily to divert some French manpower from the main theaters of guerrilla activity to guard against infiltration. The brunt of the fighting was borne by the internals in the "wilayat"; estimates of the numbers of internals range from 6,000 to more than 25,000, with thousands of part-time irregulars.Fact|date=February 2007
During 1956 and 1957, the FLN successfully applied hit-and-run tactics in accordance with guerrilla warfare theory, which was at the time being formalized (in particular by Mao) as "people's war". Whilst some of this was aimed at military targets, a significant amount was invested in a terror campaign against those in any way deemed to be supporting or encouraging French authority. This resulted in acts of sadistic torture and the most brutal violence against all including women and children. Specializing in ambushes and night raids and avoiding direct contact with superior French firepower, the internal forces targeted army patrols, military encampments, police posts, and colonial farms, mines, and factories, as well as transportation and communications facilities. Once an engagement was broken off, the guerrillas merged with the population in the countryside, in accordance with Mao's theories. Kidnapping was commonplace, as were the ritual murder and mutilation of captured French military, pied-noirs of both genders and every age, suspected collaborators or traitors Fact|date=February 2007. At first, the FLN targeted only Muslim officials of the colonial regime; later, they coerced, maimed (cutting off ears and nose with a "douk-douk" was a favored torture) or killed village elders, government employees, and even simple peasants who simply refused to support them. Sometimes simply for smoking. Moreover, during the first two years of the conflict, the guerrillas killed about 6,000 Muslims and 1,000 non-Muslims according to a former paratrooper.Leulliette, Pierre, St. Michael and the Dragon: Memoirs of a Paratrooper, Houghton Mifflin, 1964] Fact|date=February 2007
Although successful in engendering an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty within both communities in Algeria, the revolutionaries' coercive tactics suggested that they had not yet inspired the bulk of the Muslim people to revolt against French colonial rule. Gradually, however, the FLN gained control in certain sectors of the Aurès, the Kabylie, and other mountainous areas around Constantine and south of Algiers and Oran. In these places, the FLN established a simple but effective— although frequently temporary — military administration that was able to collect/extort taxes and food and to recruit manpower. But it was never able to hold large fixed positions. Algerians all over the country also initiated underground social, judicial, and civil organizations, gradually building their own stateFact|date=October 2007.
French counter-insurgency operations
Despite complaints from the military command in Algiers, the French government was reluctant for many months to admit that the Algerian situation was out of control and that what was viewed officially as a pacification operation had developed into a major war. By 1956 France had committed more than 400,000 troops to Algeria. Although the elite colonial infantry airborne units and the Foreign Legion bore the brunt of offensive counterinsurgency combat operations, approximately 170,000 Muslim Algerians also served in the regular French army, most of them volunteers. France also sent air force and naval units to the Algerian theater, including rotary-winged craft (helicopters). In addition to service as a flying ambulances and cargo carrier, French forces utilized the helicopter for the first time in a ground attack role in order to pursue and destroy fleeing FLN guerrilla units. The American military would later use the same helicopter combat methods in Vietnam. The French also used napalm, which was depicted for the first time in the 2007 film "L'Ennemi intime" by Florent Emilio Siri. Benjamin Stora, "Avoir 20 ans en Kabylie", in "L'Histoire" n°324, October 2007, pp.28-29 fr icon]
The French army resumed an important role in local Algerian administration through the Special Administration Section ("Section Administrative Spécialisée", SAS), created in 1955. The SAS's mission was to establish contact with the Muslim population and weaken nationalist influence in the rural areas by asserting the "French presence" there. SAS officers — called "képis bleus" (blue caps) — also recruited and trained bands of loyal Muslim irregulars, known as "harkis". Armed with shotguns and using guerrilla tactics similar to those of the FLN, the "harkis", who eventually numbered about 180,000 volunteers, more than the FLN effectives Major Gregory D. Peterson, "The French Experience in Algeria, 1954-62: Blueprint for U.S. Operations in Iraq", Ft Leavenworth, KS: School of Advanced Military Studies, p.33 ] , were an ideal instrument of counterinsurgency warfare.
"Harkis" were mostly used in conventional formations, either in all-Algerian units commanded by French officers or in mixed units. Other uses included platoon or smaller size units, attached to French battalions, in a similar way as the Kit Carson Scouts by the US in Vietnam. A third use was an intelligence gathering role, with some reported minor pseudo-operations in support of their intelligence collection. [ John Pimlott, "The French Army: From Indochina to Chad, 1946-1984," in Ian F. W. Beckett and John Pimlott, "Armed Forces & Modern Counter-Insurgency," New York: St Martin's Press, 1985, p.66 ] According to US military Lawrence E. Cline, however, "the extent of these pseudo-operations appears to have been very limited both in time and scope... The most widespread use of pseudo type operations was during the 'Battle of Algiers' in 1957. The principal French employer of covert agents in Algiers was the Fifth Bureau, the psychological warfare branch." The Fifth Bureau "made extensive use of "turned" FLN members", one such network being run by Captain Paul-Alain Leger of the 10th Paras. "Persuaded" to work for the French forces, including by the use of torture and threats against their family, these agents "mingled with FLN cadres. They planted incriminating forged documents, spread false rumours of treachery and fomented distrust... As a frenzy of throat-cutting and disemboweling broke out among confused and suspicious FLN cadres, nationalist slaughtered nationalist from April to September 1957 and did France's work for her". [ Martin S. Alexander and J. F. V. Kieger, "France and the Algerian War: Strategy, Operations, and Diplomacy," "Journal of Strategic Studies", Vol.25, No. 2, June 2002, pp.6-7 ] But this type of operation involved individual operatives rather than organized covert units.
One organized pseudo-guerrilla unit however was created in December 1956 by the French DST domestic intelligence agency. The Organization of the French Algerian Resistance (ORAF), a group of counter-terrorists had as mission to carry out false flag terrorist attacks with the aim of quashing any hopes of political compromise. [ Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop, "DST, Police Secrète", Flammarion, 1999, p.174 ]
But it seemed that, as in Indochina, "the French focused on developing native guerrilla groups that would fight against the FLN," one of whom fought in the Southern Atlas Mountains, equipped by the French Army. Lawrence E. Cline, "Pseudo Operations and Counterinsurgency: Lessons From Other Countries", p.8 June 2005, ISBN 1584871997, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) ( [ available here] )]
The FLN also used pseudo-guerrilla strategies against the French Army on one occasion, with the "Force K," a group of 1,000 Algerians who volunteered to serve in Force K as guerrillas for the French. But most of these members were either already FLN members, or were turned by the FLN, once enlisted. Corpses of purported FLN members displayed by the unit were in fact those of dissidents and members of other Algerian groups killed by the FLN. The French Army finally discovered the war ruse, and tried to hunt down Force K members. However, some 600 managed to escape and join the FLN with weapons and equipment [ Lawrence E. Cline, "Pseudo Operations and Counterinsurgency: Lessons From Other Countries", p.8 June 2005, ISBN 1584871997, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) ( [ available here] Cline sends for more details to Alistair Horne, "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-62", London: Mac Millan, 1977, pp.255-257) ]
The French military command ruthlessly applied the principle of collective responsibility to villages suspected of sheltering, supplying, or in any way cooperating with the guerrillas. Villages that could not be reached by mobile units were subject to aerial bombardment. FLN Guerrillas that fled to caves or other remote hiding places were tracked and hunted down. In one episode, FLN guerrillas who refused to surrender and withdraw from a cave complex were dealt with by French Foreign Legion Pioneer troops, who, lacking flamethrowers or explosives, simply bricked up each cave, leaving the residents to die of suffocation.Leulliette, Pierre, St. Michael and the Dragon: Memoirs of a Paratrooper, Houghton Mifflin, 1964]
Finding it impossible to protect all of Algeria's remote farms and villages, the French government also initiated a program of concentrating large segments of the rural population, including whole villages, in camps under military supervision to prevent them from voluntarily aiding the rebels — or to protect them from FLN extortion. In the three years (1957–60) during which the "regroupement" program was followed, more than 2 million Algerians Fact|date=February 2007 were removed from their villages, mostly in the mountainous areas, and resettled in the plains, where many found it impossible to re-establish their accustomed economic or social situations. Living conditions in the fortified villages were poor. Hundreds of empty villages were devastated, Fact|date=February 2007 and in hundreds of others, orchards and croplands not previously burned by French troops went to seed for lack of care. These population transfers were effective in denying the use of remote villages to FLN guerrillas who had used them as a source of rations and manpower, but also caused significant resentment on the part of the displaced villagers. The disruptive social and economic effects of this massive relocation continued to be felt a generation later.
The French army shifted its tactics at the end of 1958 from dependence on "quadrillage" to the use of mobile forces deployed on massive search-and-destroy missions against FLN strongholds. Within the next year, Salan's successor, General Maurice Challe, appeared to have suppressed major rebel resistance. But political developments had already overtaken the French army's successes.
Fall of the Fourth Republic
On May 24, French paratroopers from the Algerian corps landed on Corsica, taking the French island in a bloodless action, "Operation Corse". Subsequently, preparations were made in Algeria for "Operation Resurrection," which had as objectives the seizure of Paris and the removal of the French government. Resurrection was to be implemented if one of three scenarios occurred: if de Gaulle was not approved as leader of France by Parliament; if de Gaulle asked for military assistance to take power, or if it seemed that communist forces were making any move to take power in France. De Gaulle was approved by the French Parliament on May 29, by 329 votes against 224, fifteen hours before the projected launch of Resurrection. This indicated that the French Fourth Republic by 1958 no longer had any support from the French army in Algeria, and was at its mercy even in civilian political matters. This decisive shift in the balance of power in civil-military relations in France in 1958 and the threat of force was the main immediate factor in the return of de Gaulle to power in France.
De Gaulle
Many people, regardless of citizenship, greeted Charles de Gaulle's return to power as the breakthrough needed to end the hostilities. On his June 4 trip to Algeria, de Gaulle calculatedly made an ambiguous and broad emotional appeal to all the inhabitants, declaring "Je vous ai compris" ('I have understood you'). De Gaulle raised the hopes of the pied-noir and the professional military, disaffected by the indecisiveness of previous governments, with his exclamation of "Vive l'Algérie française" ('Long live French Algeria') to cheering crowds in Mostaganem. At the same time, he proposed economic, social, and political reforms to improve the situation of the Muslims. Nonetheless, de Gaulle later admitted to having harbored deep pessimism about the outcome of the Algerian situation even then. Meanwhile, he looked for a "third force" among the population of Algeria, uncontaminated by the FLN or the "ultras" — "colon" extremists — through whom a solution might be found.
De Gaulle's initiative threatened the FLN with the prospect of losing the support of the growing numbers of Muslims who were tired of the war and had never been more than lukewarm in their commitment to a totally independent AlgeriaFact|date=November 2007. In reaction, the FLN set up the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic ("Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Algérienne", GPRA), a government-in-exile headed by Abbas and based in Tunis. Before the referendum, Abbas lobbied for international support for the GPRA, which was quickly recognized by Morocco, Tunisia, and several other Arab countries, by a number of Asian and African states, and by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European states.
ALN commandos committed numerous acts of sabotage in France in August, and the FLN mounted a desperate campaign of terror in Algeria to intimidate Muslims into boycotting the referendum. Despite threats of reprisal, however, 80 percent of the Muslim electorate turned out to vote in September, and of these 96 percent approved the constitution. In February 1959, de Gaulle was elected president of the new Fifth Republic. He visited Constantine in October to announce a program to end the war and create an Algeria closely linked to France. De Gaulle's call on the rebel leaders to end hostilities and to participate in elections was met with adamant refusal. "The problem of a cease-fire in Algeria is not simply a military problem," said the GPRA's Abbas. "It is essentially political, and negotiation must cover the whole question of Algeria." Secret discussions that had been underway were broken off.
In 1958–59 the French army had won military control in Algeria and was the closest it would be to victory. In late July 1959, during Operation Jumelles Colonel Bigeard — whose elite paratrooper unit fought at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 — told journalist Jean Lartéguy ( [ source] ):During that period in France, however, opposition to the conflict was growing among many segments of the population, notably the leftists, with the pro-USSR French Communist Party — then one of the country's strongest political forces — supporting the Algerian Revolution. Thousands of relatives of conscripts and reserve soldiers suffered loss and pain; revelations of torture and the indiscriminate brutality the army visited on the Muslim population prompted widespread revulsion; and a significant constituency supported the principle of national liberation. International pressure was also building on France to grant Algeria independence. Annually since 1955 the UN General Assembly had considered the Algerian question, and the FLN position was gaining support. France's seeming intransigence in settling a colonial war that tied down half the manpower of its armed forces was also a source of concern to its NATO allies. In a September 1959 statement, de Gaulle dramatically reversed his stand and uttered the words "self-determination," which he envisioned as leading to majority rule in an Algeria formally associated with France. In Tunis, Abbas acknowledged that de Gaulle's statement might be accepted as a basis for settlement, but the French government refused to recognize the GPRA as the representative of Algeria's Muslim community.
The barricades week
Convinced Gaulle had betrayed them, some units of European volunteers (Unités Territoriales) in Algiers led by student leaders Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini, cafe owner Joseph Ortiz, lawyer Jean-Baptiste Biaggi... staged an insurrection in the Algerian capital starting on January 24, 1960 and known in France as "La semaine des barricades" ("the barricades week"). The ultras incorrectly believed that they would be supported by General Massu. The insurrection order was given by Colonel Jean Garde of the Ve Bureau militaire. As the army, police and supporters stood by, civilians "pied-noirs" threw up barricades in the streets and seized government buildings. General Maurice Challe, responsible of the Army in Algeria, declared Algiers under siege, but forbade the troops to open up fire on the insurgents. Twenty rioters were killed during a firing in Laferrière Boulevard. Eight arrest warrants were issued in Paris against the initiators of the insurrection. MP Jean-Marie Le Pen, who called for the barricades to be extended to Paris, and theorician Georges Sauge were then placed under custody. [ Quand le stay-behind voulait remplacer De Gaulle] , Thierry Meyssan, September 10, 2001, Voltaire Network fr icon ]
In Paris, de Gaulle called on the evening of January 29, 1960 on the army to remain loyal and rallied popular support for his Algerian policy in a televised address:
I took, in the name of France, the following decision: the Algerians will have the free choice of their destiny. When, in one way or another - by ceasefire or by complete crushing of the rebels - we will have put an end to the fighting, when, after a prolonged period of appeasement, the populations will have taken consciousness of the stakes and, thanks to us, realised the necessary progress in political, economic, social, educational, etc., domains, then it will be the Algerians who will tell us what they want to be... French of Algeria ("Français d'Algérie"), how can you listen to the liars and the conspirators who tell you that by granting free choice to the Algerians, France and de Gaulle want to abandon you, retreat from Algeria and deliver you to the rebellion?... I say to all of our soldiers: your mission comprises neither equivocation, nor interpretation. You have to liquidate the rebellious force which want to oust France out of Algeria and impose on this country its dictatorship of misery and sterility... Finally, I address myself to France. "Eh bien!" my dear and old country, here we face together, once again, a serious ordeal. In virtu of the mandate that the people has given me and of the national legitimacy which I incarn since twenty years, I ask to everyone to support me whatever happens. [ French: "J’ai pris, au nom de la France, la décision que voici: les Algériens auront le libre choix de leur destin. Quand d’une manière ou d’une autre - conclusion d’un cessez-le-feu ou écrasement total des rebelles - nous aurons mis un terme aux combats, quand, ensuite, après une période prolongée d’apaisement, les populations auront pu prendre conscience de l’enjeu et, d’autre part, accomplir, grâce à nous, les progrès nécessaires dans les domaines, politique, économique, social, scolaire, etc., alors ce seront les Algériens qui diront ce qu’ils veulent être (...) Français d’Algérie, comment pouvez-vous écouter les menteurs et les conspirateurs qui vous disent qu’en accordant le libre choix aux Algériens, la France et De Gaulle veulent vous abandonner, se retirer de l’Algérie et vous livrer à la rébellion ? (...) Je dis à tous nos soldats: votre mission ne comporte ni équivoque, ni interprétation. Vous avez à liquider la force rebelle qui veut chasser la France de l’Algérie et faire régner sur ce pays sa dictature de misère et de stérilité (...) Enfin, je m’adresse à la France. Eh bien! mon cher et vieux pays, nous voici donc ensemble, encore une fois, face à une lourde épreuve. En vertu du mandat que le peuple m’a donné et de la légitimité nationale que j’incarne depuis vingt ans (sic), je demande à tous et à toutes de me soutenir quoi qu’il arrive". ]
Most of the army heeded his call, and the siege of Algiers ended on February 1 with Lagaillarde surrendering to General Challe commanding the French army in Algeria corps. The loss of many "ultra" leaders who were imprisoned or transferred to other areas did not deter the French Algeria militants. Sent to prison in Paris, Lagaillarde evaded to Spain while left on parole. There with another French army officer, Raoul Salan, who had entered clandestinity, and Jean-Jacques Susini, he created the O.A.S. ("Organisation Armée Secrète", lit. Secret Army Organization) on December 3, 1960 with the purpose to follow-up the fight for the French Algeria. Highly organized and well-armed the OAS stepped up its terrorist activities, which were directed against both Algerians and pro-government French citizens, as the move toward negotiated settlement of the war and self-determination gained momentum. To the FLN rebellion against France were added civil wars between extremists in the two communities and between the "ultras" and the French government in Algeria.
Beside Pierre Lagaillarde, Jean-Baptiste Biaggi was also imprisoned, while Alain de Sérigny got arrested, and Joseph Ortiz's FNF dissolved, as well as General Lionel Chassin's MP13. De Gaulle also modified the government, excluding Jacques Soustelle, believed to be too pro-French Algeria, and granting the Minister of Information to Louis Terrenoire, who quit the RTF (French broadcasting TV). Pierre Messmer, who had been member of the Foreign Legion, is named Minister of Defense, and dissolved the Fifth Bureau, the psychological warfare branch which had ordered the rebellion. These units had theorized the principles of "counter-revolutionary war", including the use of torture. During the Indochina War (1947-54), officers such as Roger Trinquier and Lionel-Max Chassin inspired themselves from Mao's strategic doctrine, and considered that to convince the population to support the fight, bodies had to be modeled in order to affect the mind. The 5e Bureaux were organized by Jean Ousset, French representant of the Opus Dei, under the order of Permanent Secretary General of the National Defense (SGPDN) Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel. The officers were initially formed in the "Centre d'instruction et de préparation à la contre-guérilla" (Arzew). Jacques Chaban-Delmas added to that the "Centre d'entraînement à la guerre subversive Jeanne-d'Arc" (Center of Training to Subversive War Jeanne-d'Arc) in Philippeville, Algeria, directed by Colonel Marcel Bigeard. According to the Voltaire Network, the Catholic stay-behind Georges Sauge animated conferences there, and one could read on the walls of the center the following maxim: "This Army must be fanatic, despising luxury, animated by the spirit of the Crusades" [ French: "Cette Armée doit être fanatique, méprisant le luxe, animée de l’esprit des croisés". ] Pierre Messmer hence dissolved structures which had turned themselves against de Gaulle, leaving the "revolutionary war" to the exclusive responsibility of Gaullist General André Beauffre.
The French army officers uprising can be understood as following, some officers, most notably from the paratroopers corps, felt betrayed by the government for the second time after Indochina (1947-1954). In some aspects the Dien Bien Phu garrison was sacrificed with no metropolitan support, order was given to commanding officer General de Castries to "let the affair die of its own, in serenity" ("laissez mourrir l'affaire d'elle même en sérénité" [ [ French Army audio archives] ] ).
The opposition of the MNEF student trade-union to the participation of the conscripts to the war led to a scission in May 1960, with the creation of the "Fédération des étudiants nationalistes" (FEN, Federation of Nationalist Students) around Dominique Venner, a former member of "Jeune Nation" and of MP-13, François d'Orcival and Alain de Benoist, who would theorize in the 1980s the "New Right" movement. The FEN then published the "Manifeste de la classe 60".
A "Front national pour l'Algérie française" (FNAF, National Front for French Algeria) was created in June 1960 in Paris, gathering around former De Gaulle's Secretary Jacques Soustelle Claude Dumont, Georges Sauge, Yvon Chautard, Jean-Louis Tixier Vignancourt (who would present himself as far-right candidate in the 1965 presidential election), Jacques Isorni, Victor Barthélémy, François Brigneau and Jean-Marie Le Pen. Another ultra rebellion occurred in December 1960, which led de Gaulle to dissolve the FNAF.
After the publication of the "Manifeste des 121" against the use of torture and the war, [ [ Manifeste des 121, transl. in English] ] the opponents to the war created the "Rassemblement de la gauche démocratique", which included the SFIO socialist party, the Radical-Socialist Party, FO trade union, CFTC trade-union, FEN trade-union, etc., which supported de Gaulle against the ultras. De Gaulle then convoked a referendum on the independence of Algeria on January 8, 1961, which gave 75% of "yes" in metropolitan France, but only 40% in Algeria.
End of the war
The "generals' putsch" in April 1961, aimed at cancelling Michel Debré's government's secret peace negotiations with the FLN, marked the turning point in the official attitude toward the Algerian war. De Gaulle was now prepared to abandon the pieds-noirs, the group that no previous French government was willing to write off. The army had been discredited by the putsch and kept a low profile politically throughout the rest of France's involvement with Algeria. Talks with the FLN reopened at Evian in May 1961; after several false starts, the French government decreed that a ceasefire would take effect on March 19, 1962. In their final form, the Evian Accords allowed the pieds-noirs equal legal protection with Algerians over a three year period. These rights included respect for property, participation in public affairs, and a full range of civil and cultural rights. At the end of that period, however, all Algerian residents would be obliged to become Algerian citizens or be classified as aliens with the attendant loss of rights. The French electorate approved the Evian Accords by an overwhelming 91 percent vote in a referendum held in June 1962.
During the three months between the cease-fire and the French referendum on Algeria, the OAS unleashed a new terrorist campaign. The OAS sought to provoke a major breach in the ceasefire by the FLN but the terrorism now was aimed also against the French army and police enforcing the accords as well as against Muslims. It was the most wanton carnage that Algeria had witnessed in eight years of savage warfare. OAS operatives set off an average of 120 bombs per day in March, with targets including hospitals and schools. Ultimately, the terrorism failed in its objectives, and the OAS and the FLN concluded a truce on June 17, 1962. In the same month, more than 350,000 Pied-noirs left Algeria.
On July 1, 1962, some 6 million of a total Algerian electorate of 6.5 million cast their ballots in the referendum on independence. The vote was nearly unanimous. De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country on July 3. The Provisional Executive, however, proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry into Algeria, as the day of national independence.
Despite the Evian Accords guarantees towards the French citizens, after the end of June civilians became the target of systematic FLN attacks. It quickly became apparent to Europeans that the new government would not ensure their safety or enforce their rights. The Oran massacre of 1962, four days after the vote, is the main example of deliberate strategy of killing to terrorize pieds-noirs and push them to leave. These tactics proved effective. Summer 1962 saw a rush to France. Within a year, 1.4 million refugees, including almost the entire Jewish community and some pro-French Muslims, had joined the exodus to France. The vast majority left, as detailed below.
Pieds-Noirs' and Harkis' exodus
"Pieds-Noirs" (including Sephardi Jews) and "Harkis" accounted for 13% of the total population of Algeria in 1962. For the sake of clarity, each group's exodus is described separately here, although their fate shared many common elements.
"Pied-noir" (literally "black foot") is a term used to name the European-descended population (mostly Catholic) that had been in Algeria for generations; it is sometimes used to include the Sephardi Jewish population as well, which likewise emigrated after 1962. The Europeans had arrived as immigrants from all over the western Mediterranean (particularly France, Spain, and Malta), starting in 1830. The Jews had arrived in several waves, some coming in Roman times while most had arrived as refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, and had largely embraced French citizenship after the décret Crémieux in 1871. In 1959, the "pieds-noirs" numbered 1,025,000 (85% of European descent, and 15% of Sephardi Jewish descent), and accounted for 10.4% of the total population of Algeria. In just a few months in 1962, 900,000 of them fled or left the country, the first third prior to the referendum, in the most massive relocation of population to Europe since the Second World War. A motto used in the FLN propaganda designating the Pied-noirs community was "Suitcase or coffin" ("La valise ou le cercueil") - an expropriation of a term first coined years earlier by "pied-noir" "ultras" when rallying the European community to their hardcore line.
The French government claimed not to have anticipated that such a massive number would leave; at the most it said it estimated that perhaps 200-300,000 might choose to go to metropolitan France temporarily. Nothing was planned for their move to France, and many had to sleep in streets or abandoned farms on their arrival. A minority of departing "pieds-noirs", including soldiers, destroyed their possessions before departure, applying scorched earth policy in a sign of protestation and as a desperate symbolic try to leave no trace of over a century of European presence, but the vast majority of their goods and houses were left intact and abandoned to Algerians. Scenes of thousands of panicked people camping for weeks on the docks of Algerian harbors waiting for a space on a boat to France were common from April to August 1962. About 100,000 "pieds-noirs" chose to remain, but most of those gradually left over the 1960s and 1970s, primarily due to residual hostility against them, including machine-gunning of public places in Oran. [ [ ALGER PANSE SES PLAIES] ]
The so-called "Harkis", from the Algerian-Arabic dialect word "harki" (soldier), were the Muslim indigenous Algerians (as opposed to European-descended or Sephardi Jews) who fought as auxiliaries on the side of the French army. Some of these were veterans of the Free French Forces who participated in the liberation of France during World War II or in the Indochina War. The term also came to include civilian indigenous Algerians who supported a French Algeria. According to French government figures, there were 236,000 Algerian Muslims serving in the French Army in 1962, either in regular units (Spahis and Tirailleurs) or as irregulars (harkis and moghaznis). Some estimates suggest that, with their families, the indigenous Muslim loyalists may have numbered as many as 1 million, but 400,000 is more commonly cited.
In 1962, around 91,000 "Harkis" fled or sailed to France, despite French policy against this. Pierre Messmer, minister of the armies and Louis Joxe, minister for Algerian affairs gave orders to this effect. The "Harkis" were seen as traitors by many Algerians, and many of those who stayed behind suffered severe reprisals after independence. French historians estimate that somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 "Harkis" and members of their families were killed by the FLN or by lynch mobs in Algeria, often in atrocious circumstances or after torture, a climax being reached at the Oran massacre of 1962. The abandonment of the "Harkis" both in terms of non-recognition of those who died defending a French Algeria and the neglect of those who escaped to France, remains an issue that France has not fully resolved — although the government of Jacques Chirac made efforts to give recognition to the suffering of these former allies.
Death toll
The FLN estimated in 1962 that nearly eight years of revolution had cost 1.5 million dead from war-related causes. Some other Algerian sources later put the figure at approximately 1 million dead, while French officials estimated it at 350,000. French military authorities listed their losses at nearly 18,000 dead (6,000 from non-combat-related causes) and 65,000 wounded. European-descended civilian casualties exceeded 10,000 (including 3,000 dead) in 42,000 recorded terrorist incidents. According to French figures, security forces killed 141,000 rebel combatants, and more than 12,000 Algerians died in internal FLN purges during the war. An additional 5,000 died in the "café wars" in France between the FLN and rival Algerian groups. French sources also estimated that 70,000 Muslim civilians were killed, or abducted and presumed killed, by the FLN.
Historians, like Alistair Horne and Raymond Aron, consider the actual figure of war dead to be far higher than the original FLN and official French estimates, but below the 1 million adopted by the Algerian government. Horne has estimated Algerian casualties during the span of eight years to be around 700,000. Uncounted thousands of Muslim civilians lost their lives in French army ratissages, bombing raids, and vigilante reprisals. The war uprooted more than 2 million Algerians, who were forced to relocate in French camps or to flee to Morocco, Tunisia, and into the Algerian hinterland, where many thousands died of starvation, disease, and exposure. In addition large numbers of pro-French Muslims were murdered when the FLN settled accounts after independence.
Lasting effects in Algerian politics
After Algeria's independence was recognised, Ahmed Ben Bella quickly became more popular, and thereby more powerful. In June 1962, he challenged the leadership of Premier Benyoucef Ben Khedda; this led to several disputes among his rivals in the FLN, which were quickly suppressed by Ben Bella's rapidly growing support, most notably within the armed forces. By September, Bella was in control of Algeria by all but name, and was elected as premier in a one-sided election on 20 September, and was recognised by the United States on September 29. Algeria was admitted as the 109th member of the United Nations on 8 October 1962. Afterwards, Ben Bella declared that Algeria would follow a neutral course in world politics; within a week he met with U.S. President John F. Kennedy requesting more aid for Algeria, with Fidel Castro, expressing approval of Castro's demands for the abandonment of Guantanamo Bay and returned to Algeria requesting that France withdraw from its bases there. In November, Ben Bella's government banned the party, providing that the only party allowed to overtly function was the FLN. Shortly thereafter in 1965 Bella was deposed and placed under house arrest (and later exiled) by Houari Boumédiènne, who served as president until his death in 1978. Algeria remained stable, though in a one-party state, until violent civil war broke out in the 1990s.
For Algerians of many political factions, the legacy of their War of Independence acted to legitimise and virtually sanctify the unrestricted use of force in achieving a goal deemed to be justified. Once invoked against foreign colonialists, the same principle could be turned with relative ease also against fellow Algerians. The determination of the FLN to overthrow the colonial rule, and the ruthlessness exhibited by both sides in that struggle, were to be mirrored thirty years later by the determination of the FLN government to hold on to power and of the Islamist opposition to overthrow that rule, and the brutal struggle which ensued.
Torture was a frequent process in use since the beginning of the colonization of Algeria, which started in 1830. Claude Bourdet had denounced these acts on December 6, 1951 in "L'Observateur": "Is there a Gestapo in Algeria?" Torture had also been used -on both sides- during the First Indochina War (1946-54) and in all the French colonies [ Mohamed Harbi, "La guerre d'Algérie" ] [ Benjamin Stora, "La torture pendant la guerre d'Algérie" ] [ Raphaëlle Branche, "La torture et l’armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie, 1954-1962", Paris, Gallimard, 2001 See also [ THE FRENCH ARMY AND TORTURE DURING THE ALGERIAN WAR (1954-1962)] , Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Rennes, 18 November 2004 en icon]
General Paul Aussaresses admitted in 2000 the use of torture during the war and justified it. He also recognized the assassination of lawyer Ali Boumendjel and head of FLN in Algiers, Larbi Ben M'Hidi, which had been disguised as "suicides". [ [ L'accablante confession du général Aussaresses sur la torture en Algérie] , "Le Monde", May 3, 2001 fr icon ]
General Marcel Bigeard, who had denied it for forty years, finally also admitted that it had been used, although he claimed he personally had not engaged in torture. Bigeard, who qualified FLN activists as "savages", claimed torture was a "necessary evil". [ [,13-0,37-90746,0.html GUERRE D'ALGÉRIE : le général Bigeard et la pratique de la torture] , "Le Monde", July 4, 2000 fr icon ] [ [ Torture Bigeard: " La presse en parle trop "] , "L'Humanité", May 12, 2000 fr icon ] To the contrary, General Jacques Massu denounced it, following Aussaresses' revelations, and before his death pronounced himself in favor of an official condemnation of the use of torture during the war. [ [ La torture pendant la guerre d’Algérie / 1954 – 1962 40 ans après, l’exigence de vérité] , AIDH ]
Bigeard's justification of torture has been criticized by various persons, among whom Joseph Doré, archbishop of Strasbourg, and Marc Lienhard, president of the Lutherian Church of Augsbourg confession in Alsace-Lorraine. [ [,13-0,37-92611,0.html GUERRE D'ALGÉRIE : Mgr Joseph Doré et Marc Lienhard réagissent aux déclarations du général Bigeard justifiant la pratique de la torture par l'armée française] , "Le Monde", July 15, 2000 fr icon ]
In June 2000, Bigeard declared that he was based in Sidi Ferruch, known as a torture center and from where many Algerians never left alive. Bigeard qualified Louisette Ighilahriz's revelations, published in "Le Monde" on June 20, 2000, as "lies". An ALN activist, Louisette Ighilahriz had been tortured by General Massu. She herself called Bigeard a "liar", and criticized him for continuing to deny the use of torture 40 years later. [ [ « Le témoignage de cette femme est un tissu de mensonges. Tout est faux, c'est une manoeuvre »] , "Le Monde", June 22, 2000 fr icon ] [ [ Louisette Ighilahriz: "Massu ne pouvait plus nier l’évidence"] , "L'Humanité", November 23, 2000 fr icon ] However, since General Massu's revelations, Bigeard has now admitted the use of torture, although he denies having personally used it. He then declared: "You are striking the heart of an 84-year-old man." Bigeard also recognized that Larbi Ben M’Hidi had been assassinated, and his death disguised as a "suicide". Paul Teitgen, prefect of Algiers, also revealed that Bigeard's troop threw Algerians in the sea from helicopters (which resulted in brutalized corpses found in open waters nicknamed "crevettes Bigeard"), a tactic later theorized in Argentina by Admiral Luis Maria Mendia, as the infamous "death flights." [ [ Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?] , "L'Humanité", June 24, 2000 fr icon ]
"French school"
Counter-insurgency tactics developed during the war were used afterward in other contexts, including the Argentine "Dirty War" in the 1970s. Journalist Marie-Monique Robin wrote a book alleging that French secret agents had taught Argentine intelligence agents counter-insurgency tactics, including the systemic use of torture, block warden system, etc, all techniques employed during the 1957 Battle of Algiers. The film itself on "The Battle of Algiers" has been screened and seen by many militaries from different nations afterwards. She found in the Quai d'Orsay, head of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the document proving that a secret military agreement tied France to Argentina from 1959 until 1981, date of the election of President François Mitterrand. General Bigeard's troops threw Algerians from helicopters into the sea: this form of "disappearance" by death flights (their victims were named "Bigeard's shrimps", or "crevettes Bigeard") was later theorized by Argentine Admiral Luis Maria Mendia in the infamous "death flights".
Historiography of the war and of colonialism
Although the opening of the archives after a 30 years lock-up has enabled some new historical research on the war, including Jean-Charles Jauffret's book titled "La Guerre d'Algérie par les documents" (The Algerian War according to the documents), many remain unaccessible. This contrary to the engagement of Prime minister Lionel Jospin's (Socialist Party, PS) engagement on July 27, 1997. The recognition in 1999 by the National Assembly, in which the PS had obtained a majority during the 1997 legislative elections, permitted the Algerian War to, at last, enter the syllabus of French school. The Paris massacre of 1961 has only begun to emerge in the nation's memory, although access to the archives remains strongly restricted. The French state, who finally recognized 40 deaths, is a far way from giving free access to the archives (there is no such law as the US Freedom of Information Act in France). However, it has been proved, including with David Assouline's limited access to the Paris archives (granted by Socialist Minister of Culture Catherine Trautmann) that at least 70 Algerians died during these events — and 90 persons by the second half of October 1961. [. Concerning David Assouline's access to "part" of the Paris' Archives and the "Monde" quoting the director, see Cite news | title= 17 octobre 1961 : la longue liste de morts des archives de Paris|date=23 October 1997|publisher=L'Humanité | url= fr icon ]
The Algerian War remains a contentious event today. According to historian Benjamin Stora, doctor in history and sociology and teacher at , and one of the leading historians of the Algerian war, memories concerning the war remain fragmented, with no common ground to speak of:
"There is no such thing as a History of the Algerian War, there is just a multitude of histories and personal paths through it. Everyone involved considers that they lived through it in their own way, and any attempt to take in the Algerian War globally is immediately thrown out by the protagonists." [ Bringing down the barriers - people's memories of the Algerian War] , interview with Benjamin Stora published on the INA archive website en icon ]
Not to speak about Franco-Algerian history: although Benjamin Stora has counted 3,000 works in French on the Algerian war, there still is not one single work made in cooperation between a French and an Algerian citizen. Although we can "no longer talk about a 'War without a name'... a number of problems remain, especially the absence of sites in France to commemorate" the war. Furthermore, conflicts arise on the commemoration date to end the war. Although most place it in the March 19, 1962 Evian agreements, which is the French state's official version, others point out that massacres of harkis and kidnapping of pied-noirs took place afterwards.
Stora further points out that "The phase of memorial reconciliation between the two sides of the sea is still a long way off." This was recently illustrated by the UMP's vote of the February 23, 2005 law on colonialism, which asserted that colonialism had globally been "positive." Thus, a teacher in one of the elite's high school of Paris can declare:
"Yes, colonisation has had positive effects. After all, we did give to Algeria modern infrastructures, a system of education, libraries, social centers... There were only 10% Algerian students in 1962? This is not much, of course, but it is not nothing either!" [ French: « Oui, la colonisation a eu du positif... On a quand même légué à l’Algérie des infrastructures modernes, un système éducatif, des bibliothèques, des centres sociaux... Il n’y avait que 10% d’étudiants algériens en 1962 ? C’est peu, bien sûr, mais ce n’est pas rien! », quoted in [ COLONIALISM THROUGH THE SCHOOL BOOKS - The hidden history of the Algerian war] , "Le Monde diplomatique", April 2001 en icon/fr icon]
Beside a heated debate in France, the February 23, 2005 law had the effect of jeopardizing the treaty of friendship that President Jacques Chirac was supposed to sign with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a treaty which is not any more in the agenda. Following this controversial law, Bouteflika has talked about a "cultural genocide", in particular in reference to the 1945 Sétif massacre. Chirac finally had the law repealed through a complex institutional mechanism.
Another matter concerns the teaching of the war, as well as of colonialism and decolonization, in particular in French secondary schools [ [ Terminale history class: teaching about torture during the Algerian war] , McCormack J. in "Modern & Contemporary France" review, Volume 12, Number 1, February 2004, pp. 75-86(12) en icon] Hence, there is no reference to racism in any textbook, excepting one published by Bréal editing house and for Terminales students (those passing their baccalauréat). This, despite an institutional racism still pregnant in French society, as demonstrated by SOS Racisme's various tests concerning racial discrimination. Textbooks still refers to "them" as "Muslims" and "us" as "French," despite the fact that Algerians held the French nationality, and that many French citizens today come from a Muslim background. Henceforth, it does not come as a surprise to see that some of the first to speak about the October 17, 1961 massacre were music bands, including (but not only), hip hop bands such as famous Suprême NTM ("les Arabes dans la Seine") or politically-engaged La Rumeur. Indeed, the Algerian War is not even the subject of a specific chapter in textbook for Terminales [ COLONIALISM THROUGH THE SCHOOL BOOKS - The hidden history of the Algerian war] , "Le Monde diplomatique", April 2001 en icon/fr icon] Henceforth, Benjamin Stora can state that:
"As Algerians do not appear in their "indigenous" conditions and their sub-citizens status, as the history of nationalist movement is never evoqued, as none of the great figures of the resistance — Messali Hadj, Ferhat Abbas — emerge nor retain attention, in one word, as no one explains to students what has been colonisation, we make them unable to understand why the decolonisation took place."
The Algerian War and its consequences are thus fundamental to any understanding of the state of XXIst century France, as well as the social situation in the French suburbs, which were brought to world attention during the civil unrest in autumn 2005. For the first time since the Algerian war, the head of the state, President Jacques Chirac (UMP) proclaimed the state of emergency, which was confirmed a few weeks later by the National Assembly (the only parties to vote against its extension were the Communist Party and the Greens, who explicitly referred to this dark period of French history that had been the Algerian War).
For example, in metropolitan France, in 1963, 43% of French Algerians lived in bidonvilles (shanty towns). [ [ Le Gone du Chaâba] fr icon] Thus, Azouz Begag, Delegate Minister for Equal Opportunities in the government of current Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (UMP), wrote an autobiographic novel, "Le Gone du Chaâba", about his experience living in a bidonville in the outskirts of Lyon. It is impossible to understand the third-generation of Algerian immigrants to France without recalling this bicultural experience. An official parliamentary report on "prevention of criminality", commanded by then Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin (UMP), and made by MP Jacques-Alain Bénisti, went as far as claiming that "Multilingualism ("bilinguisme") was a factor of criminality." (sic [ [ Rapport préliminaire de la commission prévention du groupe d'études parlementaire sur la sécurité intérieure - Sur la prévention de la délinquance] , presided by MP Jacques-Alain Bénisti, October 2004 fr icon ] ). Following outcries from many NGOs and left-wing sectors, the definitive version of the Bénisti report finally made of multilingualism an asset instead of a default. [ [ Analyse de la version finale du rapport Benisti] , Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League), and [ Final version] of the Bénisti report given to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy fr icon]
Thus, the stakes of the contemporary debate on torture clearly appear in full light: after having denied its use during 40 years, the French state finally recognized it, although it never did any official proclamation about it. At least, General Aussaresses was condemned following his justification of the use of torture for "apology of war crimes." But, in the same way that during the "events", the French state claimed torture was an isolated act, instead of admitting its responsibility in the institutionalization of torture as a standard counter-insurgency method, used to break the population's morale (and not, as Aussaresses has claimed, to "save lives" by gaining short-term information which would enable to stop "terrorists" [ [ THE FRENCH ARMY AND TORTURE DURING THE ALGERIAN WAR (1954- 1962)] , Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Rennes, 18 November 2004 en icon] ), it now claims that it was a regrettable incident due to the context of the war. But various historical researches have proved both thesis false: "Torture in Algeria was engraved in the colonial act, it is the "normal" illustration of an abnormal system," wrote Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard and Sandrine Lemaire, who have published decisive work on the phenomena of "human zoos." [ TORTURE IN ALGERIA: PAST ACTS THAT HAUNT FRANCE - False memory] , "Le Monde diplomatique", June 2001 en icon/fr icon] From the smokings ("enfumades") of the Darha caves in 1844 by Pélissier to the 1945 riots in Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata," the repression in Algeria has used the same methods. Following the May 9, 1945 Sétif massacres, other riots against European presence occurred in Guelma, Batna, Biskra and Kherrata, making 103 deaths among the pied-noirs. The repression of these riots officially made 1,500 deaths, but N. Bancel, P. Blanchard and S. Lemaire estimate it to be rather between 6 and 8,000 deaths Bancel, Blanchard and Lemaire (op.cit.) quote **Boucif Mekhaled, "Chroniques d’un massacre. 8 mai 1945. Sétif, Guelma, Kherrata", Syros, Paris, 1995 **Yves Benot, "Massacres coloniaux", La Découverte, coll. « Textes à l’appui », Paris, 1994
**Annie Rey-Goldzeiguer, "Aux origines de la guerre d’Algérie", La Découverte, Paris, 2001. ]
*Original text: " [ Library of Congress Country Study] of Algeria"
INA archives
"Note: concerning the audio and film archives from the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), see Benjamin Stora's comments on their politically-oriented creation."
* [ Cinq Colonnes à la une, Rushes Interview Pied-Noir, ORTF, July 1, 1962]
* [ Cinq Colonnes à la une, Rétrospective Algérie, ORTF, June 9, 1963] (concerning these INA archives, see also Benjamin Stora's warning about the conditions of creation of these images)
Contemporary works
*Trinquier, Roger. "Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency" (1961)
*Leulliette, Pierre, "St. Michael and the Dragon: Memoirs of a Paratrooper", Houghton Mifflin, 1964
*Galula, David, "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice" (1964)
*Jouhaud, Edmond. "O Mon Pays Perdu: De Bou-Sfer a Tulle." Paris: Librarie Artheme Fayard, 1969.
*Maignen, Etienne "Treillis au djebel - Les Piliers de Tiahmaïne" Yellow Concept, 2004.
Historians works
English language
*Aussaresses, Gen. Paul. "The Battle of the Casbah", New York: Enigma Books, 2006, ISBN 1-929631-30-8.
*cite book | author=Horne, Alistair | title=A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 | publisher=Viking | year=1978 | id=ISBN 0-670-61964-7
*Maran, Rita (1989). "Torture. The role of ideology in the French-Algerian war", New York: Prager Publishers.
*Windrow, Martin. "The Algerian War 1954-62." London: Osprey Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1-85532-658-2
French language
"Translations may be available for some of these works. See specific cases."
*Benot, Yves (1994). "Massacres coloniaux", La Découverte, coll. « Textes à l’appui », Paris.
*Jauffret, Jean-Charles. "La Guerre d'Algérie par les documents" (first tome, 1990; second tome, 1998; [ account here] )
*Rey-Goldzeiguer, Annie (2001). "Aux origines de la guerre d’Algérie", La Découverte, Paris.
*Robin, Marie-Monique. "Escadrons de la mort, l'école française",453 pages. La Découverte (15 September 2004). Collection: Cahiers libres. (ISBN 2707141631) (Spanish transl.: "Los Escuadrones De La Muerte/ the Death Squadron",539 pages. Sudamericana; Édition : Translatio (October 2005). (ISBN 950072684X)
*Mekhaled, Boucif (1995). "Chroniques d’un massacre. 8 mai 1945. Sétif, Guelma, Kherrata", Syros, Paris, 1995.
*Slama, Alain-Gérard (1996). "La Guerre d’Algérie. Histoire d’une déchirure", Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes », Paris.
*Vidal-Naquet, Pierre. "La Torture sous la République" (1970) & many others, more recent (see entry).
*Etienne Maignen. " Treillis au djebel- Les Piliers de Tiahmaïne " Yellow Concept 2004.
*"Le Petit Soldat" by Jean-Luc Godard (1960 - banned until 1963 because of the presence of scenes of torture)
*"Muriel (film)" by Alain Resnais (1962)
* "Lost Command" aka "Les Centurions" (1966)
*"The Battle of Algiers" by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966 - censored at the time)
*"RAS" by Yves Boisset (1973)
*"Wild Reeds" by André Téchiné (1994)
*"La Trahison" by Philippe Faucon (2005, adapted from a novel by Claude Sales - on the presence of Muslim soldiers in the French Army)
*"Nuit noire" by Alain Tasma (2005, on the Paris massacre of 1961)
*"Harkis" by Alain Tasma (2006)
*"Mon colonel" by Laurent Herbier (2007)
*"L'Ennemi intime" by Florent Emilio Siri (scenario by Patrick Rotman, 2007)
ee also
*Algiers putsch of 1961
*Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of independent Algeria
*Comparison of Iraq War to the Algerian War of Independence
*Frantz Fanon
*Nationalism and resistance in Algeria
*Nuclear weapons and France (17 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara between 1960 and 1966)
*Paris massacre of 1961
*Oran massacre of 1962
*"Manifesto of the 121" (aka Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the War in Algeria — signed by historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, member of the Comité Audin, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, the "Manifeste des 121" calling for civil disobedience against the war (see fr:Manifeste des 121, [ full text translated in English] and fr:Maurice Audin)
*Torture during the Algerian War
*Guerrilla warfare and Counter-insurgency
*History of Algeria since 1962
*History of Algeria
*Politics of Algeria
*French Algeria
*Ottoman Empire
*Ethnic cleansing
*Evian Agreements
External links
* [ Algerian War Reading]
* [ Photos of the Algerian War of Independence (in French)]
* [ Algerian National Liberation]
* [ "Pacification in Algeria: 1956–1958" by David Galula]
* ['algérie&action=ft&x=0&y=0 Audiovisual National Institute's declassified Algeria War archives] (hundreds of free video: news rushes, interviews, official speeches, retrospectives, etc.)
* [ Algerian War Retrospective]
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