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UNAMID Radio Unit has been broadcasting its radio programmes around Darfur since July 2011.Two of its flagship programmes are the Voice of Children; a weekly magazine style radio programme that is produced and presented by children aged 9 to 15 years old, and Yala Nebni Darfur (Lets Build Darfur); one-hour-magazine style radio programme focusing on themes related to UNAMID mandate. Both of these radio programmes are broadcast on radio Al Salaam 98.0 FM in Khartoum and 7.2MHz, 41 Meter Band SW in Darfur every day from 08:30 to 09:30 and from 14:00 to 15:00.
The radio unit has recently launched its new magazine programme, UNAMID Today, a 30 minute radio programme that highlights the Mission’s activities and human interest stories in Darfur. The programme is broadcast on El Fasher radio, 95 FM and 801 AM every day from 9:30 to 10:00.
The radio programmes are broadcast in Arabic.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.12, July 2018: UNAMID helps Otash IDPs
In this episode you will hear about a story of people who live in Otash IDPs camp in South Darfur who are experiencing lack of basic needs such as foods, water, clothing and shelter, adequate sanitation, education, and healthcare and how UNAMID helps solve the problem.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.11, July 2018: Health problems faced children
In this episode you will hear about health problems faced by children of Darfur and how UNAMID helps solve the problem.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.10, July 2018: Better environment of girl education in Darfur
In this episode you will hear about UNAMID’s role of in creating better environment of girl education in Darfur by constructing schools and provision of school items to the rural areas of Darfur.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.9, July 2018: Capacity building of women’s economy
In this episode you will hear about how craft making contribute to economic stability among women in Mellit, North Darfur.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.8, July 2018: Explosive remnants of War
In this episode you will hear about raising awareness campaign among communities in Darfur on the risk of the Explosive Remnants of War (ERW).
Yala Nebni Darfur Vol 2.7, July 2018: Um-Lautua cultural group
In this episode you will hear the contribution of cultural group such as Um-Lautua in North Darfur in supporting development in their area of peace building through cultural activities.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.6, July 2018: Women’s participation in decision making
In this episode you will hear about how women leaders in Darfur address this issue of increasing women’s participation in the decision making, reconciliation and peace process mechanisms and the establishment of women forum for peace to monitor the implementation of peace in Darfur.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.5, July 2018: Road safety campaign
In this episode you will hear about how the UN Mission in Darfur to create awareness on how to drive safely, it is part of road safety campaign organized by the Mission under the theme Safety Start With You.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.4, July 2018: Equal opportunity between boys and girls
In this episode you will hear about how girls in Darfur work towards a society of equal opportunity between boys and girls in North Darfur.
Yalla Nebni Darfur Vol 2.3, July 2018: Rights of women and girls
In this episode you will hear about activities organized to advance the rights or women and girls in Darfur.
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STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN SCIENCE SUBJECTS: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
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This research work is designed to find out the strategies or ways of improving the poor performance of students in science subject in some selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The research instrument used was the questionnaires; hundred respondents were used for the study. Problems were raised and the results obtained were used to answer the research questions. The result of the investigation revealed that;
Lack of science equipment in the school affect the studying of science hence lead to poor performance.Inadequate time table also affect science teaching leading to poor performance.Lack of library and science textbooks was another cause of the poor performance.The result also revealed that though there are qualified teachers teaching science subjects in secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State but their methods of teaching affect students performance in science.Poor payment of teachers and lack of motivation also affect the performance of science subjects. The following stated hypothesis were used which are;Teachers in secondary school in Egor Local Government Area are not professionally and academically qualified to teach and students does not do practical work in science.Secondary school teachers and students does not do practical work in science.Secondary schools teachers do not allocate enough periods for science.There are no laboratory facilities in secondary schools. Based on these findings the following recommendations were made;Government should evolve principles and policies that would help to enhance science education.Qualified science teachers with a least B.Ed. certificate should be employed to teach the basic science at secondary school level. They know the key concepts in science.Emphasis should be laid on practical aspects of science.Teachers should endeavour to make use of local materials required for effective teaching of science.The students on their part should try and pay listening ears during science teachingGovernment should ensure regular allowances for science teachers, pay them well so that they can be motivated to impacts the best knowledge at their disposal.
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Science was the last major subject that was introduced in the school curriculum. It was introduced in some few schools in form of nature study and the emphasis on getting information about our environment from first hand observation rather than from books. In Nigeria curriculum,. Science education first appeared in 1859 when the church missionary society (CMS) grammar school Lagos introduced the rudiment of nature study. This introduction was done by people who were both specialists in science and master teachers, they were able to make the study of nature of science a dynamic and unforgettable learning experience for students. Baja (1982) in Igwe (2003) described it as the learning of the environment and hygiene other schools like Saint Gregory’s College Lagos, Hope Waddle institution Calabar and Baptist training College Ogbomoso followed later in teaching nature study. By this time according to Abdulahi (2000) a rural science syllabus was formulated for science teaching at primary schools and other biology related subjects were introduced such as botany, physiology and agriculture at secondary school level. However once entrusted to teachers with little or no background in science and with varying degrees of teaching effectiveness, the study on nature of science in the schools deteriorated bodily.
Simply, the world science came from Latin “Scientia” meaning knowledge. It refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomenon. In other words the term science also refers to as an organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system, less formally. The word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it. The education attainment of the student in science is inevitable and should be looked into with a lot of invention in both teaching on side of student at all level. The training of the students most especially, children in primary schools is very important since the extent of a nation future labour force, leadership, political stability and strength of technical knowledge all lies in their hands. The importance of science and its implementation to the social and environment of the people is well recognized by every nation. Some scientific knowledge is needed by everyone in other to have an idea of the ways in which one is fed, entertained clothed and sheltered to ensure a more profitable exploration of scientific and technological potentials, it is therefore necessary to lay emphasis on scientific knowledge. In respect of this integrated science subjects was introduced into the school curriculum by science teachers association of Nigeria about few decades ago and was made compulsory in the junior secondary school level.
Ebina (2010) observed that the cooperative arrangement between the science teachers association of Nigeria (STAN) and the defunct comparative educational research and adaptation centre (CESAC) now merged into the Nigeria educational research and development council (NERDC) heralded by the first national effort at science curriculum development to improve science education in Nigeria in 1969. The result of this 1969 curriculum conferences was the information of two major science projects (NISP) and the Nigerian Secondary Schools Sciences Projects (NSSSP) later the National Primary Science and Mathematics Projects (NPSMP) were developed. Presently there are the basic science and technology projects (BSTP) for primary schools. In order to achieve good results in the science curricular projects government policies were specially geared towards encouraging science teaching and learning at all level. Ivowi (2000) observed that government science policies have aimed at boosting and improving science education.
Science teaching in secondary schools in general has so many problems associated with it, for example lack of qualified teachers teaching science subjects, lack of science equipment to carry out practical’s in science classes, lackadaisical attitude on the part of the students towards science subjects. The government has tried to put more effort to put an end to these problems yet their effort has proved abortive due to one reasons or the other.
Thus the researcher has decided to make an in-depth study into the factors that contributes to these problems despite the effort put by the successive government with a quest of finding solution to these problems.
The purpose of the research is to study the behaviour and attitude of students towards the studying and teaching of science. The researcher also wants to find out the general view held by the public as to the causes of student’s poor level of achievement in science. To examine the ways of science in some selected secondary schools and how to improve and better the performance of the students.
The significance of this study lies in the fact that the performance of students in science subjects over the years facilitates an assessment for mapping out strategies that will improve the performance in the nearby future especially in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State and Nigeria as a whole and this is done to pinpoint to science students that learning science through reading is important because it helps them to;
Think and learnTeach students how to use reading materials effectivelyKnow that there are several sources of information available on different reading levelKnow that learning through self discovery is the best way to scienceAssist students in developing their science vocabulariesTeach science students how to apply what has been learnt to new situation which will serve as an evaluating techniquesAssist students studying science subjects to improve their interest of studying science through raising questions that can be solved in the class.Know the aims at signifying the important of experience or demonstration and by bringing challenges to slow and rapid learning through oral written test.
This research questions is to find out the strategies that when applied will improve the performance of students in science subjects in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. In doing this, the following questions arte guide;
What are the qualifications of teachers?What are teacher’s competencies and self0efficiency in their instructional delivery?What method of teaching do the teachers use in teaching science subjects?Are the teachers paid well by the government?What effort is the government and community making to solve the government?Do the schools have science equipment?What is the behaviour of students towards the learning of science subjects?What is the content of science curriculum and its implementation?
The researcher is of the view that the answers to the above questions would help to identify the ways of improving science in our schools.
The study will involve the performance of students and teachers towards the study of science in some selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. This project deals with the causes of students poor performance in science subjects and how it affect them. And also the remedies to this problems will be highlighted.
Science: An accumulated body of knowledge and skills about nature.
Laboratory: It is a building where scientific purpose of carrying out practical work, also laboratory can be seen as a room or building used for scientific research, experimentation, testing etc.
Qualified teachers: These are sets of teachers that are trained in institutions and are certified as professional teachers eg. TC II, NCE, B.Ed etc
Constraints: To force somebody to do something or behave in a particular way or to restrict somebody or something.
Abortive: An action that is successfully failed.
Heralded: Something that shows that something else is going to happen soon
Lackadaisical: Not showing enough care or enthusiasm
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Topic: Shamdasani on Jung as Theoretician
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Matt Koeske
There are two points that are important. First there’s the, in a sense, was Jung a theorist? Was he primarily a theorist? I don’t think that I would characterize Jung principally as a theoretician of psychology, that’s not to say he didn’t have theories, but I don’t see that this was the main drift of his work. I would actually characterize him more as a psychological essayist. If Jung was a theorist, you could imagine one 600-page book expounding the theory, but you find the theories are simply, in his work, the basis of endless variations; it’s what he does with them that’s important. I don’t know if people here listen to Bill Evans, there’s this track he plays called Nardis. He played it for decades, each time playing it differently. It’s not about the melody, but what he does with it each time. You read through Jung’s seminars, you’re hearing the same anecdotes, but retold in a different way. So the weight I’ve put on one’s reading of Jung is not as a theoretician. The theories – I’m not the first to point out – are massively inconsistent right throughout. And also they’re a makeshift, post 1915–1916. The theories are not the core of Jung’s work; they’re simply an approximation by which he’s attempting to translate his insights into a language for a scientific and medical audience. It’s a compromise. Hence the contradictions. How close can he get to saying something of the type of stuff that he’s been articulating in Liber Novus and also in a similar sort of form in his analytic sessions? That, to me, is a question of how one understands Jung. It also pertains to the theme of the conference: if Jung is not really primarily a theoretician, is the task then one of looking to make theories out of Jung, or even make his theories consistent, as many strove heroically and failed to do? The significance of his work lies more, in my view, in what he’s attempting to convey: providing a rich articulation of experience, which is on a different tack. One finds this in Liber Novus, one finds it in many evocative passages in the Collected Works.
Sonu Shamdasani, "After Liber Novus", Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2012, 57, p. 375-376
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Re: Shamdasani on Jung as Theoretician
providing a rich articulation of experience, which is on a different tack.
In my rather limited experience with Jungian Art Therapy as a client, this is what I have experienced, too. The quote Matt has posted today makes a lot of sense to me.
The issue Shamdasani brings up is one that has been debated a lot in the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) group I belong to. Nothing came of those debates, but I think the issue is very important to Jungianism today. It actually has deeper roots than someone not embroiled in Jungian society might guess.
One of the strongest "post-Jungian" movements is what British analyst Andrew Samuels has called the "developmental" school. It begins mostly with Michael Fordham in the 50s, who was powerfully influenced by post-Freudian psychoanalytic thinkers, especially Melanie Klein. He emphasized object relations theory, child therapy, and child development models as relevant to adult therapy. And he staged some fundamental criticisms of Jung and "classical" Jungianism that have since become mantras of the developmental school.
Primary among these is that Jung was not "theoretical" enough, that Jungian psychology needed a more robust and specific diagnostic methodology and an elaborated praxis that could be read more like a set of "laws" or standards, a studiable text book of sorts for training analysts in the (developmental) Jungian tradition.
Also, Fordham emphasized (as psychoanalysts do), the extreme importance of noting and analyzing the transference/countertransference phenomena in analysis. He felt Jung underemphasized this. And finally, Fordham faulted Jung for "ignoring" childhood development and having no focus on child therapy. Developmental psychologists to this day seem to believe that these three (and some other related) criticisms of Jung are like religious truths. Jung, on these accounts, was simply "wrong", flawed, and the only thing for developmental "post-Jungians" to do was "transcend" the sins of the father.
I see much of this developmentalist attitude as rooted in a kind of "negative father complex". It's actually quite complicated, and I won't go into it here, but I see various irrational aspects of the developmentalist attitude toward Jung and Jungianism that feel like "acting out" to me, like unconscious, unintentioned behavior that has psycho-logical significance and "means" something other than what it appears to on the most superficial levels.
But on a less diagnostic level, these developmentalist "truths" are highly debatable. It isn't as if Jung had no reasons for taking the stances he did on theory-making, child development, and transference phenomena. The implication that he was simply ignorant or plainly wrong about these issues is a self-suthing ideology for the developmentalists, not a reasoned argument.
In fact, Fordham and the developmental Jungians merely adopt these ideas unprocessed from their post-Freudian psychoanalytic influences. So, they are merely tribal ideologies and identity constructions (in this instance) . . . beliefs, not actual theories. That's not to say they are wholly or even partially "wrong", only that for developmental Jungians they are not reasoned arguments as much as ways of trying to distinguish themselves from the problematic "father", Jung. And of course we should remember that Jung was hated and ridiculed by many Freudians and seen as the foolish prodigal son and even a deranged psychotic by some. Even today, that prejudice against Jung still predominates in many psychoanalytic schools (especially those with the most classically Freudian orientations).
The developmental Jungians have absorbed some of this psychoanalytic prejudice and seek (like the "good sons" they want to be) to magically heal the wound between Jung and Freud by converting Jung into a kind of "good son" that would not have offended or ever broke with Freud. But, to my mind (as it is to classical Jungians, even though I have numerous disagreements with them), what most defines Jung as a thinker and makes his ideas relevant are those things he specifically and intentionally differentiated from Freud's psychoanalysis. Jungian thought is in many ways an anti-psychoanalysis, a critique of psychoanalytic theories and assumptions. Which is not to say that Jung was right and Freud wrong. I mean to say that Jungianism is a compliment of psychoanalysis and neither needs to be conformed to the other.
Jung himself said as much (perhaps somewhat over-generously). In my opinion, developmental Jungianism does not really seek some kind of new and improved synthesis of Jungianism and Freudianism. It seeks to conform certain aspects of Jungianism to Freudianism, because these conformities make developmental Jungians feel more secure in their appeasement of the "father", make them feel less radical, less prodigal, less potentially disappointing and disruptive to the "father's" sense of intellectual (and "superegoic") order.
It's a huge and complex topic, and an area of particular interest and research for me personally, as I've been trying to investigate what we could poetically call the "Jungian soul" . . . the Jungian tribal identity and how it influences Jungian thought in its largely unconscious efforts to preserve itself.
But to return to the issue of theory-making, Jung often spoke out about the limitations of such an orientation, but he never adequately explained himself. And as in other areas where he never adequately explained himself, this fogginess has created a rift and polarization in contemporary Jungian thought. Classical Jungians (like those who were direct colleagues, pupils, and often analysands of Jung himself) often take Jung's statements to mean that analysis is a magical creative enterprise with no real structure or consistency. But that is very naive, and it allows some classical Jungians to lose consciousness of their own theoretical and diagnostic assumptions about how the mind works and how mental diseases should be treated. My point is that these classical Jungians still have "theories" that shape (and sometimes limit) the way they act as analysts, but they are not conscious enough of these working theories. And because they are not conscious enough, they can not clearly see how these theories operate and how their underlying assumptions might be wrong or could be modified. This ignorance of theory contributes to the inability of classical Jungianism to grow or to be functionally self-critical. It is ultimately an ethical more than an intellectual failing, since this lack of self-criticality might have negative effects on the patients these analysts treat.
The developmentalist "theory-mongering" is the opposite side of the coin, though. Each side sees the flaws in the other, but neither seems to imagine a functional synthesis. And in my opinion, neither really grasps what Jung was trying (albeit rather convolutedly) to get at.
I think Jung's hesitancy about strict theory-making was not some kind of touchy-feely New Agey anti-science, do what'chya wanna declaration. Quite the opposite. I think Jung was imagining a new, and more functional kind of scientific approach for psychology, that was more sophisticatedly "empirical" or phenomenological. That is, he wanted to emphasize that psychic phenomena needed to be carefully and devoutly observed and investigated and not merely "explained" or reduced to a neat and tidy theory that comforted and bolstered the theoretician, making her or him feel clever and in control, capable of intellectual conquest of seemingly "chaotic" data.
That is what Jung criticized Freud for doing (and rightly so, in my opinion). Jung DID NOT reject the systematic and careful observation of psychic phenomena, nor their classification or collation. He merely felt this approach to psychology should supersede the making of explanatory theories or what are now sometimes called "grand narratives". Jung advised that the psychologist needed to be extremely vigilant about his or her desire to make the psyche make perfect sense. He recognized how complex and diverse the psyche was and also how no one was going to come along with a "stroke of genius" that turned this complex dynamic system into a set of "Mosaic" laws that would stand for all time.
Despite Freud's posturing about a "scientific psychology", Jung's approach is more in line with contemporary scientific practices and methodologies. Most science today is about collecting data and making small, stepping stone theories. The more classic "modernist" position of the 19th and early 20th centuries sought to heroically discover the grand theories of everything. It saw all phenomena as superficially chaotic but inwardly simplistic . . . one merely needed to find the secret code that unlocked the simple, ordered core of the phenomena. Today, we understand (as Jung seemed to intuitively) that most natural phenomena are incredible complex and do not reduce to simple cores but are instead higher order "emergent" phenomena that can only be made full sense of in relation to the other phenomena they are systemically associated with. Modern science has come to recognize that theories are always relative and limited. This understanding is part of contemporary science, but for Jung's era, it was not fully compatible with (19th century) science . . . and as a result Jung felt he had to differentiate himself and his approach from that science (which he did with the tools he had at hand, namely, romanticism).
In my opinion, today that 19th century romantic differentiation from "science" is no longer necessary. On this issue, Jung was more forward-thinking in a scientific sense than Freud. But today, Jungians have established their ideologies and identities as decidedly anti-science. Jungians don't realize that the science they are rebelling against and demonizing no longer really exists. So they are still rebellion against and demonizing it. This is one of the problems of living in a monotribal "cave" for decades. And as much as I have tried to argue this point to the IAJS Jungians, I feel like they just don't get it. They are deaf to it and hell bent of demonizing "science". It is more important to them to preserve this arch "enemy" than to be either correct or honest with themselves . . . which I see as yet another sign of a "complex", an irrational behavior that protects static identity constructions at the expense of longer-term survivability and adaptiveness, an act of "Bad Faith".
So, I agree with Shamdasani that Jung was not a theoretician. But the opposite of theoretician isn't "mystic" or "prophet" or even "artist". Jung's hesitancy about theory-making was part of his entirely scientific empirical and phenomenological approach to data (psychic phenomena). That's not to say that Jung was purely or even largely "scientific". But as Shamdasani wrote elsewhere, Jung pursued a "dream of a [new] science". He was not at all "anti-science", he was merely critical of the way science was practiced and ideologically conceived in his day. But his criticism was fundamentally "scientific" in that it sought to improve and refine science, not dispose of it. Science has a built in mechanism for self-correction (unlike religion), and Jung was intuitively serving that mechanism in a preliminary and experimental way.
That trend has never been pursued in Jungianism . . . except perhaps in my own little "blogosphere" of outsider Jungian thought. Although I am more of a sermonizer than a scientist, more of a circus barker trying to get people to pay a buck and go inside the mysterious tent. I, too, remain outside that tent for this reason (and because I see myself as more suited to circus barking than performing whatever acts need to be performed inside the tent).
I support a healthy resistance to theory-making and explanations of everything. But I also support a continued and increasingly structured observation of the psyche as an ordered (if extremely complex and dynamic) phenomenon. Theories are not truths, nor should they pretend to be. They are reasonable experiments to be supported or falsified by the results of the subsequent experiments they enable. Jungianism doesn't need Freudian-like grand narratives to progress, but it does need to understand the usefulness of a more scientific, empirical approach that utilizes working theories and testable assumptions.
Jungianism today still maintains its various sets of "religious" assumptions and beliefs that remain unquestioned and unquestionable (taboo). Jung was advocating neither a scientific nor a religious faith. He was a universal critic of grand assumptions and ideological laws. I think he would have been deeply saddened to see that this fundamental tenet of his approach to the psyche has been abandoned by all sects of contemporary Jungianism. More importantly, I think it is a great loss to Jungian thought to abandon this kind of experimental empiricism. The alternative is entirely self-serving, fundamentalist, and regressive.
I am certainly not fluent in Jungianism writing. However, my professional background is in Developmental Education, for childhood learning, adult learning, and music. It would seem to my small experience with Art Therapy and what I have read about Jung's self analysis or self healing is that his work is process oriented in a developmental way or path.
Quote from: flowerbells on September 22, 2012, 01:16:24 PM
Yes, I think you are right if we take "developmental" to mean adult developments like the development of complexity, sophistication, wisdom, compassion, humility, etc. But the "development" that developmental Jungianism is concerned with is the development of a child and a child's ego from birth (or even in utero) through the first few years of life. This development is seen in the context of a mother/infant relationship.
Various schools of psychoanalysis and developmental Jungianism map these first years of life in the mother/infant environment onto the adult development of a healthy ego. So, for instance, where a classical Jungian adult patient (probably at midlife) might be seen as engaging in a healing based "individuation" process, becoming more functional, more enriched, more flexible, etc., a developmental Jungian patient would be treated with a kind of intentional "re-mothering". The developmental Jungian patient might be seen as sick because s/he has not formed a fully functional ego (or small-s self) in the first years of life . . . perhaps due to maternal neglect or to some sort of childhood trauma that prevented "normal" ego development.
The developmental analyst sees the process of analysis as "regressing" the patient back to some kind of infantile consciousness and then "re-mothering" her/him so that a functional, more or less "normal" ego can be reformed. The idea is that the only way a "normal" ego/self can be formed is in a "good enough" mother/infant relationship (a la Donald Winnicott) . . . so that has to be recreated.
Where the patient might resist this form of treatment, that can be pathologized by the developmental analyst as "resistance to analysis", which is seen as a common obstacle to almost any analysis at some (especially preliminary) point. But the goal of the analyst is to create a kind of nurturing or "holding" environment where the patient can resist and/or act out (like a child throwing a tantrum, perhaps). After all, the acceptance of both resistance and acting out is what a "good enough" mother would do for her infant child.
But this attitude also means that developmental analysis can take many, many years. It doesn't have to "go somewhere" at least for quite a while. That long term analysis is coupled with analytical sessions three times a week or more. That duration and repetition is part of the "regressing" process developmental analysis depends on.
Of course any developmentalist would not be happy with my brief (perhaps biased) descriptions here. I am not a true believer. In fact, I find the developmental method significantly flawed. It CAN work for some people, but I am not sure it works for the reasons developmental analysts think it works.
I remain unconvinced that regression and remothering are in some scientific sense legitimate. I suspect it is more of a theater and that it depends on a very strong transference relationship. If the transference relationship is powerful enough, the patient accepts the theater of regression to infantilism just as, say, a Christian convert might accept baptism as a transformative ritual. But in both cases, it seems to me the "convert" has to believe in the religion in order to be "saved". Can there be salvation for non-believers, though? That is where I am yet to be convinced.
Classical Jungian analysis has similar problems, and I don't mean to hold it up as a better model than developmentalism. In classical Jungianism the theater the patient is supposed to participate in is a theater of a certain heroism, the partaking in a spiritual journey or quest of discovery, of death and rebirth. Actually, many of the motifs are similar in that myth to those in the infant development one . . . which is why there can be a development Jungianism. But if a classical Jungian patient doesn't believe they are on some kind of "individuation quest", the analysis might not be that effective for her/him. Or at least it doesn't necessarily distinguish itself from any other form of counseling psychotherapy that address the correction of self-destructive behaviors and attitudes.
I am not opposed to these transference fantasies as therapy. I think these adopted myths and the sense of deep participation in them is the key to "healing". But there are repercussions and side effects that neither form of Jungianism deals well with. For example, most Jungians of whatever stripe believe deeply in their particular mythos and don't see it as arbitrary. They might not be able to understand or effectively treat a patient who is less enamored of that mythos. Equally, they might mistreat a patient that is very eager to believe in that mythos, but isn't participating in it in a healing way. These fantasies, any fantasy, can be a place to hide and stagnate in. The fantasies are not inherently constructive and helpful. With any fantasy, one has to make the right choices and find the right attitudes to really benefit and "transform". It can be all too easy to find a "safe haven" away from ourselves when what we really need is a deeper, more difficult confrontation with ourselves.
This is something I don't feel Jungianism of any school does particularly well, because Jungianism can be too much of a belief and tribal identity system or monotribe. Like any dysfunctional monotribe, it doesn't know how to deal with others, with outsiders, outcasts, heretics, scapegoats, and aliens. It has its magical totems of identity-making, but not very much criticality regarding those totems. And perhaps more importantly, Jungianism tends to be a bit "soft" and touristy, preferring a "safe" and fairly distant tour of the deep psyche to something closer to "initiation" into it. This lends it to New Agism and a lot of self-indulgence . . . which in my view is not therapeutic (although it does pay the analyst's bills, I suppose).
I remain unconvinced that regression and remothering are in some scientific sense legitimate. I suspect it is more of a theater and that it depends on a very strong transference relationship.
Do you mean by transference that the client really believes the therapist is the mother, or simply that the client experiences infant and child therapy, beginning again as an adult? In my experience with both "talk therapy" and Jungian Art Therapy, I chose to be remothered, and was for many months, because of deficiencies in my own childhood upbringing.
if a classical Jungian patient doesn't believe they are on some kind of "individuation quest", the analysis might not be that effective for her/him. Or at least it doesn't necessarily distinguish itself from any other form of counseling psychotherapy that address the correction of self-destructive behaviors and attitudes.
Interesting comment, Matt. Again in my experience, my goal was healing from self-destructive behaviors and attitudes, and I have been successful in this, although it took many years.
Much attention is conventionally given to transference between patient and analyst in developmental Jungianism and psychoanalysis. Often, this transference is thought to be a "personalistic" phenomena, i.e., that one "transfers" to a person (specifically the patient transfers to the analyst an image of the healer or nurturer, perhaps the positive mother or "good breast"). There are logical reasons to believe transference is a personalistic phenomenon, but I suspect it is more accurately a narrative or storying phenomena. In other words, one does not transfer to a person but to a story . . . and always these stories are the foundation of selfhood. They are stories of self. It is not The Healer or The Mother that makes transference-based healing work (when it does), but the story of selfhood that incorporates the healer and the healed in a narrative of healing . . . or incorporates the mother and the mothered "infant" in a narrative of remothering.
Psychoanalysis tends to have a heavily analysis-centric perspective on psychological phenomena. It assumes that transference is an analytic phenomena, but I disagree. Transference is merely a natural way we construct identity. We "mystically participate" in the totemic environment of people, places, things, ideas, attitudes, etc. around us, and we participate (psychologically speaking, which is to say, unconsciously) so as to construct identity, to formulate a functional story of selfhood. Analytic transference is a very specific and often highly concentrated form of this conventional mystical participation in the name of identity construction. We enter into an analysis by accepting the story of the broken personality that needs to be repaired (or, perhaps, a person with an inadequate or damaging childhood that needs to be "re-experienced" adequately). Through participation in that story, we (ideally) hope to have our selves re-storied.
Of course, at times this means that we get stuck in the story of brokenness and repair and become creatures of the analytic environment . . . perhaps not really understanding how to leave that environment with useful "lessons" in tow for regular life. This is part of why the termination of analysis is often difficult to orchestrate (for both patient and analyst) . . . and that difficulty is accentuated in psychoanalytic "remothering" analyses. The letting go of the mother by the child and the child by the mother is not as clearly defined in traditional narratives as say, the motif of violent untethering from the mother (as in various heroic epics of monster slaying and "nature conquering").
This is one of the well-understood dangers of analytic transference (and is the reason classical Freudians choose to sit behind their patients who must lie down and monologue while the analyst says very little). Namely, that it will ensnare an individual (or a relationship) in a "repetition compulsion" that never progresses and eventually comes to function as a kind of prison or reinforcement of some variation of the initial disease of self the analysis was meant to repair.
Individuation is a work of continual revolution, not a process of settling into a "niche" that's comfortable and "meaningful". When the individuant outgrows the paradigm or story s/he was for a time so deeply engaged with, s/he must figure out how to leave that story or revise it or escape its potential repetition compulsion. Most patients and individuants find this secondary escape substantially more difficult and confounding than the initial transference-based movement of healing. In my experience, this pattern continues in cycles indefinitely, like the circling of an inward or outward spiral. It goes somewhere new (unlike a fixed circle), but there are many recurring parallels and retreads of old ground. As the Jungians like to say, it can be a kind of "circumambulation" that keeps providing new and enriching perspectives on the same "content".
As for "remothering", I primarily mean this as a metaphor, and therefore that one might chose to believe in the value of that metaphor. The belief in the metaphor is what heals, not the "remothering" itself. My feeling is that the success of psychoanalytic remothering is largely dependent on the patient's ability to accept/believe in the stories of childhood developmental inadequacy and then that the analyst is directly treating that inadequacy by essentially doing what the parents failed to do and thereby redeeming the "archetype" of the Good Mother/Father in the patient . . . which in turn activates the Good/Loved/Divine Child who flourishes in the loving environment of the Good Mother (or matrix).
I have mixed feelings about this story. It's not the path I was drawn to take . . . although I could have. I could have seen my parenting as inadequate, even traumatizing. And I was in certain ways traumatically wounded and did develop many of the conventional PTSD symptoms that childhood trauma sufferers develop. Yet, something in me always resisted the "blame the parents" vein of psychotherapy, even as I recognized that many of my symptoms and pathological attitudes were directly linked to the way I was parented.
I ultimately found more meaning and grounding in the embrace of the kind of re-storying I've described above. The Wound that problematized my being was not something I "suffered" and needed to repair (in this re-storying). Rather, it was a catalyst that complexly allowed me to start becoming what I was capable of becoming. I don't mean something like fate or destiny or any specific "thing". I mean genuineness. Without the Wound and my engagement with it, I would not have found a way to become genuine. The untreated Wound often leads to various complexes or states of "inauthenticity". But the Wound is also a wellspring of authenticity, THE wellspring.
For me, blaming my pathological symptoms and suffering on my parents or on my childhood had the side effect of devaluing the Wound as a creative engine and eternal source of being and selfhood. Coming to accept the Wound as creative source did not mean transforming the Wound into a de-problematized, romanticized, divine object. It meant that whatever was going to be genuine in me was also going to be, in other ways, diseased, problematic, afflicted. But the genuine life for me was the engagement in a continual struggle with these dual aspects of the Wound. The Wound is the source of the Self and also the domain of the Demon. And this conflict needs to be mediated very carefully, very vigilantly, and very ethically. It is in that mediation that I forge and am forged by a personality, a small-s self.
That is a very condensed and generalized snapshot of the story of my selfhood, the one that has so far worked best for me, allowed me to be most authentic and most self-aware. But it is my self-story, and not necessarily prescribable to others. It is not "better" than a remothering narrative just because that remothering narrative was not adequate for me. As a tangent from remothering, I will say that I did find I needed something deeply essentially from my mother as an adult. But it wasn't mothering per se. It's hard to describe, but it was something like an experience of "the Call". My mother (who died in 2009) was a deeply spiritual person who functioned as a kind of ad hoc psychotherapist in her small tribe-like community for many of the students she taught (as a psychology professor). She was not clinically-trained, but was clinically self-educated.
I came to recognize after her death and after having the chance to see the many (adult) students who described her lovingly as a kind of healer and "earth mother" (something she had not really been in our family) that she was, in fact, a kind of "shaman" in her "tribe". The problem of her life was a "spiritual" problem, a problem of her relationship to God/Self and what that meant to her Calling and her sense of obligation to serve the treatment and healing her tribe, to serve the "soul".
Much of the suffering I faced growing up came as a result of her struggle with this Calling (which I believe also grew out of her Wound). I never agreed with many of the ways she interpreted and pursued that Calling, but she was genuine and devout in that pursuit. She also had a strongly developmentalist perspective and placed enormous blame on her own mother as wounder while almost entirely failing to see how she herself, as a mother, had wounded her own children. I think her gift to me was twofold. On one hand, I seemed to inherit from her what she (and other more religious people) might call a kind of "intimacy with God/Self", a powerful orientation toward the relationship with this Other. On the Other hand, her at times injurious behavior toward me allowed me to see how the "vicious circle" might be broken. Namely, by not continuing to blame the mother or yearn for "good enough" remothering. By learning how to re-story the Wound as a source of being, however problematic that being might also be as a result of that source. of course, it's more complicated than this, but that's the gist of it.
One could say that I had a poor model for the story of remothering and was able to see how that story can go wrong and remain dysfunctional in particular situations. It enabled me to recognize that the Wound is not merely something struck by a wounder upon an innocent victim and serves eternally as a hindrance. It is also initiatory. It is a tap driven into a tree from which the generative sap can pour forth. The challenge we face is in figuring out how to understand and treat this tap so that we pour forth as genuinely as possible and do not simply "bleed out" and dry up.
I would think that almost any psychotherapy is going to address self-destructive attitudes and behaviors. But when we take more of a macro perspective, we see that there are many different methods of psychotherapy and that they all tend to be more or less equally effective (and ineffective). Yet, many of the individual methods and theories are not compatible with one another. Taking this perspective, we might also ask how particular methods of psychotherapy seek to treat or correct self-destructiveness. Some emphasize behavioral modification through discipline and repetition. Others (like psychodynamic psychotherapies) incorporate narratives of transformation in which the patient must have a kind of faith in or strong transference to the narrative. That is, they heal through faith, like religion (which includes the joining of a modern monotribe in some capacity).
As these more psychodynamic approaches are my particular fascination, I am concerned with the "quality" of the faith they use to heal patients and the "quality", adaptiveness, and survivability of the monotribes they indoctrinate patients into. Sometimes the real functionality of the healing a psychodynamic patient undergoes in analysis is determined by the functionality of the monotribe and its faith or ideology. Does this faith allow the individual to live in a fully functional way in the modern world, or does it only provide functionality so long as the individual remains mostly in the monotribal world and adheres unquestioningly to the faith of the tribe? If the individual leaves the tribe or becomes disenfranchised with its totems and society, will the self-destructive behaviors/attitudes return? (This is often what happens.)
These are complicated and in many ways arcane questions. Many patients of these psychotherapies never touch upon these concerns and may feel well-served and well-loved by their tribes. Many others are dissatisfied but aren't really introspective or analytical enough to figure out why. They might go from one form of re-storying to another looking for a solution, looking for a sense of "Home". Jung does something like this in the Red Book narrative. And eventually he stopped working on the Red Book, abandoned it mid-sentence, moved on to the next meaningful story of self: alchemy. I don't think he had it in him to be a truly contented tribe member. His reformer spirit was too strong.
To return to your comment about successfully healing, although many would probably find my attitude overly cynical, I wonder if there is ever such a thing a truly successful healing. I mean psychological healing that is the equivalent of the removal of some kind of physiological malignancy or the elimination of a virus/parasite. My feeling is that psychological healing is contingent on various conditions and dependent on the good-enough rewriting of the narrative of self. We commonly call this "healing" and maintain a story of that healing, but in my experience (speaking for myself, that is, and not meaning to "diagnose" anyone else) such healing is a state of being or state of mind held in place by the acceptance of certain beliefs and attitudes. These beliefs and attitudes are the building blocks of a story of selfhood with a chapter titled "Healed".
My experience (again) is that our primal wounds (perhaps childhood traumas) never really "heal" in some kind of absolute way. The thorn cannot be removed; the best we can do is to grow healthy skin around the thorn. Psychological healing involves a re-storying that does not change the fundamental material (e.g., childhood trauma), but re-contextualizes it in a new narrative in which that trauma does not necessitate self-destructive behavior and thought. I have come to feel that in any real, deep Wound, there is so much valid selfhood that it cannot simply be excised or returned to a totally whole, pristine state. Our wounds continually define and redefine us. In frustration we can take the attitude that we are condemned, that these wounds are like curses that determine our fate. But we can also take the attitude that they are gravitational fields that define a fixed orbit in which we develop a meaningful (and related) sense of self.
We are not "freeform" beings that can endlessly self-determine. We exist within the gravitational fields of various "massive dynamic bodies": people, events, beliefs, wounds, labors, genes, etc. All these things provide formal constrictions like the formal constrictions of traditional poetry. But a poem written in a specific form isn't fated to be like every other poem in that form. There is still an infinity within constriction . . . just not a chaotic one.
What I have found (as Jung and Jungians also often note) is that Self is in the wound. There is not some kind of perfectly well "true self" latent or imprisoned within a cage of disease and suffering. The "trick" is to re-story that disease and suffering so that it is not a cage at all, but a universe in motion, expanding, complexifying, continuously becoming. Which is to say, gradually and often very mysteriously "self-organizing".
I am speaking of my own journey, but I suspect the general pattern is quite universal.
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TV ReviewsAliasSeason 1
Alias: "Spirit"/"The Confession"
AliasSeason 1
"Spirit"/"The Confession" / "Spirit"/"The Confession"
"Spirit"/"The Confession"
"Spirit" (season 1, episode 10; originally aired 12/16/2001)
“Spirit” was the fall finale for Alias back in 2001, leaving audiences a few weeks to ponder its climatic cliffhanger. And while the show gives its usual exciting final moments, the rest of the episode is largely inert, save for some usual kick-assery from Sloane and Spy Daddy. For a show that as recently was as overly stuffed as “Time Will Tell,” its final offering before Christmas feels like a lot like revisiting old territory. Taking another look back from a new angle is always appreciated (and the show has some of this, to be sure), but much of the hour serves as a summation of what has happened to date without offering much in the way of how it could change.
Part of this may stem from the fact that Syd escaped the seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against her last week in roughly one act. Moreover, she doesn’t even actually free herself. Getting captured by SD-6 and subsequently imprisoned was a big step in the show’s overall story. Or, at least, it SHOULD have been. But while Alias has already shown a tendency to quickly resolve cliffhangers and move on to the next part of the story, I’m not sure keeping with that technique served the show well. On the one hand, had it been executed poorly, an hour devoted to the CIA and Jack Bristow saving Sydney could have felt dragged out if improperly executed. On the other hand, we barely had time to really worry about Syd’s fate when it unfolded over roughly 10 on-screen minutes.
Now, in either case, is anyone really worried about Syd’s death? Of course not. But such scenarios revolve less around a “will she or won’t she die?” question so much as how people such as her, Jack, Vaughn, Sloane, and others such as Marshall might react to such a scenario. Just because there’s no worry that Alias could pull a Game of Thrones here doesn’t mean there’s no tension of worthwhile exploration that can be milked. “Spirit” does deal with the fallout of Jack’s impromptu framing of high-ranking SD-6 official Anthony Russek but missed a chance to see just how far certain characters could have gone to save Syd’s life.
In any case, after her acquittal, it’s back to work for Syd, this time on the trail once again of Hassan. To find him, she goes to a private island near Kenya where a master forger has created new passports for SD-6’s once-prized contact. It’s mostly an excuse to put Jennifer Garner in as little clothing as possible. Which, honestly, is not the worst reason for a particular mission. But whereas former endeavors have seen her in slinky outfits, they are usually carried out in slicker, savvier scenarios. Here, she easily gets the mark’s room number, easily breaks in, and barely breaks a sweat fighting off his bodyguard to reveal that Hassan’s passport is not the only thing that is new. His face is as well, courtesy of the stand-in plastic surgery facility in the forger’s hotel room.
If there’s evidence of evolution, character-wise, it lies in the relationship between Vaughn and Jack. Until this point, Spy Daddy has essentially beaten down Vaughn verbally and tactically at every step. While Jack is briefed on a countermission to find Hassan (now Nebseni Saad) in Havana, Vaughn confronts Jack about altering Syd’s transmission from Geneva to frame Russek. In a fit of rage and arrogance, Jack does all but scream, “YOU’RE GODDAMNED RIGHT I DID!” to Vaughn’s “Code Red”-esque accusations. Turns out Vaughn had about as little proof as Tom Cruise’s lawyer did in A Few Good Men, which prompts Jack to eat a little humble pie but also makes him much more receptive to Vaughn’s position as handler. It’s a deft scene and one needed to turn Vaughn from simply “Sydney’s handler” to a person central and vital to the fight ahead.
Unfortunately, “Spirit” undoes a lot of the good work in that scene by having Vaughn confide to Syd that Jack got captured almost immediately upon arrival in Havana. That sets up one of the classic scenarios that angers me in television: the “everything would have been fine had Person X simply stayed put.” Lost used to pull this stunt all the freakin’ time, usually by having Kate Austen get captured by The Others at a critical point at which the Oceanic 815’ers might have gotten an upper hand. That Syd gets captured certainly creates a compelling, John Woo-esque scenario in which Spy Daddy has to shoot Syd to save his own life. But given how quickly this week’s cliffhanger got resolved, how much did Alias really expect us to worry about their fate in this situation?
Over in “Will Versus The Conspiracy,” he gets a slight break thanks to his tech friend filtering the microcassette to hear what appears to be Dixon (!) shooting Eloise Kurt after asking, “Did you tell him about SD-6?” Pre-Google, Will didn’t have an easy time looking up information on the group, save for one legal case involving a computer programmer. Seems SD-6 wanted to buy Davis McNeil’s software enough to kill his wife and put his child in the custody of a crooked lawyer, which convinced him to take a 16-year jail sentence rather than fight them anymore. McNeil (played by favorite Alias director Ken Olin) convinces Will more than ever that SD-6 is something to fear. Which, naturally, will totally stop Will from ever investigating them. Yeah, that’s about as likely as him never hooking up with poor Jenny again.
The most memorable moment of the episode has to go to Sloane’s insane monologue halfway through the hour. Jack seeks to console Sloane on his bad week (Russek’s apparent betrayal, Hassan’s double-crossing). This sparks a lengthy response in which Sloane justifies his current mood as one of constant preparation for a “darkness” on the edge of his horizon, even present from his start as a part of the actual government. He vaguely hints at a “perfect moment” early on before, in his eyes, the world started to betray him. First, his CIA colleagues apparently betrayed him, but more tellingly, his wife’s body started to betray her, leaving her with the lymphoma she now has. In Russek’s first appearance, the two talked briefly about each others’ wives. Sloane notes that his was “a bit under the weather,” which we now realize was his defense mechanism. This monologue both humanizes and complicates Sloane in wonderful ways. If this last stretch of the 2001 run did anything 100 percent right, it did so with taking Sloane from a generic baddie into a specific nemesis for the ages.
Were this 2001, we’d have to wait a few weeks to talk about the show’s return. But with TV Club Classic, we can do so right away! Let’s see how 2002 started for the show.
"The Confession" (season 1, episode 11; originally aired 1/16/2002)
See? Told ya! Everything’s fine. Nothing to worry about. What was several weeks for original viewers is just a few clicks of the DVD player for today’s observers. “The Confession” picks up right where we left off, with Spy Daddy pointing a gun at Sydney. Jack then has what looks likes like an episode but is actually Morse code giving his daughter instructions on a quick way to escape the situation. It’s a too-quick escape, really, but Alias is trying to use the start of its 2002 run to officially introduce a big piece of its emotional landscape in this hour. So getting out of Cuba ASAP is something with which we all have to live.
Often in these early reviews of Alias, I’ve talked about the concept of Earth-J.J., a world that contains the majority, if not all, of his fictional works. It’s a world based on our own but with slightly heightened aspects that suggest an interconnectedness between them. For instance, Vaughn at one point mentioned the Patriot Act in this hour to Hassan, which means we can assume the Twin Towers fell in this world, even if the show has never directly addressed it. But if the world of Alias contains the Twin Towers, then that means our world also contains Milo Rambaldi. Earth-J.J. isn’t one removed from our own; it’s the same world seen from a slightly different perspective. It’s a perspective that reveals infinitely more interesting aspects than we can normally see.
But Earth J.J. goes beyond related bits of mythology (Rambaldi, Dharma Initiative, Massive Dynamic) and beverages (Slusho). It also speaks to a world in which younger generations are often called upon to fix the mistakes made by those in the past. Much in the way that Sloane uses Rambaldi artifacts of the past as a codex to understand vast mysteries of his overall plan, it’s tempting to look at Alias as a way to decipher the recurring themes present in all of Abrams’ work. Plenty of shows mine drama from generational conflict. But Abrams’ speciality seems to be in designing scenarios in which children are called upon to 1) finish/fulfill obligations that their parents could not accomplish themselves, or 2) make up for the sins those parents committed.
Lost and Fringe are both rife with this generational strife. Broken down this way, there’s not a lot of difference between seemingly opposite figures as Jacob and Peter Bishop. It’s not that these children have knowledge intuitively and easily obtained to fix the mistakes of their elders. It’s that the previous generation either lacks the will, skill, or insight necessary in order to fix it themselves. Much of “The Confession” centers around the hour’s climatic twist, but the entire episode is based around clearing the table in order to establish two timeframes on which this show is occurring. In one, Alias takes place at the end of a 500-year historical cycle started by a philosopher/inventor/seer. That gives the show some sexy sci-fi mojo. In the other, Alias takes place at the end of 20+ year cycle in which the parents of both Syd and Vaughn are intricately enmeshed. That gives the show its beating heart.
“The Confession” brings both William Vaughn and Laura Bristow fully into the mix, which means that both Syd and Vaughn have a personal as well as professional stake in the proceedings from now on. Linking Vaughn into the family drama was a smart move on the show’s part, since they needed to move him from bland handler into a more integral, complicated part of the mix. In some ways, “Spirit” started this complication, with him actually outwitting Jack for the first time. But linking his father’s death to the takedown of SD-6 gives him a further edge as well. It makes him do things like secretly tape conversations with Sydney. Yes, he never releases the tape, but the act gives insight into a side of him that doesn’t exactly play by the rules when it comes to family.
While this episode nails the emotional stuff, it leaves something to be desired on the spy front. Maybe I’m just ready to dive headlong into the Rambaldi stuff again after getting such a satisfying hit of it back in “Time Will Tell,” but I am all Hassan-ed out at this point. SD-6’s attempts to follow his second-in-command (Minos Sakulos) after his apparent murder leads Syd and Dixon to a club in Greece, where girls in tight dresses dance on glass ceilings long before TMZ took crotch shots of celebs. Syd’s outfit is smokin’ hot, to be sure, but she and Dixon are almost too good at their jobs by this point. They slip in and out, and the worst thing that happens is Syd being licked by Hassan’s would-be heir.
Almost as if realizing this wasn’t enough spy stuff to fill an hour, Syd goes almost immediately back to Greece in order to obtain new tech designed by Hassan. The silo in question is a trap, which locks Syd inside with a roomful of gasoline and a spark just waiting to be lit. Hassan uses this trap to force Vaughn to obtain asylum for Hassan’s family. This is amusing for Weiss’ inability to type pardon letters under pressure. Also, the fireball that consumes Sakulos after a gasoline-soaked tussle with Syd is awfully pretty. But hopfully this is the swan song for what is an overused character at this point. I’m ready for bigger and better things. Luckily, the show’s about to deliver them in a two-part episode (“The Box”) that I will cover in full next week.
Random observations:
Hard to believe Russek rose so high in SD-6 with such an obvious “tell” for his lying. I’m guessing Sloane kept him around to clean up in office poker tournaments.
SD-6 Agent Steven Gordon gets introduced here as Director of Exposition. It’s my vague memory that he serves a similar purpose going forward, but I could be wrong about that.
More and more, Alias is getting into non-linear storytelling in order to either keep things moving or simply misdirect the audience. To wit: nearly all of Marshall’s tech demos are shown as Syd uses them in the field. Also, we got at least two scenes involving Jack in which the action stops for us, only to allow the audience to see the rest later on. In the first case, it’s done to fool us. In the second, it’s done to fool Syd.
Sloane reaching out his arms warmly to hug Syd is the absolute definition of creepy.
If veterans have been waiting for Syd to start defending her parents in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, then “The Confession” was the episode for you.
Love Sloane casually lying to his team about the nature of Hassan’s death. He’s such a cold mofo.
2002 brought the return of Marshall’s Awkward Monologues During Briefing Sessions. This is not progress.
No Francie in “The Confession” and only a scant scene involving Will. No progress on his investigation, but plenty of progress in being the guy that Syd turns to when she’s emotionally destroyed, only to abandon for long stretches of time. In no way will this mess with his mind. Because guys LOVE it when girls do this to us. For realsies.
I know that Alias constantly had to battle to get newbies into the fold, but man, this show lays on the exposition in the oddest places. Syd’s VO while handing Jack a note to create a countermission to get her into Crete was ridiculous. We already heard the plan with her and Vaughn. Handing over the note would have served the purpose in and of itself.
“Yes. I think that she will respond.”
“I’ve seen you in the office. I always wondered what you did. I guess this is what you do.”
“Sydney, I never believed that you would betray us. When I found out it was Russek, I felt vindicated.”
“If you don’t like it, well, don’t tell me.”
“If you knew what I dealt with every day, you might even thank me for doing it so well.”
“You are the man from Suite 47?”
“It occurred to me as I walked down the White House steps that I was living in a perfect moment. Everything was filled with promise. My role in the CIA, my relationship with a wife that I had not yet met, still… I could feel the darkness coming… It wasn’t that my friends in the CIA had betrayed me. It wasn’t that my wife had been diagnosed with lymphoma. None of that had happened yet.”
“I remind myself that I could see it coming all along.”
“And now you can judge what I’ve done. I don’t give a damn what you do.”
“She looked nice in your shirt.” “It’s a nice shirt!”
“I was like, ‘Hard on your light?’ I was never good at Morse Code.”
“Do you know how much this suit cost me?”
“The extent to which I am willing to service you extends to offering you a soda.”
“You’ll have to get closer.” “How much closer?” “In this lighting? How’s two inches?” “Greeeeaaaaat.”
“He licked my face!”
“I know this is a personal thing for you… but it’s a personal thing for me too, Sydney.”
“Start typing!” “Me???”
“You misspelled Ineni.” “Shut up.”
Semi-spoilers for veterans: Syd at one point mentions “Suite 47,” which is certainly a curious number for her to conjure as part of her cover. Also, while we learned about Laura Bristow’s involvement this week, we still really haven’t learned a damn thing about her yet.
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‘Rick and Morty’ Creator Blames ‘Game of Thrones’ Slam on Snarky Millennial
Rick and Morty Creator Blames Game of Thrones Slam on Snarky Millennial
— August 31st, 2017
Rick and Morty co-creator, Dan Harmon took to social media to vent his frustrations with Adult Swim's choice to slam Game of Thrones directly following an episode of Rick and Morty. Game of Thrones is the biggest TV show on the planet, which also makes it a very easy target for those who like to bash something just because it's popular. And that's what Adult Swim's title card did on Sunday slamming the writing of HBO's hit show. Harmon felt the need to speak out to distance Rick and Morty from the "jaded teenage intern in Atlanta" who wrote the title card, while also rejecting the joke entirely.
Many thought (including this writer) that the Game of Thrones slam came from Rick and Morty, but the official Twitter account for the show and co-creator Justin Roiland came out almost immediately to say that the jab came from Adult Swim and not the crew of Rick and Morty. Dan Harmon is the latest to speak out about the situation because a lot of people have been asking him about the "tragically tacky card." The message was delivered via Harmon's Instagram and the director holds nothing back as he defends Game of Thrones and tears into the ones responsible for the "joke." Harmon had this to say.
"I keep thinking I should say something but I keep waiting for the time I'd need to write something worth saying because rule number one in talking [email protected] is you better talk way better than the [email protected] you're talking about but then I remember the truly frustrating thing about that card is that it breaks that rule, being a lazy, craftless jab at the WRITING on my favorite show that some pointlessly jaded teenage intern in Atlanta just left like a fart in my show's space so why wait for the muse to strike before disavowing them"
Dan Harmon had initially decided to wait to craft his response in a way that he saw fit, but obviously threw that out the window as he continued. He then called himself a hypocrite for delivering the message online, while simultaneously highlighting that there is plenty of more important things going on in the world right now than some lame joke written by a millennial. And Harmon is right, there are plenty of other things going on right now, but Adult Swim did something that affected the perception of one of his creative endeavors, so one can't blame the man for letting out some steam.
To be clear, it was pretty easy to think that the post-credit joke card belonged to Rick and Morty as there were no markings of Adult Swim. It just popped up directly following the credits of the hit show without any watermark to differentiate itself from the preceding show. Adult Swim fans were the first to realize that something was fishy and stood up for the network because the joke cards like the one bashing Game of Thrones show up often after other shows as well.
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It was not Rick and Morty bashing the biggest show on television, it was Adult Swim as the creators of the show will tell you. It's refreshing to see that Dan Harmon is also a fan of Game of Thrones and stuck up for the writing of the most popular show on television. The kid responsible for the joke is probably a huge fan as well, watching every episode twice and posting on message boards anonymously about dragons. You can read Harmon's full statement below.
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Information published on 21 May 2019 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 647.
United Kingdom: Network Rail appoints new chief information officer
Network Rail announced on 13 May that Aidan Hancock has joined the company as group chief information officer (CIO).
Before joining Network Rail, Aidan held senior leadership roles at BP for over 12 years, including chief network architect and most recently CIO and vice-president BP Middle East. In this role he was responsible for BP’s largest region, including operating the world’s second largest oil field, and managing BP’s relationship with government ministerial stakeholders.
Aidan has joined the Route Services senior management team and reports directly to Susan Cooklin, managing director, Route Services.
“Aidan has extensive experience leading IT organisations and digital business transformation across industries from broadcasting to energy. I’m delighted that he will be joining Network Rail and bringing his expertise to the railway.”
Aidan will be responsible for supplying IT, including infrastructure and support services. He will lead the delivery of Route Services’ customer-focused enabling technology as well as back office IT operations to deliver a more efficient national service to Network Rail’s devolved route businesses.
On joining Network Rail, Aidan said:
“It is now in the spotlight as companies embrace the potential of digital transformation. I’m excited to be joining Network Rail to lead on this challenge, unlocking value and improvements for the future while also delivering our day-to-day services to the highest level of performance.”
(Source: Network Rail)
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Czech Republic: SŽDC launches complete reconstruction of Letohrad railway station (12 March) Belgium: Lineas strengthens its workforce in Germany with new train drivers (12 March) United Kingdom: The Ribble Valley turrets – a unique restoration (5 March) Hungary: Mr József Kerékgyártó appointed as new CEO of MÁV-START Co. (5 March) Czech Republic: Electric trains travel to the centre of Kadaň (26 February)
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Home Warranty Market Share: While American Home Shield continues to dominate, electrical and water utilities are shaking things up with the growth of their wire and pipe protection services. And despite a continuing multi-year dip in home sales, the home warranty industry set a record this year with $1.5 billion in premiums paid by consumers.
Chinese Drywall Woes: It smells bad and it ruins anything made of copper or silver. The gases given off by wallboard imported from China may also sicken homeowners and their families. Some say the affected homes will have to be gutted or bulldozed. But others say a simple solution is possible, if the focus is shifted to how the foul odor is produced.
Home Warranties & Foreclosures: As the industry looks for a way up from the bottom, home warranties may become a valuable selling tool. Buyers, worried about the damage done by departing owners, vandals, and the weather, might appreciate the coverage of a home warranty. Industry insiders, meanwhile, report that claims costs on foreclosures aren't that different from their other policies.
Home Warranty Insurance: While our American readers go on holidays to eat turkey and watch football, we're shifting our focus to how the governments of New South Wales and Ontario have gotten deeply involved in new home warranties. Both require those warranties to be insured, but that hasn't worked out as well in Australia as it has in Canada.
Home Inspection Warranties: It seems like a natural pairing. First the home inspector eyeballs the appliances, and then the home warranty company agrees to cover them. But it's not so simple in a business where honest advice is hard to find, and wariness about conflicts of interest is everywhere.
Home Warranty Association: Why are at least 90% of existing home sales in California covered by a home warranty? A mix of court rulings, government regulations, and industry response seems to have reassured home buyers that home warranty companies are both willing and able to pay claims. And thanks to a statewide educational effort, the realtors are able to explain how it all works to their clients.
Home Warranty Scam? There are good extended warranty companies and there are bad extended warranty companies. One of the worst seems to have a policy of denying all claims over $100 for what at first seem like legitimate reasons, and then hiding from the angry mob behind the anonymity of its web site, toll-free number, and post office box.
Price Optimization: A Potent Weapon for the Warranty Industry.
Appliance & Building Material Warranties: We conclude our mid-year product warranty report with a look at the supplier side of the homebuilding industry, where we find at least one group paying more for warranty claims this year than they did last year.
Telecom Equipment Warranties: Though industry sales are down in general, a handful of telecommunications, data networking and broadcast equipment manufacturers have managed to reduce their warranty costs and increase their sales at the same time. But as dramatic as some of the recent cost reductions are, the companies rarely mention either the cause of the initial problem or how they solved it.
Medical Equipment Warranties: Doctors, hospitals, and laboratory technicians want sturdy and reliable medical systems, and for the most part the manufacturers that supply them have been steady and predictable. But every once in a while, a massive recall or a production glitch causes warranty costs to spike. And it's when the trend line leaves its historical range that we know there's something wrong.
Aerospace Industry Warranties: In an industry that puts a premium on safety and reliability, warranty costs rarely stray far from the baseline. And while many aviation companies cope with the double whammy of rising warranty costs and declining sales, some such as Boeing and Gulfstream are actually seeing sales rise and claims fall.
New Home Warranties: One CEO recently said the worst of this cycle may be behind us. In terms of sales decreases and price declines, maybe so. But in terms of warranty costs, the worst is right now, as builders have less cash to pay for warranty work on units they sold at the end of the boom years. And then there's the question of how costly the defective Chinese drywall will turn out to be to replace.
Computer Industry Warranties: For most of the major players, sales declines caused relative warranty costs to increase. Turmoil in other industries caused a major PC maker to become the biggest warranty provider in the U.S. And for the lucky few, sales rose and warranty costs fell, despite a tough market full of customers still reluctant to spend.
Automotive Warranties: With GM now government-owned and several mobile home makers trapped in bankruptcy, industry-wide warranty statistics are losing their meaning. And thanks to the distortions caused by massive sales declines this year, claims rates have also lost much of their relevance during this recession. But among at least the well-run warranty providers, accrual rates have remained proportional to sales rates and quality levels.
Top 100 Warranty Providers at Midyear: Was that the sound of the bottom of the recession? If so, financial data from the first half of 2009 provides a detailed record of how warranty providers reacted to a collapse in sales and a jump in claims. Though some of the largest warranty providers didn't make it, those that did are enjoying the benefits of recent claims processing automation projects and other cost-cutting efforts.
Lifetime Warranties: Companies are free to define a lifetime any way they wish, but they have to be clear about their rules and their exclusions. Some issue the warranty to just the first owner of the product. Others qualify it with words such as reasonable or useful. And some high-tech companies spell out a policy under which the warranty's lifetime will end after sales cease and spare parts run out.
Used Auto Warranties: Signs of life are beginning to appear in the used auto industry as partnerships are formed and annual sales increases are claimed. One of the latest deals is struck between the makers of electronic contract and tax form software and a veteran administrator of service contracts sold by used car dealers.
Warranty in Financial Statements: Because warranty disclosures began appearing in annual reports less than seven years ago, it takes a bit of skill to hunt down the right data and turn it into meaningful percentages and ratios. So until the procedures are old enough to make it into the accounting textbooks, here's a step-by-step guide to how it's done, using one company's most recent disclosures as an example.
Worldwide Auto Warranties, Part Two: It turns out that Volkswagen, BMW, and Fiat do disclose their warranty data, if one knows where to look and what to look for. And thanks to the help of a reader who's fluent in five languages, we now have hard numbers for the warranty costs of more than half the world's vehicles.
Selling Peace of Mind: With all the negative publicity generated by the "expiring warranty" telemarketing scam, these days it's the auto dealers that need some reassurance about the value of selling vehicle service contracts to consumers. Below is a list of some of the benefits of the different types of VSCs, followed by two different lists compiled by industry associations that can help consumers spot a scam before they buy into it.
Worldwide Electronics Warranties: It's not where you're from as much as what you make. European and Japanese electronics companies report warranty expense rates similar to what their American competitors do. The difference is that while U.S. companies must report what used to be trade secrets, the international companies are simply doing their New York Stock Exchange shareholders a big favour.
Worldwide Auto Warranties, Part One: Why do Japanese automakers and heavy equipment manufacturers seem to have such low warranty costs? Though sales are down since last year, warranty costs remain under control, according to annual reports filed recently by Toyota, Honda, Komatsu and others.
Auto Part Supplier Warranties: Claims are up a bit but sales are down a lot. And while most suppliers have reduced accruals proportionally, at least one seems to have taken an accrual holiday.
NEW's Smart Procurement: By taking advantage of ServiceBench's connectivity with servicers and parts distributors, NEW is hoping to speed up repairs by helping servicers to find and order parts. The resulting reduction in turnaround time should make NEW's retail clients happier and its service contract customers less unhappy.
RV Extended Warranties: As sales plummet, the nameplates are dropping like flies. But the dealers have to make a living, and they've found that extended warranties -- sold at a discount or practically given away -- are a great way to induce skittish buyers to drop a quarter million dollars or more on an otherwise as-is purchase.
Warranty Service Providers: It's all mixed up. Retailers are selling products under their own brand names and manufacturers are selling their own service contracts. Bankruptcies have exposed how precarious product warranties can be, while insurance has demonstrated how extended warranties can survive even a liquidation. Perhaps it's time for OEMs to think about partnering with administrators and insurance companies?
OEM Extended Warranties: Working with a manufacturer to sell service contracts is a little different from working with a retailer. The OEMs need more help with sales and marketing, and they want more failure data analysis to help them with product quality and parts planning. They'll also need just as much help as the retailers with risk management, compliance, and regulatory issues.
Warranty Insurance: Properly insured and administered, an extended warranty can survive the bankruptcy of a retailer, dealer, or manufacturer. And in cases where customers doubt the survivability of a manufacturer's product warranties, insurance can reduce uncertainty and build confidence. Could this also work in Detroit?
Extended Warranty Insurance Companies: The advice columns tell you not to buy extended warranties, but they never tell you not to buy extended warranty companies. Of the four largest publicly traded warranty insurance companies, at least two offer dependable dividend yields and perhaps also capital gains as the recovery takes hold on Wall Street.
Annual Warranty Totals & Averages: While claims were up slightly in 2008, both warranty reserves and accruals actually plunged last year. And as sales fall, the percentage of product revenue spent on claims has risen. With no less than 21 charts, we detail the industry totals and averages for the past six years.
Homebuilders' Warranty Accruals: Rather than looking at warranty costs as a percentage of sales, would it be valid to calculate warranty costs per home? Using such a metric makes some homebuilders look very precise and consistent, while others look like they're just guessing how much to accrue per home.
Appliance & Building Material Warranties: The economic downturn that started with the homebuilders is showing its effects on the makers of appliances, fixtures, tools, furniture and building materials. But some segments haven't seen very big recent declines in warranty expenses, and some companies have actually seen their warranty costs rise.
Aerospace Warranty Trends: Unlike the computer and passenger car industries, in the commercial aviation industry the customer-facing brand names and their suppliers share warranty costs much more equitably. Then again, these multi-million-dollar jets and helicopters are hardly consumer products. And since safety and reliability are such top priorities, consistently low warranty costs are to be expected.
Telecom & Medical Equipment Warranties: While Motorola sets the pace in the telecom equipment warranty sector, no one company dominates medical equipment warranties. In fact, if anything, the medical and scientific instrument makers are known for consistently low rates of warranty spending.
Computer Warranty Trends: While other industries are seeing claim rates rise and accrual rates fall, warranty providers in the computer industry are seeing claims rise slightly and accruals rise a lot. And it's not so easy to blame those changes on sales declines, or to link them with quality increases.
Auto Warranty Trends: While the RV makers are imploding, the farm vehicle makers are thriving. Somewhere in between are the passenger car and light truck makers, for whom warranty has become an important issue in the government bailout. But the 1.9% gap in warranty costs between OEMs and their suppliers remains firmly in place.
Top 100 Warranty Providers of 2008: Of all the companies spending the most on warranty, none of the largest reported massive percentage changes in 2008, which confirms the stability of their warranty programs. But there were plenty of big changes in claims and accrual rates further down the list, some for the better and some for the worse.
Warranty Conference: Economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on WCM 2009 attendance, but those who can make it to Orlando next week will see a series of how-to presentations by some of the biggest warranty providers in the world. Legal and regulatory issues are also on the agenda, and yes, there will be a quiz at the end.
Warranty Improvements: Clever companies are now looking beyond warranty, wondering what else they can do with their data to improve quality and service and further reduce costs. At the WCM Conference in a few weeks, several will report on the status of these efforts.
Warranty Experts: It's one thing to hear software salesmen talk about the benefits of their products. It's something else when that company's own customers stand up and say how happy they are, despite the challenges they had to overcome. And when warranty professionals gather next month in Orlando, multiple warranty experts from major manufacturing companies will do just that.
Warranty Optimization Workshops: Warranty data analysis can help you understand where you've been and where you're going. But can it also help you choose the right way to get there? At pre-conference workshops next month, two leading warranty optimization companies plan to show how both product warranty and service contract programs can benefit from the careful use of analytics.
Warranty Workshops: What's the probability that two Russian physicists with degrees from the same university would deliver back-to-back workshops on new statistical approaches to warranty data? On March 10, that's exactly what's on the agenda for the WCM Conference's opening day.
Early Warranty Data: While only a few dozen of the hundreds of warranty reporting manufacturers have filed their year end 2008 financial reports so far, very few of these early filings reflect the turmoil one would expect, given the gloom of recent headlines. Are these early filers the exceptions? Or are things really not as bad as they seem?
New Warranty Regulators: As the Obama administration gets up and running, new appointees are assuming command of the agencies that affect warranty policy. So far, the Dept. of Transportation, the EPA, and the SEC have new leaders, with announcements expected for the FTC and NHTSA within days. So what's likely to change?
The Value of Warranty Expertise: Is warranty management merely a clerical skill, or is there more to it than just paperwork? Some see warranty as not only a leading indicator of product quality but also a major chance to impress a customer. However, that conversation can only take place if the warranty professional is trained to do more than merely process and pay claims.
Warranty Work: Sometimes you don't know the value of something until it's gone. Automakers measured the value of warranties by their absence. And as retail sales slow and job losses deepen, warranty professionals may appreciate hearing that recruiters are back at work.
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Turkey hoping to continue perfect start to FIVB Women's Nations League
By Daniel Etchells
Turkey will be aiming to continue where they left off when week two of the International Volleyball Federation Women's Nations League takes place over the coming three days.
Having topped Pool Four with three wins out of three in Belgrade in week one, the Turks have now been drawn into Pool Six with Germany, Japan and Russia.
They will be competing in front of a home crowd with all six round-robin games set to be held at Başkent Volleyball Hall in Ankara.
Turkey's 19-year-old opposite Ebrar Karakurt, who leads the team's score chart and stands fifth in the overall list with 56 points, feels there is room for improvement despite an impressive start.
"I can say that we have a good shape now," she said.
"We are satisfied only with the result, not with the way we played at Belgrade in the first week of the VNL (Volleyball Nations League).
"We did some good things but at the same time we also made some terrible mistakes.
"On the last day, we played a very strong and good team in Serbia in front of their fans, but we did what we wanted and had planned against them and won the match.
"I'm so happy that we're 3-0 at the moment."
Belgium @BelYellowTigers 🇧🇪 can win three consecutive matches in major competitions at world level for the first time since 2014, when they won three in a row in the World Grand Prix.#VNL #BePartOfTheGame #Volleyball #VNLWomen pic.twitter.com/iPFuuatHLS
— Volleyball World (@FIVBVolleyball) May 27, 2019
Turkey share an identical record with the United States, who they lost to in last year's final.
After winning all their Pool Two matches in Bulgarian city Ruse, the US have been pitted against the Dominican Republic, hosts Italy and world champions Serbia in Pool Five at Zoppas Arena in Conegliano.
Italy also went unbeaten in Pool One in Opole in Poland but dropped two sets – one more than Turkey and the US did.
Pool Seven is made up of Belgium, hosts China, South Korea and Thailand with action taking place at Macau East Asian Games Dome.
Completing the line-up are the Pool Eight entrants of Brazil, Bulgaria, hosts the Netherlands and Poland, all of whom will compete at Omnisport Apeldoorn.
The pools will be rearranged again next week, with the same thing happening each week for five weeks.
The top five teams after the end of the pool stage will qualify for the final round.
That will take place at Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre.
China automatically have a place in the final stage as hosts.
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N’Golo Kante Will Benefit From Jorginho’s Arrival At Chelsea – Michael Essien
Chelsea legend Michael Essien believes N’Golo Kante will benefit from the arrival of Jorginho at the club because he now has the chance to improve the attacking side of his game.
N’Golo Kante has been an integral member of Chelsea’s midfield since signing from Leicester City in 2016
Kante also played a key role as France won the World Cup in Russia this summer but, since returning to Chelsea, the 27-year-old has seen himself shifted from a holding role onto the right of Maurizio Sarri’s three-man midfield due to the arrival of Italy international Jorginho.
And Essien, who spent nine years at Chelsea, believes Kante’s different role under Sarri will be “good” for the Frenchman because it will allow him to score more goals.
Speaking to Standard Sport, Essien said: “Anywhere that you put N’Golo, he will play.
“Like you said, he’s playing on the right and he’s getting in the box quite often, which last season he didn’t because he had to stay and protect the back four.
“Now that Jorginho is there, he’s given him more freedom to go forward which is good for him. He can score a few goals hopefully!”
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Dammam hospital evacuated after fire
Saudi Gazette – Authorities evacuated several patients from one of the top health facilities in Dammam after a fire broke out there early Friday morning, media reports said on Saturday.
The Civil Defense was notified of a fire at Dammam Medical Tower Hospital at 2.24 a.m. and several firefighting and rescue units were immediately dispatched to the scene, said Col. Mansour Al-Dosary, spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Eastern Province.
The fire started at the entrance to two lecture halls in the second floor of the building and began to spread to a nearby furniture room, Col. Al-Dosary said.
He said the firefighting teams were able to put out the blaze within a short time preventing it from spreading to other parts of the hospital.
There were no casualties, but four people suffered from smoke inhalation and were given first aid on the spot, Col. Al-Dosary said.
An investigation has been launched to find out causes of the fire, he added.
The fire, which came on the heels of a major disaster at a hospital in the southern city of Jazan on Thursday, created panic among patients and hospital staff.
At least 25 people were killed and 147 others injured when a fire tore through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward of the Jazan General Hospital before dawn on Thursday.
The 400-bed Dammam Medical Tower is the largest referral hospital in the Eastern Province, and was built eight years ago as an alternative high-tech medical facility to the 50-year-old Dammam Central Hospital.
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Home / Sports / Opinion: Three years later, Sweden still talking trash about Rio Olympic win over U.S. women
Opinion: Three years later, Sweden still talking trash about Rio Olympic win over U.S. women
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SportsPulse: They are already directly to the knockout degree however that does not make their ultimate staff tournament towards Sweden any much less necessary. For USWNT, it is time to proper a mistaken from the Olympics.
LE HAVRE, France 3 years later and Sweden continues to be speaking trash.
The U.S. girls not have a psychological edge. The protection gained’t have the ability to stay alongside of Sweden’s forwards. The American citizens worry Sweden but, on the similar time, are too cocky.
All on account of a recreation on the Rio Olympics in 2016. That was once made up our minds on penalty kicks, no much less.
“Gamers and coaches don’t seem to be fascinated by what was once, we’re fascinated by what is going to be,” U.S. trainer Jill Ellis insisted Wednesday, an afternoon ahead of the groups meet once more within the Workforce F finale. “That’s in reality the place you need to be. You’ve were given to seem ahead. It’s other avid gamers (from 2016), other groups, it’s a unique time.
“The previous is beside the point. It’s the sport in entrance of you.”
Yeah, just right good fortune with that.
The U.S.-Sweden competition was once already intense for the reason that groups have performed each and every different so regularly in large tournaments. That is the 5th time the groups are in the similar staff on the International Cup – and that is simplest the 8th event. They’ve additionally performed each and every different at two Olympics.
But if Sweden beat the U.S. girls within the quarterfinals in Rio, it added a degree of saltiness that hadn’t existed. The loss was once the earliest go out the American citizens had made at a significant world event.
It additionally was once Sweden’s fourth win in 9 video games towards the U.S., a stretch of “dominance” few different groups have controlled towards the three-time International Cup champions.
So no, Sweden isn’t going to let that one cross.
The U.S. beat Sweden the following time the groups performed, a pleasant in Sweden in 2017. However its win over the USA in 2016 stays some degree of pleasure for the Swedes forward of Thursday evening, a rallying cry for a recreation this is another way meaningless.
Each groups have already complex to the knockout rounds, with who wins the gang –and most probably will get France within the quarterfinals — the one factor left to be made up our minds.
For the closing a number of days, Swedish journalists have gave the impression on the U.S. media availabilities, relaying what might be taken as slights from Sweden’s avid gamers and requesting a response. Veteran goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl is on document as pronouncing the American citizens not have the mental dangle on Sweden they as soon as did.
Hedvig Lindahl of Sweden has stated the USWNT is taking a look previous their tournament Thursday. (Picture: Peter Powell, EPA-EFE)
And at Wednesday’s pre-match information meetings, Ellis was once requested which of Sweden’s avid gamers can be just right sufficient to make her beginning roster. She declined to respond to, pronouncing, diplomatically, that she’s by no means observed any in their avid gamers in particular person workout routines and doesn’t know their psychological make-up.
Lindahl, in the meantime, stated she thinks the U.S. is gunning for Sweden and already taking a look previous them.
“It’s the primary time for the reason that Olympics that we meet in this sort of surroundings, so I do suppose they need to put us in our position,” Lindahl stated. “On the similar time, we listen communique from the U.S. that they’re going to play seven video games on this event, so it doesn’t really feel as though they have got all in their focal point in this recreation.”
If truth be told, it most likely is determined by the American citizens. Some, like Christen Press and Crystal Dunn, have stated the 2016 loss, whilst disappointing, has no bearing on this subsequent recreation. The U.S. is a unique group than it was once 3 years in the past, when it was once nonetheless in transition from the 2015 International Cup.
For others, on the other hand, this recreation has been rotated on their calendar for the reason that attract December.
“I’m SO taking a look ahead to seeing Sweden,” veteran defender Becky Sauerbrunn stated closing month. “You simply have that dangerous feeling and you recognize that that might occur once more. It will very simply occur once more on the International Cup. So what do you do to be sure that doesn’t occur?
“For us, it’s do you’re employed that additional bit more difficult? Do you watch slightly bit extra movie? Persons are doing what they believe they want to do to by no means must really feel that once more. As it’s a horrible feeling.”
The American citizens took an identical motivation from their loss to Japan within the 2011 International Cup – additionally on consequences – and rode it to a 3rd consecutive Olympic gold medal in 2012 and, then, their 3rd International Cup identify 4 years in the past in Canada.
However it’s no longer such a lot obsessing a few explicit group as it’s keeping directly to the sensation left by means of the loss to stated group.
“You don’t disregard the style on your mouth while you fail and while you lose in a global championship,” Press stated.
It appears Sweden doesn’t disregard it, both.
Observe USA TODAY Sports activities columnist Nancy Armour on Twitter @nrarmour.
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Where Is The Love? Bryce Love Off To Frustrating Start
By: Kyle CrabbsSeptember 16th, 2018
Photo: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
The Oklahoma Sooners were dealt a big blow last week when it was announced that star running back Rodney Anderson would miss the remained of the 2018 college football season. Anderson, who was widely considered the top RB prospect for 2019, now has his status as an early entry in question, opening the door for another back to take the mantle of RB1. Some would have considered Stanford's Bryce Love to be a candidate before the start of the season.
But Love's season hasn't got off on the best of terms. First there was the 18 carry, 29 yard performance against stacked boxes vs. San Diego State. Love would have a bounce back against Southern Cal (22 carries for 136 yards). But in the process? Love suffered an "undisclosed" (reportedly knee) injury, one that would cost him the chance to play against UC Davis.
This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, except Love battled a nagging injury throughout his 2017 campaign as well. A bum ankle wouldn't keep Love off the field, but it would keep him out of rhythm and force him from games at times.
Did the decision to play Love came down to the opposition being UC Davis? Or was the severity of the injury the primary factor? Either way, the Stanford back is reportedly projecting to return for next week's date with Oregon.
Love is facing a pivotal point in his player evaluation. Even if Love is back in the fray for the entire season, another lingering injury will put his durability into question. Bryce Love is many things, but a physical player he is not. For Love's sake as a prospect, he's going to need to prove he can handle the physicality of football. Lingering issues with his knee will call that ability into question.
Forecasting from here, Love's season can pivot one of three directions.
A fully healthy Love shows his knee injury was minor and he sustains himself for the entire 2018 college season.
Love struggles upon his return to play at full speed due to the knee for several weeks, maybe longer.
Love suffers another injury between now and the close of the 2018 season.
The former is a must for Love to optimize his value. Either of the other two scenarios will have Love chasing the narrative that he's a lean bodied player who can't handle the physical demands of being a primary ball carrier.
It isn't time to hit the panic button, at least not yet. But Love's status as a prospect is going to hinge significantly on what happens in October and November.
Take into consideration the number of candidates to rise to the top of this year's class.
Iowa State's David Montgomery
Alabama's Damien Harris
Oklahoma State's Justice Hill
Washington's Myles Gaskin
Michigan's Karan Higdon
Ohio State's Mike Weber
Memphis' Darrell Henderson
LSU's Nick Brossette
This list goes on and on. At the end of the day, the NFL Draft process is about identifying eliminating factors. "Why should we NOT select this player?" Yes, Love is explosive in the open field but a less physical player than his peers, Love needs to be able to bear the brunt of 15-20 tackles a game to beat out the competition from a loaded field.
Where is the love for Love? The honeymoon of 2017 is over. He's going to have to make us fall for him all over again and that process starts now.
Kyle Crabbs
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Velasquez Vs. Dos Santos III
Another UFC trilogy is coming up and everyone’s excited as can be. The most exciting part? This trilogy might actually get extended faster than Bruce Willis can make Die Hard sequel. Yes, Cain Velazquez Vs. Junior Dos Santos has everything needed to be a classic trilogy in UFC history, but the truth is that if this were only a trilogy it’d be a disappointment.
Remember, Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos are 2 elite fighters coming into the prime of their careers. Velazquez is 30 going on 31 in July, Dos Santos is only 28 years old, 28! On top of that they are both fighting in the UFC’s thinnest division (Mark Hunt almost got a title shot, love the guy but really, a title shot?!). They both are big draws as heavyweights tend to be and unless something unexpected leads to an early retirement, the UFC is going to keep these 2 superstars around for awhile. So the potential for future Heavyweight superfights between these fighters is almost endless. Imagine if Dos Santos wins the title back, by decision, submission or KO, doesn’t matter, we’d all want to see a rematch. If Dos Santos loses, then we’d want him to work his way back again to a title shot, and unlike the lightweight and middleweight division, this should take about 2 decisive victories in less than a year and he’d be back in the title picture.
If Cain Velazquez keeps fighting until he’s 35, then we should get at least 3-5 more Velasquez vs. Dos Santos bouts, and I’m not joking. Will another heavyweight show up and become a player in the division, of course. Mir can still be a force in the UFC, newcomers are bound to come up, but in the next 5 years it’s hard to imagine this division becoming stacked with high to elite level competitors. It’s just something that’s not seen, it doesn’t happen in boxing, hasn’t happened in MMA since the old ground and pound days of UFC’s beginnings (Mark Coleman anyone?), heck, even in the WWE it’s hard to see heavyweight ATHLETIC performers anymore. The fight game has changed, athleticism is a must for any fighter to be considered elite, Velazquez and Dos Santos have it, almost everyone else in their division doesn’t and that should make for a historic rivalry for us, the MMA fans,
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July 12, 2019 Posted by Jonathan Prestidge News No Comments
We’ve examined keys, tunings and playing positions in previous posts, but it recently occurred to me that some players, especially beginners, can be confused by specific pitch designations when buying a harmonica. Questions like ‘is a G harp lower than a C harp?’ or what’s a “Low Low F?’ crop up with surprising regularity in my job, so perhaps it’s time to look at the key naming conventions and try to achieve some clarity.
Let’s look first at a 10 hole Richter-tuned diatonic in C. The first hole blow note will be C4. To put this into a more easily visualised context, C4 is also known as middle C, and is found very close to the middle of most piano keyboards. The 10th hole blow note will also be a C, but it will be 3 octaves higher, making it a C7. It’s interesting to note that C7 is considerably above the upper range of a soprano, so we’re talking about a fairly high note here!
Taking C as our starting point, we can then visualise the relative positions of all of the standard keys: Db, D, Eb, E, F and F# are all higher than C (ie, with their lowest note to the right of middle C on a piano keyboard), whilst G, Ab, A, Bb and B are all lower than C (ie to the left of middle C on a piano keyboard).
Now we know the relative pitches of the standard keys, we can examine the high and low keys that fit on the extremities. High G is the only high key typically encountered, and this occupies a slightly squeaky place one semitone above standard F#. The low keys start with Low F#, which, given that F# is close to the highest standard tuning, and Low F# is an octave below this, means that it’s not strikingly low in pitch, being around half an octave lower than standard C. This explains, perhaps, why Low Low F, which is a further octave lower in pitch, is available in many low tuned harmonicas.
So, in order of pitch, from highest to lowest, the keys look like this: Low F#, Low F, Low Eb, Low D, Low Db, Low C, Low B, Low Bb, Low A, Low Ab, Low G, Low Low F.
It’s worth noting that the lower the pitch of the harmonica, the harder it is to bend notes effectively. The reasons for this are quite complex and relate both to the greater mass of the lower tuned reeds and to some complicated physics theory involving resonance, which is somewhat beyond the scope of this article! Just be aware, though, that you’re unlikely to be able to do the same sort of bending on a Low Low F harp as you can easily achieve on one tuned to standard C.
So, why would you want a low tuned harmonica if they make bending harder? The reasons are multiple, but perhaps the most common use for a low tuning harp is for playing along with a guitar, either in a band or a solo situation. E is a popular key for guitar-based pieces, but a standard E harp is rather on the high side when accompanying in first position. Low E, in comparison, has a deeper, richer sound, and is not so low as to make bending off limits.
Similarly, many bands detune a semitone or a tone in order to suit the vocal range of the singer. This is where Low F# and Low F harps come in, for the reasons listed above.
Of course, some players just like the sound and depth of a low tuned harp, or want to occupy a lower frequency range in the mix than traditional tunings.
Makes and Models
Now we’ve got an understanding of the relative pitches and uses of low tuned harps, it’s time to examine our options in terms of manufacturers and models. Seydel, Suzuki, Hohner and Lee Oskar all make low tuned harmonicas, although the range does vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Seydel has, perhaps the largest range, with low tunings being available for most of its 10 hole diatonic harmonicas. The least expensive is the Session Standard, which is a great entry point for any player looking to dip their toes into the waters of low tunings. At the top end are the 1847 harps, which share the same construction and great tone as their standard tuned counterparts, but are available in a complete range of low tunings.
Our pick of the bunch, though, due to its offering the most bang for the buck, is the Session Steel, which features extremely durable stainless steel reed plates and is available in all of the popular low keys.
Hohner’s low tuning range is restricted to two main harmonicas; the Rocket Low and the Thunderbird. The Rocket Low is part of the Progressive Series (which also features the Special 20) and is essentially a low tuned version of the standard Rocket – basically a louder Special 20. The Thunderbird, in comparison, is a low tuned Crossover, so shares its bamboo comb and is positioned at a similarly premium pricepoint. Both are great sounding and playing harmonicas, so your choice is really a question of personal preference and budget.
Suzuki offers low F as a key for many of its harmonicas, but it is only the Manji that is available in a full range of low tunings. This has a wood/resin hybrid comb, which is perfect for players who like the sound and feel of a wooden comb, but want the durability and swell resistance of plastic.
Lee Oskar has recently introduced a full range of low keys in its major diatonic range. It’s worth noting that he new low tuning reed plates are compatible with any of the Lee Oskar harps, so if you have an old Lee Oskar harmonica sitting in a drawer you can upgrade to a low tuning one just by purchasing a set of reed plates.
What if you want to be able to play very low notes, but not sacrifice the upper range, though? Luckily there is a harp for you in the form of the Brendan Power Lucky 13. These feature a standard tuning pattern (Richter, Paddy Richter, Powerdraw or Powerbender) on holes 4-13, with a low tuned octave on the additional holes 1-3. They sound great and are decent value considering you’re effectively getting two harps for the price of one!
As ever, let us know if you have any questions.
About Jonathan Prestidge
Write about all things harmonica-related at The Harmonica Company. Director of SpecialtyCoffeeHome.com Classically trained pianist, self taught guitarist and harmonica player. Also play bass and drums (badly). Have a whole bunch of largely irrelevant qualifications.
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The word “education” itself has become a political symbol co-opted by a secular government to mean career and college training for the sake of a mechanized society. A theoretical and conceptual recovery of the word “education” would be a return to the notion that an education is the transmission of culture and the way in which children are led from the darkness of error into the light of truth…
The real nature of an authentic education has been obscured in this generation by the misuse and abuse of speech. We are now in a time that requires a recovery of the right use of speech in academia so that we might reform our schools to operate in accord with the right use of reason, a cultivation of the liberal arts which correspond with the true nature of the human person, and a proper view of the created cosmos aided by revealed truth and a proper philosophy. This profound shift will guide us towards an authentic and proper education for our children. Parents are a child’s first educators. As is said in Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” The “way he should go” is his education. However, to begin the real conversation about “the way he should go,” we must recognize a very important distinction that will help us to use speech properly in education as distinct from political language. We must acknowledge the difference between theoretical concepts and political symbols.
Language is a mysterious thing. God spoke the world into existence. Christ the Logos is the perfect Word of God. We humans are the only creatures on earth gifted with the image of God articulated through our free will participation with the Divine Intellect by the use of speech. God gave Adam the power to name things. By the preternatural gifts and God’s grace, there was no need for an education in the Garden. The Creator taught by infusion and man learned by obedience to Truth. Since the Fall and concomitant privation of grace, we are apt to confuse the distinction between the proper order of thought and the political order, which causes harm to both orders as a result. If we confuse political symbols for what ought to be properly ordered academic language, we render ourselves incapable of educating.
Eric Voegelin describes the difference between the two contexts of the political and knowledgeable. He describes the differences in the language necessary for each. He tells us that political struggles necessitate the use of language reformulated to reflect the new conditions desired by political action. “These acts of verbal creation are just as much political battles as are the more concrete manifestations of the struggle, including physical confrontations.”[1] These verbal creations are political symbols, which are derived from, but not congruent with, words used in the pursuit of knowledge. They are useful tools and necessary when trying to defeat political adversaries. Thus, there are two contexts, the intellectual pursuit of truth and the political arena. Both use the same words but in contexts that are unsuitable to be used interchangeably. Voegelin says “it is impossible to assign to political verbal expression a meaning that is “correct” in an epistemological context.”[2] Our schools ought not to be political arenas but academies in the pursuit of the transcendent ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty.
In the early twentieth century, schools were being used as resources to solve social problems, thus the transition from institutions of learning to political activity centers had begun in earnest. Today, most important words in modern education are now used as political symbols whose relation to theoretical concepts is diminished at best, wholly contrary at worst. The word “education” itself has become a political symbol co-opted by a secular government to mean career and college training for the sake of a mechanized society. A theoretical and conceptual recovery of the word “education” would be a return to the notion that an education is the transmission of culture and the way in which children are led from the darkness of error into the light of truth.
A brief examination of the notion of “critical thinking” ought to shed light on the depth of this problem. What the secular modern schools mean by “critical thinking” and what we ought to mean by “critical thinking” have become two radically different ideas. Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy is a political symbol at stark odds with the theoretical concept of intellection or the true science and art of “critical thinking.”
Bloom has contributed many politically symbolic notions to modern education, but none quite so enduring as his taxonomy of “higher order thinking skills.” The first clue that they are not appropriate for an authentic education is the word “taxonomy” which indicates “the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.” This is the politically symbolic statement in favor of scientism, and scientism stands in stark contrast to the true nature of human intellection in relation to education.
Still, this is the tip of the iceberg. It can be seen and demonstrated that all of Bloom’s taxonomic categories deal exclusively with the material order of being, that of the quantitative and the measurable. The three attributes that characterize the taxonomy are metacognitive, ideological, and subjective. The qualitative and immeasurable aspects of human cognition, and especially the spiritual nature of conceptual intellection, are completely ignored by the political symbols conveying the taxonomy. It is conceded that this is not readily apparent or understood and that further examination of Bloom’s dreadful educational work ought to be done and made publicly accessible, however, time and space do not permit here.
The theoretical conception of critical thinking recognizes first that human intellection, at its highest, is a spiritual activity. Although all learning begins in the senses, it does not end there. By the right use of the three acts of the mind, apprehension, judgment, and reasoning, man is capable of seeing the whole of things as integrated parts of the cosmos. Real higher order thinking skills are not measurable or quantitative or materially reducible. The three attributes of authentic higher order thinking skills are inclusive of and treat the three above named attributes, but in the inverted order, thus demonstrating the incompatibility of the political symbols and theoretical concepts in education. Much worse is the truth that the end of the taxonomy is to inculcate the political aims of the modern school to the exclusion of the theoretical aim of the acquisition of truth.
The metacognition promoted in conjunction with “critical thinking skills” is a psychological term which means to think about your own thinking. In authentic human intellection, we must give primacy to the reflective nature of the divine intellect which is ontological first, and psychological second. To be reflective in the in the liberal arts is to think about our thinking in relation to the objective reality of things. To reflect upon how our ideas correspond to reality by a communication of substances as they are not as we wish them to be, this is in accord with a proper education. Metacognition has therapeutic value in the field of psychology, but becomes a political symbol when it replaces the true reflective nature of the human intellect in an education.
True higher order thinking skills are normative as opposed to subjective drawing their reference from the normative standard of Christ, the natural law written on our hearts and the authority of tradition. Normative in the educational sense is the encounter and conformity with the world as it is and using the objective standard, not the subjective opinion, to recognize the hierarchical order of being. Aristotle may have put it another way but it ends with the same object, that of truth and the attainment of a communication of substances where the knower becomes the known.
And finally, where the taxonomy is ideologically driven, authentic human intellection is liberal in the freeing sense. The ideology promoted by the taxonomy is not freeing, but constricting by the fact that the limits of that thinking are defined by quantifiable ideas instead of the reality of knowable objects. A better way to understand the taxonomy is to see that its focus is illiberal in the sense that it aims to make students first self-referencing and second beholden by peer pressure to give sway to ideological propositions conveyed by consensus ultimately delivered by a teacher passing on the ideological positions of the state. If higher order thinking skills are not liberal, in the sense that they free a human mind from error, they are not properly higher. To refer to Bloom’s taxonomy as “higher level thinking skills” when they do not even correspond to the higher things is of political value, but not educational value.
It is the painful truth that nearly every important word in education today is in dire need of recovery from the political symbol to its theoretical conceptual true form. Literacy, grammar, logic, rhetoric, beauty, critical thinking, and even the word education itself has been reduced to a political symbol. This is so terribly obscured in the world today by the endless stream of propaganda we allow to digitally flow into our lives. We have been convinced to abandon the distinction between political symbols and theoretical concepts, and the effect on our schools has been devastating.
Political symbols may be necessary for the political arena, but they are wholly unsuitable for the authentic school. The authentic educator and the modern school teacher can use the exact same words and mean contrary things. If we are going to properly reform education, we must first ground ourselves in the right use of speech and make sure we are conveying theoretical conceptual truth instead of misleading political symbols to our children in the pursuit of an authentic education.
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[1] Voegelin, Eric, The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 4, The Elements of meaning Contained in Symbols “Total” and “Authoritarian.” 1936, Page 57.
[2] Ibid, page 58.
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Christian Fulmer Mar 10, 2018 at 11:50 am - Reply
I witnessed such scientism and psychology infiltrate the private high school I attended. The policies of the new administration created a mirror contrast between my lower and upper division. The former was of wonder and straight, honest (often frustrating yet illuminating) talk in our scholastics. The latter was of great confidence and two-dimensional curricular. Instead of trying to learn from Nature and its God, our new mission was to know things about God and nature, minus the mystery and trials of learning. I was still fortunate, compared to the local public schools of then and more so today. All talk, no substance, the underlying goal achieved – many secondary students are proudly parroting politics rather than critically thinking about it.
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ASSÉ Committee Resigns, alleges lack of inclusiveness, discrimination. Photo Corey Pool
On Feb. 1, the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante’s three-member Comité aux luttes sociales, a committee for social struggles, resigned en masse with the publication of an open letter to federation members outlining ASSÉ’s shortcomings—most notably a lack of ethnic and linguistic inclusiveness.
The letter describes ASSÉ as an overly hierarchical organization rife with top-down pressures and riddled with cliquism, where anglophones, allophones and “racialized” members are made to feel like outsiders.
“Despite the social justice values put forth by ASSÉ, its structures make it difficult for [ASSÉ] to embody these values,” the letter reads in French. “Although we believe [that] ASSÉ […] has the potential to accomplish great things, for us the honeymoon is over.”
Authors Myriam Tardif, Rushdia Mehreen and Beatriz Munoz identify themselves as “persons of diverse origins and languages.” They say that “relationships of dominance” were present when the organization interacted with “racialized” members of the committee.
“Our impression was that white people on the [social struggles] committee were addressed with priority,” the letter reads. “Racialized members of the social struggles committee were systematically hesitant to go to the Conseil de Coordination [coordinating council].”
The letter also hints that non-white, non-francophone ASSÉ members are prevented from moving up in the organization.
“Why don’t we see racialized students at the congress and in other ASSÉ events and activities?” it asks. “The experience of racialized/non-francophone people on the social struggles committee and other students we know leads [us] to think that there may not be many opportunities for [these students].”
The letter, which also complains of ASSÉ’s hierarchical structure, ends with a list of recommendations to make ASSÉ more inclusive.
In an email to The Link, Mehreen explained her committee’s decision to share the letter.
“The resignation turned out to be public because the text in it also served as the reflection text for the Orientation Congress of ASSÉ,” she said.
Mehreen also elaborated on her decision in a post on her personal blog.
Asked about the letter’s allegations in a Feb. 4 interview, ASSÉ executive member Jérémie Bédard-Wien told The Link that he thought the letter “contributes to a healthy debate within ASSÉ,” adding that the letter would be discussed during the organization’s orientation congress in March.
“I think many of the remarks made by the Comité aux luttes sociales are right, and we must work towards making ASSÉ a more inclusive association,” said Bédard-Wien. “That will be done from the inside, certainly. It is sad to see them go for that reason.”
“We’re not threatened by these comments—we’re an open association,” he continued.
“We think that if some people don’t see us as inclusive, then we must improve that and make sure […] that the problems encountered by the Comité aux luttes sociales are not replicated in the future.”
When asked about the letter’s insights on ASSÉ’s hierarchical nature, Bédard-Wien replied, “The strike, obviously, had a very high rhythm. Many debates were, sadly, put aside to concentrate on the daily goings of the strike. Now we have the time for these debates to be held.”
Bédard-Wien responded to previous charges of racism within the Quebec student movement in a Dec. 1 article on Rabble.ca, saying, “Challenging racism within and outside is not our movement’s forte: I have no trouble admitting that we have a lot to learn.
“However, to discount general assemblies or, more generally, structural change on that basis is […] a political smokescreen used to draw attention away from […] debates about direct democracy.”
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By Zia H Shah on November 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
S. Korean court upholds conscientious objection to military
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court ruled Thursday that South Korean men can legally reject their mandatory military service on conscientious or religious grounds without punishment.
The landmark ruling is expected to affect the cases of more than 930 conscientious objectors on trial. Hundreds of young South Korean men, mostly Jehovah’s Witnesses, are imprisoned every year for refusing to serve in the military.
All able-bodied South Korean men must serve about two years in the military under a conscription system aimed at coping with potential aggression from North Korea. The court broke with its own 2004 verdict that rejecting military service because of religious faith was illegal, saying at the time that confrontation with the North made South Korea’s draft an indisputable necessity.
The ruling was great news for Jehovah’s Witnesses and others who call for improved individual rights and freedom of opinion in South Korea. But many conservatives are likely to criticize it, saying it inadequately considers the North Korean threat.
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Mirror’s Edge 2 Is In Development According To Former EA Exec
According to Ben Cousisns, ngmoco’s general manager and former executive producer of the Battlefield franchise, Mirror’s Edge 2 is currently in development at Electronic Arts’ DICE studio.
Cousisns made the statement on his Twitter account, saying “It is general knowledge in the Stockholm dev scene that Mirror’s Edge 2 is in production at DICE”
The Mirror’s Edge 2 unofficial confirmation was made as a response to EA Games vice president Patrick Stockholm, who recently told OXM that DICE does not want to become a “Battlefield factory”. Stockhom’s exact comments read:
“…the DICE guys are roughly 300 people in the Stockholm studio; not all of them are working on Battlefield things, and that’s intentional, because we don’t want to become a Battlefield factory.”
“The minute we start saying ‘you’re going to make a Battlefield game for the rest of your life’ they’re going to go some place else. So for them to make great Battlefield games there need to be other things for them to do as well. That’s why we have people who move around quite a bit. And then obviously we have a boatload of people that just want to make Battlefield because they love it.”
This is far from the first time that we have heard that Mirror’s Edge 2 is in development. Last May the game appeared on several online resumes, and other EA executives have mentioned the unannounced game as recently as last year. With all the past talk of the title, and now this statement from Cousisns, it seems likely that we will see Faith return for another brilliantly conceived (but not as well executed) first-person free runner in the near future.
As soon as EA makes Mirror’s Edge 2 official, we will let you know.
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Miss Marge (centre) walking into her surprise farewell party in the Variety Play classroom. (Grace Kennedy/The Observer)
After 30 years, Agassiz’s Miss Marge set to retire from Variety Play
From 1989 to today, Miss Marge has taken generations of kids through the district play program
Grace Kennedy
The Variety Play classroom was noisy and warm, with the voices of kids playing with toys on the ground and parents sitting around them on benches.
Normally at 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, the room would be quiet and empty, waiting patiently for the next two-hour session of Variety Play to arrive. But Wednesday, June 12 was a little different.
On Wednesday, everyone was waiting for Marjorie Hughes to arrive to her surprise party, so they could wish her well on her path to retirement.
Hughes, better known as Miss Marge to the parents and kids in Agassiz, has been involved with the district’s Variety Play program for the last 30 years.
“Really, the goal has been to make memorable life experiences and to have this positive impact on children,” Kristen Patrice, recreation programmer at the District of Kent, said about Variety Play.
Miss Marge “has been the magic of the program,” she added. “We heard that time and time again, that people registered in Variety Play because of her, because of what she brought to that program and what the program stood for.”
Miss Marge making a speech at her surprise farewell party on Wednesday, June 12. (Grace Kennedy/The Observer)
Miss Marge first began with Variety Play in 1989, when she was asked to fill in as an instructor for the Tiny Tots class — a 45-minute playtime two days a week.
At the time, Variety Play was held at the Ferny Coombe Pool, from September to December and then again from January until March. The men and women’s change rooms were turned into classrooms, and the bathrooms were boarded up because the water was turned off for the season.
“The only water that we had was in the lifeguard’s bathroom,” Miss Marge remembered. “So if anybody ever had to go to the bathroom, we had to take all the kids at the same time.”
Supplies for crafts had to be stored in the pool office — every piece of paper and eraser — and when the program was over, Miss Marge’s red tickle trunk and dresser were stored in Agassiz’s old incinerator building.
“When we got it back, it was always covered in bird poop and mouse poop and dead mice,” Miss Marge said. “It was awful actually. But you do what you got to do.”
Despite the uncomfortable conditions, Variety Play was an immensely popular program, with parents lining up at four or five in the morning to sign their toddlers up for the recreational play time.
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“Back then, it’s because there wasn’t anything else,” Miss Marge explained. But the program has continued to be popular, even with the introduction of day cares in Harrison, the Agassiz Christian School and Seabird Island.
“I think it’s because it’s mostly play,” she said about its continued popularity. “They learn how to share, and how to be good friends.
“I do have a curriculum I follow … but it’s mostly just play. If a kid doesn’t want to do anything, he’s got 13 years ahead of him in school. He doesn’t need to worry about doing it here.”
In 2001, Variety Play moved from the Ferny Coombe Pool and its water-less change rooms to the newly construction Community Recreation and Cultural Centre. Miss Marge got her own classroom for the Tots class (ages three and a half to five), and another instructor got one for the Tiny Tots (ages two and a half to three and a half).
“I remember walking into here and almost bursting into tears because I had my own bathroom,” Miss Marge said.
Over the years, more has changed at Variety Play than just the location.
The hours for the program have gotten longer, with Variety Play now taking up two hours twice a week, rather than just 45-minutes.
And the families have changed too. More dads are dropping their kids off at the program, and parents are wanting to be more involved and knowledgeable about what their kids are doing during the program.
It was some of these changes that made Miss Marge decide it was time to retire from her role.
“It’s a different world now, and I don’t want to change,” she said. “I have to realize that things are changing. Not so much for my job, but … it’s just a different world.
“It’s time to let the kids learn different areas of life.”
Miss Marge isn’t planning on going too far though — she said she will still be in touch with the District of Kent for volunteering opportunities.
And besides, Agassiz is a small town. Miss Marge has been running into her past and present students for years.
Miss Marge has been recognized during high school valedictorian speeches, and was invited to have her picture taken with several graduating students a few years ago. At her surprise farewell party on Wednesday, June 12, some parents of current Variety Play students were even looking for photos of themselves from when they were young.
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And of course, it’s always easy to find someone you know in downtown Agassiz.
“We’ll be sitting in a restaurant or something and I’ll say to my husband, ‘Oh I had them in playschool,’” Miss Marge said. “Tom says, ‘You had everybody in playschool.’”
Although a lot has changed with Variety Play, the core of the program has always remained the same: fun, disorganized play.
“Thirty years ago, you were told to go play out in the street and come home when the lights came on,” Miss Marge said. “And now, everyone has a play date. Everything is organized.
“So this is where the kids can come and it’s not all organized. It’s just play.”
The District of Kent is planning to keep that tradition of Variety Play going even after Miss Marge leaves.
Currently, Patrice said, the district doesn’t have a replacement for Miss Marge. But next council meeting (June 24), Kent council will be looking at a comprehensive Let’s Play initiative, which could include a more robust offering of childcare options, including childminding, Variety Play and other preschool programs.
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“Variety Play will hopefully go ahead whether or not childminding goes forward” in September, Patrice said. “The goal is to have it be part of a bigger plan.”
But until that’s decided, Miss Marge has some outgoing advice for parents of the kids she has been teaching for years.
“I just think that they should see the world through their kid’s eyes,” she said. “I don’t think they should worry about his fingernails should be clean and he should have a clean shirt when he goes out.
“Kids need to get dirty and they need to play,” she continued. “It’s okay to get wet and messy and dirty … Just let kids be kids and see the world through their eyes.”
That’s the philosophy that has made Variety Play so popular over the last 30 years.
“Miss Marge brought that special — she’s special,” Patrice said, tearing up. “She’ve very special, she’s one of a kind. The kids have been so lucky to have her.”
“And I’m lucky to have the kids,” Miss Marge said, tears coming into her eyes as well.
Every year Miss Marge writes a letter to the kids who are graduating from the Variety Play classroom. This year was Miss Marge’s last letter, written to the students of the future class of 2032.
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Miss Marge, looking over old pictures with one of her former students (left) who graduated high school in 2018. (Grace Kennedy/The Observer)
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Backflow Prevention Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What is backflow?
A. The water distribution system is designed to keep the water flowing from the distribution system to you the customer. However, when hydraulic conditions within the system deviate from the "normal" conditions, water flow can be reversed. When this backflow happens, contaminated water can enter the distribution system.
Q. What causes backflow?
A. Backflow is possible in two situations, backsiphonage and backpressure.
Q. What is backsiphonage?
A. When there is a sudden reduction in the water pressure in the distribution system, such as during firefighting or when a water main breaks, water flow can be reversed. This can create a suction effect, drawing the non potable substance into the potable water system.
Q. What is backpressure?
A. Backpressure is created when pressure in a nonpotable system, such as in a recirculating system containing soap, acid, or antifreeze, exceeds that in the potable system that provides make up water to the system. This can force the potable water to reverse its direction of flow through the cross connection. Nonpotable substances can then enter the potable water system.
Q. How can backflow be prevented?
A. Tempe recognizes four methods of backflow prevention:
Air Gap
Double Check Valve Assembly
Reduced Pressure Principal Assembly
Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assembly
The Environmental Division will determine which type of protection is required based on the degree of hazard that the property represents to the potable water supply.
Q. What is a backflow assembly?
A. A backflow preventer is an approved, testable assembly which uses valves, in different configurations, to prevent polluted or contaminated water from reversing direction and flowing backward.
Q. How is an assembly approved?
A. An approved backflow prevention assembly has gone through an approval process at the Foundation for Hydraulic Research and Cross Connection Control at the University of Southern California. This is a two step process consisting of laboraton/tests and a twelve month field test. Only assemblies completing the entire testing procedure are recognized by Tempe Water as approved backflow prevention assemblies.
Q. Who is required to have a backflow prevention assembly?
A. Federal and State law require that water suppliers protect their water systems from contamination. State regulations exempt single family residences used solely for residential purposes from assembly requirements. However, residences used for other purposes, as well as commercial and industrial customers, may be required to install and maintain backflow prevention assemblies. When a determination is made by health official that the potable water system may be subject to contamination through backflow, a backflow prevention assembly will be required. Tempe Environmental Division makes these decisions on a case by case basis.
Q. My property is served with reclaimed water. Do I need backflow protection?
A. Yes. Customers receiving reclaimed water must install a Reduced Pressure Assembly (RPA) backflow preventer on all potable water connections, including fire services.
Q. Who can install a backflow prevention assembly?
A. The installation of the backflow prevention assembly should only be done by a licensed professional.
Q. Where should a backflow prevention assembly be located?
A. Generally, the backflow prevention assembly must be located as close as possible to the water service connection, but must remain on private property. Contact a licensed professional for information on variances.
Q. Who is responsible for the testing and maintenance of the backflow assembly?
A. It is the sole responsibility of the customer to ensure that the assembly is in satisfactory operating condition at all times. Annual testing is required to stay in compliance. The customer must contact a recognized or licensed Backflow Assembly Tester to perform the test. If any repair work or maintenance is performed on the assembly, a recognized Tester must retest the assembly immediately and submit the test results to the Backflow Prevention Section.
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SEKO Logistics opens facility in Dublin
SEKO Logistics is continuing to extend its reach in Europe by opening its own operation in Ireland to serve multinational customers.
Previously SEKO operated in Ireland through an agency partnership but the office and warehouse facility at Dublin Airport, Harristown will enable the company to support existing customers and meet future growth opportunities.
The Irish operation will provide SEKO with a platform to expand further in the retail, high-tech and medical device sectors, which are core customers for SEKO in Ireland and across the globe.
Ireland’s MedTech sector alone has become a major cluster for medical device products globally, with exports of medical devices and diagnostic products representing 8% of Ireland’s total merchandise exports.
The strength of Ireland’s economy and trade make the country the next logical step in SEKO’s strategic investment plan, according to managing director of SEKO Logistics Ireland, Michael Daly.
He says: “Ireland is especially important to UK, European and US brands and that’s why we are investing in our own facility and staff to give SEKO customers in Ireland and around the world the service, technology, visibility and support they need to optimise the potential of this dynamic country.”
Keith O’Brien, chief operating officer EMEA for SEKO Logistics says: “In the last 12 months, we’ve opened major new facilities in London and Amsterdam, entered into a key strategic partnership with Hermes Germany and invested significantly to increase our presence in the US, Greater China and Mexico. This is helping us to keep pace with our customers’ growth in these markets and will continue in 2019 as we proactively seek more opportunities to grow.”
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A woman was shot inside a southwest Atlanta Kroger following a dispute with another woman and a man, police said.
Photo: Channel 2 Action News
Woman wounded in shooting inside southwest Atlanta Kroger
Shaddi Abusaid, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A woman was shot inside a southwest Atlanta Kroger on Thursday after a dispute with another woman and a man, police said.
Officers were dispatched to the grocery store at 590 Cascade Road just before 1 p.m. after receiving calls about a woman who had been shot in the torso, Atlanta police spokesman James White said.
“At this time it appears two females were in a dispute when a male with one of the females produced a firearm and shot the victim,” he said. “Investigators are working to determine the details surrounding the incident.”
The woman was alert at the scene and taken by ambulance to Grady Memorial Hospital, police said. Channel 2 Action News reported that the woman is 19 years old.
Just found out a 19 year old woman shot inside this Kroger after a dispute with another woman. She was taken to the hospital. Police searching for a man who opened fire. Details at 4. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/GFzlYFLLYU
— Tom Jones (@TomJonesWSBTV) April 18, 2019
The investigation is ongoing.
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WNMU Documentaries
The U.P. Recalls the War
People living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recall World War II, sharing images and stories from the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific, to the iron ore mines back home. Combined with vintage newsreels and film footage, these personal memories paint a vivid image of victory and loss. WNMU-TV 2007.
Rating: TV-PG
Midnight Mushers
Behind the scenes at the first U.P. 200 Sled Dog Race in Marquette, Michigan, Feb. 1990.
Special | 20m 7s
Barnes-Hecker: Memories of a Misfortune
The story of Marquette County's 1926 mine disaster told by historians and descendants.
People of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recall World War II.
From Mali to Michigan: A Musical Bridge
African pop diva Naïny Diabaté visited the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2005.
Copper, Iron & Gold: Upper Michigan’s Legacy
Discover the story of early mining towns in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. (2005)
Michigan’s Gray Wolf: Ghost of the Big Timber
NMU's 2004 documentary tells story of wolf recovery in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Lumberjack Life: U.P. Days of Yore
Meet early-day U.P. lumberjacks and the people who followed, living the “lumberjack life.”
One Room, Many Stories: Schoolhouse Memories
Stories of teaching and learning in one-room schoolhouses in the Upper Peninsula. (2002)
Lighthouse Legacy
The story of Stannard Rock Lighthouse, and how its two-ton lens was rediscovered.
A Superior Celebration ...of Structure & Sound
Three Upper Michigan community choirs perform Handel's "Messiah" Oratorio.
Superior Destiny
A USCG buoy tender ran aground in Lake Superior and was sunk as part of a diving preserve.
When the Horses Leave: Metamorphosis at Mackinac
Winter on Mackinac Island brings dramatic changes to the lives of its residents.
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Swarthmore College vs College of Wooster (Mar 11, 2019)
2019 College of Wooster Baseball
#5 Swarthmore College vs #1 College of Wooster
Mar 11, 2019 at Port Charlotte, Fla. (N. Regional Park #10)
Swarthmore College 13 (3-2)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
Jared Gillen cf.......... 4 4 3 1 2 0 3 0 1
Charles Levitt lf........ 5 1 1 1 1 1 4 0 3
Cole Beeker 1b........... 6 2 3 4 0 1 6 0 0
Jackson Roberts dh....... 4 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
Coleson Hebble ss........ 5 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 0
Conor Elliott 3b........ 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 3
Michael Sepe 2b.......... 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0
Holden Bridge rf......... 5 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 2
Sam Jacobson c........... 3 2 1 0 1 2 10 1 2
Jack Corkery p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Zach Gonzalez p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 40 13 14 10 10 8 27 7 11
College of Wooster 6 (0-1)
Nick Strausbaugh cf...... 5 1 2 1 0 2 2 0 1
Jake Stuursma ss......... 5 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 1
Harry Witwer-Dukes 2b.... 5 0 1 0 0 2 5 4 0
Dan Harwood lf........... 4 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 2
Garrett Crum 1b.......... 3 1 1 0 0 1 6 2 0
Dan Gail dh.............. 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Harrison Walls c......... 3 0 0 1 1 1 8 0 0
Tyler Iversen 3b......... 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Wyatt Linde p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Christian Julius p...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Evan Faxon p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ben Gbur p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andrew Hill p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ethan Myers ph.......... 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aaron Spidell rf......... 4 1 2 1 0 2 3 0 2
Chandler Dippman p/3b.... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Totals................... 37 6 9 6 2 11 27 12 7
Score by Innings R H E
Swarthmore College.. 101 000 560 - 13 14 3
College of Wooster.. 000 300 003 - 6 9 5
E - J. Gillen(1); M. Sepe(2); H. Bridge(2); Strausbaugh(1); Witwer-Dukes
2(2); Walls(1); Dippman(1). DP - WOO 1. LOB - SWATBB 11; WOO 7. 2B - C.
Beeker(4); H. Bridge(1); Strausbaugh(1); Myers(1). 3B - J. Gillen(1);
Strausbaugh(1). HBP - Crum. SH - S. Jacobson(1). SB - J. Roberts(2); C.
Hebble(1).
Swarthmore College IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
Jack Corkery........ 6.0 4 3 2 2 8 22 25 107
Zach Gonzalez....... 3.0 5 3 3 0 3 15 15 60
College of Wooster IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
Chandler Dippman.... 6.0 10 5 5 1 3 26 28 78
Wyatt Linde......... 0.1 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 7
Christian Julius.... 0.2 0 1 0 2 0 3 5 18
Evan Faxon.......... 0.0 1 4 4 3 0 1 4 20
Ben Gbur............ 1.0 2 2 2 3 1 5 8 31
Andrew Hill......... 1.0 0 0 0 1 3 3 4 14
Win - J. Corkery (1-0). Loss - Dippman (0-1). Save - Z. Gonzalez (1).
WP - J. Corkery(1); Faxon(1); Dippman 2(2). HBP - by J. Corkery (Crum). PB -
Walls(1). Inherited runners/scored: Linde 2/2; Julius 1/1; Gbur 1/1.
Pitches/strikes: J. Corkery 107/71; Z. Gonzalez 60/40; Dippman 78/57; Linde 7/6;
Julius 18/9; Faxon 20/6; Gbur 31/14; Hill 14/10.
Umpires -
Start: 6:45 PM Time: 3:21 Attendance: 122
Weather: 79 deg., partly cloudy, WNW 7
Dippman faced 3 batters in the 7th.
Faxon faced 4 batters in the 8th.
Game: WOOB0311
#5 Swarthmore College vs #1 College of Wooster - Play-by-Play
Swarthmore College starters: 5/cf J. Gillen; 3/lf C. Levitt; 23/1b C. Beeker;
33/dh J. Roberts; 21/ss C. Hebble; 2/3b C. Elliott; 45/2b M. Sepe; 17/rf H.
Bridge; 9/c S. Jacobson; 12/p J. Corkery;
College of Wooster starters: 12/cf Strausbaugh; 4/ss Stuursma; 17/2b
Witwer-Dukes; 20/lf Harwood; 11/1b Crum; 23/dh Gail; 33/c Walls; 13/3b Iversen;
9/rf A. Spidell; 29/p Dippman;
Swarthmore College 1st - J. Gillen tripled to left field (0-0). C.
Levitt grounded out to 2b, RBI (1-0 B); J. Gillen scored. C. Beeker reached on
an error by 2b (0-1 K). J. Roberts flied out to lf (1-1 SB). C. Beeker out at
second p to 1b to 2b, picked off. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 0 LOB.
College of Wooster 1st - Strausbaugh doubled to center field (0-1 S).
Stuursma grounded out to ss (0-1 K); Strausbaugh no advance. Witwer-Dukes
struck out swinging (1-2 KBKS). Harwood struck out swinging (2-2 SKBBS). 0
runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Swarthmore College 2nd - C. Hebble flied out to rf (1-2 KKB). C. Elliott
walked (3-2 BBKSFBB). M. Sepe singled to right field (0-0); C. Elliott advanced
to second. H. Bridge struck out swinging (0-2 KSS). M. Sepe advanced to second
on a wild pitch; C. Elliott advanced to third on a wild pitch. S. Jacobson
struck out swinging (1-2 SBKFS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
College of Wooster 2nd - Crum singled through the left side (2-2 KBBF).
Gail flied out to cf (0-2 FKF). Crum advanced to second on a wild pitch. Walls
walked (3-2 BBKKFBB). Iversen lined out to lf (0-1 S). A. Spidell struck out
looking (2-2 BBSKK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Swarthmore College 3rd - J. Gillen singled to left field (0-0). C.
Levitt singled to center field (2-1 BSB); J. Gillen advanced to second. C.
Beeker singled to left field (3-2 KFBBB); C. Levitt advanced to second; J.
Gillen advanced to third. J. Roberts singled to shortstop, RBI (0-1 K); C.
Beeker advanced to second; C. Levitt advanced to third; J. Gillen scored. C.
Hebble struck out swinging (0-2 KFS). C. Elliott lined into double play ss to
2b (1-1 KB); C. Beeker out on the play. 1 run, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
College of Wooster 3rd - Strausbaugh struck out swinging (0-2 KFS).
Stuursma popped up to 2b (2-1 KBB). Witwer-Dukes flied out to cf (2-2 BKSB).
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Swarthmore College 4th - M. Sepe grounded out to 2b (1-0 B). H. Bridge
singled to left field (0-0). S. Jacobson grounded out to p, SAC, bunt (0-1 F);
H. Bridge advanced to second. H. Bridge advanced to third on a wild pitch. J.
Gillen flied out to cf (2-2 KSFBB). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
College of Wooster 4th - Harwood walked (3-2 SBBFBB). Crum hit by pitch
(2-2 KBKB); Harwood advanced to second. Gail singled to right field, advanced
to second on an error by rf, RBI (0-1 S); Crum advanced to second, advanced to
third on the error; Harwood scored. Walls grounded out to 2b, RBI (1-2 SBS);
Gail advanced to third; Crum scored. Iversen singled to left field, RBI (3-2
BBFFBK); Gail scored, unearned. A. Spidell struck out swinging (1-2 FBFFS).
Strausbaugh grounded out to ss (0-1 S). 3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Swarthmore College 5th - C. Levitt lined out to cf (1-0 B). C. Beeker
lined out to ss (0-1 K). J. Roberts popped up to 2b (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
College of Wooster 5th - Stuursma grounded out to 3b (1-2 KKFB).
Witwer-Dukes struck out swinging (0-2 KFS). Harwood struck out swinging (2-2
KBKFBS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Swarthmore College 6th - C. Hebble grounded out to ss (1-1 BK). C.
Elliott flied out to rf (0-1 K). M. Sepe lined out to rf (1-0 B). 0 runs, 0
hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
College of Wooster 6th - Crum flied out to cf (3-2 FBBSB). Gail struck
out swinging, out at first c to 1b (1-2 BKFS). Walls flied out to lf (2-2
SKBB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Swarthmore College 7th - H. Bridge doubled to right field (0-1 K). S.
Jacobson singled to left field (0-2 KS); H. Bridge advanced to third. J. Gillen
singled to right field, RBI (1-1 BK); S. Jacobson advanced to second; H. Bridge
scored. Dippman to 3b for Gail. Linde to p for Iversen. / for Dippman. C.
Levitt struck out swinging (1-2 FFBS). C. Beeker doubled to center field, 2 RBI
(0-2 KF); J. Gillen scored; S. Jacobson scored. Julius to p for Linde. J.
Roberts reached on an error by 3b (1-1 FB); C. Beeker no advance. C. Hebble
walked (3-1 BBKBB); J. Roberts advanced to second; C. Beeker advanced to third.
C. Elliott reached on a fielder's choice to third base, advanced to second on a
throwing error by 2b, RBI (0-1 K); C. Hebble out at second 3b to 2b; J. Roberts
advanced to third, scored on the error, unearned; C. Beeker scored, unearned.
M. Sepe walked (3-2 KBKBBB). H. Bridge reached on a fielder's choice to
shortstop (0-1 F); M. Sepe out at second ss to 2b. 5 runs, 4 hits, 2 errors,
2 LOB.
College of Wooster 7th - Z. Gonzalez to p for J. Corkery. Julius flied
out to lf (2-2 BKBK). A. Spidell singled to center field (2-1 KBB). Strausbaugh
struck out swinging (0-2 KFFS). Stuursma flied out to rf (0-1 S). 0 runs, 1
hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Swarthmore College 8th - Faxon to p for Julius. S. Jacobson walked (3-0
BBBB). S. Jacobson advanced to second on a wild pitch. J. Gillen walked (3-2
BBSBFFB). C. Levitt walked (3-1 BFBBB); J. Gillen advanced to second; S.
Jacobson advanced to third. C. Beeker singled to center field, 2 RBI, advanced
to second on an error by cf (2-1 BKB); C. Levitt advanced to third, scored on
the error; J. Gillen scored; S. Jacobson scored. Gbur to p for Faxon. C. Beeker
advanced to third on a passed ball. J. Roberts walked (3-0 BBBB). C. Hebble
singled to right field, RBI (2-2 BKSB); J. Roberts advanced to second; C.
Beeker scored. C. Hebble stole second; J. Roberts stole third, scored on a
throwing error by c. C. Elliott walked (3-1 BBBKB). M. Sepe out at first 1b to
2b to 1b (0-1 K); C. Elliott advanced to second; C. Hebble advanced to third.
H. Bridge singled to left field, RBI (1-0 B); C. Elliott advanced to third; C.
Hebble scored. S. Jacobson struck out swinging (2-2 KBKBFFS). H. Bridge
advanced to second on a fielder's choice. J. Gillen walked (3-0 BBBB). C.
Levitt grounded out to 2b (0-1 F). 6 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 3 LOB.
College of Wooster 8th - Witwer-Dukes reached on an error by 2b (2-0
BB). Harwood reached on a fielder's choice to second base (1-2 KKB);
Witwer-Dukes out at second 2b to ss. Crum struck out looking (1-2 KFBK).
Dippman flied out to rf (1-1 BK). 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Swarthmore College 9th - Hill to p for Gbur. C. Beeker struck out
looking (0-2 KFK). J. Roberts walked (3-1 BBSBB). C. Hebble struck out looking
(0-2 SKK). C. Elliott struck out swinging (0-2 FKS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0
College of Wooster 9th - Walls struck out swinging (3-2 BBBKKFFS). Myers
pinch hit for Hill. Myers doubled to center field (1-1 SB). A. Spidell singled
to center field, advanced to second on an error by cf, RBI (2-2 BKBFFF); Myers
scored. Strausbaugh tripled to left field, RBI (1-1 BF); A. Spidell scored.
Stuursma grounded out to ss, RBI (1-0 B); Strausbaugh scored. Witwer-Dukes
singled to right field (1-1 BK). Witwer-Dukes advanced to second on a fielder's
choice. Harwood flied out to lf (2-1 KBB). 3 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 1
LOB.
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Architectural Acoustic Consulting
Media Systems Engineering
ADA Berlin Projects
Architect Collaboration
eSCHOOL NEWS: NYU unveils $6.5M, 21st-century music technology complex
New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has announced a ground-breaking new addition, Broadcast Newsroom reports: The James L. Dolan Recording/Teaching complex at the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions is one of the most technically advanced audio teaching facilities in the United States. Created to provide students with an [...]
David Molho2014-10-09T20:12:58+00:00November 24th, 2009|News|
How to Stuff an Oven – The Studio Diary of Alicia Keys
If there's a secret recipe to sonic success, a calculus composed of right place-right time realities, Alicia Keys, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, and engineer Ann Mincieli are deep in the mix of making musical magic pay. Someone's in the kitchen with Alicia? Indeed. Alicia Keys' Long Island studio, The Oven, flips the time-tested archetype of the [...]
Sergio Molho2014-10-02T11:57:05+00:00October 1st, 2009|News|
Eventful AES for WSDG
NEW YORK: In keeping with AES Convention tradition, WSDG will be deeply involved in the 127th AES Convention set for Oct. 9-12 at NY’s Javits Center. Beyond spending quality time meeting with clients and heads of the company’s global offices at the WSDG Booth #628, team members will participate in a number of [...]
David Molho2014-10-09T14:37:44+00:00September 30th, 2009|News|
Husson’s new theater has ‘wow factor’
BANGOR, Maine — In his 30-odd years of doing theater in Maine, Ken Stack has worked in opera houses, Grange halls, old movie theaters and churches. The owner of Acadia Repertory Theatre in Somesville and former artistic director of Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor knows how to make do with what’s available or what can [...]
David Molho2014-10-09T15:07:06+00:00September 9th, 2009|News|
Surround audio post environments don’t have to break the bank
The Food Network renovated an existing space for its new 5.1 audio mixing room. Stations outside of the top 10 markets making the move from stereo to 5.1 surround-sound mixing of content for broadcast are challenged with trying to produce local content with multichannel audio in inadequate facilities. While most would like the luxury of [...]
David Molho2014-09-30T19:33:49+00:00September 1st, 2009|News|
John Storyk Teaching Courses in Acoustics at Berklee, Stevens this Fall
John Storyk, founding partner of WSDG, will be teaching courses in acoustics at both Berklee College of Music and Stevens Institute of Technology this fall. Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, MA, is one of the country's top music and production colleges and Stevens Intitute of Technology is a leading engineering college located in [...]
David Molho2014-10-09T15:48:30+00:00May 18th, 2009|News|
WSDG Goes Green
NEW YORK: In supporting the growing international movement towards environmentally friendly business practices, the Walters-Storyk Design Group has initiated a number of policies designed to make their domestic and international offices more energy efficient and ecologically responsive. Working under the direction of company co-principals John Storyk and Beth Walters, WSDG project manager Kathlyn Boland has [...]
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HMRC quiet on GOV.UK savings
Responding to a freedom of information (FOI) request, HMRC has remained reticent on the projected savings from moving its web content to the GOV.UK portal.
An earlier FOI query established that the department expected to achieve £169,000 in savings by April 2016 and £202,000 per year thereafter, pointing to a five-year payback period on the initial outlay of around £982,000 on the project in staff costs.
But in response to AccountingWEB’s follow-up question on whether it would achieve any immediate savings, HMRC referred us to the Cabinet Office. “These figures apply only to HMRC. GOV.UK is a cross-departmental project,” HMRC explained.
The previous figures from HMRC showed costs of £942,000 were budgeted in May 2014 for elements of the transition project that were not “business as usual”. But actual costs as at the end of the project in March 2015 were £40,000 higher. The latest information put this additional cost down to the one-off the development of an application programming interface (API).
“This was more resource intensive to develop and test than originally estimated. This has now been implemented and is supporting our new HMRC Manuals Beta Service,” the tax department said.
The cost figures provided up to December 2014 were for HMRC-invoiced figures and did not include Government Digital Service (GDS) costs unless specifically invoiced to the Revenue. The figures included a £500,000 one-off payment to GDS for implementing the project that had not been included in the original budget.
HMRC explained that this additional sum was for content design, user research, software developers and management resources devoted to its agile project management approach.
MTD checklist: Getting ready for the first submissions
Some savings against budget were achieved on the training side, as an estimated budget for overall training had been included as a contingency. GDS opted for standardised training for new content designers, which allowed HMRC to minimise costs.
Travel costs associated with the transition were also less than estimated. Detailed forward planning and co-ordination helped to reduce the need for face-to-face meetings. The project team used collaboration software to improve efficiency and reduce the need for travel, the department said.
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Why are HMRC spending time and what seems a paltry sum of money doing things that did not need doing?
It takes me much longer now , much longer to find things.It took me 40 minutes finding where the latest SA 100 was located.
As for the FOI reply what des it mean? I don't understand any of it?
By Exector
HMRC basically pressured to do things before they are ready
What the hell business has a publicly funded & publicly used interface facility got being released FOR OBLIGATORY USE as BETA software even as the previous system in place is being removed. Eg this is what the HMRC software online filing of ERS returns says- it is in Beta format & even has a feedback form for "improvements" whilst it is now being required to undertake mandatory filings, which cannot be done any other way! Its just bananas. I'm pretty certain any commercial organisation planning such changes would run the systems in parallel for some considerable time before removing any legacy system. In the end I blame the Treasury which uses "commercial approach" dogma to justify the required "efficiency "savings without looking at the other end of the private sector commercial imperatives drivers, the potential impact on income and profits, as there are no actual bloody paying customers, despite the incessant references to such by HMRC itself and no alternative service provider to switch too!
Interesting how allegedly commercially focussed public sector assessments are all one way.
Addendum Just noted piece re Paul Aplin's campaign for an independent HMRC oversight. Good if independent of both HMRC & Government holding the purse strings- perhaps then someone will look properly at how effective the service is rather than just how cheap or costly and they might stop the stealth shift of administrative cost burdens on to private sector through trying to rectify HMRC system shortfalls.
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Colombia's human rights abusers must not be protected from justice
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The Colombian government must not protect military officers from prosecution for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today. President Álvaro Uribe and the military high command on Thursday called for the armed forces to be protected from civil prosecution, following Wednesday’s sentencing by a civilian judge of retired colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega for the disappearance of 11 people during the 1985 Palace of Justice siege in Bogotá, which left over 100 people dead. “Shielding the security forces from prosecution would make a mockery of government claims that it is serious about fighting impunity and respecting its international obligations to bring all human rights abusers to justice,” said Marcelo Pollack, Amnesty International’s Colombia researcher. The retired colonel faces 30 years in prison for his part in disappearances that took place in November 1985, after military forces stormed the headquarters of the judiciary where members of the M-19 guerrilla movement were holding those inside hostage. Defending the senior army officer, President Álvaro Uribe yesterday reportedly said that the colonel was “simply trying to do his duty” and suggested that the military justice system be strengthened to prevent similar convictions in the future. Despite repeated recommendations from international human rights bodies and a 1997 Constitutional Court ruling that such cases be investigated by the civilian justice system, the military courts have continued to claim jurisdiction in some human rights cases, protecting members of the security forces from prosecution. “Several high-ranking military officers have over the last few years been investigated by the civilian courts, despite military resistance to civilian jurisdiction,” said Marcelo Pollack. “But the little progress made so far is now seriously at risk of being undermined by the government.” “The government and the military high command’s intemperate and very public criticism of the decision to convict retired colonel Plazas Vega is only the latest of many attempts by the authorities to discredit the judiciary and to derail a key human rights criminal investigation.” “In particular, repeated attacks on the integrity of magistrates from the Supreme Court of Justice have threatened the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.” “Judges such as María Stella Jara Gutiérrez, who convicted Plazas Vega, and the Supreme Court magistrates, who have led the investigation into links between Congress and paramilitary groups, have worked tirelessly to break down the walls of impunity,” said Marcelo Pollack. Some of those involved in emblematic criminal investigations into human rights violations committed by security forces, such as witnesses, victims and their families, lawyers, human rights defenders, judges and public prosecutors, have been repeatedly harassed, threatened or even killed. “The fight against impunity in Colombia is a dangerous occupation. The repeated death threats against María Stella Jara Gutiérrez, and the threats against several Supreme Court magistrates, as well as reports that they were subjected to illegal surveillance and wire-tapping, is a cause of serious concern, and should be unequivocally condemned,” said Marcelo Pollack. The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights has requested that the government adopt the necessary measures to protect the life of María Stella Jara Gutiérrez and her son. In the past, it has also made similar requests with regards to several Supreme Court magistrates.
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The Paddle Steamer Decoy is a "Perth Icon" and has been operating for 25 years on the magnificent Swan River and has her own exclusive mooring in prestigious South Perth. Specialising in weddings and corporate functions the vessel is being sold fully operational as a going concern and has liquor and gaming licences. She is a registered Australian ship No: 852383, which makes this vessel fully morgageable. The Paddle Steamer Decoy is a genuine steam powered vessel that was built by Australian Ship Building Industries and is built to DNV survey 1A R5 Class D1, although currently operates on a 1E and licensed to carry 230 passengers. The vessel is powered by a 1905 Ransome Sims and Jefferies twin cylinder steam engine totally rebuilt in 1986 with a new oil fired burner and maxitherm boiler. She is the only sea going designed Paddle Steamer in Australia. The upper deck is constructed of solid Jarrah and Iron bark flooring. The vessel is also fitted out extensively with solid brass nautical memorabilia and has a unique 58 brass pipe calliope organ which can operate manually or automatically. The vessel is being offered for sale due to retirement after 20 years and at a fraction of the replacement cost. This truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity for an astute investor.
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Allied Marine is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by American Marine Yachts.
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Men's Rowing
Bart Thompson Rounds Out Coaching Staff with Former Washington Husky Sarah Hartigan
Sarah Hartigan (second from right in the action photo) joins the Adrian College coaching staff after competing for NCAA rowing national power University of Washington during her collegiate days. (Photo provided)
ADRIAN, Mich.--Adrian College head coach Bart Thompson has announced that Sarah Hartigan has joined the Bulldogs' inaugural men's and women's rowing squads as a volunteer assistant coach. She complements Cory Conzemius who was hired in July.
“I am so thankful that our program will have Sarah with us in this, our inaugural year," Thompson said. "She brings energy, knowledge, and a great work ethic to our staff. Having someone of her caliber moving to Adrian from the West Coast, with the pedigree that she has from Newport Aquatic Center and the University of Washington, is a true blessing.”
Hartigan joins the Bulldogs after being a part of the University of Washington’s NCAA Division I women’s rowing program in Seattle. Before her rowing career, Hartigan was a competitive USA swimmer for 12 years in Orange County, California. During her senior year of high school, Hartigan made the decision to pursue rowing at the Newport Aquatic Center in Newport Beach, CA. This decision was the genesis of her admiration and respect for the sport that continues to this day.
When asked what were some of her key reasons in wanting to become a part of this program’s development, Hartigan stated, “I truly love the sport of rowing and the possibilities that it has as an athletic discipline to change a person’s life—not only athletically but personally. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity not to continue to be involved in the sport. I have too much love for rowing to not want to give back and instill the information that I have gained from my rowing career to others that come through Adrian College’s rowing program this upcoming year and beyond. Additionally, I was immensely impressed by the amount of support that the college and community has given the program with regards to the boathouse facilities and the hiring of upstanding rowing coaches in Bart Thompson and Cory Conzemius. I look forward to working with them and the student-athletes to set the framework for the beginning of a longstanding tradition of rowing success here at Adrian College!”
Hartigan graduated from the University of Washington in June of 2018 with a bachelor of science degree in speech and hearing sciences. Along with her position at Adrian College, Hartigan will also be serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member through the Lenawee Community Foundation in Tecumseh, Mich., with the task of creating a college going culture through greater access to educational opportunities and financial support services in Lenawee County.
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(TRANSACTION: Adrian College--Sarah Hartigan named men's and women's volunteer assistant rowing coach.)
May 16, 2019 Men's Rowing Wraps Up Inaugural Spring Season at Prestigious Dad Vail Regatta
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October 15, 2018 First Home Event a Success for Men's Rowing in Scrimmage Against Case Western Reserve
October 12, 2018 Bulldogs Rowing Schedule Changes Announced; Home Scrimmage Added for Saturday
October 8, 2018 Adrian Bulldogs Shine in Men's Rowing Debut with Four Medals at Rowtoberfest Regatta
September 27, 2018 Bart Thompson Rounds Out Coaching Staff with Former Washington Husky Sarah Hartigan
August 6, 2018 Men’s and Women’s Rowing Announce 25-Member Inaugural Class
July 9, 2018 Cory Conzemius Joins First-Year Rowing Programs as Top Assistant Coach for the Bulldogs
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No sooner had this column speculated that Australia was flirting with the US path of division and hatred, than up pops proof of how close we’ve come, and how dangerous that can be. A nine-year-old girl in Brisbane refused to stand during the national anthem and somehow we know about it, many miles away, as the adults pile on in anger. Pauline Hanson and Mark Latham joined the conga line of reactionaries to say the usual radical things to the conservative media. How dare she, kick her out, what a brat, etc etc, as if it’s okay to abuse a kid if it’s in the name of patriotism. When did this madness grip us? Since when do Australian adults froth over how a nine-year-old displays her patriotism, like they’re drunks at the Big Day Out demanding people kiss their flag? At school in the 1980s, I sometimes stood for our (rather boring) anthem, sometimes didn’t. It wasn’t an issue. It was the same at sporting events. People stayed seated if they felt like it. As far as I know, playing the anthem is still not compulsory at schools, let alone doing any particular thing while it’s on. Unchained by forced public patriotism, we grew up having a chuckle when the Poms or the Yanks went over the top with it. But we can be pretty sensitive about it – particularly when it comes to indigenous people. My psychologist mate might say it’s because Australia has some unresolved tensions about our colonial past. Which was the nine-year-old’s point. It’s not a coincidence that some Australians have become more fervent about patriotism over the same period as the country’s cultural and demographic makeup has shifted, particularly in cities. Do you think Hanson and Latham are really troubled by a nine-year-old’s ideas? Of course not. But what an opportunity for some grandstanding. Back in 1775 a pom named Samuel Johnson declared that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, and Hanson and Latham fit the description nicely. My opinion is that a school student can do whatever they want during our national anthem, as long as they are basically respectful. But my opinion of what a kid does during the anthem doesn’t matter. Nor does yours. Or that of the conga line. She’s nine. It’s a dangerous route when people are forced to show the right patriotic behaviour at the right time, or risk denunciation. And it’s never been part of my Australia. Ben Langford is a Fairfax journalist
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Forced display of patriotism has never been the Australian way
Opinion: Ben Langford
FALL INTO LINE: These North Korean soldiers are very patriotic. And they're showing it perfectly.
No sooner had this column speculated that Australia was flirting with the US path of division and hatred, than up pops proof of how close we’ve come, and how dangerous that can be.
A nine-year-old girl in Brisbane refused to stand during the national anthem and somehow we know about it, many miles away, as the adults pile on in anger.
Pauline Hanson and Mark Latham joined the conga line of reactionaries to say the usual radical things to the conservative media.
How dare she, kick her out, what a brat, etc etc, as if it’s okay to abuse a kid if it’s in the name of patriotism. When did this madness grip us?
Since when do Australian adults froth over how a nine-year-old displays her patriotism, like they’re drunks at the Big Day Out demanding people kiss their flag?
At school in the 1980s, I sometimes stood for our (rather boring) anthem, sometimes didn’t. It wasn’t an issue.
It was the same at sporting events. People stayed seated if they felt like it.
As far as I know, playing the anthem is still not compulsory at schools, let alone doing any particular thing while it’s on.
Unchained by forced public patriotism, we grew up having a chuckle when the Poms or the Yanks went over the top with it.
But we can be pretty sensitive about it – particularly when it comes to indigenous people.
My psychologist mate might say it’s because Australia has some unresolved tensions about our colonial past. Which was the nine-year-old’s point.
It’s not a coincidence that some Australians have become more fervent about patriotism over the same period as the country’s cultural and demographic makeup has shifted, particularly in cities.
Do you think Hanson and Latham are really troubled by a nine-year-old’s ideas? Of course not. But what an opportunity for some grandstanding.
Back in 1775 a pom named Samuel Johnson declared that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, and Hanson and Latham fit the description nicely.
My opinion is that a school student can do whatever they want during our national anthem, as long as they are basically respectful.
But my opinion of what a kid does during the anthem doesn’t matter. Nor does yours. Or that of the conga line. She’s nine.
It’s a dangerous route when people are forced to show the right patriotic behaviour at the right time, or risk denunciation.
And it’s never been part of my Australia.
Ben Langford is a Fairfax journalist
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Open Joint Stock Company Ilyushin Aviation Complex (also referred to as ILYUSHIN) was founded in 1933. The order of USSR People's Deputy Commissar of Heavy Industry and Head of the Main Directorate of Aviation Industry P.I. Baranov established the Design Bureau for Experimental Light Aircraft and Military Series Engineering at the facilities of V. R. Menzhinsky Plant No.39. Sergei Ilyushin was appointed Head of the Design Bureau. Under his guidance, the Bureau became one of the leading complex aircraft engineering enterprises in USSR and Russia.
Within 80 years, the Bureau developed over 200 various aircraft modifications, and saw 120 going into production. Throughout the Ilyushin Design Bureau existence, production facilities manufactured over 60 000 IL branded airplanes. They feature simple design, high reliability, long lifetime, ease of handling and low maintenance.
Bomber, ground-attack aircraft, military airlifters and special-purpose aircraft were built for the Air Force of the country. The legendary ground-attack aircraft IL-2 and IL-10 and long-range bombers IL-4, constituting over 30% of the entire military fleet, made a considerable contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. In post-war years, IL-28 became the first mass-produced jet bomber for the Air Force.
The entire history of passenger aircraft construction is traceable in the Design Bureau.
In mid 1940s, the first mass-produced passenger carriers IL-12 and IL-14 appeared; these marked the beginning of civil transport aviation development. The turboprop IL-18 made flying affordable for a large number of Soviet citizens; it was in service for international airways and provided basis for Soviet aircraft export sales.
The turbojet long-range airliner IL-62 and its modification IL-62M provided high flight safety and comfort for passengers and contributed to further development of international airlines. Passenger flights started in 1967 and continue to the present.
The creation of special-purpose aircraft that played a key role for the country's Air Force defined the special character of Ilyushin's school. Most notable are anti-submarine aircraft IL-38, special-purpose scout aircraft IL-20, refueling tanker IL-78 et al.
In 1970, upon S.V. Ilyushin's recommendation, his student Genrikh Vasilievich Novozhilov was appointed General Designer - Executive Officer of the enterprise by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Led by Novozhilov, the Company created the most widely used military and civil jet airlifter IL-76 with engines D30-KP, which has been adopted by Air Force since 1974.
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Kresge Hall is largely a suite-style residence hall and community located on the Aldersgate Green. Each hall is built around common areas furnished with couches and tables, for studying or downtime, and a kitchenette. The four- to five-person suites located around these common areas have individual bathrooms with multiple sinks. There is also a lower hall in a traditional style with a shared bathoom. Each room is complete with air conditioning/heating, wireless internet, cable TV capability, wood furniture, and carpeted floors.
There is an RA and SLA designated to each hall. Through the combined efforts of these two roles, students are provided with rich opportunities to grow in every aspect of life. Activities range from wonderful small group times (we call these meetings Gather), to fourth meal runs at Taco Bell!
While there is a lot to do on the individual halls between movie nights, breakfasts at midnight, Gathers, and other hall events, there are also a lot of all-dorm events to get involved in:
Kresge Kandyland! (Basically, we dress up the dorm and invite the community kids as well as campus to come and trick-or-treat in style…)
All-dorm worship nights
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More than anything, Kresge is simply a safe place to grow and develop into the women that God is calling us to be. It is a place that is not perfect but is collectively striving to understand grace, love, and community like they are meant to be known.
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The Centre's two larger Function rooms have state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment.
Available for hire in our Amber Hall is a full audio-visual and lighting facility, including:
a fully-integrated sound system including a CD player and the facility to plug in devices such as older iPads and certain model phones (a standard headphone jack lead is supplied by the hall to use the sound system. Please note this is not compatible with the iPhone 7 or newer / newer models of iPad, due to the updated headphone socket on these phones - so you will need to bring an adapter).
a super bright projector unit which projects on to a 3 metre wide screen at the back of the stage
a PA/speaker system and a variety of microphone options
professional stage lighting.
The equipment can be operated from the side of the stage or from the dedicated sound and lighting booth which overlooks the Amber Hall (pictured above). The system offers wireless handheld, lead, tie clip or headset microphones.
The equipment is perfect for presentations, training courses, theatre performances, concerts, photographic slide shows and digital backgrounds.
The Fabrick room has:
a projector unit and 2.4 metre wide screen
a PA/speaker system which wirelessly connects to handheld or headset microphones
a DVD player, 5 disc CD changer and headphone jack lead which allows the facility to plug in devices such as iPads and certain model phones. (Please note this is not compatible with the iPhone 7 or newer / newer iPad models, due to the updated headphone socket on these phones so you will need to bring an adapter).
The fantastic equipment allows users to show videos, play music, display slide shows and perform presentations in style.
iPods, iPhones and laptops are easily connected to the systems in both the Amber Hall and Fabrick room using cables supplied by the centre. We recommend contacting the centre to arrange a trial run with the equipment prior to your event.
There is also a portable projector (with built in speakers) and screen which can be set up in the Rattle room on request.
Please see the pricing and booking page for details of hire charges.
All areas are covered by wireless broadband, the password for which can be obtained before your event from reception free of charge.
The Amber Hall and Fabrick room also have hearing induction loop systems.
Alongside the three modern function rooms, Ashover Parish Hall Events Centre has many other features to enhance your event.
The adjoining Parish Sports Pavilion houses showers, toilets and changing rooms, which can be hired.
The facilities and grounds offer the perfect setting for your event with extensive parking for 80 vehicles.
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Senna pendula
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Christmas senna
Origin: Tropical America
The flowers are very showy. Christmas senna needs frequent pruning to control sprawl and to develop a strong branch system that won't break under its own weight. Larger specimens may require staking to keep them from falling over. Frequent pinching of young shoots during the growing season will encourage branching and increase the number of flowers.
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/senna_pendula.htm
Senna polyphylla, Cassia biflora, Cassia microphylla,Cassia polyphylla, Cassia tenuissima, Peiranisia polyphylla
Desert Cassia
Origin: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Bahamas
A small tree with a beautiful cascading habit, tiny leaves, suitable for pot culture and bonsai. This early bloomer produces 1" yellow flowers. Flowers: fall to spring. Excels in toughest conditions, chosen as plant of the year in 1999 by the Florida Nurserymen and Growers Associations. The desert cassia requires little to no care and is drought tolerant. Propagated from seed. There are no pests or diseases associated with this tree. Attracts butterflies. Other names: Cassia biflora, Cassia marginata, Cassia microphylla, Cassia polyphylla, Cassia tenuissima, Peiranisia polyphylla
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/senna_polyphylla.htm
1320 Senna polyphylla - Desert Cassia
Desert Cassia. A small tree with a beautiful cascading habit, covered with showers of yellow flowers. It is suitable for pot culture and bonsai, has tiny leaves. The tree is nearly everblooming, relatively cold-hardy.This item is certified for shipping to California.
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3604 Senna polyphylla - seeds
Desert Cassia. A small tree with a beautiful cascading habit, covered with showers of yellow flowers. It is suitable for pot culture and bonsai, has tiny leaves. The tree is nearly everblooming, relatively cold-hardy.
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Senna sp., Cassia sp.
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Senna surattensis, Senna sulfurea, Cassia glauca, Cassia surattensis
Glaucous Cassia, Scrambled Egg Bush
Origin: Marqueas, India, Sri Lanka
Cassia is a large genus with some 500 species, among which are a number of highly attractive flowering trees. This is a medium to large tree (Height: 18-20 Feet. Spread: 15-18 Feet) with ovate, pointed leaflets; when these drop, usually in the dry season, masses of bright gold flower clusters appear on almost every branch. Cassia likes full sun and well-drained soil and to bloom profusely require a dry season. Bright yellow clusters of flowers. Pea-like pod containing 3 to 5 seeds. Season: Fall - Winter. Specimen or Landscape Tree.
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/senna_surattensis.htm
3158 Senna (Cassia) surattensis - Scrambled Egg Bush
Glaucous Cassia, Scrambled Egg Bush. This is a medium tree with ovate, pointed leaflets; when these drop, usually in the dry season, masses of bright gold flower clusters appear on almost every branch. Profuse bloomer, butterfly attractor. Specimen or Landscape Tree.This item is certified for shipping to California.
3518 Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush
3605 Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - seeds
Glaucous Cassia, Scrambled Egg Bush. This is a medium tree with ovate, pointed leaflets; when these drop, usually in the dry season, masses of bright gold flower clusters appear on almost every branch. Profuse bloomer, butterfly attractor. Specimen or Landscape Tree.
Sesbania grandiflora, Agati grandiflora
Subfamily: Faboideae
Hummingbird Tree, Butterfly Tree, Agati
Origin: Asia and Australia
This small ornamental tree with a straight trunk produces a mass of large, 3-4" white flowers resembling little birds. Its lower branches create a floral canopy from November to June. Tolerates flooding. The flower is large and distinctively curved. Vertical pods, located near the flowers, can contain up to 20 seeds. The tender leaves, green fruit, and flowers are eaten alone as a vegetable or mixed into curries or salads. Flowers may be dipped in batter and fried in butter. Tender portions serve as cattle fodder. Ripe pods apparently are not eaten. The inner bark can serve as fiber and the white, soft wood not too durable, can be used for cork. The wood is used, like bamboo, in Asian construction. The tree is grown as an ornamental shade tree, and for reforestation. Bark, leaves, gums, and flowers are considered medicinal. In Java, the tree is extensively used as a pulp source. A gum resembling kino (called katurai), fresh when red, nearly black after exposure, exudes from wounds. This astringent gum is partially soluble in water and in alcohol, but applied to fishing cord, it makes it more durable. Pepper vines (Piper nigrum) are sometimes grown on and in the shade of the agati. Dried and powdered bark is used as a cosmetic in Java. An aqueous extract of bark is said to be toxic to cockroaches.
Sesbania grandiflora Scarlet
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sesbania_grandiflora.htm
4558 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree, Red Flower
Hummingbird Tree - flowers resembling little birds. The tender leaves, green fruit, and flowers are eaten alone as a vegetable or mixed into curries or salads. Flowers may be dipped in batter and fried in butter. During winter, the tree may lose leaves.
This item is certified for shipping to California.
Grown in 6"/ 1 gal pot
5383 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree, White Flower
4716 Sesbania grandiflora Pink - seeds
Hummingbird Tree - pink flowers resembling little birds. The tender leaves, green fruit, and flowers are eaten alone as a vegetable or mixed into curries or salads. Flowers may be dipped in batter and fried in butter. During winter, the tree may lose leaves..
Cover seeds with 1/4" well-drained soil mix, keep warm, damp and in bright light.
Sesbania punicea, Sesbania tripetii, Daubentonia tripetii
Rattle Box Tree, Chinese Rattlebox, Rattlebush, Spanish Gold, Scarlet Wisteria, Red Sesbania
Origin: Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil
Small bushy tree up to 15 feet tall with spectacular clusters of red flowers. The plant has bright green, drooping leaflets in opposite pairs, and the plant displays very attractive pea-like flowers in hanging clusters appearing from spring to fall. Throughout the summer and fall, the plant produces hundreds of seedpods that may stay on the plant through the winter. The four-winged seedpods hang in clusters, and mature from green to brown. Each pod contains 3-9 seeds, which create a distinct rattling sound when shaken or moved by a breeze. The pods eventually break open, releasing thousands of seeds which grow into new Sesbania plants. The plant may become invasive when grown near water, seeds spread by water streams. The winged seedpods drop off of the plant into nearby water and then travel downstream to fertile ground. The seeds have a very high germination rate, so many new plants sprout annually. All parts of the plant, particularly the seeds, are poisonous to mammals, birds and reptiles. As a small tree it has a spreading open crown reaching 6 to 8 feet in height. It often forms dense thickets. In the United States, the tree was introduced as a garden ornamental. The plant matures in one year and blooms the first year, too.
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sesbania_punicea.htm
1378 Sesbania punicea - Rattlebox
Chinese Rattlebox, Scarlet wisteria - one of the most impressive flowering trees. Scarlet flowers, blooms year round on and off. Interesting seed pods that rattle with wind. Nice small specimen tree that is fast growing, starts blooming in small size and takes any light and water conditions.This item is not certified for shipping to California.
Do not order it for shipping to California address.
2607 Sesbania punicea - seeds
It is a woody shrub that can grow up to 15 feet tall. The plant has bright green, drooping leaflets in opposite pairs, and the plant displays very attractive orange-red pea-like flowers in hanging clusters appearing from spring to fall.
Sesbania sesban, Sesbania aegyptiaca
Egyptian Pea
Fast growing, small size tree with pendant yellow flowers and long, slender pods. It has a long history of use in India. It has been used as a live support for black pepper, grapes, cucurbits and betel vine and as a shade tree for coffee and turmeric. Grows in a wide range of soils from loose sands to heavy clays. Tolerates saline soils. Tolerates light frosts, but will be killed by heavy frost. Yellow flowers and long, slender pods.
See picture.
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sesbania_sesban.htm
2280 Sesbania aculeata (bispinosa), Danchi - seeds
Danchi. S. bispinosa is adapted to wet, heavy soil but apparently adapts easily to drought-prone or sandy regions. It is cultivated widely in India and it is grown in rice paddies in Vietnam. The flowers are eaten as a vegetable and used in Thai and Vietnamese cuisine. It sends out fibrous, pithy stems with long leaves and bears purple-spotted yellow flowers. It produces pods which contain light brown beans
4387 Sesbania sesban (aegyptica) - seeds
Egyptian Pea. Fast growing, small size tree with pendant yellow flowers and long, slender pods. Leaves are almost blue, very pretty. It has a long history of use in India. It has been used as a live support for black pepper, grapes, cucurbits and betel vine and as a shade tree for coffee and turmeric. Grows in a wide range of soils from loose sands to heavy clays. Tolerates saline soils.
Plant seeds 1/2" deep in well drained soil mix, keep warm, damp and in bright light.
Sophora japonica, Styphnolobium japonicum
Japanese Pagoda Tree, Scholar-tree
Origin: China and Korea
It cannot grow in the shade. It requires moist soil and can tolerate drought. It can tolerate atmospheric pollution.
This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.
This species is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. The flowers and flower buds are antibacterial, anticholesterolemic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, haemostatic and hypotensive. The leaves are a rich source of rutin, they contain much more than the usual commercial source, buckwheat. The plant contains cytosine, which resembles nicotine and is similarly toxic.
Sophora japonica pendula
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sophora_japonica.htm
4385 Sophora japonica - seeds
Japanese Pagoda Tree. This handsome tree is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs.
Plant seeds 1/2" deep in well drained mix. Keep warm and damp, in bright light. May be slow germinating.
Per pack: 6 large seeds
Sophora secundiflora
Texas Mountain-Laurel
Origin: Texas and northern Mexico
A small tree with 4 to 6 inch leaves divided into seven to nine leaflets. The flowers are violet-blue, very fragrant, and occur in clusters up to 8 inches long; they bloom from February to April. The pod is furry and contains up to eight red seeds. It grows slowly in cool-summer regions. It thrives in hot sun and well-drained, alkaline soil. The soil should be kept on the dryish side except when blooming. It is propagated from seeds, which should be nicked and soaked, or from greenwood cuttings and layers. The Sophora secundiflora seeds are highly toxic and contain the alkaloid cytisine. One seed, thouroughly chewed, is said to be enough to kill an adult.
Sophora secundiflora 'Silver Peso'
Link to this plant: https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sophora_secundiflora.htm
4750 Sophora secundiflora - seeds
Texas Mountain-Laurel. A small tree. The flowers are showy, violet-blue, very fragrant, and occur in clusters up to 8 inches long; they bloom from February to April. It grows slowly in cool-summer regions. It thrives in hot sun and well-drained, alkaline soil. The soil should be kept on the dryish side except when blooming. It is propagated from seeds, which should be nicked and soaked, or from greenwood cuttings and layers. The Sophora secundiflora seeds are highly toxic.
Sophora microphylla
Sophora sp.
Kowhai
Origin: New Zealand
The Kowhai flower is national flower of New Zealand. Kowhai - 3 Genuses: Sophora tetraptera, Sophora microphylla, Sophora prostrata.
The Kowhai is a spectacular tree in spring when, almost leafless, it bursts into bright yellow flower.
Cultivation: Plant in a well-drained, reasonable soil. Wet feet will mean a disappointing or dead plant. A tangled juvenile plant it will grow to 5-7m. Water if very dry, especially when young.
Propagation: Seed or cuttings. Their seeds are resistant to saltwater, and are believed to have floated around the southern oceans, with limited evolution taking place after establishing in new lands.
Sophora tetraptera
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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 4 CHAPTER I: DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT ............................................................................... 6 CHAPTER II: PERSONALITY, OR WHAT A MAN IS ............................................................. 14 CHAPTER III: PROPERTY, OR WHAT A MAN HAS .............................................................. 36 CHAPTER IV: POSITION, OR A MANS PLACE IN THE ESTIMATION OF OTHERS ... 43
INTR ODUCTION INTRODUCTION
In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of order4
ing our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology, for it teaches us how to lead a happy existence. Such an existence might perhaps be defined as one which, looked at from a purely objective point of view, or, rather, after cool and mature reflectionfor the question necessarily involves subjective considerations,would be decidedly preferable to non-existence; implying that we should cling to it for its own sake, and not merely from the fear of death; and further, that we should never like it to come to an end. Now whether human life corresponds, or could possibly correspond, to this conception of existence, is a question to which, as is well-known, my philosophical system returns a negative answer. On the eudaemonistic hypothesis, however, the question must be answered in the affirmative; and I have shown, in the second volume of my chief work (ch. 49), that this hypothesis is based upon a fundamental mistake. Accordingly, in elaborating the scheme of a happy existence, I have had to make a complete surrender of the higher metaphysical and ethical standpoint to which my own theories
lead; and everything I shall say here will to some extent rest upon a compromise; in so far, that is, as I take the common standpoint of every day, and embrace the error which is at the bottom of it. My remarks, therefore, will possess only a qualified value, for the very word eudaemonology is a euphemism. Further, I make no claims to completeness; partly because the subject is inexhaustible, and partly because I should otherwise have to say over again what has been already said by others. The only book composed, as far as I remember, with a like purpose to that which animates this collection of aphorisms, is Cardans De utilitate ex adversis capienda, which is well worth reading, and may be used to supplement the present work. Aristotle, it is true, has a few words on eudaemonology in the fifth chapter of the first book of his Rhetoric; but what he says does not come to very much. As compilation is not my business, I have made no use of these predecessors; more especially because in the process of compiling, individuality of view is lost, and individuality of view is the kernel of works of this kind. In general, indeed, the wise in all ages have always said the same thing, and the fools, who at all times 5
form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue. For, as Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.
CHAPTER I DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT
ARISTOTLE1 DIVIDES the blessings of life into three classes those which come to us from without, those of the soul, and those of the body. Keeping nothing of this division but the number, I observe that the fundamental differences in human lot may be reduced to three distinct classes: (1) What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education. (2) What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind. (3) How a man stands in the estimation of others: by which is to be understood, as everybody knows, what a man is in 1 Eth. Nichom., I. 8. 6
the eyes of his fellowmen, or, more strictly, the light in which they regard him. This is shown by their opinion of him; and their opinion is in its turn manifested by the honor in which he is held, and by his rank and reputation. The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man; and from this fact alone we may at once infer that they influence the happiness or unhappiness of mankind in a much more vital and radical way than those contained under the two following heads, which are merely the effect of human arrangements. Compared with genuine personal advantages, such as a great mind or a great heart, all the privileges of rank or birth, even of royal birth, are but as kings on the stage, to kings in real life. The same thing was said long ago by Metrodorus, the earliest disciple of Epicurus, who wrote as the title of one of his chapters, The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings2 And it is an obvious fact, which cannot be called in question, that the principal element in a mans well-be2 Cf. Clemens Alex. Strom. II., 21.
ing,indeed, in the whole tenor of his existence,is what he is made of, his inner constitution. For this is the immediate source of that inward satisfaction or dissatisfaction resulting from the sum total of his sensations, desires and thoughts; whilst his surroundings, on the other hand, exert only a mediate or indirect influence upon him. This is why the same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own. For a man has immediate apprehension only of his own ideas, feelings and volitions; the outer world can influence him only in so far as it brings these to life. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men; to one it is barren, dull, and superficial; to another rich, interesting, and full of meaning. On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a mans experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them; to a man of genius they were interesting ad7
ventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences. This is in the highest degree the case with many of Goethes and Byrons poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of phantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful. In the same way, a person of melancholy temperament will make a scene in a tragedy out of what appears to the sanguine man only in the light of an interesting conflict, and to a phlegmatic soul as something without any meaning;all of which rests upon the fact that every event, in order to be realized and appreciated, requires the co-operation of two factors, namely, a subject and an object, although these are as closely and necessarily connected as oxygen and hydrogen in water. When therefore the objective or external factor in an experience is actually the same, but the subjective or personal appreciation of it varies, the event is just as much a different one in the eyes of different persons as if the objec-
tive factors had not been alike; for to a blunt intelligence the fairest and best object in the world presents only a poor reality, and is therefore only poorly appreciated,like a fine landscape in dull weather, or in the reflection of a bad camera obscura. In plain language, every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him. On the stage, one man is a prince, another a minister, a third a servant or a soldier or a general, and so on,mere external differences: the inner reality, the kernel of all these appearances is the samea poor player, with all the anxieties of his lot. In life it is just the same. Differences of rank and wealth give every man his part to play, but this by no means implies a difference of inward happiness and pleasure; here, too, there is the same being in alla poor mortal, with his hardships and troubles. Though these may, indeed, in every case proceed from dissimilar causes, they are in their essential nature much the same in all their forms, with degrees of intensity which vary, no doubt, but in no wise correspond to the part a man has to play, to the presence or absence of position and wealth. 8
Since everything which exists or happens for a man exists only in his consciousness and happens for it alone, the most essential thing for a man is the constitution of this consciousness, which is in most cases far more important than the circumstances which go to form its contents. All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison. The objective half of life and reality is in the hand of fate, and accordingly takes various forms in different cases: the subjective half is ourself, and in essentials is always remains the same. Hence the life of every man is stamped with the same character throughout, however much his external circumstances may alter; it is like a series of variations on a single theme. No one can get beyond his own individuality. An animal, under whatever circumstances it is placed, remains within the narrow limits to which nature has irrevocably consigned it; so that our endeavors to make a pet happy must always keep within the compass of its nature, and be restricted to what it can feel. So it is with man; the measure of the happi-
ness he can attain is determined beforehand by his individuality. More especially is this the case with the mental powers, which fix once for all his capacity for the higher kinds of pleasure. If these powers are small, no efforts from without, nothing that his fellowmen or that fortune can do for him, will suffice to raise him above the ordinary degree of human happiness and pleasure, half animal though it be; his only resources are his sensual appetite,a cozy and cheerful family life at the most,low company and vulgar pastime; even education, on the whole, can avail little, if anything, for the enlargement of his horizon. For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind. It is clear, then, that our happiness depends in a great degree upon what we are, upon our individuality, whilst lot or destiny is generally taken to mean only what we have, or our reputation. Our lot, in this sense, may improve; but we do not ask much of it if we are inwardly rich: on the other hand, a fool remains a fool, a dull blockhead, to his last hour, even though he were surrounded by houris in paradise. This is why Goethe, 9
in the West-stliclien Divan, says that every man, whether he occupies a low position in life, or emerges as its victor, testifies to personality as the greatest factor in happiness: Volk und Knecht und Uberwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hchtes Glck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Persnlichkeit. Everything confirms the fact that the subjective element in life is incomparably more important for our happiness and pleasure than the objective, from such sayings as Hunger is the best sauce, and Youth and Age cannot live together, up to the life of the Genius and the Saint. Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good consciencethese are privileges which no rank or wealth can make up for or replace. For what a man is in
himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard. A good, temperate, gentle character can be happy in needy circumstances, whilst a covetous, envious and malicious man, even if he be the richest in the world, goes miserable. Nay more; to one who has the constant delight of a special individuality, with a high degree of intellect, most of the pleasures which are run after by mankind are simply superfluous; they are even a trouble and a burden. And so Horace says of himself, that, however many are deprived of the fancy-goods of life, there is one at least who can live without them: Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena sigilla, tabellas, Argentum, vestes, Gaetulo murice tinctas Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere; 10
and when Socrates saw various articles of luxury spread out for sale, he exclaimed: How much there is in the world I do not want. So the first and most essential element in our lifes happiness is what we are,our personality, if for no other reason than that it is a constant factor coming into play under all circumstances: besides, unlike the blessings which are described under the other two heads, it is not the sport of destiny and cannot be wrested from us;and, so far, it is endowed with an absolute value in contrast to the merely relative worth of the other two. The consequence of this is that it is much more difficult than people commonly suppose to get a hold on a man from without. But here the all-powerful agent, Time, comes in and claims its rights, and before its influence physical and mental advantages gradually waste away. Moral character alone remains inaccessible to it. In view of the destructive effect of time, it seems, indeed, as if the blessings named under the other two heads, of which time cannot directly rob us, were superior to those of the first. Another advantage might be claimed for them, namely, that being in their very nature
objective and external, they are attainable, and every one is presented with the possibility, at least, of coming into possession of them; whilst what is subjective is not open to us to acquire, but making its entry by a kind of divine right, it remains for life, immutable, inalienable, an inexorable doom. Let me quote those lines in which Goethe describes how an unalterable destiny is assigned to every man at the hour of his birth, so that he can develop only in the lines laid down for him, as it were, by the conjunctions of the stars: and how the Sybil and the prophets declare that himself a man can never escape, nor any power of time avail to change the path on which his life is cast: Wie an dem Tag, der dich der Welt verliehen, De Sonne stand zum Grusse der Planeten, Bist alsobald und fort und fort gediehen, Nach dem Gesetz, wonach du angetreten. So musst du sein, dir kannst du nicht entfliehen, So tagten schon Sybillen und Propheten; Und keine Zeit, und keine Macht zerstckelt Geprgte Form, die lebend sich entwickelt. 11
The only thing that stands in our power to achieve, is to make the most advantageous use possible of the personal qualities we possess, and accordingly to follow such pursuits only as will call them into play, to strive after the kind of perfection of which they admit and to avoid every other; consequently, to choose the position, occupation and manner of life which are most suitable for their development. Imagine a man endowed with herculean strength who is compelled by circumstances to follow a sedentary occupation, some minute exquisite work of the hands, for example, or to engage in study and mental labor demanding quite other powers, and just those which he has not got,compelled, that is, to leave unused the powers in which he is preeminently strong; a man placed like this will never feel happy all his life through. Even more miserable will be the lot of the man with intellectual powers of a very high order, who has to leave them undeveloped and unemployed, in the pursuit of a calling which does not require them, some bodily labor, perhaps, for which his strength is insufficient. Still, in a case of this kind, it should be our care, especially in youth,
to avoid the precipice of presumption, and not ascribe to ourselves a superfluity of power which is not there. Since the blessings described under the first head decidedly outweigh those contained under the other two, it is manifestly a wiser course to aim at the maintenance of our health and the cultivation of our faculties, than at the amassing of wealth; but this must not be mistaken as meaning that we should neglect to acquire an adequate supply of the necessaries of life. Wealth, in the strict sense of the word, that is, great superfluity, can do little for our happiness; and many rich people feel unhappy just because they are without any true mental culture or knowledge, and consequently have no objective interests which would qualify them for intellectual occupations. For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties. And still men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man is contributes much 12
more to his happiness than what he has. So you may see many a man, as industrious as an ant, ceaselessly occupied from morning to night in the endeavor to increase his heap of gold. Beyond the narrow horizon of means to this end, he knows nothing; his mind is a blank, and consequently unsusceptible to any other influence. The highest pleasures, those of the intellect, are to him inaccessible, and he tries in vain to replace them by the fleeting pleasures of sense in which he indulges, lasting but a brief hour and at tremendous cost. And if he is lucky, his struggles result in his having a really great pile of gold, which he leaves to his heir, either to make it still larger, or to squander it in extravagance. A life like this, though pursued with a sense of earnestness and an air of importance, is just as silly as many another which has a fools cap for its symbol. What a man has in himself is, then, the chief element in his happiness. Because this is, as a rule, so very little, most of those who are placed beyond the struggle with penury feel at bottom quite as unhappy as those who are still engaged in it. Their minds are vacant, their imagination dull, their spirits poor, and so they are driven to the company of those like
themfor similis simili gaudetwhere they make common pursuit of pastime and entertainment, consisting for the most part in sensual pleasure, amusement of every kind, and finally, in excess and libertinism. A young man of rich family enters upon life with a large patrimony, and often runs through it in an incredibly short space of time, in vicious extravagance; and why? Simply because, here too, the mind is empty and void, and so the man is bored with existence. He was sent forth into the world outwardly rich but inwardly poor, and his vain endeavor was to make his external wealth compensate for his inner poverty, by trying to obtain everything from without, like an old man who seeks to strengthen himself as King David or Marchal de Rex tried to do. And so in the end one who is inwardly poor comes to be also poor outwardly. I need not insist upon the importance of the other two kinds of blessings which make up the happiness of human life; now-a-days the value of possessing them is too well known to require advertisement. The third class, it is true, may seem, compared with the second, of a very ethereal character, as it consists only of other peoples opinions. Still every 13
one has to strive for reputation, that is to say, a good name. Rank, on the other hand, should be aspired to only by those who serve the state, and fame by very few indeed. In any case, reputation is looked upon as a priceless treasure, and fame as the most precious of all the blessings a man can attain,the Golden Fleece, as it were, of the elect: whilst only fools will prefer rank to property. The second and third classes, moreover, are reciprocally cause and effect; so far, that is, as Petronius maxim, habes habeberis, is true; and conversely, the favor of others, in all its forms, often puts us in the way of getting what we want.
CHAPTER II PERSONALIT Y, OR WHA T A MAN IS ERSONALITY WHAT
WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN, in general, that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. What a man is, and so what he has in his own person, is always the chief thing to consider; for his individuality accompanies him always and everywhere, and gives its color to all his experiences. In every kind of enjoyment, for instance, the pleasure depends principally upon the man himself. Every one admits this in regard to physical, and how much truer it is of intellectual, pleasure. When we use that English expression, to enjoy ones self, we are employing a very striking and appropriate phrase; for observeone says, not he enjoys Paris, but he enjoys himself in Paris. To a man possessed of an ill-conditioned individuality, all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth made bitter with gall. Therefore, in the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met, that is, upon the kind and degree of 14
our general susceptibility. What a man is and has in himself,in a word personality, with all it entails, is the only immediate and direct factor in his happiness and welfare. All else is mediate and indirect, and its influence can be neutralized and frustrated; but the influence of personality never. This is why the envy which personal qualities excite is the most implacable of all,as it is also the most carefully dissembled. Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change. This is why Aristotle says: It is not wealth but character that lasts.1 [Greek: hae gar phusis bebion ou ta chraemata] And just for the same reason we can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn upon ourselves; for fortune may al1 Eth. Eud., vii. 2. 37.
ways change, but not character. Therefore, subjective blessings,a noble nature, a capable head, a joyful temperament, bright spirits, a well-constituted, perfectly sound physique, in a word, mens sana in corpore sano, are the first and most important elements in happiness; so that we should be more intent on promoting and preserving such qualities than on the possession of external wealth and external honor. And of all these, the one which makes us the most directly happy is a genial flow of good spirits; for this excellent quality is its own immediate reward. The man who is cheerful and merry has always a good reason for being so,the fact, namely, that he is so. There is nothing which, like this quality, can so completely replace the loss of every other blessing. If you know anyone who is young, handsome, rich and esteemed, and you want to know, further, if he is happy, ask, Is he cheerful and genial?and if he is, what does it matter whether he is young or old, straight or humpbacked, poor or rich?he is happy. In my early days I once opened an old book and found these words: If you laugh a great deal, you are happy; if you cry a great deal, you are unhappy;a very simple remark, no doubt; but just because it is so simple I have 15
never been able to forget it, even though it is in the last degree a truism. So if cheerfulness knocks at our door, we should throw it wide open, for it never comes inopportunely; instead of that, we often make scruples about letting it in. We want to be quite sure that we have every reason to be contented; then we are afraid that cheerfulness of spirits may interfere with serious reflections or weighty cares. Cheerfulness is a direct and immediate gain,the very coin, as it were, of happiness, and not, like all else, merely a cheque upon the bank; for it alone makes us immediately happy in the present moment, and that is the highest blessing for beings like us, whose existence is but an infinitesimal moment between two eternities. To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness. Now it is certain that nothing contributes so little to cheerfulness as riches, or so much, as health. Is it not in the lower classes, the so-called working classes, more especially those of them who live in the country, that we see cheerful and contented faces? and is it not amongst the rich, the upper classes, that we find faces full of ill-humor and vexation?
Consequently we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it. I need hardly say what one must do to be healthyavoid every kind of excess, all violent and unpleasant emotion, all mental overstrain, take daily exercise in the open air, cold baths and such like hygienic measures. For without a proper amount of daily exercise no one can remain healthy; all the processes of life demand exercise for the due performance of their functions, exercise not only of the parts more immediately concerned, but also of the whole body. For, as Aristotle rightly says, Life is movement; it is its very essence. Ceaseless and rapid motion goes on in every part of the organism. The heart, with its complicated double systole and diastole, beats strongly and untiringly; with twenty-eight beats it has to drive the whole of the blood through arteries, veins and capillaries; the lungs pump like a steam-engine, without intermission; the intestines are always in peristaltic action; the glands are all constantly absorbing and secreting; even the brain has a double motion of its own, with every beat of the pulse and every breath we draw. When people can get no exercise at all, as is the case with the countless numbers who are con16
demned to a sedentary life, there is a glaring and fatal disproportion between outward inactivity and inner tumult. For this ceaseless internal motion requires some external counterpart, and the want of it produces effects like those of emotion which we are obliged to suppress. Even trees must be shaken by the wind, if they are to thrive. The rule which finds its application here may be most briefly expressed in Latin: omnis motus, quo celerior, eo magis motus. How much our happiness depends upon our spirits, and these again upon our state of health, may be seen by comparing the influence which the same external circumstances or events have upon us when we are well and strong with the effects which they have when we are depressed and troubled with ill-health. It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse. As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. And, in general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends upon health alone. With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable; even the other personal blessings,a great
mind, a happy temperamentare degraded and dwarfed for want of it. So it is really with good reason that, when two people meet, the first thing they do is to inquire after each others health, and to express the hope that it is good; for good health is by far the most important element in human happiness. It follows from all this that the greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness, whatever it may be, for gain, advancement, learning or fame, let alone, then, for fleeting sensual pleasures. Everything else should rather be postponed to it. But however much health may contribute to that flow of good spirits which is so essential to our happiness, good spirits do not entirely depend upon health; for a man may be perfectly sound in his physique and still possess a melancholy temperament and be generally given up to sad thoughts. The ultimate cause of this is undoubtedly to be found in innate, and therefore unalterable, physical constitution, especially in the more or less normal relation of a mans sensitiveness to his muscular and vital energy. Abnormal sensitiveness produces inequality of spirits, a predominating melancholy, with periodical fits of unrestrained liveliness. A genius is one whose 17
nervous power or sensitiveness is largely in excess; as Aristotle1 has very correctly observed, Men distinguished in philosophy, politics, poetry or art appear to be all of a melancholy temperament. This is doubtless the passage which Cicero has in his mind when he says, as he often does, Aristoteles ait omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.2 Shakespeare has very neatly expressed this radical and innate diversity of temperament in those lines in The Merchant of Venice: Nature has framed strange fellows in her time; Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots at a bag-piper; And others of such vinegar aspect, That theyll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. This is the difference which Plato draws between [Greek: eukolos] and [Greek: dyskolos]the man of easy, and the man of difficult dispositionin proof of which he refers to the vary1 Probl. xxx., ep. 1 2 Tusc. i., 33.
ing degrees of susceptibility which different people show to pleasurable and painful impressions; so that one man will laugh at what makes another despair. As a rule, the stronger the susceptibility to unpleasant impressions, the weaker is the susceptibility to pleasant ones, and vice versa. If it is equally possible for an event to turn out well or ill, the [Greek: dyskolos] will be annoyed or grieved if the issue is unfavorable, and will not rejoice, should it be happy. On the other hand, the [Greek: eukolos] will neither worry nor fret over an unfavorable issue, but rejoice if it turns out well. If the one is successful in nine out of ten undertakings, he will not be pleased, but rather annoyed that one has miscarried; whilst the other, if only a single one succeeds, will manage to find consolation in the fact and remain cheerful. But here is another instance of the truth, that hardly any evil is entirely without its compensation; for the misfortunes and sufferings which the [Greek: auskoloi], that is, people of gloomy and anxious character, have to overcome, are, on the whole, more imaginary and therefore less real than those which befall the gay and careless; for a man who paints everything black, who constantly fears the worst and takes measures accordingly, will not be disappointed 18
so often in this world, as one who always looks upon the bright side of things. And when a morbid affection of the nerves, or a derangement of the digestive organs, plays into the hands of an innate tendency to gloom, this tendency may reach such a height that permanent discomfort produces a weariness of life. So arises an inclination to suicide, which even the most trivial unpleasantness may actually bring about; nay, when the tendency attains its worst form, it may be occasioned by nothing in particular, but a man may resolve to put an end to his existence, simply because he is permanently unhappy, and then coolly and firmly carry out his determination; as may be seen by the way in which the sufferer, when placed under supervision, as he usually is, eagerly waits to seize the first unguarded moment, when, without a shudder, without a struggle or recoil, he may use the now natural and welcome means of effecting his release.1 Even the healthiest, perhaps even the most cheerful man, may resolve upon death under certain circumstances; when, for instance, his sufferings, or his fears of some inevitable misfortune, reach such a pitch as to outweigh the 1 For a detailed description of this condition of mind Cf Esquirol, Des maladies mentales.
terrors of death. The only difference lies in the degree of suffering necessary to bring about the fatal act, a degree which will be high in the case of a cheerful, and low in that of a gloomy man. The greater the melancholy, the lower need the degree be; in the end, it may even sink to zero. But if a man is cheerful, and his spirits are supported by good health, it requires a high degree of suffering to make him lay hands upon himself. There are countless steps in the scale between the two extremes of suicide, the suicide which springs merely from a morbid intensification of innate gloom, and the suicide of the healthy and cheerful man, who has entirely objective grounds for putting an end to his existence. Beauty is partly an affair of health. It may be reckoned as a personal advantage; though it does not, properly speaking, contribute directly to our happiness. It does so indirectly, by impressing other people; and it is no unimportant advantage, even in man. Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it. As is well said in these lines of Homer, the gift of beauty is not lightly to be thrown away, that glorious gift which none can bestow save the gods alone 19
[Greek: outoi hapoblaet erti theon erikuoea dora, ossa ken autoi dosin, ekon douk an tis eloito].1 The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two. The reason of this is that each of these two poles stands in a double antagonism to the other, external or objective, and inner or subjective. Needy surroundings and poverty produce pain; while, if a man is more than well off, he is bored. Accordingly, while the lower classes are engaged in a ceaseless struggle with need, in other words, with pain, the upper carry on a constant and often desperate battle with boredom.2 The inner or subjective antagonism arises from 1 Iliad 3, 65. 2 And the extremes meet; for the lowest state of civilization, a nomad or wandering life, finds its counterpart in the highest, where everyone is at times a tourist. The earlier stage was a case of necessity; the latter is a remedy for boredom.
the fact that, in the individual, susceptibility to pain varies inversely with susceptibility to boredom, because susceptibility is directly proportionate to mental power. Let me explain. A dull mind is, as a rule, associated with dull sensibilities, nerves which no stimulus can affect, a temperament, in short, which does not feel pain or anxiety very much, however great or terrible it may be. Now, intellectual dullness is at the bottom of that vacuity of soul which is stamped on so many faces, a state of mind which betrays itself by a constant and lively attention to all the trivial circumstances in the external world. This is the true source of boredoma continual panting after excitement, in order to have a pretext for giving the mind and spirits something to occupy them. The kind of things people choose for this purpose shows that they are not very particular, as witness the miserable pastimes they have recourse to, and their ideas of social pleasure and conversation: or again, the number of people who gossip on the doorstep or gape out of the window. It is mainly because of this inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery. Nothing is so good a 20
protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows, the less room it leaves for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of thought! Finding ever new material to work upon in the multifarious phenomena of self and nature, and able and ready to form new combinations of them,there you have something that invigorates the mind, and apart from moments of relaxation, sets it far above the reach of boredom. But, on the other hand, this high degree of intelligence is rooted in a high degree of susceptibility, greater strength of will, greater passionateness; and from the union of these qualities comes an increased capacity for emotion, an enhanced sensibility to all mental and even bodily pain, greater impatience of obstacles, greater resentment of interruption; all of which tendencies are augmented by the power of the imagination, the vivid character of the whole range of thought, including what is disagreeable. This applies, in various degrees, to every step in the long scale of mental power, from the veriest dunce to the greatest genius that ever lived. Therefore the nearer anyone is, either from a subjective or from an objective point of view, to one of those sources of
suffering in human life, the farther he is from the other. And so a mans natural bent will lead him to make his objective world conform to his subjective as much as possible; that is to say, he will take the greatest measures against that form of suffering to which he is most liable. The wise man will, above all, strive after freedom from pain and annoyance, quiet and leisure, consequently a tranquil, modest life, with as few encounters as may be; and so, after a little experience of his socalled fellowmen, he will elect to live in retirement, or even, if he is a man of great intellect, in solitude. For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people, the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True, if quality of intellect could be made up for by quantity, it might be worth while to live even in the great world; but unfortunately, a hundred fools together will not make one wise man. But the individual who stands at the other end of the scale is no sooner free from the pangs of need than he endeavors to get pastime and society at any cost, taking up with the first person he meets, and avoiding nothing so much as him21
self. For in solitude, where every one is thrown upon his own resources, what a man has in himself comes to light; the fool in fine raiment groans under the burden of his miserable personality, a burden which he can never throw off, whilst the man of talent peoples the waste places with his animating thoughts. Seneca declares that folly is its own burden, omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui,a very true saying, with which may be compared the words of Jesus, the son of Sirach, The life of a fool is worse than death1. And, as a rule, it will be found that a man is sociable just in the degree in which he is intellectually poor and generally vulgar. For ones choice in this world does not go much beyond solitude on one side and vulgarity on the other. It is said that the most sociable of all people are the negroes; and they are at the bottom of the scale in intellect. I remember reading once in a French paper2 that the blacks in North America, whether free or enslaved, are fond of shutting themselves up in large numbers in the smallest space, because they cannot have too much of one anothers snub-nosed company. 1 Ecclesiasticus, xxii. 11. 2 Le Commerce, Oct. 19th, 1837.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body: and leisure, that is, the time one has for the free enjoyment of ones consciousness or individuality, is the fruit or produce of the rest of existence, which is in general only labor and effort. But what does most peoples leisure yield?boredom and dullness; except, of course, when it is occupied with sensual pleasure or folly. How little such leisure is worth may be seen in the way in which it is spent: and, as Ariosto observes, how miserable are the idle hours of ignorant men!ozio lungo duomini ignoranti. Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it. The reason why people of limited intellect are apt to be bored is that their intellect is absolutely nothing more than the means by which the motive power of the will is put into force: and whenever there is nothing particular to set the will in motion, it rests, and their intellect takes a holiday, because, equally with the will, it requires something external to bring it into play. The result is an awful stagnation of whatever power a man hasin a word, boredom. To counteract this miserable feeling, men run to trivialities which please for the moment 22
they are taken up, hoping thus to engage the will in order to rouse it to action, and so set the intellect in motion; for it is the latter which has to give effect to these motives of the will. Compared with real and natural motives, these are but as paper money to coin; for their value is only arbitrarycard games and the like, which have been invented for this very purpose. And if there is nothing else to be done, a man will twirl his thumbs or beat the devils tattoo; or a cigar may be a welcome substitute for exercising his brains. Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing,1 and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one anothers money. Idiots! But I do not wish to be unjust; so let me remark that it may certainly be said in defence of card-playing that it is a preparation for the world and for business life, because one learns thereby how to make a clever use of fortuitous but unalterable circumstances (cards, in this case), and to get as much out of them as one 1 Translators Note.Card-playing to this extent is now, no doubt, a thing of the past, at any rate amongst the nations of northern Europe. The present fashion is rather in favor of a dilettante interest in art or literature.
can: and to do this a man must learn a little dissimulation, and how to put a good face upon a bad business. But, on the other hand, it is exactly for this reason that card-playing is so demoralizing, since the whole object of it is to employ every kind of trick and machination in order to win what belongs to another. And a habit of this sort, learnt at the card-table, strikes root and pushes its way into practical life; and in the affairs of every day a man gradually comes to regard meum and tuum in much the same light as cards, and to consider that he may use to the utmost whatever advantages he possesses, so long as he does not come within the arm of the law. Examples of what I mean are of daily occurrence in mercantile life. Since, then, leisure is the flower, or rather the fruit, of existence, as it puts a man into possession of himself, those are happy indeed who possess something real in themselves. But what do you get from most peoples leisure?only a good-for-nothing fellow, who is terribly bored and a burden to himself. Let us, therefore, rejoice, dear brethren, for we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Further, as no land is so well off as that which requires few imports, or none at all, so the happiest man is one who has 23
enough in his own inner wealth, and requires little or nothing from outside for his maintenance, for imports are expensive things, reveal dependence, entail danger, occasion trouble, and when all is said and done, are a poor substitute for home produce. No man ought to expect much from others, or, in general, from the external world. What one human being can be to another is not a very great deal: in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone. Here, then, is another application of the general truth which Goethe recognizes in Dichtung und Wahrheit (Bk. III.), that in everything a man has ultimately to appeal to himself; or, as Goldsmith puts it in The Traveller: Still to ourselves in every place consignd Our own felicity we make or find. Himself is the source of the best and most a man can be or achieve. The more this is sothe more a man finds his sources of pleasure in himselfthe happier he will be. Therefore, it is with great truth that Aristotle1 says, To be happy means to 1 Eth. Eud, vii 2.
be self-sufficient. For all other sources of happiness are in their nature most uncertain, precarious, fleeting, the sport of chance; and so even under the most favorable circumstances they can easily be exhausted; nay, this is unavoidable, because they are not always within reach. And in old age these sources of happiness must necessarily dry up:love leaves us then, and wit, desire to travel, delight in horses, aptitude for social intercourse; friends and relations, too, are taken from us by death. Then more than ever, it depends upon what a man has in himself; for this will stick to him longest; and at any period of life it is the only genuine and lasting source of happiness. There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; and if a man escapes these, boredom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly makes the most noise. Fate is cruel, and mankind is pitiable. In such a world as this, a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night. Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be 24
possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one. There was a great wisdom in that remark which Queen Christina of Sweden made, in her nineteenth year, about Descartes, who had then lived for twenty years in the deepest solitude in Holland, and, apart from report, was known to her only by a single essay: M. Descartes, she said, is the happiest of men, and his condition seems to me much to be envied.1 Of course, as was the case with Descartes, external circumstances must be favorable enough to allow a man to be master of his life and happiness; or, as we read in Ecclesiastes2Wisdom is good together with an inheritance, and profitable unto them that see the sun. The man to whom nature and fate have granted the blessing of wisdom, will be most anxious and careful to keep open the fountains of happiness which he has in himself; and for this, independence and leisure are necessary. To obtain them, he will be willing to moderate his desires and harbor his resources, all the more 1 Vie de Descartes, par Baillet. Liv. vii., ch. 10. 2 vii. 12.
because he is not, like others, restricted to the external world for his pleasures. So he will not be misled by expectations of office, or money, or the favor and applause of his fellowmen, into surrendering himself in order to conform to low desires and vulgar tastes; nay, in such a case he will follow the advice that Horace gives in his epistle to Maecenas.1 Nec somnum plebis laudo, satur altilium, nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto. It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man, to give the whole or the greater part of ones quiet, leisure and independence for splendor, rank, pomp, titles and honor. This is what Goethe did. My good luck drew me quite in the other direction. The truth which I am insisting upon here, the truth, namely, that the chief source of human happiness is internal, is confirmed by that most accurate observation of Aristotle in the Nichomachean Ethics2 that every pleasure pre1 Lib. 1., ep. 7. 2 i. 7 and vii. 13, 14. 25
supposes some sort of activity, the application of some sort of power, without which it cannot exist. The doctrine of Aristotles, that a mans happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties, is also enunciated by Stobaeus in his exposition of the Peripatetic philosophy3 happiness, he says, means vigorous and successful activity in all your undertakings; and he explains that by vigor [Greek: aretae] he means mastery in any thing, whatever it be. Now, the original purpose of those forces with which nature has endowed man is to enable him to struggle against the difficulties which beset him on all sides. But if this struggle comes to an end, his unemployed forces become a burden to him; and he has to set to work and play with them,to use them, I mean, for no purpose at all, beyond avoiding the other source of human suffering, boredom, to which he is at once exposed. It is the upper classes, people of wealth, who are the greatest victims of boredom. Lucretius long ago described their miserable state, and the truth of his description may be still recognized to-day, in the life of every great capitalwhere the rich man is seldom in his own halls, because it bores him to 3 Ecl. eth. ii., ch 7.
be there, and still he returns thither, because he is no better off outside;or else he is away in post-haste to his house in the country, as if it were on fire; and he is no sooner arrived there, than he is bored again, and seeks to forget everything in sleep, or else hurries back to town once more. Exit saepe foras magnis ex aedibus ille, Esse domi quem pertaesum est, subitoque reventat, Quippe foris nihilo melius qui sentiat esse. Currit, agens mannos, ad villam precipitanter, Auxilium tectis quasi ferre ardentibus instans: Oscitat extemplo, tetigit quum limina villae; Aut abit in somnum gravis, atque oblivia quaerit; Aut etiam properans urbem petit atque revisit.1 In their youth, such people must have had a superfluity of muscular and vital energy,powers which, unlike those of the mind, cannot maintain their full degree of vigor very long; and in later years they either have no mental powers at all, or cannot develop any for want of employment which 1 III 1073. 26
would bring them into play; so that they are in a wretched plight. Will, however, they still possess, for this is the only power that is inexhaustible; and they try to stimulate their will by passionate excitement, such as games of chance for high stakesundoubtedly a most degrading form of vice. And one may say generally that if a man finds himself with nothing to do, he is sure to choose some amusement suited to the kind of power in which he excels,bowls, it may be, or chess; hunting or painting; horse-racing or music; cards, or poetry, heraldry, philosophy, or some other dilettante interest. We might classify these interests methodically, by reducing them to expressions of the three fundamental powers, the factors, that is to say, which go to make up the physiological constitution of man; and further, by considering these powers by themselves, and apart from any of the definite aims which they may subserve, and simply as affording three sources of possible pleasure, out of which every man will choose what suits him, according as he excels in one direction or another. First of all come the pleasures of vital energy, of food, drink, digestion, rest and sleep; and there are parts of the world
where it can be said that these are characteristic and national pleasures. Secondly, there are the pleasures of muscular energy, such as walking, running, wrestling, dancing, fencing, riding and similar athletic pursuits, which sometimes take the form of sport, and sometimes of a military life and real warfare. Thirdly, there are the pleasures of sensibility, such as observation, thought, feeling, or a taste for poetry or culture, music, learning, reading, meditation, invention, philosophy and the like. As regards the value, relative worth and duration of each of these kinds of pleasure, a great deal might be said, which, however, I leave the reader to supply. But every one will see that the nobler the power which is brought into play, the greater will be the pleasure which it gives; for pleasure always involves the use of ones own powers, and happiness consists in a frequent repetition of pleasure. No one will deny that in this respect the pleasures of sensibility occupy a higher place than either of the other two fundamental kinds; which exist in an equal, nay, in a greater degree in brutes; it is this preponderating amount of sensibility which distinguishes man from other animals. Now, our mental powers are forms of sensibility, and therefore a prepon27
derating amount of it makes us capable of that kind of pleasure which has to do with mind, so-called intellectual pleasure; and the more sensibility predominates, the greater the pleasure will be.1 1 Nature exhibits a continual progress, starting from the mechanical and chemical activity of the inorganic world, proceeding to the vegetable, with its dull enjoyment of self, from that to the animal world, where intelligence and consciousness begin, at first very weak, and only after many intermediate stages attaining its last great development in man, whose intellect is Natures crowning point, the goal of all her efforts, the most perfect and difficult of all her works. And even within the range of the human intellect, there are a great many observable differences of degree, and it is very seldom that intellect reaches its highest point, intelligence properly so-called, which in this narrow and strict sense of the word, is Natures most consummate product, and so the rarest and most precious thing of which the world can boast. The highest product of Nature is the clearest degree of consciousness, in which the world mirrors itself more plainly and completely than anywhere else. A man endowed with this form of intelligence is in possession of what is noblest and best on earth; and accordingly, he has a source of pleasure in comparison with which all others are small. From his surroundings he asks nothing but leisure for the free enjoy-
The normal, ordinary man takes a vivid interest in anything only in so far as it excites his will, that is to say, is a matter of personal interest to him. But constant excitement of the will is never an unmixed good, to say the least; in other words, it involves pain. Card-playing, that universal occupation of good society everywhere, is a device for providing this kind of excitement, and that, too, by means of interests so small as to produce slight and momentary, inment of what he has got, time, as it were, to polish his diamond. All other pleasures that are not of the intellect are of a lower kind; for they are, one and all, movements of will desires, hopes, fears and ambitions, no matter to what directed: they are always satisfied at the cost of pain, and in the case of ambition, generally with more or less of illusion. With intellectual pleasure, on the other hand, truth becomes clearer and clearer. In the realm of intelligence pain has no power. Knowledge is all in all. Further, intellectual pleasures are accessible entirely and only through the medium of the intelligence, and are limited by its capacity. For all the wit there is in the world is useless to him who has none. Still this advantage is accompanied by a substantial disadvantage; for the whole of Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. 28
stead of real and permanent, pain. Card-playing is, in fact, a mere tickling of the will.1 1 Vulgarity is, at bottom, the kind of consciousness in which the will completely predominates over the intellect, where the latter does nothing more than perform the service of its master, the will. Therefore, when the will makes no demands, supplies no motives, strong or weak, the intellect entirely loses its power, and the result is complete vacancy of mind. Now will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made. This is the condition of mind called vulgarity, in which the only active elements are the organs of sense, and that small amount of intellect which is necessary for apprehending the data of sense. Accordingly, the vulgar man is constantly open to all sorts of impressions, and immediately perceives all the little trifling things that go on in his environment: the lightest whisper, the most trivial circumstance, is sufficient to rouse his attention; he is just like an animal. Such a mans mental condition reveals itself in his face, in his whole exterior; and hence that vulgar, repulsive appearance, which is all the more offensive, if, as is usually the case, his willthe only factor in his consciousnessis a base, selfish and altogether bad one.
On the other hand, a man of powerful intellect is capable of taking a vivid interest in things in the way of mere knowledge, with no admixture of will; nay, such an interest is a necessity to him. It places him in a sphere where pain is an alien,a diviner air, where the gods live serene. [Greek: phusis bebion ou ta chraematatheoi reia xoontes]1 Look on these two picturesthe life of the masses, one long, dull record of struggle and effort entirely devoted to the petty interests of personal welfare, to misery in all its forms, a life beset by intolerable boredom as soon as ever those aims are satisfied and the man is thrown back upon himself, whence he can be roused again to some sort of movement only by the wild fire of passion. On the other side you have a man endowed with a high degree of mental power, leading an existence rich in thought and full of life and meaning, occupied by worthy and interesting objects as soon as ever he is free to give himself to them, bearing in himself a source of the noblest pleasure. What external promptings he 1 Odyssey IV., 805. 29
wants come from the works of nature, and from the contemplation of human affairs and the achievements of the great of all ages and countries, which are thoroughly appreciated by a man of this type alone, as being the only one who can quite understand and feel with them. And so it is for him alone that those great ones have really lived; it is to him that they make their appeal; the rest are but casual hearers who only half understand either them or their followers. Of course, this characteristic of the intellectual man implies that he has one more need than the others, the need of reading, observing, studying, meditating, practising, the need, in short, of undisturbed leisure. For, as Voltaire has very rightly said, there are no real pleasures without real needs; and the need of them is why to such a man pleasures are accessible which are denied to others,the varied beauties of nature and art and literature. To heap these pleasures round people who do not want them and cannot appreciate them, is like expecting gray hairs to fall in love. A man who is privileged in this respect leads two lives, a personal and an intellectual life; and the latter gradually comes to be looked upon as the true one, and the former as merely a means to it. Other people make
this shallow, empty and troubled existence an end in itself. To the life of the intellect such a man will give the preference over all his other occupations: by the constant growth of insight and knowledge, this intellectual life, like a slowly-forming work of art, will acquire a consistency, a permanent intensity, a unity which becomes ever more and more complete; compared with which, a life devoted to the attainment of personal comfort, a life that may broaden indeed, but can never be deepened, makes but a poor show: and yet, as I have said, people make this baser sort of existence an end in itself. The ordinary life of every day, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid; and if it is so moved, it soon becomes painful. Those alone are happy whom nature has favored with some superfluity of intellect, something beyond what is just necessary to carry out the behests of their will; for it enables them to lead an intellectual life as well, a life unattended by pain and full of vivid interests. Mere leisure, that is to say, intellect unoccupied in the service of the will, is not of itself sufficient: there must be a real superfluity of power, set free from the service of the will and devoted to that of the intellect; for, as Seneca says, otium sine litteris 30
mors est et vivi hominis sepulturailliterate leisure is a form of death, a living tomb. Varying with the amount of the superfluity, there will be countless developments in this second life, the life of the mind; it may be the mere collection and labelling of insects, birds, minerals, coins, or the highest achievements of poetry and philosophy. The life of the mind is not only a protection against boredom; it also wards off the pernicious effects of boredom; it keeps us from bad company, from the many dangers, misfortunes, losses and extravagances which the man who places his happiness entirely in the objective world is sure to encounter, My philosophy, for instance, has never brought me in a six-pence; but it has spared me many an expense. The ordinary man places his lifes happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. In other words, his centre of gravity is not in himself; it is constantly changing its place, with every wish and whim. If he is a man of means, one day it will be his house in the country, another buying horses, or entertaining friends,
or traveling,a life, in short, of general luxury, the reason being that he seeks his pleasure in things outside him. Like one whose health and strength are gone, he tries to regain by the use of jellies and drugs, instead of by developing his own vital power, the true source of what he has lost. Before proceeding to the opposite, let us compare with this common type the man who comes midway between the two, endowed, it may be, not exactly with distinguished powers of mind, but with somewhat more than the ordinary amount of intellect. He will take a dilettante interest in art, or devote his attention to some branch of sciencebotany, for example, or physics, astronomy, history, and find a great deal of pleasure in such studies, and amuse himself with them when external forces of happiness are exhausted or fail to satisfy him any more. Of a man like this it may be said that his centre of gravity is partly in himself. But a dilettante interest in art is a very different thing from creative activity; and an amateur pursuit of science is apt to be superficial and not to penetrate to the heart of the matter. A man cannot entirely identify himself with such pursuits, or have his whole existence so completely filled and permeated with them that he 31
loses all interest in everything else. It is only the highest intellectual power, what we call genius, that attains to this degree of intensity, making all time and existence its theme, and striving to express its peculiar conception of the world, whether it contemplates life as the subject of poetry or of philosophy. Hence, undisturbed occupation with himself, his own thoughts and works, is a matter of urgent necessity to such a man; solitude is welcome, leisure is the highest good, and everything else is unnecessary, nay, even burdensome. This is the only type of man of whom it can be said that his centre of gravity is entirely in himself; which explains why it is that people of this sortand they are very rare no matter how excellent their character may be, do not show that warm and unlimited interest in friends, family, and the community in general, of which others are so often capable; for if they have only themselves they are not inconsolable for the loss of everything else. This gives an isolation to their character, which is all the more effective since other people never really quite satisfy them, as being, on the whole, of a different nature: nay more, since this difference is constantly forcing itself upon their notice they get accustomed to move
about amongst mankind as alien beings, and in thinking of humanity in general, to say they instead of we. So the conclusion we come to is that the man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest; so true it is that the subjective concerns us more than the objective; for whatever the latter may be, it can work only indirectly, secondly, and through the medium of the formera truth finely expressed by Lucian: [Greek: Aeloutos ho taes psychaes ploutus monos estin alaethaes Talla dechei ataen pleiona ton kteanon]1 the wealth of the soul is the only true wealth, for with all other riches comes a bane even greater than they. The man of inner wealth wants nothing from outside but the negative gift of undisturbed leisure, to develop and mature his intellectual faculties, that is, to enjoy his wealth; in short, he wants permission to be himself, his whole life long, every day and every hour. If he is destined to impress the character of his mind upon a whole race, he has only one measure of happi1 Epigrammata, 12. 32
ness or unhappinessto succeed or fail in perfecting his powers and completing his work. All else is of small consequence. Accordingly, the greatest minds of all ages have set the highest value upon undisturbed leisure, as worth exactly as much as the man himself. Happiness appears to consist in leisure, says Aristotle;2 and Diogenes Laertius reports that Socrates praised leisure as the fairest of all possessions. So, in the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle concludes that a life devoted to philosophy is the happiest; or, as he says in the Politics,3 the free exercise of any power, whatever it may be, is happiness. This again, tallies with what Goethe says in Wilhelm Meister: The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it. But to be in possession of undisturbed leisure, is far from being the common lot; nay, it is something alien to human nature, for the ordinary mans destiny is to spend life in procuring what is necessary for the subsistence of himself and his family; he is a son of struggle and need, not a free intelligence. So people as a rule soon get tired of undisturbed lei2 Eth. Nichom. x. 7. 3: iv. 11.
sure, and it becomes burdensome if there are no fictitious and forced aims to occupy it, play, pastime and hobbies of every kind. For this very reason it is full of possible danger, and difficilis in otio quies is a true saying,it is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do. On the other hand, a measure of intellect far surpassing the ordinary, is as unnatural as it is abnormal. But if it exists, and the man endowed with it is to be happy, he will want precisely that undisturbed leisure which the others find burdensome or pernicious; for without it he is a Pegasus in harness, and consequently unhappy. If these two unnatural circumstances, external, and internal, undisturbed leisure and great intellect, happen to coincide in the same person, it is a great piece of fortune; and if the fate is so far favorable, a man can lead the higher life, the life protected from the two opposite sources of human suffering, pain and boredom, from the painful struggle for existence, and the incapacity for enduring leisure (which is free existence itself )evils which may be escaped only by being mutually neutralized. But there is something to be said in opposition to this view. Great intellectual gifts mean an activity pre-eminently ner33
vous in its character, and consequently a very high degree of susceptibility to pain in every form. Further, such gifts imply an intense temperament, larger and more vivid ideas, which, as the inseparable accompaniment of great intellectual power, entail on its possessor a corresponding intensity of the emotions, making them incomparably more violent than those to which the ordinary man is a prey. Now, there are more things in the world productive of pain than of pleasure. Again, a large endowment of intellect tends to estrange the man who has it from other people and their doings; for the more a man has in himself, the less he will be able to find in them; and the hundred things in which they take delight, he will think shallow and insipid. Here, then, perhaps, is another instance of that law of compensation which makes itself felt everywhere. How often one hears it said, and said, too, with some plausibility, that the narrow-minded man is at bottom the happiest, even though his fortune is unenviable. I shall make no attempt to forestall the readers own judgment on this point; more especially as Sophocles himself has given utterance to two diametrically opposite opinions:
[Greek: Pollo to phronein eudaimonias proton uparchei.]1 he says in one placewisdom is the greatest part of happiness; and again, in another passage, he declares that the life of the thoughtless is the most pleasant of all [Greek: En ta phronein gar maeden aedistos bios.]2 The philosophers of the Old Testament find themselves in a like contradiction. The life of a fool is worse than death3 and In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.4 1 Antigone, 1347-8. 2 Ajax, 554. 3 Ecclesiasticus, xxii. 11. 4 Ecclesiastes, i. 18. 34
I may remark, however, that a man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistinean expression at first peculiar to the German language, a kind of slang term at the Universities, afterwards used, by analogy, in a higher sense, though still in its original meaning, as denoting one who is not a Son of the Muses. A philistine is and remains [Greek: amousos anaer]. I should prefer to take a higher point of view, and apply the term philistine to people who are always seriously occupied with realities which are no realities; but as such a definition would be a transcendental one, and therefore not generally intelligible, it would hardly be in place in the present treatise, which aims at being popular. The other definition can be more easily elucidated, indicating, as it does, satisfactorily enough, the essential nature of all those qualities which distinguish the philistine. He is defined to be a man without mental needs. From this is follows, firstly, in relation to himself, that he has no intellectual pleasures; for, as was remarked before, there are no real pleasures without real needs. The philistines life is animated by no desire to gain knowledge and insight for
their own sake, or to experience that true aeesthetic pleasure which is so nearly akin to them. If pleasures of this kind are fashionable, and the philistine finds himself compelled to pay attention to them, he will force himself to do so, but he will take as little interest in them as possible. His only real pleasures are of a sensual kind, and he thinks that these indemnify him for the loss of the others. To him oysters and champagne are the height of existence; the aim of his life is to procure what will contribute to his bodily welfare, and he is indeed in a happy way if this causes him some trouble. If the luxuries of life are heaped upon him, he will inevitably be bored, and against boredom he has a great many fancied remedies, balls, theatres, parties, cards, gambling, horses, women, drinking, traveling and so on; all of which can not protect a man from being bored, for where there are no intellectual needs, no intellectual pleasures are possible. The peculiar characteristic of the philistine is a dull, dry kind of gravity, akin to that of animals. Nothing really pleases, or excites, or interests him, for sensual pleasure is quickly exhausted, and the society of philistines soon becomes burdensome, and one may even get tired of playing cards. True, 35
the pleasures of vanity are left, pleasures which he enjoys in his own way, either by feeling himself superior in point of wealth, or rank, or influence and power to other people, who thereupon pay him honor; or, at any rate, by going about with those who have a superfluity of these blessings, sunning himself in the reflection of their splendorwhat the English call a snob. From the essential nature of the philistine it follows, secondly, in regard to others, that, as he possesses no intellectual, but only physical need, he will seek the society of those who can satisfy the latter, but not the former. The last thing he will expect from his friends is the possession of any sort of intellectual capacity; nay, if he chances to meet with it, it will rouse his antipathy and even hatred; simply because in addition to an unpleasant sense of inferiority, he experiences, in his heart, a dull kind of envy, which has to be carefully concealed even from himself. Nevertheless, it sometimes grows into a secret feeling of rancor. But for all that, it will never occur to him to make his own ideas of worth or value conform to the standard of such qualities; he will continue to give the preference to rank and riches, power and influ-
ence, which in his eyes seem to be the only genuine advantages in the world; and his wish will be to excel in them himself. All this is the consequence of his being a man without intellectual needs. The great affliction of all philistines is that they have no interest in ideas, and that, to escape being bored, they are in constant need of realities. But realities are either unsatisfactory or dangerous; when they lose their interest, they become fatiguing. But the ideal world is illimitable and calm, something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
CHAPTER III PR OP ER T Y, OR WHA T A MAN HAS PROP OPER ERT WHAT
EPICURUS DIVIDES the needs of mankind into three classes, and the division made by this great professor of happiness is a true and a fine one. First come natural and necessary needs, such as, when not satisfied, produce pain,food and clothing, victus et amictus, needs which can easily be satisfied. Secondly, there are those needs which, though natural, are not necessary, such as the gratification of certain of the senses. I may add, however, that in the report given by Diogenes Laertius, Epicurus does not mention which of the senses he means; so that on this point my account of his doctrine is somewhat more definite and exact than the original. These are needs rather more difficult to satisfy. The third class consists of needs which are neither natural nor necessary, the need of luxury and prodigality, show and splendor, which never come to an end, and are very hard to satisfy.1 1 Cf. Diogenes Laertius, Bk. x., ch. xxvii., pp. 127 and 149; also Cicero de finibus, i., 13. 36
NOTE.In these remarks on the personal qualities which go to make happiness, I have been mainly concerned with the physical and intellectual nature of man. For an account of the direct and immediate influence of morality upon happiness, let me refer to my prize essay on The Foundation of Morals (Sec. 22.)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limits which reason should impose on the desire for wealth; for there is no absolute or definite amount of wealth which will satisfy a man. The amount is always relative, that is to say, just so much as will maintain the proportion between what he wants and what he gets; for to measure a mans happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator. A man never feels the loss of things which it never occurs to him to ask for; he is just as happy without them; whilst another, who may have a hundred times as much, feels miserable because he has not got the one thing he wants. In fact, here too, every man has an horizon of his own, and he will expect as much as he thinks it is possible for him to get. If an object within his horizon looks as though he could confidently reckon on getting it, he is happy; but if difficulties come in the way, he is miserable. What lies beyond his horizon has no effect at all upon him. So it is that the vast possessions of the rich do not agitate the poor, and conversely, that a wealthy man is not consoled by all his wealth for the failure of his hopes. Riches, 37
one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame. The loss of wealth and prosperity leaves a man, as soon as the first pangs of grief are over, in very much the same habitual temper as before; and the reason of this is, that as soon as fate diminishes the amount of his possessions, he himself immediately reduces the amount of his claims. But when misfortune comes upon us, to reduce the amount of our claims is just what is most painful; once that we have done so, the pain becomes less and less, and is felt no more; like an old wound which has healed. Conversely, when a piece of good fortune befalls us, our claims mount higher and higher, as there is nothing to regulate them; it is in this feeling of expansion that the delight of it lies. But it lasts no longer than the process itself, and when the expansion is complete, the delight ceases; we have become accustomed to the increase in our claims, and consequently indifferent to the amount of wealth which satisfies them. There is a passage in the Odyssey1 illustrating this truth, of which I may quote the last two lines: 1 xviii., 130-7.
[Greek: Toios gar noos estin epichthonion anthropon Oion eth aemar agei pataer andron te theou te] the thoughts of man that dwells on the earth are as the day granted him by the father of gods and men. Discontent springs from a constant endeavor to increase the amount of our claims, when we are powerless to increase the amount which will satisfy them. When we consider how full of needs the human race is, how its whole existence is based upon them, it is not a matter for surprise that wealth is held in more sincere esteem, nay, in greater honor, than anything else in the world; nor ought we to wonder that gain is made the only good of life, and everything that does not lead to it pushed aside or thrown overboardphilosophy, for instance, by those who profess it. People are often reproached for wishing for money above all things, and for loving it more than anything else; but it is natural and even inevitable for people to love that which, like an unwearied Proteus, is always ready to turn itself into whatever object their wandering wishes or manifold desires 38
may for the moment fix upon. Everything else can satisfy only one wish, one need: food is good only if you are hungry; wine, if you are able to enjoy it; drugs, if you are sick; fur for the winter; love for youth, and so on. These are all only relatively good, [Greek: agatha pros ti]. Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. If a man has an independent fortune, he should regard it as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes which he may encounter; he should not look upon it as giving him leave to get what pleasure he can out of the world, or as rendering it incumbent upon him to spend it in this way. People who are not born with a fortune, but end by making a large one through the exercise of whatever talents they possess, almost always come to think that their talents are their capital, and that the money they have gained is merely the interest upon it; they do not lay by a part of their earnings to form a permanent capital, but spend their money much as they have earned it. Accordingly, they often fall into poverty; their earnings decreased, or come to an end altogether, either because their talent is exhausted by becoming anti-
quated,as, for instance, very often happens in the case of fine art; or else it was valid only under a special conjunction of circumstances which has now passed away. There is nothing to prevent those who live on the common labor of their hands from treating their earnings in that way if they like; because their kind of skill is not likely to disappear, or, if it does, it can be replaced by that of their fellow-workmen; morever, the kind of work they do is always in demand; so that what the proverb says is quite true, a useful trade is a mine of gold. But with artists and professionals of every kind the case is quite different, and that is the reason why they are well paid. They ought to build up a capital out of their earnings; but they recklessly look upon them as merely interest, and end in ruin. On the other hand, people who inherit money know, at least, how to distinguish between capital and interest, and most of them try to make their capital secure and not encroach upon it; nay, if they can, they put by at least an eighth of their interests in order to meet future contingencies. So most of them maintain their position. These few remarks about capital and interest are not applicable to commercial life, for merchants look upon money only as a 39
means of further gain, just as a workman regards his tools; so even if their capital has been entirely the result of their own efforts, they try to preserve and increase it by using it. Accordingly, wealth is nowhere so much at home as in the merchant class. It will generally be found that those who know what it is to have been in need and destitution are very much less afraid of it, and consequently more inclined to extravagance, than those who know poverty only by hearsay. People who have been born and bred in good circumstances are as a rule much more careful about the future, more economical, in fact, than those who, by a piece of good luck, have suddenly passed from poverty to wealth. This looks as if poverty were not really such a very wretched thing as it appears from a distance. The true reason, however, is rather the fact that the man who has been born into a position of wealth comes to look upon it as something without which he could no more live than he could live without air; he guards it as he does his very life; and so he is generally a lover of order, prudent and economical. But the man who has been born into a poor position looks upon it as the natural one, and if by any chance
he comes in for a fortune, he regards it as a superfluity, something to be enjoyed or wasted, because, if it comes to an end, he can get on just as well as before, with one anxiety the less; or, as Shakespeare says in Henry VI.,1 the adage must be verified That beggars mounted run their horse to death. But it should be said that people of this kind have a firm and excessive trust, partly in fate, partly in the peculiar means which have already raised them out of need and poverty,a trust not only of the head, but of the heart also; and so they do not, like the man born rich, look upon the shallows of poverty as bottomless, but console themselves with the thought that once they have touched ground again, they can take another upward flight. It is this trait in human character which explains the fact that women who were poor before their marriage often make greater claims, and are more extravagant, than those who have brought their husbands a rich dowry; because, as a rule, rich girls bring with them, not 1 Part III., Act 1., Sc. 4. 40
only a fortune, but also more eagerness, nay, more of the inherited instinct, to preserve it, than poor girls do. If anyone doubts the truth of this, and thinks that it is just the opposite, he will find authority for his view in Ariostos first Satire; but, on the other hand, Dr. Johnson agrees with my opinion. A woman of fortune, he says, being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gusto in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.2 And in any case let me advise anyone who marries a poor girl not to leave her the capital but only the interest, and to take especial care that she has not the management of the childrens fortune. I do not by any means think that I am touching upon a subject which is not worth my while to mention when I recommend people to be careful to preserve what they have earned or inherited. For to start life with just as much as will make one independent, that is, allow one to live comfortably without having to workeven if one has only just enough for oneself, not to speak of a familyis an advan2 Boswells Life of Johnson: ann: 1776, aetat: 67.
tage which cannot be over-estimated; for it means exemption and immunity from that chronic disease of penury, which fastens on the life of man like a plague; it is emancipation from that forced labor which is the natural lot of every mortal. Only under a favorable fate like this can a man be said to be born free, to be, in the proper sense of the word, sui juris, master of his own time and powers, and able to say every morning, This day is my own. And just for the same reason the difference between the man who has a hundred a year and the man who has a thousand, is infinitely smaller than the difference between the former and a man who has nothing at all. But inherited wealth reaches its utmost value when it falls to the individual endowed with mental powers of a high order, who is resolved to pursue a line of life not compatible with the making of money; for he is then doubly endowed by fate and can live for his genius; and he will pay his debt to mankind a hundred times, by achieving what no other could achieve, by producing some work which contributes to the general good, and redounds to the honor of humanity at large. Another, again, may use his wealth to further philanthropic schemes, and make himself well-de41
serving of his fellowmen. But a man who does none of these things, who does not even try to do them, who never attempts to learn the rudiments of any branch of knowledge so that he may at least do what he can towards promoting itsuch a one, born as he is into riches, is a mere idler and thief of time, a contemptible fellow. He will not even be happy, because, in his case, exemption from need delivers him up to the other extreme of human suffering, boredom, which is such martyrdom to him, that he would have been better off if poverty had given him something to do. And as he is bored he is apt to be extravagant, and so lose the advantage of which he showed himself unworthy. Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them. It is quite another matter if ones object is success in political life, where favor, friends and connections are all-important, in order to mount by their aid step by step on the ladder of promotion, and perhaps gain the topmost rung. In this kind of life, it is much better to be cast upon the world without a penny; and if the aspirant is not of noble family,
but is a man of some talent, it will redound to his advantage to be an absolute pauper. For what every one most aims at in ordinary contact with his fellows is to prove them inferior to himself; and how much more is this the case in politics. Now, it is only an absolute pauper who has such a thorough conviction of his own complete, profound and positive inferiority from every point of view, of his own utter insignificance and worthlessness, that he can take his place quietly in the political machine.1 He is the only one who can keep on bowing low enough, and even go right down upon his face if necessary; he alone can submit to everything and laugh at it; he alone knows the entire worthlessness of merit; he alone uses his loudest voice and his boldest type whenever he has to speak or write of those who are placed over his head, or occupy any position of influence; and if they do a little scribbling, he is ready to applaud it as a masterwork. He alone 1 Translators Note.Schopenhauer is probably here making one of his most virulent attacks upon Hegel; in this case on account of what he thought to be the philosophers abject servility to the government of his day. Though the Hegelian system has been the fruitful mother of many liberal ideas, there can be no doubt that Hegels influence, in his own lifetime, was an effective support of Prussian bureaucracy. 42
understands how to beg, and so betimes, when he is hardly out of his boyhood, he becomes a high priest of that hidden mystery which Goethe brings to light. Ubers Niedertrchtige Niemand sich beklage: Denn es ist das Machtige Was man dir auch sage: it is no use to complain of low aims; for, whatever people may say, they rule the world. On the other hand, the man who is born with enough to live upon is generally of a somewhat independent turn of mind; he is accustomed to keep his head up; he has not learned all the arts of the beggar; perhaps he even presumes a little upon the possession of talents which, as he ought to know, can never compete with cringing mediocrity; in the long run he comes to recognize the inferiority of those who are placed over his head, and when they try to put insults upon him, he becomes refractory and shy. This is not the way to get on in the world. Nay, such a man may at least
incline to the opinion freely expressed by Voltaire: We have only two days to live; it is not worth our while to spend them in cringing to contemptible rascals. But alas! let me observe by the way, that contemptible rascal is an attribute which may be predicated of an abominable number of people. What Juvenal saysit is difficult to rise if your poverty is greater than your talent Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi is more applicable to a career of art and literature than to a political and social ambition. Wife and children I have not reckoned amongst a mans possessions: he is rather in their possession. It would be easier to include friends under that head; but a mans friends belong to him not a whit more than he belongs to them.
CHAPTER IV POSITION, OR A MANS PL ACE IN THE PLA ESTIMA TION OF O THERS ESTIMATION OTHERS
Section 1.R eputation. 1.Reputation. BY A PECULIAR WEAKNESS of human nature, people generally think too much about the opinion which others form of them; although the slightest reflection will show that this opinion, whatever it may be, is not in itself essential to happiness. Therefore it is hard to understand why everybody feels so very pleased when he sees that other people have a good opinion of him, or say anything flattering to his vanity. If you stroke a cat, it will purr; and, as inevitably, if you praise a man, a sweet expression of delight will appear on his face; and even though the praise is a palpable lie, it will be welcome, if the matter is one on which he prides himself. If only other people will applaud him, a man may console himself for downright misfortune or for the pittance he gets from the two sources of human happiness already discussed: and 43
conversely, it is astonishing how infallibly a man will be annoyed, and in some cases deeply pained, by any wrong done to his feeling of self-importance, whatever be the nature, degree, or circumstances of the injury, or by any depreciation, slight, or disregard. If the feeling of honor rests upon this peculiarity of human nature, it may have a very salutary effect upon the welfare of a great many people, as a substitute for morality; but upon their happiness, more especially upon that peace of mind and independence which are so essential to happiness, its effect will be disturbing and prejudicial rather than salutary. Therefore it is advisable, from our point of view, to set limits to this weakness, and duly to consider and rightly to estimate the relative value of advantages, and thus temper, as far as possible, this great susceptibility to other peoples opinion, whether the opinion be one flattering to our vanity, or whether it causes us pain; for in either case it is the same feeling which is touched. Otherwise, a man is the slave of what other people are pleased to think,and how little it requires to disconcert or soothe the mind that is greedy of praise: 44
Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum Subruit ac reficit.1 Therefore it will very much conduce to our happiness if we duly compare the value of what a man is in and for himself with what he is in the eyes of others. Under the former conies everything that fills up the span of our existence and makes it what it is, in short, all the advantages already considered and summed up under the heads of personality and property; and the sphere in which all this takes place is the mans own consciousness. On the other hand, the sphere of what we are for other people is their consciousness, not ours; it is the kind of figure we make in their eyes, together with the thoughts which this arouses.2 But this is something which has no direct and immediate existence for us, but can affect us only mediately and indirectly, so far, that is, as other 1 Horace, Epist: II., 1, 180. 2 Let me remark that people in the highest positions in life, with all their brilliance, pomp, display, magnificence and general show, may well say:Our happiness lies entirely outside us; for it exists only in the heads of others.
peoples behavior towards us is directed by it; and even then it ought to affect us only in so far as it can move us to modify what we are in and for ourselves. Apart from this, what goes on in other peoples consciousness is, as such, a matter of indifference to us; and in time we get really indifferent to it, when we come to see how superficial and futile are most peoples thoughts, how narrow their ideas, how mean their sentiments, how perverse their opinions, and how much of error there is in most of them; when we learn by experience with what depreciation a man will speak of his fellow, when he is not obliged to fear him, or thinks that what he says will not come to his ears. And if ever we have had an opportunity of seeing how the greatest of men will meet with nothing but slight from half-a-dozen blockheads, we shall understand that to lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor. At all events, a man is in a very bad way, who finds no source of happiness in the first two classes of blessings already treated of, but has to seek it in the third, in other words, not in what he is in himself, but in what he is in the opinion of others. For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, 45
and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care. There can be no competition or compensation between these essential factors on the one side, and honor, pomp, rank and reputation on the other, however much value we may set upon the latter. No one would hesitate to sacrifice the latter for the former, if it were necessary. We should add very much to our happiness by a timely recognition of the simple truth that every mans chief and real existence is in his own skin, and not in other peoples opinions; and, consequently, that the actual conditions of our personal life,health, temperament, capacity, income, wife, children, friends, home, are a hundred times more important for our happiness than what other people are pleased to think of us: otherwise we shall be miserable. And if people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other peoples opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is in-
dispensable if we are to make any progress in the world; but I shall come back to that presently. When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge1 and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from ones fellowmen,is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go? To set much too high a value on other peoples opinion is a common error everywhere; an error, it may be, rooted in human nature itself, or the result of civilization, and social arrangements generally; but, whatever its source, it exercises a very immoderate influence on all we do, and is very prejudicial to our happiness. We can trace it from a timorous and slavish regard for what other people will say, up to the feeling which made Virginius plunge the dagger into his daughters heart, or induces many a man to sacrifice quiet, riches, health and even life itself, for posthumous glory. 1 Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter, (Persins i, 27) knowledge is no use unless others know that you have it. 46
Undoubtedly this feeling is a very convenient instrument in the hands of those who have the control or direction of their fellowmen; and accordingly we find that in every scheme for training up humanity in the way it should go, the maintenance and strengthening of the feeling of honor occupies an important place. But it is quite a different matter in its effect on human happiness, of which it is here our object to treat; and we should rather be careful to dissuade people from setting too much store by what others think of them. Daily experience shows us, however, that this is just the mistake people persist in making; most men set the utmost value precisely on what other people think, and are more concerned about it than about what goes on in their own consciousness, which is the thing most immediately and directly present to them. They reverse the natural order,regarding the opinions of others as real existence and their own consciousness as something shadowy; making the derivative and secondary into the principal, and considering the picture they present to the world of more importance than their own selves. By thus trying to get a direct and immediate result out of what has no really direct or immediate existence, they fall into the
kind of folly which is called vanitythe appropriate term for that which has no solid or instrinsic value. Like a miser, such people forget the end in their eagerness to obtain the means. The truth is that the value we set upon the opinion of others, and our constant endeavor in respect of it, are each quite out of proportion to any result we may reasonably hope to attain; so that this attention to other peoples attitude may be regarded as a kind of universal mania which every one inherits. In all we do, almost the first thing we think about is, what will people say; and nearly half the troubles and bothers of life may be traced to our anxiety on this score; it is the anxiety which is at the bottom of all that feeling of selfimportance, which is so often mortified because it is so very morbidly sensitive. It is solicitude about what others will say that underlies all our vanity and pretension, yes, and all our show and swagger too. Without it, there would not be a tenth part of the luxury which exists. Pride in every form, point dhonneur and punctilio, however varied their kind or sphere, are at bottom nothing but thisanxiety about what others will sayand what sacrifices it costs! One can see it even in 47
a child; and though it exists at every period of life, it is strongest in age; because, when the capacity for sensual pleasure fails, vanity and pride have only avarice to share their dominion. Frenchmen, perhaps, afford the best example of this feeling, and amongst them it is a regular epidemic, appearing sometimes in the most absurd ambition, or in a ridiculous kind of national vanity and the most shameless boasting. However, they frustrate their own gains, for other people make fun of them and call them la grande nation. By way of specially illustrating this perverse and exuberant respect for other peoples opinion, let me take passage from the Times of March 31st, 1846, giving a detailed account of the execution of one Thomas Wix, an apprentice who, from motives of vengeance, had murdered his master. Here we have very unusual circumstances and an extraordinary character, though one very suitable for our purpose; and these combine to give a striking picture of this folly, which is so deeply rooted in human nature, and allow us to form an accurate notion of the extent to which it will go. On the morning of the execution, says the report, the rev. ordinary was early in attendance upon him, but Wix, beyond a quiet
demeanor, betrayed no interest in his ministrations, appearing to feel anxious only to acquit himself bravely before the spectators of his ignomininous end . In the procession Wix fell into his proper place with alacrity, and, as he entered the Chapelyard, remarked, sufficiently loud to be heard by several persons near him, Now, then, as Dr. Dodd said, I shall soon know the grand secret. On reaching the scaffold, the miserable wretch mounted the drop without the slightest assistance, and when he got to the centre, he bowed to the spectators twice, a proceeding which called forth a tremendous cheer from the degraded crowd beneath. This is an admirable example of the way in which a man, with death in the most dreadful form before his very eyes, and eternity beyond it, will care for nothing but the impression he makes upon a crowd of gapers, and the opinion he leaves behind him in their heads. There was much the same kind of thing in the case of Lecompte, who was executed at Frankfurt, also in 1846, for an attempt on the kings life. At the trial he was very much annoyed that he was not allowed to appear, in decent attire, before the Upper House; and on the day of the execution it was a special grief to him that he 48
was not permitted to shave. It is not only in recent times that this kind of thing has been known to happen. Mateo Aleman tells us, in the Introduction to his celebrated romance, Juzman de Alfarache, that many infatuated criminals, instead of devoting their last hours to the welfare of their souls, as they ought to have done, neglect this duty for the purpose of preparing and committing to memory a speech to be made from the scaffold. I take these extreme cases as being the best illustrations to what I mean; for they give us a magnified reflection of our own nature. The anxieties of all of us, our worries, vexations, bothers, troubles, uneasy apprehensions and strenuous efforts are due, in perhaps the large majority of instances, to what other people will say; and we are just as foolish in this respect as those miserable criminals. Envy and hatred are very often traceable to a similar source. Now, it is obvious that happiness, which consists for the most part in peace of mind and contentment, would be served by nothing so much as by reducing this impulse of human nature within reasonable limits,which would perhaps make it one fiftieth part of what it is now. By doing so, we should
get rid of a thorn in the flesh which is always causing us pain. But it is a very difficult task, because the impulse in question is a natural and innate perversity of human nature. Tacitus says, The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off1 The only way of putting an end to this universal folly is to see clearly that it is a folly; and this may be done by recognizing the fact that most of the opinions in mens heads are apt to be false, perverse, erroneous and absurd, and so in themselves unworthy of attention; further, that other peoples opinions can have very little real and positive influence upon us in most of the circumstances and affairs of life. Again, this opinion is generally of such an unfavorable character that it would worry a man to death to hear everything that was said of him, or the tone in which he was spoken of. And finally, among other things, we should be clear about the fact that honor itself has no really direct, but only an indirect, value. If people were generally converted from this universal folly, the result would be such an addition to our piece of mind and cheerfulness as at present seems inconceivable; people would present a firmer and more confident front to 1 Hist., iv., 6. 49
the world, and generally behave with less embarrassment and restraint. It is observable that a retired mode of life has an exceedingly beneficial influence on our peace of mind, and this is mainly because we thus escape having to live constantly in the sight of others, and pay everlasting regard to their casual opinions; in a word, we are able to return upon ourselves. At the same time a good deal of positive misfortune might be avoided, which we are now drawn into by striving after shadows, or, to speak more correctly, by indulging a mischievous piece of folly; and we should consequently have more attention to give to solid realities and enjoy them with less interruption that at present. But [Greek: chalepa ga kala]what is worth doing is hard to do.
Section 2.P ride. 2.Pride. THE FOLLY OF OUR NATURE which we are discussing puts forth three shoots, ambition, vanity and pride. The difference between the last two is this: pride is an established conviction of ones own paramount worth in some particular respect;
while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. So we find that vain people are talkative, proud, and taciturn. But the vain person ought to be aware that the good opinion of others, which he strives for, may be obtained much more easily and certainly by persistent silence than by speech, even though he has very good things to say. Anyone who wishes to affect pride is not therefore a proud man; but he will soon have to drop this, as every other, assumed character. It is only a firm, unshakeable conviction of pre-eminent worth and special value which makes a man proud in the true sense of the word,a conviction which may, no doubt, be a mistaken one or rest on advantages which are of an adventitious and conventional character: still pride is not the less pride for all that, so long as it be present in real earnest. And since pride is thus rooted in conviction, it resembles every other form of knowledge in not being within our own arbitrament. Prides worst foe,I mean its greatest ob50
stacle,is vanity, which courts the applause of the world in order to gain the necessary foundation for a high opinion of ones own worth, whilst pride is based upon a pre-existing conviction of it. It is quite true that pride is something which is generally found fault with, and cried down; but usually, I imagine, by those who have nothing upon which they can pride themselves. In view of the impudence and foolhardiness of most people, anyone who possesses any kind of superiority or merit will do well to keep his eyes fixed on it, if he does not want it to be entirely forgotten; for if a man is good-natured enough to ignore his own privileges, and hob-nob with the generality of other people, as if he were quite on their level, they will be sure to treat him, frankly and candidly, as one of themselves. This is a piece of advice I would specially offer to those whose superiority is of the highest kindreal superiority, I mean, of a purely personal naturewhich cannot, like orders and titles, appeal to the eye or ear at every moment; as, otherwise, they will find that familiarity breeds contempt, or, as the Romans used to say, sus Minervam. Joke with a slave, and hell soon show his heels, is an excellent Ara-
bian proverb; nor ought we to despise what Horace says, Sume superbiam Quaesitam meritis. usurp the fame you have deserved. No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one. This is leveling down indeed; for it comes to look as if there were nothing but fools in the world. The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and 51
nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. For example, if you speak of the stupid and degrading bigotry of the English nation with the contempt it deserves, you will hardly find one Englishman in fifty to agree with you; but if there should be one, he will generally happen to be an intelligent man. The Germans have no national pride, which shows how honest they are, as everybody knows! and how dishonest are those who, by a piece of ridiculous affectation, pretend that they are proud of their countrythe Deutsche Bruder and the demagogues who flatter the mob in order to mislead it. I have heard it said that gunpowder was invented by a German. I doubt it. Lichtenberg asks, Why is it that a man who is not a German does not care about pretending that he is one; and that if he makes any pretence at all, it is to be a Frenchman or an Englishman?1 However that may be, individuality is a far more impor1 Translators Note.It should be remembered that these remarks were written in the earlier part of the present century, and that a German philosopher now-a-days, even though he were as apt to say bitter things as Schopenhauer, could hardly write in a similar strain.
tant thing than nationality, and in any given man deserves a thousand-fold more consideration. And since you cannot speak of national character without referring to large masses of people, it is impossible to be loud in your praises and at the same time honest. National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. If we become disgusted with one, we praise another, until we get disgusted with this too. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. The contents of this chapter, which treats, as I have said, of what we represent in the world, or what we are in the eyes of others, may be further distributed under three heads: honor rank and fame.
Section 3.R ank. 3.Rank LET US TAKE RANK FIRST, as it may be dismissed in a few words, although it plays an important part in the eyes of the masses and of the philistines, and is a most useful wheel in the ma52
chinery of the State. It has a purely conventional value. Strictly speaking, it is a sham; its method is to exact an artificial respect, and, as a matter of fact, the whole thing is a mere farce. Orders, it may be said, are bills of exchange drawn on public opinion, and the measure of their value is the credit of the drawer. Of course, as a substitute for pensions, they save the State a good deal of money; and, besides, they serve a very useful purpose, if they are distributed with discrimination and judgment. For people in general have eyes and ears, it is true; but not much else, very little judgment indeed, or even memory. There are many services of the State quite beyond the range of their understanding; others, again, are appreciated and made much of for a time, and then soon forgotten. It seems to me, therefore, very proper, that a cross or a star should proclaim to the mass of people always and everywhere, This man is not like you; he has done something. But orders lose their value when they are distributed unjustly, or without due selection, or in too great numbers: a prince should be as careful in conferring them as a man of business is in signing a bill. It is a pleonasm to inscribe on any order
for distinguished service; for every order ought to be for distinguished service. That stands to reason.
Section 4.H onor . 4.Honor onor. than rank, and more difficult to discuss. Let us begin by trying to define it. If I were to say Honor is external conscience, and conscience is inward honor, no doubt a good many people would assent; but there would be more show than reality about such a definition, and it would hardly go to the root of the matter. I prefer to say, Honor is, on its objective side, other peoples opinion of what we are worth; on its subjective side, it is the respect we pay to this opinion. From the latter point of view, to be a man of honor is to exercise what is often a very wholesome, but by no means a purely moral, influence. The feelings of honor and shame exist in every man who is not utterly depraved, and honor is everywhere recognized as something particularly valuable. The reason of this is as follows. By and in himself a man can accomplish very little; he
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is like Robinson Crusoe on a desert island. It is only in society that a mans powers can be called into full activity. He very soon finds this out when his consciousness begins to develop, and there arises in him the desire to be looked upon as a useful member of society, as one, that is, who is capable of playing his part as a manpro parte virilithereby acquiring a right to the benefits of social life. Now, to be a useful member of society, one must do two things: firstly, what everyone is expected to do everywhere; and, secondly, what ones own particular position in the world demands and requires. But a man soon discovers that everything depends upon his being useful, not in his own opinion, but in the opinion of others; and so he tries his best to make that favorable impression upon the world, to which he attaches such a high value. Hence, this primitive and innate characteristic of human nature, which is called the feeling of honor, or, under another aspect, the feeling of shameverecundia. It is this which brings a blush to his cheeks at the thought of having suddenly to fall in the estimation of others, even when he knows that he is innocent, nay, even if his remissness ex53
tends to no absolute obligation, but only to one which he has taken upon himself of his own free will. Conversely, nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself. The variety of relations in which a man can stand to other people so as to obtain their confidence, that is, their good opinion, gives rise to a distinction between several kinds of honor, resting chiefly on the different bearings that meum may take to tuum; or, again, on the performance of various pledges; or finally, on the relation of the sexes. Hence, there are three main kinds of honor, each of which takes various formscivic honor, official honor, and sexual honor. Civic honor has the widest sphere of all. It consists in the assumption that we shall pay unconditional respect to the rights of others, and, therefore, never use any unjust or unlawful means of getting what we want. It is the condition of all peaceable intercourse between man and man; and it is destroyed by anything that openly and manifestly militates 54
against this peaceable intercourse, anything, accordingly, which entails punishment at the hands of the law, always supposing that the punishment is a just one. The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. This is well expressed by the English use of the word character as meaning credit, reputation, honor. Hence honor, once lost, can never be recovered; unless the loss rested on some mistake, such as may occur if a man is slandered or his actions viewed in a false light. So the law provides remedies against slander, libel, and even insult; for insult though it amounts to no more than mere abuse, is a kind of summary slander with a suppression of the reasons. What I mean may be well put in the Greek phrase not quoted from any author[Greek: estin hae loidoria diabolae]. It is true that if a man abuses another, he is simply showing that he has no real or true causes of complaint against him; as, otherwise, he would bring these forward as the premises, and rely upon his hearers to draw the conclusion themselves: instead of which, he gives the conclusion and leaves
out the premises, trusting that people will suppose that he has done so only for the sake of being brief. Civic honor draws its existence and name from the middle classes; but it applies equally to all, not excepting the highest. No man can disregard it, and it is a very serious thing, of which every one should be careful not to make light. The man who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited confidence, whatever he may do, and whoever he may be; and the bitter consequences of the loss of confidence can never be averted. There is a sense in which honor may be said to have a negative character in opposition to the positive character of fame. For honor is not the opinion people have of particular qualities which a man may happen to possess exclusively: it is rather the opinion they have of the qualities which a man may be expected to exhibit, and to which he should not prove false. Honor, therefore, means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. The absence of fame is obscurity, which is only a negative; but loss of honor is shame, which is a positive quality. This negative character of honor must not be confused with anything pas55
sive; for honor is above all things active in its working. It is the only quality which proceeds directly from the man who exhibits it; it is concerned entirely with what he does and leaves undone, and has nothing to do with the actions of others or the obstacles they place in his way. It is something entirely in our own power[Greek: ton ephaemon]. This distinction, as we shall see presently, marks off true honor from the sham honor of chivalry. Slander is the only weapon by which honor can be attacked from without; and the only way to repel the attack is to confute the slander with the proper amount of publicity, and a due unmasking of him who utters it. The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it. For neither length of years,equalled, as it is, and even excelled, in the case of the lower animals,nor, again, experience, which is only a closer knowledge of the worlds ways, can be any sufficient reason for the respect which the young are
everywhere required to show towards the old: for if it were merely a matter of years, the weakness which attends on age would call rather for consideration than for respect. It is, however, a remarkable fact that white hair always commands reverencea reverence really innate and instinctive. Wrinklesa much surer sign of old agecommand no reverence at all; you never hear any one speak of venerable wrinkles; but venerable white hair is a common expression. Honor has only an indirect value. For, as I explained at the beginning of this chapter, what other people think of us, if it affects us at all, can affect us only in so far as it governs their behavior towards us, and only just so long as we live with, or have to do with, them. But it is to society alone that we owe that safety which we and our possessions enjoy in a state of civilization; in all we do we need the help of others, and they, in their turn, must have confidence in us before they can have anything to do with us. Accordingly, their opinion of us is, indirectly, a matter of great importance; though I cannot see how it can have a direct or immediate value. This is an opinion also held by Cicero. I quite agree, he writes, with what Chrysippus and Diogenes used to say, that a good 56
reputation is not worth raising a finger to obtain, if it were not that it is so useful.1 This truth has been insisted upon at great length by Helvetius in his chief work De lEsprit,2 the conclusion of which is that we love esteem not for its own sake, but solely for the advantages which it brings. And as the means can never be more than the end, that saying, of which so much is made, Honor is dearer than life itself, is, as I have remarked, a very exaggerated statement. So much then, for civic honor. Official honor is the general opinion of other people that a man who fills any office really has the necessary qualities for the proper discharge of all the duties which appertain to it. The greater and more important the duties a man has to discharge in the State, and the higher and more influential the office which he fills, the stronger must be the opinion which people have of the moral and intellectual qualities which render him fit for his post. Therefore, the higher his position, the greater must be the degree of honor paid to him, expressed, as it is, in titles, orders and the generally subservient behavior of others towards him. As a rule, a mans official rank implies the 1 De finilus iii., 17. 2 Disc: iii. 17.
particular degree of honor which ought to be paid to him, however much this degree may be modified by the capacity of the masses to form any notion of its importance. Still, as a matter of fact, greater honor is paid to a man who fulfills special duties than to the common citizen, whose honor mainly consists in keeping clear of dishonor. Official honor demands, further, that the man who occupies an office must maintain respect for it, for the sake both of his colleagues and of those who will come after him. This respect an official can maintain by a proper observance of his duties, and by repelling any attack that may be made upon the office itself or upon its occupant: he must not, for instance, pass over unheeded any statement to the effect that the duties of the office are not properly discharged, or that the office itself does not conduce to the public welfare. He must prove the unwarrantable nature of such attacks by enforcing the legal penalty for them. Subordinate to the honor of official personages comes that of those who serve the State in any other capacity, as doctors, lawyers, teachers, anyone, in short, who, by graduating in any subject, or by any other public declaration that he is 57
qualified to exercise some special skill, claims to practice it; in a word, the honor of all those who take any public pledges whatever. Under this head comes military honor, in the true sense of the word, the opinion that people who have bound themselves to defend their country really possess the requisite qualities which will enable them to do so, especially courage, personal bravery and strength, and that they are perfectly ready to defend their country to the death, and never and under any circumstances desert the flag to which they have once sworn allegiance. I have here taken official honor in a wider sense than that in which it is generally used, namely, the respect due by citizens to an office itself. In treating of sexual honor and the principles on which it rests, a little more attention and analysis are necessary; and what I shall say will support my contention that all honor really rests upon a utilitarian basis. There are two natural divisions of the subjectthe honor of women and the honor of men, in either side issuing in a well-understood esprit de corps. The former is by far the more important of the two, because the most essential feature in womans life is her relation to man.
Female honor is the general opinion in regard to a girl that she is pure, and in regard to a wife that she is faithful. The importance of this opinion rests upon the following considerations. Women depend upon men in all the relations of life; men upon women, it might be said, in one only. So an arrangement is made for mutual interdependenceman undertaking responsibility for all womans needs and also for the children that spring from their unionan arrangement on which is based the welfare of the whole female race. To carry out this plan, women have to band together with a show of esprit de corps, and present one undivided front to their common enemy, man,who possesses all the good things of the earth, in virtue of his superior physical and intellectual power, in order to lay siege to and conquer him, and so get possession of him and a share of those good things. To this end the honor of all women depends upon the enforcement of the rule that no woman should give herself to a man except in marriage, in order that every man may be forced, as it were, to surrender and ally himself with a woman; by this arrangement provision is made for the whole of the female race. This is a result, however, which can be obtained only by a strict observance of the 58
rule; and, accordingly, women everywhere show true esprit de corps in carefully insisting upon its maintenance. Any girl who commits a breach of the rule betrays the whole female race, because its welfare would be destroyed if every woman were to do likewise; so she is cast out with shame as one who has lost her honor. No woman will have anything more to do with her; she is avoided like the plague. The same doom is awarded to a woman who breaks the marriage tie; for in so doing she is false to the terms upon which the man capitulated; and as her conduct is such as to frighten other men from making a similar surrender, it imperils the welfare of all her sisters. Nay, more; this deception and coarse breach of troth is a crime punishable by the loss, not only of personal, but also of civic honor. This is why we minimize the shame of a girl, but not of a wife; because, in the former case, marriage can restore honor, while in the latter, no atonement can be made for the breach of contract. Once this esprit de corps is acknowledged to be the foundation of female honor, and is seen to be a wholesome, nay, a necessary arrangement, as at bottom a matter of prudence and interest, its extreme importance for the welfare of women
will be recognized. But it does not possess anything more than a relative value. It is no absolute end, lying beyond all other aims of existence and valued above life itself. In this view, there will be nothing to applaud in the forced and extravagant conduct of a Lucretia or a Virginiusconduct which can easily degenerate into tragic farce, and produce a terrible feeling of revulsion. The conclusion of Emilia Galotti, for instance, makes one leave the theatre completely ill at ease; and, on the other hand, all the rules of female honor cannot prevent a certain sympathy with Clara in Egmont. To carry this principle of female honor too far is to forget the end in thinking of the meansand this is just what people often do; for such exaggeration suggests that the value of sexual honor is absolute; while the truth is that it is more relative than any other kind. One might go so far as to say that its value is purely conventional, when one sees from Thomasius how in all ages and countries, up to the time of the Reformation, irregularities were permitted and recognized by law, with no derogation to female honor,not to speak of the temple of Mylitta at Babylon.1 1 Heroditus, i. 199. 59
There are also of course certain circumstances in civil life which make external forms of marriage impossible, especially in Catholic countries, where there is no such thing as divorce. Ruling princes everywhere, would, in my opinion, do much better, from a moral point of view, to dispense with forms altogether rather than contract a morganatic marriage, the descendants of which might raise claims to the throne if the legitimate stock happened to die out; so that there is a possibility, though, perhaps, a remote one, that a morganatic marriage might produce a civil war. And, besides, such a marriage, concluded in defiance of all outward ceremony, is a concession made to women and prieststwo classes of persons to whom one should be most careful to give as little tether as possible. It is further to be remarked that every man in a country can marry the woman of his choice, except one poor individual, namely, the prince. His hand belongs to his country, and can be given in marriage only for reasons of State, that is, for the good of the country. Still, for all that, he is a man; and, as a man, he likes to follow whither his heart leads. It is an unjust, ungrateful and priggish thing to forbid, or to desire to forbid, a prince from following his
inclinations in this matter; of course, as long as the lady has no influence upon the Government of the country. From her point of view she occupies an exceptional position, and does not come under the ordinary rules of sexual honor; for she has merely given herself to a man who loves her, and whom she loves but cannot marry. And in general, the fact that the principle of female honor has no origin in nature, is shown by the many bloody sacrifices which have been offered to it,the murder of children and the mothers suicide. No doubt a girl who contravenes the code commits a breach of faith against her whole sex; but this faith is one which is only secretly taken for granted, and not sworn to. And since, in most cases, her own prospects suffer most immediately, her folly is infinitely greater than her crime. The corresponding virtue in men is a product of the one I have been discussing. It is their esprit de corps, which demands that, once a man has made that surrender of himself in marriage which is so advantageous to his conqueror, he shall take care that the terms of the treaty are maintained; both in order that the agreement itself may lose none of its force by the permission of any laxity in its observance, and 60
that men, having given up everything, may, at least, be assured of their bargain, namely, exclusive possession. Accordingly, it is part of a mans honor to resent a breach of the marriage tie on the part of his wife, and to punish it, at the very least by separating from her. If he condones the offence, his fellowmen cry shame upon him; but the shame in this case is not nearly so foul as that of the woman who has lost her honor; the stain is by no means of so deep a dyelevioris notae macula;because a mans relation to woman is subordinate to many other and more important affairs in his life. The two great dramatic poets of modern times have each taken mans honor as the theme of two plays; Shakespeare in Othello and The Winters Tale, and Calderon in El medico de su honra, (The Physician of his Honor), and A secreto agravio secreta venganza, (for Secret Insult Secret Vengeance). It should be said, however, that honor demands the punishment of the wife only; to punish her paramour too, is a work of supererogation. This confirms the view I have taken, that a mans honor originates in esprit de corps. The kind of honor which I have been discussing hitherto has always existed in its various forms and principles amongst
all nations and at all times; although the history of female honor shows that its principles have undergone certain local modifications at different periods. But there is another species of honor which differs from this entirely, a species of honor of which the Greeks and Romans had no conception, and up to this day it is perfectly unknown amongst Chinese, Hindoos or Mohammedans. It is a kind of honor which arose only in the Middle Age, and is indigenous only to Christian Europe, nay, only to an extremely small portion of the population, that is to say, the higher classes of society and those who ape them. It is knightly honor, or point dhonneur. Its principles are quite different from those which underlie the kind of honor I have been treating until now, and in some respects are even opposed to them. The sort I am referring to produces the cavalier; while the other kind creates the man of honor. As this is so, I shall proceed to give an explanation of its principles, as a kind of code or mirror of knightly courtesy. (1.) To begin with, honor of this sort consists, not in other peoples opinion of what we are worth, but wholly and entirely in whether they express it or not, no matter whether 61
they really have any opinion at all, let alone whether they know of reasons for having one. Other people may entertain the worst opinion of us in consequence of what we do, and may despise us as much as they like; so long as no one dares to give expression to his opinion, our honor remains untarnished. So if our actions and qualities compel the highest respect from other people, and they have no option but to give this respect,as soon as anyone, no matter how wicked or foolish he may be, utters something depreciatory of us, our honor is offended, nay, gone for ever, unless we can manage to restore it. A superfluous proof of what I say, namely, that knightly honor depends, not upon what people think, but upon what they say, is furnished by the fact that insults can be withdrawn, or, if necessary, form the subject of an apology, which makes them as though they had never been uttered. Whether the opinion which underlays the expression has also been rectified, and why the expression should ever have been used, are questions which are perfectly unimportant: so long as the statement is withdrawn, all is well. The truth is that conduct of this kind aims, not at earning respect, but at extorting it.
(2.) In the second place, this sort of honor rests, not on what a man does, but on what he suffers, the obstacles he encounters; differing from the honor which prevails in all else, in consisting, not in what he says or does himself, but in what another man says or does. His honor is thus at the mercy of every man who can talk it away on the tip of his tongue; and if he attacks it, in a moment it is gone for ever,unless the man who is attacked manages to wrest it back again by a process which I shall mention presently, a process which involves danger to his life, health, freedom, property and peace of mind. A mans whole conduct may be in accordance with the most righteous and noble principles, his spirit may be the purest that ever breathed, his intellect of the very highest order; and yet his honor may disappear the moment that anyone is pleased to insult him, anyone at all who has not offended against this code of honor himself, let him be the most worthless rascal or the most stupid beast, an idler, gambler, debtor, a man, in short, of no account at all. It is usually this sort of fellow who likes to insult people; for, as Seneca1 rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita 1 De Constantia, 11. 62
solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,the readier he is with his tongue. His insults are most likely to be directed against the very kind of man I have described, because people of different tastes can never be friends, and the sight of pre-eminent merit is apt to raise the secret ire of a neer-do-well. What Goethe says in the Weststlicher Divan is quite true, that it is useless to complain against your enemies; for they can never become your friends, if your whole being is a standing reproach to them: Was klagst du ber Feinde? Sollten Solche je warden Freunde Denen das Wesen, wie du bist, Im stillen ein ewiger Vorwurf ist? It is obvious that people of this worthless description have good cause to be thankful to the principle of honor, because it puts them on a level with people who in every other respect stand far above them. If a fellow likes to insult any one, attribute to him, for example, some bad quality, this is taken prima facie as a well-founded opinion, true in fact; a decree,
as it were, with all the force of law; nay, if it is not at once wiped out in blood, it is a judgment which holds good and valid to all time. In other words, the man who is insulted remainsin the eyes of all honorable peoplewhat the man who uttered the insulteven though he were the greatest wretch on earthwas pleased to call him; for he has put up with the insultthe technical term, I believe. Accordingly, all honorable people will have nothing more to do with him, and treat him like a leper, and, it may be, refuse to go into any company where he may be found, and so on. This wise proceeding may, I think, be traced back to the fact that in the Middle Age, up to the fifteenth century, it was not the accuser in any criminal process who had to prove the guilt of the accused, but the accused who had to prove his innocence.1 This he could do by swearing he was not guilty; and his backersconsacramentaleshad to come and swear that in their opinion he was incapable of perjury. If he could find no one to help him in this way, or the accuser took objection to his backers, recourse was had to trial by the 1 See C.G. von Waehters Beitrge zur deutschen Geschichte, especially the chapter on criminal law. 63
Judgment of God, which generally meant a duel. For the accused was now in disgrace,2 and had to clear himself. Here, then, is the origin of the notion of disgrace, and of that whole system which prevails now-a-days amongst honorable people only that the oath is omitted. This is also the explanation of that deep feeling of indignation which honorable people are called upon to show if they are given the lie; it is a reproach which they say must be wiped out in blood. It seldom comes to this pass, however, though lies are of common occurrence; but in England, more than elsewhere, it is a superstition which has taken very deep root. As a matter of order, a man who threatens to kill another for telling a lie should never have told one himself. The fact is, that the criminal trial of the Middle Age also admitted of a shorter form. In reply to the charge, the accused answered: That is a lie; whereupon it was left to be decided by the Judgment of God. Hence, the code of knightly honor prescribes that, when the lie is given, an appeal to arms follows as a matter of course. So much, then, 2 Translators Note.It is true that this expression has another special meaning in the technical terminology of Chivalry, but it is the nearest English equivalent which I can find for the Germanein Bescholtener.
for the theory of insult. But there is something even worse than insult, something so dreadful that I must beg pardon of all honorable people for so much as mentioning it in this code of knightly honor; for I know they will shiver, and their hair will stand on end, at the very thought of itthe summum malum, the greatest evil on earth, worse than death and damnation. A man may give anotherhorrible dictu!a slap or a blow. This is such an awful thing, and so utterly fatal to all honor, that, while any other species of insult may be healed by blood-letting, this can be cured only by the coup-de-grace. (3.) In the third place, this kind of honor has absolutely nothing to do with what a man may be in and for himself; or, again, with the question whether his moral character can ever become better or worse, and all such pedantic inquiries. If your honor happens to be attacked, or to all appearances gone, it can very soon be restored in its entirety if you are only quick enough in having recourse to the one universal remedya duel. But if the aggressor does not belong to the classes which recognize the code of knightly honor, or has 64
himself once offended against it, there is a safer way of meeting any attack upon your honor, whether it consists in blows, or merely in words. If you are armed, you can strike down your opponent on the spot, or perhaps an hour later. This will restore your honor. But if you wish to avoid such an extreme step, from fear of any unpleasant consequences arising therefrom, or from uncertainty as to whether the aggressor is subject to the laws of knightly honor or not, there is another means of making your position good, namely, the Avantage. This consists in returning rudeness with still greater rudeness; and if insults are no use, you can try a blow, which forms a sort of climax in the redemption of your honor; for instance, a box on the ear may be cured by a blow with a stick, and a blow with a stick by a thrashing with a horsewhip; and, as the approved remedy for this last, some people recommend you to spit at your opponent.1 If all these means are of no avail, you must not shrink from drawing blood. And the reason for these 1 Translators Note. It must be remembered that Schopenhauer is here describing, or perhaps caricaturing the manners and customs of the German aristocracy of half a century ago. Now, of course, nous avons change tout cela!
methods of wiping out insult is, in this code, as follows: (4.) To receive an insult is disgraceful; to give one, honorable. Let me take an example. My opponent has truth, right and reason on his side. Very well. I insult him. Thereupon right and honor leave him and come to me, and, for the time being, he has lost themuntil he gets them back, not by the exercise of right or reason, but by shooting and sticking me. Accordingly, rudeness is a quality which, in point of honor, is a substitute for any other and outweighs them all. The rudest is always right. What more do you want? However stupid, bad or wicked a man may have been, if he is only rude into the bargain, he condones and legitimizes all his faults. If in any discussion or conversation, another man shows more knowledge, greater love of truth, a sounder judgment, better understanding than we, or generally exhibits intellectual qualities which cast ours into the shade, we can at once annul his superiority and our own shallowness, and in our turn be superior to him, by being insulting and offensive. For rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. If our opponent does not care for our mode 65
of attack, and will not answer still more rudely, so as to plunge us into the ignoble rivalry of the Avantage, we are the victors and honor is on our side. Truth, knowledge, understanding, intellect, wit, must beat a retreat and leave the field to this almighty insolence. Honorable people immediately make a show of mounting their war-horse, if anyone utters an opinion adverse to theirs, or shows more intelligence than they can muster; and if in any controversy they are at a loss for a reply, they look about for some weapon of rudeness, which will serve as well and come readier to hand; so they retire masters of the position. It must now be obvious that people are quite right in applauding this principle of honor as having ennobled the tone of society. This principle springs from another, which forms the heart and soul of the entire code. (5.) Fifthly, the code implies that the highest court to which a man can appeal in any differences he may have with another on a point of honor is the court of physical force, that is, of brutality. Every piece of rudeness is, strictly speaking, an appeal to brutality; for it is a declaration that intellectual
strength and moral insight are incompetent to decide, and that the battle must be fought out by physical forcea struggle which, in the case of man, whom Franklin defines as a tool-making animal, is decided by the weapons peculiar to the species; and the decision is irrevocable. This is the well-known principle of right of mightirony, of course, like the wit of a fool, a parallel phrase. The honor of a knight may be called the glory of might. (6.) Lastly, if, as we saw above, civic honor is very scrupulous in the matter of meum and tuum, paying great respect to obligations and a promise once made, the code we are here discussing displays, on the other hand, the noblest liberality. There is only one word which may not be broken, the word of honorupon my honor, as people saythe presumption being, of course, that every other form of promise may be broken. Nay, if the worst comes to the worst, it is easy to break even ones word of honor, and still remain honorable again by adopting that universal remedy, the duel, and fighting with those who maintain that we pledged our word. Further, there is one debt, and one alone, that under no circum66
stances must be left unpaida gambling debt, which has accordingly been called a debt of honor. In all other kinds of debt you may cheat Jews and Christians as much as you like; and your knightly honor remains without a stain. The unprejudiced reader will see at once that such a strange, savage and ridiculous code of honor as this has no foundation in human nature, nor any warrant in a healthy view of human affairs. The extremely narrow sphere of its operation serves only to intensify the feeling, which is exclusively confined to Europe since the Middle Age, and then only to the upper classes, officers and soldiers, and people who imitate them. Neither Greeks nor Romans knew anything of this code of honor or of its principles; nor the highly civilized nations of Asia, ancient or modern. Amongst them no other kind of honor is recognized but that which I discussed first, in virtue of which a man is what he shows himself to be by his actions, not what any wagging tongue is pleased to say of him. They thought that what a man said or did might perhaps affect his own honor, but not any other mans. To them, a blow was but a blowand any horse or donkey could give a harder onea blow which under certain circumstances might make a man angry and demand immediate vengeance;
but it had nothing to do with honor. No one kept account of blows or insulting words, or of the satisfaction which was demanded or omitted to be demanded. Yet in personal bravery and contempt of death, the ancients were certainly not inferior to the nations of Christian Europe. The Greeks and Romans were thorough heroes, if you like; but they knew nothing about point dhonneur. If they had any idea of a duel, it was totally unconnected with the life of the nobles; it was merely the exhibition of mercenary gladiators, slaves devoted to slaughter, condemned criminals, who, alternately with wild beasts, were set to butcher one another to make a Roman holiday. When Christianity was introduced, gladiatorial shows were done away with, and their place taken, in Christian times, by the duel, which was a way of settling difficulties by the Judgment of God. If the gladiatorial fight was a cruel sacrifice to the prevailing desire for great spectacles, dueling is a cruel sacrifice to existing prejudicesa sacrifice, not of criminals, slaves and prisoners, but of the noble and the free.1 1 Translators Note. These and other remarks on dueling will no doubt wear a belated look to English readers; but they are hardly yet antiquated for most parts of the Continent. 67
There are a great many traits in the character of the ancients which show that they were entirely free from these prejudices. When, for instance, Marius was summoned to a duel by a Teutonic chief, he returned answer to the effect that, if the chief were tired of his life, he might go and hang himself; at the same time he offered him a veteran gladiator for a round or two. Plutarch relates in his life of Themistocles that Eurybiades, who was in command of the fleet, once raised his stick to strike him; whereupon Themistocles, instead of drawing his sword, simply said: Strike, but hear me. How sorry the reader must be, if he is an honorable man, to find that we have no information that the Athenian officers refused in a body to serve any longer under Themistocles, if he acted like that! There is a modern French writer who declares that if anyone considers Demosthenes a man of honor, his ignorance will excite a smile of pity; and that Cicero was not a man of honor either!2 In a certain passage in Platos Laws3 the philosopher speaks at length of [Greek: aikia] or assault, showing us clearly enough that the ancients had no 2litteraires: par C. Durand. Rouen, 1828. 3 Bk. IX..
notion of any feeling of honor in connection with such matters. Socrates frequent discussions were often followed by his being severely handled, and he bore it all mildly. Once, for instance, when somebody kicked him, the patience with which he took the insult surprised one of his friends. Do you think, said Socrates, that if an ass happened to kick me, I should resent it?1 On another occasion, when he was asked, Has not that fellow abused and insulted you? No, was his answer, what he says is not addressed to me2 Stobaeus has preserved a long passage from Musonius, from which we can see how the ancients treated insults. They knew no other form of satisfaction than that which the law provided, and wise people despised even this. If a Greek received a box on the ear, he could get satisfaction by the aid of the law; as is evident from Platos Gorgias, where Socrates opinion may be found. The same thing may be seen in the account given by Gellius of one Lucius Veratius, who had the audacity to give some Roman citizens whom he met on the road a box on the ear, without any provocation whatever; but to avoid any ulterior 1 Diogenes Laertius, ii., 21. 2 Ibid 36. 68
consequences, he told a slave to bring a bag of small money, and on the spot paid the trivial legal penalty to the men whom he had astonished by his conduct. Crates, the celebrated Cynic philosopher, got such a box on the ear from Nicodromus, the musician, that his face swelled up and became black and blue; whereupon he put a label on his forehead, with the inscription, Nicodromus fecit, which brought much disgrace to the fluteplayer who had committed such a piece of brutality upon the man whom all Athens honored as a household god.3 And in a letter to Melesippus, Diogenes of Sinope tells us that he got a beating from the drunken sons of the Athenians; but he adds that it was a matter of no importance.4 And Seneca devotes the last few chapters of his De Constantia to a lengthy discussion on insultcontumelia; in order to show that a wise man will take no notice of it. In Chapter XIV, he says, What shall a wise man do, if he is given a blow? What Cato did, when some one struck him on the mouth;not fire up or avenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. 3 Diogenes Laertius, vi. 87, and Apul: Flor: p. 126. 4 Cf. Casaubons Note, Diog. Laert., vi. 33.
Yes, you say, but these men were philosophers.And you are fools, eh? Precisely. It is clear that the whole code of knightly honor was utterly unknown to the ancients; for the simple reason that they always took a natural and unprejudiced view of human affairs, and did not allow themselves to be influenced by any such vicious and abominable folly. A blow in the face was to them a blow and nothing more, a trivial physical injury; whereas the moderns make a catastrophe out of it, a theme for a tragedy; as, for instance, in the Cid of Corneille, or in a recent German comedy of middle-class life, called The Power of Circumstance, which should have been entitled The Power of Prejudice. If a member of the National Assembly at Paris got a blow on the ear, it would resound from one end of Europe to the other. The examples which I have given of the way in which such an occurrence would have been treated in classic times may not suit the ideas of honorable people; so let me recommend to their notice, as a kind of antidote, the story of Monsieur Desglands in Diderots masterpiece, Jacques le fataliste. It is an excellent specimen of modern knightly honor, which, 69
no doubt, they will find enjoyable and edifying.1 From what I have said it must be quite evident that the principle of knightly honor has no essential and spontaneous origin in human nature. It is an artificial product, and its source is not hard to find. Its existence obviously dates from the time when people used their fists more than their heads, when priestcraft had enchained the human intellect, 1 Translators Note. The story to which Schopenhauer here refers is briefly as follows: Two gentlemen, one of whom was named Desglands, were paying court to the same lady. As they sat at table side by side, with the lady opposite, Desglands did his best to charm her with his conversation; but she pretended not to hear him, and kept looking at his rival. In the agony of jealousy, Desglands, as he was holding a fresh egg in his hand, involuntarily crushed it; the shell broke, and its contents bespattered his rivals face. Seeing him raise his hand, Desglands seized it and whispered: Sir, I take it as given. The next day Desglands appeared with a large piece of black sticking-plaster upon his right cheek. In the duel which followed, Desglands severely wounded his rival; upon which he reduced the size of the plaster. When his rival recovered, they had another duel; Desglands drew blood again, and again made his plaster a little smaller; and so on for five or six times. After every duel Desglands plaster grew less and less, until at last his rival.
the much bepraised Middle Age, with its system of chivalry. That was the time when people let the Almighty not only care for them but judge for them too; when difficult cases were decided by an ordeal, a Judgment of God; which, with few exceptions, meant a duel, not only where nobles were concerned, but in the case of ordinary citizens as well. There is a neat illustration of this in Shakespeares Henry VI. Every judicial sentence was subject to an appeal to armsa court, as it were, of higher instance, namely, the Judgment of God: and this really meant that physical strength and activity, that is, our animal nature, usurped the place of reason on the judgment seat, deciding in matters of right and wrong, not by what a man had done, but by the force with which he was opposed, the same system, in fact, as prevails to-day under the principles of knightly honor. If any one doubts that such is really the origin of our modern duel, let him read an excellent work by J.B. Millingen, The History of Dueling. Nay, you may still find amongst the supporters of the system, who, by the way are not usually the most educated or thoughtful of men,some who look upon the result of a duel as really constituting a divine judgment in the matter in dis70
pute; no doubt in consequence of the traditional feeling on the subject. But leaving aside the question of origin, it must now be clear to us that the main tendency of the principle is to use physical menace for the purpose of extorting an appearance of respect which is deemed too difficult or superfluous to acquire in reality; a proceeding which comes to much the same thing as if you were to prove the warmth of your room by holding your hand on the thermometer and so make it rise. In fact, the kernel of the matter is this: whereas civic honor aims at peaceable intercourse, and consists in the opinion of other people that we deserve full confidence, because we pay unconditional respect to their rights; knightly honor, on the other hand, lays down that we are to be feared, as being determined at all costs to maintain our own. As not much reliance can be placed upon human integrity, the principle that it is more essential to arouse fear than to invite confidence would not, perhaps, be a false one, if we were living in a state of nature, where every man would have to protect himself and directly maintain his own rights. But in civilized life, where the State undertakes the protection of
our person and property, the principle is no longer applicable: it stands, like the castles and watch-towers of the age when might was right, a useless and forlorn object, amidst well-tilled fields and frequented roads, or even railways. Accordingly, the application of knightly honor, which still recognizes this principle, is confined to those small cases of personal assault which meet with but slight punishment at the hands of the law, or even none at all, for de minimis non,mere trivial wrongs, committed sometimes only in jest. The consequence of this limited application of the principle is that it has forced itself into an exaggerated respect for the value of the person,a respect utterly alien to the nature, constitution or destiny of manwhich it has elated into a species of sanctity: and as it considers that the State has imposed a very insufficient penalty on the commission of such trivial injuries, it takes upon itself to punish them by attacking the aggressor in life or limb. The whole thing manifestly rests upon an excessive degree of arrogant pride, which, completely forgetting what man really is, claims that he shall be absolutely free from all attack or even censure. Those who determine to carry out this principle by main force, and an71
nounce, as their rule of action, whoever insults or strikes me shall die! ought for their pains to be banished the country.1 1 Knightly honor is the child of pride and folly, and it is needy not pride, which is the heritage of the human race. It is a very remarkable fact that this extreme form of pride should be found exclusively amongst the adherents of the religion which teaches the deepest humility. Still, this pride must not be put down to religion, but, rather, to the feudal system, which made every nobleman a petty sovereign who recognized no human judge, and learned to regard his person as sacred and inviolable, and any attack upon it, or any blow or insulting word, as an offence punishable with death. The principle of knightly honor and of the duel were at first confined to the nobles, and, later on, also to officers in the army, who, enjoying a kind of off-and-on relationship with the upper classes, though they were never incorporated with them, were anxious not to be behind them. It is true that duels were the product of the old ordeals; but the latter are not the foundation, but rather the consequence and application of the principle of honor: the man who recognized no human judge appealed to the divine. Ordeals, however, are not peculiar to Christendom: they may be found in great force among the Hindoos, especially of ancient times; and there are traces of them even now.
As a palliative to this rash arrogance, people are in the habit of giving way on everything. If two intrepid persons meet, and neither will give way, the slightest difference may cause a shower of abuse, then fisticuffs, and, finally, a fatal blow: so that it would really be a more decorous proceeding to omit the intermediate steps and appeal to arms at once. An appeal to arms has its own special formalities; and these have developed into a rigid and precise system of laws and regulations, together forming the most solemn farce there isa regular temple of honor dedicated to folly! For if two intrepid persons dispute over some trivial matter, (more important affairs are dealt with by law), one of them, the cleverer of the two, will of course yield; and they will agree to differ. That this is so is proved by the fact that common people,or, rather, the numerous classes of the community who do not acknowledge the principle of knightly honor, let any dispute run its natural course. Amongst these classes homicide is a hundredfold rarer than amongst thoseand they amount, perhaps, in all, to hardly one in a thousand, who pay homage to the principle: and even blows are of no very frequent occurrence. 72
Then it has been said that the manners and tone of good society are ultimately based upon this principle of honor, which, with its system of duels, is made out to be a bulwark against the assaults of savagery and rudeness. But Athens, Corinth and Rome could assuredly boast of good, nay, excellent society, and manners and tone of a high order, without any support from the bogey of knightly honor. It is true that women did not occupy that prominent place in ancient society which they hold now, when conversation has taken on a frivolous and trifling character, to the exclusion of that weighty discourse which distinguished the ancients. This change has certainly contributed a great deal to bring about the tendency, which is observable in good society nowa-days, to prefer personal courage to the possession of any other quality. The fact is that personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue,merely the distinguishing mark of a subaltern,a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion. Far from being the pillar of society, knightly honor affords a sure asylum, in general for dishonesty and wickedness, and also for small incivilities, want of consider-
ation and unmannerliness. Rude behavior is often passed over in silence because no one cares to risk his neck in correcting it. After what I have said, it will not appear strange that the dueling system is carried to the highest pitch of sanguinary zeal precisely in that nation whose political and financial records show that they are not too honorable. What that nation is like in its private and domestic life, is a question which may be best put to those who are experienced in the matter. Their urbanity and social culture have long been conspicuous by their absence. There is no truth, then, in such pretexts. It can be urged with more justice that as, when you snarl at a dog, he snarls in return, and when you pet him, he fawns; so it lies in the nature of men to return hostility by hostility, and to be embittered and irritated at any signs of depreciatory treatment or hatred: and, as Cicero says, there is something so penetrating in the shaft of envy that even men of wisdom and worth find its wound a painful one; and nowhere in the world, except, perhaps, in a few religious sects, is an insult or a blow taken with equanimity. And yet a natural view of either would in 73
no case demand anything more than a requital proportionate to the offence, and would never go to the length of assigning death as the proper penalty for anyone who accuses another of lying or stupidity or cowardice. The old German theory of blood for a blow is a revolting superstition of the age of chivalry. And in any case the return or requital of an insult is dictated by anger, and not by any such obligation of honor and duty as the advocates of chivalry seek to attach to it. The fact is that, the greater the truth, the greater the slander; and it is clear that the slightest hint of some real delinquency will give much greater offence than a most terrible accusation which is perfectly baseless: so that a man who is quite sure that he has done nothing to deserve a reproach may treat it with contempt, and will be safe in doing so. The theory of honor demands that he shall show a susceptibility which he does not possess, and take bloody vengeance for insults which he cannot feel. A man must himself have but a poor opinion of his own worth who hastens to prevent the utterance of an unfavorable opinion by giving his enemy a black eye. True appreciation of his own value will make a man really
indifferent to insult; but if he cannot help resenting it, a little shrewdness and culture will enable him to save appearances and dissemble his anger. If he could only get rid of this superstition about honorthe idea, I mean, that it disappears when you are insulted, and can be restored by returning the insult; if we could only stop people from thinking that wrong, brutality and insolence can be legalized by expressing readiness to give satisfaction, that is, to fight in defence of it, we should all soon come to the general opinion that insult and depreciation are like a battle in which the loser wins; and that, as Vincenzo Monti says, abuse resembles a church-procession, because it always returns to the point from which it set out. If we could only get people to look upon insult in this light, we should no longer have to say something rude in order to prove that we are in the right. Now, unfortunately, if we want to take a serious view of any question, we have first of all to consider whether it will not give offence in some way or other to the dullard, who generally shows alarm and resentment at the merest sign of intelligence; and it may easily happen that the head which contains the intelligent view has to be pitted against the noodle 74
which is empty of everything but narrowness and stupidity. If all this were done away with, intellectual superiority could take the leading place in society which is its duea place now occupied, though people do not like to confess it, by excellence of physique, mere fighting pluck, in fact; and the natural effect of such a change would be that the best kind of people would have one reason the less for withdrawing from society. This would pave the way for the introduction of real courtesy and genuinely good society, such as undoubtedly existed in Athens, Corinth and Rome. If anyone wants to see a good example of what I mean, I should like him to read Xenophons Banquet. The last argument in defence of knightly honor no doubt is, that, but for its existence, the worldawful thought! would be a regular bear-garden. To which I may briefly reply that nine hundred and ninety-nine people out of a thousand who do not recognize the code, have often given and received a blow without any fatal consequences: whereas amongst the adherents of the code a blow usually means death to one of the parties. But let me examine this argument more closely.
I have often tried to find some tenable, or at any rate, plausible basisother than a merely conventional onesome positive reasons, that is to say, for the rooted conviction which a portion of mankind entertains, that a blow is a very dreadful thing; but I have looked for it in vain, either in the animal or in the rational side of human nature. A blow is, and always will be, a trivial physical injury which one man can do to another; proving, thereby, nothing more than his superiority in strength or skill, or that his enemy was off his guard. Analysis will carry us no further. The same knight who regards a blow from the human hand as the greatest of evils, if he gets a ten times harder blow from his horse, will give you the assurance, as he limps away in suppressed pain, that it is a matter of no consequence whatever. So I have come to think that it is the human hand which is at the bottom of the mischief. And yet in a battle the knight may get cuts and thrusts from the same hand, and still assure you that his wounds are not worth mentioning. Now, I hear that a blow from the flat of a sword is not by any means so bad as a blow from a stick; and that, a short time ago, cadets were liable to be punished by the one but not the other, and that 75
the very greatest honor of all is the accolade. This is all the psychological or moral basis that I can find; and so there is nothing left me but to pronounce the whole thing an antiquated superstition that has taken deep root, and one more of the many examples which show the force of tradition. My view is confirmed by the well-known fact that in China a beating with a bamboo is a very frequent punishment for the common people, and even for officials of every class; which shows that human nature, even in a highly civilized state, does not run in the same groove here and in China. On the contrary, an unprejudiced view of human nature shows that it is just as natural for a man to beat as it is for savage animals to bite and rend in pieces, or for horned beasts to butt or push. Man may be said to be the animal that beats. Hence it is revolting to our sense of the fitness of things to hear, as we sometimes do, that one man bitten another; on the other hand, it is a natural and everyday occurrence for him to get blows or give them. It is intelligible enough that, as we become educated, we are glad to dispense with blows by a system of mutual restraint. But it is a cruel thing to compel a nation or a single class to regard a blow as an awful
misfortune which must have death and murder for its consequences. There are too many genuine evils in the world to allow of our increasing them by imaginary misfortunes, which brings real ones in their train: and yet this is the precise effect of the superstition, which thus proves itself at once stupid and malign. It does not seem to me wise of governments and legislative bodies to promote any such folly by attempting to do away with flogging as a punishment in civil or military life. Their idea is that they are acting in the interests of humanity; but, in point of fact, they are doing just the opposite; for the abolition of flogging will serve only to strengthen this inhuman and abominable superstition, to which so many sacrifices have already been made. For all offences, except the worst, a beating is the obvious, and therefore the natural penalty; and a man who will not listen to reason will yield to blows. It seems to me right and proper to administer corporal punishment to the man who possesses nothing and therefore cannot be fined, or cannot be put in prison because his masters interests would suffer by the loss of his service. There are really no arguments against it: only mere talk about the 76
dignity of mantalk which proceeds, not from any clear notions on the subject, but from the pernicious superstition I have been describing. That it is a superstition which lies at the bottom of the whole business is proved by an almost laughable example. Not long ago, in the military discipline of many countries, the cat was replaced by the stick. In either case the object was to produce physical pain; but the latter method involved no disgrace, and was not derogatory to honor. By promoting this superstition, the State is playing into the hands of the principle of knightly honor, and therefore of the duel; while at the same time it is trying, or at any rate it pretends it is trying, to abolish the duel by legislative enactment. As a natural consequence we find that this fragment of the theory that might is right, which has come down to us from the most savage days of the Middle Age, has still in this nineteenth century a good deal of life left in itmore shame to us! It is high time for the principle to be driven out bag and baggage. Now-a-days no one is allowed to set dogs or cocks to fight each other,at any rate, in England it is a penal offence,but men are plunged into deadly strife,
against their will, by the operation of this ridiculous, superstitious and absurd principle, which imposes upon us the obligation, as its narrow-minded supporters and advocates declare, of fighting with one another like gladiators, for any little trifle. Let me recommend our purists to adopt the expression baiting1 instead of duel, which probably comes to us, not from the Latin duellum, but from the Spanish duelo, meaning suffering, nuisance, annoyance. In any case, we may well laugh at the pedantic excess to which this foolish system has been carried. It is really revolting that this principle, with its absurd code, can form a power within the Stateimperium in imperioa power too easily put in motion, which, recognizing no right but might, tyrannizes over the classes which come within its range, by keeping up a sort of inquisition, before which any one may be haled on the most flimsy pretext, and there and then be tried on an issue of life and death between himself and his opponent. This is the lurking place from which every rascal, if he only belongs to the classes in question, may menace and even exterminate the noblest and best of men, who, as such, must 1 Ritterhetze. 77
of course be an object of hatred to him. Our system of justice and police-protection has made it impossible in these days for any scoundrel in the street to attack us withYour money or your life! An end should be put to the burden which weighs upon the higher classesthe burden, I mean, of having to be ready every moment to expose life and limb to the mercy of anyone who takes it into his rascally head to be coarse, rude, foolish or malicious. It is perfectly atrocious that a pair of silly, passionate boys should be wounded, maimed or even killed, simply because they have had a few words. The strength of this tyrannical power within the State, and the force of the superstition, may be measured by the fact that people who are prevented from restoring their knightly honor by the superior or inferior rank of their aggressor, or anything else that puts the persons on a different level, often come to a tragic-comic end by committing suicide in sheer despair. You may generally know a thing to be false and ridiculous by finding that, if it is carried to its logical conclusion, it results in a contradiction; and here, too, we have a very glaring absurdity. For an officer is forbidden to take
part in a duel; but if he is challenged and declines to come out, he is punished by being dismissed the service. As I am on the matter, let me be more frank still. The important distinction, which is often insisted upon, between killing your enemy in a fair fight with equal weapons, and lying in ambush for him, is entirely a corollary of the fact that the power within the State, of which I have spoken, recognizes no other right than might, that is, the right of the stronger, and appeals to a Judgment of God as the basis of the whole code. For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right. But the truth is that, if my opponent is unable to defend himself, it gives me the possibility, but not by any means the right, of killing him. The right, the moral justification, must depend entirely upon the motives which I have for taking his life. Even supposing that I have sufficient motive for taking a mans life, there is no reason why I should make his death depend upon whether I can shoot or fence better than he. In such a case, it is immaterial in what way I kill him, whether 78
I attack him from the front or the rear. From a moral point of view, the right of the stronger is no more convincing than the right of the more skillful; and it is skill which is employed if you murder a a man treacherously. Might and skill are in this case equally right; in a duel, for instance, both the one and the other come into play; for a feint is only another name for treachery. If I consider myself morally justified in taking a mans life, it is stupid of me to try first of all whether he can shoot or fence better than I; as, if he can, he will not only have wronged me, but have taken my life into the bargain. It is Rousseaus opinion that the proper way to avenge an insult is, not to fight a duel with your aggressor, but to assassinate him,an opinion, however, which he is cautious enough only to barely indicate in a mysterious note to one of the books of his Emile. This shows the philosopher so completely under the influence of the mediaeval superstition of knightly honor that he considers it justifiable to murder a man who accuses you of lying: whilst he must have known that every man, and himself especially, has deserved to have the lie given him times without number.
The prejudice which justifies the killing of your adversary, so long as it is done in an open contest and with equal weapons, obviously looks upon might as really right, and a duel as the interference of God. The Italian who, in a fit of rage, falls upon his aggressor wherever he finds him, and despatches him without any ceremony, acts, at any rate, consistently and naturally: he may be cleverer, but he is not worse, than the duelist. If you say, I am justified in killing my adversary in a duel, because he is at the moment doing his best to kill me; I can reply that it is your challenge which has placed him under the necessity of defending himself; and that by mutually putting it on the ground of self-defence, the combatants are seeking a plausible pretext for committing murder. I should rather justify the deed by the legal maxim Volenti non fit injuria; because the parties mutually agree to set their life upon the issue. This argument may, however, be rebutted by showing that the injured party is not injured volens; because it is this tyrannical principle of knightly honor, with its absurd code, which forcibly drags one at least of the combatants before a bloody inquisition. 79
I have been rather prolix on the subject of knightly honor, but I had good reason for being so, because the Augean stable of moral and intellectual enormity in this world can be cleaned out only with the besom of philosophy. There are two things which more than all else serve to make the social arrangements of modern life compare unfavorably with those of antiquity, by giving our age a gloomy, dark and sinister aspect, from which antiquity, fresh, natural and, as it were, in the morning of life, is completely free; I mean modern honor and modern disease,par nobile fratrum!which have combined to poison all the relations of life, whether public or private. The second of this noble pair extends its influence much farther than at first appears to be the case, as being not merely a physical, but also a moral disease. From the time that poisoned arrows have been found in Cupids quiver, an estranging, hostile, nay, devilish element has entered into the relations of men and women, like a sinister thread of fear and mistrust in the warp and woof of their intercourse; indirectly shaking the foundations of human fellowship, and so more or less affecting the whole tenor of existence. But it would be beside my present purpose to pur-
sue the subject further. An influence analogous to this, though working on other lines, is exerted by the principle of knightly honor,that solemn farce, unknown to the ancient world, which makes modern society stiff, gloomy and timid, forcing us to keep the strictest watch on every word that falls. Nor is this all. The principle is a universal Minotaur; and the goodly company of the sons of noble houses which it demands in yearly tribute, comes, not from one country alone, as of old, but from every land in Europe. It is high time to make a regular attack upon this foolish system; and this is what I am trying to do now. Would that these two monsters of the modern world might disappear before the end of the century! Let us hope that medicine may be able to find some means of preventing the one, and that, by clearing our ideals, philosophy may put an end to the other: for it is only by clearing our ideas that the evil can be eradicated. Governments have tried to do so by legislation, and failed. Still, if they are really concerned to stop the dueling system; and if the small success that has attended their efforts is really due only to their inability to cope with the evil, I do 80
not mind proposing a law the success of which I am prepared to guarantee. It will involve no sanguinary measures, and can be put into operation without recourse either to the scaffold or the gallows, or to imprisonment for life. It is a small homeopathic pilule, with no serious after effects. If any man send or accept a challenge, let the corporal take him before the guard house, and there give him, in broad daylight, twelve strokes with a stick a la Chinoise; a noncommissioned officer or a private to receive six. If a duel has actually taken place, the usual criminal proceedings should be instituted. A person with knightly notions might, perhaps, object that, if such a punishment were carried out, a man of honor would possibly shoot himself; to which I should answer that it is better for a fool like that to shoot himself rather than other people. However, I know very well that governments are not really in earnest about putting down dueling. Civil officials, and much more so, officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by
the system of rank and distinction. The duel is, so to speak, a very serviceable extra-horse for people of rank: so they are trained in the knowledge of it at the universities. The accidents which happen to those who use it make up in blood for the deficiency of the pay. Just to complete the discussion, let me here mention the subject of national honor. It is the honor of a nation as a unit in the aggregate of nations. And as there is no court to appeal to but the court of force; and as every nation must be prepared to defend its own interests, the honor of a nation consists in establishing the opinion, not only that it may be trusted (its credit), but also that it is to be feared. An attack upon its rights must never be allowed to pass unheeded. It is a combination of civic and knightly honor.
Section 5.F ame. 5.Fame. UNDER THE HEADING of place in the estimation of the world we have put Fame; and this we must now proceed to consider. 81
Fame and honor are twins; and twins, too, like Castor and Pollux, of whom the one was mortal and the other was not. Fame is the undying brother of ephemeral honor. I speak, of course, of the highest kind of fame, that is, of fame in the true and genuine sense of the word; for, to be sure, there are many sorts of fame, some of which last but a day. Honor is concerned merely with such qualities as everyone may be expected to show under similar circumstances; fame only of those which cannot be required of any man. Honor is of qualities which everyone has a right to attribute to himself; fame only of those which should be left to others to attribute. Whilst our honor extends as far as people have knowledge of us; fame runs in advance, and makes us known wherever it finds its way. Everyone can make a claim to honor; very few to fame, as being attainable only in virtue of extraordinary achievements. These achievements may be of two kinds, either actions or works; and so to fame there are two paths open. On the path of actions, a great heart is the chief recommendation; on that of works, a great head. Each of the two paths has its own peculiar advantages and detriments; and the chief dif-
ference between them is that actions are fleeting, while works remain. The influence of an action, be it never so noble, can last but a short time; but a work of genius is a living influence, beneficial and ennobling throughout the ages. All that can remain of actions is a memory, and that becomes weak and disfigured by timea matter of indifference to us, until at last it is extinguished altogether; unless, indeed, history takes it up, and presents it, fossilized, to posterity. Works are immortal in themselves, and once committed to writing, may live for ever. Of Alexander the Great we have but the name and the record; but Plato and Aristotle, Homer and Horace are alive, and as directly at work to-day as they were in their own lifetime. The Vedas, and their Upanishads, are still with us: but of all contemporaneous actions not a trace has come down to us.1 Another disadvantage under which actions labor is that 1 Accordingly it is a poor compliment, though sometimes a fashionable one, to try to pay honor to a work by calling it an action. For a work is something essentially higher in its nature. An action is always something based on motive, and, therefore, fragmentary and fleetinga part, in fact, of that Will which is the universal and original element in the constitution of the world. But a great and beautiful work has a 82
they depend upon chance for the possibility of coming into existence; and hence, the fame they win does not flow entirely from their intrinsic value, but also from the circumstances which happened to lend them importance and lustre. Again, the fame of actions, if, as in war, they are purely personal, depends upon the testimony of fewer witnesses; and these are not always present, and even if present, are not always just or unbiased observers. This disadvantage, however, is counterbalanced by the fact that actions have the advantage of being of a practical character, and, therefore, permanent character, as being of universal significance, and sprung from the Intellect, which rises, like a perfume, above the faults and follies of the world of Will. The fame of a great action has this advantage, that it generally starts with a loud explosion; so loud, indeed, as to be heard all over Europe: whereas the fame of a great work is slow and gradual in its beginnings; the noise it makes is at first slight, but it goes on growing greater, until at last, after a hundred years perhaps, it attains its full force; but then it remains, because the works remain, for thousands of years. But in the other case, when the first explosion is over, the noise it makes grows less and less, and is heard by fewer and fewer persons; until it ends by the action having only a shadowy existence in the pages of history.
within the range of general human intelligence; so that once the facts have been correctly reported, justice is immediately done; unless, indeed, the motive underlying the action is not at first properly understood or appreciated. No action can be really understood apart from the motive which prompted it. It is just the contrary with works. Their inception does not depend upon chance, but wholly and entirely upon their author; and whoever they are in and for themselves, that they remain as long as they live. Further, there is a difficulty in properly judging them, which becomes all the harder, the higher their character; often there are no persons competent to understand the work, and often no unbiased or honest critics. Their fame, however, does not depend upon one judge only; they can enter an appeal to another. In the case of actions, as I have said, it is only their memory which comes down to posterity, and then only in the traditional form; but works are handed down themselves, and, except when parts of them have been lost, in the form in which they first appeared. In this case there is no room for any disfigurement of the facts; and any circumstance which may have preju83
diced them in their origin, fall away with the lapse of time. Nay, it is often only after the lapse of time that the persons really competent to judge them appearexceptional critics sitting in judgment on exceptional works, and giving their weighty verdicts in succession. These collectively form a perfectly just appreciation; and though there are cases where it has taken some hundreds of years to form it, no further lapse of time is able to reverse the verdict;so secure and inevitable is the fame of a great work. Whether authors ever live to see the dawn of their fame depends upon the chance of circumstance; and the higher and more important their works are, the less likelihood there is of their doing so. That was an incomparable fine saying of Senecas, that fame follows merit as surely as the body casts a shadow; sometimes falling in front, and sometimes behind. And he goes on to remark that though the envy of contemporaries be shown by universal silence, there will come those who will judge without enmity or favor. From this remark it is manifest that even in Senecas age there were rascals who understood the art of suppressing merit by maliciously ignoring its existence, and of concealing good work from the
public in order to favor the bad: it is an art well understood in our day, too, manifesting itself, both then and now, in an envious conspiracy of silence. As a general rule, the longer a mans fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development. The fame which lasts to posterity is like an oak, of very slow growth; and that which endures but a little while, like plants which spring up in a year and then die; whilst false fame is like a fungus, shooting up in a night and perishing as soon. And why? For this reason; the more a man belongs to posterity, in other words, to humanity in general, the more of an alien he is to his contemporaries; since his work is not meant for them as such, but only for them in so far as they form part of mankind at large; there is none of that familiar local color about his productions which would appeal to them; and so what he does, fails of recognition because it is strange. People are more likely to appreciate the man who serves the circumstances of his own brief hour, or the temper of the moment,belonging to it, living and dying with it. 84
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favorably received at first; but remain in obscurity until they win notice from intelligence of a high order, by whose influence they are brought into a position which they then maintain, in virtue of the authority thus given them. If the reason of this should be asked, it will be found that ultimately, a man can really understand and appreciate those things only which are of like nature with himself. The dull person will like what is dull, and the common person what is common; a man whose ideas are mixed will be attracted by confusion of thought; and folly will appeal to him who has no brains at all; but best of all, a man will like his own works, as being of a character thoroughly at one with himself. This is a truth as old as Epicharmus of fabulous memory [Greek: Thaumaston ouden esti me tauth outo legein Kal andanein autoisin autous kal dokein Kalos pethukenai kal gar ho kuon kuni Kalloton eimen phainetai koi bous boi
Onos dono kalliston [estin], us dut.] The sense of this passagefor it should not be lostis that we should not be surprised if people are pleased with themselves, and fancy that they are in good case; for to a dog the best thing in the world is a dog; to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow. The strongest arm is unavailing to give impetus to a featherweight; for, instead of speeding on its way and hitting its mark with effect, it will soon fall to the ground, having expended what little energy was given to it, and possessing no mass of its own to be the vehicle of momentum. So it is with great and noble thoughts, nay, with the very masterpieces of genius, when there are none but little, weak, and perverse minds to appreciate them,a fact which has been deplored by a chorus of the wise in all ages. Jesus, the son of Sirach, for instance, declares that He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?1 And Hamlet says, A knavish speech sleeps in a fools ear.2 And Goethe is of the same opinion, that a dull ear 1 Ecclesiasticus, xxii., 8. 2 Act iv., Sc. 2. 85
mocks at the wisest word, Das glcktichste Wort es wird verhhnt, Wenn der Hrer ein Schiefohr ist: and again, that we should not be discouraged if people are stupid, for you can make no rings if you throw your stone into a marsh. Du iwirkest nicht, Alles bleibt so stumpf: Sei guter Dinge! Der Stein in Sumpf Macht keine Ringe. Lichtenberg asks: When a head and a book come into collision, and one sounds hollow, is it always the book? And in another place: Works like this are as a mirror; if an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out. We should do well to remember old Gellerts fine and touching lament, that the best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good,a daily evil that nothing can
prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult!the foolish must become wise,and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them: Nie kennen sie den Werth der Dinge, Ihr Auge schliesst, nicht ihr Verstand; Sie loben ewig das Geringe Weil sie das Gute nie gekannt. To the intellectual incapacity which, as Goethe says, fails to recognize and appreciate the good which exists, must be added something which comes into play everywhere, the moral baseness of mankind, here taking the form of envy. The new fame that a man wins raises him afresh over the heads of his fellows, who are thus degraded in proportion. All conspicuous merit is obtained at the cost of those who possess none; or, as Goethe has it in the Weststlicher Divan, anothers praise is ones own depreciation 86
Wenn wir Andern Ehre geben Mssen wir uns selbst entadeln. We see, then, how it is that, whatever be the form which excellence takes, mediocrity, the common lot of by far the greatest number, is leagued against it in a conspiracy to resist, and if possible, to suppress it. The pass-word of this league is bas le mrite. Nay more; those who have done something themselves, and enjoy a certain amount of fame, do not care about the appearance of a new reputation, because its success is apt to throw theirs into the shade. Hence, Goethe declares that if we had to depend for our life upon the favor of others, we should never have lived at all; from their desire to appear important themselves, people gladly ignore our very existence: Htte ich gezaudert zu werden, Bis man mirs Leben gegnut, Ich wre noch nicht auf Erden, Wie ihr begreifen knnt,
Wenn ihr seht, wie sie sich geberden, Die, um etwas zu scheinen, Mich gerne mochten verneinen. Honor, on the contrary, generally meets with fair appreciation, and is not exposed to the onslaught of envy; nay, every man is credited with the possession of it until the contrary is proved. But fame has to be won in despite of envy, and the tribunal which awards the laurel is composed of judges biased against the applicant from the very first. Honor is something which we are able and ready to share with everyone; fame suffers encroachment and is rendered more unattainable in proportion as more people come by it. Further, the difficulty of winning fame by any given work stands in reverse ratio to the number of people who are likely to read it; and hence it is so much harder to become famous as the author of a learned work than as a writer who aspires only to amuse. It is hardest of all in the case of philosophical works, because the result at which they aim is rather vague, and, at the same time, useless from a material point of view; they appeal chiefly to readers who are working on the same lines themselves. 87
It is clear, then, from what I have said as to the difficulty of winning fame, that those who labor, not out of love for their subject, nor from pleasure in pursuing it, but under the stimulus of ambition, rarely or never leave mankind a legacy of immortal works. The man who seeks to do what is good and genuine, must avoid what is bad, and be ready to defy the opinions of the mob, nay, even to despise it and its misleaders. Hence the truth of the remark, (especially insisted upon by Osorius de Gloria), that fame shuns those who seek it, and seeks those who shun it; for the one adapt themselves to the taste of their contemporaries, and the others work in defiance of it. But, difficult though it be to acquire fame, it is an easy thing to keep when once acquired. Here, again, fame is in direct opposition to honor, with which everyone is presumably to be accredited. Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. But there lies the difficulty! For by a single unworthy action, it is gone irretrievably. But fame, in the proper sense of the word, can never disappear; for the action or work by which it was acquired can never be undone; and fame attaches to its author, even though he does nothing to de-
serve it anew. The fame which vanishes, or is outlived, proves itself thereby to be spurious, in other words, unmerited, and due to a momentary overestimate of a mans work; not to speak of the kind of fame which Hegel enjoyed, and which Lichtenberg describes as trumpeted forth by a clique of admiring undergraduatesthe resounding echo of empty heads;such a fame as will make posterity smile when it lights upon a grotesque architecture of words, a fine nest with the birds long ago flown; it will knock at the door of this decayed structure of conventionalities and find it utterly empty!not even a trace of thought there to invite the passer-by. The truth is that fame means nothing but what a man is in comparison with others. It is essentially relative in character, and therefore only indirectly valuable; for it vanishes the moment other people become what the famous man is. Absolute value can be predicated only of what a man possesses under any and all circumstances,here, what a man is directly and in himself. It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem. 88
This is, as it were, the true underlying substance, and fame is only an accident, affecting its subject chiefly as a kind of external symptom, which serves to confirm his own opinion of himself. Light is not visible unless it meets with something to reflect it; and talent is sure of itself only when its fame is noised abroad. But fame is not a certain symptom of merit; because you can have the one without the other; or, as Lessing nicely puts it, Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it. It would be a miserable existence which should make its value or want of value depend upon what other people think; but such would be the life of a hero or a genius if its worth consisted in fame, that is, in the applause of the world. Every man lives and exists on his own account, and, therefore, mainly in and for himself; and what he is and the whole manner of his being concern himself more than anyone else; so if he is not worth much in this respect, he cannot be worth much otherwise. The idea which other people form of his existence is something secondary, derivative, exposed to all the chances of fate, and in the end affecting him but very indirectly. Besides, other peoples heads are a wretched place
to be the home of a mans true happinessa fanciful happiness perhaps, but not a real one. And what a mixed company inhabits the Temple of Universal Fame!generals, ministers, charlatans, jugglers, dancers, singers, millionaires and Jews! It is a temple in which more sincere recognition, more genuine esteem, is given to the several excellencies of such folk, than to superiority of mind, even of a high order, which obtains from the great majority only a verbal acknowledgment. From the point of view of human happiness, fame is, surely, nothing but a very rare and delicate morsel for the appetite that feeds on pride and vanityan appetite which, however carefully concealed, exists to an immoderate degree in every man, and is, perhaps strongest of all in those who set their hearts on becoming famous at any cost. Such people generally have to wait some time in uncertainty as to their own value, before the opportunity comes which will put it to the proof and let other people see what they are made of; but until then, they feel as if they were suffering secret injustice.1 1 Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himselfso long as other people leave him alone. 89
But, as I explained at the beginning of this chapter, an unreasonable value is set upon other peoples opinion, and one quite disproportionate to its real worth. Hobbes has some strong remarks on this subject; and no doubt he is quite right. Mental pleasure, he writes, and ecstacy of any kind, arise when, on comparing ourselves with others, we come to the conclusion that we may think well of ourselves. So we can easily understand the great value which is always attached to fame, as worth any sacrifices if there is the slightest hope of attaining it. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That hath infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days2 And again: How hard it is to climb The heights where Fames proud temple shines afar! 2 Milton. Lycidas.
We can thus understand how it is that the vainest people in the world are always talking about la gloire, with the most implicit faith in it as a stimulus to great actions and great works. But there can he no doubt that fame is something secondary in its character, a mere echo or reflectionas it were, a shadow or symptomof merit: and, in any case, what excites admiration must be of more value than the admiration itself. The truth is that a man is made happy, not by fame, but by that which brings him fame, by his merits, or to speak more correctly, by the disposition and capacity from which his merits proceed, whether they be moral or intellectual. The best side of a mans nature must of necessity be more important for him than for anyone else: the reflection of it, the opinion which exists in the heads of others, is a matter that can affect him only in a very subordinate degree. He who deserves fame without getting it possesses by far the more important element of happiness, which should console him for the loss of the other. It is not that a man is thought to be great by masses of incompetent and often infatuated people, but that he really is great, which should move us to envy his position; and his happiness lies, not in the fact 90
that posterity will hear of him, but that he is the creator of thoughts worthy to be treasured up and studied for hundreds of years. Besides, if a man has done this, he possesses something which cannot be wrested from him; and, unlike fame, it is a possession dependent entirely upon himself. If admiration were his chief aim, there would be nothing in him to admire. This is just what happens in the case of false, that is, unmerited, fame; for its recipient lives upon it without actually possessing the solid substratum of which fame is the outward and visible sign. False fame must often put its possessor out of conceit with himself; for the time may come when, in spite of the illusions borne of self-love, he will feel giddy on the heights which he was never meant to climb, or look upon himself as spurious coin; and in the anguish of threatened discovery and well-merited degradation, he will read the sentence of posterity on the foreheads of the wise like a man who owes his property to a forged will. The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man. His happiness lay both in the possession of those great
qualities which won him fame, and in the opportunity that was granted him of developing themthe leisure he had to act as he pleased, to dedicate himself to his favorite pursuits. It is only work done from the heart that ever gains the laurel. Greatness of soul, or wealth of intellect, is what makes a man happyintellect, such as, when stamped on its productions, will receive the admiration of centuries to come, thoughts which make him happy at the time, and will in their turn be a source of study and delight to the noblest minds of the most remote posterity. The value of posthumous fame lies in deserving it; and this is its own reward. Whether works destined to fame attain it in the lifetime of their author is a chance affair, of no very great importance. For the average man has no critical power of his own, and is absolutely incapable of appreciating the difficulty of a great work. People are always swayed by authority; and where fame is widespread, it means that ninety-nine out of a hundred take it on faith alone. If a man is famed far and wide in his own lifetime, he will, if he is wise, not set too much value upon it, because it is no more than the echo of a few voices, which the chance of a day has touched in his favor. 91
Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding? And what would he say if he got to know that those one or two persons had often taken bribes to secure the loudest applause for the poorest player! It is easy to see why contemporary praise so seldom develops into posthumous fame. DAlembert, in an extremely fine description of the temple of literary fame, remarks that the sanctuary of the temple is inhabited by the great dead, who during their life had no place there, and by a very few living persons, who are nearly all ejected on their death. Let me remark, in passing, that to erect a monument to a man in his lifetime is as much as declaring that posterity is not to be trusted in its judgment of him. If a man does happen to see his own true fame, it can very rarely be before he is old, though there have been artists and musicians who have been exceptions to this rule, but very few philosophers. This is confirmed by the portraits of people celebrated by their works; for most of them are taken only after their subjects have at-
tained celebrity, generally depicting them as old and grey; more especially if philosophy has been the work of their lives. From the eudaemonistic standpoint, this is a very proper arrangement; as fame and youth are too much for a mortal at one and the same time. Life is such a poor business that the strictest economy must be exercised in its good things. Youth has enough and to spare in itself, and must rest content with what it has. But when the delights and joys of life fall away in old age, as the leaves from a tree in autumn, fame buds forth opportunely, like a plant that is green in winter. Fame is, as it were, the fruit that must grow all the summer before it can be enjoyed at Yule. There is no greater consolation in age than the feeling of having put the whole force of ones youth into works which still remain young. Finally, let us examine a little more closely the kinds of fame which attach to various intellectual pursuits; for it is with fame of this sort that my remarks are more immediately concerned. I think it may be said broadly that the intellectual superiority it denotes consists in forming theories, that is, new combinations of certain facts. These facts may be of very differ92
ent kinds; but the better they are known, and the more they come within everyday experience, the greater and wider will be the fame which is to be won by theorizing about them. For instance, if the facts in question are numbers or lines or special branches of science, such as physics, zoology, botany, anatomy, or corrupt passages in ancient authors, or undecipherable inscriptions, written, it may be, in some unknown alphabet, or obscure points in history; the kind of fame that may be obtained by correctly manipulating such facts will not extend much beyond those who make a study of thema small number of persons, most of whom live retired lives and are envious of others who become famous in their special branch of knowledge. But if the facts be such as are known to everyone, for example, the fundamental characteristics of the human mind or the human heart, which are shared by all alike; or the great physical agencies which are constantly in operation before our eyes, or the general course of natural laws; the kind of fame which is to be won by spreading the light of a new and manifestly true theory in regard to them, is such as in time will extend almost all over the civilized world: for if
the facts be such as everyone can grasp, the theory also will be generally intelligible. But the extent of the fame will depend upon the difficulties overcome; and the more generally known the facts are, the harder it will be to form a theory that shall be both new and true: because a great many heads will have been occupied with them, and there will be little or no possibility of saying anything that has not been said before. On the other hand, facts which are not accessible to everybody, and can be got at only after much difficulty and labor, nearly always admit of new combinations and theories; so that, if sound understanding and judgment are brought to bear upon themqualities which do not involve very high intellectual powera man may easily be so fortunate as to light upon some new theory in regard to them which shall be also true. But fame won on such paths does not extend much beyond those who possess a knowledge of the facts in question. To solve problems of this sort requires, no doubt, a great ideal of study and labor, if only to get at the facts; whilst on the path where the greatest and most widespread fame is to be won, the facts may be grasped without any labor at all. 93
But just in proportion as less labor is necessary, more talent or genius is required; and between such qualities and the drudgery of research no comparison is possible, in respect either of their intrinsic value, or of the estimation in which they are held. And so people who feel that they possess solid intellectual capacity and a sound judgment, and yet cannot claim the highest mental powers, should not be afraid of laborious study; for by its aid they may work themselves above the great mob of humanity who have the facts constantly before their eyes, and reach those secluded spots which are accessible to learned toil. For this is a sphere where there are infinitely fewer rivals, and a man of only moderate capacity may soon find an opportunity of proclaiming a theory which shall be both new and true; nay, the merit of his discovery will partly rest upon the difficulty of coming at the facts. But applause from ones fellow-students, who are the only persons with a knowledge of the subject, sounds very faint to the far-off multitude. And if we follow up this sort of fame far enough, we shall at last come to a point where facts very difficult to get at are in
themselves sufficient to lay a foundation of fame, without any necessity for forming a theory;travels, for instance, in remote and little-known countries, which make a man famous by what he has seen, not by what he has thought. The great advantage of this kind of fame is that to relate what one has seen, is much easier than to impart ones thoughts, and people are apt to understand descriptions better than ideas, reading the one more readily than the other: for, as Asmus says, When one goes forth a-voyaging He has a tale to tell. And yet for all that, a personal acquaintance with celebrated travelers often remind us of a line from Horacenew scenes do not always mean new ideas Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.1 But if a man finds himself in possession of great mental 1 Epist. I. II. 94
faculties, such as alone should venture on the solution of the hardest of all problemsthose which concern nature as a whole and humanity in its widest range, he will do well to extend his view equally in all directions, without ever straying too far amid the intricacies of various by-paths, or invading regions little known; in other words, without occupying himself with special branches of knowledge, to say nothing of their petty details. There is no necessity for him to seek out subjects difficult of access, in order to escape a crowd of rivals; the common objects of life will give him material for new theories at once serious and true; and the service he renders will be appreciated by all thoseand they form a great part of mankindwho know the facts of which he treats. What a vast distinction there is between students of physics, chemistry, anatomy, mineralogy, zoology, philology, history, and the men who deal with the great facts of human life, the poet and the philosopher!
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Samsung has announced a few new tablets this year, but so far, none of them have come to the United States. If you've been waiting with bated breath to buy a mid-range Android tablet (surely there are at least one or two of you out there!), the Galaxy Tab S5e and 2019 Tab A 10.1 are coming to 'Murica on April 26th.
The Galaxy Tab S5e was announced in February, and will cost $400 in the U.S. Considering the more-powerful Galaxy Tab S4 is now priced at $530, and you can get an iPad Air for $500, the S5e isn't a great value. It still has a 2560x1600 AMOLED display, but its paired with a less-powerful Snapdragon 670 processor. There's also no S-Pen support. Still, if you just want something to watch movies or write papers on (there's a detachable keyboard sold separately), the S5e will do the job just fine.
The 2019 Tab A 10.1 (pictured at the top of this article) is a step down, and is already available in Germany and other regions. It has a 1080p LCD screen, 2GB of RAM, a 6,150mAh battery, and stereo speakers. The processor for the US model isn't mentioned, but the European version is equipped with an Exynos 7904. Pricing is set at $230.
RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ – April 10, 2019–Samsung Electronics America, Inc.announced that the Galaxy Tab S5e, Samsung’s thinnest 10.5” tablet, and the Galaxy Tab A 10.1, built for the household, will be available for purchase later this month. Whether you are looking for entertainment, multi-tasking and the best Galaxy features with the ultra-light Galaxy Tab S5e, or to consume your favorite content with the family or while on the go with the Galaxy Tab A 10.1, Samsung has you covered at a price point that fits your budget.
“At Samsung, we believe consumers deserve devices that are perfectly suited for their needs, whether it’s home entertainment, portability, or smart connectivity,” said Alanna Cotton, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Samsung Electronics America. “That’s why we are thrilled to introduce these tablets to our robust product portfolio, because each one offers premium features, unique designs to meet specific consumer demands.”
The Galaxy Tab S5e brings quality features in Samsung’s thinnest 10.5” tablet frame yet. Its 5.5mm wide, and only weighs 400g, making it ultraportable and comes in a range of modern colors including Black, Silver and Gold. The 10.5” Edge to Edge Display, narrower bezels and Super AMOLED screen allows you to experience content in outstanding detail. The Tab S5e’s gorgeous visuals are perfectly complemented with rich, stunning sound thanks to its quad speakers, which incorporate auto rotate stereo technology for powerful audio that adapts to how you’re holding the tablet, whether in portrait or landscape.
In addition to its Book Cover keyboard that can be purchased separately for handling quick tasks, the Tab S5e also has smart connectivity that can be used to manage and control your household through SmartThings[1]with just a few clicks. Or, you can use the new Bixby 2.0[2]and control them with just the sound of your voice. And with call and message continuity,[3]you can answer a call or reply to a message directly from your tablet, even if you left your phone at home.
The portable Galaxy Tab A 10.1 brings the best in display, design, and long-lasting battery[4]to offer a first-rate, engaging entertainment experience, from anywhere with Wi-Fi.
Offering an immersive experience,the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 has a widescreen display for enjoying your favorite content. Minimal bezels keep the footprint of the tablet small, and its compact form factor makes it easy to carry and comfortable to hold.And with a dual speaker system powered by Dolby Atmos®, the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 will deliver 3D sound for a more dynamic, realistic watching experience.
Designed for the household,the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 comes preloaded with a library of curated educational content for kids through Samsung Kids[5]—all customizable and controllable by parents. With the Family Share feature, your family can also easily share their Gallery, Calendar, Samsung Notes, and reminders across devices connected to the same family group.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e will be available starting at $399.99, and the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 will be available starting at $229.99, beginning April 26 at Samsung.com and major retailers
Consumers who pre-order the Galaxy Tab S5e on Samsung.com starting April 12, 2019 through April 25, 2019 are eligible to receive a free Samsung SmartThings Hub.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Product Specifications
DISPLAY 10.5” WQXGA (2560x1600) sAMOLED
CHIPSET 64bit Octa-core processor (2x2.0 GHz & 6x1.7 GHz)
MEMORY / STORAGE 4GB + 64GB or 6GB + 128GB, microSD up to 512GB
CAMERA Rear: 13MP
Front: 8MP
PORT USB3.1 (Type C), POGO
Type-C headset connector Provided
SENSORS Accelerometer, Fingerprint Sensor, Gyro Sensor, Geomagnetic Sensor, Hall Sensor, RGB Light Sensor
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4G+5GHz, VHT80, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth v5.0
GPS GPS, Glonass, Beidou, Galileo
DIMENSION, WEIGHT 245.0 x 160.0 x 5.5mm, 400g
BATTERY 7,040mAh, Fast Charging
OS/UPGRADE Android Pie 9.0
ACCESSORIES Book cover Keyboard, POGO Charging Dock, Slim cover, Book cover (not included)
VIDEO Recording: UHD 4K (3840x2160) @ 30fps
Playback: UHD 4K (3840x2160) @ 30fps
AUDIO 4 speakers sound by AKG, Dolby Atmos®
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 Product Specifications
DISPLAY 10.1” WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD
CHIPSET Lassen O+ (Octa: Dual 1.8GHz + Hexa 1.6GHz)
MEMORY / STORAGE 2GB + 32GB, 3GB + 64GB, 3GB + 128GB
microSD up to 512GB
CAMERA Rear: 8MP
PORT USB2.0 (Type C)
3.5mm Stereo
GPS GPS, Glonass, Galileo
DIMENSION, WEIGHT 245.2(H) x 149.4(W) x 7.5(D) (mm) 470g
ACCESSORIES Book Cover (sold separately)
VIDEO Recording: FHD (1920x1080) @ 30fps
AUDIO 2 speakers, Dolby Atmos®
*All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice.
[1] SmartThings Hub should be installed to connect and control devices through the SmartThings app on the Tab S5e.
[2] Bixby 2.0 will be supported via MR and released in a later software update in 2019.
[3] Call & Message Continuity functionality will be available in the US starting April 26, 2019 on T Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular networks and requires a compatible smartphone. Data charges may apply. Call & Message Continuity feature must be activated in Settings>Connection.
[4] Battery life may vary depending on usage and settings.
[5] Requires a Samsung Kids subscription, starting at $7.99 per month.
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Sae Okamoto's Mecha-Ude Short Anime's Promo Video Previews Theme Song
posted on 2018-01-19 06:00 EST by Crystalyn Hodgkins
25-minute short produced through Kickstarter campaign now has July release
Sae Okamoto's Mecha-Ude short anime project began streaming a promotional video for the anime on Friday. The video previews Eve's theme song "Ambivalent."
Okamoto is also hosting a separate crowdfunding campaign on the Campfire site in Japanese. The crowdfunding campaign is aiming to raise 2 million yen (about US$18,100) by March 10.
Okamoto had revealed on the project's Kickstarter page in December that the anime is now planned for a July release for physical rewards such as discs and merchandise. The anime was originally planned for a release last month.
The original Kickstarter campaign raised US$67,918 from October-November 2016. The campaign aims to build a bigger production team for the project, which will produce a 25-minute pilot episode. A stretch goal will produce an additional short episode for the Heroine with Japanese voice-over with English subtitles.
The campaign page describes the anime:
Hero was a high schooler living an ordinary life.
One day, he meets a very strong and intelligent mechanical arm named “Mecha-ude”. After a strange turn of events, the “Mecha-ude” started living inside Hero's hoodie and the two's life full of trouble begins.
As the boy and his “Mecha-ude” fights together and strengthen their bonds, the two also meets new friends who also fights along with each of their own unique “Mecha-ude” partners.
Out of those, one of the heroine has two “Mecha-ude” which appears out of her skirt. An active girl with a totally opposite characteristics from hero himself, he gradually becomes attracted to her.
But the two are confronted with other “Mecha-ude” users who are in search of the secret of “Mecha-ude” relentlessly.
In this work, an anima-machine named “Mecha-ude” with self-awareness appears. Even though they look inorganic in nature, they all show or express their own feelings and opinions. They can feel angry, sad, and even encouraged to fight against enemies.
Okamoto and a "small group of production team members" are working on the project. Okamoto is directing the project at TriF Studio. She has worked as an animator on Sushi Police , Danchi Tomoo , and Tenkai Knights . The production team includes Tatsushi Momen ( Sushi Police director) as the compositor, NARASAKI ( Paradise Kiss , Penguindrum , Expelled from Paradise ) as the composer, and Seiji Toda ( Votoms Finder , Code Geass "Back to Zero") as recording and mixing engineer at S.O.L.I.D Sound Lab.
This article has a follow-up: Sae Okamoto's Mecha-Ude Short Anime Casts Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Tomokazu Sugita, Yu Shimamura (2018-01-19 10:06)
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Citigroup's loan disclosures: Over-provisioned or fudging fair value?
James Cullen, AOL.com
Aug 21st 2009 2:40PM
There has been a great deal of talk in the financial media of late about bank's loan values, which may be vastly overinflated due to flexibility offered by accounting rules. The SEC revealed that it sent a memo to a number of CFOs at banks, telling them, "Clear and transparent disclosure about how you account for your provision and allowance for loan losses has always been critically important," and "although determining your allowance for loan losses requires you to exercise judgment, it would be inconsistent with generally accepted accounting principles if you were to delay recognizing credit losses." (Hat tip, Zero Hedge).
Clearly, there is concern that many banks are not taking the appropriate marks on their loan portfolios. Last week, DailyFinance discussed the next hundred-billion-plus-dollar question for the banking system: whether or not the enormous gap between some banks' book values and market values was a cause for concern. One curious development since then has been the Financial Times' revelation that Citigroup CFO Ned Kelly was forced out by U.S. regulators shortly before reporting second quarter results.
As Kelly joined the revolving-door club at that position, the FT's assertion that his resignation was driven by discussions with regulators should bring increasing scrutiny to Citigroup's recent 10-Q filing. Replacing a CFO after such a short tenure is an odd move, to say the least, so DailyFinance compared some disclosures relating to loan loss reserve levels and fair values at the "big four" banks -- Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), J.P. Morgan (JPM), and Wells Fargo (WFC) -- to see if there might be something that Citi was less-than-forthcoming about disclosing.
The loan loss allowances at the four banks were compared to the net carrying value of loans -- which helps understand what impairments management thinks is necessary -- as well as the bank's estimated fair market value of the loans, which shows what discount level is implied by market pricing. Interestingly enough, Citigroup had the most conservative carrying value marks, with its loss provision resulting in loans being carried at 94.38 cents on the dollar. The next lowest mark came from J.P. Morgan, which carried its loans at 95.72 cents on the dollar. The highest marks, which suggest the lowest level of losses, was from Wells Fargo at 97.20 cents on the dollar.
Contrasting those results with the fair value estimates for each company's loan book yields an interesting conclusion. Citigroup, which is apparently reserving the most for bad debts, places the fair value at 94.17 cents on the dollar -- basically the same as its carrying value. But the next highest fair value mark is from J.P. Morgan, at 93.30 cents on the dollar, and Bank of America establishes a fair value of 89.33 cents on the dollar. These are all massive loan portfolios in excess of $600 billion, so it's hard to believe they are enormously different in composition just because of the law of averages.
An extremely knowledgeable hedge fund manager once told me that a deep dive into a bank's loan practices is always superior to rule-of-thumb measures, and the market prices that help create fair value estimates aren't perfect. But I find Citi's combination of higher-than-average reserves with higher-than-average market prices to be puzzling, and maybe Ned Kelly did too, much to the chagrin of regulators who would like the appearance of a stable bank. Is Citi actually over-provisioned by several billion dollars, or are they simply using generous fair value assumptions to appear that way -- meaning other big banks need to increase loss reserves?
James Cullen edits and writes at CollegeAnalysts.com. He is the Vice-President of the Boston College Investment Club, which owns BAC and JPM, but has no personal position in the stocks mentioned above.
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UTV fire leads to 23-year-old Idaho man's death
2 separate crashes end up as emergencies
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WASHINGTON COUNTY — A UTV fire led to a death on Saturday after a man was unable to get out of his harness in time.
Steven Groves, 23, of Star, Idaho, died after suffering third-degree burns over most of his body, according to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
The Sheriff’s Office received a call about the UTV fire near Steck Park at 3:08 p.m. on Saturday.
According to the release, the driver of the UTV, James Bingham, 42, of Boise, was driving his UTV up a hill on sand dunes when he and Groves, a passenger on the UTV saw a man at the road waving his arms and yelling. That’s when Groves “yelled that the UTV was on fire.”
Both men were wearing five-point harness seat belts, states the release. Bingham was able to get his harness undone, but Groves was not able to get free.
“When the harness holding Groves in the seat burned off, Bingham was able to remove Groves from the UTV,” reads the release.
Both Bingham and Groves were transported to a hospital in Weiser Memorial Hospital and later both were taken to a Salt Lake City burn center, where Groves died from his injuries. Bingham is reportedly still at the burn center.
“We have no idea what caused the fire,” said Washington County Sheriff Matt Thomas.
The incident is still under investigation.
LifeFlight picks up 2 in separate UTV crash
Washington County Sheriff deputies also responded to a seperate UTV-related call later in the day. At 6:13 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office received a call about two juveniles being injured in a UTV crash near Brownlee Summit.
According to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office, both were taken to Cambridge in a private vehicle where they met with medical personnel. The release states both juveniles were transported via LifeFlight to Boise.
The sheriff issued the following cautionary advice for UTVs: Drive slow, Pay attention to surroundings and wear a helmet.
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Kyoko Yoshida is the author of a story collection Disorientalism. She also translates prose and poetry from/into Japanese. A PhD from UW-Milwaukee, a 2005 participant of the Iowa IWP, and a former visiting fellow at Brown University, she currently teaches at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
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Facebook's latest privacy scandal: What we know about the company's handling of user data
Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. The latest: According to The New York Times Facebook gave tech companies special access to user's data.
Facebook's latest privacy scandal: What we know about the company's handling of user data Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. The latest: According to The New York Times Facebook gave tech companies special access to user's data. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/12/19/facebooks-latest-privacy-scandal-what-we-know-now/2361257002/
Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY Published 10:17 a.m. MT Dec. 19, 2018 | Updated 3:38 p.m. MT Dec. 19, 2018
It's another instance of Facebook sharing user information, this time through data sharing partnerships with large companies who could even have access to your private messages. Veuer's Justin Kircher has the details. Buzz60
Facebook defended itself against an accusation printed by The New York Times, claiming the social network released private data to other large tech companies without the knowledge of the users.(Photo: Derzsi Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons)
Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. The latest worrying report: According to The New York Times Facebook gave technology companies like Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify special access to user's data without anyone else knowing.
The revelation is the latest in a string of bad news for Facebook. In just the last couple of months the company has suffered multiple outages, a reveal that it considered selling user data after pledging not to, and a bug that affected 6.8 million people giving permission to third-party apps to access their photos.
And this doesn’t include the testimonies on Capitol Hill and other scandals that the company has faced this year. Now on Wednesday, the attorney general for the District of Columbia has filed a suit against Facebook for permitting political consultancy Cambridge Analytica access to the personal data of tens of millions of users without their permission, according to Washington Post sources.
So here's what we know now from the new report.
What exactly did Facebook do?
According to the Times, Facebook gave big companies greater access to its users' data without the user's permission. This includes giving Microsoft's search engine Bing access to see all of a user's friends without the user's consent, letting Netflix and Spotify read a user's private messages and allowing Amazon to gather names and contact information.
The Times also reports that Facebook was still sharing "streams of friends' posts" with Yahoo "as recently as this summer" even though the Facebook claiming publicly to have stopped the practice years ago.
More: Facebook denies giving Spotify, Netflix, other tech giants wider access to data without user permission
What is Facebook saying about these allegations?
Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, the company's director of developer platforms and programs, denied that Facebook gave companies user data without the user's permission. "To be clear: none of these partnerships or features gave companies access to information without people’s permission," Papamiltiadis wrote on Facebook, adding that the company similarly did not "violate our 2012 settlement with the FTC."
In 2012, the Federal Trade Commision settled with Facebook over claims the social network "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public."
As part of the settlement, the FTC required Facebook give users "clear and prominent notice and obtaining their express consent before sharing their information beyond their privacy settings," as well as keep "a comprehensive privacy program to protect consumers' information." The Commission also said Facebook would need "biennial privacy audits from an independent third party" to make sure it is properly protecting user information.
Papamiltiadis does acknowledge that these companies and others have had access to Facebook user information, but users need to opt-in to utilize their Facebook account on a third-party platform, like Spotify, Netflix or Bing.
Wait, what does that mean?
Facebook, like other social networks and platforms, allows developers to connect to its service using tools known as APIs. The goal: to allow people to connect with their Facebook friends without having to leave the other app.
These are the pop-ups you see after you click on a "connect to Facebook" or "sign in with Facebook" button letting you log in to Facebook and telling you what information of yours is being shared and what parts of your Facebook the company you're connecting with will have access to.
Spotify asking you to "connect to Facebook" on its desktop app. (Photo: Screenshot)
For Spotify, Papamiltiadis notes, after you've signed in to Facebook on the Spotify desktop app, "you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app."
Since this API was designed to use Facebook's messaging feature, "our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature."
Papamiltiadis says the company is currently "in the midst of reviewing all our APIs and the partners who can access them."
OK, so nothing here is shady?
Well, no. While this integration between companies and services is common all across the tech industry, the Times report says that Facebook gave the aforementioned big companies, as well as others like the Royal Bank of Canada, more detailed data than it had previously disclosed and without user knowledge. All as part of an effort designed to grow Facebook's user base and generate more advertising dollars.
What about Facebook's terms of service?
For better or worse, most people skip reading the terms of services very carefully. Facebook's terms of service allow it to collect a wide range of information about you. From basic personal information like your name, age and birthdate to the type of phone you used, the websites you visited, things you are interested in and the location you are logging on from.
While you can limit some of these by adjusting privacy settings, when you agree to use Facebook you agree to let it collect this data.
Facebook's terms say it gathers all of this data to help it provide "Facebook Products," which include the Facebook mobile app and in-app browser, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. It says it doesn't "sell any individual data that could identify you, like your name," instead grouping people into more generalized categories based on the information collected and the market the advertiser wants to reach.
What are the companies saying?
A few of the companies named in the report have already spoken out.
Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo told the Times any data they accessed was used appropriately. Netflix replied to the Times on Twitter that it "never asked for, or accessed, anyone's private messages."
Netflix never asked for, or accessed, anyone's private messages. We're not the type to slide into your DMs.
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 19, 2018
Has the government commented?
Legislators from both sides of the aisle have shared their thoughts on this latest revelation, with calls growing for Congress to regulate the social network.
"It is beyond obvious at this point that social media platforms are simply not up to the task of voluntarily ensuring the privacy and security of their users," Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote. "Congress must step in."
It is beyond obvious at this point that social media platforms are simply not up to the task of voluntarily ensuring the privacy and security of their users. Congress must step in. https://t.co/xNQSWtxUps
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) December 19, 2018
"We cannot grow numb to Facebook’s continued violations of user’s privacy," wrote Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mi., adding that "Congress must enact legislation to protect Americans’ sensitive information."
We cannot grow numb to Facebook’s continued violations of user’s privacy. This @NYTimes report is another signal that Congress must enact legislation to protect Americans’ sensitive information. https://t.co/VN4DkXnw2i
— Rep. Debbie Dingell (@RepDebDingell) December 19, 2018
“The hits just keep on coming,” GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters at the Capitol Wednesday. “We were told that this won’t happen again. It’s clear that Facebook took people’s private information, including but not limited to their private messages and sold it to other companies for a bucket-load of money. And they’ve been doing that all along and the first time it might have been a mistake but the second time it was a choice and I don’t want to have to regulate Facebook but they’re going to give us no choice here.”
“Mr. Zuckerberg is a very smart man, he could spot me 75 IQ points but the way he’s acting he’s got no sense and this is unacceptable,” Kennedy is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which Zuckerberg testified in front of earlier this year.
More: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg testifies: 6 things we learned, a bunch we didn't
More: Kennedy to Zuckerberg: 'Your user agreement sucks'
What can I do to protect myself going forward?
When it comes to protecting Facebook data right now, it really is hard to say what you can do given the seemingly monthly (if not weekly) disclosures about how Facebook is handling user data.
While deleting your Facebook account is certainly an option, given the prevalence of not just the main Facebook product but also WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, for many dropping the company isn't feasible.
This latest episode should, however, serve as yet another reminder to be careful, and perhaps think twice, about what you share online. While companies say they will protect your data, as Facebook's 2018 has shown these "protections" only go so far.
Contributing: Eliza Collins
Follow Eli Blumenthal on Twitter @eliblumenthal
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Gas prices are up 'considerably' in Maryland and nationwide. What's going on?
By Colin Campbell
Gas prices in Maryland have risen 18 cents in the past month and 31 cents in the last year. (Barbara Taylor / Baltimore Sun video)
Roscoe Scott drives about 50 miles from his home in East Baltimore to Prince George's County a few times a week to take care of his 76-year-old mother and run errands for her.
With the price of gasoline up 18 cents in the last month, the 56-year-old has cut back on how much he puts in his tank at a time. He stopped the pump at around $10 at the Royal Farms gas station on Russell Street one morning last week.
"I'm getting less gas," Scott said. "If it were lower, I'd fill it up."
After a few years of regular gasoline prices averaging below $2.50 a gallon, higher prices are back this year and continuing to rise. Gas cost an average of $2.72 per gallon in Maryland on Sunday, 31 cents more than this time last year and the highest it's been since 2014, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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Rising gas prices aren't unusual for this time of year, as the summer vacation season approaches and refineries transition to federally mandated summer-blend gasoline, which is more environmentally friendly, if more expensive, said Ragina Cooper Averella, a AAA spokeswoman.
"We typically see them go up a little this time a year, but they're up considerably," she said.
The national increase has outpaced the auto club's March projection that the national average would reach as high as $2.70, and the prices are the highest since the national average reached $2.81 in the summer of 2015, Averella said.
If prices continue to rise, consumers could face the highest prices this year since gasoline averaged well over $3 a gallon from 2011 to 2014. The increase also could burn through some of the gains people received from President Donald J. Trump's tax cuts, especially among lower-income consumers, who got smaller reductions.
Drivers are in for "a few more weeks of pain and increasing prices," said Patrick DeHaan, the Chicago-based head of petroleum analytics at GasBuddy, an app that helps consumers compare prices among local gas stations.
As usual, many factors are to blame, DeHaan said.
"It's never one thing," he said.
Oil prices are increasing globally, driven by a supply shortage and geopolitical tensions, DeHaan said. That plays a large role in rising prices at the pump.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a group of 14 nations that coordinate their oil policies to regulate supply, cut production in recent months to drive up prices, he said. At the same time, unrest in Venezuela, one of OPEC's founding members and a key U.S. oil supplier, caused a recent drop in the South American nation's oil exports, he said.
"The drop in production in Venezuela was probably not expected by OPEC when it decided to cut oil production," DeHaan said. "They have seen a drastic drop."
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The price of domestic oil tracks with rising international oil prices. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil traded over $69 on Thursday, its highest price since December 2014. But the United States also is exporting record amounts of crude oil to other countries, DeHaan said.
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Another factor is the escalating conflict in Syria, where the U.S. and its allies launched air strikes last week on research, storage and military targets to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a recent suspected chemical attack that killed 40 people near Damascus.
Still, DeHaan expects gas prices to level out by next month and, eventually, drop.
"Usually gas prices peak at some point in May," he said. "Looking at the oil aspect ... I don't know that it has much more room to rally."
Last year's national average started slipping after Memorial Day, he noted, and eventually reached its lowest level on the Fourth of July in 12 years.
"Generally speaking, gas prices decline for a good portion of the month of June," he said.
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For Rokea McCullough, 29, of West Baltimore, that can't come soon enough.
McCullough, a mental health counselor, drives around the city every day visiting patients and carting around her son. She said she's spending about $50 per fill-up for her truck a couple of times a week.
"It's killing me," she said. "I remember when gas was a dollar-and-something a gallon."
Ayana Malone of Baltimore fills up her car at the Royal Farms on Russell Street. With the rise of gas prices, Malone has opted to take the MARC train more often instead of driving to work. (Barbara Haddock Taylor / Baltimore Sun)
As prices have risen, Ayana Malone, who lives in Hamilton, has opted to take the MARC train more often instead of driving more than an hour to her job as a special education administrator in Washington.
"I've been very curious as to why," she said, of the recent gas price increase. "It's odd that it's going up so sharply."
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Henry Roberts, 62, of Brooklyn, filled his hatchback Honda Civic for $2.41 a gallon at the Carroll Fuel on Potee Street on a recent afternoon.
To Roberts, like many, fluctuating gas prices sometimes seems arbitrary.
"It can rain heavy for three days, and they'll raise gas prices," he said.
James King, a trash truck driver who lives on Annapolis Road in Westport, said the city yard has its own pump, so he doesn't have to track the cost of the gas in his truck. But he can't fill up his Chrysler Pacifica there.
Gas prices tend to rise regardless, the 49-year-old said, but bombing Syria can't have helped.
"Every time something's going on, they raise our gas prices," King said.
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July 4, 2019 by Mars Roberson
Finally, two of the top heavyweight boxers in the world are climbing in the ring to face each other. It’s not the big one, but it’s the closest thing to it. On Friday, WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder announced he would be facing Tyson Fury in a highly anticipated rematch.
The fight is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2020, per boxing insider Mike Coppinger. The Daily Star’s Chris McKenna expects the fight will happen in January. Many fans and members of the boxing community would have rather seen Wilder announcing that he and WBA, IBF and WBO champion Anthony Joshua had agreed upon a date, but this isn’t bad news.
On the heels of Wilder blowing out the overmatched Dominic Breazeale inside of a round earlier this month, and subsequently announcing that he would rematch Luis Ortiz in September, this is a step in the right direction. Fury is set to face the unheralded Tom Schwarz next month in what figures to be a one-sided affair. Fury must defeat Schwarz to make it to the 2020 date with Wilder. Likewise, you’d think Wilder has to defeat Ortiz for a second time as well.
Wilder faced Ortiz in one of 2018’s best fights. Aside from the controversial draw with Fury later in the year, the battle with Ortiz was Wilder’s toughest fight. Wilder ultimately won by 10th-round KO, but he was stunned earlier in the bout and had some issues with the Cuban’s hand speed and overall boxing skills.
June 19, 2019 by Mars Roberson
Joseph Parker vs Alex Leapai on June 29 in Rhode Island as part of the Andrade-Sulecki card on DAZN.
Former WBO heavyweight titleholder Parker (25-2, 19 KO) was originally supposed to face Eric Molina, but Molina wound up pulled from the fight, which is to be Parker’s Matchroom debut.
Leapai (32-7-4, 26 KO) is 39 years old and hasn’t had a notable win since 2013, which set up a 2014 fight with Wladimir Klitschko, who predictably pummeled Leapai.
“A stoppage would be nice, that’s the goal going into every fight,” Parker said. “I just have to change up the mind set to not only go in there and win, but go in and KO someone and make a statement. This is my first fight with Matchroom Boxing USA and DAZN so I want to make that statement, there’s no pressure but I do have to go out there and look good.”
Parker lost to Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte in back-to-back fights last year, and says he’d like to get rematches. The fight with Leapai will be Parker’s first as a co-feature, underneath a middleweight world title fight between American champion Demetrius Andrade and Polish challenger Maciej Sulecki.
The Parker vs Leapai live is a poor mismatch, but Hearn says it’s a match-up in which Parker can make a statement to the heavyweight division. Unfortunately, Leapai is well past his prime at 39, and not one of the ranked contenders. You can argue Leapai on the level of a Tom Schwarz type fighter, but he’s not been given an elevated ranking by the World Boxing Organization like he had going into his contest last Saturday night against lineal heavyweight strap holder Tyson Fury. Parker vs Leapai live stream
May 17, 2019 by Mars Roberson
Wilder vs Breazeale fight will be on Saturday, May 18th, 2019 American time 10pm and UK audiences will catch it on 19th May at 3am. The WBC heavyweight belt is up for grabs in New York .
US boxer Deontay Wilder is currently champion as the holder of the WBC heavyweight title. He’s also one of the most intimidating boxers on the Earth right now. Unperturbed, Dominic Breazeale aims to knock Wilder off his throne and grab his belt in the process. And you can get a Wilder vs Breazeale live stream wherever you are using this handy guide.
Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs), 33-year-old heavyweight champion, will put his impressive record on the line against powerhouse challenger 33-year-old Dominic “Trouble” Breazeale (20-1, 18 KOs). As you can see from those stats these two are both knock-out specialists which should make for a really high power pairing.
While Wilder is undefeated as belt holder, Breazeale has lost one of his 21 fights in a seventh-round knockout by unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in 2016. So while Wilder is one of the fiercest fighters out there, Breazeale is no bum either.
What date is it?
The Deontay Wilder and Dominic Breazeale fight is set for for Saturday, May 18 in New York City
You can expect the main card to begin at 9pm ET / 6pm PT (or on Sunday 2am BST / 11am AET)
The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
The fight, which has been a long time coming will go down at the prestigious arena, Barclays Center, in Brooklyn New York. This venue last hosted Wilder in his fight against Luis Ortiz early last year and won by 10th round TKO.
It will be a World Heavyweight Championship with Wilder putting his title on the line for the ninth time against fellow American Breazeale.
The May 18th fight is a WBC Heavyweight title that came after Breazeale challenged Wilder for the title.
How to watch Wilder vs Breazeale on Roku
UK fans can follow the game on Roku TV, the pioneer of TV streams by purchasing/renting a Roku player, opening an account and subscribing at just £29.99/month with no hidden charges and you are free to access the game from the internet through your TV among other sports events and fights.
How to watch Wilder vs Breazeale on Xfinity
The Wilder vs. Breazeale will be available for streaming in the pay per view platform. Xfinity not only gives you TV but also fast internet services at 150mbps which ensures you cannot miss any punch or sweat in the match. This provider, at just $65/month you get access to over ten channels on any screen and you can add any channels of your choice with the subscription. Visit www.xfinity.com for more information.
How to watch Wilder vs Breazeale on Xbox One
The Xbox One Gameplay will also enable you to Wilder vs Breazeale live stream the fight with its Twitch feature. To stream the match, install the Twitch Xbox App which is accessible from your Xbox One at the Store dashboard. Once the app is up and running, log in to the Twitch App through the website using your Xbox account and use the six-digit code to log to the app and once this is done, search for the stream feature and enjoy your boxing match.
How to watch Wilder vs Breazeale on Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime offers you the chance to catch the match live, and this is through their Amazon Prime App accessible from their site. It allows you to follow everything alongside thousands of other TV shows and movies on your android phone and tablet, iOS or smart TV at just $119 per year or $12.99/monthly with a 30-day free trial period. You can literally get a subscription, watch the fight and enjoy your favorite TV show and unsubscribe before you are charged. Students get a six month-free trial period. How cool, right?
Watch Wilder vs Breazeale Using VPN Services
For audience outside the US who cannot access these streaming sites, a great way to catch up on all the action and secure is through VPN that allows you to surpass any geo-restrictions on channels and streaming sites.
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April 3, 2019 by Mars Roberson
The ‘Gypsy King’ insists he will fight anyone, anytime, anywhere…
Tyson Fury has publicly called on Deontay Wilder to make their rematch happen.
Britain’s ‘lineal’ heavyweight champion recently signed a new co-promotional deal to fight on US broadcaster ESPN which has complicated negotiations – owing to the fact that Deontay Wilder is on rival network Showtime.
The WBC has been in communication with both sides and continues the process with regards to the Wilder vs Fury rematch.
When Fury vs Wilder 2 fight ?
It is set to take place in New York on May 18 .
The Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury rematch purse bid originally scheduled for Tuesday February 5th has been extended by one week by the World Boxing Council, president of the organisation Mauricio Sulaiman has confirmed.
Wilder and Fury fought to a dramatic draw on last year on 1st December in Los Angeles and both men are looking to prove themselves as king of the heavyweight division, while Anthony Joshua looks set to defend his plethora of titles on his US debut with a fight in New York against the undefeated Jarrell Miller.
the beginning of an extraordinary two weeks in the city for British boxing with Anthony Joshua defending his four world titles against Jarrell Miller on June 1.
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Daniel Jacobs and Canelo Alvarez to exclusive deals, DAZN has been looking to prove they are the premier source for boxing. Now, before the two face off in the ring on Cinco de Mayo weekend, they will have a chance to say a few words to one another. While the Alvarez vs Jacobs live stream fight won’t be in New York City, it is only fitting the first stop of the press tour begins in The Big Apple.
Alvarez (51-1-2) will be defending his WBC, WBA, Lineal and Ring Magazine Middleweight World Titles while New York-born Jacobs (35-2) will be defending his recently won IBF Middleweight Title.
With Golden Boy Promotions involved, will there be some controversy to start things off? With both fighters being notoriously respectable men on the mic, the hype for the fight may very well be a small tuneup for the rest of the tour.
You can watch Alvarez v Jacobs , taking place inside the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC in the link below. Tickets for Canelo v. Jacobs, taking place inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, via YouTube and Twitter. Fight Sports is also live streaming the event.
When and where is the Canelo vs Jacobs stream fight?
The fight takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, 4th May. The arena is something of a home for Canelo – and will be even more so considering the bout is on Cinco de Mayo weekend.
What time will the ring walks be?
As this one is in Vegas, expect it to be no earlier than 4.30am – possibly even 5.
What TV channel will it be on?
It’ll be live on DAZN as that’s who both fighters are with – and in the UK it’ll be shown on Sky Sports, so if you’re a subscriber you get this one as part of your package
February 24, 2019 by Mars Roberson
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder “owe it to the fans” to make a rematch happen, says WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman.
Although a deal is yet to be agreed, Sulaiman said he was “confident” the fight would take place.
WBC world champion Wilder and Fury, as well as unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, are signed to rival US broadcasters, which could make future negotiations more difficult.
A rematch between American Wilder and Britain’s Fury has been anticipated since a first meeting in December in which Wilder retained his belt after an enthralling draw in Los Angeles.
The WBC mandated the rematch but has so far resisted imposing a deadline for purse bids, with both parties saying they are close to an agreement.
Tyson Fury‘s heavyweight rematch with Deontay Wilder will be officially announced in London on Monday.
It is set to take place in New York on May 18 – marking the beginning of an extraordinary two weeks in the city for British boxing with Anthony Joshua defending his four world titles against Jarrell Miller on June 1.
Perhaps the biggest heavyweight title fight in the United States since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in 2002 will take place on Dec. 1 when WBC champion Deontay Wilder battles lineal champ Tyson Fury at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Negotiations started in earnest after talks between Wilder and unified titleholder Anthony Joshua stalled out. When Fury dispatched Francesco Pianeta by unanimous decision in August, Wilder entered the ring, and the fight was made official.
Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) last fought in March, when he mounted a comeback and knocked out Luis Ortiz to score the biggest win of his career. The Alabama native has been looking for a career-defining outing, and he believes a win over Fury is just what he needs.
Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) defeated Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 to win the IBF, WBA (super) and WBO belts. He vacated the belts in 2016 after it was revealed that he had failed a drug test. The Englishman returned in June after a two-year layoff to sort out personal issues and beat Sefer Seferi, who refused to come out for the fifth round.
How to Watch Wilder vs Fury Fight live online ?
The boxing fight between Wilder vs Fury has been dubbed . Wilder vs Fury Fight will take place at Los Angeles. on 1st December 2018. In the USA, ESPN will broadcast the fight live online whereas, in the UK, Box nation has exclusive broadcasting rights.
So, how to Watch Wilder vs Fury Live Online channels from anywhere in the world. Thus, stream Wilder vs Furylive online in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Canada , Mexico , Scotland , ireland , Philippines, Indonesia, UAE, or Malaysia.
Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury date, start time
Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury will meet on Saturday, Dec. 1. The fight card will begin at 9 p.m.
How to watch Wilder vs. Fury live
You can watch Wilder vs. Fury on Showtime PPV.
Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury records
Deontay Wilder: 40-0 with 39 knockouts
Tyson Fury: 27-0 with 19 knockouts
Wilder vs. Fury fight card
Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury for Wilder’s WBC heavyweight title
The heavyweight world championship between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is just days away. The fight is scheduled for December 1, 9 PM EST / 2 AM GMT, but you’ll want to secure streaming access ahead of time. You can watch Wilder vs. Fury online in the US. You can also live stream Wilder vs. Fury abroad from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.
Our article focuses only on legitimate streaming options for the Deontay Wilder vs.Tyson Fury heavyweight championship event.
The Heavyweight World Championship event will be headlined by a must-see fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury. Both boxers are coming into the fight with excellent records and titles of their own from past events.
Tyson Fury to fight another opponent before Deontay Wilder rematch
The two fought to a draw in December and were negotiating a rematchbut WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman said Tuesday he received confirmation from Fury that the challenger would look elsewhere for his next bout.
“Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury is officially not happening next,” Sulaiman tweeted. “The WBC Boxing has received communications as our process, and while WBC Champion Wilder confirmed its willingness to fight the rematch, Fury will take on another fight with expectations to do rematch at a later date.”
Wilder is now expected to take on Dominic Breazeale, who is the next mandatory WBC challenger.
Anthony Joshua, who holds the other major heavyweight belts, will take on Jarrell Miller in June in New York.
Wilder (40-0-1) floored Fury (27-0-1) in the ninth and 12th rounds on Dec. 1, yet Fury outboxed Wilder for large portions of the remainder of their showdown at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Fury looked finished when Wilder put him flat on his back with two minutes left in the fight, but he rose and made it to the bell.
The WBC heavyweight title rematch between champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is off for now.
The two fought to a draw in December and were negotiating a rematch. But WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman said on Tuesday he received confirmation from Fury that the challenger would look elsewhere for his next bout.
Deontay Wilder v Tyson Fury mega-fight to be shown exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office HD on December 1 . The great boxing just keeps on coming on BT Sport and now we have a monumental billing with Tyson Fury finally lined up to take on Deontay Wilder.
#WilderFury IS ON, BABY💥 @BronzeBomber vs. @Tyson_Fury set for @STAPLESCenter Dec. 1 LIVE on Showtime PPV. pic.twitter.com/8oc4c3ondp
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing) September 27, 2018
The Gypsy King is back chasing world titles, as he sets the WBC champion in his sights for a potential bout with Anthony Joshua ( Joshua vs Wilder ) next year 2019.
The fight between WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury will take place on Saturday, 1 December.
Contracts have been signed with the venue for the bout, expected to be in the United States, announced next week.
American Wilder, 32, and Briton Fury, 30, agreed a fight in August.
“The two best heavyweights competing against each other, the best fighting the best, giving the people what they want,” Wilder said on social media.
The promotional tour for the fight will start on 1 October in London and will continue to New York and Los Angeles.
It’s less than a week away! Wilder and Fury in LA . Wilder vs Fury Live Stream : how to watch the boxing online from anywhere this Saturday .
The undefeated Deontay Wilder (40-0 39 KOs) and Tyson Fury (27-0 19 KOs) meet in a thrilling heavyweight clash on December 1st. It’s been a brilliant year of in-ring action, and Tyson Fury’s comeback has been one of the stories of the year. But three years after his career peak, can he repeat the feat by taking down the champ Deontay Wilder?
You can find out with a Wilder vs Fury live stream – and you can watch from absolutely anywhere using this handy guide. Thankfully, you’ll be able to stream the fight on Showtime from anywhere in the world.
How to Watch Wilder vs Fury Online: Quick Guide
The Wilder vs Fury fight is being shown live on Showtime PPV in the USA, with the main card set for 9pm ET, 6pm PT.
You can use a Sling TV subscription to purchase Showtime PPV content, including the Fury-Wilder showdown. Here’s how to do it: Showtime PPV is hosting the fight exclusively in the US
How to watch the Tyson Fury fight in the UK
BT Sport Box Office is the UK broadcaster for this one, and you can purchase the Wilder vs Fury fight if you’re a customer of BT TV, Sky or Virgin Media. It’s Box Office from BT Sport
Wilder vs Fury Live Stream
Showtime PPV will be showing the fight via live stream. You can get the Showtime app on almost every single device so it should not be an issue if you have a smart device. You can purchase the fight right through the Showtime app so as long as you download the app before the fight you will be all set.
It is still unknown if BT Sports will be Fury vs Wilder live streaming the fight. BT Sports did not stream the GGG vs Canelo 2 fight back in September so many fans are worried that BT Sports will not show Fury vs Wilder.
Spence vs Garcia full fight video:
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Turns out champ vs. champ “superfights” in boxing can be just as one-sided as the ones we’ve seen in MMA! Errol Spence Jr (25-0, 21 KOs) dominated Mikey Garcia (39-1, 30 KOs) to defend his IBF welterweight title, as the WBC lightweight champion’s first foray up to 147 lbs proved every bit as as lopsided as feared. Spence outlanded Garcia 345-75, jabbing him at will, crushing him to the body, and walking through any punches that Garcia did actually connect on.
More than 47,000 fans at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX saw a virtuoso showing from Spence, who won a shutout decision (120-107, 120-108, 120-108) and probably should’ve scored a TKO. Robert Garcia, Mikey’s brother and trainer, contemplated stopping the bout, but let it continue all the way.
Loma vs Crolla Fight : All the information you need to catch the lightweight title clash on Saturday April 12 in Los Angeles .
Anthony Crolla will challenge pound-for-pound king Vasyl Lomachenko for his lightweight world titles on April 12 in Los Angeles, USA.
It was revealed on Wednesday morning that terms have been agreed for the bout, which will see the Brit face a monumental task against a modern great.
How to Watch Loma vs Crolla Live stream Boxing Online on ESPN TV +
Anthony Crolla hopes his superior size can help him cause an upset against unified world lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko when they meet at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on April 12, live on Sky Sports.
Crolla vs Lomachenko and Ramirez’s fight will stream live and exclusively in the United States beginning at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT on ESPN+ . Great Britain’s Anthony Crolla will face Vasyl Lomachenko in a WBA world title fight in Los Angeles in April.
Ukrainian Lomachenko, 31, will defend his unified lightweight world title against 32-year-old Crolla.
The bout will be heavy underdog Crolla’s first in the United States.
Crolla vs Lomachenko Boxing live stream on April 12 in Los Angeles
Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko will defend his unified lightweight world title against mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla on April 12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after their camps made a deal Tuesday night.
The deal for the fight, which will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the launch of the network’s streaming service, was made between Lomachenko promoter Top Rank and Crolla promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing one day before the promotional rights for the bout were set to be auctioned off at a purse bid at WBA headquarters in Panama City, Panama.
Loma vs Crolla : Fighter about
Crolla, 32, defended the title with a seventh-round knockout of Ismael Barroso, then lost it by decision to Linares in September 2016. Linares outpointed Crolla in an immediate rematch in March 2017, after which Crolla reeled off three wins in a row to earn the title shot against Lomachenko.
Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), who turned 31 on Sunday, has won world titles in three weight classes. He moved up to lightweight and knocked out Linares in the 10th round in May to win a world title in his third division. On Dec. 8, Lomachenko, a two-time Olympic gold medalist from Ukraine, dropped Jose Pedraza twice in the 11th round en route to a unanimous decision victory to unify two belts.
Degale vs Eubank Live stream Former Super Middleweight World Champion James DeGale meets British rival Chris Eubank Jr. in a grudge match that kicks off the new partnership between PBC and UK network giant ITV.
One of British boxing’s best matchups—and one of its worst kept secrets—was finally announced today.
On Saturday, February 23, James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr. will finally throw down at the O2 Arena in London, England. The event, the first in the U.K. by America’s Premier Boxing Champions, marks a return to the sport for ITV. The network will air the card on their box office platform.
The brash pair didn’t hold back during the verbal back-and-forth at today’s press conference at Hotel Café Royal in London. DeGale, a former two-time world champion, has a lengthy history with the Eubank family dating back to his Olympic days in 2008. This bout was prophesied even back then and, based on his commentary while addressing the media today, “Chunky” has spent the subsequent years dreaming about the opportunity to shut the mouths of Eubank Jr and his father, British legend Chris Eubank Sr.
“This fight has been a long time coming,” DeGale said. “When he first turned professional, he was calling me out. This guy is deluded. On the 23rd February, I get a big chance to deal with this guy good and proper and finish him because after me I don’t know where he has to go.
Joe Joyce (7-0, 7 KOs) will be facing former WBC heavyweight champion Bernane Stiverne (25-3-1, 21 KOs) on February 23 on the undercard of James DeGale v. Chris Eubank Jr. at the O2 Arena in London, England, according to @BaylorICTV. Joyce vs Stiverne live
KATIE TAYLOR WILL face Brazil’s Rose Volante in a world-title unification clash on Patrick’s weekend in Philadelphia.
Taylor will seek to add Volante’s WBO title to her WBA and IBF straps in her bid to become the undisputed lightweight world champion in 2019.
Katie Taylor will attempt to become a three-belt lightweight world champion when she takes on Rose Volante in March.
The 32-year-old is already the Republic of Ireland’s first unified ruler having picked up the WBA and IBF belts within her first 12 professional fights, and now has the chance of be the first fighter in all of Ireland to hold three major straps.
Farmer vs Carroll Fight Card on March 15: Philadelphia (DAZN)
Title fight: Tevin Farmer vs. Jono Carroll, 12 rounds, for Farmer’s IBF junior lightweight title
Title fight: Katie Taylor vs. Rose Volante, 10 rounds, IBF/WBA/WBO women’s lightweight title unification
Gabriel Rosado vs. Maciej Sulecki, 10 rounds, middleweights
Hank Lundy vs. Avery Sparrow, 10 rounds, lightweights
Daniyar Yeleussinov vs. TBA, 8 rounds, welterweights
John Joe Nevin vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
16 March is the likely date for the showdown between the two undefeated champions, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in Ireland and the UK as well as DAZN in the States.
Porter vs Ugas Boxing : Shawn Porter will take on Yordenis Ugas in a WBC welterweight title fight on March 9 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, in a PBC on FOX main event.
Porter (29-2-1, 17 KO) is a two-time welterweight champion, beating Devon Alexander for the IBF title back in 2013, before losing it to Kell Brook in 2014. He failed in another world title attempt in 2016, losing a decision to Keith Thurman, but rebounded in September of this year, taking a W over Danny Garcia to gain the then-vacant WBC title, which Thurman had given up due to injury.
Ugas (23-3, 11 KO) is a 32-year-old Cuban contender who has put together a really good run after it looked like he was going to wash out. The Miami-based fighter lost a pair of fights back in 2014 when he was at 140 pounds, but moved up and upset Jamal James in Aug. 2016.
He has followed that by rattling off seven more wins in a row, most recently beating Cesar Miguel Barrionuevo on Sept. 8, part of the Porter-Garcia card.
March 9: Carson, Calif. (Fox/Fox Deportes)
Title fight: Shawn Porter vs. Yordenis Ugas, 12 rounds, for Porter’s WBC welterweight title
Edwin Rodriguez vs. Andrzej Fonfara, 10 or 12 rounds, cruiserweights
Efe Ajagba vs. Amir Mansour, 8 rounds, heavyweights
James DeGale MBE and Chris Eubank Jnr have announced announce their highly-anticipated blockbuster showdown on Saturday 23 February at The O2.
The all British clash marks the debut event for Haymon Sports and Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) in the UK following the groundbreaking deal announced with ITV and Poxon Sports.
This Eubank vs DeGale live stream fight will take place on Saturday, February 23.
It will be held at the O2 Arena, London.
When can I buy tickets for the fight?
Tickets will be available on Monday, January 7 from 10am.
They are priced £40, £60 £80, £100, £150 and £300 and can be bought HERE.
Which channel is it on and can I live stream it?
ITV Box Office will be showing the event but more information will be available nearer to the fight.
February 9, 2019 by Mars Roberson Leave a Comment
British heavyweight boxing sensation Tyson Fury is back training for his upcoming rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, and he’s issued a strong challenge to his American opponent.
Fury and Wilder battled it out in Los Angeles in December in an epic heavyweight battle which ended in a controversial draw, with many believing the ‘Gypsy King’ had done enough to claim his opponent’s WBC heavyweight title despite being knocked to the canvas in the final round.
The WBC then sanctioned a re-match to take place and Fury is doing everything possible to stay in shape.
Appearing on BT Sport, Fury urged Wilder to commit to another bout.
“I’m just maintaining my fitness really,” he said. “I’m [as] fit now as I was then, same kind of thing.”
He then hilariously looked directly into the camera and issued a direct message to his opponent.
“I’m ready to fight. Wilder, let’s get the fight made, don’t s*** yourself now mate.”
Fury’s promoter Frank Warren said negotiations are on-going with Wilder’s camp.
“We want to make the fights that matter, and that is what we will do,” Warren said.
“Those are the only fights Tyson Fury is interested in after reasserting himself as the world’s best heavyweight. He may not have the belts, but he is top of the charts again now, and we are working on his rematch with Wilder.
Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Efe Ajagba, 8-0(7) is one of the hottest and most promising young fighters on the current scene. Trained by Ronnie Shields, the physically gifted and athletic Nigerian who is based in Texas will face what on paper could be his toughest test to date on March 9, as Ajagba will get in there with veteran Amir Mansour on the under-card of the Shawn Porter/Yordenis Ugas welterweight title fight in Carson.
Mansour, 23-3-1(16) has been in with some recognisable names, such as Steve Cunningham (a decision loss), Dominic Breazeale (a corner retirement loss due to a savage tongue injury) and, last time out, another heavyweight hope in Filip Hrgovic (a third-round stoppage loss), and though he has come up short, he is very much a respected fighter.
The Mansour vs Ajagba fight is scheduled for eight rounds.
Location: Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, California, USA
Televised coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and will see Porter defend his title after defeating Danny Garcia in an exciting September clash to capture the WBC belt. He will face Cuba’s Ugas, who has worked his way to this position with an impressive string of eight-straight victories leading up to March 9.
Shawn Porter will take on Yordenis Ugas in a WBC welterweight title fight on March 9 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, in a PBC on FOX main event.
January 8, 2019 by Mars Roberson
Crawford vs Khan takes place on Saturday April 20 at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden.
Full details for the card are still to be announced but it will be an early start for UK fight fans with ringwalks expected no earlier than 3am.
The fight will be broadcast exclusively in the UK Crawford vs Khan live on BT Box Office for the price of £19.95.
Fight odds
Crawford to win: 1/10
Khan to win: 11/2
Draw: 25/1
Khan (33-4, 20 KOs ) enters this fight coming off a couple of tune-up bouts last year following a two-year hiatus after he was knocked out by Canelo Alvarez in 2016. Meanwhile Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) has won two fights at welterweight since becoming the undisputed junior welterweight champion in mid-2017.
He’s since moved up for bigger fights and challenges but hasn’t yet faced any real marquee names since basically all the other top welterweights are on the other side of the political divide with Premier Boxing Champions.
Khan is out to prove it isn’t too late for him to join the welterweight elite.
The time for that may have already passed, however, and against a truly world class operator in Crawford, victory will likely be out of his reach.
Crawford to win via a late stoppage.
Crawford vs Khan fight card :
An exciting Crawford vs Khan undercard features two of boxing’s most prodigious talents on the show with New York’s own Shakur Stevenson and Teofimo Lopez in action.
Shakur Stevenson vs Christopher Diaz (featherweight)
Teofimo Lopez vs Edis Tatli (lightweight)
Felix Verdejo vs Bryan Vazquez (lightweight)
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Wiley Studio
Illustrations by Doc Wiley
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Significance / Content / Development / Thanks
Completed in time for Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, and July 4th 2015.
“NoWhere To Hide” is an illustration created to commemorate all the faithful military and civilian personnel who have served, are serving now, and will serve in the Defense of the United States; and, as thanks to our Allies, and recognition of our Foes.
“NoWhere To Hide” has been called a “Tapestry Of American History”, a “Collage Of International Military Hardware”, a “Record Of U.S. National Treasures”, and a “Composition Of The Heart”.
The Central Figure of “NoWhere To Hide” is the American National Icon; the Bald Eagle; screaming in this case; evoking thoughts of U.S. and Allied determination during times of testing, and by association with the unit icon of the 101st Airborne Division. In one eye of the Screaming Eagle is the Washington Monument, in the other the St. Louis Arch, and behind a Rocky Mountain Landscape; symbolizing three of the many geographic areas where “Watchmen On The Wall” serve to keep America safe.
The “NoWhere To Hide” Banner-Phrase represents the idea that our Foes, America and our Allies have nowhere to hide easily; not from each other, nor from ourselves. Advanced Technologies, News Media, and other means have made the world smaller; making our actions, motivations, and responsibilities more apparent.
Wrapped around the Screaming Eagle and extending down through the Banner is the American National Flag; but not just any flag; it was drawn from a personal prop; the burial flag of my father; himself a WWII B-29 photo-recon Pilot.
Woven throughout the image are 300+ pieces of international military equipment, and key American icons, memorials, munitions, and battle scenes; spanning from before the American Revolution, through major conflicts, and into the future. Content for “NoWhere To Hide” was suggested by many; making “NoWhere To Hide” a large group effort, not just the effort of a single artist. Each entry can be located by quadrant using the Locator Key on the “NoWhere To Hide” Inventory List.
Link to complete "NoWhere To Hide" Inventory List with Locator Key: http://wileystudio.smugmug.com/IllustrationsByDocWiley/NoWhere-To-Hide-Inventory-a/n-8VdBq7
The international military equipment in the Inventory List is divided into five main categories: Air, Ground, Missiles, Navy and Munitions; Pre-1776 to present and beyond. Selection for American, Allied, and Foe entries was based upon familiarity, historical significance, innovation, and sometimes obscure but noteworthy events.
Some examples: The Enola Gay B-29, 332nd Tuskegee Airmen P-51 Mustang (note the Red Tail), Union Army Observation Balloon “Intrepid” and Flying Circus Dr1 Fokker Triplane are among the 70+ air entries. Ground equipment (60+) includes the Verbruggen 3-Pounder Canon, the M4 Sherman Medium Battle Tank (note the word “Ungestuk” on the barrel; GR=Fury With A Storm), the M1862 Gatling Gun, “King” Tiger II Main Battle Tank, and the Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun. For Missiles (40+); the Congreve Rocket (of “Rocket’s Red Glare”), Hale Battlefield Rockets (forming the exclamation marks following the “NoWhere To Hide” Banner), CSA Hybrid-Fuel Rocket (launched from Richmond at Washington D.C. during the Civil War with Jefferson Davis present), Minuteman III, SS-27 Topol Road-Mobile ICBM, and International Space Station. For Navy (40+): the CSS Hunley, HMS Bounty, USS Constitution, Monitor and Merrimack, USS Arizona, Akula II, and Prototype Combat Submersible. For Munitions: Bouncing Dam-Buster Bomb, Daisy-Cutter, Fat Man, Little Boy, MOAB, and MOP (Massive Ordinance Penetrator). Those are 30 of the 300+.
Interspersed with the international military equipment are noteworthy American Icons, Memorials, Monuments and Battle Scenes. The Arizona Memorial above-water turret ring is there, and the Constitution VS Java, D-Day Beach Assault, Clash of the Monitor and Merrimack, and UCAV flight above the USS GHW Bush. Also, one of the two WWII Memorial “Kilroy Was Here” Engravings is included, as well as the recently completed Freedom Tower flanked by Ghost Images of the 911 World Trade Towers. Then, there are the White House, Supreme Court, Mount Rushmore, Monument Valley, Hoover Dam, Iwo Jima Flag Raising, Independence Hall, Statue of Liberty, and Liberty Bell.
So, as you can see, the entries for “NoWhere To Hide” cover a wide swath of American and International History. Inevitably, some things were excluded, and some things included that may cause one to pause, but, the content is generally thought to be compelling, and will make searching for entries and discovering their significance a challenging and rewarding endeavor - while increasing an awareness of American and World History.
A sustained effort was made to be faithful to geometry and detail; no matter how large or small the entry; no matter the look-angle; giving the viewer enough visual cues for entries to be more easily recognized. If, you are equipment-savvy and persistent.
“NoWhere To Hide” was begun in the Fall of 2013, and completed and made public in time for Armed Forces Day, 16 May, Memorial Day, 26 May, and, of course July 4th 2015; a fitting period of disclosure. In early 2014 I showed one of the initial concept sketches to my dying Mother just days before her passing. Her last coherent words were: “Oh MY, I LIKE that!” And, with that, and the encouragement of family, friends and co-workers I knew I had to continue in earnest, giving it my all.
The size, location, and drawing techniques used to produce and place the entries do not necessarily relate to their importance. Sometimes, the positioning, color, and orientation of an entry has more to do with composition (carrying the viewer’s eye through the illustration) or, with placing associated entries near each other to provoke understanding (Arizona Memorial, D-Day Beach Assault Scene, Statue Of Justice; Q3).
For entertainment, 15+ “Spoof Entries” were also sprinkled throughout the image: Find the Paper Airplane, Slingshot, Whistling Dixie Bottle Rocket, and Rubber Duck (Air, Ground, Missiles, Navy). Then too, find the Pet Rock, Mobile Home and Kitchen Sink.
“NoWhere To Hide” is both serious and fun, and engaging and challenging as you work your way through the history, meanings, and possible personal memories. In a nod to those who have served I included equipment they had had personal experience with; adding personal touches like their nose-art to their former aircraft and names on tanks.
A tip: If you secure a copy of “NoWhere To Hide” be sure to request and keep handy the Inventory List; which, again, can be viewed at this link:
http://wileystudio.smugmug.com/IllustrationsByDocWiley/NoWhere-To-Hide-Inventory-a/n-8VdBq7
Using the Inventory List Locator Key, check off the entries as you find them, clockwise quadrant by quadrant. You may want to share insights with your family, friends, fellow service members, co-workers, classmates, and others. It could be an interesting journey for many. Request a pdf of the Inventory List by emailing dixie.wiley@gmail.com.
Sincere thanks and respect goes to all who have faithfully stood with America.
Time Of Execution: 600 Hours
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https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/How-long-will-this-rain-last-14045180.php
How long will this rain last?
By Alyssa Faykus
Updated 1:11 pm CDT, Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Forecasters predict more scattered showers and thunderstorms for the Houston area Tuesday.
Photo: National Weather Service
Rain is expected to continue today with a possibility of scattered showers and thunderstorms in Southeast Texas, according to the National Weather Service.
Wind speeds are between five and 10 miles per hour, and a quarter-inch of rain is predicted, but could be more if thunderstorms persist. Minor flooding is in the forecast.
The chance of rain will lessen through the week with partly sunny days and scattered thunderstorms predicted for Wednesday, Thursday.
An upper-level disturbance Friday will bring an increase in showers and thunderstorms and persist through the weekend.
Alyssa Faykus is the General Assignments Reporter for the Beaumont Enterprise. Contact her at Alyssa.Faykus@BeaumontEnterprise.com or on Twitter by clicking here.
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Android fragmentation and the cloud
May 20, 2014 by Benedict Evans
Game Oven's post on Android gyroscope support is a nice illustration of a general issue (another good illustration here): Android fragmentation is both massively overstated and massively understated, depending on what you want to do.
On one hand, Google has been quite successful in reducing the impact of Android version fragmentation. Around three quarters of the Android devices that hit Google Play are running 4.X, but more importantly, Google has moved its own key services (maps, payment, notifications etc) out of the OS itself and into a software layer, 'Google Play Services'. By putting key platform APIs into a software layer that can be updated in that background over the air, Google has reduced its dependance on OEMs to produce firmware updates - it can update its own tools any time it wants, across the great majority of phones. When Google announces new APIs for Maps or notifications at this year's IO, they'll be available on devices running year-old and two-year-old versions of Android. There is no more fragmentation if you're using Google's cloud.
On the other hand, hardware fragmentation is if anything accelerating. This chart from OpenSignal, from last summer, is a nice visualization of the market dynamic.
Android fragmentation isn't of itself a bad thing - it's inherent in the choices that Google made. This is what 'open' and 'choice' look like. And I doubt if it's possible to have an 'un-fragmented' device landscape that includes both $600 devices and $50 devices: some scattering in capability is part of the deal. If you want to have thousands (literally) of OEMs, and a huge range of choice and price points, well, you're going to have different devices with different capabilities.
This is only interesting, then, to the degree that it has broader consequences. The consequence of Apple's approach is that pretty much everything behaves in predictable ways, but you have a very narrow range of devices at a narrow range of prices (and screen sizes), and that severely restricts the addressable market. More people can afford $50 phones than can afford $600 phones. The consequence of the Android approach is that you have a much wide range of devices and prices, and a much larger market, but anything on the bleeding edge doesn't work predictably at all. This doesn't just apply to the gyroscope - it also applies to varying degrees to almost anything trying to do clever things with the hardware. This is also true even if the API does actually work as advertised - there's not much point trying to do a mass-market Android NFC deployment when you have no idea how many of your users even have NFC Androids (and the users themselves don't know).
One result of this, as I've said before, is that Apple and Google are focusing their innovation in different areas. Apple is moving down the stack with integrated hardware/software experiences (iBeacon, fingerprints, M7 etc) that are hard for Android to match, and Google is moving Android up the stack with Google Play Services, the cloud and machine learning, which is hard for Apple to match.
The paradox for developers, meanwhile is that the more open and extensible platform can actually be harder to hack on. When you buy two Samsung phones of the same model and brand in two different countries and find they have different camera drivers and your app will crash on one or the other (or both), where do you focus your seed funding? You have limited resources and limited time and you need to hit milestones to get your next round, after all. Plus, the users who want to install your cool new apps are still concentrated on the iPhone. Again, this is a paradox: Android is the platform best for early adopters and iOS the one best for late adopters who just want something that works, but the market adoption is the other way around. That's one of the reasons this chart is both unfair but relevant.
Which type of innovation is crucial to a platform? With the current dynamics, people like Game Oven are going to keep doing iOS first and Android second (if at all), and that keeps the majority of the best users on iOS and Apple's machine turning over - the classic ecosystem virtuous cycle. But if, as many people suggest (Fred Wilson most recently) the most interesting and important innovation will happen in the cloud, then Google's tradeoff might win over Apple's trade-off - Google's comfort zone beats Apple's.
There's another paradox here, though: if all the best stuff is happening in the cloud, then you'll buy the device based not on apps and developer support but on design, quality, fit and finish... that is, all the things Apple always leads on. The web saved Apple 20 years ago, because with the web you could choose the best hardware and UX regardless of the ecosystem - you could buy an iMac and not worry about the software. So if everything goes to the cloud again, is that really an existential problem for Apple?
(As an aside, note this post I wrote a year ago about the different issues facing iPhone and Android.)
May 20, 2014 /Benedict Evans
Google, Android, Apple
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Man sentenced to prison for abandoning baby in woods
Ohio man left baby son alone in woods with broken bones, meth in blood
Brandon Michael Blouin on Nov. 28, 2018 (Deschutes County Sheriff's Office/Submitted photo) - Bulletin
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Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Detective Doug Jackson and Bradley Michael Thomas, the 1-year-old baby found abandoned in the woods on May 10. (Deschutes County Sheriff's Office/Submitted photo) - Bulletin
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Detective Doug Jackson and Bradley Michael Thomas, the 1-year-old baby found abandoned in the woods on May 10. (Deschutes County Sheriff's Office/Submitted photo) 7438655
The Ohio man who abandoned his baby alone in the woods outside Bend with a broken leg, a cracked skull and meth in his system accepted a plea deal Tuesday — five months after pledging on the courthouse steps to fight the charges.
Brandon Michael Blouin, 26, entered an Alford plea to three counts — first-degree criminal mistreatment, a felony; endangering the welfare of a minor, a misdemeanor; and being a felon in possession of body armor. In exchange for accepting responsibility, three counts against him were dismissed. Under the plea, Blouin’s attorney acknowledged that prosecutors had sufficient evidence to prove the charges.
The criminal mistreatment plea comes with a sentence of a little more than 2½ years in prison. For endangering a minor, Blouin was given five years of probation. The body armor plea got him 30 days in jail.
His trial was originally scheduled to begin April 23.
The police account of Blouin’s brief time in Bend is a shocking tale of neglect.
At 5 a.m. May 10, a homeowner on Tekampe Road called police after a woman with scratches and bruises on her arms and face — later identified as Katelin Thomas, 19 — appeared on his land and was mumbling incoherently. She told a responding sheriff’s deputy that Blouin had abused her and might be somewhere nearby with their baby, 13-month-old Bradley Michael Thomas.
At about 6:20 a.m., Blouin showed up at a home on Sholes Road. He was “disheveled” and said a group of men with guns was chasing him, according to court documents. A deputy reported Blouin appeared to be on meth. After interviewing Blouin, authorities believed Bradley was alone somewhere in the woods off China Hat Road southeast of Bend.
An extensive search was conducted, involving many off-duty units and a team of wildland firefighters that had been preparing to perform a controlled burn in the same area.
At about 11:30 a.m., sheriff’s Detective Doug Jackson located Bradley naked and asleep in the dirt and brush.
Blouin, Thomas and their son were all taken to St. Charles Bend.
Medical specialists later determined Bradley had a broken leg, fractured skull and that meth was in his blood system.
Blouin’s attorney spent Monday in negotiations with the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office, hoping to avoid what was expected to be long and complex trial. More than 30 people were identified as witnesses.
Had the case gone to trial, the state intended to play audio from recorded jailhouse communications, according to motions filed this month. Prosecutors wanted to introduce a personal safety order Thomas took out against Blouin and evidence Blouin used drugs and abused and improperly punished his son.
Blouin’s attorney, Dan Yeager, hoped to play for the court a video from the morning of the search for Bradley.
After reporting his son missing, but before the boy was found, Blouin was taken to the hospital. He attempted to describe where Bradley was, but that “proved difficult,” according to a defense motion in the case.
Accompanied by paramedics, Blouin returned to the scene of the search with an IV still attached to his arm.
“Defendant was extremely distraught and emotional due to the loss of his son,” the motion reads. “This was not described by police in their reports.”
After Bradley was found, Blouin was permitted to hold his son. Yeager subpoenaed local broadcaster Central Oregon Daily to turn over footage he said it had of Blouin “overcome with emotion” upon being reunited with his son.
Today, Bradley lives with his grandmother in West Virginia.
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Editorial cartoons: a slideshow
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Published Dec. 22, 2018 at 09:30PM
Guest column: Crooked River water — public right vs. private profits
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By George Wuerthner
Do you have a point you’d like to make or an issue you feel strongly about? Submit a letter to the editor or a guest column.
An article in the Nov. 9 Bulletin reported that due to low water reserves, the Bureau of Reclamation that controls water release from Prineville Reservoir might limit flows in the Crooked River to preserve water for irrigators to the detriment of fish and the Crooked River’s aquatic ecosystem.
A number of other recent commentaries have championed agriculture and their use of water for irrigation.
These articles fail to ask a fundamental question.
Why are irrigators allowed to dewater our rivers, destroy aquatic ecosystems and potentially kill thousands of fish with immunity?
If a fisherman were to keep one extra fish, he/she would be fined, but irrigators kill tens of thousands of fish and fish dependent wildlife (from mink and otters to bald eagles and osprey) with no consequences?
In addition to the loss of fish and wildlife, irrigation withdrawals contribute to substantial water pollution including greater sedimentation in the river and higher water temperatures, not to mention significant channel modification and loss of riparian vegetation. All of this without any legal consequences or even public condemnation.
To add insult to injury, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., has obtained $30 million of our taxpayer money to pay for the piping of leaky Ag irrigation ditches that enhances the property values of irrigators and the irrigation district—at public expense to mitigate some of the irrigation impacts to the Deschutes River.
Such solutions are like suggesting that taxpayers should pay to install scrubbers on coal-fired power plants to reduce air pollution rather than having the people buying power from the utility pay for pollution reduction.
Just as the air is a public resource that no one owns, and thus no one has a “right” to pollute the air, our waterways are also public resources that no one owns.
There is no such thing as a “water right” pollute and degrade our rivers.
Since 1869 the Oregon Supreme Court has recognized that water is a public resource.
In 1918, Oregon became one of the first states to recognize recreation as commerce protected under the public navigation easement.
A law review published in Environmental Review concluded: “Although the state can authorize private rights in those resources (water), all private rights are subject to the state’s sovereign ownership — a public easement — requiring the state to maintain these resources as trustee for the public.”
Translation — the state has a legal obligation to protect our rivers on behalf of all citizens for fisheries, recreation and other values.
Though economics is not a legal criterion for protecting the public’s resources, keeping water in the river has a higher economic value to the region’s economy than using that water for irrigation.
Ag interests continuously inflate their economic value in order to garner support for subsidies. But in reality, Ag provides minimal economic benefit to our region.
For instance, according to Headwaters Economics, all agriculture (and irrigated Ag is a subset of this) contributed to only 1.2 percent of the nongovernmental income of Deschutes County, while Travel and Tourism accounted for 21.7 percent of income.
This figure does not account for the income of 43.2 percent of people who do not depend on the local economy for their income but who live or have moved to Deschutes County attracted by the natural environment including outdoor recreation.
Because none of the proposed solutions ever consider eliminating irrigated agriculture, they can never indeed “fix” the problem. We will still have unnatural flows in our rivers and less than a healthy aquatic ecosystem.
In the end, we need to restart discussions from the perspective that restoring and maintaining healthy river ecosystems is a higher priority than the private use of our water to irrigate fields of hay or pasture.
Not only is this a wise ecological and economical pathway, but it is also an ethical pathway into the future.
— George Wuerthner lives in Bend.
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Your picture of the Week
John Harrison was out for a drive with hiswife and dog when he took this photo of St Abbs Head. Please email your photographic contributions, with a brief caption, to berwickshirenews@jpress.co.uk
John Harrison was out for a drive with his wife and dog when he took this photo of St Abbs Head from The Crescent, St Abbs.
Please email your photographic contributions, with a brief caption, to berwickshirenews@jpress.co.uk
ECONOMIC STUDY PETITION PLEA
Even if you care nothing for grouse shooting and don’t live on or near a grouse moor, you are still affected by them – not least because of the public subsidies they receive.
Over 10% of Scotland is managed for grouse shooting and the most intensive element of that, driven grouse shooting, has been implicated in the loss of wildlife, the illegal persecution of predators, especially birds of prey, and the despoliation of landscape through the creation of bulldozed tracks principally to transport shooting clients.
Leeds University’s EMBER report showed that muirburn, the rotational burning of heather to provide red grouse with optimal habitat, lowers water quality in streams flowing through grouse moors and may exacerbate flooding by reducing peat soil’s ability to hold water. It almost certainly does no favours for freshwater angling.
As well as pointing out that a few species of waders can do well on grouse moors, a regular defence in the face of controversy is that grouse moors create rural jobs. As they require employees, they certainly do, but are they driving away other forms of employment in the hills that would create more employment and make the them a better place for wildlife, residents and visitors?
No country in the world outside of the UK has driven grouse moors, not one in spite of the fact the near identical willow grouse is distributed across northern Europe, Asia and America. That should be very telling, especially as some such as Norway appear to have considerably healthier rural communities than we do.
Lots of questions need answering.
There is a desperate need for a comprehensive, independent economic study of driven grouse shooting in Scotland to see whether or not it is actually helping rural communities or not. At present there is none, which is a national disgrace. That’s why I have drafted a petition to ask the Scottish Government to commission one.
If those currently telling us that driven grouse shooting is vital for local communities believe that, then they should have no hesitation in signing it.
A valid study would be politically neutral and quantify all relevant issues, including possible contribution to or alleviation of flooding, use of public subsidies, alternatives in the form of eco-tourism etc.
A proper economic assessment should have been carried out years ago – we need one now.
For all our sakes, can your readers please sign http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01663
Les Wallace
Polmont
SINGLE-ISSUE AND NEGATIVE
I would like to start by offering my heart-felt thanks to all those who turned out to vote for me in the Scottish Parliament by-election in the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency on June 8.
After a short campaign, foisted upon us all by Theresa May’s ridiculous decision to call a general election in the midst of Brexit negotiations, I was delighted to have polled the highest SNP vote ever in this constituency.
I would like to congratulate Rachael Hamilton on her win and wish her, and the other candidates – Sally Prentice and Catriona Bhatia – all the best for the future.
Rather than the negative single-issue campaigns from the other parties, I am proud to have been at the forefront of a positive campaign that focused on the SNP’s achievements in government over the last 10 years. These include protecting the most vulnerable people living in the Borders – those who often can’t speak up for themselves, ensuring our young people can attend university regardless of how wealthy their parents are, free prescriptions, free bus passes, extending good quality nursery education, providing free school meals, to name just a few.
I have been involved in many campaigns over the years and I cannot remember any that have been so full of energy and enthusiasm from the SNP point of view, or indeed one so negative from the opposition.
I’d like to thank our local activists and volunteers who, despite lethargy from the recent council elections, turned out in their droves to support me and our wonderful Westminster candidate, Calum Kerr.
I have never been a candidate before, and never thought I would be one, but I could no longer stand by and watch an increasingly right-wing Tory government punish the most vulnerable people in Scotland.
The very people the Tories are targeting are the ones who need a strong voice to stand up for them and that is what I will continue to fight for.
Gail Hendry
REFERENDUM QUESTION
After a general election notable for the single issue relentlessly purveyed by the Unionist parties in Scotland, but still with a majority of SNP MPs, I had decided to set my pen aside for a while and get on with some gardening.
However, a letter from John Smithson in last week’s Berwickshire News pleading for a rest, but only from those of us seeking an independent Scotland, has prompted me to put down my trowel and confirm that no, we haven’t gone away, and the Yes movement is still highly motivated and ambitious for independence. We are from all levels of the community and from all political parties, and we are among you.
So 60% say “no” to another referendum? Well it all depends how the question was framed in the poll, doesn’t it?
If I was asked “do you want a referendum now?”, my answer would be “no” – but I do when the time is right. That is the position of both the Yes movement and SNP.
The monster that is Brexit is just over the horizon and the horrors it brings could change many a mind.
So sorry, John, we are not going back in our box just yet.
Richard Walthew
Whitsome Crofts
FLAGGING UP DEATH OF INNOCENT FOLK
This week Scottish Borders Council will be flying a defaced Union flag from its buildings as a prelude to Armed Forces Day on Saturday, June 24.
We are expected to show our support for the armed forces.
Sadly, there is little worth supporting. Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya lie in ruins, and the UK is still bombing Syria at the behest of the USA. Meanwhile, innocent people are being killed on the streets of Britain in revenge attacks which the security services warned about in 2003.
The armed forces should not be blamed for the disastrous failures in the Middle East.
The blame lies with the politicians who instigated and supported the unnecessary attacks. Also, those politicians must bear responsibility for the revenge attacks on UK soil, and the erosion of our civil liberties.
Borders MP David Mundell has consistently supported government policy in the Middle East and must be held to account. As a new MP, John Lamont is not responsible for the tragedies. However, in the Scottish Parliament in 2013, he made excuses for the invasion of Iraq and I fear he is another warmonger.
If we want to live in freedom, in a peaceful and prosperous country, we should not support belligerent politicians.
Alastair Lings
Tweed Road
GETTING IN A FLAP OVER ROYAL FLAG
Driving through St Boswells last week, I spotted the Scottish Royal Banner flying proudly in the breeze over a prominent corporate building beside the A7.
My immediate reaction was one of surprise as when I left the house the Queen had been occupied with her guardsmen in London and I doubted that she would be nipping up to the Buccleuch Arms after the ceremony for lunch.
It must be the First Minister and Holder of the Great Seal down for a weekend break, or perhaps the Lord Lieutenant on a visit. Might it be the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland meeting up for lunch? More likely to be the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, I decided, probably stopped off for a pie and a pint. These are, after all, the only bodies that can legitimately fly the royal flag.
As there was no immediate hubbub in the car park to indicate any of these happenings, I had to conclude that the ensign was there purely as an indication that the howff was open for business and if this was the case, the flying of the said banner is strictly illegal.
It may be that the co-owner of the establishment and who is also our new MSP is possibly not acquainted with our quaint customs and does not wish to use the Saltire in case she gets associated with the nationalist movement.
If she does not wish to fly the Saltire of Scotland, which would be perfectly legal, the only alternative is to break out the Union flag.
Jim Gibson
Bleachfield Road
CHILDREN CAN BE A LONG-TERM BENEFIT
The fact that the new Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, is the gay son of a Hindu immigrant father shows how much the Irish Republic has changed in recent decades – and yet I can’t help feeling strong misgivings.
Like the three most important politicians in Europe – Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May – and all bar one of the Scottish party leaders, Mr Varadkar is childless.
Politicians have a notorious tendency towards short-termism and looking no further than the next election.
Parenthood, on the other hand, encourages people to look to the long term. How many of us have heard our parents say, or as parents ourselves said: “I worry about what sort of world we are leaving to our children?”
For example, would a German chancellor with children have thrown the country’s borders wide open, so that in a single generation Germany will be transformed from a European Judeo-Christian nation in to a bi-cultural multi-ethnic one in which European culture, laws and morals are all subject to permanent challenge by an ever-growing section of the populace who reject our Western values?
None of this is to say that a person can’t be childless and yet be a fine leader – counter examples are not difficult to find.
However, Europe’s increasingly childless governing elite is reckless, intellectually sterile and out of step with normal people, for the majority of whom parenthood is central to their life experience.
Otto Inglis
Inveralmond Grove
DAVIDSON MUST TREAD CAREFULLY
Ruth Davidson has clarified that the Scottish Tories won’t split from the main UK party – but does her EU position, in any case, distance her from Prime Minister Theresa May?
The possibility of an autumn election means Ms Davidson can’t risk losing ground. If SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon finds a face-saving way to retreat – temporarily – from indyref2, Ms Davidson will need more than anti-independence on which to campaign.
Does Mrs May’s preference for a hard Brexit makes her increasingly toxic?
Ms Davidson apparently supports single market access and doesn’t share Mrs May’s anti-immigration stance. While the Scottish Tory leader’s softer Brexit views chime well with many here, Ms Davidson will have attracted many euro-sceptic votes on June 8.
Ms Davidson must remain principled. However, if she uses her 13 Westminster votes to pressurise Downing Street into pursuing a softer Brexit, she should tread carefully.
Without a special fisheries deal, such a stance will lose her support, particularly in north-east Scotland where her party holds several seats which, with a resurgent Labour party, may be difficult to replace elsewhere.
The Scottish Tory leader may well distance herself from a perhaps fatally-wounded Mrs May, but Ms Davidson holding an EU position deemed credible by the majority of Scots will be crucial to the Scottish Conservatives’ long-term survival.
Martin Redfern
MEMORABLE CASTLE VISIT
On behalf of my daughter, Isla, may I take this opportunity to thank A Heart For Duns committee who recently ran a very successful film night showing Beauty and the Beast.
Along with this, everybody in a very busy Volunteer Hall was entered into a raffle to win a private viewing around Duns Castle and afternoon tea for 12 people – Isla was the winner of this wonderful raffle prize.
My daughter and 11 of her friends and family have since visited the castle, spending a lovely afternoon being shown around and having tea with Mr and Mrs Hay.
We all had a super afternoon which I’m sure will remain in the memories of all 12 concerned for years to come.
I also wish to thank Mr and Mrs Hay, and Mr Findlay for providing nine children and three adults a very enjoyable and informative afternoon.
Isla and Elaine Gourlay (and friends)
MOWER BOUGHT WITH GRANT
Ayton and District Bowling Club thanks all those involved with the Greencote Drone Hill Community Fund, especially the panel which awards the grants and Foundation Scotland who administer the process.
The grant awarded to the club has enabled the purchase of a new mower to replace the one which has served the club since its inception in 1983. Let’s hope this one lasts as long.
John Slater
Ayton and District Bowling Club
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Trad music legends at Kelso
PDF Productions is delighted to present Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham in concert this summer.
The duo take to the stage at the Tait Hall, Kelso, on Saturday, August 5.
Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of excellence in the world of traditional music, and have been described as “probably the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear”.
Legendary Shetland fiddler Bain and equally illustrious accordion squeezer Cunningham enjoy an enviable chemistry, honed by having toured together since 1986. The pair have won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Duo Award and been nominated in the Scottish Traditional Music Awards for ‘Live Act of the Year’.
With their musical magic and quick-witted humour, they will pull your emotional strings one moment and have you falling off the seat with laughter the next.
Phil said: “Aly and I are really looking forward to returning to Kelso. The Scottish Borders has some of the best audiences and it is always a pleasure perform there. We recently celebrated 30 years of playing together and are looking forward to many more shows and happy memories.”
The show starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets, £16, from www.borderevents.com.
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Starring role for Borders pupils in Duns Castle 700th anniversary celebrations
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Supporters Set to Hold Protests During Saturday's Posh Clash
1:30 pm Friday, 26 April 2019 @BescotBanter Banks's Stadium News Walsall Protests
As the Saddlers prepare for this weekend's must-win clash with Peterborough United, a group of Walsall supporters have announced plans to hold protests during the match, with fans set to turn their backs on the action after eighteen minutes of play before exiting Banks's Stadium two-minutes from full-time.
The Saddlers' 2018/19 campaign has gone from a surprising undefeated opening to dismal run of draws and defeats, resulting in the team sitting just one place above the foot of the table, four points from safety, and, with two games remaining, facing an uphill battle if they are to remain in League One for another campaign.
Regardless of any potential relegation, the club's board has grow increasingly distant from the club's fanbase and are shouldn't be surprised by fresh supporter protests. Hopefully this will stir the powers that be into action, as there is plenty of work to be done.
The club is expected to announce the appointment of a new manager in the days following next weekend's season-ending clash with Shrewsbury Town. Former Rochdale and Barnsley boss Keith Hill being the overwhelming favourite.
For further information on the planned protests follow 'Walsall Protests' on Twitter.
Banks's Stadium News Walsall Protests
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Clavamox (amoxicillin trihydrate/clavulanate potassium), by Pfizer, is an orally administered formulation comprised of the broad-spectrum antibiotic Amoxi® (amoxicillin trihydrate) and the b-lactamase inhibitor, clavulanate potassium (the potassium salt of clavulanic acid).
71-CLAVD-15-12 Clavamox Drops (RX) 15 ml 12CT. BOX
71-CLAVD151 Clavamox Drops (RX) 15 ml Bottle
CLAVAMOX® DROPS
(amoxicillin trihydrate/clavulanate potassium)
For veterinary oral suspension
For use in dogs and cats
CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
DESCRIPTION: Clavamox (amoxicillin trihydrate/clavulanate potassium) is an orally administered formulation comprised of the broad-spectrum antibiotic Amoxi® (amoxicillin trihydrate) and the â-lactamase inhibitor, clavulanate potassium (the potassium salt of clavulanic acid).
Amoxicillin trihydrate is a semisynthetic antibiotic with a broad spectrum of bactericidal activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative, aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. It does not resist destruction by â-lactamases; therefore, it is not effective against â-lactamase-producing bacteria. Chemically, it is D(-)-á-amino-p-hydroxybenzyl penicillin trihydrate.
Clavulanic acid, an inhibitor of â-lactamase enzymes, is produced by the fermentation of Streptomyces clavuligerus. Clavulanic acid by itself has only weak antibacterial activity. Chemically, clavulanate potassium is potassium z-(3R,5R)-2-â-hydroxyethylidene clavam-3-carboxylate.
ACTIONS: Clavamox is stable in the presence of gastric acid and is not significantly influenced by gastric or intestinal contents. The 2 components are rapidly absorbed resulting in amoxicillin and clavulanic acid concentrations in serum, urine, and tissues similar to those produced when each is administered alone.
Amoxicillin and clavulanic acid diffuse readily into most body tissues and fluids with the exception of brain and spinal fluid, which amoxicillin penetrates adequately when meninges are inflamed. Most of the amoxicillin is excreted unchanged in the urine. Clavulanic acid's penetration into spinal fluid is unknown at this time. Approximately 15% of the administered dose of clavulanic acid is excreted in the urine within the first 6 hours.
Clavamox combines the distinctive properties of a broad-spectrum antibiotic and a â-lactamase inhibitor to effectively extend the antibacterial spectrum of amoxicillin to include â-lactamase as well as non-â-lactamase-producing aerobic and anaerobic organisms.
MICROBIOLOGY: Amoxicillin is bactericidal in action and acts through the inhibition of biosynthesis of cell wall mucopeptide of susceptible organisms. The action of clavulanic acid extends the antimicrobial spectrum of amoxicillin to include organisms resistant to amoxicillin and other â-lactam antibiotics. Amoxicillin/clavulanate has been shown to have a wide range of activity which includes â-lactamase-producing strains of both gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes, facultative anaerobes, and obligate anaerobes. Many strains of the following organisms, including â-lactamase-producing strains, isolated from veterinary sources, were found to be susceptible to amoxicillin/clavulanate in vitro but the clinical significance of this activity has not been demonstrated for some of these organisms in animals.
Aerobic bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus*, â-lactamase-producing Staphylococcus aureus* (penicillin resistant), Staphylococcus species*, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus intermedius, Streptococcus faecalis, Streptococcus species*, Corynebacterium pyogenes, Corynebacterium species, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Escherichia coli*, Proteus mirabilis, Proteus species, Enterobacter species, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella dublin, Salmonella typhimurium, Pasteurella multocida*, Pasteurella hemolytica, Pasteurella species*.
* The susceptibility of these organisms has also been demonstrated in in vivo studies.
Studies have demonstrated that both aerobic and anaerobic flora are isolated from gingival cultures of dogs with clinical evidence of periodontal disease. Both gram-positive and gram-negative aerobic and anaerobic subgingival isolates indicate sensitivity to amoxicillin/clavulanic acid during antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST: The recommended quantitative disc susceptibility method (FEDERAL REGISTER 37:20527-29; Bauer AW, Kirby WMM, Sherris JC, et al: Antibiotic susceptibility testing by standardized single disc method. Am J Clin Path 45:493, 1966) utilized 30 mcg Augmentin® (AMC) discs for estimating the susceptibility of bacteria to Clavamox Tablets and Drops.
INDICATIONS: Clavamox Drops are indicated in the treatment of:
Dogs: Skin and soft tissue infections such as wounds, abscesses, cellulitis, superficial/juvenile and deep pyoderma due to susceptible strains of the following organisms: â-lactamase-producing Staphylococcus aureus, non-â-lactamase-producing Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., and E. coli.
Periodontal infections due to susceptible strains of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Clavamox has been shown to be clinically effective for treating cases of canine periodontal disease.
Cats: Skin and soft tissue infections such as wounds, abscesses, and cellulitis/dermatitis due to susceptible strains of the following organisms: â-lactamase-producing Staphylococcus aureus, non-â-lactamase-producing Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Pasteurella multocida, and Pasteurella spp.
Urinary tract infections (cystitis) due to susceptible strains of E. coli.
Therapy may be initiated with Clavamox prior to obtaining results from bacteriological and susceptibility studies. A culture should be obtained prior to treatment to determine susceptibility of the organisms to Clavamox. Following determination of susceptibility results and clinical response to medication, therapy may be reevaluated.
CONTRAINDICATIONS: The use of this drug is contraindicated in animals with a history of an allergic reaction to any of the penicillins or cephalosporins.
ADVERSE REACTIONS: Clavamox contains a semisynthetic penicillin (amoxicillin) and has the potential for producing allergic reactions. If an allergic reaction occurs, administer epinephrine and/or steroids.
WARNINGS: Safety of use in pregnant or breeding animals has not been determined. For use in dogs and cats only.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION:
Dogs: The recommended dosage is 6.25 mg/lb (1 mL/10 lb) of body weight twice a day. Skin and soft tissue infections such as abscesses, cellulitis, wounds, superficial/juvenile pyoderma, and periodontal infections should be treated for 5-7 days or for 48 hours after all symptoms have subsided. If no response is seen after 5 days of treatment, therapy should be discontinued and the case reevaluated. Deep pyoderma may require treatment for 21 days; the maximum duration of treatment should not exceed 30 days.
Cats: The recommended dosage is 62.5 mg (1 mL) twice a day. Skin and soft tissue infections such as abscesses and cellulitis/dermatitis should be treated for 5-7 days or 48 hours after all symptoms have subsided, not to exceed 30 days. If no response is seen after 3 days of treatment, therapy should be discontinued and the case reevaluated.
Urinary tract infections may require treatment for 10-14 days or longer. The maximum duration of treatment should not exceed 30 days.
RECONSTITUTION INSTRUCTIONS--ORAL SUSPENSION: Add 14 mL of water to the 15-mL bottle and shake vigorously. Each mL of suspension will contain 50 mg of amoxicillin activity as the trihydrate and 12.5 mg of clavulanic acid activity as the potassium salt.
Note: Any unused portion of the reconstituted suspension must be discarded after 10 days. Refrigeration of the reconstituted suspension is required.
HOW SUPPLIED: Clavamox Drops are supplied in 15-mL bottles containing 50 mg of amoxicillin/12.5 mg of clavulanic acid per mL.
NADA #55-101, Approved by FDA
Clavamox and Augmentin are trademarks owned by and used under license from SmithKline Beecham.
Manufactured by: SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA 19101
Distributed by: Pfizer Animal Health, Exton, PA 19341, USA
Div. of Pfizer Inc, NY, NY 10017
NAC No.: 36900890
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Delivering Happiness
A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Auteur(s): Tony Hsieh
Narrateur(s): Tony Hsieh
4.5 out of 5 stars 4,6 (58 évaluations)
The Third Door
The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
Auteur(s): Alex Banayan
Narrateur(s): Alex Banayan
The Third Door takes listeners on an unprecedented adventure - from hacking Warren Buffett’s shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga - as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door.
Great story and amazing audio version
Écrit par Lexie Code le 2019-05-27
Auteur(s): Jim Collins
Narrateur(s): Jim Collins
Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
Great book!
Écrit par Jaciharan Ganeshalingam le 2019-06-15
Tribal Leadership
Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Auteur(s): Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
Narrateur(s): Steven Jay Cohen
Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop - and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.
Écrit par Damyn Tassie le 2019-03-28
Permission to Screw Up
How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong
Auteur(s): Kristen Hadeed, Simon Sinek - foreword
Narrateur(s): Kristen Hadeed
The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead - and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they're mopping floors and scrubbing toilets.
musl listen to this book!
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Auteur(s): Phil Knight
Narrateur(s): Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
Écrit par Alex le 2017-12-02
1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently
Auteur(s): Marc Chernoff, Angel Chernoff
Narrateur(s): Marc Chernoff, Angel Chernoff
Millions turn to Marc and Angel Chernoff for fresh, intimate insights for a fulfilled life. In this pithy and empowering guide, they collect the very best advice they've discovered, on topics that include overcoming setbacks, letting go of what's holding us back, nurturing relationships, finding time for self-care, and cultivating passion in order to achieve our wildest dreams.
Measure What Matters
How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Auteur(s): John Doerr, Larry Page - foreword
Narrateur(s): John Doerr, full cast
In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.
Écrit par Claire McInerney le 2018-06-23
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Auteur(s): Brad Stone
Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
Durée: 13 h
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.
Not as detailed as you'd hope.
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Auteur(s): Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.
Best business book ever!
Écrit par William Sinclair le 2018-03-23
How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
Auteur(s): Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman
Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people - and their associates - built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years. Built from Scratch tells many colorful stories associated with The Home Depot's founding and meteoric rise; shows that a company can be a tough, growth-oriented competitor, and still maintain a high sense of responsibility to the community; and provides great lessons useful to people in any business, from start-ups to the Fortune 500.
A great tale. Very candid and inspiring.
Pour Your Heart into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Auteur(s): Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang
Narrateur(s): Eric Conger
The success of Starbucks is one of the most remarkable business stories in decades. Since 1987, the coffee merchant has grown from a single retail store on Seattle's waterfront to a company with more than 1,000 stores nationwide and a new one opening somewhere every business day. According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks "has changed everything...from our tastes to our language to the face of Main Street."
Enjoyed this read
Little Black Stretchy Pants
Auteur(s): Chip Wilson
Narrateur(s): Chip Wilson
The unauthorized story of Lululemon. Chip Wilson’s part in this story comes from the learning of thousands of mistakes. He set the culture, business model, quality platform, and people development program and then got out of the way. Lululemon’s exponential growth, culture, and brand strength have few peers, and it is because of those employees who choose to be great. This book is also about missed opportunity - five years of missed opportunity. Chip was playing to win while the directors of the company he founded were playing not to lose.
Simply, a great book and guide for entrepreneurs
Écrit par Tyler B le 2018-11-25
The House That Jack Ma Built
Auteur(s): Duncan Clark
Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen
In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector.
good story from Jack Ma
Trillion Dollar Coach
The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Auteur(s): Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.
Écrit par FB le 2019-05-23
Blitzscaling
The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Auteur(s): Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword
Narrateur(s): Chris Yeh, Reid Hoffman
What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.
I really enjoyed this audiobook
Écrit par Juan D. le 2018-11-27
Sam Walton
Auteur(s): John Huey, Sam Walton
Narrateur(s): Henry Strozier
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late 20th century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
What it means to commit everything to your dream.
Écrit par Rondon Tahal le 2019-06-05
Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Auteur(s): Seth Godin
Narrateur(s): Seth Godin
What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few - aren't working anymore.
Is there much new here?
Écrit par Michael le 2017-11-06
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Auteur(s): Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Narrateur(s): Blake Masters
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1.
Excellent book for Entrepreneurs
Écrit par FibreHead le 2019-07-12
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Tony Hsieh is a really nice guy. This is what makes him a very unusual CEO, which is what makes his company so interesting. It also makes him a writer who doesn't use much corporate lingo, and a terrifically casual reader of his own book on the growth and development of Zappos, his unique company. One part memoir, one part philosophy, one part corporate handbook, and all silly optimism, Delivering Happiness will appeal to a surprisingly wide audience.
Hsieh begins with his business history, which adequately conveys his wackiness. First, there was the worm farm in elementary school. All the worms escaped, and he lost money. Then there was the mail order button business in middle school, so successful that he passed it along to his younger brothers in succession. In high school, he learned a bunch about programming, thereby combining his instincts with an appropriate knowledge base. He laughs out loud at his own computer club lunchtime antics, and so will you. Then there was the pizza business in his dorm at Harvard, where Hsieh found innovative ways not to attend any classes, and a high-paying corporate gig after graduation where he once again did as little as possible.
This is a man who likes to take business risks, and as he explains how he made decisions that caused him to grow from slacker into a Red Bull-pounding, 24-hour working machine, you'll be amazed that it sounds like he's smiling the entire time. From his first major start-up, which was subsequently sold to Microsoft, to his repeated close calls where Zappos almost went under before it was eventually bought out by Amazon, this true story of one man's corporate odyssey will leave you believing that anything really is possible. It will also at least make you want to shop at Zappos, if it doesn't make you want to move to as Vegas to work there.
Shot through with brief guest-narrations using the actual participants relevant to Hsieh's fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, there are a wealth of memos, emails, and testimonials that all serve as evidence to his weird intellect. And if you played a drinking game where you drank a shot every time Hsieh mentions having a drink, you'd be drunk before the book is half finished. From the tone of his voice to the story he tells, this is clearly a guy who needs his work to be fun and challenging. Just as Zappos has done, Hsieh's book casually fires the opening volley in a new era of corporate culture and management.
This eye-opening treatise on how to be happy at work has the added bonus of an hour-long conversation between Tony Hsieh and Warren Bennis, who has been universally considered one of the most significant leadership gurus for the past 40 years. Much of what Hsieh says is a more concise version of what he says in the book, though insights from the aging but still hilariously astute Bennis do offer something extra exciting. They discuss happiness in a way that is useful to all people, not just corporations. Megan Volpert
In this, his first audiobook, Tony Hsieh - the widely admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of employees, customers, vendors, and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own life experiences, and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.
He starts with the "Why" in a section where he narrates his quest to understand the science of happiness. Then he runs through the ten Zappos "Core Values" - such as "Deliver WOW through Service", "Create Fun and A Little Weirdness", and "Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit" - and explains how you and your colleagues should come up with your own.
Hsieh then details many of the unique practices at Zappos that have made it the success it is today, such as their philosphy of allocating marketing money into the customer experience, thereby allowing repeat customers and word-of-mouth be their true form of marketing. He also explains why Zappos's number-one priority is company culture and his belief that once you get the culture right, everything else - great customer service, long-term branding - will happen on its own.
Finally, Delivering Happiness explains how Zappos employees actually apply the Core Values to improving their lives outside of work - and to making a difference in their communities and the world.
©2010 Tony Hsieh (P)2010 Hachette
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Made a difference!
Wow this is the best business book so far! Very personable approach. Tony takes you on this business treks from since his childhood. As an entrepreneur, it's very easy to relate and ask myself how would I react in face of similar problems or what was I doing at that time, how to do things differently or see things differently and what impact would that make. It's like absorbing Tony's experiences into our own. Enjoyed the "delivering happiness" part. It's a different yet effective way to motivate and retain employees, and have a lot of fun in your business while earning tons of money. :)
Loved this!
It's one of the most honest, to the point and practical books I've gone through. I made a lot of bookmarks as I can see myself going back and reviewing the lessons shared here. This book was recommended by a senior leader in my organization and it didn't disappoint!
spopovic
One of the best audio books I've listened to in some time. I love how Tony brought in different people from the organization to share and read their own experiences.
Sean Arani
Great motivational book with good insighta
It's a good look into his train of thoughts. You can skip the end which is the Q&A part it's pretty much a repeat of stuff he says in the book.
Jchang
Wowed and inspired
I finally know where Zappos is referenced n every business book I've ever read. Tony Hseih is a genius pure and simple. Reading his book I felt a range of emotions. From feeling totally inspired to do more to giving up completely. Because why even bother getting up when geniuses like TH is out there killing it. Excellent book. A great deal of useful info to unpack.
Do one thing exceptionally
The first quarter of the book about Tony Hsieh's childhood and the lessons he learned feels a bit forced (my button business taught me the lesson of ______). But, my doubts were quickly dispelled with the story of Zappos. I loved how Tony focused on one thing, the best customer service, and did it really well. To have the best customer service, they focused on company culture through a system of hiring (it's easier to hire people who fit the culture than try to change people) and through employee advancement opportunities through their "pipeline," giving employees perceived control of their careers. I can't think of any other large company that has been able to sustain a culture (Starbucks had a unique culture, but in recent years they've become too big to sustain it). Tony says that the Zappos company culture is their one sustainable competitive advantage. Will company culture work for your company? It's hard to say, but there probably is one thing that your company could do better than any other company...and it is probably worthwhile to develop that.
The argument was made about Tony "getting lucky." I have to agree, but I'd add that any business success is 80% luck and 20% planning, tenacity, insight, and work ethic. The 20% is critical to making success, but it's not sufficient. Even the most brilliant people will fail more often than they succeed, but you don't often see the entire journey of failures before success. You could use the "luck" argument for any success (Thomas Edison just got lucky, after all, he was wrong 999 times before he was right).
I thought that Tony did an excellent job of narrating his book. This isn't the case with many authors turned narrators (i.e. Beer School), but with several authors like Malcom Gladwell and Bill Bryson, hearing the book in the author's voice puts you into the story better than with a professional narrator. I'd put Tony's narration squarely in this category.
Inspiring and down to earth book
This is an amazing story, and one that inspires you to move forward with your passion. Success, as everybody knows it when it already hits the media, portrays the glory but not the story. Entrepreneurship is like surfing, you have to ride out the waves, you never know when you hit a great one.
A business case study
This is a memoir by Tony Hsieh about how a company was molded through the founder’s philosophy and made into a successful company.
As Hsieh goes back through his childhood he provides funny and entertaining experiences that provide perspective on how he developed his unique business philosophy.
The book will provide entrepreneurs some useful information on developing a business and can act as a case study of a successful business. He shows how he built a tight-knit family like atmosphere that created happy employees. The employees then worked harder for the company. He also shows how he built team cohesion. At the end of the book there is a statement by Jeff Bezos and also a discussion group with a professor Marshall and Hsieh.
The book is well written and easy to read. The company Hsieh build was Zappos an online shoe emporium. Hsieh sold the company for $1.2 billion dollars to Amazon. Tony Hsieh narrated his own book.
Mark P. Wonderlin
Amazing Growth and Corporate Culture Story
I really enjoyed hearing about Tony's growth as an individual and listening to the trials and tribulations when building Zappos. Opposed to the standard book rambling off stats or uncommon words to give the perception of intelligence; Tony along with some other Zappos employees informally talk to you just like you were at Starbucks telling a story. Opposed to be lectured to like the professor in the last chapter of the book, it feels like you're experiencing birth and rise of Zappos alongside Tony and his staff. If you a business owner looking for an excellent inspirational book that provides a blueprint on how you can start thinking about changing your company's culture then this is the book!
The only thing I couldn't handle was the listening to an interview with Warren Bennis and Tony at the end. This guy is the typical professor who is obsessed with himself, self promotes another one of his ignoramus books, and talks down to Tony, all while trying to appear that his vast intellect is fair superior than Tony's while having no clue who Tony even is. I seriously would have rather listened to an air horn next to my ear than listen to Warren Bennis for another second. What's even worse that that the guy that introduces Warren and Tony to the group is so infatuated with him (Warren) that I wasn't sure if the guy was going to start licking Warrens big toe or start talking about the fan club.
E. Smakman
Delivering: a recipe for organizational culture
I had heard of Zappos as the online shoestore, but never as the company that sees its culture as its core competence. The book outlines Tony Hsieh's (the owner/CEO) personal business biography and combines it with the steps he and his team took to build Zappos.
Tony shows that success is also a matter of luck: Zappos hovered on the brink of bankruptcy for a few years and only his own wealth prevented it until finally some investors put money on the table, and even then it took 4-6 years before Zappos was out of the danger zone.
The book is a very nice story, and although Tony is not a narrator (he speaks a bit fast) his enthusiasm and personal touch make him the ideal storyteller nonetheless. I am not much for biographies, so the book for me became really interesting when he starts to describe how he build the culture of the company step by step. Not planned or methodical, because that's not how it works, but purposeful with deep commitment from his colleagues, co-workers and the extended Zappos family.
For any organisation that wishes to strengthen (or make explicit) its culture, this book gives plenty of ideas and suggestions on how to do it and what might result from it. Not only for startups or internet companies, but for any organisation bigger than 25 people. Some ideas that Tony shares:
- hire only people that share your values: that way, the live what the company stands for instead of following their own agenda
- teach company values in a intensive introductory training
- live the company values also with your suppliers (it is easier with your customers)
- have your employees co-determine the values of your organisation. Re-iterate them regularly, to see if the culture is still where you want it to be. A 'culture book' helps to both verify the culture as well as share it with new employees
- encourage community and getting to know other employees outside your own department: this fosters a 'we' feeling (instead of departmental kingdoms)
- share, commit and take risk also as managers.
The culture of Zappos might not be the culture you wish or have, but that is not the point. The key is that a strong culture can strengthen your position and can be purposefully built. Try it yourself!
Great ideas and entertaining
It was an entertaining book to listen to on the road, great ideas about culture in companies, customer service, experience and capacity building. Will start to apply ideas in my company.
Uplifting business book
Great book going through the history of Zappos and showing a successful business can be run a different way. Unlike other business books that put the owner on a pedestal this one keeps it real. What amazed me was the huge risk he took to make Zappos happen. While he should not read other books his voice added a level of authenticity and depth to this one.
Marc L. Mintz
Delivering Spin
Delivering Happiness is part brief autobiography, part “here are my brilliant ideas for how to conceive, start, and run a business”. He is more strongly oriented towards creating a corporate culture than any other business guru, and presents interesting ideas for how to create that culture. However, I’ve got a problem with Tony and the book - proof (or at least viable evidence) and replication. Tony was at the right place at the right time once and pretty much by accident made millions in the process. Out of boredom he joined what was to become Zappos. 10 years later he has made Zappos the largest online store specializing in footwear, with sales over $1B per year. But Zappos has always been on the verge of failure and is completely dependent on an ongoing 100 million dollar line of credit with their banks. This tells me that they have less than $1M (less than 10%) in profit. This would not be considered a successful situation for any business. For all of the hype about how brilliant Tony is, he hasn’t proved that culture is the key to business success. I wish he had–I’m a huge believer in developing corporate culture, one based on integrity, contribution, and “doing what is right”. He as not demonstrated that if you build the right culture the profits will follow. He has not demonstrated anything except that he was successful at making money by accident one time in his life, and his Zappos isn’t it. More disappointing is he discusses the dozens, possibly over a hundred other companies he helped start, most of which failed, none of which had more than marginal success. So like most of the other business gurus, he provides no proof or evidence of his ideas, and has not been able to replicate his one (apparently accidental) success. Not someone I would consider a viable role model, leader, or even teacher.
Good read, not good Business!!
Here is the thing, the book is a good listen. It was a crazy trip the man took from start to finish and made for an exciting listen. But as for a business book, not good. There is nothing business about it. The book should be in Entertainment section.
I am in business, and i can tell you, if you are doing $46 millioin a year in rev. and not making a profit. you have issues and a horrible business plan. Yes in the end it worked out for him, but 999 out of a 1,000 times the person will be writting a book on how they lost everything. And he almost did, dont get me wrong i know how the story ended and they deserve everything they got in the end.
But not because of great business, if anything, it shows when the owner of Amazon (a real business man) wasnt interested in the company until years later when really business people made it profitable....
With that being said, like mentioned earlier, great listen, exciting, but dont plan on learning anything to help you in your business.. this should be in entertainment..
Leslie King
This book is interesting and very informative for a business owner. I love Tony's style of writing - it's very natural and you feel like you know him. I would recommend this book to other business owners and my employees.
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The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh
Auteur(s): A. A. Milne
Narrateur(s): Stephen Fry
5 out of 5 stars 4,8 (18 évaluations)
Auteur(s): Ray Bradbury
Narrateur(s): Tim Robbins
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
A dystopian tale relevant today
Écrit par Tee le 2018-06-13
Auteur(s): Mark Twain
Narrateur(s): Nick Offerman
A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman ( Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".
Écrit par James le 2018-01-23
The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites
Auteur(s): Dr. Seuss
Narrateur(s): Kelsey Grammer, John Cleese, John Lithgow, Autres
Durée: 2 h
Eleven complete Dr. Seuss stories at a great price, featuring performances by John Cleese, Billy Crystal, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Dustin Hoffman, John Lithgow, and more!
Auteur(s): Truman Capote
Narrateur(s): Michael C. Hall
Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.
Perfect for a drive
Écrit par Maddy le 2018-08-23
God Is Disappointed in You
Auteur(s): Mark Russell, Shannon Wheeler
Narrateur(s): James Urbaniak
God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.
Amusing summary of the bible.
Écrit par Marfew le 2018-04-30
Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales
Auteur(s): Beatrix Potter
Narrateur(s): Gary Bond, Michael Hordern, Rosemary Leach, Autres
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter are now available as a downloadable, digital audiobook, complete and unabridged! The 23 tales in this set have never lost their popularity, and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore: Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, The Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Tom Kitten, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck and many more. These stories are beautifully brought to life by a talented cast of readers.
William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Auteur(s): Peter Saccio, The Great Courses
Narrateur(s): Peter Saccio
Production originale
Shakespeare's plays - whether a comedy like A Midsummer Night's Dream, a history like Henry IV, or a tragedy like Hamlet - are treasure troves of insight into our very humanity. These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays from each of these three genres and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization.
much more enjoyable than I had expected
Écrit par OneSpeed le 2019-03-10
Auteur(s): Jane Austen
Narrateur(s): Rosamund Pike
One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennett, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.
Écrit par Priscilla Carmini le 2018-06-26
Frog and Toad Audio Collection
Auteur(s): Arnold Lobel
Narrateur(s): Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad, those famous pals, are beloved by generations of children. Their every adventure is filled with the magic of true friendship, whether they're telling ghost stories, searching for a lost button, or eating too many cookies. This captivating audio collection features all four of the Frog and Toad books, read with humor and charm by award-winning author Arnold Lobel.
Great for all ages!
Écrit par courtney le 2018-10-10
The Peter Rabbit Collection
Narrateur(s): Peter Batchelor
Beatrix Potter's most famous tales in one wonderful collection. Contains The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, and many more!
Écrit par Lover of Books 22 le 2018-09-19
Auteur(s): Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Press
Narrateur(s): Jenna Augen
Belle wants more out of life than the small provincial town of Villeneuve can offer. There she stands out from the crowd with her unique point of view, her strong-willed independence, and her love of books. She longs for travel and adventure, for a life as exciting as the stories she reads. But when Belle's beloved father is taken prisoner by a beast in an enchanted castle, her path is forever changed.
Good book
Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-06-05
A Bear Called Paddington
Auteur(s): Michael Bond
Paddington Bear had traveled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington Station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same... for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World
Auteur(s): Haemin Sunim, Haemin Sunim - translation, Chi-Young Kim - translation
Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this best-selling mindfulness guide - it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a number-one best-seller for 41 weeks and received multiple best book of the year awards - Haemin Sunim (which means "spontaneous wisdom"), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.
A worthwhile listen.
The Conundrum
How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
Auteur(s): David Owen
Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
Everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100-mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem - we have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption.
We're in trouble
Écrit par Brad Lockey le 2019-06-19
Auteur(s): Michael Crichton
Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
Audie Award, Science Fiction, 2016. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind's most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.
Écrit par Cameron Britton le 2018-07-14
Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
Narrateur(s): Claire Danes, Ray Porter, Margaret Atwood, Autres
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
Claire Danes!
Écrit par Amy Fournier le 2018-08-08
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Auteur(s): Tom Standage
Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
Good for car trips
Auteur(s): L. Frank Baum
Narrateur(s): Anne Hathaway
Give Anne Hathaway an award!
Écrit par Karen Hickey le 2017-09-29
The Bear of Very Little Brain and his friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood have delighted generations of children since Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926. This anniversary edition of Winnie-the-Pooh is the perfect way to celebrate the enduring popularity of A. A. Milne's classic work. Three cheers for Pooh!
©2006 Michael John Brown, Peter Janson-Smith, Roger Hugh Vaughn Charles Morgan, and Thimothy Michael Robinson (P)2013 Listening Library
Winnie the Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner (Dramatised)
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5 out of 5 stars 4,8 sur 5
Wonderful performance
Our six year old absolutely loves this. Wonderfully rendered and full of laughs! Great for long car rides!
Not a book for children, but all sentient beings.
Do yourself a favor and immediately buy this audio book. Oh - before that, stop reading or listening to that dreary self-help or business book, or some serious adult book. Now - cue up Stephen Fry and the rest of this brilliant cast that give life to A. A. Milne's masterpiece.
Like many, I grew up reading and listening to Winnie-the-Pooh as a child. I loved the stories then and was lucky enough to be exposed to them before the Disney processing - sigh. But the brilliant language and gentle humor shine through in these stories and in this audio book in particular.
This is very funny stuff - even more for adults than children I believe. Stephen stars as the bear and plays him just right - serious and obsessed with his obsessions - honey, adventures, and his friends - especially Christopher Robin, and himself - Pooh. The tone and writing of the stories strike me as more related to Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, than anything else. And sure enough - there is a brief clip of Adams interviewed on BBC and he tells that he was deeply influenced by Winnie-the-Pooh in his writing. Shades of Monty Python are recognizable as well. For me, this is laugh out loud material.
None of us are ever too old to be a kid again and these stories will help remind you of that. And keep you tethered to your child-like nature. Absolute perfection.
Shelly122812
Not unabridged! A lot of words left out
I got this audiobook to listen to the Winnie-the-Pooh books, as well as to read along with the audio. The narration is great. However, this is not unabridged and some of the words are changed (e.g. “Winnie-the-Pooh looked round to see that nobody was listening, put his paw to his mouth, and said in a deep whisper: ‘Honey!’ Is shortened to the narrator just saying, “Honey!”). Very disappointed. Would have given it five stars had it included all of Milne’s original words.
Lovely classic for the whole family
Would you listen to The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh again? Why?
Yes, the story is a classic and it was narrated very well. My kids loved it and even though my husband was dreading it ahead of time, he ended up not only liking it, but laughing out loud. The kids have never been so quiet on a road trip!
Colleen J. Tillett
A Wonderful Collection of Stories
I, 50 year-old grandma, was taken back to the joys of sitting with my children. I thoroughly enjoyed this audio book. It's 10 books, I believe, and you can stop at book 1, or 2 etc... Great for in the car! This was a good pick.
snsandsnsibility
All of us love the performance of this story. My kids ask for it all the time! Stephen Fry and Judi Dench do not disappoint.
Great stories and narration. My children listen to it every night. It's become a favorite.
Kyra Probst
Fabulous book! Fabulous reading.
Purchased for my 5 and 2 year olds. We listen together. Both enjoy. Fabulous readers! Fabulous book!
timeless classic...
wonderful stories, amazing actors. the narration for this audio book is read and performed perfectly by famous British actors, who play their roles magnificently..! these are beautiful stories, that seem to get more meaningful and funny every time I listen to them. I got this for the kids to listen to, however I will happily listen myself over and over..
5 stars without question.
Vivvian Lansky
Perfect. Great.
Really, really, really great. Not sure it's great for kids, honestly. I tried playing it for/with kids several times and they didn't really connect. But, I have now finally "read" all the Winnie the Pooh books. There's more to them than just kids stuff, honestly....
Classic Bedtime Stories
The collection of stories is delightfully told through the eyes of a child with a wonderful imagination. If you grew up watching the Disney version, don't expect Pooh and his friends to sound anything like that. The stories are as timeless as ever... simple and sweet as they go on their great adventures or when they try to figure a way out of their little entanglements.
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However, when inspectors went to assess the damage done to the vehicle of one Kentucky resident they quickly realised the marks were more likely to have been caused by a claw hammer than by hail. The claimant withdrew his claim, but then submitted a separate one a week later declaring than someone else had attacked his car!
An Explosive Display
Not every crazy claim is attempted fraud, however: some are just the result of good old fashioned, honest-to-god stupidity. One such claim was made in the US on 4th July, by a customer who'd packed his truck bed full of several thousand dollars' worth of fireworks.
The idea was to set up an impressive firework display in a nearby field, but after carelessly tossing a cigarette butt out the driver's side window, his plans literally went up in smoke. Luckily nobody was hurt but the truck was a write off!
'Heater'-Seeking Missile
Water heaters don't tend to be the most mobile of appliances, but by botching a repair job on his plumbing one unlucky homeowner inadvertently turned his into a homemade missile.
A build-up of pressure caused the heater to explode and rocket its way throughout the claimant's home before smashing its way out of the house and careening into a number of cars parked on the street outside.
Mid-Accident Insurance
It pays to be prepared, so they say, but generally the idea of insurance is that you buy it before you need it. For example, if your uninsured car caught fire you wouldn't try to get insurance for it right then and there, would you?
Well - yeah, you've guessed it - that's exactly what happened to one couple who tried to panic-purchase an insurance policy while their car was literally burning in their driveway. Apparently, while the husband tried to sort things out over the phone, his wife could be heard screaming about explosions in the background!
No-Win Situation
One driver claimed for damage caused to her car's engine, allegedly as a result of a lorry splashing water from a puddle into it. However, the next day a newspaper published pictures of her car being driven through floodwater by a mysterious man.
As it turns out, the man was her secret boyfriend who was uninsured on the car. Not only did her insurance provider reject her claim, she was left with a hefty repair bill and the awkward task of explaining to her husband who the guy driving their car was...
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Dassault Systèmes Enables GE Aviation to Drive Innovation and Digital Continuity
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is helping GE Aviation to develop a digital thread to enable continuity and collaboration across the business.
Jyoti Gazmer October 17, 2018
Dassault Systèmes is enabling GE Aviation to drive innovation and efficiency across the product development lifecycle of aerostructures through the implementation of its 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes is helping GE Aviation to develop a digital thread to enable continuity and collaboration across the business. This includes requirements definition, design, analysis, simulation, manufacturing, qualification and supporting the development of new manufacturing technologies and techniques.
“For GE Aviation Hamble, the implementation of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports our ongoing focus on developing innovative aerostructures for the Aerospace industry” said Paulo Mancilla, Executive Engineering Leader, GE Aviation’s Hamble UK facility. “This enables us to use techniques like digital 3D modeling from design through manufacturing and qualification to create high-performance aerostructures for the aviation industry.”
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides intuitive 3D applications for product design, analysis, manufacturing and data management in a digital environment. It provides a single collaborative platform to define, share, review, integrate, validate, execute and report, and offers the opportunity to maximize business improvement through digital continuity from concept to delivery.
“Weight, performance, and cost continue to dominate the competitiveness of developing and fabricating sophisticated and complex aerostructures for the latest generation of aircraft,” said David Ziegler, Vice President, Aerospace & Defense Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “As a global leader in this field, GE Aviation is constantly innovating and has recognized how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides critical technology for this approach. We are very proud to be their partners in this transformation.”
The Key Benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for GE Aviation and its customers include:
Reduced cycle-times resulting from an increase in collaboration between engineering and supply chain functions; driven by a common user interface, which guarantees a unified experience and a shared digital reference that ensures each stakeholder is working on the latest information and in the relevant context. This further enables a model-based enterprise.
Improved visibility and optimized response-times to customer requests, resulting from the ‘business intelligence’ applications which enable interrogation of real-time information to monitor performance.
Increased productivity due to the data-centric rationale and intuitive search capabilities, which simplify data management and promote efficient sharing of information across boundaries.
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Tag: Wagerr
Posted on April 4, 2019 April 2, 2019 by Kelley N.
Wagerr, a new generation online cryptocurrency sportsbook and gambling platform has recently opened access to its 3.0 testnet in private beta, that is, this is now available to a small group of customers – 50 to be more precise. The expansion will allow the core group of valued users within the crypto community to test the company’s new 3.0 mainnet fork before it is finally released.
Wagerr’s new version 3.0 upgrade includes a complete redesign of the website interface and the backend betting protocol – these are meant to not only improve scalability but to also assist in making the overall system much more efficient than it was before.
More About Wagerr
Wagerr is a decentralized online gambling platform that touts itself as the blockchain for betting. The platform uses its native WGR token to facilitate payments made within the Wagerr ecosystem thus providing its users with fast, extremely affordable and effortless payouts – the token is a proof-of-stake coin which uses coin “weight” and a randomization system to calculate the chance of rewards staking. To provide its users with the highly secure and fair betting services it boasts of, Wagerr utilizes various forms of blockchain technology including master nodes and smart contracts. In addition to that, the gaming platform has recently made significant upgrades to its Oracle Masternode system.
Oracle master nodes use Application Specific Smart Contracts (ASSC) to ensure both stability and security on the network and this, in turn, provides platforms such as Wagerr with a secure and decentralized network that assists in keeping the sportsbooks updated while also verifying the bets made through the smart contracts. Moreover, the system includes a revenue model that allows the customers to make a bit of additional income through the Wager platform by becoming one of the masternodes on the Oracle system.
Lightning Spin Becomes First-Ever LApp to Sell
In other stories, Rui Gomes, the creator of Lightning Spin which is one of the pioneering Bitcoin Lightning Network’s pioneering lightning applications (Lapps) also recently announced that he was selling it. With the Lapp players “could pay 6¢ for a single spin, (1 BTC was around $6,000 back then) and withdraw your winnings in seconds — something that would be impossible with the fiat system and would be increasingly difficult on Bitcoin’s base layer.”
While very little details have been disclosed about the buyer of the gaming app, Gomes assured fans of the game that the new owners shared his vision and therefore they can expect the same features and perks as they did before.
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Featured adventure stories by: David Marchi, Ken Campbell
Stories recounting the life-changing experience of being a wilderness tour guide. From a crevasse rescue that led a new father to rethink his career path to a pitch for guiding as a means to become a better person. This week’s stories capture the beauty and the adventure of the guide’s life.
Adventure Storytellers: David Marchi & Ken Campbell
From: Bend, OR & Tacoma, WA
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David Marchi's Adventure Story: Guided Crevasse Rescue
David tells us about a life or death experience as a ski guide. It’s a fantastic, emotionally intense story, so prepare yourself.
The song David references in his story is “Skinny Love” by Bon Iver.
David’s experience of rescuing a father’s son stuck in a crevasse was clearly formative for him, and it took the breath out of us when we heard it live. As a new father himself, it put the risks he took as a ski guide into a new light, and made him rethink his entire career path.
David still does some guiding work with Valdez Heli Ski Guides out of Alaska, but he’s also taken up a slightly less dangerous line of work, as the owner of Crow’s Feet Commons in Bend, a ski, bike, coffee and beer shop that sounds like another version of living the dream.
David Marchi, owner of Crow's Feet Commons in Bend, OR with son Talus.
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If you're in Bend, OR, and are looking for beer, bikes, coffee or skis (and with a list like that who isn't?), visit him in person at Crow's Feet Commons in downtown on Brooks Street by the Deschutes River.
If you want to literally follow him, on skis, down a mountain in the Alaskan wilderness, he's still guiding with Valdez Heli-Ski Guides.
Ken Campbell's Adventure Story
Ken Campbell is a kayaker, author and environmentalist from Tacoma, Washington. Along with having carved out a career as a paddling guide, Ken is the founder of the Ikkatsu Project - a nonprofit focused on raising awareness and doing hands on work to decrease the amount of plastics that find their way into our waterways.
My favorite thing about Ken’s work is that he always turns advocacy into a good story. A few years back, he built a boat out of discarded plastic soda bottles and paddled it from Olympia to Bellingham, Washington, stopping along the way to help with beach cleanups and give presentations on the issue of plastics in Puget Sound.
You can watch a documentary about that experience, and learn about Ken’s other projects at www.IkkatsuProject.org.
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An account of the time he paddled around Newfoundland
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Five Stars for Old Boy's Clarion Production
Old Boy Mark Jagasia’s debut stage-play Clarion opened in April at the Arcola Theatre in London to a wash of four- and five-star reviews. This brilliant satire about the newspaper industry, which also comments on free speech and nationalism, has been well-received by critics and audiences alike.
Mark is well-placed to write about the state of British media. After attending Bolton School Boys’ Division from 1981 to 1990, he began a career in journalism which eventually led to him joining the Daily Express as the showbusiness editor. He has also worked for several other UK newspapers, including the Evening Standard and the Guardian. Armed with his past experiences in the industry, he set about writing Clarion, which is named after and set in the fictional offices of “Britain’s worst newspaper”.
Greg Hicks plays the power-crazed editor while Clare Higgins is the paper’s washed-up foreign correspondent; as political storm-clouds gather and pressure mounts, circumstances threaten to expose the worst crimes of The Daily Clarion before the final curtain. The two stars brought Mark’s text to life in performances which, according to the review in The Times, “toggle sharply between the grotesquely nightmarish and the naturalistic”. The play itself shines a bright light on the dark heart of the newspaper industry and upon society itself in what LondonTheatre1 described as an “utterly scathing but hysterical take on the worst excesses of tabloid journalism”.
The play has been nominated for a total of three Off West End Theatre Awards. It is in the running for Best Play, Best Actor and Best Actress. This is a great achievement, particularly as this is Mark's first script!
Clarion’s run at the Arcola Theatre ends on the 16th of May.
A selection of Clarion's reviews:
★★★★★ “Mark Jagasia’s darkly comic new play is a topically urgent interrogation of British press standards. Hugely recommended.” - Morning Star
★★★★★ “A headline-grabbing comedy that’s one of the funniest in years.” - Stage Review
★★★★★ “An insightful and side splitting evening of entertainment, this is a must see” - West End Wilma
★★★★★ “Mark Jagasia’s script is outstanding ... Engaging, stylish and irreverent” - Ginger Hibiscus
★★★★★ “An utterly scathing but hysterical take on the worst excesses of tabloid journalism” - LondonTheatre1
★★★★ “Greg Hicks is hilarious as a demonic newspaper editor in Mark Jagasia’s scorching satire” - Michael Billington, The Guardian
★★★★ “An eye-wateringly funny — and foreboding — vision of British print journalism going to hell in a handcart ... Higgins's performance is pitch-perfect ... Hicks is on storming form and having a ball ... Highly recommended.” - The Times
★★★★ “Captures the distinctive journalistic flavour of bile, hysteria and sentimentality with savage precision ... Hicks plays Morris with maniacal brilliance ... appallingly funny” - Daily Telegraph
★★★★ “An electrically funny and knowing script about an industry in decline and an ideology on the rise” - The Independent
★★★★ “Absorbing and devilishly funny” - Evening Standard
★★★★ “The scathingly funny, grim satire of tabloid ethics drives to the heart of a serious issue” - Financial Times
★★★★ “This piercing and often funny play does to newspapers what Drop The Dead Donkey did to TV news” - Daily Mail
'Clarion' is Mark's first play
Greg Hicks as 'The Daily Clarion' editor Morris Honeyspoon
Foreign correspondent Verity Stokes, played by Clare Higgins
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by Amy Rebecca TanAmy Rebecca Tan
Read the book that Ali Standish (author of The Ethan I Was Before) calls "a heartwarming story" and Melissa Roske (author of Kat Greene Comes Clean) calls "a joyful, heartfelt debut!"
Thirteen-year-old Jamie Bunn made a mistake at the end of the school year. A big one. And every kid in her middle school knows all about it. Now she has to spend her summer vacation volunteering at the local library—as punishment. What a waste of a summer!
Or so she thinks.
A Kind of Paradise is an unforgettable story about the power of community, the power of the library, and the power of forgiveness.
Amy Rebecca Tan has worked as a babysitter, a waitress, a camp counselor, a tea seller, a muffin delivery person, a barista, and a bookbinder. She currently works in a public library and an independent bookstore. She has a master’s degree in special education and has taught in the New York City school system. Amy lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and dog.
What starts as a punishment becomes a refuge and second home in this kindhearted first novel. When 13-year-old Jamie violates her school honor code and steals an annotated book for her crush, Trey, not only must she write an apology letter to him (which his mean sister posts online), she must also spend her summer doing community service at the local library. Tan warmly sketches the library community, including über-organized and dedicated director Beverly, charming staff members Lenny and Sonia, and the cast of regulars, including homeless young man “Black Hat Guy,” who comes for a nap every afternoon, and movie buff, Wally, who always brings a fresh flower when he arrives to check out the “flicks.” The stakes elevate when the new mayor threatens to cut the library’s funding, and Jamie goes from rooting for its closure and the end to her service to championing the importance of the institution. A good-natured debut that will appeal to young lovers of books and libraries. Ages 8–12. (Apr.)
[A] heartwarming story of redemption, and a celebration of the power communities have to lift us up, help us heal, and shape our dreams.
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An unforgettable tale of friendship, self-acceptance, and the redemptive power of forgiveness—all found within the walls of a quirky, small-town library. A joyful, heartfelt debut!
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If I wasn’t already madly in love with that sacred space known as The Public Library, I would be after reading this celebration of the lives of those who enter its open doors and leave changed forever.
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This middle-grade debut is a heartfelt but quiet love letter to libraries, and a book for book-lovers.
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Gr 4–6—As a consequence for breaking her middle school's honor code, Jamie must volunteer in her local library all summer. Initially disappointed to miss out on her usual poolside summer plans, Jamie eventually develops meaningful relationships with library staff and patrons and feels valued for her work. Tan uses Jamie's first-person narration to illustrate the important role the library plays in the town and slowly reveals the details of the girl's past indiscretions. The frequent back-and-forth between daily activities in the library and Jamie's memories slows the pace, and the secondary characters, seen only through Jamie's eyes, can lack depth. Jamie's own development is the strongest component of the book, and her sense of self as someone who has made a mistake but is also kind and capable will appeal to readers who are growing to see themselves in a similar light. VERDICT Not necessarily a first purchase, but recommended for collections where young readers seek a quiet, nuanced coming-of-age story.—Gesse Stark-Smith, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
A warm homage to libraries, the people who work in them, and their power to affect people's lives.
Thirteen-year-old Jamie violated her middle school's honor code and has now been assigned to community service at her local library over the summer. "And I had to write an apology letter to Trey." As the book unfolds readers find out what caused her to spend the summer at the Foxfield Public Library—and also how her letter of apology to her crush, Trey, is posted for the whole school to see and smirk at. But more importantly, readers are introduced to the different characters that populate the library. There is Beverly, the dedicated and committed director; Sonia and Lenny, the two other staff members, who are patient and understanding of all their patrons; Wally, the older patron who comes to the library every Tuesday to borrow movies and bring a fresh flower; and Black Hat Guy, a homeless young man who shows up every day around 4:00 in the afternoon. As the summer progresses, Jamie's connection to the library goes from enforced to enthusiastic. And, as with all books where everyone is nice, there is a happy ending. Most characters default white except for Sonia, who is Latina, and crush Trey, adopted as an infant from Korea.
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Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland
by Carol Kyros WalkerCarol Kyros Walker
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When Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803, his wits were as sharp as ever but his health, professional career, marriage, and friendship with William and his sister Dorothy were in a deteriorating state. On the fifteenth day of their travels, the Wordsworths and Coleridge parted ways, ostensibly so that Coleridge could return home. Instead he pursued his own Scottish tour, finding pleasure in his solitude, speed, and endurance.
This book draws on Coleridge’s letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths from his own point of view and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. Carol Kyros Walker, editor of Dorothy Wordsworth’s own Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, now retraces Coleridge’s very different Scottish tour and recounts his adventures there. In a remarkable photographic and literary essay, she argues that Coleridge’s speed (263 miles in eight days), energy, reflections, notes, and letters all betray a man of great talent who was breaking awayfrom the Wordsworths, from his wife, from his life in the Lake District, and from a dry phase of his writing career.
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Epilogue 23
Schedule and Itinerary 25
Maps 29
Photographic Retracing of the Tour 33
The Travel Literature 129
Scottish Notes 131
Great Hall, Keswick to Gretna Green, Scotland 131
To Dumfries, following the River Nith to Mennock, across the Lowther Hills through Mining Country to Crawfordjohn, following the River Clyde to Lanark 135
Lanark, Falls of the Clyde, and onward toward Glasgow 140
Glasgow to Loch Lomond 144
From Arrochar onto Separate Ways 152
Crossing at Ballachulish, following the Line of the Forts North 160
Routing South from Inverness through the Grampian Highlands to Perth and Edinburgh 172
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Letter 1 To His Wife 181
Letter 3 To Robert Southey 184
Letter 5 To A. Welles 190
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A Cotswold Killing
by Rebecca TopeRebecca Tope
Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially English. When recently widowed Thea Osborne arrives to house-sit for a local couple, her only fear is that three weeks there might prove a little dull. Her first night's sleep at Brook View is broken by a piercing scream outside but she decides such things don t require investigation in a sleepy place like this. At least not until a body turns up... In calling on her neighbors to get some answers, Thea uncovers more tragedy and intrigue than she thought possible behind the peaceful Gloucestershire village. The first in a new series of thrillers to be set in the Cotswold area, A Cotswold Killing takes the reader on a tense journey along winding roads and muddy paths towards a dramatic and unexpected denouement.
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Rebecca Tope currently lives on a smallholding in rural Herefordshire rearing Cotswold sheep and Tamworth and Berkshire pigs and produces her own meat and wool.
Cotswold Killing 3.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 4 reviews.
nocto on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Enjoyable stuff as always from Rebecca Tope. Commendable because it's in many ways got a typical 'cosy' mystery setup (newly widowed housesitter stumbles into murder investigation in pretty village) but managed to never make me scream 'no, don't go down the dark staircase to the cellar alone without a torch!' even though the central character did some things that were almost as bad as going down that rickety staircase a few times.
reading_fox on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Rather fun almost cosy little mystery. Not exactly belivable, but nothing particularly intrudes to shake the necessary suspension of scepticsm.Thea - a widow of a year and just about coping with life - and her dog, take a job housesitting for a couple departing for a couple of weeks cruise. The tasks don't seem too onerous, untilt he owner turns up with a bulletpoint list. The sheep need regular counting, the dogs precise feeding, the dlowers watering and dusting. Thea manages to keep herself busy, but there are little other distractions in the small Cotswald village. However a body turns up in the pond on 'her' garden. Although not really any of her business she can't help but feel slightly responsible, and so uses it as an excuse to get to know the neighbours and find out what local politics had been going on. It was the 2nd death in recent months and deemed unlikely to be just coincidence or passing outsiders.Enjoyable, Thea is somewhat difficult to empathise with unless you've recently suffered a loss yourself, but comes across as very belivable, the clues ot the puzzle were well placed, and although all the other characters are somewhat thin bit parts, they interact well with Thea.Worth seeking out hte rest of the series.
cathyskye on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
First Line: The pain in Thea's finger was intermittent, but sharp.Recently widowed Thea Osborne has decided to house-sit, and Brook View Farm outside the picture perfect village of Duntisbourne Abbots in the Cotswolds looks ideal. Thea's only worry is that spending three weeks there with the owner's persnickety pages of instructions and three dogs might prove a bit dull. Her first night's sleep is interrupted by a piercing scream, but since it wasn't close to the house, no one's dogs seemed bothered by it, and it wasn't followed by anything else suspicious, Thea did nothing. Nothing, that is, until she discovers the body of a neighboring farmer at the bottom of one of Brook View's fields. As the investigation unfolds, Thea finds herself talking to neighbors and uncovering bits and pieces of enough secrets and tragedy that she forgets all about her worry of being bored.I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would. That makes it sound as though I expected to dislike it, which isn't true. The setting became very real for me with two sentences: "Every roadway leading to the village centre was steep and twisting, with no clear vistas. Most of the houses escaped being overlooked by any of the others, producing a sense of solitude and secrecy that felt strange in the middle of a village."If you're anything like me, that description is just the tiniest bit creepy. Who knows what goings-on and secrets can be found in a place with no clear line of sight and with none of the houses being overlooked? (I have to admit that the above description reminded me a bit of a drive through the Yorkshire Dales on one-lane roads, steep hills, and blind corners. What began as a white knuckle ride for me became enchanting due to one simple fact: in that part of England some of the politest drivers in the world are to be found.)Besides the setting, I found that I really liked the main character, which is amazing because I'm normally very suspicious of anyone who's described as being beautiful. Yes, Thea is beautiful, but she's not obnoxious about it. She's not obsessed with clothing, shoes, makeup or hair styles. She occasionally uses her looks as a tool, having learned years ago that "it was amazing what a smile could do, accompanied by an open and innocent demeanour."Thea's not obsessed by her appearance, she's not nervous about being alone in a strange place, and she shares what she knows with the police. As she gets to know various villagers, some are very forthcoming-- she won't be around for long, so it won't hurt to talk to her-- and some look at her with distrust. They've heard about Miss Marple, you see.As I was enjoying my leisurely read in the Cotswolds, getting to know the village and its inhabitants, I actually found the answer to the mystery to be a total surprise because I'd forgotten all about searching for clues. I'm looking forward to reading other books in this series, although I do have one concern: if Thea stumbles into each mystery by house-sitting, won't she soon garner a reputation as The House Sitter of Doom? I think I'll enjoy finding out!
smik on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
At times this book felt hard going and I sometimes became annoyed what seemed to be a welter of detail that slowed the action down.Thea Osborne uses her husband's death as an excuse to embark on a new occupation of house-sitting. The three week job in a house in the village of Duntisbourne Abbot is her first, and it quickly becomes obvious that it is not going to be as simple as she imagines. Her employers have a detailed and comprehensive list of tasks. But not on the list is the murder of one of the locals in her back garden. And of course Thea is carrying her own share of emotional baggage.As time goes on a suspicion grows that her police detective brother in law has somehow contrived that she got the job in the first place.A COTSWOLD KILLING seemed to have an unnecessarily complicated plot. There are a lot of characters to sort out and a complex web of relationships to fathom. Some of the characters we meet only fleetingly, and can't be sure whether we need to remember them. Thea Osborne is an interesting character but her involvement in undertaking an investigation into her neighbours is not entirely logical. There were events such as the traffic accident which results in Thea's car being written off which raised the level of plot complexity with not much useful outcome. There were times too when the reader did not know what Thea had discovered - for example she researches local news items, sends an email off to her brother in law but doesn't tell us until pages later what it was she found.All in all though, it is not a badly written novel. Nothing that perhaps a bit of judicious editing might not have cured.
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The Replacement
by Brenna Yovanoff, Kevin T. Collins (Read by)Brenna Yovanoff
Audiobook(CD - Unabridged)
Mackie is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess.
He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live among us. He just wants to play bass guitar and find out more about an oddly intriguing girl named Tate.
But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem.
He must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
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Brenna Yovanoff is a debut author who has been published in various journals. She is one third of the Merry Sisters of Fate, along with Maggie Stiefvater and Tessa Gratton, three women writers who post creative flash fiction regularly at http://community.livejournal.com/merry_fates. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
I don't remember any of the true, important parts, but there's this dream I have. Everything is cold and branches scrape the window screen. Giant trees, rattling, clattering with leaves. White rain gutter, the curtain flapping. Pansies, violets, sunflowers. I know the fabric pattern by heart. They're a list in my head, like a poem.
I dream about fields, dark tunnels, but nothing is clear. I dream that a dark shape puts me in the crib, puts a hand over my mouth, and whispers in my ear. Shh, it says. And, Wait. No one is there, no one is touching me, and when the wind comes in around the edges of the window frame, my skin is cold. I wake up feeling lonely, like the world is big and freezing and scary. Like I will never have anyone touch me again.
They were sticking students in the cafeteria, over by the trophy cases.
They'd hung a curtain to hide the blood-draw station, and it came down almost to the floor, but everyone knew what was behind it. Needles going in, tubes coming out. A butcher-paper banner was stretched over the west entrance, announcing the blood drive in giant Magic Marker letters.
We'd just come in from lunch. Me, the Corbett twins, and Roswell Reed.
Drew Corbett was digging through his pockets for a quarter to show me how he could fix a coin toss. It sounded complicated, but he had a way of taking any trick or sleight of hand and making it look easy.
When he tossed the quarter, it hung for a second and I was sure I could see it flip over, but when he showed me the back of his hand, it was still heads. He smiled a wide, slow smile, like we'd just exchanged a really good joke without either of us saying anything out loud. Behind us, his brother Danny-boy was in this ongoing argument with Roswell about whether or not the only local band that was any good could ever get radio play or score spots on late-night talk shows.
From far away, you could look at the twins and get the idea that they were the same person. They had the same long, brown hands, the same narrow eyes and dark hair. They were good at the same things, drawing and building and fixing stuff, but Drew was more relaxed. He listened better and moved slower. Danny was the one who talked.
"But look at what sells," Roswell said, raking a hand through his hair so it stood up in messy tufts, rust colored. "What makes you think that the same people who get all frantic for power chords would even appreciate a rarified talent like Rasputin Sings the Blues?"
Danny sighed and grabbed my arm. "Mackie, would anybody really take something that fundamentally sucks over something good?" He sounded impatient, like he already knew he was winning this one whether I backed him or not, so why were they still talking about it?
I didn't answer. I was looking at Alice Harms, which was a habitual behavior, kind of like a hobby.
Danny yanked harder. "Mackie, quit acting like a complete stoner and listen. Do you really think someone would pick the bad thing?"
"People don't always know what they should want," I said without looking away from Alice.
She had on a green shirt, cut low so it showed the tops of her breasts. There was a yellow blood-donor sticker stuck to the front of it. She tucked her hair behind one ear and the whole thing was sort of beautiful.
Except, I could smell the blood—sweet, metallic. I could taste it in the back of my mouth and my stomach was starting to feel iffy. I'd forgotten all about the blood drive until I'd walked into school that morning and been greeted by the festival of hand-lettered signs.
Drew hit me hard on the shoulder. "Here comes your girlfriend."
Alice was crossing the cafeteria, flanked by two other members of the junior-class royalty, Jenna Porter and Stephanie Beecham. I could hear the scuff of their sneakers on the linoleum. The sound was nice and reminded me of shuffling through dead leaves. I watched Alice but not in any really hopeful way.
Girls went for Roswell, not me. He was tall and knobby, with a wide, straight mouth. He was freckled in the summer, the hair on his arms was reddish, and he never got his sideburns even, but he was likable. Or maybe it was just that he was like them.
I was the weird one—pale, creepy. Blond hair might have been a strong point on someone else, but on me, it just made it harder to get away with how dark my eyes were. I didn't make jokes or start conversations. Sometimes, people got uneasy just looking at me. It was better to stay in the background. But now here I was, standing in the middle of the cafeteria, and Alice was coming closer. Her mouth was pink. Her eyes were very blue.
And then she was right in front of me.
"Hi, Mackie."
I smiled, but it felt more like wincing. It was one thing to look at her from across a room and think about maybe, possibly kissing her. It was another to have a conversation. I swallowed and tried to come up with any of the normal things people talk about. All I could think was how once I'd seen her in her tennis uniform last spring and her legs were so tan I thought my heart would stop.
"So, did you give blood?" she said, touching her yellow sticker. "You better tell me you gave blood." When she pushed her hair back from her face, I caught a flash of something silver in her mouth. She had her tongue pierced.
I shook my head. "I can't do needles."
That made her laugh. Suddenly, her hand was resting on my arm for no good reason. "Aw, that's so cute! Okay, fine, you're off the hook for being a huge pansy. So, are your parents all completely freaked out about the latest drama? I mean, you heard about Tate Stewart's sister, right?"
Behind me, Roswell took a sharp breath and let it back out. The twins had stopped smiling. I fumbled around for a way to change the subject but couldn't come up with anything on the spot.
The smell of blood was sweet and oozy, too thick to ignore.
I had to clear my throat before I answered. "Yeah. My dad's been pretty cut up about it."
Alice opened her eyes very wide. "Oh God, do you actually know them?"
"His dad's doing the service," Danny said in a flat voice.
He and Drew had both turned away. When I followed their gaze, I saw they were watching Tate, who sat alone at one of the long tables, staring out the floor-to-ceiling windows at the sky.
I didn't know her. I mean, I'd gone to school with her my whole life, and she lived down the block from Drew and Danny, and I'd had at least one class with her every semester since junior high. But I didn't know her. I didn't know her sister either, but I'd seen them together in the parking lot at my dad's church. A chubby, smiling little kid named Natalie. Just this normal, healthy-looking kid.
Tate scraped back her chair and glanced in our direction. Her hair was dark brown and cut short, which made her face look strangely bare. From far away, she seemed small, but her shoulders were rigid as she stood up, like she was ready to take a punch. Until two days ago, she'd had friends. Maybe not the whispering, giggling, inseparable kind like Alice, but people had liked her. Now there was an empty space around her that made me think of quarantine. It was unsettling to realize that it didn't take much to make you an outcast. All you needed was for something terrible to happen.
Alice didn't waste any time on Tate. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and suddenly, she was standing much closer to me. "Just, you never think about little kids dying. I mean, that's so sad, right? My mom's kind of been going crazy with the saints medals and the Hail Marys since she heard. Hey, are you guys going to be around on Saturday? Stephanie's having a party."
Roswell leaned in over my shoulder. "Cool. We might stop by. So you guys got suckered into the blood drive, huh?" He was looking at Stephanie when he said it. "How was exsanguination? Did it hurt?"
Stephanie and Jenna both started to nod, but Alice rolled her eyes. "Not really. Like, it hurt when she was putting the tube in—but it wasn't bad. It actually hurts more now. When she pulled the needle out, it kind of tore and now it won't quit bleeding. Look."
She held out her arm. There was a cotton ball taped to the inside of her elbow, covering the needle mark. In the middle, starting under the tape and spreading out through the cotton, there was a red splotch that grew and grew.
Iron is everywhere. It's in cars, kitchen appliances, and those big industrial machines they use to pack food, but most of it's mixed with other things, carbon and chromium and nickel. It hurts in a slow, exhausting way. I can take it.
The blood iron was different. It roared up through my mouth and nose, getting in my throat. Suddenly, it was hard to focus. My heart was beating very fast and then too, too slow.
"Mackie?" Alice's voice sounded thin and fuzzy, coming from far away.
"I have to go," I said. "My locker… I forgot this thing and I need to…"
For a second, I thought one or two or maybe all of them were going to follow me. Alice started to reach for me. Then Roswell put his hand on her arm and she stopped. His expression was tight, like he was pressing his lips together to keep from saying something. He jerked his head in the direction of the hall, just barely. Just go.
I made it through the maze of tables and out of the cafeteria without stumbling, but my vision was starting to tunnel and I could feel my heartbeat in my hands and in my ears. It was better once I got away from the sweet, suffocating smell of the blood drive. I took deep breaths and waited for the dizziness to ebb off.
The lockers in the junior hall all looked the same—five feet tall and painted a light, flaking beige. Mine was at the far end, past the hall to the math wing and the doors out to the courtyard. As soon as I came around the corner, I knew something was wrong with it.
On the locker door, at eye level, there was a red smear the size and shape of someone's palm. Even before I got close, I could smell the blood. It wasn't as bad as Alice's puncture wound. That had been warm, horribly metallic. This was cold and sticky, just starting to dry.
I looked around, but the hall was empty. The doors leading out to the courtyard were closed. It had been raining all day and there was no one on the grass.
The smear was a dark, gummy red, and I stood with my hands against my forehead. It was a joke, some kind of mean, stupid trick. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to come up with it—you wouldn't have to guess. I am notorious for being the guy sitting on the ground with my head between my knees when someone gets a bloody nose.
It was a joke because it had to be. But even before I moved closer, I knew deep down that it wasn't. Someone had gotten creative with a paper clip or a key. They'd scratched the word Freak into the congealing mess.
I took my sleeve and scrubbed at it, feeling sick and out of breath. I got most of the blood off, but Freak stayed right there on the door. It was scratched into the paint and blood had settled into the letters so the word stood out dark against the beige enamel. Looking at it made the rush of static sweep in again. I backed away and almost fell. There was just my slow, stuttering heartbeat.
Then my hand on the wall, feeling for the door, the empty courtyard, the fresh air.
I was in kindergarten the first time my dad told me about Kellan Caury.
The story was short, and he told it over and over, like Winnie-the-Pooh or Goodnight Moon. When my dad told it, I could see the important parts like scenes from an old movie, flickering and grainy. Kellan Caury would be quiet and polite. A grown-up, maybe in his thirties.
He was like me. Mostly. Except that he had an extra set of joints in his fingers and I always pictured him in black and white.
He ran a music repair shop on Hanover Street and lived above it in a little kitchenette apartment. He couldn't tune pianos because he couldn't stand to touch the steel wires, but he was honest and fair and everyone liked him. His specialty was fixing violins.
When kids started to go missing, no one thought that much about it. It was the Depression, and no one had enough food or enough money, and kids were always disappearing. They got sick or ran away, or died from accidents or starvation, and that was too bad, but no one really got suspicious or asked that many questions.
Then the sheriff's daughter disappeared. This was in 1931, just before the end of October.
Kellan Caury had never hurt anyone, but it didn't matter. They came for him anyway.
They dragged him out of his little kitchenette apartment and down into the street. They burned out his shop and beat on him with wrenches and pipes. Then they hung him from a tree in the churchyard with a bag over his head and his hands tied behind his back. They left his body there for a month.
The first time my dad told me this, I didn't get what he was trying to say, but by the time I was in first or second grade, I was already starting to understand.
The moral of the story is, don't attract attention. Don't have deformed fingers. Don't let anyone find out how amazing you are at tuning strings by ear. Don't show anyone the true, honest heart of yourself or else, when something goes wrong, you might wind up rotting in a tree.
Everyone has a point of origin. A place they come from.
Some people's places are just simpler than others'.
I don't remember any of this, but my sister, Emma, swears it's true and I believe her. This is the story she used to tell me at night, when I would climb out of bed and sneak down the hall to her room.
The baby in the crib: crying, in that anxious, fussy way. His face is shiny between the bars. The man comes in the window—bony, wearing a black coat—and grabs the baby up. He slips back out over the sill, slides the window down, pops the screen back in. Is gone. There's something else in the crib.
In the story, Emma's four years old. She gets out of bed and pads across the floor in her footie pajamas. When she reaches her hand between the bars, the thing in the crib moves closer. It tries to bite her and she takes her hand out again but doesn't back away. They spend all night looking at each other in the dark. In the morning, the thing is still crouched on the lamb-and-duckling mattress pad, staring at her. It isn't her brother.
It's me.
Many high school students feel like outsiders, but in this dark fantasy Mackie Doyle has better reason than most to be alienated. Mackie is a changeling, a fairy child exchanged for a stolen human baby. Everyone knows it, though no one will acknowledge it, for fear of upsetting a deal the town made long ago. What, after all, is one baby taken every seven years, in exchange for continued economic prosperity? "Everyone else's unemployment skyrockets, and their tech plants go bankrupt and their dairy farms fail, but not ours," says Mackie's sister, Emma, one of the few who will acknowledge the town's secrets. Mackie, however--sickened by iron, terrified that his neighbors will turn on him--has paid a terrible price, as has Tate Stewart, who is traumatized by the loss of her baby sister, the latest stolen child. Eventually, the two teenagers join forces in an attempt to overturn the town's intolerable status quo. Debut novelist Yovanoff offers well-developed characters, a fascinating take on the Fairy Court, and an exciting story line. Combined with wicked cover art, this book has the makings of a success. Ages 12–up. (Sept.)
Yovanoff’s unsettling villains and intriguing moral ambivalence make this effort shockingly original and frequently breathtaking.
Gr 9 Up—Being a teenage boy is difficult enough, but Mackie Doyle has a secret that sets him apart from other teens in this novel (Razorbill, 2010) by Brenna Yavanoff. Mackie is a nonhuman replacement for a human baby that was stolen. He from the ugly, rotting world of Mayhem that resides under the town. All Mackie wants to do is be accepted at school, stay under the radar, and attempt to kiss a girl. But all that changes when he becomes very ill and is approached by creepy people who say they can save him if he will go underground to his own kind. Then another child is stolen and Mackie befriends the grieving sister to retrieve her from the underworld. This eerie story is a modern version of a changeling tale. Teens will find it exciting and identify with the normal teen angst set in this supernatural world. Anime actor Kevin Collins does an outstanding job of making the voices of Mackie and all the secondary characters believable. A deliciously intriguing listening experience.—Jeana Actkinson, ESC Region XI, Ft. Worth, TX
Mackie's nauseated by the scent of blood, is burned by cold iron and would die if he entered a church. None of this helps him avoid notice in his hometown, where close-mouthed neighbors hang horseshoes and leave milk in the garden. No quaint old-world superstitions, these; in the town of Gentry, a child dies mysteriously every seven years. Mackie's been raised to avoid notice, so nobody will recognize him for the changeling his parents and adoring sister know him to be. But with another baby apparently dead and blood and iron all over town, Mackie's having a hard enough time staying upright, let alone under the radar. Soon the sickly boy meets the Morrigan and her court: a mishmash of Celtic mythology with British folklore, elfpunk music and adorable Tim Burton–esque horrors. There's romance and rescue (though mercifully no Edward Cullen types to replace the tale's endearing original couple). Some of the urban-fantasy elements get dropped in the crowd partway through, but enough grotesque goodies remain to keep this a fast-paced, dark delicacy. (Urban fantasy. 12-14)
The Replacement 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 242 reviews.
Reading-Writing-Waiting More than 1 year ago
The entire town of Gentry knows that their human children are stolen and murdered by monsters, but they seem to be okay with the sacrifice in order to keep their town the happy place it is. This novel creates a intriguing world that is full of mystery. Mackie Doyle is one of the creepiest main characters I've come across in a while, but I will say he is very likable and he won me over very easily. Mackie has this venerability that makes you root for him even though he's not quite human and was placed in a crib to replace a human baby that had been stolen and sacrificed. While the creatures under the hill may be evil, Mackie isn't, and strives to just be "normal". Iron, even the slight amount in blood, causes Mackie to go into a toxic shock type syndrome, which adds to the struggle to live in the human world. This novel is a great YA mystery. The kind where you have to figure out exactly what Mackie is why these creatures under the hill suddenly want him back. If you like creepy YA told from a male first person point of view with a little bit of romance sprinkled in, this one's for you.
LadyHester More than 1 year ago
I loved every word in this book. The story was magnificently creepy.
LizTea More than 1 year ago
Based on the synopsis on the back of the book, I went into The Replacement expecting a cool, almost reverse Labyrinth. But alas, there was no magical David Bowie, and no dance numbers. All I found was the same problem I've been having with a lot of paranormal books lately. I end up liking the world, and a lot of the secondary characters, more than the main plotline and characters. For me, the world that existed below the ground was beautiful, horrifying, and absolutely fascinating. I could picture the House of Mayhem, and the Morrigan, and the living dead girls in such vivid detail, I found myself sorry to return with Mackie to the normal human world. I wanted so much more of this mysterious world. The Morrigan especially! She was so cute and childlike, yet adult and sinister all at once. Her snuggly closeness quickly made her, without competition, my favorite character in the whole book. As for the human world? Well, it was just a whole village full of scared people in denial. Nothing really appealing about it. The best advice you can give your kid is to not be unique, but blend in. However, for everyone so seemingly steeped in denial, it struck me as really strange when some of the characters didn't bat an eyelash at some of the weird stuff going on. Little zombie girl? I'd freak. Doors popping out of garbage heaps? I'd run the other way. A freaky queen who likes to eat babies? I'd check myself into an institution. But no one seems to question the strangeness of it all. Maybe the teens in Gentry are immune to the denial? Or, at least a select few. One thing I really did appreciate, however, was the realism of the way the teens spoke. I liked that there was a bunch of swearing, because it felt so much more real that way. In a lot of YA, it seems the intent is to be a "clean" read - no cussing, no physical contact beyond kissing. Well, The Replacement got it right. The kids swear when they're mad or confused, and there's quite a bit of inappropriate touching and staring. Most books from a boy's perspective (especially those written by women) tend to skim over some details about where their minds are. But no, the author just flat out lets you know Mackie isn't really paying attention to the teacher, he's staring at some girl's boobs. I laughed. And it made me feel like the characters were a little more real. As for the characters themselves? The secondary cast stole the show to me, especially "Them", the underground folk. Mackie annoyed me occasionally - he came off a bit whiny, weak, and pathetic in some scenes. I really found myself just honestly wishing he'd grow a spine and do something. Tate was likable enough, though I felt no chemistry between her and Mackie. She felt like a convenient plot point. No interest in her until her sister vanishes, then suddenly, it's all about her. Something just didn't click with that relationship to me. Roswell was an awesome best friend, though his lack of asking questions and demanding answers about all the weird stuff going on was a little strange. I would have actually liked a little more detail about him and his family, though. All in all, a pretty good supernatural read. The prose is elegant and haunting, and the world is beautifully creepy. I appreciate that this is a standalone novel, but I think I could have stood it to be a little longer. Some parts ended up feeling rushed. Mackie is a bit of a wimp, but a strong minor character cast make up for it.
Sixteen years ago in Gentry, the tattooed princess sent Mackie Doyle as The Replacement who took the place in a crib of a newborn human baby. He is not the only Replacement in the town, but the locals are unaware of the switches and besides the changes has proven profitable for the ignorant but blissful townsfolk, other nearby places have collapsed. Mackie leaving Gentry to go to the underworld tunnels of Mayhem is dangerous for him but by staying he has allergies to iron and blood that can kill him. The girl he likes Alice donates blood and has silver pinned on her pierced tongue; he also cannot walk on sacred earth though his dad is a pastor with a church. However, the strange death of Natalie has shocked every one. Natalie's family attends the church of Mackie's dad though the lad does not know her or her older sister Tate who attends his school. The grieving girl obsesses over learning the truth about her sibling's death, which places Mackie in the awkward situation of choosing life above ground or below as he comes to know Tate. This is an extremely dark horror tale that grips the audience from the moment the teens are introduced and never slows down until the final confrontation. The Gentry high school students makes the story line seem plausible as most behave with reckless abandon with sex, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol prevalent; the teens challenge the adult authority. This is a strong novel that uses the Doppelganger Replacement as the premise of an exhilarating novel that warns readers to look beyond the glitter to insure there is no monster; like Tate is doing with no allies until Mackie joins her quest. Harriet Klausner
rabidreaderWS More than 1 year ago
If you want creepy, goosebump inducing and a little bit of teenage angst, this is the book for you. Cover - Look at this cover! When I first received the book, I thought the cover was very horrific, I wondered why there were sharp instruments hanging like a mobile over the pram...then after reading the book I understood. There is a reason for this - to keep the baby-traders away. It totally fits the novel, along with the stark and gray background. One of the best covers ever for a young adult book - no dramatic face shot with pouty lips...I love this cover. Until The Replacement, I haven't ever read a book written from the point of view of a changeling (of the fair folk). It's an interesting concept, and not only does Ms Yovanoff write a changeling, but she gives us a teenage boy changeling - with all the mixed up feelings and desires that a young teen male can experience. Not only THAT, but this story is also about acceptance....and avoidance. The town of Gentry has been dealing with changelings for years, and Mack is the only changeling that has survived to be a teen. No one talks about it...I don't want to give too much away by saying more. This story gave me goosebumps and chills. There are some seriously creepy moments, woven in with the anger and resentment that some of the characters feel. One of my favorite moments is when a friend of Mack's (a girl) gets in a fight with another girl....getting hit and bloodied just makes her more determined to win the fight. For some reason, I love those kind of scenes...(bloodthirsty? Me? come-on...LOL). Anyway, the basic premise of this book is that Mackie is a changeling left in a crib to replace a baby stolen 16 years ago. This happens regularly in Gentry, only no one admits it. But usually, the replacements only last a few years. Mackie has lasted 16 years and his family has grown to not only accept him, but to love him. Unfortunately, Mackie doesn't realize how much his family loves him (something that a lot of teens have a problem with). When the book opens, Mackie is feeling pretty rotten. He's in pain, weak and feels like he's slowly dying. The replacements don't usually last as long as Mackie has because they all have allergies to blood, iron, and church grounds (consecrated areas). Mackie's father also happens to be a preacher. Things come to a head when Mackie's sister tries to help him by getting help from a fae, and at the same time the girl I previously mentioned, Tate, doesn't believe that the baby sister who has recently died is really her sister..... I recommend this book to anybody who likes a chilling fairy tale. There's just a few instances of kissing and one makeout session, a few mentions of blood and gory things, and yet the whole book had this creepy, scary feel to it. It's a great book to read around Halloween. The narrative is from Mackie's pov (first person) and the dialogue between the characters feels real. The dialogue from the Fae was good, arrogant and believably threatening. It's a good all-round novel.
ChelseaW More than 1 year ago
Malcolm (Mackie) knows he is not normal. In the small town of Gentry, he has to keep everyone else from knowing he is not normal too. His father is the local pastor, who tries his best to keep up appearances that nothing is wrong with the town. But things are about to get a lot more difficult to hide. Mackie's condition starts to worsen by the day, and he knows he will have to come to terms with the dark truths he's always known were there a lot sooner. Plus, a girl named Tate has been sniffing around, asking Mackie a lot of questions about her dead baby sister and who he really is. If Mackie hopes to save his town and get the girl, he is going to have to toughen up and go back to the ugly place he originally came from. I liked this book! Changeling stories are one of my favorites. It is both exciting and scary to think of babies being swapped for troublesome little creatures from another world! Mackie speaks and thinks wise beyond his years, a fact that made this book very enjoyable to read. I also really liked Tate. She was such a rough and tough girl, so assured of herself! Very refreshing and sexy! Mackie's older sister Emma was also a fresh character. A sister who loves and cares about her brother - imagine! And this review would not be complete without mentioning how awesome Mackie's friend Roswell is. We all should be so lucky as to have a friend like him. The changeling lore was fun and I liked that Brenna Yovanoff never actually named the other beasts. Honestly, I was expecting there to be a lot of loose ends, but all my questions were answered by the climax, and not in an overly rushed way. I am definitely looking forward to more from this author!
The concept of the book was interesting, but it was dull and quick to transition. It was a choppy wave, no flow. The end was expected, and very dry. But the concept was very original.
I just grabbed a book off my shelf one day before school, out of my many from book sales, and ended up with the Replacement. Honestly i never really liked the book... but i think it may just be the genre for me... Mackie.i foind was way to.hard to relate to and the town of gentry was too hard to invision... the book overall seemed to drag on with the same details and happenings over and over agian. Its all aboit Mackie and his problems with being a Replacement himself and his trying to get back a.girl in his schools.sister from a dark underworld. I ended up giving it a three because.even though it didnt please.me i dont want to completely discourage people who really like this type. Of book from reading it...the one thing id really warn you about is theres not that much action.
Creepy but amazing!I also kinda have the same problem as him ) :
Owlmanafanatic16 More than 1 year ago
The Replacement is one weird, disturbing and beautiful novel. When i heard about The Replacement and the plot, i was a little bit happy and creeped out at the same time. The whole replacing a baby with another baby that is not human is kinda psychologically disturbing. The world of The Replacement is described as grim yet enthralling. You can't help but feel counfused and understanding of the town of Gentry. The book was creepy yet enjoyable.
I didnt get a chane to finish to finish this book.. but from what I read i loved it! This is so beautiful.
You either love or hate the characters. A very original story line. If you like zombies id give this book a chance. :) #review by a 17 year old girl
I'm a very picky reader. I either love a book and finish reading it within 2 days or I hate it and don't bother finishing it. I read this book in 1.5 days. I couldn't put it down. Well written, great description of characters. Nice flow in the story line.
Great Read. Recommend To All.
Dark.. but it was amazing
This book was a great mix of odd and magical and it was fantastic
MissPrint More than 1 year ago
Mackie Doyle doesn't remember any of the true, important parts. But his older sister Emma does. She remembers getting out of bed one night and looking into her brother's crib only to find something else inside. It tried to bite her but still she stayed watching. The thing watched back. Sixteen years later, the thing would be called Mackie Doyle. Sixteen years is a long time to live in a place that's slowly killing you. Allergic to iron and blood, unable to step on consecrated ground, Mackie should have died years ago when he was first traded for that human child in the small town of Gentry. He's dying slowly right now. No one wants to talk about the strange things that happen in Gentry. Not Mackie's best friend Roswell, not his parents, not even Emma. No one except Tate Stewart. Tate wants answers about her sister's death. After years of trying to be invisible, all Mackie wants is to be left alone to play his bass and forget his troubles. But Mackie is dying and if he's willing to look at the ugly things that lurk beneath Gentry he might be able to find some answers about Tate's sister and about his own place in Gentry in The Replacement (2010) by Brenna Yovanoff. Atmospheric and sometimes horrible, The Replacement is a story about monsters and things that come out after dark. It is also a story of fierce affection where even monsters can find a place and, perhaps, earn redemption. Yovanoff's writing is haunting and strangely enchanting. Mackie is an unlikely hero but one that will charm readers with his breezy style and honesty. Everyone can tell you about how this book sets itself apart as a horror story. A lot of people will mention how cleverly Yovanoff interprets the changeling folklore in her debut novel. But what I really want to underscore is how much this story is about the power of love and friendship (even if the deliciously creepy cover with illustration by Jonathan Barkat and design by Natalie C. Sousa might suggest otherwise). The Replacement is a fantastic fantasy that is sure to be going places. Definitely one to watch (and one of my favorites) from 2010. Possible Pairings: White Cat by Holly Black, The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan, The War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint, Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, "The Stolen Child" by the Waterboys
jenababy13 More than 1 year ago
An eerie, haunting story that will make you wonder why anyone would want to live in Gentry. We start off with Mackie Doyle, who knows he's different from his family and his friends. He has super dark eyes, can't stand being near any kind of iron, and is forced to keep a low profile. He's not the only thing off in his town though, and everyone seems to know that Gentry is a eerie place to live. When Mackie starts to get extremely sick, and his friend Tate's sister is pronounced dead, Mackie will have no choice but to dig into the twisted underground of Gentry. I have to say, I originally bought this book when it was first released, but I kept putting it off. As more and more reviews came out, the jury seemed very mixed on the story, so I kept putting it off. Well, I shouldn't have because I really enjoyed The Replacement! It's a very different story, unlike anything I've read before. It was eerie, dark, twisted, and intense. It also had amazing quotes, and that's a huge plus for me! I adored Mackie's character. He knows he's different, he feels like he's never belonged, and he tries not to stand out because the town would hate him if they knew the truth. In reality, Mackie always belonged, he proved that you can be different and still be normal. Mackie is so real for me in the way he pins after hot girls, hangs with a certain group of friends, plays bass, but ends up in love with one tough chick. I loved him and was rooting for him till the end. Tate... Oh man Tate is a tough little cookie. She's almost like a pitbull but still shows love to those who actully mean something to her. I also loved Roswell... Now he is a TRUE friend. One I would most certainly always want on my side! I also loved the scary town and mysterious underground that the author created. I personally would never want to live there, but it was oh so intriguing to read about! I thought it was a fabulous story and very unique. I love how there's romance, and it moves like a real love life, but it's not the main story. I also loved the darkness of it all, books like these fascinate me. If you're on the fence about this one, I suggest giving it a shot! :)
TeensReadToo More than 1 year ago
Mackie's hometown of Gentry isn't like other towns, but he's not like other kids, either. He's not even supposed to be alive. Mackie is a Replacement, left in place of a human baby. He was supposed to die, like all of the replacements do, but he didn't, though he may not live much longer. When the baby sister of a friend is taken, Mackie finds himself drawn into the world beneath the city, a place known as Mayhem . . . his place of origin. Mackie will have to decide where he really belongs and which side of the fight for Gentry he wants to join. His choice will determine his future - if he has one at all. Yovanoff weaves a deliciously dark tale of love, betrayal, and acceptance no matter who (or what) you are. I couldn't get enough of this book. Mackie, Emma, Tate, and all the other characters, both dark and human, made this book a thrill ride from start to finish. Eerily creepy and intensely enjoyable.
YA-Addict More than 1 year ago
Mackie feels like a lot of high school kids do, a freak. Except in Mackie's case, he really is a freak. He is only there as a Replacement to the real Mackie that was taken from his crib as a baby. A fact that no one will admit, except for Mackie's sister. Mackie is also allergic to iron, a problem he has to try and hide from the town. Until reading The Replacement, I had no idea exactly how much iron we are surrounded by every day. Mackie also has to stay away from congregated ground. Not a big deal, right? Just stay away from churches. Except... Mackie's dad is the town's pastor. Mackie a was a character that I quickly felt for. He was the perfect mixture of normal teen and something else. On the outside, Gentry seemed like your average small town. But you could tell something was up with the town of Gentry from the get go. What I love about this story was you only knew that in the subtleties. The author didn't just come out and tell you, she added crafty little snippets for the reader to pick up. Like Mackie's neighbor, smiling brightly like the whole world is fine as she hangs up an iron horse shoe over her door. Little things that let you know something bigger is happening. I felt like Gentry was two worlds in one. You have the town of Gentry, then you have what's underneath it. Mayhem. Oh my God, Mayhem was one of the freakiest places I have read about. Seriously, I got shivers just hearing the descriptions of some of these underground creatures. But in some weird way, Mayhem was also a beautiful place. It sort of reminded me of The Nightmare Before Christmas in that way. Besides Mackie, Tate was my favorite character. When her sister supposedly dies and the whole town goes on excepting it, Tate doesn't. Her eyes are opened to this silent agreement the town seems to have. She fights for answers about what really happened to her sister. I always admire those characters who go against what they are told to believe and find truth. Overall, The Replacement has a solid and original plot, intriguing and likable characters (even some of the creepy ones), and fantastic writing. I really enjoyed this one, and I will definitely be reading more from Yovanoff. If you are looking for an original and creepy YA, you are going to enjoy this one.
jexball on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
The Replacement is your typical ¿trying to find my place in the world¿ storyline with a few twists. The book follows the life of a teenager who was never quite like the rest of the people in his world. He had replaced a boy named Mackie Doyle when he was young and had been raised in his place. Special circumstances keep Mackie on the outskirts of society since he can¿t stand the touch or smell of iron, he can¿t walk on the consecrated ground of the church that his father works at, and he just looks different with his blackened eyes and overly pale skin. When Mackie meets some mysterious people he finds that he is not of the human world, but a member of an underground society of creatures both alive and dead. After entering the House of Mayhem questions begin to surface in Mackie¿s mind, questions that were always there but now he may actually be able to get some answers. As Mackie attempts to figure out which world he belongs to, those above or below ground, he finds a new sort of belonging that he never thought he would be a part of.I can¿t say that the storyline truly tugged at my heart strings or scared me or really brought out too much emotion, but it was enjoyable. I thought Yovanoff had a very intriguing idea with her use of the living dead. While the story wasn¿t scary per se, there were definitely some creepy moments throughout. Some of the pictures that Yovanoff painted completely grossed me out in her descriptions of open gashes and cut arteries. It might be that I¿m just squeamish, but I definitely got the full effect of how gross and hard to look at some of the revenants could be. I thought the idea of the fighting sisters was intriguing. It took on a new approach to the age old argument of whether it is better to lead with love or fear. Altogether, the storyline had a lot of potential to become amazing with the creative turn on an age old story; however it never truly stepped up to its potential. Good read, but not super memorable.
eternal_synn on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I've wanted to read this book for a long time, but they never seem to have it at our local bookstores. One night, while trying to find a movie, I saw it sitting on the shelf at our local Hastings. And, to add wonder to merriment, it was on sale!! There was no way I could resist! Even though we were really strapped for cash, my hubby told me that we had enough to spend $7. w00t!The concept behind this book really caught my attention. I've always been interested in the faeries, the Celtic Otherworld (COW), the supernatural, etc. In some ways, teenagers already feel as though they don't belong. I felt that taking the Changeling story and putting it into a modern day setting with young adults was perfect! Also, the darker elements of the story caught my fancy as well. Although I'm not sure how you can have this type of story without that ^_~I felt that the author tried to stay true to the legends of the fae. It really struck me that Mackie had extreme issues with metal (however, I always learned that it was an aversion to iron not all metal, but, hey, I went with it). She really played it up, even having blood cause him serious issues.The way she portrayed the Morrigan was a little weird to me. The Lady kind of addresses the change, but never really goes into any detail. I'm used to the Morrigan appearing on the battlefields and such; however, in the book she appeared as a little child. When she crawled into Mackie's lap, I was completely weirded out! I also thought her requiring him to play with the band as payback for his sister seeking favors was a little weird.Along those lines, I really wish the author played with that a little more. I felt a big deal was made about the band, Carlina, Mackie playing with them, etc., but then it kind of dwindled. I also wonder how much she truly knows about some of the music she is writing about. For example, the words to Yellow Ledbetter are extremely controversial since Eddie Vedder changes the discernible lyrics at every concert, he has never been forthright with what the lyrics actually are (in fact, he jokes about whether there actually are lyrics to the song!), etc.Aside from some of my little soap boxes, I really liked the book. Admittedly, it has taken me awhile to get through it . . . Playing Arkham Asylum before Arkham City comes out *sheepish grin* But, on the whole, I think this book would be a pretty quick read. It's not complex, but it doesn't lack. I'm really excited about the author's new book, The Space Between!
_Lily_ on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
The Replacement by Brenna YovanoffReviewed by Moirae the fates book reviewsMackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs. (Synopsis provided by goodreads)I was really excited to finally read this book, I had heard so much good buzz about it over the past year that I was anxious to find out what all the fuss was about. For me, sadly I was a little disappointed. I was expecting something on the level of some of my favorites, but sadly I found it to be average. That's not to say it was bad, it wasn't the writing was great and I enjoyed the creep factor that Yovanoff portrayed in her book and her characters were well thought out.I did though think there was a lot of this book that could have been left out, there were times when it felt like it was dragging along at a slower rate, even though I read this in a day. I want to know more about the why of the House of Mayhem, I don't feel like enough information was given. However, I will read Yovanoff's next book it sounds really interesting, if you like paranormal books or books about Changelings, pick this one up and give it a try. * Reading level: Ages 12 and up * Paperback: 352 pages * Publisher: Razorbill (September 6, 2011) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1595143815 * Author: Brenna Yovannoff * Cover art: Very creepy * Overallrating: *** out of 5 stars * Obtained: My personal book shelf
cattwing on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I loved this. I'd been looking for something like this for a long time, something dark, with a dark protagonist, so this was a treat. Full of drama and mystery and otherworldly strangeness. It certainly wasn't perfect however. The pacing sometimes felt akward, and the entire story was slightly confusing[. It is set in modern times, in a town called "Gentry." In the reality of this story, there are fairies, the dark kind. The confusing thing was that the people of the town at first seemed to not have any clue about the fairies' existence, and then later on they seemed to know all about them. Basically, the characters' reactions to the situations involving fairies always caught me off guard - I never fully understood what many of the characters thought was going on. Also beware, this book isn't for the faint of heart. There were a couple touches of rather gruesome horror elements which I could have done without, but that's just me. Otherwised, I enjoyed this. I devoured it in two days.
titania86 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Mackie Doyle is a strange boy, but no one around wants to admit how strange he really is. He¿s prone to fainting at the sight of blood, which isn¿t too odd, but he also can¿t stand being near steel or iron and can¿t tread of consecrated ground. He is a changeling, left in the place of the human child that was stolen. No one in the town wants to face that these children are stolen by creatures that they don¿t want to believe exist. The townspeople aren¿t above making Mackie feel like a freak and an outsider. Then two things happen: a mysterious man tells Mackie he¿s going to die; and Tate, a girl from his class whose sister had just died, keeps accosting him and asking him where her real sister is. Can he find her sister and save her from a horrific death or will he even survive long enough to try?This book came highly recommended to me by my sister. She said it was one of the best horror young adult books that has come out in a while and I completely agree. The overall tone of the novel is very dark and descends as it goes along into an inhuman realm of undead children, gruesome murders, and ancient supernatural beings. The city of Gentry is odd and disjointed: there¿s the normal, mundane world that regular people live in and then there¿s the sinister world of the fae that serves as a constant undercurrent to the normal one. The inhabitants of the town are aware of the fae world and children are stolen from them, but they don¿t really know why or for what purpose. It has to be horrible to live in a town where the truth is glossed over and denied while children are put in danger ¿for the greater good.¿ The way these two worlds interact and feed off of each other is fascinating.Mackie is an interesting character because he¿s relatable and interesting without even being human. He¿s pretty miserable throughout most of the book both because of the physical pain that comes with living in the human world and the emotional pain from being the creature that replaced his parent¿s real son. His relationship with his family is beautiful because even though he isn¿t really even related to them, they decide to embrace him and make him feel loved anyway. They all work so hard to protect him, especially his sister Emma. It would have been so easy for them to resent and hate him. Mackie expresses his feelings through playing his bass, which I can totally relate to. There¿s a scene where he plays in onstage with a band; the music, the way the band feeds off the energy from the crowd, and how the band members interact are described in electric detail. I really loved Mackie as a different kind of hero because he stopped being satisfied with glossing over the truth like everyone else. I enjoyed seeing his growth and change throughout the novel.The Replacement is a wonderful young adult book that creates a creepy, eerie atmosphere. The world Brenna Yokanoff has created is brilliant, yet disturbing. I would definitely recommend this to any fan of horror fiction.
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Australia readies for China’s fintech revolution
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China’s fintech sector is expanding at speed, and agile Australian firms are lured by the call of the country’s 1.4 billion prospective consumers.
To say China’s fintech sector is booming is an understatement. In 2016, investors poured $US6.4 billion into the sector in China. Why is so much finance suddenly flowing into the system and what opportunities does this present for Australian firms?
A key reason for this burst of investment is that financial institutions are shifting their focus. “State-owned banks have not traditionally been focused on consumers,” says James Lloyd, fintech leader, Asia-Pacific, EY Hong Kong. With the World Economic Forum projecting China’s consumer economy will expand to $US6.5 trillion by 2020, “The scale of unmet needs in the Chinese market is enormous,” Lloyd says.
From micro-loans to opening lending in rural areas, Lloyd believes China’s fintech revolution has emerged through “business innovation and customer adoption”.
“The boom has been led by tech companies who have moved laterally into financial services,” Lloyd explains. For example, Ant Financial, a subsidiary of online behemoth Alibaba, recently acquired international payments firm MoneyGram for $US880 million. According to MoneyGram’s press release at the time, the deal “will be able to leverage Ant Financial’s global presence and existing network to serve more than 630 million users – including 450 million with Alipay and 180 million with India’s leading mobile payment provider Paytm – to increase MoneyGram’s transaction volume across the broad Asia-Pacific region.”
Australian fintech companies are taking a world-leading approach to blockchain uses
Australians at the gates
Hoping to capitalise on this rapidly growing sector, an Austrade delegation will head to China in late March to shore up connections between fintech companies in both nations. For Australian firms, gaining access to the country’s 1.4 billion potential customers is an obvious drawcard. A spokesperson for industry group FinTech Australia, Mark Skelsey, says the dynamism of the sector in Australia means firms have multiple ways to enter the market.
“We have the experience and expertise to assist China to review its financial policies and regulations, modernise its banking infrastructure and connect consumers to value-added services,” Skelsey says.
“Australian fintech companies are taking a world-leading approach to blockchain uses, such as developing a diverse range of solutions including for agricultural commodity settlements, labour hire and international payments.”
Australia has the experience and expertise to assist China to review its financial policies and regulations, modernise its banking infrastructure and connect consumers to value-added services.
Risk versus reward
New players still need to consider several risks. Chief among them is China’s regulatory environment, which can be notoriously difficult, particularly for international businesses. Skelsey, however, believes these challenges are “not insurmountable”.
“We already have a number of Chinese-based Australian success stories such as AirWallex, CrowdFundUp and SmartTrans,” says Skelsey. “Australia has the experience and expertise to assist China to review its financial policies and regulations, modernise its banking infrastructure and connect consumers to value-added services.”
The Chinese government has also allowed local fintechs to utilise regulation “white spaces” to help them expand into a consumer market not traditionally serviced by the banks. “They have been provided with an environment in which they can move pretty fast, and faster than most Western countries,” Lloyd says.
Lloyd believes the greatest challenge for Australian firms entering the market may in fact be competition. “They face problems with access to capital, talent and customers with a growing middle class,” Lloyd says. “For overseas players to compete, they will need to offer a compelling product or service – simply replicating current services will be difficult.”
Two-way street
In a globalised economy, commerce moves in more than one direction, and some of the leading Chinese players are already beginning to enter Western markets. “I think we’ll see more payment acceptance, such as WeChat Pay moving into Australia and the United States,” Lloyd says.
“It’s part of the irony of China: they have outbound fintechs, but market entry is difficult the other way,” he says. “It’s an interesting asymmetry that will cause friction in the coming years.”
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BPAY Group: sowing the seeds of an innovation hub
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Video stores and Walkmans; steam trains and Polaroid cameras – all products that dominated their eras, now consigned to the dustpan of history.
“Many companies became reliant on a single product or service,” says BPAY Group Chief Executive John Banfield. “We didn't want to become the next company that missed great innovation opportunities because of our focus on one main revenue generating product – so we looked hard at our options.”
BPAY Group is one of the most reliable and trusted names in financial services – Australians send more than $1.3 billion in transactions through the BPAY billing service every day – but it also has a unique position.
The four major banks will provide support and also a potential market for new products, making the innovation pathway all the more compelling.
"The concept of an ‘unfair advantage’ was key: what's unique about the organisation?” says BPAY Group chairperson Chris Campbell, who is also Westpac’s Head of Payments Policy and Strategy.
“We've got a reputation that is trustworthy, well-known, and a great relationship with four of the biggest companies in Australia. We probably weren’t considered particularly innovative, but John and the management team have changed that.”
It has not been an easy task but it is already beginning to pay off with multiple new product launches pushing beyond BPAY Group’s traditional payments arena.
Innovation powered by new values
Banfield says replacing a staid, top-down set of corporate values with more empowering principles has been a key driver of the change.
Those values are: Better Together (encouraging teamwork); Think Customer (placing the customer at the forefront); Minds Wide Open (asking questions and embracing change), and Always Step Forward (embracing curiosity and ambition to keep learning and improving).
“You can't create a level of innovation unless you empower people to have some form of autonomy to create based on their own horsepower,” Banfield says of the changes that have reshaped the culture of the two-decade old organisation.
"You then get true buy-in and people attached to the four values we have. That in itself creates a huge amount of momentum that you build your company culture around. We're on a journey – and we've made some huge progress.”
Osko® payments is the first proof point. In just a few short months, it has processed more than 25 million payments worth over $19 billion. It is the first service built on the world-leading New Payments Platform and more than 60 banks and financial institutions will soon start to offer more Osko services.
However, BPAY Group’s next stage of innovation has the potential to reshape the face of the two-decade old organisation.
New companies inject new culture
The organisation has worked closely with BCG Digital Ventures (the innovation, incubation and investment arm of The Boston Consulting Group) to incorporate two separate technology companies, Lodge™ and Sypht™.
Lodge will help self-managed property investors to manage their portfolio through one app rather than ad-hoc solutions such as Excel spreadsheets. Sypht uses artificial intelligence to help other businesses unlock the power of structured and unstructured data.
There are different expectations for those two products when compared to BPAY and Osko but the culture of innovation now stretches across the entire BPAY Group. Banfield says working with external innovation-focused firms such as BCG Digital Ventures helped kick-start the process.
“We put our own people into incubation and immersion teams over several months leading to the creation of Lodge and Sypht – they then brought that knowledge back into the BPAY Group environment. Now we're training people to be more familiar with the human-centred design (HCD) model to strengthen our ability to create innovation within,” Banfield says.
It allows the organisation to move without fear of failure. Banfield points to its recent launch of BPAY BatchMaker, which helps small businesses pay multiple suppliers at the same time using BPAY payments. A team member, provided one small piece of enrolment information was proving a sticking point for users, which he quickly changed through the right empowerment model.
"Being agile, being nimble, being able to look at a friction and solve it immediately, is only possible when you're empowering your people to make the change that they think is right. It leads to a far better customer outcome."
Not every innovation is destined for success but that is an inevitable part of the innovation journey.
“There’s two really important attributes we need to live by: creating an environment where there's no fear of retribution – every idea is a good idea – and listening to understand rather than listening to respond,” Banfield says.
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BWW Review: The Stratford Festival's NATHAN THE WISE is A Thought Provoking Exploration of Faith and Humanity
by Lauren Gienow
BroadwayWorld.com Jun. 24, 2019
On June 15, a moving, and at times very funny production of NATHAN THE WISE opened at the Stratford Festival's Studio Theatre. Directed by Birgit Schreyer Duarte, this production of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play is a thought-provoking exploration into humanity, the concept of "the other," and the meaning of tolerance.
Nathan is a likeable Jewish man who finds himself building bridges and friendships with characters of different religious faiths, only to have the tragedies from his past, threaten the happiness he has found for himself in the present. Taking on the titular role, is Diane Flacks. So much of this play is about how people are deeper than the assumptions we make about them, and so to have a woman play this particular male role is very clever. Making her Stratford debut, Flacks is incredibly charismatic and nuanced as Nathan. She makes us laugh, makes us think, and breaks our hearts with her performance.
Flacks is not the only one making her Stratford debut in this production. In fact, it is stunning how many festival debuts there are amongst this company. It is certainly the most I have ever seen in one play.
Another actor making his debut this season is Danny Ghantous as the Muslim sultan, Saladin. I admittedly have not seen this production done before, but from what I understand, Ghantous is a more youthful version of Saladin than what we might typically see on stage. This was a wonderful choice. It is evident on more than one occasion that Saladin is far less savvy than his sister Sittah (Miranda Calderon). There is an element of naiveté to him and his youthful appearance adds to this. Along with that naiveté is an open-mindedness though. Although it is certainly not true that only the younger generations are enlightened and open-minded, it makes sense that this young man who has been thrust into a position of power would be more open to seeking the perspective of others. Ghantous is excellent in this role. He is often funny, but also demonstrates his emotional range. He has a subtle, yet powerfully moving silent moment as he processes the meaning of parable that Nathan is telling him. This parable, of a man who bestows rings to each of his sons, is so well told by Flacks as Nathan, that the audience and Saladin almost become one as we reflect on it together.
Set Designer Teresa Przbylski does well with the intimate Studio Theatre stage to create a stunning but generic backdrop of three stone slabs that can represent various locations in Jerusalem. Duarte's direction keeps the story moving and keeps the audience immersed. The choice to have two soldiers (played by Hannah Miller and Aladeen Tawfeek) be constantly scanning the audience-even at exists at the start of intermission, is a clever way to keep us feeling immersed in this world. Miller and Tawfeek show up again later as townspeople and are delightful as they engage the audience once again.
The entire cast of this production is excellent, each actor doing well to flesh out their character to a point where everyone's humanity can be explored. Whether a character is Jewish, Muslim, or Christian, each one is seeking connection and family. It's the similarities between these characters that are highlighted, along with the fact that those similarities are sometimes only found when someone takes the time to truly consider another person's point of view.
It is easy to understand why this play is often lauded as a masterpiece and this production certainly does it justice.
NATHAN THE WISE continues in Repertory at the Studio Theatre until October 11th.
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The ExxonMobil Statement on Proposed Methane Standards: A Closer Look
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“Exxon urges EPA to maintain methane rules,” proclaimed the Houston Chronicle on December 20. Reuters was even more celebratory: “Exxon Mobil opposes weakening Obama-era emission rules: letter to EPA.” From these headlines and other news articles on ExxonMobil’s comments filed in response to the Administration’s proposal to dramatically weaken the Obama-era new source standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, you’d think that ExxonMobil finally realized that those standards just make sense. And that the oil and gas industry needs strong regulations to curb emissions of methane from their infrastructure to protect public health and mitigate climate change.
Unfortunately, a closer look does not support that interpretation.
In its Dec. 17 letter to EPA that those headlines tout, ExxonMobil expresses support for federal methane standards. But despite what the headlines say, the company stops far short of endorsing the Obama-era EPA methane rules. In their letter, ExxonMobil only said it supports “key elements” of the 2016 Rules, and only to the extent that they are “cost-effective” in the corporation’s eyes.
But their idea of “cost-effective” is much different than what EPA established in the Obama-era methane rules, as evidenced by the ExxonMobil’s support of the comments of the American Petroleum Institute (API). Far from opposing the proposed weakening of the Obama-era methane’ standards, API’s comments support the Trump Administration’s move. Both ExxonMobil and API are in favor of the significant weakening of the leak detection and repair (LDAR) requirements, reducing the frequency of inspections from semi-annual at well sites and quarterly at compressors, to annual at both. The result will be to increase greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants that affect public health.
It’s one thing for a large energy corporation to oppose important pollution regulations and to bear the reputational consequences. But it’s unfortunate when the press mistakenly turns that opposition into “support,” allowing the industry to have it both ways.
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Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's poetry collection about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples won the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.
CBC Books · Posted: Apr 20, 2017 11:41 AM ET | Last Updated: June 29, 2018
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Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection, Injun, is a long poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 — the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America — Injun then uses erasure, pastiche and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre.
Writing advice from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel: 'Know people. Do stuff.'
After compiling the online text of 91 of these now public-domain novels into one gargantuan document, Abel used his word processor's "Find" function to search for the word "injun." The 509 results were used as a study in context: How was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What was left over once that word was removed? Abel then cut up the sentences into clusters of three to five words and rearranged them into the long poem that is Injun. The book contains the poem as well as peripheral material that will help the reader to replicate, intuitively, some of the conceptual processes that went into composing the poem.
How Jordan Abel deconstructed the racism in old western novels and won the Griffin Poetry Prize
Though it has been phased out of use in our "post-racial" society, the word "injun" is peppered throughout pulp western novels. Injun retraces, defaces and effaces the use of this word as a colonial and racial marker. While the subject matter of the source text is clearly problematic, the textual explorations in Injun help to destabilize the colonial image of the "Indian" in the source novels, the western genre as a whole, and the Western canon." (From Talonbooks)
Injun won the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.
he played injun in gods country
where boys proved themselves clean
dumb beasts who could cut fire
out of the whitest sand
he played english across the trail
where girls turned plum wild
garlic and strained words
through the window of night
he spoke through numb lips and
breathed frontier
From Injun by Jordan Abel ©2016. Published by Talonbooks.
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BT Toronto | posted Sunday, Dec 7th, 2014
Police in Calgary are searching for the star of a new viral video, but for all the wrong reasons.
After seeing this surveillance video posted to YouTube — which as of Sunday morning had more than 861,000 views — officers have started a hit-and-run investigation, and are looking for the driver of a silver BMW involved in the following painful parking job:
I nominate you as #yyc's #worstdriver! And yes, we have already started a hit and run investigation. http://t.co/IBbizh6PXC
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Hockey Night in Canada Cheat Sheet: Dec. 6
Jeff Simmons | posted Saturday, Dec 6th, 2014
Get ready for a busy day of hockey on Saturday.
The action kicks off this week with an early game before a impressive five-game lineup that will be shown across the country, including four Canadian teams.
In the Cheat Sheet each week, we’ll provide everything you need to know for Hockey Night in Canada:
Note: All games below are listed in Eastern time.
THE 4 P.M. GAME:
Philadelphia Flyers at Los Angeles Kings (Sportsnet)
THE 7 P.M. GAMES:
Vancouver Canucks vs. Toronto Maple Leafs
Channel: CBC
Broadcast crew: Jim Hughson, Craig Simpson, Glenn Healy
Game notes: Canucks, Leafs split their two regular season matchups last season…Vancouver has won 11 of 15 road games this season…Leafs forward Phil Kessel has eight points (five goals, three assists) in eight career games against Vancouver.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Dallas Stars
Channel: City
Broadcast crew: Paul Romanuk, Mike Johnson
Game notes: The Stars are in last place in the Central Division with 23 points in 23 games…Jamie Benn has never registered an assist against the Canadiens in his career…Canadiens goalie Carey Price started Friday night so he isn’t expected to start Saturday.
Also on Rogers at 7 p.m.:
New York Rangers at Detroit Red Wings (Sportsnet)
Chicago Blackhawks at Nashville Predators (FX)
THE 10 P.M. GAME:
San Jose Sharks vs. Calgary Flames
Broadcast crew: Dave Randorf, Greg Millen
Game notes: Flames have won eight of their last 10 games…Sharks forward Joe Thornton has 39 points (seven goals, 32 assists) in 44 career games against Calgary…Karri Ramo beat San Jose in his last matchup against Sharks, registering a 32-save shutout on Nov. 26.
Top 5 videos week of December 1 to 5, 2014
BT Montreal | posted Friday, Dec 5th, 2014
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The ultimate toy guide 2014: 19 toys for babies and toddlers
Today's Parent | posted Thursday, Dec 4th, 2014
Best toys for babies and toddlers
Looking for the perfect gift for your little one? There’s something for everyone from zero to three years old in this jam-packed guide featuring toys tested by real families.
A version of this article appeared in our November 2014 issue with the headline “The ultimate toy guide holiday 2014,” pp. 63-86.
Project 97: A conversation on sexual assault, abuse & harassment
Maclean's | posted Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2014
Take a quick glance at the data on sexual assault in Canada and you will find a disturbing set of numbers. Like 472,000: the number of Canadian women who reported being sexually assaulted in 2009, the last year Statistics Canada conducted a comprehensive survey. Or 1,680: the number of assault reports that ended with convictions in Canadian courts in 2011. Or 67: the percentage of Canadians who say they know at least one woman who has been sexually or physically assaulted.
The vast majority of sexual assaults against women in this country — about 97 per cent — are never recorded as crimes by police. It is an outrageous statistic, and it’s the reason we have decided to launch a year-long project examining Canada’s staggering problems with sexual violence.
In most cases, police don’t investigate because assault victims haven’t come forward — though the 97 per cent figure also reflects the fact that some report but later withdraw their complaints. Women have plenty of reasons to want to avoid pressing charges: many find their encounters with the legal system, particularly the highly adversarial courtroom experience, as traumatizing as the original assault. They worry about how others will perceive them if they come forward as victims — particularly in the pile-on-and-think-later world of social media.
They may believe the justice system will be biased against them; they certainly know that once inside it, their own actions will be scrutinized. (Did they have a drink before the assault occurred? Perhaps they’d once dated their assailant?) In some cases, victims feel they are just too busy with careers, school and families to have the time to go back to the police station.
That 97 per cent must change — because in any just and civil society, victims of sexual assault shouldn’t be suffering in silence, feeling that they can’t speak up, believing that they have no chance of seeing justice.
The silence may be ending. At the very least, a new conversation could be beginning — one that Canadians have needed for years. The stunning criminal charges against former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi; the heart-wrenching accounts of the tortured final year of Nova Scotia teenager Rehtaeh Parsons; the allegations against comedian Bill Cosby of serial sexual assaults on a number of women — these cases have sparked fresh discussion about what needs to be done to change such appalling statistics.
“The best solution, if there is such a thing, is for people to know that it’s not going to be quiet anymore,” says Cheri DiNovo, a Toronto member of the Ontario legislature who shared her own story of rape by an ex-boyfriend for this project.”This is not going to be hush-hush.”
We want to keep that conversation going. Over the course of the next 12 months, Rogers Media — through its publishing and broadcasting outlets, including Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Flare, Today’s Parent, Châtelaine, L’actualité and CityNews — will explore issues of sexual assault, abuse and harassment as it affects both women and men.
Watch for our journalism at www.project97.ca and on each publication’s website. We hope you’ll read these stories and share some of your own as we embark on this year-long exploration of what it’ll take to make that number, 97 per cent, a lot lower.
Rogers is the parent company of this station and website.
Nick Jonas on five favourite things about Canada, answers your social media questions
Winston Sih | posted Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2014
I had the chance to chat with pop star Nick Jonas Tuesday morning, and I asked him his five favourite things about Canada as well as ask him the questions you sent me on social media.
Take a look at the segments below:
Nick Jonas on his five favourite things about Canada
Nick Jonas answers your questions from social media
And in case you missed it, check out his segment with Jenn Valentyne this morning:
Get your horoscope for the month of December
Barb Hindley | posted Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2014
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Barbara Y. Hindley has studied astrology for 30 years. She focuses on astropsychology and relationship astrology, and is also certified in business and financial astrology. Visit Comfy Chair Astrology
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Centrelink has expanded its spending on its "robo-debt" initiative facing a Federal Court challenge testing the legality of the program. New figures, released by the Department of Human Services in response to a Greens question on notice, reveal the growing scale of the maligned debt recovery program despite calls to abandon its automated calculations. Agency data shows in October it neared one million letters sent to welfare recipients since starting the online compliance intervention program in July 2016. It has raised 409,500 debts with a median size of $1028. Following reviews, the government has reduced 44,500 debts, including 14,621 where the full amount fell to zero. Centrelink has also waived or written off 26,100 debts in cases when it was not cost effective to pursue the amount, an administrative error occurred, or when the recipient had died or was declared bankrupt. After Victoria Legal Aid announced on Wednesday it had launched a Federal Court challenge to Centrelink's automated calculations detecting welfare overpayments, the agency faces calls to suspend its "robo-debt" program. The Human Services Department poured $193 million into income data matching last financial year, an increase on the $110 million it spent in 2016-17, indicating it is doubling down on the debt raising system. It is understood the spend last year covered workforce costs, programme management, IT and the administration of debts and appeals. Centrelink's automated debt recovery system, which finds possible overpayments by comparing agency records of client earnings with income reported to the Tax Office, triggered a backlash from clients, social services and advocates for welfare recipients saying it reversed the onus of proof in proving a debt. Critics of the program have called for the department to restore manual checks of the income data by public servants, the method used before the "robo-debt" system arrived. Centrelink has long used data-matching to detect overpayments, but under its "robo-debt" program it automated debt raising tasks previously done manually by bureaucrats. After detecting possible overpayments using ATO data, it sends a letter to welfare recipients asking them for more information. Centrelink pursues debts using its own calculations if it doesn't receive a reply. Victoria Legal Aid is challenging the debt calculation method, saying the agency is wrong to calculate debts by averaging client incomes and to assume they work regular hours throughout the year. Greens senator Rachel Siewert said despite government changes to the program, it remained unfair and was still harassing clients for money they did not owe and could not pay. "Given what we know about online compliance intervention from the Senate inquiry, estimates and ongoing reporting, it's deeply concerning that the government is doubling down and continuing to invest in an unfair, flawed system designed to make savings from people on low incomes," she said. Senator Siewert called for Centrelink to suspend the program until the Federal Court case had finished. Human Services spokesman Hank Jongen said its compliance activities were consistent with legislation. Department data shows it initiated more than 925,000 assessments by sending letters to clients raising possible debts between July 2016 and October last year. Clients have requested more than 5100 formal reviews of debt amounts, and 4950 were completed. They requested 895 appeals and 740 have been finalised. Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie said it had repeatedly warned the government that automated averaging of incomes to calculate debts was unfair, contradicted legal principles and caused inaccurate debt notices. "Robo-debt has wrongly charged thousands of people with false debts and it should be scrapped, not expanded," she said. "It is unacceptable that more than 70,000 people have been hit with an alleged debt that was later found to be inaccurate or was waived entirely. "How many others have not been able to have their alleged debts reviewed and are paying back or have repaid money that they shouldn't have?" Mr Jongen said a debt reassessment did not necessarily mean the original decision was incorrect, as the notice was based on information available at the time.
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Centrelink spending more on 'robo-debt', nearly one million letters sent
Doug Dingwall
Centrelink has expanded its spending on its "robo-debt" initiative facing a Federal Court challenge testing the legality of the program.
New figures, released by the Department of Human Services in response to a Greens question on notice, reveal the growing scale of the maligned debt recovery program despite calls to abandon its automated calculations.
Agency data shows in October it neared one million letters sent to welfare recipients since starting the online compliance intervention program in July 2016. It has raised 409,500 debts with a median size of $1028.
Following reviews, the government has reduced 44,500 debts, including 14,621 where the full amount fell to zero. Centrelink has also waived or written off 26,100 debts in cases when it was not cost effective to pursue the amount, an administrative error occurred, or when the recipient had died or was declared bankrupt.
After Victoria Legal Aid announced on Wednesday it had launched a Federal Court challenge to Centrelink's automated calculations detecting welfare overpayments, the agency faces calls to suspend its "robo-debt" program.
The Human Services Department poured $193 million into income data matching last financial year, an increase on the $110 million it spent in 2016-17, indicating it is doubling down on the debt raising system.
It is understood the spend last year covered workforce costs, programme management, IT and the administration of debts and appeals.
Centrelink's automated debt recovery system, which finds possible overpayments by comparing agency records of client earnings with income reported to the Tax Office, triggered a backlash from clients, social services and advocates for welfare recipients saying it reversed the onus of proof in proving a debt.
Critics of the program have called for the department to restore manual checks of the income data by public servants, the method used before the "robo-debt" system arrived.
Centrelink has long used data-matching to detect overpayments, but under its "robo-debt" program it automated debt raising tasks previously done manually by bureaucrats.
After detecting possible overpayments using ATO data, it sends a letter to welfare recipients asking them for more information. Centrelink pursues debts using its own calculations if it doesn't receive a reply.
Victoria Legal Aid is challenging the debt calculation method, saying the agency is wrong to calculate debts by averaging client incomes and to assume they work regular hours throughout the year.
Greens senator Rachel Siewert said despite government changes to the program, it remained unfair and was still harassing clients for money they did not owe and could not pay.
"Given what we know about online compliance intervention from the Senate inquiry, estimates and ongoing reporting, it's deeply concerning that the government is doubling down and continuing to invest in an unfair, flawed system designed to make savings from people on low incomes," she said.
Senator Siewert called for Centrelink to suspend the program until the Federal Court case had finished.
Human Services spokesman Hank Jongen said its compliance activities were consistent with legislation.
Department data shows it initiated more than 925,000 assessments by sending letters to clients raising possible debts between July 2016 and October last year.
Clients have requested more than 5100 formal reviews of debt amounts, and 4950 were completed. They requested 895 appeals and 740 have been finalised.
Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie said it had repeatedly warned the government that automated averaging of incomes to calculate debts was unfair, contradicted legal principles and caused inaccurate debt notices.
"Robo-debt has wrongly charged thousands of people with false debts and it should be scrapped, not expanded," she said.
"It is unacceptable that more than 70,000 people have been hit with an alleged debt that was later found to be inaccurate or was waived entirely.
"How many others have not been able to have their alleged debts reviewed and are paying back or have repaid money that they shouldn't have?"
Mr Jongen said a debt reassessment did not necessarily mean the original decision was incorrect, as the notice was based on information available at the time.
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Kmart Pillows Review & Guide
Waking up with a stiff neck and a sore back isn’t a great start to the day. Luckily, Kmart has a range of memory foam pillows as part of its ‘Kmart Homemaker’ range to offer support while you sleep. Other types of styles include latex pillows, supreme comfort pillows, cotton cover pillows, cotton-rich cover pillows, body pillows, European pillows and polyester pillows. These items are generally only available in one size, although many of the pillows come in a set of two. Like many of its other items, products from the Kmart Homemaker collection fall into the low price range.
To help you navigate your way through Kmart’s many stores, we have made a list of the different styles of pillows currently available.
Kmart Pillow Range
The Kmart Homemaker pillow range offers a wide selection of styles to choose from. These include:
Supreme Comfort pillows
Cotton cover Pillows
Cotton-rich cover pillows
European pillows
Polyester pillows
The Supreme Comfort Pillows are available in either medium or high profiles, and usually cost around $20. The Supreme Comfort Pillows in the high profile are especially suitable for people who sleep on their side. Encased in an antibacterial treated cover with a satin piped edge, these pillows include a polyester fill and are available in a set of two. If you prefer to sleep on your back, Supreme Comfort Pillows in the medium profile may be a more comfortable choice.
Latex Pillows are available from Kmart and are especially suitable for people who sleep on their side. This product is only made in the high profile and in one size (60cm x 40cm). The pillow also features a design said to minimise the build-up of moisture and promote ventilation.
Sheridan Pillows
Dunlopillo Pillows
Pillow Talk Pillows
The Kmart Homemaker collection includes a range of cotton cover pillows in a range of styles and sizes. For people who prefer to sleep on their back, there is a cotton cover pillow available in medium profile. Alternatively, people who favour sleeping on their side may find the cotton cover pillow in the high profile more suitable. There is also a Firm and High Pillow available for $12 if you want a pillow with more filling. These antibacterial treated pillows feature gusseted sides and are available as set of 2.
Cotton Rich Cover Pillows
There are also a couple of Cotton Rich Cover Pillows featured in the Kmart collection. These typically cost $10 and are available as a set of two. For people who favour sleeping on their back, these pillows come in the medium profile. People who tend to sleep on their side may also find the pillow in the high profile more suitable. The Cotton Rich Cover Pillows feature gusseted sides and are made with cotton and polyester.
For each profile, the pillows are only available in one size:
Medium profile: 70cm x 46cm
High profile: 66cm x 44cm x 4cm
If you’re looking for a good cuddle buddy while you watch TV, the Kmart range has a U-shaped pillow with a cotton cover for $12. The European Pillow collection may also be useful in helping you sit up comfortably as you end the day with a good book. Available in one size (65cm x 65cm), the product contains a polyester fill and can also be used as a decorative piece and usually costs $12.
If you’re looking for a comfort companion and Kmart’s U-shaped pillow isn’t right for you, the $25 body pillows available from Kmart might be an ideal alternative. These are available in one size (1.4m x 48cm) and include a white cotton pillow case.
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The memory foam pillows featured in the Kmart collection are designed to encourage proper posture while you sleep. Available in different styles, including shredded foam fill with a bamboo blend cover or a contour pillow in a medium profile, these ergonomic pillows are suitable for many sleeping positions. These products are usually the most expensive products in the range, with pillows typically costing $15 to $29.
One of the items available includes a memory foam pillow with a removable bamboo blend cover, which is usually priced at $15. This pillow features shredded memory foam, designed to provide support by following the shape of your head and neck. There is also a memory foam contour pillow available in a medium profile, which has a PU filling encased in a removable velour zip pillowcase.
Polyester pillows are also available in the Kmart Homemaker collection. If you tend to sleep on your tummy, the polyester pillow with a low profile may be an ideal option for you. This is available in one size (70cm x 46cm) and is sold as a set of two.
Are Kmart’s cheap pillows up to the job?
The Kmart Homemaker collection offers a wide range of pillows for low prices. The various ranges include ‘Supreme Comfort’ pillows, latex pillows, cotton-rich cover pillows, body pillows, European pillows and polyester pillows. Many of these pillows are available in different profiles, particularly in medium and high. But most of the items are only available in one size.
The Kmart line may also be allergy friendly, with many products treated with antibacterial protection. Some of these products include the Supreme Comfort Pillow in the high profile and the Firm and High Pillow.
Are you still tossing and turning about which pillow is right for you? If you can’t get a good night’s sleep, then we can’t either. Explore the Canstar Blue website and check out our ratings and reviews on a range of brands via the link below.
Pillow Reviews & Ratings
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Pharmacies criticised over in-store health check-ups
Posted by Tahnee-Jae Lopez-Vito 02/07/2018
Concerned doctors are warning Australians to stay away from walk-in health checks at local pharmacies, claiming the services could be putting customers at risk.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has criticised pharmacies such as Priceline and Amcal for cashing in on in-store health check-ups, saying their motivation for extra profit is ignoring the long-term harmful dangers of potentially misdiagnosing patients and giving incorrect advice.
“They’re making health a commodity and further fragmenting Australia’s healthcare system,” RACGP Victoria chair Cameron Loy told the Sydney Morning Herald.
But the Pharmacy Guild of Australia dismissed the comments and argued the attack from the college was influenced by the RACGP’s “self-interest delusion” to keep their own waiting rooms busy.
“Pharmacists are not trying to take their business. They are trying to maximise their input into the health system,” guild spokesperson Greg Turnbull told AAP. “Doctors need to get over it.”
In Amcal pharmacies, the Heart Health Check program is advertised to “help you spot the signs of an unhealthy heart” based on a nine-point checklist. Some of the factors include kidney health, weight management, smoking, diabetes, sleep and blood pressure. The chain also states it will advise on “any further action” as well as suggest lifestyle changes that may be necessary to improve your heart health.
Priceline similarly performs weight evaluations, blood pressure readings, anemia screenings and cholesterol tests in its Health Check service. It also offers advice on other aspects of health, including how to conduct breast checks and general discussions about personal diet and exercise.
“If you’re asking if there is a long-term danger for somebody not being across their healthcare needs & not having a GP reviewing them regularly & understanding their health needs over time, then yes, there are dangers”: Chair of RACGP Vic Dr @cameronsloy https://t.co/uO5cPD5bln
— RACGP (@RACGP) July 1, 2018
Are pharmacy health check-ups safe?
Dr Loy said the in-store services do not necessarily provide any immediate danger. But warned there are still long-term health risks for people who turn to their chemists for a check-up, rather than visit their GP for a regular health check.
“Health checks are not comparable to buying toothpaste, hair dye or vitamins, but part of the ongoing continuity of care, the long-term engagement, that general practice delivers,” he told Fairfax Media.
“If you’re asking if there is a long-term danger for somebody not being across their healthcare needs and not having a GP reviewing them regularly and understanding their health needs over time, then yes, there are dangers.
“These pharmacies are motivated by money, the opportunity to have more people in the store to buy other things.”
Mr Turnbull rejected the claim and argued that in-store health checks do not pose any risk to customers.
A Priceline spokesperson expressed her disappointment about the warning issued by the college, especially as pharmacists have been trained to offer medical advice.
“These health checks are simply formalising the service and advice provided by pharmacists to their patients every day,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“Priceline pharmacists are continually referring patients to their GPs … and provide a valuable service in their local communities by offering a triage process, rather than a diagnosis, through screening patients, offering expert advice and often referring to a GP.”
Dr Loy said he disapproved of pharmacy advertisements referring customers to their trusted GP as it suggests a close working relationship between doctors and pharmacists, with advice from pharmacies also misleading a number of patients about different health concerns.
“I’ve had patients who have done health checks somewhere else and they’ve been left confused by the results because they don’t make a lot of sense, they haven’t been contextualised,” he explained.
“You’ve got to remember that pharmacies may do things differently – tests for cholesterol without fasting, height and weight without any context – and the question is whether they are producing good health outcomes.”
“The pity of it is that most doctors and pharmacists have good relationships,” Mr Turnbull told AAP.
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Visit our newsroom often to keep up-to-date with Carolina Clubs' baseball bat products, merchandise, events, news, publications and community involvement.
Carolina Clubs Named Official Wood Bat Sponsor of the 2013 MSBL/MABL World Series and Fall Classic
New Alliance Provides Men's Senior Baseball League and Men's Adult Baseball League Players With Exclusive Discounts on Carolina Clubs Custom Pro-Model Ash and Maple Wood Bats
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carolina Clubs, a leading manufacturer of pro-grade custom wood bats, was recently designated a national organization sponsor of the Men's Senior Baseball League (MSBL)/Men's Adult Baseball League (MABL), which is the premier amateur baseball league for players 18 years of age and older.
Carolina Clubs Pro-Model Wood Baseball Bats 2013 Collection Now Available Online in Customizable Packages
Wood-Bat League Players Seeking Pro-Stock Northern White Ash and Hard Maple Bats Turn to Carolina Clubs for Custom Wood Bats Handcrafted in Upstate New York
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 18, 2013 – Carolina Clubs has published its 2013 collection of pro-model wood baseball bats online at www.carolinaclubs.com. The family-owned business is recognized as a leading manufacturer of high-grade northern white ash and hard maple baseball bats, which are handmade in upstate New York and harvested from locally and regionally sourced timber.
New Carolina Clubs MyWay™ Aluminum Bat Scores a Home Run With USSSA Youth Baseball Players
11-Year-Old Slugger Helps Family Business Target New Generation of Youth Ball Players With USSSA-Approved Carolina Clubs MyWay™ Aluminum Baseball Bat
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Long recognized as a leading manufacturer of wood baseball bats, family-owned Carolina Clubs Inc. has responded to the growing demand for a high-grade metal version of their youth products with the MyWay™ aluminum bat. When the company began developing and testing the bat for use by United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) youth baseball players, they turned to the family member who knows the sport best — USSSA travel ball player Carmine Lane, grandson of Carolina Clubs' founder George Lane and son of co-founder Thomas Lane.
By, Peter Spiegel
It's a warm, cloudless March morning at the Atlanta Braves spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., but Ryan Klesko is in a sour mood. The burly left fielder, who led the National League champion Braves with 34 home runs last year, is in the midst of an excruciating slump. On top of that, he's been scratched from the starting lineup—again—because of a nagging back injury.
By Pete Williams, Baseball Weekly
When Ryan Klesko began last season by hitting an Atlanta Braves-record 10 home runs in April, everyone wanted to know what was responsible.
Q & A with Carolina Clubs' President, Kevin Lane
Watch any Major League baseball game these days and there is a very high probability of seeing a broken bat or two or three. MLB has a conundrum on their hands. Maple bats are "exploding" at an alarming rate, with a wide variety of reasons why.
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Published on Jul 12 2019 10:52 AM in A-Brands tagged: Trending Posts / Mondelez / Nutella
Campbell Soup Co said on Friday it would sell its Danish unit Kelsen Group to an affiliate of Nutella maker Ferrero SpA for $300 million.
Belgian holding company CTH Invest, a Ferrero affiliate, said it would take over Kelsen's two production facilities in Denmark and add fine biscuits assortments to its portfolio with the deal.
"The sale of Kelsen Group supports our strategy to focus on North America where we have iconic brands and strong market positions, while reducing debt," Campbell Chief Executive Officer Mark Clouse said in a statement.
Kelsen, whose snacks brands include Kjeldsens and Royal Dansk, had net sales of about $157 million in the latest 12 months.
Up For Sale
Campbell's international unit, along with its 'fresh' business, was put up for sale in August last year after the company was pressured by investors to improve profitability and stock performance.
Italian confectionery group Ferrero competed with other bidders, including a consortium comprising private equity firms KKR & Co and Bain Capital LP and Oreo cookies maker Mondelez International Inc, for Campbell's international unit.
Campbell said in February it expected to name buyers for the business by the end of its fiscal year in July.
The company said the process to divest the remainder of Campbell International, including Australian biscuit brand Arnott's, is proceeding.
The sale is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, Campbell said.
Campbell was advised by Centerview Partners, Goldman Sachs and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Rothschild & Co and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advised the Ferrero affiliate.
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Glacier surge mechanisms inferred from ground-penetrating radar: Kongsvegen, Svalbard
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Prominent sub-horizontal reflectors
Dipping structure above SHR1
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John Woodward (a1), Tavi Murray (a2), Roger A. Clark (a3) and Graham W. Stuart (a3)
1 Division of Geography, Northumbria University, Lipman Building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 8ST, England E-mail: john.woodward@northumbria.ac.uk
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3 School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
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Fig. 1. (a) The tidewater margin of Kongsvegen, Svalbard, showing the position of the margin from 1948 and 1990 aerial photographs and the current dominance of Kronebreen at the tidewater margin. The box marks the location of the photograph shown in (b). (b) Oblique photograph, with the location of the GPR grid marked.The grounded cliff face running along the margins of Kongsfjorden and the proglacial sediment structures in the marginal area of Kongsvegen are visible. The inset box shows details of the GPR grid, arrows marking the direction of survey for each of the lines.
Fig. 2. Processing flow for GPR data. A description of processing parameters is given in the text. Migration has not been applied to all GPR profiles.
Fig. 3. GPR profiles collected from the grid shown in Figure 1. The low line (LL) and the three cross-lines XLA, XLC and XLE are displayed. Processing parameters are as recorded in Figure 2, though profiles are unmigrated and have constant gain. Two prominent sub-horizontal reflectors, SHR1 and SHR2, are identified on LL, as are surface scatter (S), dipping structures above SHR1 (DS) and shallow reflectors (SR) below SHR1. Flow direction is from left to right for LL, and out of the page for XLA, XLC and XLE.The depth-scale bar (in m) on LL applies to all parts of the figure.
Fig. 4. Dipping reflectors above SHR1 seen in migrated sections (a, c) and in the field (b, d). (a) After migration, the reflector on LL shows a strong, steeply dipping structure, with migration smiles on the up-glacier side of the feature.The reflector shadows any reflection from SHR1 and has no expression below SHR1. From field observations, the feature can be identified as the sedimentary inclusion on the cliff face pictured in (b). The sedimentary structure runs parallel to sedimentary mounds melting out in the forefield. (c, d) Another steeply dipping structure on LL which outcrops on the cliff face.The feature is composed of a series of steeply dipping, sediment-rich fractures, with shallow-angled structures diverging from the main fractures.
Fig. 5. Dipping reflectors below SHR1: (a) migrated data from LL; (b) interpretation of the migrated GPR plot. The reflector crosses SHR2, where it appears to steepen slightly towards the surface, suggesting that the speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves is slower below SHR2 than above it. These structures are much shallower than the steeply dipping structure found above SHR1, are weaker reflectors and are much less frequent on the GPR traces.
Fig. 6. Schematic summary of GPR results. The subsurface has been divided and separated by the dominant sub-horizontal reflectors SHR1 and SHR2. In the glacier ice above SHR1, schematic sedimentary structures are shown. SHR1 represents the glacier bed, and none of the sedimentary structures appear to cross this interface. Below the bed a frozen wedge of sediment is found, the base of which is defined by SHR2.The sediment is frozen to the base of the glacier by the winter cold wave which penetrates to a depth of ∼14 m into glacier ice.The second sub-horizontal interface, SHR2 represents the interface between ice and sediment frozen by the winter cold wave, and underlying, unfrozen, possibly saturated sediment. Some structures appear to cross SHR2. These are interpreted as thrust planes in the subglacial sediments.
Fig. 7. Schematic showing the development of structure during the surge of Kongsvegen. (a) As the surge front arrives, ice and sediment are thrust due to compression between fast-moving surgingice up-glacierand stagnant icedown-glacier. A water and sediment pulse moves down-glacier withthesurge, producing décollement between the ice and sediment. (b) Deforming basal sediments allow fast flow during the surge as the flow regime becomes extensional. (c) Sediments injected into fractures in the ice during the extensional flow regime produce crevasse-fill structures and purge the bed of saturated sediments duringsurge termination.
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Deformational structures at the surge-type glacier Kongsvegen, Svalbard, are displayed at the glacier surface and on a grounded cliff section at the terminus. A 300 m × 65 m grid of 200 MHz ground-penetrating radar (GPR) profiles has been collected adjacent to the cliff section in order to identify englacial structure.Two sub-horizontal reflectors have been imaged; the upper is interpreted as the glacier bed, and represents a transition between glacier ice and frozen subglacial sediments; while the lower is interpreted as a transition between frozen and unfrozen subglacial sediment. Dipping reflectors, corresponding to sediment-filled features on the cliff and glacier surface, do not cross the glacier bed. A small number of reflectors, interpreted as thrust faults, are visible below the bed reflector. A model is developed for structural development, which suggests that ice built up in a reservoir zone during quiescence. During the surge, ice propagated rapidly from this reservoir, creating a zone of compression which resulted in thrusting. Subsequently an extensional flow regime resulted in extensive fracture of the ice. We suggest dilated sediment was evacuated into these extensional crevasses from the glacier bed, accelerating surge termination.
Surge-type glaciers oscillate between periods of rapid movement and periods of relative inactivity or quiescence (Post, 1969). The exact mechanisms driving this flow instability are not fully understood, though recent studies suggest that surging is likely a result of: changing conditions in the sediments at the ice–bed interface (e.g. Clarke and others, 1984); changing thermal conditions (e.g. Robin, 1955; Clarke,1976; Fowler and others, 2001); and/or changing hydrological conditions (e.g. Kamb, 1987). What is increasingly apparent is that the complexities of surge initiation, the mechanisms for sustaining fast flow and surge termination cannot all be explained by any single model. To understand better the dynamics of surge-type glaciers, more direct observations are needed of the surge cycle for a range of surging glaciers. This is particularly difficult in remote areas, where surges are difficult to monitor, and in Arctic areas, where the period of quiescence is often >150 years (Dowdeswell and others, 1991). Alternative methods must be developed to investigate the development and termination of surges in such areas. A number of studies have attempted to identify surge-type glaciers using diagnostic sedimentary structure in the glacier body and the glacier forefield (e.g. Sharp, 1985; Evans and Rea, 1999). If certain sedimentary structures can be uniquely linked to different phases of the surge then identification of these structures may allow us to recognize different modes of surging. The problem is that sedimentary structures are only available for study at the glacier surface and at the glacier front. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is one method for extending the study area to permit suites of structure to be identified within the ice matrix.
GPR is a geophysical technique developed for the non-invasive investigation of subsurface features. Electromagnetic wave energy from a transmitter unit on the ground surface is partially reflected from subsurface features exhibiting electrical properties contrasting with those of the surrounding matrix (Daniels and others, 1988). In glacier ice, marked contrasts in electrical properties are a result of changes in the temperature of the ice (e.g. where a warm ice layer exists below cold surface ice (Björnsson and others, 1996)), changes in water content (Murray and others, 2000a, b), changes in bubble content of the ice (Macheret and Zhuravlev, 1982), changes in the chemical composition of the ice (Gudmandsen,1975), or varying debris concentration in the ice (e.g. Arcone and others,1995). Radar can also be used to map features formed as a result of brittle fracture in the ice, such as crevasses (e.g. Jezek and others,1979; Glover and Rees, 1992), faults (Murray and others, 1997) and shear zones (Nobes and others,1994).
Few GPR surveys have been carried out to investigate structures produced by the incorporation of sediments in surge-type valley glaciers. One glacier that has been studied is Bakaninbreen, Svalbard. Basal and englacial sedimentary features were mapped, many of which were interpreted to be sediment-filled thrust features 0.6–1.1 m thick, although displacement could only be demonstrated across one feature (Murray and others, 1997, 2000b). Some of these englacial features correspond to surface outcrops mapped by Hambrey and others (1996), and they appear to transport considerable volumes of sediment from the basal zone (Murray and others, 2000b).
Previous investigations at the surge-type glacier Kongsvegen, Svalbard, have identified suites of englacial sedimentary structures. How this sediment is incorporated into the ice is currently unresolved. It could be by thrusting (Bennett and others, 1996; Hambrey and others, 1999), folding sub-parallel to glacier flow (Glasser and others, 1998; Hambrey and others, 1999) or crevasse filling (Woodward and others, 2002). This paper details GPR investigations of the sediment structures near the terminus of Kongsvegen. GPR results will be used to develop models of sediment emplacement and models for the surge of Kongsvegen. First, the ability of GPR to image structure in the ice of Kongsvegen will be investigated. Second, mechanisms for the development of the structure identified using GPR will be developed. These mechanisms will then be used to construct a model for surge initiation, the period of fast flow and then surge termination.
Kongsvegen (78°48′ N, 12°59′ E) is a 27 km long, 189 km2 surge-type glacier in northwest Spitsbergen (Hagen and others, 1993) (Fig. 1), which currently terminates in a partially grounded and partially calving front. The grounded section of the front forms a cliff face 5–20 m high running northwest–southeast for >1 km along the fjord margin (at 160–185° to the ice-flow direction). The glacier surface profile parallel to the cliff face dips at ∼2° along the fjord, and in its lower reaches is almost horizontal perpendicular to the ice cliff. The calving margin of Kongsvegen is confluent with the principal flow unit of Kronebreen and Infantfonna at the head of Kongsfjorden. During periods of advance, the complex is confluent with another stream of Kronebreen to the north of Colleth gda. The Kongsvegen flow stream is currently quiescent, with a flow rate of ∼3 m a−1 (Melvold and Hagen, 1998). By contrast, Kronebreen is currently one of the fastest-flowing tidewater glaciers in Svalbard, with a flow speed of ∼750 m a−1 (Lefauconnier and others, 1994; Melvold and Hagen,1998).
Interpretation of aerial photographs suggests that the last surge of Kongsvegen occurred between 1936 and 1956 (Woodward and others, 2002). Oblique aerial photographs from 1936 show the catchment in a pre-surge state, with the medial moraine complex separating Kronebreen from Infantfonna and Kongsvegen close to the Botnfjellbreen margin of Kongsvegen, as it is today. By comparison, the 1948 photograph shows a wider and more heavily crevassed Kongsvegen flow unit. The 1948 photograph also shows the maximum recorded advance of the tidewater margin, thought to be a result of the push effects of the advance of the surge front propagating down the Kongsvegen flow unit (Woodward and others, 2002). By 1956 the Kongsvegen flow unit covered two-thirds of the joint tidewater margin. Subsequently the tidewater complex has retreated, Kongsvegen has entered quiescence and Kronebreen has gradually widened to almost completely squeeze out the Kongsvegen tongue (Melvold and Hagen,1998).
A grid of 200 MHz GPR lines was collected along the margin of Kongsvegen during July 1996 (Fig. 1) using a Pulse EKKO 100 GPR system. Two types of survey were undertaken, common-offset (CO) and common-midpoint (CMP). During CO surveys the antennae, fixed perpendicularly to the survey line on a plastic sledge, were moved progressively along the profile in step mode, collecting traces at 0.25 m intervals along the profile. During CMP surveys, the antennae were moved progressively further apart at an equal offset from the central image point. Reflections from CMP surveys were used to calculate the velocity of propagation of electromagnetic energy in the subsurface. This allows a depth scale to be added to processed survey lines. Three 300 m long parallel lines, approximately 11 m apart, were collected parallel to the grounded cliff face at the glacier terminus. These lines are denoted low line (LL), mid-line (ML) and upper line (UL) (Fig. 1b). Five cross-lines, each approximately 65 m long, were also surveyed, spaced every 55 m. These lines are denoted XLA–XLE. During data collection, the locations of surface water and streams, and the angle at which any visible trace or sediment-filled fracture crossed the GPR lines, were noted, along with the location of the structure, and where possible an estimate of its dip.
GPR profiles were processed using GRADIX 1.10 software (Interpex Ltd). The processing sequence was optimized using CO profile LL (Fig. 2), then applied to all profiles. Drift correction and time-zero correction were applied, followed by dewow (4 MHz highpass) and bandpass filtering (trapezoidal filter set at 30–60–250–500 MHz) to remove noise at the high and low ends of the spectrum. Background removal in a window of 1000 traces was applied to remove coherent horizontal banding from the radar profile. Gain (either a constant gain or a time-varying automatic gain adjusted within 40 ns blocks) was applied to enhance returns from deeper reflectors whose signal strength is diminished by losses from attenuation, geometric spreading, scattering and energy partitioning at shallow interfaces. Depth and elevation correction allow the finished output to match surface topography with a true depth scale.
Reflections from near-horizontal layers were identified from CO profiles, and these reflectors were then picked manually from CMP surveys. This allowed calculation of radar wave velocities of 0.168 ± 0.002 m ns−1. CMP velocities were used to apply depth and elevation corrections.
All profiles were also migrated using an F-K migration algorithm with a constant velocity of 0.168 m ns−1, though not all profiles in this paper are displayed with migration applied. As the GPR grid was not dense enough for the reliable application of three-dimensional migration algorithms, GRADIX’s two-dimensional algorithm was used, which assumes all energy is returned from in-line reflectors. However, the profiles did not cross all features at 90° to their trend, thereby violating the two-dimensional assumption. Furthermore, the velocity of 0.168 ± 0.002 m ns−1 was derived from propagation in cold ice, and is therefore inappropriate for migrating parts of the profile containing sediments or warm ice. GRADIX supports migration using only one-dimensional velocity models, but the dominant reflectors are not horizontal, and lateral variations in velocity are evidently present. Thus migration has not always successfully focused the reflection images where there are apparently large volumes of included sediment, or in the deeper (warmer) parts of the section.
The GPR profiles can be divided into three distinct sequences by two high-amplitude, sub-horizontal reflectors denoted SHR1 and SHR2 (Fig. 3). On LL, ML and UL, SHR1 dips up-glacier at ∼3° and has opposite phase to the direct wave, indicating a higher dielectric permittivity (lower velocity) for the layers below the reflector than for those above it. The reflector is continuous except for occasional small steps in the profile and disturbances where steeply dipping structures rise from the reflector (e.g. at 93.3–96.5 m on LL). On the cross-lines XLA and XLB the reflector dips towards the fjord at 3–5°, less steeply than the trend of the glacier surface. On XLC–XLE the reflector dips towards the fjord at a slightly steeper angle, > 5°, and is approximately parallel to the surface.
The second sub-horizontal reflector, SHR2, also dips down-glacier at 0.5–3.5° and has opposite phase to the direct wave. From 0 to 80 m on the up-glacier orientated lines, the reflector is discontinuous and appears to be made up of a number of sub-parallel reflectors. From 80 to 240 m the reflector is more continuous and more steeply dipping, before again becoming somewhat discontinuous after 240 m as the layer rises to meet and merge with SHR1. On XLA–XLD the reflector dips towards the fjord parallel to the general trend of the glacier surface. On XLE the reflector is barely visible but seems to be slightly below SHR1.
The near-surface region of all the profiles is dominated by shallow diffraction patterns, which originate at the glacier surface and produce scatter (noise) on the GPR profile (Fig. 3). Some of these features appear to be symmetric and migrate successfully, while others are asymmetric and cannot be migrated successfully, leaving migration “smiles” and residual noise as the most obvious signal of the shallow structures in migrated sections.
The section of the lines below the near-surface and above SHR1 is dominated by asymmetric diffraction patterns suggesting steeply dipping structures, occurring every 10–15 m, and similar to those shown in Figure 4. Before migration, these reflectors seem to stem from a diffraction pattern with a straight limb on the up-glacier side. Below the diffraction pattern are a series of hyperbolae running towards the bed. When migrated, the upper hyperbola becomes a point reflector with a steeply dipping linear structure running from the point reflector towards the bed (Fig. 4a). The linear part of the reflector has moved up-dip and steepened considerably. The hyperbolae collapse to point reflectors along the plane of the structure. After migration, features do not appear to cross SHR1, while migration smiles below the reflector are a common feature, presumably due to the difficulties of the constant velocity model as described above, or because the reflections from the structures are not truly hyperbolic.
Below SHR1 a series of shallow, 20–30°, up-glacier dipping structures are apparent, which continue below SHR2. A number of structures, such as that dipping up-glacier from 104 m on LL, are visible before migration and remain prominent post-migration (Fig. 5).
The descriptions of the GPR lines indicate that there are a number of sets of structure with very different radar signatures (Fig. 3). These features are: near-surface diffraction patterns (S); two major sub-horizontal reflectors (SHR1 and SHR2); steeply dipping features (DS) above SHR1; and localized shallow-dipping features (SR) below SHR1. The near-surface diffraction patterns (S in Fig. 3) are produced by surface features, such as streams, sediment-filled deformation structures and cracks. Many of the diffraction patterns are asymmetric, as GPR lines do not cross the structures perpendicularly and because the structures are dipping.
The two prominent sub-horizontal reflectors, SHR1 and SHR2, cannot be seen on the cliff face, as they are both deeper than the interface between the cliff face and the beach sediments deposited at the foot of the ice cliff. The sub-horizontal reflectors could be the expression of any of the following interfaces:
Ice–bedrock interface: Many glacier surveys record strong reflections from the interface between ice and underlying bedrock. However, gravity measurements suggest that bedrock at Kongsvegen is at a depth of many hundreds of metres in the fjord under the calving margin (Oélsner, 1966). Thus, neither reflector is likely to be a bedrock reflection.
Ice–sediment interface: Previous GPR surveys report reflections from an ice–sedimentary-bed interface. Indeed, as Kongsvegen is underlain by sedimentary material in the fjord, such a reflection could be expected and either of the reflectors could represent an ice–sediment interface. Many glaciers also have a thick basal ice zone above the bed, which is recognizable on GPR surveys (Arcone and others,1995; Murray and others, 2000b). Some deformational features, however, might be expected to cross from the ice into the basal ice. This would argue against SHR1 being an ice–basal-ice reflector, as no reflectors appear to cross the interface.
Thermal boundary in the ice: Radar surveys on polythermal glaciers often record an internal reflection representing the cold-ice–warm-ice transition (cf. Björnsson and others, 1996). Commonly, the thermal boundary is not typically a smooth transition and is represented by increased scatter as a result of diffraction from water-filled voids. The layer at Kongsvegen is a continuous layer so is not thought to be a reflection from a cold–warm thermal interface within ice.
Thermal boundary between frozen sediment and unfrozen sediment: In the rapidly thinning, marginal ice of a polythermal glacier, it is possible that the thermal boundary from frozen to unfrozen material might be found in the subglacial sediment, producing a reflective interface.
Brine infiltration: The radar profiles have been collected close to the fjord, so there may be brine infiltration in underlying ice or sediment, which may produce a reflective layer. Kovacs and Gow (1975) mapped a continuous high-amplitude reflector interpreted as resulting from a brine infiltration layer on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. As brine is highly attenuating, no reflectors would be observed below a thick layer of brine, suggesting that neither reflector is produced in this way as clear reflectors are visible below SHR1 and possible reflectors are visible below SHR2.
SHR1 is near-continuous and is the dominant reflector in the profile. No reflectors appear to cross the interface, suggesting that SHR1 is the basal interface between glacier ice and underlying sediment, which represents a plane of décollement. If SHR1 is the glacier bed, then SHR2 is most likely to be a thermal boundary in the sediment below the glacier, particularly as the reflector runs approximately parallel to the glacier surface. In this interpretation, the sediment is frozen above SHR2, while below SHR2 the sediment is unfrozen and assumed to be saturated, producing a detectable reflector. Under this interpretation, no basal ice layer is detectable on the GPR profiles in the marginal zone of Kongsvegen.
The steeply dipping structures on the GPR profiles above SHR1 can be interpreted as representing the sediment-rich structures observed in the cliff face. The series of diffraction patterns below the upper hyperbola result from points where minor sediment-rich structures diverge from the main fracture or from increased sediment inclusions near the bed. These migrate to a point along the plane, which represents the fracture. Proir to migration, the crests of the hyperbolae can be joined to show the location of the fracture, so long as all sediment is in the plane of the profile. The picture is confused where fractures diverge, as reflection points may occur along the splaying fractures. The reflections are further complicated, as many structures appear not to be crossed with the dip of the plane parallel to the GPR profiles.
A number of the sediment-rich fractures can be correlated across adjacent lines of the grid, suggesting that the majority of structures are planar. This is supported by surface mapping of the structures, which shows that most of them are linear at the scale of the GPR grid. Many features at SHR1 continue across two lines and some cross all three. At the surface, fractures can be traced for much longer distances. This suggests that the sediment inclusions are not as continuous as the fractures, and that it is the sediment in the structures that is predominantly responsible for the reflections, and not the fractures themselves. This follows limited evidence from the forefield, which shows short structures, with variable amounts of sediment deposited along ridges, which most likely reflects the availability of sediment during sediment emplacement. The sediment structure shown in Figure 4a and b runs parallel to structures melting out in the glacier forefield. The steeply dipping structure in Figure 4c can also be traced across the GPR lines. The feature is composed of a series of steeply dipping, sediment-rich fractures, with shallow-angled structures diverging from the main fractures, as can be seen in the photograph in Figure 4d.
The origin of the sediment within the ice is currently debated. Bennett and others (1996) and Glasser and others (1998) propose that thrusting formed the structures, while Woodward and others (2002) provide an alternative interpretation, suggesting that many of the deformational structures formed by dilated sediments being squeezed into extensional crevasses. These sediment structures were then reorientated within the ice by fast flow during the 1940s surge. No displaced internal layers or structures were observed in the GPR results to support a thrusting mechanism for sediment emplacement. Also, the thrusting models of Bennett and others (1996) and Glasser and others (1998) indicate that the structure should cross the basal interface, so that sediments can be incorporated from the basal environment into the ice. GPR results suggest that this is not the case at Kongsvegen, as no features were imaged that could be traced across SHR1. GPR results therefore support the suggestion by Woodward and others (2002) that the structures are crevasse fills.
The 20–30° up-glacier dipping, high-amplitude reflectors below SHR1 are thought to represent thrusts in the subglacial sediment. It seems likely that these thrusts were formed during surge initiation as a result of a compressional regime in the ice of Kongsvegen. Fast-flowing surge ice propagated down-glacier, from a reservoir in the upper basin of Kongsvegen, towards slow-flowing ice in the confluence zone between Kronebreen and Kongsvegen, as was observed at Bakaninbreen (Murray and others, 1998). The ice in the confluence zone was compressed by the surge as it propagated, resulting in Kongsvegen becoming the dominant flow unit at the margin during the surge (Woodward and others, 2002). This produced an initially compressive flow regime for the ice and sediments of Kongsvegen, wherever there was a transition from fast- to slow-moving ice. This transition propagated through the zone of observation, resulting in thrusting.
The dipping reflectors do not cross SHR1, so during some stage of the surge there must have been a décollement zone between the underlying sediments and the ice. This decoupling of ice from the sediment probably occurred early in the surge (see next section). Thus, the sediment below the SHR1 boundary must have remained largely stationary, or deformed by plug flow, in order to preserve these structures. This suggests deformation of basal sediments in a thin basal zone. Any structure formed in the ice related to the structures in the sediment will have moved down-glacier.
The GPR results (summarized in Fig. 6) allow a model for structural development during the surge of Kongsvegen to be proposed:
1. During surge onset, a compressive regime existed in the ice and basal sediments (Fig.7).This zone of compression resulted in thrusting of the ice and sediments.
2. With the arrival of fast-flowing ice during the surge, there was a rapid change in some or all of the hydrological, sedimentological or thermal regimes at the basal interface, resulting in decoupling of the ice from the basal sediments.
3. The rapid flow during the surge resulted in the extensive fracture of the ice. Extensional crevasses were the dominant structures on the surface of Kongsvegen after the surge.Voids are likely to have opened in the ice, allowing sediment to be injected from the glacier bed into the ice body.
4. Glaciers flow quickly when lubricated by deforming sediments or water at the bed. Therefore sediment exhaustion from the basal interface due to crevasse filling may have some influence on surge termination. Ensminger and others (2001) suggest that basal crevassing is important for moving sediment above the basal zone of Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A., through the injection of turbid water into basal crevasses. At the surge-type Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland, Bennett and others (2000) also suggest that dewatering from basal crevasses may have emplaced sediment in the ice body and have had an influence on the surge. At the surge-type Eyjabakkajökull, Iceland, Sharp (1985) suggests sediment deformation into basal crevasses as the mechanism responsible for producing sediment ridges in the forefield. Sharp (1985) calculates that the crevasse fills removed the equivalent of a layer of sediment 0.16 m thick from the marginal area where the ridges were mapped. This is a significant depth of sediment when compared to the thickness of dilatant layers measured at Breiðamerkurjökull, Iceland (0.4–0.5 m; Boulton and Dent, 1974), and Skalafellsjökull, Iceland (0.5–0.7 m; Sharp, 1984). The GPR surveys suggest that sediment inclusions in Kongsvegen occur at least every 10–15 m, are metres high and are decimetres to metres in width. Reasonable estimates indicate that a depth of sediment of a similar order of magnitude to that found at Eyjabakkajökull could well have been removed from the basal environment at Kongsvegen, indicating that crevasse filling may have been an important mechanism during surge termination, responsible for removing dilated, deforming sediment from the basal environment.
While it is recognized that the GPR data used to construct this model cover a small spatial area of the glacier surface, the results from the GPR are consistent with other observations, suggesting that results can be extrapolated across the catchment. The model has two important implications for the development of the structures in the ice of Kongsvegen. First, it suggests that thrust faulting only occurred during the initial compressive regime. Thrust faults are likely to be difficult to recognize in the current ice, as they will have been moved down-glacier from their expression in the subglacial sediments and also will have been reorientated by velocity gradients within the ice during and after the surge (Woodward and others, 2002). Furthermore, the likely inability of compressive thrust planes to entrain large volumes of sediment suggests they may be difficult to identify as isolated structures in the GPR profiles for the most part. Second, we suggest large amounts of sediment were injected into the ice of Kongsvegen into voids opened by extensional crevasses. Thus most of the structure visible in the ice in the marginal areas of Kongsvegen is thought to originate from crevasse filling.
Studies of surge-type glaciers, which oscillate between short periods of extremely rapid movement and long periods of relative inactivity or quiescence, suggest that fast flow is associated with basal conditions (Clarke and others, 1984; Kamb, 1987; Raymond, 1987). In the case of surge-type glaciers overlying a sedimentary bed, a rapidly deforming, saturated, sediment substrate may induce and/or support surging (Clarke and others, 1984). Surge-type glaciers overlying sedimentary beds often entrain large amounts of sediment (Clapperton, 1975). Therefore, the mechanisms by which sediment is incorporated into the ice during surge may play a significant role in the speed of termination of fast flow by controlling the time taken to reduce the availability of basal sediment and water. The model proposed above suggests that some of the mechanisms that drove the surge of Kongsvegen can be elucidated from studies of the englacial and subglacial sedimentary structures. The termination of the surge may have been assisted by the change in basal conditions when saturated sediments, which had supported fast flow, were injected into open crevasses.
GPR investigations near a grounded cliff face at the margins of Kongsvegen have enabled the identification of a number of internal reflectors, which represent sedimentary structure within the glacier and the underlying sedimentary bed. Reflectors include: the glacier bed; an underlying thermal interface between frozen and unfrozen sediments; steeply dipping structures imaged above the bed, which are interpreted as crevasse fills and correlate with sediment-rich features seen on the cliff face; and shallow structures visible in the sediment below the bed, which are interpreted as thrust planes formed during the compressional phase of the surge.
The GPR results have allowed the development of a model for structural development during the surge of Kongsvegen. During the 1940s, surge ice moved from a reservoir, propagated down-glacier into slow-flowing ice, creating a zone of compression which resulted in thrusting. Remnant thrust faults are recorded in the subglacial sediments. With the arrival of fast-flowing ice during the surge, the sedimentological and hydrological regime at the basal interface changed rapidly, and the ice decoupled from the basal sediments. Rapid flow during the surge resulted in the extensive fracture of the ice. Sediment is thought to have been injected into these extensional crevasses from the glacier bed, exhausting saturated sediments from the basal interface, possibly accelerating surge termination.
As such, this model suggests that thrusting was an important occurrence during the surge of Kongsvegen, but the thrusting was of little consequence in developing sedimentary landforms in the glacier ice or forefield environment. This suggests that the majority of sedimentary structures visible in the glacier ice and forefield were produced by crevasse filling of extensional crevasses opened during the surge, which have been extensively reorientated by flow during and after the 1940s surge of Kongsvegen.
Research was funded by the Royal Society. J.W. received a University of Leeds scholarship. N. Cox at the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Research Base, Ny Ålesund, Svalbard, provided invaluable logistic assistance. The Sysselmann of Svalbard granted permission to carry out research work at Kongsvegen. We wish to thank Scientific Editor J.W. Glen and reviewers C. F. Raymond and J. Kohler for constructive comments.
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TO describe what is, to our knowledge, the first nosocomial outbreak of infection with pan–drug-resistant (including colistin-resistant) Acinetobacter baumannii, to determine the risk factors associated with these types of infections, and to determine their clinical impact.
Nested case-control cohort study and a clinical-microbiological study.
A 1,521-bed tertiary care university hospital in Seville, Spain.
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Case patients were inpatients who had a pan-drug-resistant A. baumannii isolate recovered from a clinical or surveillance sample obtained at least 48 hours after admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) during the time of the epidemic outbreak. Control patients were patients who were admitted to any of the “boxes” (ie, rooms that partition off a distinct area for a patient's bed and the equipment needed to care for the patient) of an ICU for at least 48 hours during the time of the epidemic outbreak.
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Steve Walentik
It took Missouri nearly nine minutes to make its first field goal, and when Stefhon Hannah drove into the lane and hit a pull-up jumper with 11:03 left, the Tigers were trailing 15-6. Missouri fought back to within 23-20 after Jason Horton and Matt Lawrence made 3-pointers 50 seconds apart, but Marcus Hall made a 3-pointer of his own and turned an errant pass from Justin Safford into a layup with 6:14 to play.
Hall scored 20 points in the first half, shooting 8 for 9 from the field and 4 for 5 from 3-point range, as the Buffaloes took a 34-24 lead into the locker room. The Tigers shot just 9 for 25 from the floor in the first 20 minutes, and their point total was the lowest in a half this season.
Colorado stretched its halftime advantage to as many as 14 points. Richard Roby, who finished with 13 points, converted a three-point play with 12:24 remaining and scored a layup in transition 17 seconds later to put the Buffaloes ahead 47-33.
But�Leo Lyons�(above, congratulating Hannah), missing in action throughout the first four Big 12 Conference games, scored 14 of his 22 points in the final 12 minutes, leading the Tigers on a 33-15 finishing run as they snapped their seven-game road losing streak. Hannah, who has been prone to late-game mistakes, came through with a steal and layup to put Missouri ahead by three with 29.8 seconds left. He finished the victory by sinking the front end of a 1-and-1 opportunity with 7.4 seconds left.
38.1 -�Colorado�s field-goal percentage during the second half. After allowing the Buffaloes to make 12 of 23 shots in the first half, the Tigers tightened up their defense after intermission. Most important, Missouri defended without fouling. The Tigers committed only 20 fouls after having 31 in Wednesday night�s loss to Texas Tech, and Colorado only attempted 24 free throws - 26 fewer than the Red Raiders.
"I�m relieved right now, man. We needed that. We was fighting, getting everything we had to try to get this one." - Missouri sophomore Keon Lawrence after the Tigers rallied from a 14-point deficit in the final 12 minutes to earn their first road game of the season
Missouri finally won a road game after failing at Arkansas, California, Mississippi State, Iowa State and Texas Tech and has a chance to even its Big 12 record at 3-3 when it plays last-place Nebraska on Wednesday night at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers need to handle the Cornhuskers, who swept the season series last season, because games against Kansas State and Kansas, the league�s last two unbeatens, await them after that.
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By Grant Hermanns
Despite the end nearing for the primary saga of the long-running sci-fi film franchise Star Wars, Disney CEO Bob Iger not only announced today that the next three Star Wars films are the in-development projects from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, but that there may also be a third live-action TV series extension of the franchise in the works.
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Speaking at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit, Iger discussed the future of the franchise and how the studio is planning on filling the gaps between the final primary installment The Rise of Skywalker and the first installment of the next trilogy, which is slated for a December 2022 release.
“..In the interim, we are producing two Star Wars live-action series for Disney+, one of them is called The Mandalorian, which is being supervised by Jon Favreau, and the other one is a bit of a prequel to Rogue One. And my guess is there will probably be at least one more live-action series that we produce for Disney+ (meaning a Star Wars series), before we release the next film.”
The franchise thus far has only seen three TV series extensions of the lore, all of which however have been animated, and the studio is currently working on two live-action small screen spin-offs. The first is The Mandalorian focusing on the lone titular gunfighter, which is set to premiere on the upcoming streaming service Disney+ on November 12.
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The second series currently in the works for Disney+ is an untitled project focusing on Rogue One character Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), described as an espionage thriller, from The Americans writer Stephen Schiff, which is set to begin production sometime later this year.
Iger’s comments don’t necessarily confirm the development of a third series, but given the franchise’s popularity and potential for multiple story expansions, the mammoth studio’s inclinations to potentially produce a third iteration definitely creates hope for more adventures in a galaxy far, far away.
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Halton Direct Link (Widnes) Police Contact Point
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The Police Contact Point in Direct Link Widnes can be found inside the One Stop Shop near to the Market in the town centre.
What are Police Contact Points?
Police Contact Points provide an alternative way for members of the public to access police services.
The Contact Points are interactive touchscreen systems which have been placed in convenient locations across Cheshire to allow members of the public to speak to a Force operator via telephone or web chat.
The points also provide access to an A-Z database of frequently asked questions.
The link between the kiosk and the force control room means that the Contact Points can provide a service outside of normal police helpdesk opening hours.
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“Commit to Christ, Follow His Path,” Elder Uchtdorf Tells Young Single Adults
Contributed By Marianne Holman Prescott, Church News staff writer
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles addresses young single adults during a worldwide devotional on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Article Highlights
God watches over us, directing and guiding our steps.
Receiving answers often requires sacrifice, work, and patience.
When it comes to eternal questions, matters of the soul, we must be patient.
“You will look back on this cherished and exciting adventure of mortality, and … you will see that God Himself, in His abounding love, grace, and compassion, was always there watching over you, blessing you, and guiding your steps as you walked toward Him.” —Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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As Latter-day Saints strive to trust God and follow His Son, Jesus Christ, one day they will know that the very hand of God was directing and guiding their steps, said Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
“We will know that the Master Artist had a plan … all along,” said Elder Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “We will see that He has amplified our talents, prepared opportunities, and introduced us to possibilities far more glorious than we ever could have imagined or accomplished on our own.”
Addressing thousands of young single adults during a worldwide devotional on January 14, Elder Uchtdorf—accompanied by his wife, Sister Harriet R. Uchtdorf, who also spoke—shared a message of hope and encouragement.
“Now is the time to commit to Christ and follow His path,” he said. “As you incline your hearts to Him and strive to follow His way, He will intervene in your life and direct your path as you journey through this great and exciting adventure of mortality.”
A capacity crowd of 22,000 young adults ages 18–30 gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City and in overflow locations on Temple Square for the devotional, which was translated and sent digitally around the globe.
The broadcast was held just two days after the funeral for President Thomas S. Monson. Elder Uchtdorf, who served as President Monson’s counselor in the First Presidency, recognized the late prophet during his remarks.
“I miss President Thomas S. Monson,” he said. “He was my cherished and treasured friend, tutor, and mentor. But I can assure you, the Lord Himself is at the head of His Church, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Lord has provided a divine plan so that His Church is always led by prophets, seers, and revelators.”
Focusing his remarks on the topic “The Adventure of Mortality,” Elder Uchtdorf encouraged listeners to rely on God, especially when asking questions.
“In this age of instant answers—where seemingly absolute and unassailable knowledge is merely a Google search away—we sometimes get frustrated when answers to our most personal, important, and urgent questions are delayed,” he said. “We lift up our hearts to heaven, and all we seem to get is a frustrating, spinning ‘wait cursor.’
“We don’t like waiting,” he said.
When the wait is more than a few seconds for a search engine to respond, many might suppose the connection is down or broken, and in frustration he or she might even abandon the search.
“But when it comes to eternal questions, matters of the soul, we must be more patient,” Elder Uchtdorf said.
Teaching that not all answers are of equal worth, Elder Uchtdorf said that answers that come from worldly wisdom or popular opinion tend to be easy to come by but that they lose their worth quickly when a new theory or trend emerges.
“Heavenly answers—eternal answers—are priceless,” he said. “Receiving these answers often requires sacrifice, work, and patience. These answers are worth the wait.”
Using the example of the late 19th-century painting style known as neo-impressionism, Elder Uchtdorf compared life to one of these paintings.
“Closer up, these dots appear unconnected and random,” he said. “But when you take in the entire painting, you can see how the dots blend into colors and how the colors eventually form shapes that reveal a beautiful pattern.”
Using the example of the late 19th-century painting style known as neo-impressionism, Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf compared life to one of these paintings. “Closer up, these dots appear unconnected and random,” he said. “But when you take in the entire painting, you can see how the dots blend into colors and how the colors eventually form shapes that reveal a beautiful pattern.”
What once seemed arbitrary and even confusing begins to make sense, he taught.
“Sometimes our lives are like neo-impressionistic art,” he said. “The dots of color that make up the moments and events of our days can appear unconnected and chaotic at first. We can’t see any order to them. We can’t imagine that they have a purpose at all.”
But as a person steps back and looks with an eternal perspective, he or she is able to see how the dots interconnect and create a beautiful, grand design.
Sharing experiences from his own life—as a young boy who had relocated with his family twice and struggled in school, as a training pilot, and as a young man dating his wife—Elder Uchtdorf said that although the experiences weren’t always easy, it was through those experiences that he learned to work hard and trust in God.
“Don’t get overwhelmed by the many large, difficult tasks of life,” he said. “If you commit to doing the ‘easy’ things—the ‘small’ things God asks you to do—and you do them as perfectly as you can, big things will follow.”
Some of the “small and easy” things can be done perfectly, such as daily prayer, studying the scriptures, living the Word of Wisdom, attending church, praying with real intent, and paying tithes and offerings.
“Do these things even when you don’t want to,” he said. “These ‘sacrifices’ may appear to be small, but they are important, for ‘sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven.’”
In a sense, the leader taught, the “small and simple” sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting in their life.
“You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now,” he said.
Elder Uchtdorf said, “Now you may be thinking, … ‘That’s all very nice for you. But you are an Apostle. I’m not like that. I’m not important to God. My prayers are not answered. My life is not directed. If there is a plan for me, it’s a thrift store version of your plan. A hand-me-down plan. A pat-on-the-head-just-be-content-with-what-you-have plan.’”
Recognizing that some may feel that their plan is not the same as his, Elder Uchtdorf reminded listeners that when he was their age he had no idea where his life would take him.
“I definitely didn’t see any dots connecting in front of me,” he said. “But I did trust God. I listened to the advice of loving family and wise friends and took small steps of faith, believing that if I did the best I could in the moment, God would take care of the big picture.
Most important is a person’s willingness to rely on God to guide his or her steps in life.
“I understand that for some this may seem easy to say and hard to do,” he said. “I agree that you don’t have to go far in today’s culture to hear contradictory voices that discourage or even ridicule belief in God generally, and in our religion specifically.”
Those voices are amplified today through advances in communication, he taught.
“That is your challenge,” he said. “But it also is your privilege. … It is part of your adventure of mortality. How you do it will greatly influence your future and the part you play in God’s work here on earth.”
Elder Uchtdorf encouraged listeners to not let discouraging voices “dissuade you from your journey of faith.”
“Remember, you don’t answer to your critics,” he said. “You answer to your Father in Heaven. His values count.”
“Follow the promptings that come to your heart and mind,” he said. “Use both. Give your best efforts to follow through. Have faith, and God will consecrate your honest efforts for your eternal good. Do this and, in the end, all will be well.”
Elder Uchtdorf promised listeners that as they earnestly strive to know God, their faith will increase, and as they strive to follow the Savior, their confidence will grow.
“You will look back on this cherished and exciting adventure of mortality, and you will understand,” he said. “You will see that the dots really did connect into a beautiful pattern, more sublime than you ever could have imagined. With unspeakable gratitude, you will see that God Himself, in His abounding love, grace, and compassion, was always there watching over you, blessing you, and guiding your steps as you walked toward Him.”
In possibly the first address she has given to a worldwide audience, Sister Uchtdorf said she enjoyed being with the young adults as well as her “favorite Apostle.”
“I know, we shouldn’t have favorites,” she said. “But in my case, it seems OK—because I am married to him.”
In her remarks, Sister Uchtdorf reminded young adults they “are representing the Church of Jesus Christ, and you are powerful leaders in proclaiming the gospel message by your good life and courageous testimony.”
Reflecting on the time when she was a young girl watching as her father was sick and then later died, Sister Uchtdorf shared how her home became a place of suffering, sadness, and hopelessness.
It wasn’t until eight months after her father had passed away that two American missionaries knocked on their door in Frankfurt, introducing her family to the Book of Mormon.
“As we embraced the Book of Mormon, it calmed our heartache and healed the despair and sadness caused by the death of my father.”
As the Book of Mormon entered their home, Sister Uchtdorf said peace returned, there was no more darkness in her family, and they were able to feel the Spirit strongly.
The gospel message from the missionaries—who were about the age of listeners in the audience—Sister Uchtdorf said, were “like two angels of glory sent to us by God,” for bringing her family the blessings of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
“My dear young friends, you are made of the same divine material. Some of you are married, some are single, but all of you are living among the people of this world,” she said. “You are chosen ones of our days, who by word and deed teach and live the gospel message among your people. For this purpose, you are placed in your village or city, your school or workplace, your nation, your family.
“Don’t forget, you have the potential to be angels of glory to those right next to you.”
Sister Uchtdorf reminded listeners that a leader is one who helps others see, feel, and find the right way.
“Please help each other to stay deeply grounded in the Church and in the gospel. God has put you in a place where you have many opportunities to be tools in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. He relies on you, He knows you, He trusts you, and He will empower you. He lives; He is real!”
For the first time in that type of setting, after the devotional, young adults met in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and other locations at Church headquarters for activities and refreshments.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf laughs as his wife calls him “her favorite Apostle” during her talk at the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Sister Harriet Reich Uchtdorf speaks during the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Sister Harriet Reich Uchtdorf smiles as she greets young adults after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults on January 14. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf makes a heart shape with his hands to the devotional goers as he exits through the main seating area after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf talks with Andrew Archibald as he exits through the main seating area after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf shakes the hands of the devotional goers as he exits through the main seating area after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults hosted by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Devotional goers line up outside the Conference Center prior to the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Thousands of young adults filled the Conference Center and other buildings on Temple Square to listen to the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Sister Harriet Uchtdorf on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Thousands of young adults filled the Conference Center and other buildings on Temple Square to listen to the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Sister Harriet Uchtdorf on Janurary 14, 2018. Photo by of Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Devotional goers take pictures and videos of Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf as he exits through the main seating area after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Sister Harriet Reich Uchtdorf prior to the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf speaks during the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
A choir comprised of young adults from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah sing during the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf spent close to an hour after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults greeting young adults in the Conference Center on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Sister Harriet Reich Uchtdorf greets young adults after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf visits with guests after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf hugs Andrew Archibald as he exits through the main seating area after the Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on January 14, 2018. Photo by Adam Fondren, Deseret News.
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Make a date February 29 to join CineVerse for “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1985; 120 minutes) directed by Hector Babenco, chosen by Dan Quenzel.
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Curious to learn what CineVerse will be spotlighting over the next few weeks? The March/April 2012 schedule is now available for viewing and downloading. Click here to check it out.
Does your funny bone need a bit of dusting? Make your plans to attend CineVerse on February 22 for the comedy “Sunshine Cleaning” (2008; 91 minutes), directed by Christine Jeffs, chosen by Danealle Kueltzo.
And stick around for later, when we'll also preview the March/April 2012 CineVerse schedule.
The Oak Lawn public library will present the following movie free of charge: Midnight in Paris (2011, PG-13, 94 min) -- Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Director Woody Allen’s romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better. Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates. Learn more by clicking here.
Ahh, young love. And it's rarely been depicted better than in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961; 124 minutes), directed by Elia Kazan, chosen by Janet Pierucci, and scheduled for Valentine's week (Feb. 15) at CineVerse.
The Oak Lawn public library will present the following movie free of charge: The Adjustment Bureau (2011, PG-13, 106 min) -- Friday, Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. Academy Award nominee Matt Damon stars in this romantic thriller about a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him - and chooses to fight for his destiny with the only woman he’s ever loved. Starring Emily Blunt and Michael Kelly. Learn more by clicking here.
You may never view the illegal immigration issue the same way again after seeing “El Norte” (1983; 141 minutes), directed by Gregory Nava, to be shown Feb. 8 at CineVerse.
The Oak Lawn public library will celebrate the 200th birthday of author Charles Dickens by presenting the following 3 movies free of charge:
Great Expectations (1946) -- Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. From the vivid pages of Charles Dickens' masterpiece, a humble orphan becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Directed by David Lean; winner of two Academy Awards. Starring John Mills, Valerie Hobson and Tony Wager. Unrated. 118 min.
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) -- Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldhearted uncle. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer and Anne Hathaway. PG. 132 min.
Oliver Twist (2005) -- Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Director Roman Polanski's adaptation of the classic Dickens tale where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master. Starring Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley and Jeremy Swift. PG-13. 130 min.
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Cloud computing makes IT governance a real challenge
Many cloud customers lack access control procedures
By Ellen Messmer
Network World US
IT professionals are finding it harder than ever to set up access controls for network resources and applications used by organisation employees, and cloud computing is only adding to their woes, a survey of 728 IT practitioners finds.
The Ponemon Institute's "2010 Access Governance Trends Survey," which asked 728 IT practitioners about their procedures and outcomes in setting up access to information resources, found the situation worsening over the past two years. In comparison to a similar survey done by Ponemon two years ago, this year's survey found 87 per cent believed individuals had too much access to information systems, up nine per cent from 2008.
And in a new question asked this year about how use of cloud computing fits with access-control strategies, 73 per cent of respondents said adoption of cloud-based applications is enabling business users to circumvent existing access policies.
Cloud-based services "are often purchased directly by business units without consideration of access governance," says the 2010 Access Governance Trends Survey, published on Monday. The survey was sponsored by Aveksa.
It is the people in the business units, rather than the IT department, that have growing influence over granting user access to information resources, with 37 per cent in 2010 saying the business units had the responsibility as opposed to just 29 per cent saying this in 2008.
But this doesn't necessarily seem to be advancing the goal that access-control policies are met, at least in the eyes of the IT professionals, over half of whom said they can't even keep pace with information-access requests. Nineteen per cent even said "there's no accountability in who makes access decisions."
The report, which points to a need for greater collaboration between business units, the IT department and internal audit and compliance, indicates cloud computing is making a messy situation even messier in terms of access-control governance.
"The sales operations and business lines are buying into the cloud, sometimes without even calling IT security," says Brian Cleary, vice president of marketing at Aveksa.
For IT professionals, cloud computing "is creating another potential issue that creates stress," says Dr. Larry Ponemon about the survey's findings. "The frustration is on top of everything you're doing on premises, you add another element to access governance."
The Ponemon study also shows that when it comes to procedures, organisations tend to fall fairly equally into three camps: those who rely on more causal and often manual "ad hoc" processes for defining and implementing access controls; those who have "well-defined processes that are controlled by the business or application owners," and "well-defined processes centrally controlled by corporate IT."
There's still widely varying a mix of technical and manual controls, but use of commercial off-the-shelf software was up six per cent over the last two years to 36 per cent, according to the survey. The study claims that the ad hoc process in particular "can contribute to excess user access and generally decrease the ability to apply policies and processes consistently across the enterprise."
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Constructive Journalism: How Positivity Can Increase Reader Engagement
August 23, 2018 / in Media Blog / by Rocky Parker
See the original on Beyond Bylines.
Negativity is exhausting.
In the age of the 24/7 news cycle, readers are bombarded with stories of how everything seems to be falling apart, and “news fatigue” is setting in. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, almost 70 percent of Americans say they're tired.
An everyday feeling these days... #DavidSipress #TheNewYorker pic.twitter.com/V6LMQ63vCR
— Upping The Anti (@uppingtheanti) January 30, 2017
Enter constructive journalism.
While this isn't a new concept, it’s one worth revisiting in the current media climate. Supporters believe that telling the same story while focusing on the positive and presenting possible solutions can help educate the reader and increase engagement.
The Constructive Journalism Project defines this method as “rigorous, compelling reporting that includes positive and solution-focused elements in order to empower audiences and present a fuller picture of truth, while upholding journalism’s core functions and ethics.”
It's not the same as fluff
The Constructive Journalism Project also notes three things that constructive journalism isn’t:
Fluff/”good news”
Advocacy journalism
Government-influenced “development journalism”
The idea isn’t to change what’s being reported on, but rather to change how it’s reported.
In a recent article from The Guardian, Elisa Gabbert explored “compassion fatigue,” which is caused by the overwhelming amount of negative news readers face every day. Originally a health care term, Gabbert explains that it’s now used in media studies and is “the idea that overexposure to horrific images, from news reports in particular, could cause viewers to shut down emotionally, rejecting information instead of responding to it.”
In her research, Danish journalist and constructive journalism pioneer Cathrine Gyldensted used positive psychology and found that a news story with a constructive peak and ending leads to feelings of enthusiasm, optimism, and engagement in the reader.
Get the whole picture
Providing a full picture to the reader is central to constructive journalism – it’s about more than just presenting the facts.
Gyldensted recommends using interventive interviewing techniques, based on family therapist Karl Tomm’s interviewing framework. This interviewing method is made up of four types of questions:
Linear (“The Detective”): The interviewer confirms the facts and answers the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, and why).
Reflexive (“The Anthropologist”): The interviewer offers a new perspective, forcing the interviewee to look at the situation from a new angle.
Circular (“The Future Scientist”): The interviewer looks for patterns and connections, to provide more context.
Strategic (“The Captain”): The interviewer tries to steer the course and questions are designed so that the interviewee will commit to a solution or plan.
In Gyldensted and Karen McIntyre’s research, they explain that journalists too often focus on linear and strategic questions, which can make them judgmental or combative. They claim that by including reflexive and circular questions, journalists open themselves up to new perspectives and can write more comprehensive stories.
“It’s a new and (better) way to keep the powerful accountable and in check," said Gyldensted, in an interview with Images & Voices of Hope, while offering an example of how this can be useful in political reporting. "By working on your interviewing technique and borrowing from mediation and facilitation, you are able to make a political debate format where power holders are being asked where they can agree and collaborate — and when/how they will do it.”
See the theory in action
There are a number of news organizations that are embracing constructive journalism.
Positive News is a current affairs magazine that focuses on constructive journalism. Publisher Seán Dagan Wood describes it in a HuffPost interview as “a publication that shines a light on innovation, kindness, co-operation and the ways people are working to create solutions to the problems facing society.”
Upside, a series from the Guardian, posts content that looks for solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
The Solutions Journalism Network Story Tracker was created to highlight stories that pose solutions to problems, convey insights, and provide evidence to back it all up, among other criteria. Content is searchable by issue, location, and journalist.
The New York Times’ Fixes column is one of its most-read sections and “looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.” Topics include education, crime, the opioid crisis, and homelessness.
Huffpost’s What’s Working articles move beyond the “if it bleeds, it leads” mindset to highlight stories of innovation and compassion.
“Don’t give them any more ammunition.” During teacher training, Daniel Gray was advised not to tell students he was gay. He says that coming out has actually improved his relationship with pupils, and has now launched a network for other LGBT teachers https://t.co/2yvaoNuWN9 pic.twitter.com/DmtRzYFEwY
— Positive News (@PositiveNewsUK) August 9, 2018
The constructive journalism model seems to be growing, and there’s an expanding field of constructive journalism research to back it up.
Several studies report higher reader engagement for constructive content. For example, research has found that readers are more inclined to share constructive journalism content and also tend to spend more time on the page.
Solutions journalism education and on-the-job training are becoming more common, so it appears positive change is on the horizon.
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, recently spoke about the future of the publication and painted a hopeful picture of the future of journalism.
"If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination – hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn’t the way things need to be," Viner said. "We cannot merely criticise the status quo; we must also explore the new ideas that might displace it. We must build hope ... We will develop ideas that help improve the world, not just critique it."
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written by Demian Farnworth
Think about this for a moment. Your favorite podcasts.
This American Life.
WTF with Marc Maron.
Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income.
Every single one of them started at the bottom. Every single one of them started in obscurity. Every single one of them started without an audience.
It’s hard to believe. Over 25 years ago, at age 19, Ira Glass was an intern at NPR, and a terrible writer. It took him, he confesses, eight years to learn how to effectively structure a story. Now he hosts a show with nearly two million weekly listeners.
Marc Maron was a late-30-something comedian, twice divorced, holding the record for most guest spots on Late Night with Conan O’Brien as his only claim to fame when he started his podcast — a somewhat desperate gig considering the fact he’d just been fired from his job.
He now regularly boasts the number one podcast in comedy on iTunes.
As a “Job Captain” at an architecture firm in Southern California, Pat Flynn loved his job and enjoyed life. Until he got laid off. That event, devastating for sure, turned out to benefit Flynn.
He decided to work for himself and launched a podcast, which has become a top-ranked business podcast on iTunes featured in the New York Times.
Three people. Three podcasts. Three success stories. All from normal people like you.
Life before podcasts
In the past, when we were young, restless, and abrupt, we all started with a blog, perhaps one that was free. Or we bit the bullet and bought a paid version, something like Typepad.
Every day we dutifully published a post — sounding off on the circus called politics, or sharing our everyday traumas, or teaching others a new skill.
Blogs were a boon for both the shy and the verbose. Then, around 2004, along came the podcast. Now we could use audio to share our opinions, dramas, and skills.
Former MTV host Adam Curry, smitten by the new technology, doubled down on podcasts. In fact, he launched iPodder.org, a platform that allowed you to easily subscribe to shows.
But alas, the idea was before its time and quietly boiled away in the background. Seems even with an app like iPodder.org, downloading episodes was still a clunky process.
We weren’t ready for podcasts until smartphones — with the ability to stream or download on the spot — saturated the market.
Introducing the rebirth of podcasts
Once the technology caught up with the concept, podcasts took off again. So much so that audio is now a foundational content format that provides you with the opportunity to tap into large distribution networks like iTunes and Stitcher.
See, if you only write on a blog, you are invisible to the audiences on these other networks.
But if you start a podcast, you become visible to these large networks, and you can also enhance your podcast’s visibility by publishing the transcript online. And why not do this when audio is relatively cheap to create. How cheap?
Jerod Morris and I produce The Lede podcast with a couple of decent microphones through Skype or Google Hangouts. Jerod edits with GarageBand, a free app from Apple. We then publish to iTunes and Stitcher. The cost is in our time and a small fee for the transcript. Everything else is free.
The one thing your podcast must have
Perhaps you’ve reached a stage in your life where you are ready to do something for yourself. You have a story to tell. A business idea you want to cultivate. Opinions about music that must be heard.
If you don’t have an audience, consider building one with a podcast. Your finished audio product will give you text to publish on a blog, too. (Just keep in mind that once you churn out the transcript, it’s best to polish it up for readability, since transcripts often aren’t publication quality, or even proofread.)
The beauty of this approach is that you create two pieces of content that honor two different learning styles — in half the time. Anyone who can speak can do this. But there is one thing your podcast must have: structure.
Rambling is a no-no. There are only a few people in the world who can go off script and keep a podcast interesting. And while it may seem they are off script, the truth is they just prepared intensely for the podcast.
Howard Stern, for example, can get away with it because in reality he doesn’t ramble. His experience and preparation carry the interviews right along. The same goes for world-class interviewers like Katie Couric, Jim Lehrer, and Dick Cavett.
Preparation is everything when you create media. It not only serves your audience, who does not want to listen to a rambling mess (no matter how authentic you think it is), preparation also serves you.
Giving your podcast structure and order makes it easier to convert into other formats. As Brian Clark said:
Many, many people are able to create fantastic content and create audiences and end up with content that can be repurposed into other formats by doing audio interviews.
But it can be tough to get the right people on your show, especially when you’re just starting out.
How to get superstars on your show
Most people in your industry with even a smidgen of reputation will be happy to jump on an interview. Doing an interview for a podcast is the equivalent to the academic world of logrolling: “I’ll give you a nice blurb about your book if you do that for me.”
It’s the trading of favors. The interviewee gets exposed to a new audience (the interviewer’s) while the interviewer gets exposed to a new audience, too. More than likely, the interviewee will share the finished product with her social media crowd.
Money is never discussed; money is never exchanged.
But when you go up the food chain, the game changes. Industry leaders have floods of requests from analysts, reporters, and podcasters. Everyone wants a piece of their time. But no one seems to have a budget.
Giving our time freely for interviews is an odd phenomenon in an economy where it is assumed we trade time for money. If you want something from me — my time, my experience, my results — you will have to pay me for that.
No one bats an eye at this expectation (unless you charge outlandish fees). As we all like to say, “I have a family to feed.”
This is important when you start a podcast. While interviewing industry players can help you build a body of work, it probably won’t lead to any breakthrough. In fact, it often leads to a humdrum echo chamber.
Your breakthrough won’t occur until you snag that talk with an unreachable industry authority. Then people will pay attention. And, more than likely, pay money for the content.
A classic example of the value of great content
Let me give you an example of why this actually makes a lot of sense.
Two guys who paid $100,000 for the rights to Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich, before it landed in the public domain, started Guthy-Renker — a powerhouse direct response company and pioneer of ethical infomercials with $2 billion a year in sales.
You are probably saying to yourself, “That’s a classic book. Everyone has read it. They probably drained their life savings for that. What a stupid gamble.”
Truth is, not everyone has read it. There was still a huge, thirsty market for Hill’s ideas. With those rights in hand, Guthy and Renker created an infomercial starring Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
They made $10 million off that one commercial.
Clearly, it was a smart move and money well spent. Given that, paying an expert a reasonable hourly fee to provide you with content seems like a smart move, too — one way to distinguish yourself from the ordinary crowd of podcasts.
Here’s the magic of this approach
Once you have great content and the rights to use it as your intellectual property, which is what Guthy-Renker did, you could:
Give it away as an asset pillar.
Put that content behind a paywall as part of a content library.
Use the transcripts to create an ebook you can sell.
Send interviews monthly as part of a private members email newsletter.
Create a video tutorial.
Design an infographic around the ideas discussed in the podcast.
The hard part is getting people on your show if you don’t have an audience. But once you have an audience, people will ask you if they can be on your show.
How do you prompt the catalyst? What do you have to do to hit that breakthrough — to crack the top 10 on iTunes in your category?
Paying a few rock stars to appear on your podcast might just do the trick.
The lesson of this article is that paying for great content is worth it down the road.
That’s because as long as you obtain the rights to your audio, which can be accomplished with a very simple release guests should sign if you pay them, then you can use (and monetize) the content however you choose.
That’s a smart strategy in a world full of ordinary podcasts.
Whom would you like to have as a guest on your podcast?
How would his or her expertise serve your audience?
If you don’t currently have a podcast, what’s stopping you from starting one?
Share your thoughts over in the discussion on Google+ …
And if you would like to learn more about this approach to podcasting, check out our New Rainmaker course — a two-week training opportunity that will teach you how to create the type of media your customers will love.
Click here to register for the free course.
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Jim Hart’s Reconciliation Pole at the UBC campus. (Archie Stocker Sr./Contributed)
Lack of funding, culture on campus biggest barriers for Indigenous students: report
Report based on nearly 300 responses found lack of support at post-secondary schools a big concern
Need for extra financial support tops the list for the largest barriers faced by Indigenous students as they make their way through post-secondary school in Canada, a nationwide report suggests.
The report, released Thursday by Indspire, a charity that focuses on Indigenous education, surveyed 300 students across the country attending universities, colleges and trades programs, including 35 attending schools in B.C.
It found students were also concerned about a lack of Indigenous student services on campus, Indigenous content in programs such as social work, nursing and law, and more Indigenous professors and mentors. Students said gaps in a support system on campus led to incidents of racism and resentment from peers.
“The least safe place for our students is in the classroom,” said Indspire president Roberta Jamieson. “That’s what they told us.”
Today, @Indspire released results from a survey asking Indigenous students across the country about barriers they face in post-secondary. #cdnpoli #bcpoli Here are a few of the key responses. More to come @BlackPressMedia pic.twitter.com/fPlu6qwpaq
— Ashley Wadhwani (@ashwadhwani) November 15, 2018
The report compared its findings with what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called for in its final report in 2015, which included seven recommendations focused on education for Indigenous children and youth.
Some of those calls to action included developing culturally appropriate curricula, ending the backlog of First Nations students seeking post-secondary education, and funding to close educational achievement gaps within one generation.
Jamieson said the survey results show governments and post-secondary schools “have not fully responded” to the commission’s recommendations.
In B.C., 50 per cent of Aboriginal people aged 25 to 64 had a certificate, diploma or degree from a trade school, college or university in 2011, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. That’s compared to 66 per cent of their non-Aboriginal counterparts.
Indspire’s report made three key recommendations: more funding for staffing for Indigenous student services at colleges and universities, a full evaluation of the commission’s calls to action, and strengthening Indigenous culture and belonging on campus and beyond.
Cultural awareness on campus
Many students felt post-secondary settings have not taken the time to incorporate Indigenous students, their history and their culture, the report said.
Student reported feelings of isolation, loneliness and being overwhelmed. Some said it caused a sense of marginalization on campus.
“There aren’t always safe spaces within the university, other than Indigenous Student Centres, that are welcoming to Indigenous students,” one student said. “Racism and violence still very much exist so it is sometimes hard to move throughout the university and not experience those things, from professors, other students, administration.”
Another student reported their peers resented them for getting special treatment and “as a result, the Indigenous students were not as welcome.”
Others said inaccurate reflections of their culture often forced them to address the misinformation.
@DKimmaliardjuk, the first Indigenous person in the country to become a heart surgeon says, “Indigenous people are the fastest growing population in this country so it only makes sense to invest in our education.” pic.twitter.com/fLGi1ooUfg
— Indspire (@Indspire) November 15, 2018
“In 2018, we do not need non-Indigenous peoples speaking about us. Make space, move over,” one student response read.
“In my field of study, it was very hard to describe how not only are we still here, but everything we do in our programs is through a Western lens. That there are Indigenous ways of reaching decisions, creation of policy, etc. It never gets recognized in my program.”
In the classroom, students noted “outdated” Western views “dominated” their course content, the report found.
The same was said about professors who lacked a knowledge of history of Indigenous people in Canada.
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7 simple steps to creating a great brand identity
By Nick Carson 06 August 2018
Take small steps to redefining a visual identity.
There are many ways to approach a rebrand. A trend of late has been to focus on reawakening a brand's heritage by looking to the past, but sometimes a huge overhaul of a visual identity isn't what's needed.
If a brand hasn’t lost its way entirely, but is becoming a little tired, sometimes the rebranding process is more about modernising, and making a brand fit-for-purpose, rather than dramatically looking either forwards or backwards for inspiration. But sometimes making small steps towards a new identity or tweaking things slightly is actually more difficult than starting from scratch or making big changes.
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Here, leading designers reveal how to best go about rebranding in small steps.
01. Don't disregard the current brand
SomeOne's rebrand of UK Parliament
Like so many high-profile projects before it, SomeOne’s recent rebrand of the UK Parliament faced a wave of initial criticism for spending public money on what was perceived to be a few tiny tweaks to the portcullis logo. But as the tweets piled up, and more of the ‘brand world’ was revealed, it became clear to anyone willing to dig a little deeper that the rebrand was about digital versatility.
“Only a fool rushes into an established brand with a total disregard for the brand’s history,” believes Simon Manchipp, co-founder and executive strategic creative director at SomeOne. “There’s nearly always something worth preserving,” he insists.
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“With the UK Parliament, the portcullis is part of the very fabric of the buildings," continues Manchipp. "The Royal documentation. Even the curtains. So there was never a question of replacing it. It’s a globally recognised symbol, which in brand terms is worth billions. “It was streamlining and making it digitally adept that formed the basis of our brand work, as well as creating systems to better clarify Parliament’s role in a modern democracy. Connecting many parts to make one cohesive whole.”
02. Make small changes that make a big impact
Ericsson’s recent minimalist rebrand involved small tweaks to the angle of its lines
Chris Moody, chief creative officer at Wolff Olins, compares this approach to the principle of ‘incremental gains’ embraced by Team Sky in cycling events, and admits that Wolff Olins has actively encouraged it in recent years. “However, just like Team Sky, I’m now questioning the true validity of doing this,” he adds. “It’s not so much about being unable to plug in to other people’s designs, but more that it’s more important than ever to design with totality in mind.”
If you aren’t pissing someone off a bit, you aren’t trying hard enough
Chris Moody, Wolff Olins
If small changes make a big impact, he reasons, then it’s a course of action worth pursuing, but you need to be completely honest with yourself. “If you are fiddling with line weight for the sake of it, then it’s a waste of everyone’s time,” he smiles.
Moody gives the example of Ericsson’s recent minimalist brand overhaul: “It’s pure hygiene,” he argues. “This is commendable, and a critical part of any brand design process, but it’s neither genuine ‘rebranding’ in any major sense, nor newsworthy.
“Fetishising these tweaks – see also eBay, Audi, and YouTube – gives them an inflated level of importance,” he adds. “It feels like [highly-acclaimed architect] Richard Rogers making a big deal about bleeding the radiators in one of his buildings. Designers should aim for big, bold, radical change. If you aren’t pissing someone off a bit, you aren’t trying hard enough.”
03. Make a brand digital-friendly
“If you’re going to change anything, you must have a good reason. Something should be fundamentally broken, or substantially shifting in the market,” says The Clearing’s Richard Buchanan. “Making sure that brands are fit-for-purpose, particularly digitally, is what people are most concerned about. If not a digital-first strategy, they need a digital-friendly strategy. Look at Audi: it’s got to work as a badge on the front of a car, but also a 16x16-pixel favicon.”
04. Let form follow function
Lufthansa has taken an incremental approach to updating its logo
“Small incremental changes are about subliminal reaction to the change, not overt signalling of newness,” explains North's Sean Perkins. “They’re useful when brands need to address certain functional issues to move forward, without jeopardising the equity and reputation in their existing brand recognition.”
Perkins gives Lufthansa as a great example of this approach: "incremental change, with huge effect on recognition. Masterfully successful, in my opinion.”
05. Make the change visible
“Tiny tweaks become very hard to justify, when you consider the cost of rebranding projects,” believes Michael Johnson of Johnson Banks. “There may be a legitimate business reason to tweak your verbal brand and not the visual – but my old boss Wally Olins called his job ‘change made visible’, and I still subscribe to that view. If nothing appears to have changed or the changes are imperceptible, it makes it much harder to re-position a brand on just words.”
06. Pick your battles
A range of assets featuring the new UK Parliament identity
“Change in general is resisted by all but the most progressive of thinkers,” reflects Manchipp. “Part of our position is to identify the elements of the brand that will make the greatest positive impact. In the UK Parliament’s case, the symbol is well-known and needed technical attention but not a radical creative overhaul. However, the infographic systems and iconography to aid non-written communications were underdeveloped, and increasingly sought after.”
07. Don't reinvent the wheel
Johnson Banks rebrand of Historic Houses (also featured in the lead image)
“As a younger designer, I avoided ‘evolutionary’ routes,” recalls Johnson. “Now? I’m a little wiser, and can see that some clients’ previous identities weren’t completely broken. They just needed to work better. We changed Action Against Hunger’s confusing symbol to simply one of food and water. Historic Houses’ monosyllabic old symbol became a visual reminder of the many houses they represent.”
This article was originally published in issue 279 of Computer Arts, the world's leading design magazine. Buy issue 279 or subscribe here.
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Von der Leyen, one of the longest serving ministers in Germany, has tried to woo European lawmakers over the last two weeks – to convince them she is the right person to...
Sneak peek: 'Frozen' returns in 'Frozen Fever'
Published Tue, Feb 3 2015 6:38 AM EST
Bryan Alexander
Even in the middle of winter, the world is yearning for a new Frozen. And it's here.
The filmmakers who brought us the animated hit musical Frozen in November 2013 have created a seven-minute short centered around Princess Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell), Princess Elsa (Idina Menzel), Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and the snowman Olaf (Josh Gad).
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Still from the movie "Frozen"
"The gang is back together. And literally it's like we never went away," says Gad. "Every day we're reminded of Frozen in our lives. So it feels like a continuation of a saga that has many parts still untold. It felt like coming home again after a short absence."
The first revisiting of the now-beloved characters features some surprising changes, including older sister Elsa's attitude. Elsa, weighed down by her royal duties in Frozen, has lightened up so much that she's throwing Anna a birthday bash.
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"It's another side of Elsa the audience hasn't seen before and we hadn't really played with in the original feature," says Chris Buck, who reunited with Jennifer Lee to direct the short.
The birthday plans go awry when the powerfully magic Elsa comes down with a cold on the big day.
"Elsa doesn't get a cold in the usual way," says Lee. "She's special. Surprising things occur that wreak a little havoc."
The short features a new song from the husband-and-wife team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won an Oscar for Let it Go. Parents, be warned: The new song is catchy.
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"If history is any indicator, kids will go nuts," says Gad.
Life for the two princesses has changed in other ways. Olaf and Kristoff (along with Sven, the non-verbal reindeer) add to a highly unorthodox family. Their goofy portrait, inspired by the website AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com, hangs in the castle.
"There's a slight dorkiness to the painting," says Lee. "But it's the best thing they could all wish for, just that ordinary family feeling."
The Frozen landscape is also changed, as the kingdom embraces warm weather and Anna's summer solstice birthday. The directors promise other surprises as well. But the sister's rock-solid support for each other doesn't change from Frozen, which took in more than $400 million at the box office.
"We continue this story of these two sisters, who only had each other growing up together," says Gad. "They are still supporting each other. That's what this is about."
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BOL 1059: Nano Goes retro with FM radio
The Apple annonucement was a little mundane. The One More Thing was an iPod Nano with a camera. We were more impressed with the fact that they added an FM radio. But really that's the number two story. The Palm Pixi caught our eye for top billing. Sh
September 9, 2009 1:01 PM PDT
Apple announcements were a little mundane. The One More Thing was an iPod Nano with a camera. We were more impressed with the fact that they added an FM radio. But really that's the No. 2 story. The Palm Pixi caught our eye for top billing. Should it catch yours?
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New WebOS phone comes to Sprint: The Pixi (formerly Eos)
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Apple announces something or other
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The Beatles finally coming to iTunes, according to Yoko Ono (update: According to EMI, not tomorrow)
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Intel brings Nehalem to the desktop
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AT&T Snubs New York and San Francisco on 3G upgrades
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-snubs-new-york-and-san-francisco-on-3g-upgrades-2009-9
Comcast to offer 100Mbps service to businesses
The coming problems for rolling out 3D TV
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Say no to the super-sized TV, EPA hints
Why motivation is key for artificial intelligence
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Exoskeletons for rent in Japan
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Richard in Santa Monica guy wants the love
Hey Buzz Crew-
I was at Wal-Mart last night when I saw a couple of movies that I wanted to add to my Netflix queue, so I pulled out my HTC Touch Windows Mobile phone (which I haven't been real impressed with by the way) and added the movies to my queue using Netflix's mobile site. On my way home I was thinking...what if Netflix came out with an app that allowed you to use your phone to scan the barcode of a movie while in a store to add it to your queue? Love the show as always!
Big Bear Outlet Team
I decided to test out querying for the term ’search’ to see altavista pop up in google as no.1 like brian mentioned in yesterdays podcast. (I used to like altavista also), but waddayaknow!!! Bing is actually the no. 1 result, followed by altavista!
Is there any reason why google hasn’t put http://www.google.com as a search hit on the list when looking for the term ’search’ anyway?
Hi Buzz Crew,
You are making so much fun of the idea of Windows 7 installation parties. Well actually... this kind of parties are VERY popular and called: install fest (just type into Google). What you will see is a LOT of Linux install fest parties Microsoft communities also organize install fests. Usually they take place in some bar/pub where you sit with a bunch of geek friends and install a new release of some product. And after that you sum up the finished installations, unfinished once, also there are some disasters like a burned laptop etc.
So to finish this email - the idea is not new, not only MS does it but a lot of user communities
Thomas the programmer from Poland
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Contest: Win a limited edition Ghost Giant soundtrack on vinyl, as well as the game
Enter today's contest to get your ghostly hands on a PSVR copy of Ghost Giant, as well as its limited edition vinyl soundtrack! This is something we don't do every day -- a contest for a PSVR game is finally here! Yeah! Not only are we givi...
Etrian Odyssey Nexus gets double-disc OST release in May
Etrian Odyssey fans might want to keep their eyes and wallets open come the end of May, as publisher Atlus has revealed a special soundtrack release that will be made available in Japan, containing a selection of music from the RPG's storie...
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment gets a lovely vinyl OST release
A third physical soundtrack from popular indie platformer Shovel Knight is prepped for pre-order. This release will feature the score from Yacht Club Games' 2017 expansion to the Shovel Knight adventure: Specter of Torment.The 25-track albu...
Beautiful Okami HD vinyl soundtrack available to pre-order now
Vinyl soundtrack purveyors Data Disc are to release an exquisite box set featuring the soundtrack to Capcom's classic spiritual adventure, Okami, which has recently seen re-release on Nintendo Switch.The soundtrack set features four heavywe...
Huge Armored Core soundtrack box set blowing up in Japan this November
From Software has announced a release date for their comprehensive soundtrack collection based on the warmongering mech series, Armored Core.The Armored Core Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Box contains the OSTs from all fifteen titles...
Sonic Forces soundtrack vinyl looks like a must for fans
Sega have announced a release date for Sonic Forces - The Vinyl Cutz, a cool looking soundtrack collection for the distinctly average Sonic Forces title, that launched last year, crushed under the weight of the superior Sonic Mania.Even wit...
Far Cry 5's soundtrack keeps me coming back
Far Cry 5 has been a game full of surprises for me -- some good, some bad, some amazing. I ended up buying it on a whim the night before launch. Despite playing and liking every Far Cry to date (even Primal!) , I just wasn't interested...
Check out this beautiful Zelda: Breath of the Wild soundtrack set
Part of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's appeal lies in its rich score and sounds, which bewitch players as they guide Link onwards to face untold dangers. Nintendo Japan have unveiled the official soundtrack release for the title, and its as la...
Fire Emblem series arranged soundtrack releasing in Japan
This Spring, Japan will see the release of an Arranged Soundtrack collection featuring classic tunes from the long-running RPG series, Fire Emblem.The CD, titled Flower of Enchantment, will see memorable tunes from the series recreated inn ...
This Shadow of the Colossus vinyl is a sight to behold
Creating memorabilia for Shadow of the Colossus has to be something of a double-edged sword. On one hand, there's no shortage of awe-inspiring material to draw from. On the other, Shadow of the Colossus is so revered anything payi...
'Select Soundtrack' for Sonic Mania pops up on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play
Sonic Mania's soundtrack is worth celebrating. It really tied the whole game together. As of today, you'll be able to buy the 47-track Selected Edition of the Sonic Mania soundtrack through iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play if you feel so inc...
Super-sized Super Mario Odyssey OST now available to pre-order
Play-Asia have now opened pre-orders for the soundtrack album to the Nintendo Switch smash hit, Super Mario Odyssey, which launched in September of last year and shifted Switch consoles by the capload.The Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundt...
Super Mario Odyssey Sound Selection available on iTunes today
For anyone who fancies getting their weekend off to a Super Mario Odyssey-esque bang, good news, as the soundtrack to the Switch mega-hit is coming to iTunes today.Super Mario Odyssey Sound Selection is a 12-track album featuring choice cut...
Monster Hunter: World getting a 3-disc soundtrack in Japan
The marketing hype for Capcom's upcoming adventure title Monster Hunter: World continues, with today's announcement of a soundtrack set, now available for pre-order in Japan.Although there is little more than a teaser image, we do know it w...
The music of Rare including Battletoads, Conker and Viva Pinata is coming to vinyl
Purveyors of vinyl soundtracks iam8bit are to release three new LPs of classic games from British studio Rare. These new releases are next in line after the company's previous records for Perfect Dark and the NES Battletoads title.First up ...
Video game music fest being held in the UK in January
A two-day celebration of video game music is set to take place next year at the UK's National Video Game Arcade in Nottingham.The "All Your Bass" event, which will be held in January 2018, will consist of a series of performances and Q&...
Those gorgeous NieR vinyls now available for pre-order in the West
A few weeks back, we reported on some luscious NieR vinyl LPs that were being made available to Japan. Square Enix have now confirmed that the records are available for Western distribution, and pre-orders have gone live.Both the NieR: Auto...
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Japan getting vinyl OSTs of NieR & NieR: Automata
Japan will see stunning vinyl releases for the soundtracks to Cavia's sombre action-RPG NieR and its PlatinumGames sequel NieR: Automata.Each game gets a double vinyl set. The NieR Automata set features 15 tracks, while the NieR (or NieR Ge...
Another World's spoopy soundtrack coming to vinyl
Jean-Francois Freitas' creepy and atmospheric score to Eric Chahi's minimalist adventure game Another World is getting a vinyl release from publisher Black Screen Records.The soundtrack to the 1991 classic (also known as Out of This World) ...
One of the best soundtracks of 2016 is getting a vinyl release
Black Screen Records has announced that it is teaming up with composer Michael Kelly to release the soundtrack to VA-11 HALL-A, hands down one of the best games to come out last year, on vinyl. The limited edition release, due out his summe...
Mondo has gore-gous Contra and Castlevania wares for SDCC
Fine purveyors of video game vinyl and original art; Mondo, have unveiled a selection of Konami-themed items that will be on sale at San Diego Comic-Con next week.An 18x24 poster for hard-as-nails side-scroller Contra, featuring original ar...
Review: Baby Driver
Edgar Wright is a director with a specific vision, and it's led him to make some of the funniest, most genre-bending films in the past decade. It's also led him to leave Ant-Man. How do you bounce back from someone not letting you expr...
This Quake vinyl could be the perfect drug
There was once a time when video game soundtracks weren't fully orchestrated or composed by rock musicians. Technology limited composers to MIDI tunes, so there wasn't a need to call in more "professional" acts to spruce up your game. ID So...
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