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__label__cc	0.731068	0.268932	365 Star Wars Women Search the 365 Star Wars Women Archive Day 92 – Verona Blue April 2, 2018 November 29, 2019 Amy Richau365 Star Wars Women / Actresses / Behind the Scenes / Films / Games / Interview / VRNo Comment on Day 92 – Verona Blue Verona Blue is an actress who voiced several characters in The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and the video game Battlefront II. Some of the voices she portrayed include the voice of the female First Order trooper in The Force Awakens (photo upper right) and the voice of the antenna computer on Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Verona was kind enough to answer a few questions via email for 365 Days of Star Wars Women. Are you a Star Wars fan? If so, when did you you get introduced to Star Wars and what is your favorite film or TV show? Hi! I am Verona Blue, I went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school in the UK, but I am originally from Toronto, Canada – and I am a huge Star Wars fan! My left arm is fully sleeved with a tattoo telling the story of the Stormtroopers, starting with Jango as the original on Kamino and the lineage from Clone trooper to Classic trooper. My sleeve won “best large colour” for the first ever Lucasfilm tattoo contest at SW Celebration 3, an award I display proudly in my living room. I also used to have a cat named Droideka and my heart-dog (who has now passed) was named Chewie. I really adore Star Wars, I’ve been a member of the 501st since early 99 and and am always and forever Dark Side. My favourite SW film was Jedi, for a really long time, and then it morphed one day to Empire and now… I don’t know. I loved The Force Awakens so much and I actually had the opportunity last October to speak to JJ Abrams and I thanked him for creating Rey. Can you tell me a bit about the voiceover work you’ve done for Star Wars projects? Did you need to keep your involvement in The Force Awakens a secret for a long period of time? Did people who knew you recognize your voice as the First Order trooper? I have worked on all of the new SW films so far, as well as Battlefront 2, providing voices for secondary and background characters. I was the first ever female stormtrooper in The Force Awakens (I speak to Kylo Ren after Rey escapes) and I also provided all the PA announcements on the rebel base (you can hear them most clearly when Finn arrives for the first time to meet Leia). I also filled in a variety of cantina voices, rebel pilots and officer chatter throughout TFA and Rogue One. Working on these films is a huge thrill but you sign your life away to secrecy so no one knows anything and you can’t talk about it or how excited you are. Fortunately, the recording is one of the last parts of the production so we don’t have to bite our tongues for too long. It must be agony for someone who loves Star Wars and is also working on set from day one. Verona Blue was the voice of the antenna computer in Rogue One. Prior to providing voices for Star Wars I did some industrial and education voice over projects for private companies. I am the voice of an entire training program for stock brokers for a Canadian bank! Since starting on the Star Wars films I’ve had the opportunity to work on some other small video game and VR projects as well as Battlefront 2 which was the WEIRDEST thing I’ve ever done. When we work on the movies we do all the officer and rebel voices in English. When working on the video game they weren’t going to translate the secondary and background characters so we had to do them in gibberish… but it had to SOUND like English, which is REALLY HARD and hilarious. I was in the first take of the day and as soon as one of my colleagues dove in to his “British accented English-sounded gibberish” I was overtaken with laughter and had to shove my scarf in my mouth so that I didn’t ruin the take given that I was standing directly in front of a microphone. After the director called cut on our group the entire room erupted in laughter. Everyone had been holding their breath, faces shoved in bags and pillows and knees, to keep it together. It was one of those days where you couldn’t look anyone in the eye or you’d start to laugh. One of my favourite parts of providing voices for these films is the incredible group of people I get to work with and learn from. There’s some really prolific and talented people who are in our “loop group” and it’s humbling and wonderful to be able to watch them work. I definitely take my cues from some of the more experienced voice actors and try to step up my game every time, and just go for it with wild choices. My friends who know where to find my voice always recognize it and I have received some emails and comments from parents telling me that their daughters were really excited to hear a woman’s voice come out of that First Order helmet. I am so proud to be part of that moment of delight. Do you have a favorite female Star Wars character or a female character you would either like to voice or play? What projects are you working on now or have coming up? If I had my druthers I would DEFINITELY play Aurra Sing in a live action bounty hunter TV show, or some kind of Sith. I hope I have the opportunity to perform an on-camera role in the Star Wars universe, but to be honest this has been such a huge dream come true already. I am currently on a show called BOSCH on Amazon and I worked on a pilot (currently untitled) so far this year. I have my fingers crossed about doing more animation voice over, and of course more Star Wars properties. Verona is represented by Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin and Associates and you can see more of her work at VeronaBlue.com. She is @bathori on twitter and bathori on Instagram. Check out the entire list of women in 365 Days of Star Wars Women in the Women in Star Wars Index. It includes highlights from each post plus notes which posts include new 365 interviews with actresses, writers, artists, and more. Liked it? Take a second to support Amy Richau on Patreon! Rogue One, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Vader Immortal, Verona Blue Day 600 – Leslye Headland Day 599 – Am Day 598 – Rafa Martez About Amy Richau View all posts by Amy Richau → Day 91 – Kneesaa Day 93 – An’ya Kuro AKA Dark Woman Free Shipping at Creature Cartel with the code 365SW Index of the first 365 SWW posts If you enjoy 365 Star Wars & would like to see more please consider donating to the project to help me purchase reference books, comics, etc. Donate $10 or more and I'll send you a few 365 Star Wars Women trading cards! 365 Star Wars on Twitter Follow 365 Star Wars	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line0
__label__wiki	0.766266	0.766266	National pride, a national epidemic With around 10 minutes left in the third period, the bar knew the game was over. The Canadian men’s hockey team was up 3–0 over Sweden and playing such a strong defensive game that the Swedes were barely touching the puck. Some of the world’s most gifted athletes flashed across the ice in front of us, CBC’s cameras often zooming in to capture the beads of sweat trickling across their foreheads and subtle facial twitches of fear, anger, excitement. Thousands of miles away in Alberta, bar patrons watched agape, eggs going cold and the carbonation in their 5 a.m. beers fizzling. Sweat also trickled across their foreheads — they cringed and howled at every shot Sweden took. At 60 seconds left on the clock, a rambling, incoherent attempt to sing the national anthem broke out, building up to an explosion of noise when the clock hit zero. “We did it!” people screamed. High-fives and hugs all around. A few guys stole kisses. Hockey was Canada’s game once again. “We are the greatest,” my friend Evan laughed, “and everyone sitting here drinking had everything to do with this victory.” What would have happened had Canada lost to Sweden? Maybe we would we have reacted with more class than many American hockey fans, who took to name-calling over Twitter after losing to us in the semi-finals 1–0. Maple syrup seems to be a popular target for Americans to poke fun at, although it is delicious and less racist than their Aunt Jemima equivalent. But Canada would not have dealt with a silver medal well. The nation would have been dejected. Headlines screaming, “Heartbreak.” Navel-gazing for weeks, mute condemnation of many of the players, especially Sidney Crosby, who failed to produce a goal during the tournament until the second period of the last game. It’s quite possible the country would have breathed a collective sigh and sucked defeat up, much like the 2006 disaster in Turin, Italy. But who remembers seeing Vancouver in flames after the Canucks lost game 7 in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final? I’m only half joking, but after hearing the boos in the bar we were in everytime Sweden took a shot I started imagining an Ikea sales associate herding Swedish immigrants to (collapsible) shelter through the midst of a downtown pogrom. How is it possible for our nation’s self-esteem to hinge so precariously on several guys’ ability to whack a piece of vulcanized rubber around? Sidney Crosby was born in Nova Scotia and spends most of his time in Pittsburgh, eating whole-grain pasta and getting up at 6 a.m. to do thousands of sit-ups. The fact that I am also Canadian does nothing to keep him in the gym every day, nor did being born in Canada magically enhance the development of his bone density, the elasticity of his smooth muscle tissue or his brain’s ability to calculate puck trajectories. The reflexes and power demonstrated by players like Crosby are marvelous and make watching sports worthwhile, but it’s pointless to emotionally invest oneself in athletes on superficial factors like playing for the same city or country. Patriotism is one st*ep away from nationalism. Without delving into sociological gibberish, sports patriotism is one of the shittier forms of national pride because it separates countries and cities into winners and losers. While cultural and scientific achievements can often be shared with and influence the rest of the world, such as advances in medical technology, patriotism’s demand for sports domination can be militaristic, bordering on jingoism. And because the physical demands of sport are grounded in visible genetics, the shadow of racism always looms over competition between states. When African-American sprinter Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, German high command was furious, and not only because Owens was an American. Sports are exciting to watch. Urine and saliva analysis has shown that fans’ adrenaline and cortisol levels react to sporting events as though they were playing themselves. But sports are also important to participate in because they keep our bodies healthy and promote self-discipline and teamwork. We all live vicariously through others to some extent, and when we are passionate about something, watching a master is inspiring. However, memorizing stats and replays is not as fulfilling, productive or impressive as practicing the sport yourself, however unskilled you may be. I would argue that modern sport’s institutionalized obsession with being the absolute best and dominating the competition has contributed to many other social problems outside of patriotic fervour. By overpaying our best athletes and placing them on a pedestal, we encourage children to distinguish themselves by winning at any cost. Sometimes this means cheating, sometimes this means literally giving their lives. Many of you remember Michael Gee, a minor hockey league player from Alberta who suffered heart failure on the ice after pushing himself too hard. My own memories of minor hockey grew increasingly unpleasant the older I got, as players and parents battled coaches for more ice time and recognition, the conflicts often escalating into insanity whenever we got whiff that a scout might be attending a game. From an early age, athletes considered elite are afforded special status in nonsensical ways. At my high school, those of us elected to any team’s starting lineup got to wear collared shirts and ties on game days, to identify us to our peers. I thought this was stupid even then, but I wore a shirt anyway because I mistakenly thought it would get me laid. While privileges like these make other people feel excluded, insecure and turned off from sports, sometimes they also result in serious offences, like severe bullying and sex-related crimes. Like the Steubenville cases, these are often covered up to protect the reputation of the athletes, the school, the city or the country. What a shame that this kind of blind hero-worship stems from nothing but a primitive, tribal desire to see those jerk-offs from across the watering hole beaten. George Orwell once wrote: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” In many ways, professional sport has become a replacement for war and for the gladiatorial arena, a way to sate our suppressed bloodlust. If that stops Canadians from murdering each other in the streets, I’m okay with that, but we should recognize sport’s very real potential to inspire anger and misery. And maybe, just maybe, that means taking professional hockey a little less seriously. Published February 27, 2014 By Masoud United behind the Students’ Union Don’t break your neck doing a neknomination	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line7
__label__wiki	0.676378	0.676378	ETRUSCANS: THE LEGEND OF THE LABYRINTH OF THE HEN Reported by Gaither Stewart he Etruscans have always been one of the most mysterious of ancient civilizations, which voyagers of previous centuries experienced chiefly from their exquisitely frescoed tombs spread over Central Italy. The Etruscan civilization appeared, flourished and spread for nine centuries. An inevitable decline followed; the Etruscans were finally absorbed by the rising militant Roman state, leaving behind little writing. Their origins are obscure and their language still mysterious. Elaborate Etruscan frescoes depict magical religious lives full of banquets, dancing, music and a preoccupation with the hereafter. Their lives were filled with demons and deities. Sacred books dealing with their rituals and accumulated knowledge constituted the Etruscan Discipline, a unity of theory and practice concerning the interpretation of signs given to man. Their deities were Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Minerva, and their terrible God, Charun—Charon. Although the Etruscan alphabet presents no great difficulties (it derives from the Greek), the language itself is isolated among known languages. Its absence of voiced consonants—a morphology different from Indo-European languages—its extensive use of suffixes, our lack of knowledge of its verbs, and the limited number of known Etruscan word roots have obscured comprehension of the few surviving longer Etruscan texts. Greek and Latin translations have aided scholars through the centuries, but they are too few in number to reconstruct a literature that must have been rich, considering the Etruscan's level of culture and civilization. Yet literary historians do not doubt the Etruscan impact on Roman literature The Etruscans Rizzoli Press Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen Etruscan Civilization Sybille Haynes In the I Century anno Domini the Roman historian Pliny the Elder writes in his Naturalis Historia, XXXVI, 13, that the Etruscan King Porsenna "was buried in his labyrinth under the city of Chiusi" and that "inside a square base there was an inextricable labyrinth from which one couldn’t find one’s way out without a ball of thread." [quo si quis improperet sine glomere lini, exitum invenire nequeat.] Pliny wrote about everything of importance in his epoch. Anticipating "indirect TV journalism," this special correspondent tackled the arcane mysteries of the ancient world with a modern spirit. His world’s four great labyrinth—in Egypt, Crete, Lemnos, and in Etruscan Chiusi—fell beneath his pen. Pliny died while covering the volcanic eruption that buried the cities of Pompei and Herculaneum on August 23 in the year 79 A.D. His scoop on Porsenna’s labirinto italico surely would have earned him the Pulitzer Prize today. His reportage became the basis for two thousand years of speculation such as no other journalist has ever accomplished; simultaneously, he ignited a gold fever among descendants of the casual, fun-loving, mystical king that has persisted until today. Selon Pliny, the stone mausoleum was 300 feet wide and 50 feet high. Atop the monument were five 150-foot tall pyramids, across the points of which was fixed a bronze globe from which bells hung. Their ting ting ting echoed through the surrounding hills of Etruria. And atop the bronze globe, four additional 100-foot pyramids, and on top of those five more, and so on and so on. Photographs of reconstructions of King Porsenna’s mausoleum reveal a striking resemblance to the temples in Petra, Jordan and to the Lama-Buddhist temple in Peking. Finally, inside that monument base and thus deep under the hill of the town of Chiusi was concealed the fabulous labyrinth of the legendary king of the Etruscans. Today, the labyrinth is concealed under the hill visible from the Autostrada del Sole, 90 minutes north of Rome. Comparable to the catacombs of Rome, the Chiusi labyrinth radiates through several levels; it is home to a vast number of tunnels, caves, caverns, cisterns, cavities, grottos and galleries. Shafts plunge from the town above into a veritable subterranean city. Legend or history? The fog of time clouds our vision of an age that thrived on the wonders and miracles sufficient to stagger the imagination of stubborn moderns. Pliny was the historian of a Roman world that knew no limits to magic and the occult. Jesus of Nazareth had just delivered his message of the dawn of a new world at the other end of the Mediterranean. A new universal man was being born in the ancient world. For men at the center of that world, it was the beginning of time. Although the chansons de geste of King Porsenna were always based upon a shred of reality, in that magic and everything-is-possible atmosphere subsequent Etruscan fables continued to magnify the legend of the world’s latest labyrinth. From the murky legends lost in the lost history of the doomed Etruscan civilization emerged the myth of Porsenna’s gold. Sometimes traveling on Italy’s north-south Autostrada del Sole I stop off in the hill town of Chiusi to get another look at Etruscan survivors, and to drink some of their ruby red wine and taste their venison dishes. The outstanding characteristic of the 700 Tuscans of this ancient town in Lower Tuscany is how they still identify with their Etruscan ancestors. One and all, they consider themselves descendants of Porsenna, the conqueror of Rome. Despite the halo of legend surrounding the powerful Etruscan king, his exploits have been well documented by many historians and writers near to him in time and spirit. In particular, two major writers of the ancient world write of Porsenna’s geste: the Roman, Titus Livy and the Greek, Dionysius of Halicarnassus. They concur that the high point of the 3000-year history of Chiusi was King Porsenna’s victory over Rome in 506 B.C., while Rome and the Etruscans were fighting for control over the realm. The Roman military historian, Tacitus, describes the exploits of the Etruscan king. Plutarch reports that Porsenna received from the Roman Senate an ivory throne and a golden crown, and that Rome paid him regular tributes. King Porsenna however, instead of occupying Rome after his victory, allowed the new Roman Republic to exist. True to casual Etruscan style, he returned north to Chiusi a rich man ready to dedicate his time to the preparation of his burial site. Though I had visited their vases and funeral urns in the museums and their burial sites in Tarquinia and Cerveteri, I became most curious about Etruscans after a new generation of experts deciphered the Etruscan alphabet and demonstrated that the old experts had been wrong about everything. The Etruscans were not as mysterious as we had been led to believe. It was all because no one could make heads or tails of their language. Now we know much more. They were mystics, yes, but also sea-faring arms merchants trading in powerful iron weapons. Moreover, they were rich and lazy capitalists who had slaves to do all the work, man their ships, fight their wars, and even govern them. In reality, the mysterious Etruscans of yore had two things in mind—fun in the here-and-now and preparation for the hereafter. I have come even to believe that their hired sailors and arms merchants reached the Americas before the Vikings and that Etruscans perhaps had contact with the Olmec civilization in Mexico. A cursory look at the sculptures and the features of the two peoples reveals a bewildering affinity. In my investigations into the once ambivalent Etruscans I have never found another place where Etruscan civilization survives more visibly than in Chiusi, the former Lucumonia of Clevsin--or Camars--which in the VII century B.C. was the principle city of the great Etruscan Confederation. I learned that the quickest way to offend contemporary Chiusini is to remark how ugly are those short and fat, peace-loving Epicureans depicted on the Etruscan vases in the museums of the world. For the proud Tuscans of Chiusi boast that they are Etruscans. They still swoon recollecting their victory over Rome 2700 years ago. Like the Celts in Ireland, the bacchanal Etruscans have transcended time. People on the cobbled streets of Chiusi have the same thick necks, high cheekbones and sharp noses as the figures on the black and red vases studied so diligently by historians, archeologists, anthropologists and students of art. Under the influence of the Roman historians, the Tuscan Renaissance architect Alberti often cited Porsenna’s labyrinth as proof of the primacy of Etruscan architecture in the ancient world. The works of Herodotus, Tacitus, Plautus, Seneca, Livius, Horace, Ovid, Cicero and Roman Emperor Claudius himself demonstrate a profound interest in Etruscan civilization on the part of their Greek and Roman contemporaries. As far as King Porsenna is concerned, at the time he returned up the Tiber Valley from conquered Rome to Chiusi, real history ends and legend begins. For we do not really know how much the accounts of Plutarch and Tacitus and Pliny were based on myth and how much on recorded facts. However that may be, Tuscans of Chiusi speak of the fabulous Lucumone Porsenna as if it all happened in the recent past. Most certainly he built a sarcophagus in the form of a carriage made of gold, pulled by 12 horses of gold, surrounded by a golden hen and a brood of 5000 chicks of gold. Of course his treasure was buried underneath the town in an underground construction and protected by an impenetrable labyrinth. "Pliny’s labyrinth," folk tales began labeling the king’s treasure—or "the labyrinth of the hen," or simply "Porsenna’s gold." Legend and folktales shrouded in myth agree on the existence of the treasure, but not on its precise location. Therefore every village and hamlet in Lower Tuscany has claimed it. The labyrinth is under the next hill. At night, if the wind is right and you have gazed long enough into ruby red Tuscan wine, you can hear the tingling of the bells. And you might even see its shape outlined against a distant horizon. You feel its presence. From the steps of the town’s Cathedral Museum you look out over the Tiber Valley toward Rome. Rugged Tuscan hills are lined with vineyards and olive orchards. The silhouettes of eternal cypresses stand black against the horizons. You are at the crossroads of modern Italy and at the heart of former Etruria—that gave its name to Tuscany—a civilization lasting from IX century B.C. to I century A.D. At its peak in the V century B.C., the loosely knit Confederation of twelve cities, including Camars-Chiusi was crushed by Gauls from the north and Roman firepower from the south. AN IMAGINARY ETRUSCAN INTERVIEW IN CHIUSI "We’re mystics," the Etruscanologist says by way of introduction, waving his hand vaguely back toward the past. "Deeply religious. The entire life of our forefathers was guided by symbols through which they interpreted the will of the gods. Few people are aware that besides Judaism the Etruscan religion was the only revealed faith of the Mediterranean Basin! Revealed through the mouth of a child uncovered by a peasant digging in the fields. "The child Tagete revealed to Etruscan kings the secrets of the origins of the universe—God, the creator all things, assigned the world 12,000 years of time. In the first 6,000 He created sky and earth, seas and rivers, sun, moon, stars, birds and animals, and finally in the sixth millennium, man. He assigned 6000 years to mankind, after which the time of man will end." "What was this religion?" asks the Barnard graduate student, surprised by that revealed. "What did the Etruscans believe? What was their faith’s role in their lives?" Professor: The prophecies of Tagete and other semi-gods were collected in sacred books to form the famous ‘Etruscan Discipline.’ Those books revealed the means to interpret divine will and to affect history through rites and ritual. Through expiation of guilt Etruscans hoped to be spared the divine punishment that hangs over peoples, cities and individuals. History itself was sacred. Nothing happens by chance. Like your being here today to ask me these questions about a vanished civilization. Everything that happens is to announce a future event or is the realization of a sign the gods had sent earlier. As Seneca points out, for the Etruscans, facts are not important because they happened, but because they arrive in order to have a meaning in the future. Remember that before the Roman conquest, Roman aristocrats sent their children here to Etruria for their education—to learn the Etruscan Discipline. But later, under Roman domination, Etruscan soothsayers were considered nothing more than charlatans. Just goes to show you the potential or probable future of many of man’s religions…. But that of course is another story." Student: But Professor, how do you explain the historical curiosity about the Etruscans and their tombs spread over Tuscany and Latium? Professor: The source of life is a mystery. The afterlife is a mystery too. Which is greater? Porsenna’s people dedicated great attention to their tombs and to sacrifices so that their life after death would be long and happy. Remember that many primitive peoples—the Plains Indians on your continent too, for example—did not believe the spirit of man survived the body for eternity. The result of the mystery of life and death, light and darkness, good and evil, is our fascination with 3000-year-old tombs. Since the Renaissance artists and writers have been enchanted by the legend of the labyrinth. Renaissance man, with his enthusiastic rediscovery of beauty and truth, with his faith in creative energy and his spirit for adventure, reevaluated the classic literature of Greece and Rome—after all the cradle of culture of Europe and thus of the New World!—and still had little knowledge of the monuments and culture of the conquered Etruscans. Student: But who were the Etruscans anyway? Where did they come from? Professor: Ah, my dear, you land on a touchy question indeed. Where did they come from, all those strange peoples roaming around the East after the Trojan wars? Some say the Etruscans came from Lebanon. Maybe they were Sumerians. Or they came from the Sahara when it dried up. But just maybe they lived here all the time—one Etruscanologist claims that the Latin alphabet comes from the Etruscan. For example, the Italian word Caronte or your English word Charon derive from the Etruscan demon, Charun. However that may be, in 1767 the historian Monsignor Mario Guarnacci in his Origini Italiche claimed the Etruscans’ artistic superiority over the Greeks. He identified them with the ancient Pelasgic people, guided to Italy by Janus-Noah, and he identified their language as a direct derivation from the Hebrew--from the Samaritan dialect! Oh, it was just so much rot, all the previous mystification of the Etruscans. It was only because for such a long time modern scholars couldn’t decipher their language! Student: But what ultimately happened to them? Their civilization was so evolved. All their luxury and their fashions, those long colorful tunics, cone-shaped hats and pointed shoes. Doesn’t that culture count for something historically? Professor: Times change. Nations rise and fall. Civilizations are born and die. The Etruscans’ contribution finished in the Iron Age. They inherited a spirit from the East, developed it, reached their zenith, and then collapsed under Roman firepower. I suppose we could make an analogy with the emergence of your country on the back of its sophisticated technologies and weaponry. The Etruscans fell because they never understood Rome. Some think the same threat hangs over Europe vis-à-vis the United States today. Remember that when the Etruscan city of Orvieto naively called in Roman troops to quell a local revolt, General Fulvius Flacco marched his troops north and leveled the entire city instead. It was at that point, by the way, that Etruscan nobles began moving to Rome and integrating into the new society. In the end they wanted to be like the Romans. Student: It’s so sad. History is unkind. Those poor Etruscans seemed so peace-loving. Professor: You’re confusing their art with their civilization. They were also the biggest arms traffickers of the epoch, selling murderous weapons made from their iron. Then, they were selfish and avaricious. A sick society dedicated to self-amusement and imitation. Is that enough for survival? Student: I suppose not. But what could they have done? Professor: They lacked stamina. They could have tried to hold out against history but instead they surrendered. Whatever their faults, I personally liked them better when we knew less about them. I prefer the old image of the mysterious Etruscans to the decadent people we see now on their vases. The lands of the Etruscans extended from Veio at the gates of Rome to the north. While two centuries of archeologists and historians have again brought to light Porsenna’s world, people of the town of Chiusi have never given up their search for their king’s treasure. The private lives of the once mysterious but high-living Etruscans have been documented in the scenes painted on the walls of their tombs and their vases: games, banquets, dances and scenes like the "drunken Etruscan women" and their love for luxury, the figures that lie at the heart of Renaissance art. Meanwhile, the people of Chiusi dig for the treasure. They dig into their labyrinth, from above, from all sides. They have explored and mapped the subterranean city—a loosely connected underworld of tunnels and caverns. Yet the mystery of the labyrinth and the mausoleum has not been unraveled. Nor has Porsenna’s treasure been found. Myth or legend, Porsenna’s gold? Speleologists, archeologists and scholars continue to investigate and speculate, yet, the labyrinth remains the stuff of dreams and imagination—and fiction writers. But Chiusi’s people are still convinced the "treasure of the hen" is there. They dream. They hear the bells tingle in the night. They see the shadow of the mausoleum on the horizon. Each local boy hopes to find Porsenna’s gold. It is just a matter of time.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line20
__label__cc	0.539168	0.460832	Home / Music - Australian / The Youngs – The brothers who built AC/DC The Youngs – The brothers who built AC/DC SKU: pre-2135 Category: Music - Australian Publisher: Fink, Jesse Less a biography, more a critical appreciation, it tells the story of the trio through 11 classic songs and reveals some of the personal and creative secrets that went into their making. Important figures from AC/DC’s long way to the top open up for the very first time, while unsung heroes behind the band’s success are given the credit they are due. Accepted accounts of events are challenged while sensational new details emerge to cast a whole new light on the band’s history – especially their early years with Atlantic Records in the United States. HC DJ St Martins Press Working Class Man Barnes, Jimmy Keep Rockin' Billy Thorpe Celebrating an Australian music legend Thorpe, Linda Keep Rockin’ Billy Thorpe Celebrating an Australian music legend House of Hits The great ubntold story of Australia's first family of music Albert, Jane House of Hits The great ubntold story of Australia’s first family of music Remarks - The Story of R.E.M. Fletcher, Tony Remarks – The Story of R.E.M.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line25
__label__wiki	0.793107	0.793107	Flood of wait-and-see dot-brands expected this week Kevin Murphy, July 21, 2015, 19:46:26 (UTC), Domain Registries ICANN expects to sign as many as 170 new gTLD contracts with dot-brand applicants over the coming week. Dot-brands that have been treading water in the program to date are up against a hard(ish) July 29 deadline to finally sign a Registry Agreement with ICANN. VP of domain name services Cyrus Namazi told DI today that ICANN expects most of the backlog to be cleared in the next couple of weeks. “The end of the July is a bit of a milestone for the program as a whole,” Namazi said. “A substantial number of contracts will be signed off and move towards delegation.” “I think within a short period after the end of July most of these will be signed off,” he said. There are currently 188 applications listed as “In Contracting” in the program. Namazi and myself estimate that roughly 170 are dot-brands, almost all of which have July 29 deadlines. Namazi said that ICANN has planned for a last-minute rush of “hundreds” of applicants trying to sign contracts in the last month. The July 29 deadline for dot-brands was put in place because of delays creating Specification 13 of the RA — that’s the part that allows dot-brands to function as dot-brands, by eschewing sunrise periods for example. For most dot-brand wannabes, it was already an extension of nine months or more from their original deadline. But it seems inevitable that some will miss the deadline. Namazi said that those applicants that do miss the deadline will receive a “final notice” about a week later, which gives the applicant 60 days to come back to the process using the recently announced Application Eligibility Reinstatement process. That creates a new deadline in early October. Applicants that miss that deadline might be shit outta luck. “They’ll essentially just sit in a bucket that will not be proceeding,” Namazi said. “We don’t have a process to reactivate beyond that.” So why are so many dot-brand applicants leaving it so late to sign their contracts? The answer seems to be, essentially: lots of them are playing wait-and-see, and they still haven’t seen. They wanted to see how other dot-brands would be used, and there’s not a lot of evidence to draw on yet. The number of dot-brands that have fully shown their cards could be counted on your fingers. Maybe even on just one hand. “Some of them have a different level of enthusiasm for having their own TLD,” Namazi said. “Some of them don’t have their systems or process in place to accept or absorb a new TLD. Some of them don’t even know what to do with it. There may have been some defensive registrations in there. There were probably expectations in terms of market development for new TLDs that have gone a bit slower than some people’s business plans called for.” “That has probably made some of the large brands more hesitant in terms of rushing to market with their new TLDs,” he said. Fatal timeout? A dozen dot-brands procrastinating to death As deadline looms, over 100 dot-brands still in contract limbo DI Leaders Roundtable #1 — How many new gTLDs will be applied for next time around? Tagged: contracting, dot-brands, ICANN, new gTLDs Nothings beats signing a contract that is heavily biased towards ICANN and gives no assurances in return. Which TLDs are you referring to Rubens? Brand TLDs, although the agreement goes this way for every TLD. Corporations are used with balanced contracts and mutual assurances, so the approval cycle for a leonine contract is much longer than the usual. I won’t be surprised with some brands giving up just because how the agreement is structured.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.696753	0.696753	Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello: Acute Inbetweens (Crónica) Owner of Australian label Room40 Lawrence English collaborates on this full-length with another ambient-experimental performer, New York-based Stephen Vitiello. Neither is new to the field of drone music, but this is their first collaboration, and my own personal first exposure to Vitiello’s work. The album is divided into 5 tracks, and as its title suggests, it appears to be very much about suggestions of sound and the textures and tones that decay in between more obvious moments. Both artists have a history of abstracting sound; from what I can tell in the press release (Vitiello again being new to me), his focus is environmental and field recordings, abstracting them into drones and atmospheres that sound removed from the source, whereas English typically works with more acoustic instruments and electronics to create his own textures and fields of color. The marriage of the two approaches is seamless, and you’d never know that these recordings are the result of across-the-globe collaborations via file-sharing. The title is wholly appropriate given the nebulous nature of most of these pieces. The result is often out of focus, shapeless fields of sound, with occasional intrusions. “Soft Plastic Shell” includes strange oscillator noise cutting in and out of the mix, while “Tickled Inside” begins with a stark series of tones that crackle with tension. But mostly these pieces are somewhat serene, even when they evoke tension… their obliqueness allows them to glide by like a distant storm, and I’m able to appreciate its murky beauty from the comfort of my own seat. Buy it: Boomkat \| Juno \| iTunes \| Crónica \| Amazon Christening Of The Blackbird, Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello by stephenvitiello	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line34
__label__cc	0.581697	0.418303	Author: TDeSimone Home TDeSimone May 6, 2012February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment by TDeSimone Travis DeSimone Corsair I am not really into horror films. Maybe it is because I was raised on a steady diet of slasher flicks, but nothing seems to be shocking to me any more. What makes a horror movie truly stand out to me is a sense of tension, suspense. It takes more than blood... Travis DeSimone The Corsair Naoki Urasawa may just be one of the best writers in the manga industry right now. With a focus on characters and story telling rather than all the over wrought nonsense you find in most modern anime and manga, Urasawa has changed the game. I am a big fan of his... April 20, 2012February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment Travis DeSimone. The Corsair. Anyone who has seen Mad Men knows what the buzz is all about. Good writing, convincing acting, great sets, terrific costumes, and an aesthetic that makes you just want to kick back and enjoy an Old Fashioned with a Lucky Strike. The critically acclaimed show created by Matthew Weiner has gone on... Spring Anime 2012 Travis DeSimone. The Corsair. Every time the seasons change I do a couple of things. I start shopping for appropriate clothes, maybe go for a swim, or start looking for my favorite seasonal foods. Another thing I do is look up the Anime schedules for the season approaching. Spring has sprung. SEASONAL CHART As these... Call Of The Wildman Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Let me go on record and say that I am not a big fan of reality television. The only kind of reality shows I can stomach are documentaries. I found a show recently that captivated me, Call Of The Wildman. The show follows the adventures of Ernie Lee Brown Jr. A.K.A. The... April 3, 2012February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment Travis DeSimone The Corsair Most readers have been in love before. Most of have fallen out of love as well. Typically when we lose a lover it is through a nasty break up or some logistical issue, but sometimes death intervenes. What would you do to bring a dead lover back to life? This is... March 19, 2012February 9, 2017Features Gattai! : A History Lesson on Giant Robots Travis DeSimone. Corsair. The world of Anime and Manga is a large and twisting place filled with all sorts of of genres for different audiences. There is Anime marketed towards young children, teenagers, boys, girls, and adults too. This can be a harrowing universe to traverse if you have no prior knowledge. Aside from the demographic... March 12, 2012February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment Travis DeSimone. Corsair. It is that time of year again, as spring rolls around festival season begins. SXSW is currently in swing in Austin Texas, and while I may not be able to make it I wanted to highlight some artists there. A-Track Diplo Le Castlevania Daedelus Purity Ring Pictureplane YACHT Grimes Dive Mr. Muthafuckin... March 6, 2012February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment ELITE GYMNASTICS Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Last year around June, Minneapolis 2 piece Elite Gymnastics released a double sided ep RUIN 1 and 2. Although they had been around the scene for a while this EP brought them a lot of international attention, being praised on Pitchfork and Stereogum. When I heard RUIN 1 I was instantly hooked. Washed... Travis DeSimone. Corsair. If anyone reads this section, then they know that I am a big fan of alternative business models in the world of multimedia. Whether it be micro transactions for a movie that circumvent the big publishers, or a band releasing their album on a “pay what you like” model, I am a big...	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line35
__label__wiki	0.540126	0.540126	China vows cooperation with ASEAN to promote peace in South China Sea Xinhua Updated : 2017-06-22 LargeMediumSmall Print BEIJING -- China Wednesday vowed joint efforts with ASEAN countries to ensure the success of the China-ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in August and promote peace and stability in the South China Sea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang made the remarks in response to a question regarding recent comments from Philippine Assistant Foreign Secretary for ASEAN Affairs Ma. Hellen De La Vega. The Philippine diplomat was quoted as saying the set-up of senior diplomat hotline between China and ASEAN countries, and the application of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) in the South China Sea, would help improve China-ASEAN relations. Geng applauded the Philippine diplomat's comments, adding currently the situation in the South China Sea has been stabilized and maintains sound development momentum. Parties concerned have pushed forward consultations on a code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea as well as maritime cooperation, he told a routine press briefing. Geng said parties concerned had reached agreement on the COC framework at the 14th Senior Officials' Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), held last month in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Since last year, parties concerned have agreed to set up a senior diplomat hotline to cope with maritime emergencies, and apply the CUES in the South China Sea. The hotline has been trialled during the first half of this year, Geng said. "All these measures have played important roles in cementing trust among parties concerned and avoid unexpected issues," Geng said.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line37
__label__wiki	0.555854	0.555854	Andrea Rossi will publish a full report on the science behind his ecat low energy reaction (LENR) technology when he receives an international patent for the device. Rossi made this claim to the Italian radio station Citta del Capo Radio Metropolitana. In the same interview Rossi admitted that a lot more work will need to be done before he can deliver a home ecat or an industrial ecat. Rossi has applied for US and European Union (EU) patents for ecat but they haven’t been approved. Since it can years to get a patent granted that means it might be years before we see the report. George Miley applied for a US patent on his LENR device in 2008 but it wasn’t approved until July, 2012. I also wonder what Rossi means by an international patent he has an Italian patent on the ecat. Rossi might have better luck getting a patent in China like Brillouin has. One possibility is that Rossi is seeking patent protection in several countries before he reveals his research. Rossi didn’t say what he would publish but it might be the theory behind the ecat or the results of research with it. He also didn’t say where he would publish the results. This would seem to contradict Rossi’s promise to publish ecat data sometime this fall. One possibility is that he had been expecting a patent but it has been delayed for some reason. Rossi also clarified his relationship with the giant German technology company Siemens. He said he is working with Siemen’s Swedish subsidiary – which means he is working with Siemens – to adapt a turbine for use with ecat. This is rather interesting because Rossi conducts his research in Bologna Italy even though he’s worked with Swedish scientists in the past. Rossi said Siemens is a supplier but hasn’t been involved in the research. Rossi said that the ecat had been studied at Siemens’ research and development center in Stockholm. He also said that Siemens had sent a consulting engineer to Bologna to take measurements of the ecat and that Siemens had made proposals about the device. That indicates that Siemens is actually involved in the research which contradicts what Rossi said earlier. Rossi also said that the home ecat heating and water heating device which he had promised earlier has been delayed because of “too problems with certification.” Rossi also noted that work on his hot ecat is underway but he is planning to try and generate electricity probably with a steam turbine with when he is ready. From what Rossi said he will try generating electricity with the hot ecat when it is self-sustaining. That would indicate the device is not yet self-sustaining. Rossi also admitted that there were many faults with his 1 megawatt (megawatt of heat not electricity) ecat unit which has reportedly been sold to an unidentified military customer. The internet rumor mill indicates the “military customer” was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States which conducts advanced research for the Pentagon. The faults make the device unsafe so it is still at his facility in Bologna. The faults were apparently so great that Rossi has had to build a second 1 MW unit for the customer. Rossi didn’t say when that plant will be ready. He did not that if it works as planned that unit will operate for 20 to 30 years and pay for it itself in energy savings in two to three years. So it looks like Rossi is making good progress but some earlier claims about his progress have exaggerated. It also looks like Rossi is adopting a more realistic approach to making promises which should help his reputation. Toyota is Active in Cold Fusion Research Again » « Rossi Hot Ecat not Ready for Investment Yet Defkalion Testing in Canada Update from Around the World of Cold Fusion Energy Catalyzer Swiss Company has applied for LENR Patent in USA Andrea Rossi – Ampenergo Amps Up Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer in America Interviews Reveal a Little More About Andrea Rossi the Man Leaked Test Data Indicates Hot Ecat operating at 1200 degrees Celsius Utilities worried because Big Corporations are unplugging from the Grid Rossi and Industrial Heat Getting Ready for Trial	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.500621	0.499379	Home » Astrakhan » Politics Personnel changes in the government of Astrakhan region. Yesterday, the Governor of Astrakhan Region Alexander Zhilkin signed several decrees on personnel changes in the regional cabinet. Appointed new heads of the Deputy Prime Minister on the operation of life support systems and environmental safety and the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Construction and Roads area. former head the Ministry of Construction and Roads area Oleg Polumordvinov now a deputy prime minister on the functioning of life support systems and environmental safety. At the same time an increasing range of issues which he will oversee the post. "The governor has set a task Oleg form a headquarters, which will shape the work related to housing and community services (including preparation for the winter), provision of safe water situation and the implementation of the program" Clean Water ", questions relating to state property management and land relations and project appraisal "- said the prime minister of Constantine Markelov. for the post of Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Construction and Roads area appointed Rasul Sultanov. He has worked in the regional government for about three years doing investment policy, then was sent to commercial projects. "It is not coincidence that he sent it to the building and the road sector, which requires new approaches and investments", - said Konstantin Markelov. According to him, Sultanov Rasool will address such problems as the creation of new infrastructure projects and construction of large industrial complexes, the increase in housing construction, the elimination of old and dilapidated housing. Zhigin Alexander, who was deputy chairman of the regional government on the functioning of life support systems and environmental safety, will be appointed Head of State of the Astrakhan region "Regional Fire Rescue Service." ru Кадровые изменения в правительстве Астраханской области de Personelle Veränderungen in der Regierung Region Astrachan. es Cambios de personal en el gobierno de la región de Astrakhan. fr Les changements de personnel au sein du gouvernement de la région d'Astrakhan. it Sostituzioni di personale nel governo della regione di Astrakhan. Waterford PA Real Estate , а также, Debra Cernick	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line39
__label__wiki	0.658705	0.658705	GRYPHONMETAL.CH THE EUROPEAN METALZINE NEWS at FACEBOOK sitemap / contact / search the site here Interview with Soulfly - Max Cavalera Interview by Matthew Haumschild Photo: courtesy of Steve Dempsey /Down the Barrel Photography http://www.soulfly.com https://www.facebook.com/SoulflyOfficial I’ve been waiting to speak with this man since I was 15 years old, twenty years later I finally get my wish. I am very familiar with the story of Max Cavalera and even more so since I read his autobiography, which by the way is available electronically for download. In the interview, you will not see me ask about a Sepultura reunion, I’ve been around long enough to know that if it happens it happens and that’s great if it does, but that’s something they have to decide on and as a journalist and a fan of both groups, it’s my obligation not to start crap or to beat a dead horse for the sake a few more clicks. Both bands have moved on and created music that people rather enjoy and I’ll leave it at that. Max is a personal hero of mine that through music, through other interviews, and his autobiography has guided me down a path that has led me to where I am today. I cannot express enough of my utter gratitude for the opportunity. How often do people get to speak to one of their heroes? Check my review of the new Soulfly album here. Link on GryphonMetal: Soulfly - "Archangel" - review I like location videos Matthew Haumschild: By the way, cool video for Archangel. Max Cavalera: Yeah it's a simple idea of us playing live but it just had something about it that's really cool. Just the energy of it and the interaction with the crowd I think it was really cool. Matthew Haumschild: That is really cool. I saw how it looked as you guys were performing and everything so yeah. It looked very, very good. How many takes did you have to do to get that one down? Max Cavalera: We did two takes. We did it in two takes. One take was the regular one and then the other one was with the 360 camera because the video is 360 you know. So to get it right we did it twice. And then he got some shots during the concert that he added to the video and them some stuff afterwards that he did just with the fans. Matthew Haumschild: You've done an awful lot of videos in your career. Just tons of them. At least since “Beneath the Remains”. You probably have a lot of stories to tell for just making videos. I know you had one for shooting Arise in the middle of the desert right where Charles Manson had once stomped on. You know that sort of thing. Do you ever have other fun memories from making videos then? Max Cavalera: My favorite videos ... I like location videos ... The Prophecy video in Monument Valley was awesome. The Territory video in Israel, the two Soulfly videos we did in the Serbia carving side of front lines. I like those kind of videos, that you go to a place but you can't ... It's not all the time that you can do that. Sometimes you got to, you know, whatever you can. This time around we only had the budget that we could just do the 360 video on a live situation so we just did that. It depends where you are at that time what can you do. If I have to choose a favorite one, I would say the location videos are my favorite. Matthew Haumschild: That's really cool. I did read your autobiography, which I absolutely loved. I got done with it within at least a week because I just couldn't put it down. I just had a few other questions regarding that if you don't mind? Max Cavalera: No problem Matthew Haumschild: There was a story about the song, "To the Wall" (a song from Sepultura’s Schizophrenia album circa 1987) where, this was back in the '80s, probably even early '80s in Brazil, where there was a military dictatorship, do you think since that time things have done a lot better in Brazil since that time period? Max Cavalera: It doesn't change much. The police are still real corrupt. I mean it is better than when it was dictatorship. We don't have military power anymore so that's ... we have democracy and free elections. We actually have a woman president right now for the first time which was inspired by American things like having Obama being the black president and that kind of reflected on Brazil and they decided to have a woman president. So I think things are a little better than they were when we lived there. Matthew Haumschild: Not as bad then? Max Cavalera: It's better. It's getting better. I think every time I go there it gets a little better. It's definitely more advanced. Technology is catching up with more modern and it's really a beautiful country. It's really beautiful in terms of landscape and things like that. Just like America. America is also really beautiful in landscape and all that stuff you know. Matthew Haumschild: . Do you think it is just as hard for a band to make it out of Brazil now as it was back when you were first starting out, given the state of music? Max Cavalera: I think it's easier now with internet. It's easier everywhere around the world for bands to get more ... you get exposure to internet and people can take notice of you I think. Back then was just all word of mouth and a lot of hard work. A lot of touring and trying to get the name out. Today you have different tools, like internet and things like that to help more. At the same token, you have a lot of bands, so it becomes very difficult because you got more competition you know? I think if you ask me straight up if its easier or harder, I'd say easier nowadays to get more popular. I'm assuming more bands will come out. Not just from Brazil but from different parts of the world. Matthew Haumschild: That's cool. You've been a successful musician for an awfully long time now. You've been at the forefront of metal since the '80s. Of all the decades that you've been in the business, when do you think was the golden age of metal? Max Cavalera: You can argue, say that was the late '80s, beginning of the '90s, the thrash era. I think that was really exciting at the least. It was different, it was new, it was exciting with stuff like Slayer, Metallica and Sepultura and Pantera and all these bands coming out and doing the thrash metal thing. More aggressive, faster, kind of political a little bit. Changing the guard you know. Heavy metal went through a change and I think that was very exciting. Matthew Haumschild: I always kind of thought it was probably right around when Soulfly started right when it started to get much better; personal opinion. Max Cavalera: I think it's always been here. That's what's cool about metal. It never goes away. It never stops. It's always growing and always developing and always evolving and it's always going to be something new and different. I'm really excited for the underground metal right now. Stuff like Genocide, Bat, Homewrecker and Nails, Young and In The Way. There's a lot of great new bands coming out that makes me very excited for the future of metal. Matthew Haumschld: Talking about the new album, Archangel, what made you decide to go biblical for this album? Max Cavalera: Just try something different you know. I needed some ideas to put the album ... It's always good if you have a kind of theme around the album. That kind of helps for you to make the record so I center on Archangel and have all the biblical, a lot of heavy, hard-core stories from the bible mixed with metal. I thought it was kind of a cool mix, a different mix that works. I really think it works. I think the album ... I'm very happy about the record, the way it came out and very excited for the touring and everything that Archangel is going to bring. Matthew Haumschild: What was your inspiration for “We Sold Our Souls to Metal?” Max Cavalera: We always wanted to try to write some kind of metal anthem about my love of metal. I always loved metal. I just never found the right time and the right idea to do it. This time came. I had this riff that sounded really kind of like Cannibal Corpse and Discharge together and it was sounded really cool. Then I just kind of borrowed the name from Black Sabbath, "We Sold Our Soul to Rock and Roll", switched to metal and made my own. I was hoping it would become some kind of metal anthem for metal-heads around world because it's a universal feeling on that song about how we feel about the music we love. Matthew Haumschild: Have you ever thought about producing? Max Cavalera: I did produce a little bit but it's not really my forte. I don't know, it's more about ... producing my own stuff. I did some Soulfly stuff. I produce myself and came out really cool and I had a kind of a good time. I produced a band from Argentina called A.N.I.M.A.L. back in the '90s. You know it's different to work with somebody else. It becomes kind of hard. It's not your band, it's somebody else's music and you don't know how much opinion you want to give. I kind of preferred just to do my own thing and just leave the production to the real pro guys you know. Matthew Haumschild: Like Matt Hyde right? Max Cavalera: Guys like that, yeah. Matt Hyde is great, great. Terry Date too that did the last record, Savages. Matthew Haumschild: What made you decide to go with Matt Hyde this time? Max Cavalera: My son worked with him. Richie. He's in a band called Incite. Matt did an album for him called "Up in Hell". It came out really good. I was surprised how killer the record came out. So I asked Richie, "How was it to work with Matt? You guys have a good time? Did he push you?" Richie said, "Yeah. I think you should work with him. I think he'll make you a very good Soulfly album." So we just gave it a try. We just told the label we want to work with Matt and they knew he did Slayer "God Hates Us All" and he had mixed the Behemoth symphonies. He's done some other Monster Magnet and 311 and No Doubt. He's done a lot of stuff so it was really killer working with him. He's just really professional, really knows his stuff. He got really excited about the biblical stuff on the album. Got really excited about the whole idea behind Archangel so it was like the perfect guy. We had a really good team on this album. Between him producing and the album cover that Eliran (Kantor) did too. I think ... I love the album cover. I think it's one of my best album covers I ever had. It was a really good team for Archangel. I don't know I might even try to maybe repeat the team some other time when I do another record. Have the same people involved on another record. Be really cool just to do it again. Matthew Haumschild: I only really have one other question for you. in the autobiography, you mentioned that when you and Iggor were kids, more like young adults really, you guys had worked in a shoe factory and that half the staff were sniffing glue to get high. Does that shoe factory still exist? Max Cavalera: No. It was my aunt's and she closed down. Matthew Haumschild: Okay. I was kind of wondering if that thing was still open. Like, "Hey why not have a Cavalera shoe factory going?” Max Cavalera: Yeah no, no, no. It closed down. It was a aunt's business. I hated that place. It was horrible. It was fun getting high and sniffing glue but the actual work was really hard work and I didn't like that at all. I'm so glad I was done with that place. Matthew Haumschild PO Box 137 - CH 5443 Niederrohrdorf Postfach 201367 - D Waldshut- Tiengen © GryphonMetal.ch 2015 - Niederrohrdorf - Switzerland	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.690332	0.690332	Binance CEO ‘Very Confident’ in Cryptocurrency Industry’s Future Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has expressed deep confidence in the prospects of cryptocurrency despite the challenging industry conditions that have defined most of 2018. Speaking during a conversation with “Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East” hostsTracy Alloway and Yousef Gamal El-Din, he also stated that Binance intends to start off the new year “with a bang” in line with the company’s bullish outlook on the sector. “2018 has been a tough year in terms of pricing for the cryptocurrency. And we see a lot of projects not making it this year, so its a correction year. But technology will stay, and we wanna kick off 2019 with a bang… So I think the people in the industry are still very confident about the future. So there’s no worries about that.” Temporary Price, Permanent Utility In CZ’s assessment, the topic of pricing will always attract speculative activity in the space, which in turn causes prices to fluctuate either upwards or downwards. Last year, he said, saw an over-fluctuation, which was then followed by a correction phase which has lasted for most of 2018. Though he admitted that it is impossible to know whether the bear market phase is over, Zhao maintained that the long-term industry — regardless of price movements — is sustained by real applications by actual builders, which he says is the real use case of cryptocurrency. In spite of the market’s upheavals and uncertainty, he said, Binance is still very aggressive in pursuing its ambitions, to which end the company has set new milestones in the coming year. One of these milestones, Zhao revealed, is a plan to launch its own decentralized exchange next year to allow for more freedom for its users. Speaking further, he stated that Binance welcomes regulatory involvement within the cryptocurrency space from all governments around the world, as long as there is sufficient clarity to combat the present uncertainty. In his opinion, good and sensible regulations will promote rather than hamper innovation. When asked about the performance of his personal cryptocurrency asset portfolio valued at $2 billion earlier in the year, he responded saying that while he cannot confirm the current value — owing to the varied composition and minute to minute changes of the portfolio — it has indeed taken a hit in line with the market’s 2018 performance. Despite this, he affirmed that his confidence in the industry remains unchanged. Featured Image from Shutterstock Get Exclusive Crypto Analysis by Professional Traders and Investors on Hacked.com. Sign up now and get the first month for free. Click here. FutureIndustry	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line53
__label__wiki	0.730198	0.730198	Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:08 Krohn Racing 18 Hour Report - 24 Hours of Le Mans Krohn Racing 18 Hour Report 24 Hours of Le Mans The No. 57 Krohn Racing Ferrari F458 continues to soldier on in the 80th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans race at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Team owner/driver Tracy W. Krohn and co-drivers Nic Jönsson and Michele Rugolo have maintained the third position in class at the 18-hour mark, and 27th overall. NIC JONSSON, No. 57 Krohn Racing Ferrari F458 GTE-Am: After halfway point of the race, shortly after 3:00 a.m.: "It started off pretty good. The tires, especially the front, started to go off by the end of the first stint, but we wanted to try to double stint the tires to see how much wear we could get on them. Halfway through the second stint the fronts had nothing left as far as grip goes. We just had to hang on and cruise and bring the car back in for Michele. I think the car works perfectly fine mechanically. It looks like we're running race pace right now with the leaders. We just have to hang in there, keep plugging away and hope for some luck that we can make those two laps back that we're behind right now and be there at the end tomorrow afternoon." After morning double stint until 8:00 a.m.: "We decided to go on a soft tire for the stint and it seemed like that didn't work that great because I had absolutely no grip from the very first lap, not even on new tires. The car was very difficult to drive. It was loose into the corners and huge push in the long sweepers like Porsche Curves, going through Tertre Rouge. There was just basically a survival mode to get through this stint. Everything else mechanically worked perfect with the car. We just have to settle in and try to be safe out there and hopefully bring this home on the podium." TRACY W. KROHN, Krohn Racing Team Owner/Driver, No. 57 Krohn Racing Ferrari F458 GTE-Am: Following his single stint, just before the 18 hour mark: "The track was very damp early this morning but it's dried out a little bit now. It's different every single lap now. I overcooked the tires one time going into the Mulsanne. I've had a lot of problems with that turn. I know where the braking point is supposed to be, it's just not where it normally is. It's really backed up and narrowed a lot. There's a lot of gravel, rubber and parts out on the circuit. I was hit twice by the No. 67 Porsche. It seldom happens and that guy is not part of the regular WEC series. I won't forget that. What goes around comes around. I knocked the plug out of my radio spinning because of all the debris I got on my tires when I first went out. I wondered why it was so quiet and then I finally figured it out but I didn't have radio communications about the last few laps. I saw the fuel light come on so I came on in." For more information, please go to www.lemans.org or www.fiawec.com. Latest News cyberspeed Krohn Racing Post-Race Report 63rd Annual 12 Hours of Sebring Krohn Racing Six Hour Report 12 Hours of Sebring Krohn Racing’s Olivier Pla Takes Pole Position for the 12 Hours of Sebring Krohn Racing Pre-Race Report 63rd Annual 12 Hours of Sebring Krohn Racing Partners with Michelin Tire for ELMS and 24 Hours of Le Mans More in this category: « Krohn Racing 6 Hour Report - 24 Hours of Le Mans Krohn Racing 12 Hour Report - 24 Hours of Le Mans » Stay tuned for upcoming schedule powered by cyberspeed © copyright Krohn Racing, All rights reserved	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.942118	0.942118	[home...] D é p l a c e m e n t o p u s 1 / 2012 In this 30 minutes long sound walk, we guide the audience in small groups through a slow visit of the Eole public garden... S t i m u l i n e / 2009-2012 STiMULiNE exploits the tactile dimension of sound and its transmission through the body of the listener... V i b r a t o r i u m / 2010 [Under construction...] L â c h e r p r i s e / 2008 Performance with Sonja Füsti at Barjol/ Electrobolochoc T r a v e r s e / 2008 M i g n a r d i s e s / 2008 G e r a d e s i t z e n / 2003 Five chairs of different sizes and some short texts I had written about the act of sitting were the material of the performance... B l i n d n e s s H i d e - o u t , R a i s e d U p / 2000 A raised hide-out allows a hunter an enlarged view on the surrounding landscape. But what happens if a blind person climbs up into it?... S n o w b a g s / 2000 Three people are dressed in full-body suits, made out of white plastic bags glued together, so that the bags are open at the front... C h i l d o n t h e H i g h S e a s / 2001 Video and puppets according to the short story « L'enfant de la haute mer » by Jules Supervielle... P l u m e d' A n g e / A n g e l F e a t h e r / 2000 Video and puppets together combine to produce an almost exclusively visual drama, full of memorable and artistic images. [audio-tactile...] [Audio...] [installations...] [public space...] [curatorial...] [with others...] [Inclusive arts...]	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line70
__label__cc	0.698058	0.301942	Home>Services>Health and wellbeing> Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021-2025 The Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021-2025 was endorsed by Council in October 2021. The MPHWP sets out what Council will do to protect, promote and improve community health and wellbeing in the Shire over the next four years, in partnership with government and health and community service organisations. Based on the priorities and focus areas from the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2019-2023, a number of objectives and strategies have been identified to work in partnership with stakeholders and groups to address the eleven health and wellbeing priorities identified below. 1. Tackling climate change and its impact on health 2. Increasing healthy eating 3. Increasing active living 4. Reducing tobacco-related harm 5. Reducing injury 6. Preventing all forms of violence 7. Decreasing the risk of drug resistant infections in the community 8. Improving mental wellbeing 9. Improving sexual and reproductive health 10.Reducing harmful alcohol and drug use 11. Reducing gambling harm Download the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021-2025. Emphasis will be given to four key focus areas to provide additional support and guidance over the next four years. The World Health Organisation recognises the impact of climate change on public health. These impacts can be both direct and indirect. A healthy diet is essential for good health, growth, and development. Healthy eating supports good mental health and social wellbeing. The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend eating a healthy diet with nutritious foods including vegetables, fruit, lean proteins, low-fat dairy, nuts, seeds and whole-grains, with low intake of discretionary foods that are high in energy, salt, added sugar and fats. Mount Alexander Shire Council plays a pivotal role in promoting active living and reducing sedentary behaviour. Increasing participation in physical activity has health, social and economic benefits. The health benefits of regular physical activity include improved physical health, reduced risk of developing major chronic diseases, managing a healthy weight, developing social connections and helping to prevent and manage mental health outcomes. Reducing tobacco harm is a public health priority for Victoria. Mount Alexander Shire Council plays a pivotal role in supporting programs that encourage smokers and e cigarette users to quit. Reducing monitoring point of sale advertising and promoting smoke free venues can promote and support programs that encourage smokers and e cigarette users to quit. Legislative requirements To meet our statutory obligations under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 an annual Municipal Health and Wellbeing Action Plan will be developed for each year of the Council Plan. The Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 requires an analysis of local health determinants, trends and health and wellbeing indicators, with the involvement of community, to identify a clear strategic approach to: • prevent disease • promote health prevention strategies • protect the community • address environmental health dangers. The Mount Alexander Shire Council Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021-2025 has been developed in line with these requirements and guidelines released by the Victorian Department of Health. It aims to provide the Mount Alexander Shire community, Council and its partners with clear direction regarding the priority areas for focus to improve the health and wellbeing of our community over the next four years. Spray drift Smoky wood heaters European wasps and bees Rats and mice	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line73
__label__cc	0.656372	0.343628	Shannon Muir's The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – Find out about my Short Story Collection and other Writing! Welcome to the site of author and Sisters in Crime member Shannon Muir SHANNON MUIR, AUTHOR Shannon Muir Author Bio Shannon Muir’s THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF: THE SHORTS FROM THE SHELF COLLECTION Other Pulp and Mystery Shelf Books Other Writings by Shannon Muir Related Books and Stories by Shannon Muir The Willowbrook Novels Animation Focused Writings BLOG TOURS ENDING APRIL 30, 2021 Shannon Muir, Author Facebook Feed Follow Shannon Muir, Author on Twitter! Follow @shannon_muir Blog Tours from SHANNON MUIR'S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF on Facebook! Follow SHANNON MUIR’S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF on Twitter for blog tour news! Follow @mysteryshelf CRIME AND MYSTERY TUESDAYS-THURSDAYS, PULP/SF/FANTASY FRIDAYS, AND SHANNON MUIR’S OWN CONTENT ON MONDAYS! ON THE BOOK BLOGGER LIST! June 29, 2016 February 19, 2017 by Shannon Muir AUTHOR INTERVIEW – Kelly Oliver Author interview, Book Features, Uncategorized DISCLAIMER: This content has been provided to THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF by JKS Communications. No compensation was received. This information required by the Federal Trade Commission. The mystery begins in WOLF: Jessica’s philosophy professor is found dead, the murder weapon turns out to be a campus date-rape drug–and Jessica could be the next target. She teams up with mafia heir Dmitry Durchenkov to wrangle mobsters, match wits with a trio of feminist avengers, and lasso frat boys in order to rope in a murderer who’s read too much Existentialism–and who has just found a new victim. Jessica’s adventures continue in Book 2, COYOTE (August 2016), when she travels to a Blackfoot reservation and joins forces with Kimi Redfox to expose sex trafficking, prostitution rings, and murder schemes involving the biggest frackers in the country. INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR What initially got you interested in writing? Of course, as a philosophy professor, I’m expected to write. I’ve written a lot of nonfiction books on various subjects from film noir to animal ethics. When I discovered writing after graduate school when I could write whatever I wanted, it was liberating. It gave my life a new meaning. For the last twenty years, I’ve written philosophy and nonfiction, and until lately it was very satisfying. But, a few years ago, writing philosophy started feeling a little routine. Anyway, I’d always wanted to write fiction. The trouble was, for decades I’d been trained to get right to the point and hit readers over the head with my thesis. With mystery, you have to do the opposite and hide the point, meander along, and create suspense. I got the courage to switch from writing nonfiction to fiction after attending a Killer Nashville Mystery Writers’ Conference. The 2014 convention gave me just enough ammunition to make me dangerous. I wrote the first draft of Wolf in two months and spent the next two years editing it. During that same time, I also wrote Coyote, and alternated between editing one and then the other. During this same time, I wrote my last nonfiction book, Hunting Girls, too. So, I’ve been busy! For decades, I’ve relied on nonfiction writing to keep me sane. Now, writing novels, I find even more pleasure in inventing characters and whole worlds. But, like everything fun that’s worth doing, it’s also hard work! And when you’re determined to finish that next novel, you can get saddle sores… not to mention cramps in your fingers. What genres do you write in? As I mentioned, I write a lot of nonfiction books and they’re all on Amazon. Right now, I’m working on a nonfiction book on The Refugee Today. And, my most recent nonfiction book is Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape. Obviously, some of the issues in this book come up in my fiction, too. I got the idea for this book when I noticed so many popular young adult books and films featured tough girls hunting animals. I ended up interpreting YA books such as Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Divergent as contemporary versions of classic fairytales Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. If you want to know what this has to do with campus rape, check out the book! And, of course, I write mystery novels. I plan to continue writing the Jessica James Cowgirl Philosopher Mysteries as long as folks want to read them. The third in the series will take Jessica back to Chicago where she’ll infiltrate an Ivy League egg harvesting black market ring operating out of the medical school. I hope to finish the nonfiction book over the summer and then turn my full attention back to Jessica and finish the next cowgirl philosopher mystery in the fall. I’d also like to try my hand at more literary fiction, eventually. What drew you to writing these specific genres? At first, I thought I’d never be able to write fiction because I’d always been too much of a straight shooter in my non-fiction writing. Then I realized, the reason I was attracted to philosophy in the first place was it was like being a detective, reading confusing stuff and trying to piece together its meaning from various clues—like trying to figure out the meaning of life! So in that regard, maybe writing philosophy isn’t such a far cry from writing detective novels. Both are about following the breadcrumbs to see where they lead. How did you break into the field? Hopefully, I’m just breaking in! What do you want readers to take away from reading your works? A lot of my nonfiction work has dealt with important contemporary women’s issues. And, for my fiction, I’ve done a lot of research, and much of it has been very depressing. I hate to say it as a self-professed feminist, but I’ve found the stereotype of the overly serious feminist with no sense of humor is occasionally true. It is important to have a sense of humor about serious issues, not just in order to live with them and live through them, but also to read and write about them—at least for me. Humor and comedy allow us to face and process difficult issues that we might otherwise avoid or deny. A heavy hand is not going to be able to bring these issues to light and reach as many readers as a comic touch, so I sweeten the pot with humor and wit even as I take on issues of date-rape, human trafficking, and in the next installment….the hidden world of IVF and egg harvesting. I like a good feminist revenge strong on plot and even stronger on character. In my novels, I want to create strong women characters who can take care of themselves and each other. My main character, Jessica James, is a former cowgirl who not only rides and shoots with the best of them, but also quotes Nietzsche and is the queen of witty comebacks. Her best friend, Lolita Durchenko, may be a Russian beauty running a high stake poker game that earned her the knick-name “the poker Tsarina,” but she’s also a black-belt in karate and doesn’t take shit from anybody. Then there’s a whole host of fun and funny secondary characters like Amber Bush, the rescue-remedy dropping hippy hacker from WOLF or Madge Blackthorn, the Blackfoot tribal police chief who keeps a big bag of candy in her squad car, which she distributes liberally, along with slugs from her Beretta Storm shotgun. What do you find most rewarding about writing? I love writing! It gives meaning to my life and helps me cope with the difficulties and pain of life. I really don’t know what I would do without it. What do you find most challenging about writing? Finding a position to write in that doesn’t hurt my body! I can’t sit at a desk any more or my shoulders hurt. I tried standing for a couple of years, but then my feet hurt. And now I slump in an easy chair, which isn’t so great for my back! Other than the physical discomfort, there’s that final push when you’re half way done and still have another hundred plus pages to go. Oh, and then there’s trying to type without disturbing the cat on my lap! What advice would you give to people wanting to enter the field? Plan on doing a lot of hard work and write every day. I find it best to save the mornings for writing, even an hour or two goes a long way, if you do it every day. What type of books do you enjoy reading? I like all sorts of books: Mysteries, of course, but also chick lit, literary fiction, classics, and then philosophy. Is there anything else besides writing you think people would find interesting about you? I love to x-country ski and hike. And I miss the mountains every single day. Nashville is pretty flat compared to where I come from. What are the best ways to connect with you, or find out more about your work? Check out my website at kellyoliverbooks.com, or email me at kellyoliverbooks@gmail.com KELLY OLIVER is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and well-known feminist philosopher. She is the author of thirteen scholarly books, ten anthologies, and over 100 articles. Her work has been translated into seven languages, and she has been featured in the The New York Times and on ABC television news. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. ← Previous Post AUTHOR INTERVIEW – K.L. Murphy Next Post → BLOG TOUR – Shattered by Death	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line74
__label__cc	0.527374	0.472626	NOWA HUTA COMMUNISM TOUR \| Private Tour private, walking/by car Understand the cynicism of the statement that in 1945 the Soviets liberated Poland ... Get to know how our life looked like under the Communism Regime and visit the district of Nowa Huta with the large complex of housing estates established by the communists after WWII. Nowadays, over 25 years after regaining freedom, more and more visitors are coming to Nowa Huta. Take a private tour with our top guide - a real wealth of information on that period of Poland’s history. See the large complex of housing estates designed and developed by the communist authorities in 1950's. Learn about the tragedy and all the unbelievable inconveniences of our everyday life under the communist occupation. This is one of the most interesting city tours that allows you to visit a very unique district of Krakow – Nowa Huta that was established in 1949 by the communists. Poland was ruled by the Soviet communist regime for over forty years since the end of the Second World War until 1989. See the heritage of that period of Poland’s history and learn a lot about it from our expertise guide. We will take you by car directly from your hotel to Nowa Huta situated about 10 km from the city centre (20 minutes drive). During about 2 hours visiting with a guide you will see all the highlights of Nowa Huta with their history related to the communism era. Our guide will introduce you to the history of that district. You will see the former Lenin Steelworks with its administrative centre and the first residential estates established by the communists in the closest vicinity of the plant. Following the history you will reach the Central Square and Rose Avenue where there is the Stylowa Cafe – the only one from the communist period. A short coffee break in a socialist realist interior is also included in price. You will also see the most important churches and sacral places in Nowa Huta and get to know about the major role of priests, Catholics and first of all Pope John Paul II in the overthrow of communism. PRIVATE WALKING TOUR Private transfer by comfortable car or mini-van 3 hours visit with an English speaking, licensed city guide Coffee break at the Stylowa Cafe Former Lenin Steelworks’ Main Gate and Administrative Centre – an architectural complex most characteristic for the Socialist Realist architecture Cistercian Monastery and Church in Mogila Wanda and Willowe residential estates Ronald Reagan Central Square, Bogdan Wlosik's Square The Rose Avenue, Stylowa Cafe, Ludowy Theatre Nowa Huta Cross, Ark of The Lord Church KrakÃ³w, Poland. Aerial panorama of Nowa Huta (New Steel Mill), one of only two entirely planned and build socialist realist settlements in the world. Originally the town, now a district of Cracow Nowa Huta, district of Krakow - Cracow, Poland. Aerial view of Plac Centralny (Ronald Regan's Central Square) NOWA HUTA COMMUNISM TOUR	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line78
__label__cc	0.59381	0.40619	Journal Home About Issues in Progress Current Issue All Issues Early Posting Vol. 5, Issue 12, •https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.5.000549 K correlations and facet models in diffuse scattering: experimental evaluation H. P. Baltes and William L. Wolfe H. P. Baltes1 and William L. Wolfe2 1Zentrale Forschung und Entwicklung, Landis & Gyr Zug AG, CH-6301 Zug, Switzerland 2Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA H Baltes W Wolfe H. P. Baltes and William L. Wolfe, "K correlations and facet models in diffuse scattering: experimental evaluation," Opt. Lett. 5, 549-551 (1980) Fourier optics Scattering measurement Scattering measurements Scattering theory Original Manuscript: May 12, 1980 Revised Manuscript: August 11, 1980 The predictions for the facet and source-correlation models for diffuse scattering are compared with measurements of the angular distribution of infrared radiation scattered from gold-plated sandpaper. Serious discrepancies between the model predictions and the measurements are reported. © 1980 Optical Society of America Full Article \| PDF Article Experimental evaluation of an anisotropic scattering model of a slab geometry Jeremy C. Hebden, Jorge J. García Guerrero, Victor Chernomordik, and Amir H. Gandjbakhche Opt. Lett. 29(21) 2518-2520 (2004) Light scattering from multilayer optics: comparison of theory and experiment J. M. Elson, J. P. Rahn, and J. M. Bennett Appl. Opt. 19(5) 669-679 (1980) Bidirectional reflectance distribution function of gold-plated sandpaper T. W. Stuhlinger, E. L. Dereniak, and F. O. Bartell Appl. Opt. 20(15) 2648-2655 (1981) Optical correlator using partial diffusers Jeff F. Young and H. M. van Driel Statistics of irradiance scattered from a diffuse target containing multiple glints C. M. McIntyre, Myung Hun Lee, and J. H. Churnside J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(9) 1084-1095 (1980) You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution. You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution. You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution. Miguel Alonso, Editor-in-Chief Issues in Progress Early Posting	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.734782	0.265218	When thinking nostalgically about romantic moments in my past, one place and one drink stand out : New York and the Delancey cocktail. The Delancey is named after a downtown New York restaurant and bar where it was invented, and where I have spent a great deal of time: Allen and Delancey. Essentially it is a sweet drink, which combined with its intense red colour when ready, is what makes it so romantic (much like this passionately pink champagne and cassis cocktail). The main ingredient in a Delancey is Saint Germain liqueur, which is not only French, but also the first liqueur in the world created in the artisanal French manner from freshly hand-picked elderflower blossoms. According to Saint Germain’s website, “after gently ushering the wild blossoms into sacks and descending the hillside, the man who gathers blossoms for your cocktail will then mount a bicycle and carefully ride the umbels of starry white flowers to market”. Ooh La La! That is what I call romantic! The other important ingredient for the Delancy is a good bottle of Prosecco, an Italian white wine. It is normally made from Glera (Prosecco) grapes and is a dry or extra dry sparkling wine. With these two ingredients, plus pomegranate juice for the intense color, I can almost assure you an enchanting evening. Take it with that special someone, and just like me, you will feel nostalgia. 2.2 cl pomegranate juice 2.2 cl Saint Germain elderflower liqueur 1.5 cl Prosecco wine How it’s made at Allen and Delancey on Valentine´s evening: 1. First, pour the St-Germain elderflower liqueur in a champagne glass. 2. Add the pomegranate juice. 3. Top the glass with Prosecco. Ideally, the sparkling wine is cold enough not to need ice. 4. Just a thought. If you ask nicely, the barman at Allen and Delancey will decorate it with a flower on the rim of the glass. Time: less than a minute Bloody Mary. What a strange drink with an eery name! This tipple supposedly is the cure to all hangovers, but prescribing a cocktail to battle against the effects of the rest seems contradictory, to say the least. Whether a Bloody Mary is good for hangovers is matter of much discussion. Most scientists claim that more alcohol (on top of a lot of it) cannot be good for you. However, many of my friends vow that tomato juice contains fructose, a type of sugar that helps your body metabolize alcohol more quickly, and that this is probably why the morning-after Bloody Mary seems to help with hangovers. In my case, eating lots of carbohydrates also helps beat a bad hangover. So, if carbs and tomatoes are the cure, then both together in this clams linguine will get you feeling better in no time! As to how it got its title, one theory indicates that the drink’s haunting name makes reference to Queen Mary via a lonely regular often found drinking at Harry’s American Bar in Paris in the early 1920s. Sitting alone, sipping on her drink, she reminded regulars of an imprisoned Queen Mary, who was also known as Bloody Mary. The bartender at the place, Fernand “Pete” Petiot is credited with inventing the cocktail, mixing just vodka and tomato juice in equal parts to start with. Vodka was a drink brought over by the Russian refugees while canned tomato juice was an American invention fresh off the boats from the United States after World War 1. In 1936, Petiot moved to New York to be the head barman at the St. Regis Hotel’s King Cole Bar, where he finished creating the legendary cocktail by adding pepper, lemon, Worcestershire Sauce and Tabasco to the original mix. My personal experience is that a Bloody Mary on a difficult morning is a blessing. It tastes very much like a straight tomato juice, and the most distinct flavour in the palate is the Tabasco sauce mixed up with the Worcestershire sauce. To make an extra good one, I always insist on loads of pepper. 4.5cl vodka 9cl tomato juice 1.5cl lemon juice 2 drops of Tabasco sauce 1 pinch of pepper 1. Rub lemon or lime around rim of highball glass 2. Add ice to glass. 3. Mix vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, salt, pepper and celery salt. Pour in glass. 4. Garnish with lemon or lime wedge, celery stalk, and a green olive. White Russian by Jeremy Larson Share no comments Back in 1998 I spent a winter in the United States working at a ski resort called Crested Butte, on the western side of Colorado. Today, I want to tell you about this experience and a drink which is not only ideal for cold winter afternoons, but also a mix that has gained enormous reputation over the last decade: the White Russian. The cocktail was one of the first popular drinks based on vodka and appeared in bars in North America in late 1950’s, when a marketing campaign for beverages with vodka such as (vodka with cranberry) was put forth in the United States to promote the little-used alcohol. The White Russian first came into popular existence in 1965 with the advent of a recipe printed in the Oakland Tribune. In my case, the White Russian came as a surprise. Not only because I was offered one on a chilly and windy afternoon and found its rich, creamy taste almost irresistible and great for the climate, but mainly because I discovered its secret that very first time: it is a very alcoholic cocktail. As an instructor friend put it, it’s a perfect drink both for someone who doesn’t really drink (because the flavour reminds you of an overly rich milkshake), as well as for someone who drinks too much (because you only need two or three and you’re there!!). Because of its white, creamy colour, you tend to forget its main ingredient is vodka. After that first sip on a cold afternoon, the cocktail became a habit during my whole stay in Colorado. I was still, however, missing the final lesson. One evening, my friends introduced me to a film called “The Big Lebowski” where the main character, “the Dude”, (played by Jeff Bridges) spends most of his time on screen drinking White Russians. It is possibly one of the funniest films I have ever seen, and according to The New York Times, is the reason behind the resurge of the cocktail over the last decade. If you are ever in a cold place and feel like you need a stiff vodka, maybe the White Russian is the answer to soften the taste. And if you are ever in a tight spot and need a good, loud laugh, then “The Big Lebowski” and “the Dude” are definitely the answer. • 30ml coffee-flavored liqueur • 30ml vodka • ½ cup cream or milk 1. In a mixing glass, combine the coffee-flavored liqueur, vodka and cream or milk. 2. Pour over ice in a highball glass. A couple of years ago, I was stranded at a Kentucky airport for 12 hours. I was on my way from Miami to New York, and a storm forced our plane to land in rather a hurry. I was left feeling a little uneasy when I got off and decided to visit the nearest bar for a drink. The bartender recommended a typical Southern cocktail to stabilize my emotions: the Mint Julep. It is probably one of the simplest drinks I have ever tried, and also one of the best. A mint julep is made with four ingredients: mint leaf, bourbon, syrup or sugar, and water. Traditionally spearmint is the mint of choice used in Southern states, Kentucky in particular. Apparently the secret to a good mint julep is to use loads of spearmint. The flavour is so good that it makes me think that I should also try it in my mojitos. The origins of the Mint Julep are somewhat of a mystery. The first time its name appeared in writing was in 1803, in a book published by John Davis in London. It was described as “”a dram of spirituous liquor that has mint steeped in it, taken by Virginians of a morning.” It is suggested it was first concocted in Kentucky. Henry Clay, State Senator, then took the recipe to the Round Robin Bar in the famous Willard Hotel in Washington while he was in office. These days, it is the official drink at the world famous Kentucky Derby track. The most important ingredient in a mint julep is bourbon. The name of the spirit derives from its historical association with an area known as Old Bourbon, around what is now Bourbon County. It has been produced since the 18th century. I have never actually been in Kentucky, except for its airport. I don’t know if I will ever return, but my couple of hours there were enough to give me a good memory of the place and a great cocktail to share with you. • leaves from 4-5 spearmint sprigs • 2 sugar cubes or 1.5 cl simple syrup • 7.5 cl bourbon • mint sprig for garnish 1. Put the spearmint and simple syrup or sugar into a julep cup, Collin’s glass or double old-fashioned glass. 2. Mix well to dissolve the sugar and to release the oil and aroma from the mint. 3. Add the bourbon. 4. Fill with crushed ice and stir well until the glass becomes frosty. 5. Garnish with the mint sprig.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line84
__label__cc	0.53307	0.46693	Bob Dylan: Haiku 61 Revisited Every song Bob Dylan wrote or performed can be distilled in a haiku. NOTE FOR READERS: All posts from 2010 to 2014 should be considered out of date. Please disregard them. There are, or will be, new versions of each haiku. Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?) Looking for my love, I stumble on a film noir And try to escape. This opening song from 1985's "Empire Burlesque" album is one of my real Dylan soft spots. It's a strange song about strange goings-on surrounding a woman with whom the singer is no longer involved. It's a reworking of a 1983 song that he recorded called "Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart," and as essayist Jonathan Lethem points, out, it replaces a number of the more heartfelt lines with hardboiled lines from Humphrey Bogart movies as well as some other films, including one featuring Gary Cooper. I don't know why he did it, and many people say that it doesn't work. I think it does. It works even better when you watch the MTV video for the song. It takes place in Tokyo, I think, where Dylan is facing trouble with the police over a possible murder, three Japanese girls sing karaoke in a bar with Dylan's voice emanating from their mouths, an American woman sings in a different bar, and a fight between some folks on a Japan street breaks out. It makes no sense that I can see, but it's fun. Notable lines from the song: - "Well I had to move fast, and I couldn't with you around my neck. I said I'd send for you and I did. What did you expect?" - "I'll go along with the charade until I can think my way out." (From a "Star Trek" episode) - "There's something I've got to do tonight, You go inside and stay warm." - "I must be guilty of something, You just whisper it in my ear." - "Madame Butterfly, she lulled me to sleep, in a town without pity where the water runs deep. She said, "Be easy, baby, there ain't nothing worth' stealin' here." - "I can't figure out whether I'm too good for you or you're too good for me." - "What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big." - "Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine. Never could learn to hold you, love, and call you mine." (That blood/wine line comes from Dylan's own song, "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again," in which he notes that Mona tells him to stay away from railroad brakemen because they'll just drink up your blood like wine." Posted by Robert MacMillan at 1:41 PM Labels: 1985, Empire Burlesque, Has Anybody Seen My Love, Tight Connection to My Heart Music of Bob Dylan May 8, 2019 at 2:34 AM Hello there, Thank you for posting this analysis of a song from Bob Dylan's Music Box: http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/673 Come and join us inside and listen to every song composed, recorded or performed by Bob Dylan, plus all the great covers streaming on YouTube, Spotify, Deezer and SoundCloud plus so much more... including this link. Robert MacMillan What's It Gonna Be When It Comes Up Wade in the Water 2 Dollars and 99 Cents That's the Breaks Stoned on the Mountain Standing on the Highway She's on My Mind Again Roll on Train Pretty Mary Johnny Cuckoo Grand Coulee Dam Glory Glory (Lay My Burden Down) Dr. Strangelove Blues Bob and Eric Blues #1 Black Betty Why Try to Change Me Now What'll I Do Some Enchanted Evening The Night We Called It a Day I'm a Fool to Want You Stealin' You Win Again You Wanna Ramble You're Gonna Quit Me, Baby You're a Big Girl Now Young But Daily Growing You Changed My Life You Angel You You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Ye Shall Be Changed Ye Fair and Tender Ladies Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread Worried Blues World Gone Wrong Working on a Guru Workingman's Blues #2 With God on Our Side Wildwood Flower Wilbury Twist The Wicked Messenger Wichita Blues Who Killed Davey Moore? Where Were You Last Night? Where Teardrops Fall When You Gonna Wake Up When the Ship Comes In When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky When the Deal Goes Down When I Paint My Masterpiece When I Got Troubles When He Returns When Did You Leave Heaven? What Was It You Wanted? What Good Am I? Whatcha Gonna Do? Went to See the Gypsy Wedding Song We Better Talk This Over The Water Is Wide Watered-Down Love Watching the River Flow Waltzing With Sin Walls of Redwing Walkin' Down the Line Visions of Johanna Union Sundown Under the Red Sky Ugliest Girl in the World Two Soldiers Tweeter and the Monkey Man Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum T.V. Talkin' Song Try Me, Little Girl Tryin' to Get to Heaven Bob Dylan links Bob Dylan Radio Bob Dylan website Bob Dylan Roots Bob's Boots Searching for a Gem	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line90
__label__cc	0.643025	0.356975	Posted by Edward theurj Berge on September 3, 2011 at 10:46am in IPS Inquiry In my research today I came upon this interesting article, “Here comes everything: the promise of object-oriented ontology” by Timothy Morton. (New link, old one broken.) It is of interest not only to speculative realism but also to some recent discussions on Caputo's ontology, modes of apprehension of such, and quantum theory. The article is 27 pages of text so I've culled some excerpts, lengthy in themselves. Speculative realism...asserts the deep mystery of a Non-Nature....object-oriented ontology (OOO)...goes further than this, rejecting essentialist Matter.... OOO is a form of realism that asserts that real things exist--these things are objects, not just amorphous “Matter”.... OOO extends Husserl's and Heidegger's arguments that things have an irreducible dark side: no matter how many times we turn over a coin, we never see the other side as the other side--it will have to flip onto “this” side for us to see it, immediately producing another underside. Harman simply extends this irreducible darkness from subject–object relationships to object–object relationships.... Causation is thus vicarious in some sense, never direct. An object is profoundly “withdrawn”--we can never see the whole of it, and nothing else can either.... We've become so used to hearing “object” in relation to “subject” that it takes some time to acclimatize to a view in which there are only objects, one of which is ourselves. The notion of the “withdrawal” of objects extends my term strange stranger to non-living entities. Strange stranger names an uncanny, radically unpredictable quality of life forms. Life forms recede into strangeness the more we think about them, and whenever they encounter one another--the strangeness is irreducible....the uncanny essence of humans that Heidegger contemplates extends to nonhumans.... The more we know about a strange stranger, the more she (he, it) withdraws. Objects withdraw such that other objects never adequately capture but only (inadequately) “translate” them....This is what “irreducible” means. Rhetoric is not simply ear candy for humans: indeed, a thorough reading of Plato, Aristotle and Longinus suggests that rhetoric is a technique for contacting the strange stranger....[it] amplifies imagination rather than trying to upstage it, and it revels in dislocation, not location.... Harman's imagery differs from ecophenomenological ecomimesis that confirms the localized position of a subject with privileged access to phenomena.... Harman's rhetoric produces an object-oriented sublime that breaks decisively with the Kantian taboo on noncorrelationist scientific speculation....ekphrasis is not about the reaction of the (human) subject, but about rhetorical modes as affective-contemplative techniques for summoning the alien. The aesthetic, as we shall see, is the secret door through which OOO discovers a theory of what is called “subject”.... Melancholia is precisely a mode of intimacy with strange objects that can't be digested by the subject.... To lapse into Californian, OOO is so about the subject. There is no good reason to be squeamish about this. The more the ekphrasis zaps us, the more we fall back into the gravity well of melancholy. Sentience is out of phase with objects, at least if you have a nervous system. So melancholia is the default mode of subjectivity: an object-like coexistence with other objects and the otherness of objects--touching them, touching the untouchable, dwelling on the dark side one can never know, living in endless twilight shadows. If the reader has experienced grief she or he will recognize this state as an object-like entity that resides somewhere within the body, with an amortization schedule totally separated from other temporalities (in particular, the strict digital clock time of contemporary life). Through the heart of subjectivity rolls an object-like coexistence, none other than ecological coexistence--the ecological thought fully-fledged as dark ecology . The inward, withdrawn, operationally closed mood called melancholy is something we shake off at our peril in these dark ecological times. Melancholy starts to tell us the truth about the withdrawn qualities of objects. OOO thus differs from theistic ecophilosophy that asserts, “There is a Nature.” It maintains no absolute distance between subject and object; it limits “subject” to no entity in particular. Žižek's suspicion of SR to do with the “feminine” self-absorption of objects: precisely what he doesn't like about Buddhism. Changing “self-absorption” to “withdrawal” or “operational closure” discloses what's threatening about Buddhism: an object-like entity at the core of what is called subjectivity. Like ecomimesis, Harman's passage affirms a real world beyond mentation. Unlike ecomimesis, this world doesn't surround a subject--it's a world without reference to a subject. If OOO construes everything as objects, some may believe that it would have a hard time talking about subjects--indeed, Slavoj Žižek has already criticized SR in general along these lines. This subjectivity is profoundly ecological and it departs from normative Western ideas of the subject as transcendence. Thus we see off Nature and its correlate, the (human) subject. I argue that OOO enjoins us to drop Matter just as we must drop Nature, and that this means that it can save the appearance of the most coherent and testable physical theory we have, namely quantum theory. Let's turn our attention to... things....how far “down things” does OOO really go? Are these things made of some kind of substrate, some kind of unformed matter? Does “withdrawal” mean that objects are impenetrable in some non-figurative, nonhuman sense? Do objects have a spatial “inside”? Surely they might. But the principle of irreducibility must mean that this inside is radically unavailable. It's not simply a case of the right equipment passing through it, like a knife through butter. Even a knife through butter would not access the butter in all its essential butteriness. The proliferation of things that ecology talks about--from trees to nuclear power--do not compromise a holistic Nature. Nor yet are they comprised of some intrinsic, essential stuff. To dispatch Matter, we must explore the most rigorous and testable theory of physical Matter we know: quantum theory. Unlike some thinkers who discovered OOO in spite of deconstruction, I backed into OOO through deconstruction. SR tends to mistake deconstruction for nominalism, subjectivism and Meillassoux's correlationism.... Contemporary physics concurs with a principle tenet of Lacan and Derrida: there's no “big Other,” no device, for instance, that could measure quantum phenomena without participating in these phenomena. All observations are inside the system, or as Derrida puts it, “There is nothing outside the text” (or, in Gayatri Spivak's alternative, which I prefer, “There is no outside-text”). Arkady Plotnitsky has traced the affinities between deconstruction and quantum physics. People commonly misconstrue “there is no-outside-text” as nominalism: we can only know things by their names. Far more drastically, the axiom means: (1) Any attempt to establish rigid boundaries between reality and information results in unsustainable paradoxes; (2) Language is radically nonhuman--even when humans use it. It would be a mistake to hold that (1) is correlationism. “There is no outsidetext” occurs in a passage in which Derrida is analyzing Rousseau's position on Nature, so it's worth pausing here since this issue is directly relevant to ecocriticism. Derrida tacks close to the text he’s analyzing, which is why he appeals to close readers in the first place. He is not making a sweeping generalization about reality. Derrida is only saying, “Given the kind of closed system textuality that Rousseau prescribes, there is no outside-text.” That is, Rousseau can’t go around making claims about nature, not because there is nothing out there, but because the way he models thinking sets textuality up as a black hole....[but] Derrida abstained from ontology: he considered it tainted by the generalization-disease. Unfortunately this defaults to various forms of antirealism. Derrida's is a sin of omission.... OOO shares one thing at least with deconstruction--refraining from assertions about some general essence or substance at the back of things that guarantees their existence. OOO is troubling for materialisms that rely on any kind of substrate, whether it consists of discrete atoms or of a continuum.... Certain uncontroversial facts, demonstrable in highly repeatable experiments, shatter essentialist prejudices concerning Matter.... Quantum phenomena are not simply hard to access or only partially “translated” by minds and other objects. They are irreducibly withdrawn. OOO is form of realism, not materialism. In this it shares affinities with quantum theory. Antirealism pits quantum theory against its opponents, since quantum theory supposedly shows reality is fuzzy or deeply correlated with perception and so forth. In fact, quantum theory is the only existing theory to establish firmly that things really do exist beyond our mind (or any mind). Quantum theory positively guarantees that real objects exist! Not only that--these objects exist beyond one another. Quantum theory does this by viewing phenomena as quanta, as discrete “units” as described in Unit Operations by OOO philosopher Ian Bogost. “Units” strongly resemble OOO “objects.” Thinking in terms of units counteracts problematic features of thinking in terms of systems. A kind of systems thinking posed significant problems for nineteenth-century physicists. Only consider the so-called black body radiation problem. Classical thermodynamics is essentially a systems approach that combines the energy of different waves to figure out the total energy of a system. The black box in question is a kind of oven. As the temperature in the oven increases, results given by summing the wave states according to classical theory become absurd, tending to infinity. By seeing the energy in the black box as discrete quanta (“units”), the correct result is obtained. Max Planck's discovery of this approach gave birth to quantum theory. Now consider perception, for the sake of which antirealism usually cites quantum theory. What does quantum theory show about our mental interactions with things? Perceptual, sensual phenomena such as hardness and brilliance are at bottom quantum mechanical effects. I can't put my hand through this table because it is statistically beyond unlikely that the quanta at the tip of my finger could bust through the resistance wells in the quanta on the table's surface. That's what solidity is. It's an averagely correct experience of an aggregate of discrete quanta. This statistical quality, far from being a problem, is the first time humans have been able to formalize supposedly experiential phenomena such as solidity. What some people find disturbing about quantum theory (once in a gajillion times I can put my finger through the table) is precisely evidence for the reality of things. (This is a version of an argument in Meillassoux, AF 82–5). Quantum theory specifies that quanta withdraw from one another, including the quanta with which we measure them. In other words quanta really are discrete, and one mark of this discreteness is the constant (mis)translation of one quantum by another. Thus when you set up quanta to measure the position of a quantum, its momentum withdraws, and vice versa. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that when an “observer”--not a subject per se, but a measuring device involving photons or electrons (or whatever)--makes an observation, at least one aspect of the observed is occluded (QT 99–115). Observation is as much part of the Universe of objects as the observable, not some ontologically different state (say of a subject). More generally, what Niels Bohr called complementarity ensures that no quantum has total access to any other quantum. Just as a focusing lens makes one object appear sharper while others appear blurrier, one quantum variable comes into sharp definition at the expense of others (QT 158–61). This isn't about how a human knows an object, but how a photon interacts with a photosensitive molecule. Some phenomena are irreducibly undecidable, both wavelike and particle-like. The way an electron encounters the nucleus of an atom involves a dark side. Objects withdraw from each other at a profound physical level. OOO is deeply congruent with the most profound, accurate and testable theory of physical reality available. Again, it would be better to say it the other way around: quantum theory works because it's object-oriented. Probing the quantum world, then, is a form of auto-affection. Bohr argued that quantum phenomena don't simply concatenate themselves with their measuring devices. They're identical to it: the equipment and the phenomena form an indivisible whole (QT 139–40, 177). This “quantum coherence” applies close to absolute zero, where particles become the “same” thing. Implication and explication suggest Matter being enfolded and unfolded from something deeper. Even if it were the case that OOO should defer to physics, in the terms set by physics itself objects aren't made “of” any one thing in particular. Just as there is no top level, there may be no bottom level that is not an (substantial, formed) object. To this extent, “object” (as a totally positive entity) is a false immediacy. Positive assertions about objects fail because objects have a shadowy dark side, a mysterious interiority like the je ne sais quoi of Kantian beauty. Is this nothing at all? Is there a path from the carnival of things to a bleak nothingness? Nihilism, believing that you have no beliefs, maintains that things emerge from an impenetrable mystery. Nihilism, the cool kids' religion, shuns the inconveniences of intimacy. We have objects--they have us--under our skin. They are our skin. OOO can't be a form of nihilism. It's the opposite view (relationism) that tends towards nihilism. Relationism holds that objects are nothing more than the sum of their relations with other objects. This begs the question of what an object is, since the definition implies a potential infinite regress: what are the “other objects”? Why, nothing more than the sum of their relations with other objects--and so on ad obscurum. At least OOO takes a shot at saying what objects are: they withdraw. This doesn't mean that they don't relate at all. It simply means that how they appear has a shadowy, illusory, magical, “strangely strange” quality. It also means they can't be reduced to one another. OOO holds that strangeness is impossible if objects are reducible to their relations. Since relationism is hamstrung by its reluctance to posit anything, it tends towards obscurantism. Relationism is stuck in a Euthyphronic dilemma: objects consist of relations between other objects—and what are those objects? An object as such is never defined. So while ecological criticism appears to celebrate interconnectedness, it must in the end pay attention to what precisely is interconnected with what. This radical finitude includes a strange irreducible openness. Permalink Reply by Joseph Camosy on July 22, 2013 at 9:38pm Posted a comment to Bryant's blog post: "Does Matter Matter?" Don't know yet if he's going to approve it, but I wrote: codelion Says: Whether you say everything is matter, or everything is Spirit, or everything is energy doesn’t matter. What matters is that avoid creating two separate things opposed to each other such as matter vs. non-matter, or matter vs. spirit, or matter vs. energy. Instead I see it as more helpful to posit one substance which can show up in different ways. So if someone wishes to see this one substance as matter, that’s perfectly fine. For either way, we’re all interested in the “First Matter,” or primary substance and how it shows up. The primary task is to discover the “first matter.” Non-duality! Permalink Reply by Joseph Camosy on July 22, 2013 at 11:07pm Bryant responded, but I don't think he understands, or I was not clear. At its root, we really don't know what "matter" is, or what "electricity" is, or what "Spirit" is (the thing in itself), but we do have evidence of phenomena within different domains or quadrants and we have different paradigms to explain it. Whatever IT is ... when it shows up in the UL quadrant, we call it one thing, and when it shows up in the UR quadrant, we call it something else, like it is some totally different thing. He definitely wants to keep the dualism. Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on July 23, 2013 at 4:53am I don't see Bryant as a dualist at all. If you see it I'd say look to your own perspective and how it's projecting that. For example, see this blog post on matter: "I think there’s plenty of room for an irreductive materialism (through theories of emergence). Harman argues that there are immaterial objects and therefore believes, for example, that reincarnation is possible because soul can be separated from body (a consequence that would follow from his defense of substantial forms via Suárez), whereas I reject the notion that there are any immaterial entities. In my view, there are only physical beings. "In his post Wherewithal seems to contrast matter and energy. However, in my view, the two terms are synonyms. All that is required for a position to count as a materialism, in my view, is a commitment to the physical as exhaustive of all being, whatever the physical might turn out to be. However, while I find much of value in Lucretius’s atomism, I do not advocate his conception of matter as being composed of ultimate, impenetrable and indivisible particles. Rather, I think of matter as energy." Also see this post and following in another thread, how Bryant here also addresses content and context. Bryant even criticizes Luhmann for focusing on content to the exclusion of a material context. Key argument: It's all a nondual 'physical,' meaning matter-energy, whatever that "might turn out to be." What it is not is a reduction to the usual meaning of matter, since it allows for emergence. Granted his view is a form of transcendental immanence, not to be confused with a dichotomy between the transcendent. The latter is dualism (or dualistic nondualism) of the kennilingual kind. Even AQAL has been criticized for this kind of dualism. See for example this from Edwards: "There are associated questions concerning the actual interpretation and application of the Four Quadrants and the AQAL model itself. The Quadrants seem to impose a fundamental double dualism at the very heart of the Kosmos. How do these subject-object and one-many dimensions relate to the obvious holistic intent of Integral studies in general? Isn't it essentially dualistic to see the subjective human experience as 'fitting' into certain sectors of the Four Quadrants framework while the objective, behavioural side of life resides in others? Does Integral Theory actually want us to see interior "thought holons" occupying the Left Hand quadrants of the Kosmos while exterior behavioural holons are segregated to the Right Hand quadrants of objective reality?" Permalink Reply by Balder on August 27, 2013 at 9:24am Bryant's most recent blog is pretty interesting, and relevant to some of the current discussion on the forum. Perhaps he has said it before, but I was surprised to see him rejecting, for instance, the idea that a "hammer" is an object (due to its relational or enacted identity). Permalink Reply by Balder on August 27, 2013 at 10:37am Yes, I was a little surprised to see this distinction at this point, because this was one of my (our) first Wilber- and Uexkull- and/or Derrida-influenced reactions to OOO's discussion of objects. Harman called a hammer an object and described its withdrawn nature, and I understood his point, but I felt he should also more clearly distinguish "hammer" (as a relational/developmental signified) from the unique whatsit that withdraws (as "that which exceeds our apprehension and signification"). (Perhaps he avoids this because it could lead back to Lockean substance as a featureless lump that ends up making all objects indistinguishable from one another, rather than standing, as substance should, for their unique essence...) And, of course, he also wants to argue, as do Bryant and Bhaskar, that we need to be wary of identifying "what something is" with "what something means" (as that is the epistemic fallacy). There's more to say on this, and I will, but unfortunately these days I am quite short on time... I'm also interested in Bryant's wrestling with the nature / culture distinction, in light of Wilber's AQAL model. More on this later. Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on September 18, 2013 at 11:07am From one of Bryant's recent talks according to this post: "The properties of an object arise from its interaction with a field of other bodies producing these qualities as effects. This is the core of my dispute with the object-oriented philosophy of Graham Harman and why I am reluctant to continue referring to myself as an object-oriented ontologist. For Harman objects are withdrawn from all relations and we are to think of objects independent of their relations. As he argues, objects never touch. While I hold that objects can be severed from the relations they currently entertain—though in many instances this can lead to death or destruction–-it seems to me that what is most important is what happens when entities encounter one another. It is not entities in isolation that we should be investigating, but rather encounters between entities, how they affect one another, and how they are affected by one another" (11). Permalink Reply by Balder on September 18, 2013 at 11:10am Here he leans closer to Latour, who acknowledges withdrawal but focuses much more on inter-entity relations. (The description of Latour's "object-oriented" approach is quite lucid and helpful in a book I linked here earlier, Speculative Grace. Here, the author emphasizes withdrawal and relation at once in his phrase, resistant availability). Baudrillard was mentioned a few pages back. In re-reading this Caputo piece I came upon this: "The hyper-real at work in Derrida is neither real nor unreal in the classical sense, neither a hallucination nor the domesticated res of ontological realism. But neither is it hyper-real in the Baudrillardian sense of a dazzling and seductive display of simulacra which replace and displace commonplace reality [....] which would have to do instead with what precisely withdraws from view and slips away, which makes no display of itself, which is sheltered and secreted on the other shore, eluding the phenomenality of both commonplace phenomenological givenness and the spectral hyper-givenness of virtual reality.” Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on October 15, 2013 at 5:54am This Bryant post discusses Latour's new book on modes of existence. He still prefers Luhmann to Latour. It sounds like another version of IMP but he still criticizes Latour (and Luhmann) for a lack of the virtual Real outside of any 'mode,' i.e., modes are correlationist. Permalink Reply by Balder on October 15, 2013 at 10:03am Interesting. I've only read a portion of that book so far, but this motivates me to get back into it soon. Miller and Harman both regard Latour as an object-oriented ontologist, in part based on his principle of irreduction, but Harman has also criticized Latour for his relationism. Of course, if we consider him to be a prepositional (and/or adverbial) philosopher, then an emphasis on relations is not surprising. It is not my understanding, however, that Latour tries to define objects only through our practices and discourses about them, or that he argues that objects can be "reduced to how they are as correlates for another system." Yes, he says they can be so reduced, but he also says they are not simply thus reducible without remainder; he says they are also (and at once) irreducible. When talking about the distinction between objects-in-themselves and objects-for-others, by the way, it is interesting that Bryant actually describes this in terms of modes of relating: "There are two ways in which we can view objects. We can approach objects as they are in-themselves, regardless of whether they are observed or related to by anyone, or we can observe how various types of subjects or observers relate to objects."	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line95
__label__cc	0.702467	0.297533	Tone, criticism etc. Posted by Edward theurj Berge on September 29, 2014 at 8:43am in Engagement I moved this discussion from another thread here, as it's a topic on its own. I also created this document of the conversation: recent%20discussion.odt David: Then the issue of "appropriateness" comes up. Well, Jesus and Raimon Pannikar and I think many others are grateful for that. Is it really appropriate, Edwyrd, to refer to Ken Wilber has "Kennilingus" or "Lingam" year after year after year? Is this kind of name calling really consistent with pluralism or inter-faith dialogue? I can't recall anyone on an integral forum holding onto a joke for this long. I can't remember anyone in my childhood holding onto a joke for this long. It is looking like a real fixation and not a very kind one, either. It certainly isn't compatible with any kind of mature dialectic or inter-faith discussion or integral ethics. You may say it's just good-natured ribbing or an endearment or a funny joke, but I certainly don't buy that. I've been reading this forum since its inception, and I know your attitudes. Any attempt to explain this away as something nice and friendly would surely be gaslighting, and it certainly isn't more clever than the name calling I heard in high school. And have you thought how this might affect Bruce's reputation as an expert in inter-faith communication and world spirituality? Have you noticed how he doesn't call people names, aside from friendly jest? And why is it only Wilber that you've singled out for this friendly, respectful treatment? Why don't you call Bruce Blowj or Derrida Derriere or Chomsky Chumpsky? I'm sure Bruce wouldn't like to be called Blowj for seven years straight, so why would Wilber or anyone who likes him or anyone who simply wants to have a mature discussion? You've been riddling the Facebook forum with these names as well. "Lingam" is obviously a euphemism for "dick," and you write that and the "Cult of Kennilingus" in the Fourth Turning thread. I can't imagine anyone thinks this is cool or clever, especially repeated so many times. I know one person from the Wilber camp who said he was going to leave because of the tone in that group; I imagine Bruce talked him into staying. But I'm sure there are many more who wouldn't even stop in as a result, who would simply roll their eyes and go somewhere else for a mature, integral discussion. It doesn't affect me, but it tends to distract from the discussion, and I am pretty sure it keeps some people away. It's just not very pluralistic or integral or friendly to persist in that kind of name calling -- year after year. At the very least I think you might consider confining that kind of affect and name calling to this forum and letting the Facebook forum try to develop a more mature mode of discourse. Reply by Layman Pascal yesterday The Christmas Wiki defines "kennilingus" as "humorous and quasi-offensive". That means it both is and is not pejorative -- depending on how specifically we understand its area of application. As for the word "false" -- it must not, I think, be taken in the mathematical sense of "proven to be nonfunctional". We should not worry too much about proving its falsity -- but about exploring its qualities and typical behavior relative to other forms of reasoning. This, after all, is the integrative double-necessity: that we both critique & validate. Those who are temperamentally inclined to validation often undervalue the importance of the complaint that certain forms of obvious reasoning are not obvious at all. But then again the critics spend less of their time dealing with the fact that "false" is always phenomenologically valid from some perspectives. Lakoff is not a metatheorist, not exactly. But does he present insights which depend upon a post-pluralistic cognition -- and which have ethical and pragmatic implications for the upward movement of the whole spiral in the contemporary epoch? Probably. It our job to both utilize/connect and distinguish-between people who are (a) approximating the general state of metatheory as we know it today (b) providing tools and tentacles by which metatheory and its originating ethos may flourish. To accuse Wilber of false reason has a dash of hyperbole in it. To mistake the notion of "false reason" for a reduction to the eye of flesh is an incomplete evaluation. The issue is not merely that our concepts and their relationships arise embedded (as conservatives demonstrate) in life-contexts rather than (as liberals anticipate) a free universal mechanism. It is, instead, that our logic must be examined for places in which they predictably fail to indicate what they are apparently indicating. The eyes of flesh, mind & spirit are all capable of encountering "optical illusions". And just because something is confessed by the denizens of a particular perspective does not mean that it accurately (in their own experience) describes to other people what that perspective involves. Well, personally I can't find those names amusing or clever. I find it sad, actually, to see them repeated so often. Why not have a mature discussion instead? You said earlier that we should assume everyone is reaching for higher levels of affect, but how can I assume that when someone persists in calling one of the most important figures in the discussion a "Lingam" or people who like him members of the "Cult of Kennilingus"? Self-transcendence also happens to be one of the most controversial items in the integral noosphere; many people have disagreed with that, developmentalism, and global norms rather passionately. "As for the word "false" -- it must not, I think, be taken in the mathematical sense of "proven to be nonfunctional"." In that case, it isn't a good choice of words and needs to be re-languaged for an integral framing. The framing can't survive in an integral theory, I am pretty sure. These "embodied" metaphors will surely change as one identifies with the high subtle, low causal, causal, etc. In many cases I actually think these embodied metaphors (like backwards and forwards, higher and lower -- in the context of stages of growth or immanence) inhibit a finer understanding of spiritual development. I think we will likely need some metaphors that are LESS influenced by the gross realm if we are going to characterize some of these phenomena accurately and realize them more easily. I agree that embodied cognition is important to understand; I said that a number of times. I also didn't merely say that false reason was a "reduction" to the eye of the flesh. I said: "Lakoff appears to want everything reduced to or subordinated to or "grounded in" the eye of the flesh." However we want to describe it, it is excessive. He says, for example: "In the course of our research we ran up against a mythology…a kind of `romance" of mathematics…that goes something like this:… mathematics has an objective existence… independent of and transcending the existence of human beings or any beings at all." Edwyrd echoes this: "L&J get more refined that Wilber's general graph above . . . Holons aren't an apriori part of the structure of the universe apart from the brain that perceives them, just as math is not. Holons and math are not involutionary* but evolutionary givens firmly grounded in the body and its interactions with the environment. We can eliminate the metaphysical underpinnings of Wilber's edifice by simply going into the details of his own sources." Here we need paradox -- something like the difference between existing and subsisting that Wilber discusses in Integral Spirituality. Holons don't exist until humans can cognize them, but we can say they have subsisted. If you believe in Bhaskar's critical realism, certainly you have to believe that. Their overall ontological status is thus paradoxical and elusive. The same would be true for the involutionary mathematical laws Wilber discussed in Excerpt A: "Most physicists today believe that when the Big Gang occurred, it seemed to be following certain physical laws described by mathematics. These mathematical matrices therefore must have been present at or before the Big Bang (i.e., as involutionary givens), and not something that came into being after the Big Bang and were then inherited by the future (which would be an evolutionary a priori for subsequent moments, and which do indeed exist; but these mathematical forms appear to be involutionary a priori—not anything created in the past but present all along)." The awareness of these mathematical laws certainly didn't exist until human beings cognized them, but, like atoms and molecules and cells (holons), they may have subsisted. With regard to the difference between conservative and liberal framings, I think the liberal framings do resonate with liberals -- these candidates get lots of votes, sometimes the most. It would be smart politics, however, to reframe discussions (metaphorically, cognitively, morally) to the groups we are trying to reach. It is a very important inquiry, I think. Both sides seem to think that if they make their case on their terms and in their language everyone but idiots will believe them. The job of integral politics would be to find a way to reach a majority or plurality of people, as necessary. Reply by theurj yesterday I appreciate your perspective David but am not interested in discussing it with you. You can conclude from that what you will, and I'm sure you will. Take care. PS: And yes, Bruce is much more open to that sort of dialogue and I respect him for it. That's not my bag, so to speak. Permalink Reply by Balder yesterday Why don't you call Bruce Blowj or Derrida Derriere or Chomsky Chumpsky? I'm sure Bruce wouldn't like to be called Blowj for seven years straight, so why would Wilber or anyone who likes him or anyone who simply wants to have a mature discussion? No, Dildo, you're right -- I wouldn't like being called Blowjob for seven years running! :-D Permalink Reply by David yesterday My offer to discuss it with you, Edwyrd, remains open. I would just ask you to please treat people with more respect and please not color both forums with names like "Lingam" and "Kennilingus." Otherwise it would seem that you simply move from active-aggression to passive-aggression and then back to active-aggression. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate a discussion without name calling. If you simply must continue with it, I think using that kind of language and affect here but not on Facebook is a reasonable compromise. Would you like it even once, Bruce? It would depend on the context, I guess. In most cases, probably not ... but I can't say never! :-) I'm not sure how much Wilber would actually object to Edwyrd's nickname for him, since when I met KW in person, he jokingly asked for volunteers from the JFKU students present to give him a blowjob, and he also pantomimed masturbation with a rolled up thangka. So, he has a kind of raunchy humor (as Boomeritis also makes abundantly clear!). But I agree with you, David, that referring to Wilber almost only with mocking nicknames is likely off-putting to some people, and think it would be good to find more of a happy medium. Permalink Reply by Ambo Suno yesterday Hi David, and t - yes, I must admit that the ongoing references to Ken in this way diminishes my attraction to this site and to reading t's rich comments. I hit an inner speed bump pretty much every time I read it and am faced with such a snippet of shocking and incongruous image in my mind. I thought that I might get past this aesthetic glitch but apparently it is more. Creative, sure, but I'd prefer not having to read it. Thanks. Peace, ambo Permalink Reply by theurj yesterday Ok, I'll try to give it up for the sake of the easily offended. It's a hard habit so it might be difficult. Permalink Reply by Layman Pascal 23 hours ago I'm for judicious usage. I think "kennilingus" is both kinda funny and kinda reveals something which rears its head from time to time -- that's why it deserved to be added to the Christmas Wiki. On the other hand, the "lingam" and "false" terms often seem to come up too much or have too hard an edge -- especially when they are used without careful (and therefore somewhat tedious) explanation of their meaning. As Ambo says, these words can be a speed bump. But at the same time -- no road is expected to be perfectly smooth. I say: favor the funnier ones and use them artfully. theurj said: Permalink Reply by andrew 22 hours ago In the off chance that you go into a creative slump i invite you to use the only minimally irreverent Southparkian , 'Kenny'! Perhaps, though, given the fervent religiosity that will most likely surround this mans passing we might want to to start using the more Romanesque, ' The Yellow King". Oh, my God! The Yellow King killed Kenny Wilber! That bastard... Permalink Reply by David 18 hours ago I think we might consider what an integral view of humor would look like. Here is a start: Egocentric humor -- it is funny to me, but no one else Ethnocentric humor -- it is funny to those inside my group, but not to people outside my group Worldcentric humor -- it is funny to all human beings Planetcentric humor -- even the seagulls and monkeys are laughing now Kosmocentric humor -- the gods and angels have joined in on the fun A bubble over Andrew's head, " they do know that i was obliquely alluding to the first integral stage of sdi?" That the idea did come from the American noir drama series is a little beside the point, I think. It's not the sole purpose of humour, I think, to be funny only, but to point to various truisms that may be funny if one is not overly sensitive to criticism. But true , some humour may be prone to getting stale. Reply by Layman Pascal 14 hours ago Okay, consider humor as a "line" what do we find: Aboriginal Humor - A clansman is made to do something which falls outside of the lore but is not taboo -- like unnecessarily eating testicles (Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto") Barbarian Humor - A villager or horde member thinks they are going to gain status but they lose status by virtue of that same move. The coyote thinks he is going to catch the roadrunner but his plan leads to his own collapse! Ethnocentric Humor - The imposed "patriotic" icons (and dogmatic domestic order of affairs under the control of militarized oligarchic barons) present familiar herd characters who non-threateningly reveal the fact that they do not live up to their idealistic assertions. Modern Humor - The individual finds himself disadvantaged by his freedom from the traditional customs but nonetheless retains his enthusiasm. He is aware that content is being filed under conflicting categories (Schopenhauer's definition of the "ludicrous"). Pluralistic Humor - Reality is itself mocked by virtue of the presentation of idiosyncratic juxtapositions in which ironic fools attain mastery through their willing submission to the reversal of the rational order. Integrative Humor - Humor is a sacralizing function created wherever things are both funny and not funny as a result of a shared logic. Divine - Its funny because of the bliss which exceeds the limitations of what it IS. My scheme focuses on the moral line. So if something is funny to just you and me but is at someone else's expense it falls well short of integral humor. But anyone of us at any given time can draw on the humorous aspects of the various memes that still reside within all of us to certain degrees. I personally found the Wyatt Herb (sic) episode funny as hell. I mean, I could have chosen to be offended, I guess, but my disposition has a strong irreverent aspect to it. I like Christianity for the same reason. It's able to laugh at its absurdities; whereas some other traditions take themselves a little bit too seriously. My feeling is that this is more a matter of personal disposition rather than some overarching schema. Here's the kicker: if I fully know that someone is going to be upset by my humour and I use it anyway; then, I am letting a 'redder' part of myself act out. At that point it may behoove one to listen to the greener pastures that reside in all of us. Thus speaks the ironic fool:) Furthermore, I think that the person offended may want to look a little deeper into themselves about why they are offended. In true conservative style I would suggest that when one finds oneself upset by humour, then one might consider taking responsibility for ones own reactions. Perhaps this might entail a little look into ones shadow? Hi, Andrew. I prefer the "integral style" of looking at it from both perspectives. It is good to look at oneself and take responsibility for one's reactions AND it is good to take a look at one's culture or collective and take responsibility for that. With regard to shadow, I think people like Ambo and I have had several years to examine our reactions and take responsibility for them. I brought it up once a few years ago and then remained silent for another few years -- overall about seven years of silence minus a few days. But as Ambo said, there is something more than our own reactions or attachments going on. Also, those continually haranguing Wilber and people who like him might consider the possibility they are shadowboxing. After all these years of haranguing, maybe it's time for a little introspection. If you continue to disregard the feelings and requests of others (not speaking to Edwyrd, who I think has been very considerate recently), you might also explore the possibility you are not yet able to see and feel things from their perspective and/or haven't developed a level of care that includes enough people. Hey David, I appreciate the reply. I wasn't necessarily talking about any one individual, but more generally about those who feel offended. And sometimes there is good reason to feel offended, I wouldn't deny that. I do think I have a rather strong ability to take the perspective of others , but you may have a point on the latter. I do try to keep my criticism of Wilber and IT in general to specific issues where I find disagreement. I don't think this in and of itself is inconsiderate, but at times it may come across like that. Obviously, there is much agreement in my mind when it comes to IT, but not everything. I think I remember you from previous forums ( I think you were a Zappa fan), but I've only recently talked with Ambo, so he is new to me. I can't recall saying anything to him personally that might have been offensive, however, I'd get it if he takes issue with some of my perspectives. I don't find disagreement or criticism about IT problematic. In fact, that's what I was hoping to find when I first came to integral forums. I thought, "Wow, there's going to be a lot of cool, cutting-edge criticism that's going to open up my thinking as much as Wilber has." But then I found that nearly all the criticism wasn't informed or was hung up on some basic interpretive issues. I am not commenting on your criticisms there or any one person in particular, just a general comment. The other thing is the basic tone and affect of it and whether there is some kind of emotional problem that's the real hang up and Wilber is getting blamed for it. Or the idea that, "I am right, so I am justified in being rude, making jokes at other people's expense, engaging in extreme polemics. It's my job to wake them up, and the ends will justify the means." Many people from Infrared to Clear Light will have the conviction that they are right; it doesn't justify anyone to engage in violence. This is one reason I have never thought the Wyatt Earpy blogs were justified -- it will just encourage others to think they are justified in using the same tactics, and virtually all of them won't be. It thus makes sense to establish non-violent speech as a cultural trait -- disagreement and debate are okay in some contexts, but just not ad hominen violence, haranguing, or continual unpleasantness. It's perhaps one thing if you sign onto guru yoga, and your guru makes fun of you or calls you names and so forth to awaken you. In that case you have agreed that someone is your teacher and consented to it. But it would be arrogant for someone to decide that they're the online guru, and they have a right to wake people up because they're just so right. It seems that a lot of people do things online that they wouldn't in person or when their personal interests were at stake, and I think that's pretty problematic. In any case, Zappa, yes, that sounds like me. What forum was that? Were you using the same name? I thought about posting some music here the other night, not Zappa, but I couldn't find a thread where it seemed to fit. It also didn't seem to fit with the ongoing conflict. Permalink Reply by andrew 9 hours ago Yup, you're the same David. From zaadz. gaia. You can always tell who I am from my crappy grammar! lol Anyway, I didn't say Wilber was right in his approach to his critics in the Earpy episode ; I said I personally found it funny. I agree with you, not his finest hour and he might even admit there might have been better avenues of exchange. Fortunately, I haven't come across any online gurus using the rude boy routine ( although that Pascal dude:) , but I don't have a hard time imagining it. It might be, too, that what people get offended by is their stage of moral development. I tried that on my kid when she was young and she answered Kolberg's question without hesitation in instant black and white terms. I spent a half an hour with her explaining different perspectives ( they bewildered her at the time). So, that may play a part in the offence. Folks at trans moral stages may be less prone to offence, but I agree, that shouldn't be licence for abuse. You can look on the Sam Harris thread where I took him to task on one of his mistaken perspectives, too. I wasn't rude or anything, and I did provide plenty of links that argued for his being incorrect on that particular issue. My first and most for most critique of Wilber was along the lines of anyone trying to lay personal claim to a stage of human development. Wrong road there, imo. Anyway, i could swear I just saw this transcendent platonic reason hovering right above me ! whoa! dude! You still in Chicago, man? Permalink Reply by andrew on September 29, 2014 at 10:42am Thanks for doing that Edward. I was completely mindful of the off-topic trajectory of the thread, btw. Good morning David, I am going to lay out my criticisms of Wilber and IT here as this seems like as good a time or place as any. - I've already mentioned that I consider it silliness and hubris for any one individual or group to try and claim ownership of a stage of human civilization. As an example , Sir Isaac Newton was one of the great forefathers of the scientific paradigm, but I don't see that he tried to say that he owned the scientific worldview. -I disagree strongly that evolution as it has come to be known by scientists needs love/eros to explain its most hidden workings. I have no problem with anyone believing that as a personal matter of faith, but not as science. Why not just call oneself a theistic evolutionist? That, it seems to me, is showing deference to both fields of enquiry. - I find Ken's take on Christianity particularly weak. To colour code ___ out of the universe is a funny kind of gambit to me. I have more to say here but I'll leave it at one sentence. - that Ken seems to espouse as integral the third way neoliberal policies of the ruling elite is closer to blindness than truth, imo. This worldwide takeover of the commons and the commodification of everything is a spiritual malady that isn't going to be solved by patronizing this system. The system, is also by the day becoming more and more unjust . It needs strong voices to speak against it; not collaborate with it. I can see CC as a move in the right direction as long as it speaks out strongly against the neoliberal status quo. - IT has too much male agency. Where are the woman being book reviewed, etc.? IT looks like the mythic patriarchy Ken's always railing against. - that people are not intelligent enough to understand his absolute truth and take on things borders on offensive. See the end of I.S. Really smart people do really bad things all the time. I.Q. in and of itself is no guarantee of anything; least of all a just society . - did I mention that LP is a dweeb? Damn , I'm not supposed to say things like that! Permalink Reply by David on September 29, 2014 at 5:09pm Hi, Andrew. I'll respond to a few of the IT questions. Andrew: "I've already mentioned that I consider it silliness and hubris for any one individual or group to try and claim ownership of a stage of human civilization. As an example , Sir Isaac Newton was one of the great forefathers of the scientific paradigm, but I don't see that he tried to say that he owned the scientific worldview." Has anyone really tried to claim ownership of a stage of human civilization? I don't see that anyone has. I think some people have taken responsibility for it, but that is a different thing than claiming ownership. They also haven't taken responsibility in an exclusive way; rather they have encouraged people to take the ball and run with it. This is like most other memes, epistemes, or movements. Andrew: "I disagree strongly that evolution as it has come to be known by scientists needs love/eros to explain its most hidden workings. I have no problem with anyone believing that as a personal matter of faith, but not as science. Why not just call oneself a theistic evolutionist? That, it seems to me, is showing deference to both fields of enquiry." I think Wilber does recognize this distinction. For example, he describes evolutionary spirituality (including eros/agape) as a "myth" in Excerpt A: "Here is a myth that is sometimes useful in suggesting notions that cannot be grasped dualistically or conceptually in any event: As Spirit throws itself outward (that’s called involution) to create this particular universe with this particular Big Bang, it leaves traces or echoes of its Kosmic exhalation. These traces constitute little in the way of actual contents or forms or entities or levels, but rather a vast morphogenetic field that exerts a gentle pull (or Agape) toward higher, wider, deeper occasions, a pull that shows up in manifest or actual occasions as the Eros in the agency of all holons. . . . As I said, this is a useful myth. Within that myth, we can summarize. The postulated list of involutionary givens seems to include: (1) Eros. Eros basically is derived from one fact: Spirit creates the entire manifest world and every holon in it; in fact, every holon is Spirit-in-itself playing at being Other (e.g., the great nest of morphogenetic potential often summarized as matter, body, mind, soul, and spirit is actually Spirit-as-matter, Spirit-as-body, Spirit-as-mind, Spirit-as-soul, and Spirit-as-spirit). . . . " https://www.integrallife.com/integral-post/integral-age-leading-edg... Andrew: "I find Ken's take on Christianity particularly weak." I would also be interested in hearing more on Ken's take on integral Christianity. I think that project did get a boost with Wilber V, but he seems to bring in Christian mystics rather than talk about it himself. I think part of his reluctance may be that he wants to be taken seriously by scientists and academics, so he needs to be careful about his use of the word "God" and his treatment of religion in general. He has said he doesn't talk so much about such things as the Second Face of Spirit for this reason. Andrew: "That Ken seems to espouse as integral the third way neoliberal policies of the ruling elite is closer to blindness than truth, imo." First of all, I have a pretty progressive interpretation or application of integral in the political-economic sphere myself. I like the integral idea because I think it would be more effective, but my own views tend to be on the progressive side. I don't always agree with progressives or liberals, but my views on democracy and economics, for example, are on the progressive side, but not what I would call radically progressive. I am not someone who rants about tearing down the entire system and building something else, that is. I don't see that things like anarcho-syndicalism are a viable option at this point, for example, and I think to think so drains power from reform movements. I'm all for something radically different, but I just haven't seen a compelling alternative to some kind of hybrid capitalist/socialist system, which is what we have already in North America, Europe, and a few other places to one degree or another, only we all need one that distributes profits fairly, truly represents the public interest, etc. I think people jump to conclusions about Wilber's own political beliefs and at the same time overrate the importance of them, even if his views are what they say they are. He has actually been very careful about his comments; he hasn't wanted to alienate progressives, just move them into integral. That has basically been my take. He has basically just argued for an integration of interior- and exterior-causation perspectives, for example, without taking a stand on many specific issues. But even if he has argued for a brand of integral that leans on the conservative side (when I feel the U.S., for example, is leaning too much to the conservative side already on issues like the drug war, campaign finance, etc.), I don't see why that should matter too much or have implications on the theory. IT can be used to promote a progressive agenda, and it could probably be used to promote a conservative agenda as well, or something in between. But I think its flexibility is a strength there because the situation will differ from country to country, from region to region in some cases, and also from issue to issue. Permalink Reply by Layman Pascal on September 29, 2014 at 5:36pm Two streams come together. One stream is very sensitive to what I have called (as a demonstration of borderline good taste) the "OLEG problem" - our tendency to express authentic wisdom in styles that undercut it, primitive styles, separative styles, etc. The other stream affirms the absolute necessity to keep a ribald, aggressive, humorous, critical attitude in play. No one, I am sure, denies the importance of both streams. The question is -- does any given instance become "too much" of one and not enough of the other? It is not a homogeneous situation. Some words have more cleverness, more humor than others. Some start to quickly sound petulant or needlessly snippy. Others actually have an interesting, possibly useful shape and might as well be normalized even though they might trigger subtle alarms for people who have certain social sensitivities. Clearly we are moving into a culture where a lot of stuff that previously sounded boorishly sexual or disdainful is commonplace speech. Fuck, for example, is no longer an extraordinary words reserved for passion and violence. It is not a mainstream word used causally in many walks of life. So we must be open to these sensibility shifts... but at the same time remember that we are not in an arbitrary environment. We are working to create some mutual edification and whatever fails to do that is "bad etiquette". So a conversation must go on between the people who are untroubled by putatively pejorative terminology and those who are aware that different styles have different effects -- even counterproductive effects. Permalink Reply by andrew on September 30, 2014 at 1:26am Thanks for considering my positions David:) I'll only focus on the 2nd point of evolution for the moment. Ken has a way of making these presumed scientific myths sound like religion. I went to the I.L. life link and it is classic Wilber with wonderful prose waxing rather philosophically about science; and making science sound like religion. In and of it self I guess I don't have a problem with it, but it gets bundled in this packaging especially in the case of A.C.; and then it just starts to sound like fetishism. I can understand why that narrative might be appealing to some , but right from the get go it was not my thing. This particular criticism in no way makes me think that civilization is not on the cusp of an Integral age. I might add that taking that particular myth/narrative and imposing it on Christianity is an absolute non-sequitar to me personally. I've given it years to percolate , too, gone to the sermons, listened, contemplated, and nope! That's definitely NOT it for me! And I don't see that I am just being obtuse and difficult here. At this point I enjoy Ferrer more:) But just call me OLEG! lol Anyway, in the spirit of the Ryder Cup I invite all those Euro Integralites to come over here and show up all these know it all american IT theorists! Raw raw raw! What the evolutionary spirituality myth does is set things like Buddhist compassion or Christian love in a four-quadrant evolutionary context. So Christian evolutionary love would include, for example, evolving our social system to points of greater fairness and equity; it would include evolving our individuals and cultures as well because in a democracy the people produce and elect their leaders (without a more evolved electorate you can't have more evolved leaders, so you can't have more evolved policy). I often wonder how anti-developmentalists and anti-evolutionaries plan to improve our social systems. Often they're the same people ranting how much we need to change our systems. How, pray tell, will we do that in a democracy without a more evolved electorate? How will we do that unless more adults take responsibility for their continued cognitive and moral development? The words "evolution" and "evolve" aren't essential. We could say there is a kind of love or compassion in each quadrant as well. But the idea of evolution, if understood broadly (including eros and agape, agency and communion, etc.), can tie everything together in a coherent story. It looks better than other available meta-narratives to me, or a lack of a meta-narrative. It basically situates ideas of love or compassion in a wider context, one that understands the connections between culture, systems, biology, psychology, and so forth when it comes to quality of life and transcendence. Pieire Teilhard de Chardin is one Christian who liked this sort of thing. There are others, of course. But I don't think it adds anything essentially new to the teachings of Jesus. He was all about feeding the hungry and helping those in need. All an AQAL evolutionary view would do is clarify all the different forms of that kind of love, lest we leave one out or overemphasize some at the expense of others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin#Teachings Nationalism rears its head in the integral forums again. It seems to play a larger-than-ideal role sometimes. It's hard to tell how much resistance there sometimes is because Wilber is an "American," but I think it is occasionally a factor. Surely the dynamic would be different had he come from British Columbia or East of England or New South Wales. Individuals of each country and culture need to take responsibility for their own social indoctrination, biases, and prejudices, wouldn't you say, Andrew? It will differ from country to country, region to region in some cases, but most people will probably have a more-than-ideal amount of tribalism and nationalism, so it is one thing each of us has to examine. What do you think that would mean for you as a Canadian? Permalink Reply by andrew on September 30, 2014 at 9:23pm Hey David, I've had a long streak of idealist transcendentalism within me so it's not hard for me to see religion as myth. Personal experience and intuition is another matter altogether , but as i've aged I'm more prone to being amenable to interpretive lenses. Perhaps an anecdote might help? Quite some time ago I was fortunate to see the blind blues guitarist Jeff Healy in a small club. I was fortunate to be able to speak with him briefly after the show and mentioned that he sang really well that evening. He was totally appreciative of someone complimenting him on a lesser aspect of his talent ( this is analogous to Wilber's writing style that I've always been appreciative of), the thing is though, although Jeff was a fantastic bluesman he was by no means my favourite guitarist. i mean, listen to Metheny at his best and it's hard not to feel transported ( this is analogous to many other good IT theorists who i've come to appreciate). You know, if I see a dozen musicians in a room and they are practicing polyrhythms; i don't look down upon the one or two that can't do them ( say play straight eights with the right hand and quarter note triplets with the left) I don't see them as lesser musicians as most of the time they all have other stronger capabilities. That is my way of referencing a kind of top down structure that I've perceived within the integral community. I know am not the first person that feels this way. Make of it what you will:) Anyway, on your first point about society: there is one thing that I feel hasn't changed on this planet since antiquity. That is the consistent rising of a small percentage to the top of any given society that rules in the way THEY want. Yes, there have been times when they were defeated ( the French Revolution, etc) and times when they ruled smartly with consideration to others ( say Roosevelt's New Deal) , but most of the time they simply take care of themselves at the expense of most everyone else . I've previously granted many times that in the last 50 years they have managed to set up a trickle down system that has given a large percentage of certain countries a decent standard of living. But these rulers are now at a threshold of growth, resources, and energy supply , and they seem to be in complete denial as far as their behaviour. What is it going to take to wake them up? Yes, Islam of the sane moderate healthy kind should be marching on masse ( millions) to speak against terrorism. So, also, should Jewish people ( be marching against its states hardliners) . As should moderate Christians speak out against Christian Zionism, etc. I am cool with moderate amounts of tribalism and nationalism, as long as they are juxtaposed to egalitarianism and a sense of goodwill towards others. But there are limits to the last part. Those who are more culpable when it comes to destructive behaviour should be held accountable ( justice). I don't know what is going to wake them up. Cultural disapproval is a start, psychedelics could help, spiritual practice, moral development (a big thing missing in the education system). The "top down" structure goes both ways, doesn't it. It is just as much of a factor in "egalitarian" postmodernism. I don't see Jorge saying he is higher than Ken less than vice versa, for example. Anyway, I think we should make more of an effort to stay on topic. What do you think of the tone of this guitar solo?	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line96
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__label__cc	0.593451	0.406549	Kahler-Riva Defend Cleveland Title in Epic Final Scott Kahler Men NRT, Men Rankings, News, Tournaments Over the weekend of November 9-10, the Cleveland Masters took place and two familiar foes faced off in the finals. For the third consecutive year, it was a battle of the two highest ranked teams from Pittsburgh as the 13th ranked team of Scott Kahler and Matt Riva played the 19th ranked pairing of Brett Engelsberg and Jeff McMaster. First, let’s see how both teams managed to navigate through the draw. The quarterfinals saw the top seeded team of Kahler/Riva play the duo of Todd Wojtowski and Casey Vens. After trailing 5-3 in the opening set, Kahler/Riva righted the ship to win 7-5, 6-2. Next it was the 4th seeded team and hometown favorites, Eric Miller and Fayaz Bhanji and the newly formed team of Denny English and Guy Moore. Miller and Bhanji won all the important points on their way to a 6-4, 6-2 victory. In the bottom half of the draw, the 3rd seeded team from Pittsburgh, Ajay Khurana and Mike Wagner, defeated another new partnership for this season, Brian Heil and Wade Martin in 3 sets, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1. The final quarterfinal saw Engelsberg/McMaster defeat Cleveland’s Doug Bloom and Robbie Edelstein 6-3, 6-0. The semifinals were played under the lights starting at 6pm with the grill cooking and the drinks flowing in the crowd. Kahler/Riva got off to a fast start against Bhanji/Miller and never looked back, advancing to the finals by a score of 6-1, 6-3. The other semifinal was an all-Pittsburgh affair between good friends. Engelsberg/McMaster took the first set 6-4 before Khurana/Wagner came storming back in the 2nd set 6-1. The veteran tandem of Engelsberg/McMaster regained the lead in the third set however, securing a 4-1 lead and eventually taking the set 6-3. The finals were played under cool, windy conditions at the Cleveland Racquet Club. Kahler/Riva seemed to be in control of the match, jumping out to a 6-1, 3-1 lead before Engelsberg/McMaster mounted their comeback, taking the 2nd set in a tiebreak. The third set saw Kahler/Riva jump ahead 4-1, but once again they could not hold the lead and the final set went to a tiebreaker. With incredible shot-making from both teams the tiebreak seemed like it would never end. Each team held three match points before Kahler/Riva converted their fourth match point opportunity to take the title 6-1, 6-7, 7-6, with the final set tiebreak score being 13-11. In the backdraws, English/Moore defeated Edelstein/Bloom to take the quarterfinal reprieve, while the Cleveland duo of David Lowe and Dan McLaughlin defeated Pittsburgh’s Scott McFaden and Matt Rogers in 3 sets in the 16s reprieve. Brian Heil Cleveland Masters Denny English Guy Moore Jeff McMaster Matt Riva Scott McFaden Week 4 is in the Books - D1 Philly Paddle Philly D1 Cage Battles - Week 5	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line113

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