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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 72
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 72
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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(2014-05-06) A Friendship, A Team
A Friendship, A Team
Summary: Kate meets a fan who becomes a friend and a possible teammate.
Date: IC Date (2014-05-06))
Related: None
NPCs: None
Scene Runner: N/A
Social/Plot: Plot
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A white blur followed by a rainbow blur. That's all most people will see of Hummingbird today as she runs through the streets of New York City. Most people. Kate Bishop, however, gets a different view. Perhaps Kate notices the blur as it races by, kicking up a light breeze. Then the blur as it returns and the woman in the white jumpsuit and helmet stops, gasping.
"You're Kate Bishop!" The speedster proclaims. "Don't move! I'll be right back!"
Within five seconds Hummingbird has run to an archery store in Maine and then returned with the best bow in the Kate Bishop archery line.
"Will you sign my bow?" Hummingbird asks, practicaly buzzing (literally) with excitement.
Kate Bishop blinks and notices the blur.. "Sal…" She shakes her head.. "No, you're not *that*…." She's interrupted by the arrival of the fan.. "Fast." She finishes, confused. "Um… Sure?" She looks around and smirks. "Sorry.. I haven't had to sign an autograph in quite some time." She reaches into her messenger bag for a Sharpie. She looks for a wide enough spot on the bow that won't interfere with the workings. "Do you shoot?" She asks, as she just signs her name.
"Just for practice." Hummingbird expains. Her voice has a faint hollow edge to it - the result of her speaking inside the helmet to be sure. "I shoot the arrow. I outrace the arrow. I catch the arrow. Sometimes I turn the arrow around. Believe it or not? When you turn the arrow around it doesn't fly back where it came from. It just keeps going backwards!"
Kate Bishop stops and looks, letting the thought of the physics actually sink in. "Wait.. You…" She looks around as if trying to keep things secretive. "You can move that fast? Fast enough to touch the arrow without affecting the momentum? That's… incredible." She smiles and offers a hand. "I'm Kate…" She stops, blushes. "Well, you know who I am. What's your name?" She looks around again.. "Also, you might want to change into something less… sore-thumby…. People are starting to stare."
"Huh? Oh. Yeah. I guess." Hummingbird says, glancing around. Indeed, people are staring. "Umm… I have a secret identity but…" She shrugs. "Eh. Screw it." She zips off again. This time, she's gone for about ten seconds. When she returns, Humminbird's out of her costume. She's a cute blonde, early twenties, pixie cut and a pair of red jogging shorts and an Iron Man t-shirt cropped off so her belly button's showing. But it has to be here because she zooms in as a black, red and blonde blur. "I'm Mary." She shakes the offered hand. "Hummingbird, sometimes. And yeah. I can outrace umm… well, I can't outrace lasers… but anything else?"
Kate Bishop watches the goings-on and smiles. "Just… amazing." And all kinds of other adjectives trademarked by Marvel. "I'm Kate Bishop…" She hesitates for a moment.. There's a reason why secret identities are supposed to be secret, but the girl just blurted out hers, so… "Hawkette, sometimes." She scrunches her face at the name, still not feeling it. "I… can't do what you do, but.." She looks around. "Would you like to grab some lunch? My treat?"
"Hawke…" Two. Three. Four. "OH! You… wow. With the bow?" She says, pointing to it. She pulls out her phone and begins tapping. "Thing is SO slow." She mutters before she finds what she's looking for. "Oh! There you are! Shadowry archer fighting crime. Neat!" She plops the phone back into her pocket. "Lunch would be great! I… umm… I have to warn you. I, like, eat. I should probably pay for myself."
Kate Bishop waves it off. "Don't worry about it. But since you have a dietary requirement, you pick the place. Are you from New York?" She looks around for a decent place. She nods about the archer part and puts a finger up to her lips.. "There's a reason that it's called a "secret" indentity." She winks.
"I'm from Los Angeles." Mary says. "Well, I live there now. I've lived all over." She glances around and then points. "I saw a deli that looked really good over there." She says. "Secret identities are hard when you have to eat twenty thousand calories in a day."
Kate Bishop scratches her head and nods as she heads in the direction that Mary pointed. "Yeah, I can see that being an issue. If anyone asks, we'll just say that you're on a special diet… training for a marathon or something." She smiles. "All the women there will be jealous of you." She chuckles and heads over to the deli and makes her way in. "So, what brings you to New York? Just breezing through the neighborhood?"
"I was on my third round the globe." Mary says as she walks, at a normal pace, beside Kate. Even when she's moving at normal speed she almost seems to vibrate with energy. Not literally but it is obvious she's ready to take off at a moment's notice. "Seeing if I could beat my record. I got distracted. I was in the stands when you competed. That was a lot of fun to watch!"
Kate Bishop can feel the energy coming from Mary. It even shows in her voice. She makes her way to the counter and looks at the menu, and when someone comes to take the order she smiles. "You're gonna need a list for my friend." She says. "I'll just have a Reuben." She turns to Mary. "Thanks.. I didn't think there were any Americans in the stands. I wasn't Michael Phelps, or those gymnastics girls making weird faces on the podium." The counterperson returns with a pad so they can take Mary's order.
"It was what I could get tickets for." Mary admits. "The big events were already sold out." She looks over the menu. "I'll take two.. no… three clubs. Heavy on the turkey, please. Also, two milkshakes. Chocolate and vanilla. And a plate of fries." She glances over to Kate. "I'll have another lunch later."
Kate Bishop nods to Mary. "Smart. You stay less conspicuous that way. The few people like you that have been recognized… well… it doesn't seem to be working out so well. I'd hate to see you suffer the same fate." She takes out her black AMEX card, much to the delight of the counterperson, and pays for the order. After signing the slip and leaving a decent tip, she walks with Mary over to a table and sits. "What distracted you?" She blushes, again stopping. "I'm sorry. I know I'm asking you all kinds of questions. I just haven't met anyone… Well, that's not honest. I have friends.. that are like you. They can do things. I'm just fascinated because I do my best out there despite not having any of your abilities… Just… the thought of what a bunch of us could do together, in a group is.. well…"
"I know, right?" Mary says as she sits down. She can't sit still. There's fidgiting. Fiddling. She changes position every few seconds. Crossing legs. Uncrossing. Leaning forward. Leaning back. "Tony Stark doesn't seem to have a problem with it but he's a billionare. He's used to being in the limelight already. I don't know. If people find out they find out." She shrugs. "You distracted me! I was running by you and I thought 'hey! I recognize her! She's the youngest American archer to go to the Olympics!' Or one of them." She pauses for a second. "Are you forming a team? I haven't worked with anyone else. I mean, there's no one else in LA but me so…"
Kate Bishop takes a moment to go through all of Mary's statements. "Girl, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were the poster child for ADHD." She still blushes at the accolades, never really got used to them in the first place. "Thanks, I…" She stops to think.. "I.. wasn't? But.. you know… it doesn't sound like a bad idea, now that you say it." She smiles as a couple servers bring out the orders. When one of them starts to look at Mary incredulously, Kate's angered and tries to shift attention. "Yeah, she's cute, now moveitalong!" She says, followed by the hate-shamed server skulking away. She takes a sip from her water. "You'd totally be invited, as long as it doesn't interrupt what you're doing back in LA." She smiles, so many ideas running through her head. She pulls out a phone and starts texting someone. "Sorry, don't mean to be rude, but I have a friend who might want to get in on this."
[ICtext to Sally] Call/text me when you get a chance. Ran into someone and I have a *glorious* idea! K.
Mary stares at the food. "Mmmm." She takes a long pull from the chocolat milk shake. Then the vanilla. "I come here for pizza." She says. "Not this deli but New York. I go to Tokyo for ice cream. They have the wildest flavors! In the spring they have cherry blossom ice cream." She mmmms. "So good. And, sorry. Side effect of moving as fast as I do. It isn't just running. My brain moves that fast and unless I'm running low on calories I ALWAYS have energy. I can't sit still. I was a little hyper before but now? Wow. Woosh!" She grins. "I promise you, though, it doesn't interfere with how I do the job. Did you know I have my own comic book? Its put out by a small publisher out in LA but it hit 100 on the Diamond best-seller list last month!"
Kate Bishop smiles and shakes her head. "I didn't mean it as a put down. I understand what's going on. Your metabolism is, hmm, what would the kids call it today? "Like, woah"?" She chuckles and takes a bite of her sandwich and nods. "Do you have a regular life? I mean, outside of being a white blur running around the globe?"
"This is my regular life." Mary says. "Its all I've ever wanted. To be a superhero. To live a life of action and excitement but to help people at the same time? How awesome is that?" Somehow, she's managed to eat two of her three sandwiches already. Most of both milkshakes are gone. Half the fries, too. "My dad was a scientist. Genetics. He had a lot of patents so I get money from that so I don't need a job."
[ICtext from Sally] What's going on?
Kate Bishop nods and listens. "Oh wow. Ok.. So.." She looks around and tones down her voice. "So you know something about this heroing thing? Which is good because, well.. we're kids, right? Aren't we supposed to train and such?" She looks down as her phone beeps. She can't help but smile instantly. "Hold that thought. Also, I'm sorry if I seem really slow to you."
"Everyone seems really slow to me." Mary admits. "I've learned how to deal with that. Mostly. And you're interesting. I like talking to you. So, I don't mind waiting. Good things are worth waiting for." She finishes off her meal. Inhales it. Then she holds her thought like she was told to.
[ICtext to Sally] You said you were picking up pieces, possibly looking for direction? I think I might've found one.
Kate Bishop blushes. "Thanks. That's a friend of mine. I think she may want in on this too" She nods. "So.. yeah.. You have experience in this? Would you like to come out here to help me? Us?" She thinks. "I mean, we can help out in LA too, if that will help, but transportation could be an issue. And.. I like talking to you too. My brain's going a mile a minute, too.. The only difference is that I don't have the control that you do."
Mary can't help but giggle. "It doesn't really matter where you are based, honestly. My current record for running the equator is… umm… about 58 seconds? So, no matter where you are I can get there pretty quickly. That's the best thing about my powers. I do most of my work in Los Angeles but I can be anywhere to do good."
Kate Bishop nods. "I know, but *we* don't have your abilities. If we're to be a team, then we need to be there for each other. We need to be able to help you as much as you help us." She finishes her meal and stands, reaching into her messenger bag. She pulls out a business card and hands it to Mary. "Here's my number.." Her phone beeps again. "You can send me yours and we'll keep in touch with this. I'll work out the logistics and the space."
[ICtext from Sally] I've been thinking about it too. Alot. A group, protects people, investigates stuff the cops don't , big stuff kinda pays the smaller stuff.
"Oh. You have to go?" Mary says as she takes the number. She pulls out her phone and enters the digits, forcing herself to slow down so she doesn't break the glass on her phone or overtax the operating system. "That's too bad. This was a lot of fun. I… umm…" She blushes a little. "I don't get to hang out with people much."
[ICtext to Sally] Great minds, etc. Need to find quiet, unassuming property ASAP. Met someone who can help us.
[ICtext from Sally] There's loads of empty offices that are easy to get too all-over.
Kate Bishop smiles. "I need to get this started. Plus I have one last final to get to. I promise I'll be in touch. Hell, if I see a white blur I'll just stick my hand out to stop you." She winks jokingly as she looks at her phone. "Sounds like my friend's in on this too. Awesome. I'll find us a place to start."
[ICtext to Sally] Awesome. I'll start looking online. You can help when you have a chance.
"Oh, don't do that. I'll probably rip your hand off by accident." Mary says, quite seriously. "But maybe next time I'll grab you and we can go somewhere exotic for lunch." She finishes off the rest of her food. It doesn't take more than a second. "I'll text you with my number." In fact, she does just that.
Kate Bishop chuckles and waggles her eyebrows. "Sounds tempting." She smiles at the chime on her phone. "Awesome. I'll let you know when we have a place. Then we can move on from there. We'll need some catchy name.. but not so catchy that the newspapers will ridicule us.." She waves. "Gotta run.. well, not like you, but.." And with that she heads out.
[ICtext to Sally] *cringe* Sorry, that sounded bitchy. I mean, feel free to look as well as your time allows. I don't want to infringe on whatever it is you're doing in that important Embassy. ;)
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Lauren McLaughlin Cycles Back to Jack & Jill
Late last week, I went out to Brooklyn to chat with Lauren McLaughlin about her two YA novels, Cycler and (Re)Cycler, which are about a teenage girl, Jill McTeague, who instead of getting a period transforms for several days every month into a boy, who has established a separate identity for himself as “Jack” despite (or maybe beacuse of) the efforts of Jill and her parents to keep him contained. I started out by asking McLaughlin about the ways in which, after essentially behaving as pure unreconstructed id in the first novel, Jack begins to develop a more nuanced personality in (Re)Cycler…
It’s fairly easy to interpret the two novels as an extended allegory about teens struggling with queer identity in general and trans identity in particular, but McLaughlin observes that many other teen readers could identify with Jill’s turmoil in the first novel, as she’s fundamentally “a girl who is desperately trying to hide a secret” about herself that causes her shame and, like any adolescent, “[she’s] not complete yet. She’s still in the process of inventing herself.” She admits, though, that Jack was her favorite character to write; with Cycler especially, “Jill, as the main point of view character, was harder for me to know. It took several drafts before I felt like I understood her.”
Could that mean, I suggested, that if she were to return to the characters, later novels could bring Jack even further into the foreground than (Re)Cycler? It’s a tricky question, she said, and not just because it would mean tampering with the biological link to Jill’s monthly cycle that defines their relationship. She’s given the various possibilities a lot of thought, and it’s an almost “existential” problem: “If I were to combine them into one character,” she offered, pondering one option, “does that mean that one of them is no longer part of the story? Or could they become somebody else entirely?”
I also wondered if McLaughlin was a Ranma 1/2 fan, but she swears she’s never seen it. “People have been asking me about it more and more, though,” she said. “I really need to catch up with it at some point.”
(By the way, this was the penultimate stop on a week-long blog tour for McLaughlin; if you want to read more, be sure to check out some of her other appearances.)
23 November 2009 | interviews |
Come Meet Jeff, Jeffrey, & Geoff at Borders!
Tomorrow (Saturday, November 21) I’ll be moderating a discussion with Jeff VanderMeer, Jeffrey Ford, and Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG to talk about some interesting intersections between fantasy/science-fiction and life in the big city. It’s going to be a free-floating conversation, really: We’ll talk about imaginary cities like Jeff’s Ambergris or Jeffrey’s Well-Built City, and urban planning theory—realized or unrealized—which is crucial to Geoff’s The BLDGBLOG Book. So we’ll probably hit upon J.G. Ballard at some point, and I wouldn’t mind if Mervyn Peake came up, but honestly you should just come join us and see what happens. It’ll be at the Borders at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle; we’ll start at 5 p.m. with some short readings and move into the conversation from there, and then I’m told we might conceivably go drinking afterwards.
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action short already gone, directed by ross ching
Check out this three-minute badass action short, Already Gone, directed by Ross Ching and starring Shawn Ashmore and Harry Shum Jr. It's a story about criminals who steal from criminals, based on a longer, completed feature-length script. Watch it like you're being dropped in the middle of a movie that hasn't actually been made yet. You'll get the idea:
Ross and Harry previously collaborated on another short, Three Minutes, which was also pretty kickass. The hope is that Already Gone will generate enough buzz to eventually get a full-length feature going. For more information on the project, follow the Already Gone Facebook page here.
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Screaming Lord Sutch
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.
Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow (born David Edward Sutch, 10 November 1940 - 16 June 1999) was an English musician and politician. As founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, he was the longest serving leader of a British political party.
1.1 Pirate radio
1.2 Political aspirations
1.3 Death
Sutch was born at New End Hospital, Hampstead, North West London, and grew up in the working class area of Kilburn, North London. His father, a policeman, was killed in the Blitz, while his mother worked as a cleaner. Sutch fell in love with rock 'n' roll upon hearing 'Rock Around the Clock' in 1956 on his crystal radio set. His earliest public performances were at a local biker hangout called the Cannibal Pot Coffee Bar, on Harrow Road. Inspired by one of his favourite rock and roll stars, Screaming Jay Hawkins, he changed his name to Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow.[1] Despite the fact that he had no connection with the peerage, the deed poll laws of England at the time permitted this. He was one of the first musicians in England in the 1960s with long hair, reputedly 18 inches long, a fashion statement of rebellion that soon caught on with other rock artists. Sutch was aware of his weaknesses as a melodic vocalist, and relied heavily on image, taking his lead from Screaming Jay Hawkins, and putting on a show that mixed rock 'n' roll, theatrics and gothic horror.[2] Among the stage-props he used were an axe, daggers, skulls and a black coffin he emerged from dressed as Jack the Ripper.[3]
In 1961 while playing at London's famed 2 I's coffee bar in Soho, he was discovered by maverick producer Joe Meek. Sutch then assembled his first backing group, the Raving Savages. Recording at Meek's home studio in Holloway Road, Islington, Sutch and the Savages often had their records banned by the BBC, a fact which only served to give them more publicity and notoriety. Although never achieving any hit records, the Savages were an accomplished live band featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Andy Wren, and Carlo Little. Their early releases include 'Til the Following Night' (their debut a-side), 'Jack the Ripper', 'Dracula's Daughter', and 'I'm a Hog for You Baby'. Sutch once changed the name of the band to Lord Caesar Sutch & the Roman Empire, with his band dressed as Roman soldiers and Sutch dressed in a toga riding around to gigs in a horse drawn chariot, although this did not last long. Sutch's relationship with Meek ended when the two fell out over money that Sutch claimed Meek owed him. The Savages went through numerous line-up changes throughout the 1960s, including the departure of guitarist Blackmore who later went on to form Deep Purple.
In January 1968, Sutch left England to tour and establish himself in the United States, and for most of the late 1960s and early 1970s spent increasing time living in Los Angeles. During Led Zeppelin's Spring tour of the US in 1969, he met with manager Peter Grant, whom he persuaded to assist him in brokering a recording deal with Atlantic Records. Sutch also met guitarist Jimmy Page, who was scouting studios to record in during their tour, and managed to get Page and John Bonham to test the facilities at studio Mirror Sounds in May 1969, by recording a number of rock standards. He later secretly recorded a set of his own lyrics over the standards they performed. Sutch enjoyed minor success in 1970 with the album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, which featured Page, Bonham, Jeff Beck, Nicky Hopkins, and Noel Redding. The musicians involved were however unimpressed with Sutch, believing the recordings to be for a studio test only. In 1971, Sutch assembled a new line-up for the Carshalton Park Rock 'n' Roll Festival, and had the evening secretly taped. This later appeared in 1972 as Hands of Jack the Ripper featuring Keith Moon, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, but it failed to chart. To promote his albums, Sutch toured the United States in a Union Jack painted 1955 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. In 1972, he was also arrested and later released without charge, when he accompanied five naked women to Downing Street to protest at the shortage of rock music on the BBC. He recorded his final album Alive & Well in 1980, featuring Pat Travers, Rick Nielsen, and Klaus Voormann. Numerous compilation albums have proliferated after the 1980s.
In May 1964, taking advantage of a loophole in the UK broadcast law, he founded Radio Sutch, one of the first pirate radio stations in Britain, often playing his own records and those of his friends, with late night readings of a bawdy nature. Early broadcasts were transmitted from The Cornucopia, a fishing trawler, and were fraught with technical problems.[4] The vessel was used in the early morning for fishing, and after midday it would begin broadcasting its programmes. The station finally moved to Shivering Sands, a disused wartime fort, located in the Thames Estuary off Southend.[5] Now in competition with the newly launched Radio Caroline and hampered by a weaker transmission signal to London, Sutch began losing interest in the venture and he sold the station in September of that year to his manager Reg Calvert, who re-launched it as Radio City.
Political aspirations
In 1963, Sutch made his first foray into politics, standing as a parliamentary candidate (as Lord Sutch) for his own National Teenage Party (NTP) in Stratford-Upon-Avon.[6] Straford-Upon-Avon was previously held by conservative MP John Profumo, who had to resign over the Profumo Affair. The NTP's platform included reducing the voting age to 18, establishing commercial radio, abolition of the 11-plus exams, and all-day opening of pubs, all of which have since become law in Britain.[7] Sutch received a mere 208 votes but his taste for politics had been whetted and over the next 30 years he stood in 40 elections - more than any other candidate in history, and earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. As founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party, which replaced the NTP, he eventually became the longest surviving leader of any UK political party, despite the fact that he lost his own deposit at every election.[8] In total, Sutch stood for Parliament 39 times, plus 1 Euro-election in 1989, polling some 15,000 votes, forfeiting more than £10,000 in lost deposits and incurring £85,000 in campaign expenses.
Sutch formerly registered the Monster Raving Loony Party in 1983, and campaigned for more than one Monopolies Commission, for the European butter mountain to be turned into a ski slope, and to breed fish in the wine lake, 'so they'd come out ready pickled!' Sutch would appear during campaigns with his trademark megaphone, top hat and leopardskin shirt. The party's official slogan was: 'Vote for insanity, you know it makes sense'. In the ITV comedy series The New Statesman, he appeared as himself in the 1987 elections, securing second place against the SDP and Labour candidates. A Heineken Pilsener commercial in the 1990s featured Sutch as Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street. In 1991 Sutch published his autobiography Life As Sutch (with Peter Chippendale) published by Harper-Collins.
Sutch's strongest showing was at Rotherham in May 1994 when he polled 1,114 votes, only some 200 short of the number required for saving his deposit. His most significant result, however, was at Bootle in May 1990, when he scored 418 votes to the Social Democrats' 155, a result which helped to convince Dr David Owen that his party was finished. In 1995, Sutch was facing bankruptcy when Barclays Bank threatened to foreclose on a loan of £194,000, but William Hill, the bookmakers agreed to finance his election deposits, and the bank re-scheduled his repayments, so that in July he was able to record one of his best results (782 votes) at the Littleborough and Saddleworth by-election. In the 1997 general election, English betting agency Ladbrokes gave odds of fifteen million to one against Sutch ever being Prime Minister of England, their greatest odds ever. They only gave fourteen million to one against little green men being found on Mars. Although he didn't win the seat, Sutch in the end scored 10 times the vote of Dr Alan Sked's UK Independence Party. It would also prove to be the party's final national election campaign as Sutch could no longer afford the deposits, which had been increased for every candidate from £150 to £500.
Despite his seemingly light-hearted antics, Sutch in reality suffered from periods of depression and committed suicide by hanging himself at home on 16 June 1999, affected by the sudden death of his mother Annie Emily Sutch in late 1997. He had been previously booked to appear at a show in Las Vegas, and tour the US. At the coroner's inquest into his death, his fiancée Yvonne Elwood stated that he had 'manic depression'. Indeed, her descriptions, both of his symptoms and their treatment by doctors with antidepressants, suggest that Sutch suffered from clinical depression. Sutch never married, but is survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to the American model Thann Rendessy. Party chairman Alan 'Howlin Laud' Hope, took over as Monster Raving Loony Party leader after Sutch's death.[9] A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair stated:
Screaming Lord Sutch will be much missed. For many years he made a unique contribution to British politics. Our elections will never be quite the same without him.[10]
The 2008 Joe Meek biopic Telstar featured singer Justin Hawkins as Screaming Lord Sutch.
↑ Moran, Mark and Sceurman, Mark (2007). Weird England, 1st. New York: Sterling, 124. ISBN 1-4027-4229-0.
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↑ Unterberger, Richie (1998). Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More, 1st. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 241. ISBN 0-87930-534-7.
↑ Baron, Mike (1975). Independent Radio: the Story of Independent Radio in the United Kingdom, 1st. Lavenham: Dalton, 241. ISBN 0-900963-65-4.
↑ Chapman, Robert (1992). Selling the Sixties: The Pirates and Pop Music Radio, 1st. London: Routledge, 132. ISBN 0-415-07970-5.
↑ Gosling, Ray (1963). "Lord Sutch". New Society 2 (1): 21. ISSN 0028-6729. Retrieved on 5 June 2009.
↑ Murray, Phil (1997). Bites on Personal Development, 1st. London: Lulu, 69. ISBN 1-8987-1611-2.
↑ Barrie, Axford (2002). Politics: An Introduction, 2nd. London: Routlege, 31. ISBN 0-415-25181-8.
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Josephll "Reformed Music Addict" - Underrated But BrilliantIt wasn't easy to follow up to "Dark Side of The Moon", one of the most celebrated albums of the 70's or "Wish You Were Here", but Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. proved with "Animals" that they were capable of recording another masterpiece, but without following the same concept as before. "Animals" is much darker and melancholy then there other albums, it's partly based on George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm and the diffrent songs "Pigs" "Dogs" and Sheeps" are metaphors for diffrent kinds of humans and the capitalist society they live in. It isn't that Waters see the human race as animals, but the whole idea of the concept album is to get a chance to look into this dark and bitter world view. There are only 5 songs included on this album, you may ask yourself, why on earth would it be any use to purchase an album with so few songs when you can get some other with 15 for the same price. "Animals" is not like other albums, it's a journey into another world and all of the 5 songs are part of a concept. They are full of sound effects, guitar solo's and nihilistic lyrics, but it's not very accesable since they lack hooks and melodies, although they show a Pink Floyd in top form making something magical and genuine. "Animals" has become somewhat a cult album, always loved by fans but despised by critics and non-accesable by casual listeners. First song is called "Pigs On The Wing" it's split into 2 parts, the opener and closer of the album. They are both accoustic slow paced songs that only last for 1.25 each, but listen closely to the lyrics, cause they are the keys to the whole concept. "Dogs" which is 17 minutes portraits the selfish business men that destroy their own lifes and people around them with their obsession for their own ego's, careers, and greed. On this song both Waters and Gilmour share lyrics, Waters sing in the beginning and Gilmour the last few verses. There are also some awesome guitar solo's by Gilmour on this one and one synth solo from Rick Wright's (where you also get to hear Dogs Barking), and as a whole I Think this is the best song of the album, especially if you like sound effects, long solo's and Progressive rock in general. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" portraits the people on top of the ladder, the people with wealth and power. Those people manipulates and make encourage the rest of the society to be competitive in order to remain at the top. This song starts with slow turbid lyrics but continues with some awesome blues-guitar solo just like it's precursor. "Sheep" is the last category. The sheep represent the lowest class of the social system. They are oblivious and exploited and somewhat unaware of what's going around in the society but they are obidient follows that do little to prevent that. The song itself starts slow but shortly get's loud, with synhesizer effects and guitar riffs. The 3 main songs are all over 10 minute each and rather simuar.
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What is the hammer throw? It is a modern day Olympic track and field event where athletes hurl a steel ball attached to a wire. But it is much more than that. It is a sport with a long and rich history. You can learn more about the hammer throw in this section.
How much does the hammer weight? What are the rules? What does it look like? Catch up on the basics of the event.
The hammer throw traces its roots back thousands of years to the Celts. Throughout history, the event has morphed into what is now the modern day hammer throw.
Olympic History – Americans dominated the event after it was first added to the Olympics in 1900. However, throughout the course of the century their supremacy faded as the Soviets, Hungarians, and other European nations improved. The women’s hammer throw has been an Olympic event since 2000 and has seen its world record quickly improve.
Olympic Medalists – View a list of every Olympic hammer throw medalist.
All-Time Top 10 Lists – Yuriy Sedych of the Soviet Union holds the current men’s world record of 86.76 meters (284’7″) set in 1986. The current women’s world record holder is Anita Włodarczyk of Poland with a throw of 78.30m (256’10″) in 2010.
World Record Progressions – The men’s world record has improved by more than 30 meters (nearly 100 feet) in the past century while the woman’s record has quickly progressed since first being ratified in 1995.
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Pesticides, VOG, Mercury? DoH Seminar to Train MDs on Hysteria
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 8460 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HOLDS CHILDREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
News Release from DoH Mar 1, 2017
HONOLULU – The Hawaii State Department of Health will hold a symposium focusing on children’s environmental health risks on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at the Ala Moana Hotel. This major event for medical professionals is part of Gov. David Ige’s statewide initiative to address community concerns about chronic exposures to pesticides, Vog, lead, mercury and other environmental hazards affecting our keiki.
“Protecting the health of our keiki is our priority,” said Dr. Virginia Pressler, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health. “We are honored to gather national experts in Honolulu to assist our local medical community in recognizing and addressing environmental hazards that may affect our children’s health.”
The free one-day symposium is made possible by funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is sponsored by the Hawaii Department of Health and Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit in partnership with EPA Region 9, the University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, and the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics.
“This symposium to train Hawaii’s pediatricians and health care professionals is a great example of the support the EPA has been providing for more than 15 years,” said Alexis Strauss, EPA’s Acting Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “As children are more vulnerable to environmental hazards than adults, we want to ensure children and pregnant women receive the best of care.”
The symposium aims to increase knowledge of environmental burdens commonly found in children; how these burdens can impact children’s health and what local professionals can do to address children’s environmental health problems in the communities they work with. The Hawaii Consortium for Continuing Medical Education (HCCME) has approved this training for six continuing medical education credits.
Limited space is available for healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners), public health practitioners, and health educators. Register at LINK. For more information, contact Barbara Brooks (808-586-4249) or barbara.brooks@doh.hawaii.gov.
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‘Best Things about MC’ Facebook page promotes school spirit
February 1, 2012 February 7, 2012 Kenzi McCarter 0 Comments social media, student life
This is one of the many photos that Mike Boudreau Jr. shares on 'The best things about Maryville College' Facebook group. Boudreau created the group for past, present and future MC students. Photo courtesy of 'The best things about Maryville College'
The student body at Maryville College is comprised of individuals of all types. There are athletes and wordsmiths, artists and environmentalists, and more. Students come from a variety of backgrounds and grow to love Maryville College for reasons as varied as the students themselves.
Now, students can express their affections for the college through an atypical avenue: Facebook.
As the most visited website of 2011, Facebook is undeniably popular among undergraduates. It should thus come as no surprise that the social-networking site has now placed a hand upon MC, through the group, “The best things about Maryville College.”
The group was created by Mike Boudreau of MC security in July 2011.
As the page itself states, the group was created “for any persons affiliated with Maryville College in hopes to promote the college and to allow alumni and others to fellowship with each other.”
The best things about Maryville College is now nearing 700 members, including current and former students.
The page celebrates the benefits of the MC education, the amenities of the campus and the personal growth of students as a result of classes, faculty, staff and peers.
Boudreau expressed his hope that the page would help recruit new students who were considering the college.
This raises the question: is Facebook an appropriate medium for advocating MC? Should it be taken seriously?
Senior writing and communications major Justin Kirkland, an avid user of Facebook, argued the site’s importance in the context of a college setting.
“I think we forget how powerful Facebook is for us,” Kirkland said. “I mean, sure, there’s party pictures and witty statuses, but it’s your life on show. It’s more than an online game; it’s become a litmus test for the kind of person you are, whether you like that or not.”
Facebook is home to study group organizations. It proudly displays photographs from J-term trips and SGA events. It helps students, particularly newcomers to the campus, to familiarize themselves with their peers and, in some cases, professors.
In many ways, students use the site to document the entirety of their educational experiences.
With Facebook a staple to the young individual’s social life, it seems reasonable that academia would seek to find a place in the social-networking trend.
As Boudreau had hoped, Facebook has most certainly become a tool for recruitment.
According to Wendy Petty, admissions counselor and MC alum, most members of the admissions staff encourage potential students to “friend” or “like” them on Facebook, where they post their respective schedules in addition to information about the application process.
“[W]e do have a ‘Class of 2016’ Facebook page,” Petty said. “The ‘Class of 2016’ page generates a lot of dialogue and enthusiasm between the incoming freshmen. We post upcoming events, helpful hints, fun or interesting web articles about MC, and the counselors encourage them to interact with each other.”
With an institution such as MC, perhaps it is hard to determine a “best” thing. Fortunately, the Facebook group allows members to post as many “best” things as they choose.
For this young writer, the best thing about Maryville College is the college woods. The best thing is the intelligent and friendly faculty and staff. The best thing is the unique education obtained while surrounded by excellent peers.
Hopefully, this Facebook group will continue to grow, allowing all who so choose to share their opinions of Maryville on the popular website.
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Cefazone 1gr
Product name: Сefazon
Active substance (INN): Ceftriaxone (as sodium ceftriaxone).
Dosage form: powder for solution for injection.
One vial contains:
Ceftriaxone sodium (equivalent to 1 g of ceftriaxone)
Description: White to yellowish crystalline powder
Pharmacotherapeutic group: antibacterials / antibiotics (cephalosporin).
Presentation: Powder for solution for injection 1.0 g
Storage conditions: In the dark place at a temperature no higher than 25º C.
Shelf life: 2 years.
Рharmacological properties
Ceftriaxone – a semisynthetic antibiotic of group A beta – lactams, cephalosporins III generation, has a bactericidal effect. The mechanism of action is associated with inhibition of the activity of the enzyme transpeptidase, a violation of the biosynthesis of the cell wall peptidoglycan of microorganisms. The drug has a broad spectrum of activity: active in the relation-Research Institute of aerobic gram-positive microorganisms: facultative anaerobes – Staphylo-coccus aureus (including penitsillinazoobrazuyuschie strains), Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, ß-hemolytic streptococci group A (S.pyogenes), streptokok-ki group B (S.agalactiae), Streptococcus viridans, Streptococcus bovis, Streptococcus neenterokokkovye group D; Gram-negative microorganisms: Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, H.rarainfluenzae, Klebsiella species (including Kb pneumoniae.), Morganella morganii, Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Providencia, Salmonella (including S.typhy), Serratia spp. (Including S.marcescens), Shigella, Versinia (including Y.enterocolitica); microaerophiles – Treponema pallidum; aerobes – Neisseria gonorrheae (including penitsillinazoobrazuyuschih strain), Neisseria meningitides, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; obligate anaerobes, Bacteroides species (including some strains B.Fragilis), Clostridium (but most strains of C. difficile is resistant), Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Fusobacterium (including F.mortiferum and F.varium). The drug is prescribed for microbial resistance to other drugs cephalosporin, aminoglycosides, penicillins, etc.
The drug is not administered orally, because it breaks down quickly under the influence of digestive juice. After intramuscular (i / m) is absorbed quickly and completely. Bioavailable-ness is 100%. The drug is reversibly bound to plasma albumin (85-95%), with in elevated blood levels reduced protein binding. The drug is not hydro-lizuetsya R-plasmid beta-lactamases and most hromosomnoobuslovlennyh fine-tsillinaz cephalosporinase and can act on the multidrug strains tolerant to penicillins and cephalosporins I and II generation and aminoglycosides. Acquired resistance is caused by certain strains of bacteria produce beta-lactamase, which inactivates ceftriaxone. The drug has a high degree of stability and prolonged half-life (T1 / 2). After the / m of the maximum concentration (Cmax) in plasma is determined by 1.5-2-3 hours and is at a dose of 1 g -80 mg / l; by intravenous (i / v), respectively administered 30 minutes max of 100-150 mg / l. A stable concentration is reached after 4 hours. The minimum concentration of antimicrobial found in the blood over 24 hours. Ceftriaxone is well distributed in tissues and body fluids (synovial, peritoneal, interstitial), enters the cerebrospinal fluid, the drug is also found in the bone tissue at an inflammation of the meninges, it passes through the placenta. The drug in a small amount excreted in breast milk (3.4%). In unmodified form (50-65%) is excreted by the kidneys within 48 hours, about 40% – in the bile. T1 / 2 when administered in doses of 0,15-3,0 g 6-9 hours, volume of distribution (Vd) -5,78-13,5 l plasma clearance – 0,58-1,45 l / h , 0,32- renal clearance of 0.73 l / h. In the gut microflora under the influence of the drug is converted to an inactive metabolite. T ½ an average of 8 hours. In children, the first 8 days of life, as well as in patients older than 75 years T1 / 2 is extended to 16 hours. With the lack of renal and hepatic excretion slows down. Cumulative effect is possible.
The drug is prescribed for the treatment of infectious diseases caused by susceptible to non-mu strains of microorganisms: infections of the lower respiratory tract (pneumonia, bronchitis, lung abscess, empyema), ENT infections, infectious diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs (pyelitis, cystitis, acute and chronic pyelonephritis, prostatitis, epididymitis), infectious diseases of the skin and soft tissues, including bacterial streptococcal, meningitis, infectious diseases of bones and joints, peritonitis, inflammation of the gall bladder, gastrointestinal infections, uncomplicated gonorrhea and other infections, sexually transmitted infections ( chancroid and syphilis), Lyme disease (spirochetosis), typhoid fever, salmonellosis, salmonellonositelstva. The drug is also used to prevent infections occurring after surgical procedures.
The drug is administered / o or w / w. For the / m in order to eliminate pain at the intro- Denia drug is dissolved in a 1% lidocaine solution in the following ratio: contents of the vial with 0.5 g dissolved in 1 ml of 2% lidocaine with 1 g – in 5.3 ml . Possible utilization of the sterile water for injection.
For on / in the preparation is dissolved in sterile water for injection in the following relation-fighting: vial contents with 0.5 g dissolved in 5 ml of solvent to 1 g – 10 ml. Adults and children over 12 years prescribed in a daily dose of 1-2 grams (1 administered once a day or half a dose of 2 times a day). In severe cases, the daily dose is about 4 g, which is administered in 2 divided doses at intervals of 12 hours. To prevent postoperative complications administered once 2.1 g (depending on the degree of danger of infection) 30-90 minutes prior to surgery. Patients with impaired renal function dose adjustment is required only in severe renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance (CC) of less than 10 ml / min).
For the elderly doses correspond to doses for adult patients. With Neos complications gonorrhea once in / injected 0.25 g of the drug.
The daily dose of the drug for infants (up to 2 weeks) and preterm infants is 20-50 mg / kg body weight. For children from 2 weeks to 12 years, the daily dose is 20-80 mg / kg of body weight, 2 administration. The on / in a dose above 50 mg / kg body weight children apply the drug-was fractionally, with intervals between doses of at least 30 minutes.
The duration of treatment depends on the nature and severity of the pathological-ray process, and determined, in addition, these bacteriological studies. Typically, the duration of treatment is 4-14 days. But in severe infections may require longer therapy. For most infectious diseases treatment lasts for at least another 48-72 hours after the disappearance of symptoms and confirmation of the effect of the results of bacteriological analysis.
Before the drug can occur allergic reactions (rash, itching, eozi-nofiliya, serum sickness, bronchospasm, erythema multiforme exudative, anaphylactic reactions, in rare cases – anaphylactic shock), stomatitis, glossitis, and on the part of the digestive tract are possible: nausea, vomiting , loss of taste, abdominal pain, goiter, superinfection, pseudomembranous colitis. Subject to change peripheral blood neutropenia, lymphopenia, leucopenia, thrombocytopenia, rarely – hemolytic anemia, in some cases, reduced plasma levels of serum factors (II, VII, IX, X), the prothrombin time is prolonged; observed nosebleeds, developed cholestatic jaundice, urinary increased creatinine level, there are cylinders, oliguria, anuria, biochemical changes (increase in liver transaminases and bilirubin in blood plasma), acute renal failure is possible, arrhythmia, headache, or infiltration into the site the introduction, in some cases – phlebitis or thrombophlebitis with a / in the introduction.
When used in combination with aminoglycosides due to increased synergy ef ciency with respect to Gram-negative microorganisms, but is necessary to choose their optimal doses. NSAIDs, antiplatelet agents increase the possibility of bleeding, loop diuretics and nephrotoxic drugs (aminoglycosides, polymyxin B) cause Naru-shenie renal function. The solution of the drug should not be mixed or administered simultaneously with other antimicrobial drugs or solutions in connection with the pharmaceutical nesovmes-reversibility.
With the combination of severe renal and hepatic insufficiency, and in patients on hemodialysis should be regular monitoring of the concentration of drug in plasma.
With long-term treatment should be regularly monitored picture peripheral Cro-vie, the indicators of the functional state of the liver and kidneys.
In rare cases, there are blackout (precipitates the calcium salt of ceftriaxone) ultrasound of the gall bladder, which disappear Paulsen discontinuation of treatment. With the development of symptoms or signs indicating a possible gallbladder disease, or in the presence of ultrasound – “sludge-phenomenon” signs should stop administering the drug.
In applying the drug described rare cases of pancreatitis that developed, probably due to biliary obstruction. The majority of patients had risk factors for biliary tract-standing (prior therapy with heavy accompanying Zabolev-tion, total parenteral nutrition); at the same time we can not exclude the role of the image of starter-tion of precipitates in the biliary tract under the influence of Ceftriaxone.
In applying the drug described rare cases of changes in prothrombin time. Pa-tients with a deficiency of vitamin K (a violation of the synthesis of malnutrition) may require monitoring of prothrombin time and purpose of vitamin K (10 mg per week) with an increase in prothrombin time prior to or during therapy. There are cases of fatal reactions as a result of deposition of ceftriaxone – 2+ calcium precipitates in the lungs and kidneys of neonates. Theoretically, there is a possibility of interaction of ceftriaxone with calcium-containing solutions for intravenous administration and other age groups of patients, so Ceftriaxone must not be mixed with calcium-containing solutions (including for parenteral nutrition). The interval between administration of ceftriaxone and katsy containing solutions should not be less than 48 hours. In the treatment of ceftriaxone may experience false positive Coombs test, tests for galactosemia, the determination of glucose in the urine (glycosuria is recommended to determine only by enzymes) When i / m injection injected deep in the upper outer square of the gluteus maximus. In patients with severely impaired hepatic and renal function the dose reduced. For patients with CC less than 10 mL / E daily dose of an antibiotic should not exceed 2 years
Use of the drug during pregnancy is possible only in cases where the alleged May-benefit to the mother outweighs the potential risk to the fetus or child. When needed-Mosty appointment during lactation should decide the issue of stopping breast-feeding of.
Perhaps the emergence of drug-resistant microorganisms and the development of superinfection.
Caution must be exercised with concomitant administration of “loop” diuretinov (furosemide, etc.)
When hypertension and disruption of water – electrolyte balance should be counter-lated sodium content in the plasma. With prolonged use is necessary tsitologiche-mechanical study to determine the dysbiosis.
Precautions: appoint newborns with hyperbilirubinemia who are prone to allergies, reactions.
Studies to assess the impact of the drug on the ability to drive sredst-you and other classes of potentially hazardous activities that require increased concentration-term attention and psychomotor speed reactions, have been conducted.
The drug should be stored out of reach of children and do not use after the expiration date.
Symptoms: dizziness, paresthesia, headache, convulsions
Treatment: symptomatic. Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are not effective.
Increased sensitivity to antibiotics belonging to the class of cephalosporin and penicillin-ne, as well as (in / m introduction) to lidocaine. Renal failure, Zabo-Levani gastrointestinal tract in history, particularly ulcerative colitis or enteritis, pregnant-ness, lactation.
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GuitarSarasota hosts Cavatina Duo, flute and guitar
By Susan Rife , Herald-Tribune
/ Thursday, March 17, 2016
Cavatina Duo – guitarist Denis Azabagic and flutist Eugenia Moliner – met as teenagers in Rotterdam, fell in love and became a couple before they became a musical duo.
"I met a girl who played the flute, she met a guy who played guitar," said Azabagic in a phone interview on Tuesday. "We weren't thinking we have to make a career like this."
Cavatino Duo
But their first recording, in the late 1990s, was well-received and they thought why not do another. Since then, they have made 12 recordings either separately or together, including music of Piazzolla, Asencio, David Lesner, Alan Thomas, and a collection of opera music arranged specifically for them.
They'll perform Saturday night for the GuitarSarasota series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota.
Their program will include Bach's Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, arranged for flute and guitar; three Balkan pieces arranged by Clarice Assad, reflecting Azabagic's Bosnian heritage; Fernando Sor's Variations on "O Cara armonia" from Mozart's "The Magic Flute;" solo guitar selections from Alan Thomas's "Out of Africa" suite; "Adios Nonia" by Astor Piazzolla and Thomas's Fantasy on themes from "La Traviata."
The pair's music together has evolved from their first recording, when they planned to record works that were written specifically for flute and guitar. But their thinking began to expand to arranging existing compositions written for other instruments that might be well suited to flute and guitar.
They commissioned works for a recording of music from the Balkans, and most recently for "The Sephardic Journey," An exploration of their own family histories in the Sephardic Jewish communities of Spain.
When they met, Azabagic had already been playing guitar for more than a decade, while Moliner was nearly a newcomer to the flute, which she began playing when she was 15.
"He made me work very hard," said Moliner. "I saw how he was dominating his instrument and I wanted to be the same."
CONCERT PREVIEW
CAVATINA DUO: EUGENIA MOLINER AND DENIS AZABAGIC
7:30 p.m. March 19, Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota, 3975 Fruitville Road, Sarasota. Tickets $25 GuitarSarasota members, $30 others, student rush $5. www.guitarsaraota.org; cash only at the door.
CAVATINA DUO: EUGENIA MOLINER AND DENIS AZABAGIC 7:30 p.m. March 19, Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota, 3975 Fruitville Road, Sarasota. Tickets $25 GuitarSarasota members, $30 others, student rush $5. www.guitarsaraota.org; cash only at the door.
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Thinking about the ‘Say Hey Kid’
When you come to San Francisco, you’re in Willie Mays country. This is his turf. You go by the statue of him outside AT&T Park, and it really hits home. This is where he played some of his greatest baseball, one of the all-time best.
It’s almost like he invented the position I play. He was the master of center field, no quesiton about it.It’s his position, and I’m honored to follow in his footsteps.
I had the good fortune to meet him once. It was at the 2007 All-Star Game here. He was The Man that day, walking out on the red carpet, getting that great ovation from the people. It was emotional for everybody. Seeing Willie Mays walk on that field, a tear in his eye, that really got to me. He is loved here, that’s for sure.
When we all huddled around him on the field before the game that day, I shook his hand. He had a tear in his eye, and I remember how thrilled I was when he told me that he liked the way I play the game. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me, coming from where I did in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a football player who became a baseball player. Hearing the great Willie Mays tell me that, it blew me away.
All I could think of watching him that day was the film of that classic catch he made in the 1954 World Series, his back to the infield, whirling and making that throw. He was known as the “Say Hey Kid” when he was young, and he played center field the way I’ve always wanted to play it, dreamed of playing it. He threw his whole body and soul into the game. I think that’s why he’s always been so admired — that attitude he brought to the game along with his incredible tools.
People always focus on a guy’s power, his offense, but Willie could beat you running the bases, making great catches and throws, doing it all. He had amazing instincts. When you have a five-tool guy like that, you don’t let him go. You keep him, work with him, help him grow into the player he can be.
I just wish I could have seen him play live. Everybody I’ve talked to who saw him says he was the best, that the brought so much energy and passion to the game that it had an impact on everybody. That’s what I try to do, play the game aggressively, without fear of failure. A young guy like Sean Rodriguez comes up and sees the way I play, hopefully that shows him that you should play aggressively, go first to third, not worry about making a mistake. You have to be bold and believe in yourself to succeed in this game.
I got to know Preston Gomez after I signed with the Angels, and he’s someone we all miss, like Nick Adenhart. Preston was in the game for about 60 years, and he always said Willie Mays was the greatest player of them all.
One of the best compliments I’ve gotten was when Preston told Lyle Spencer of MLB.com, just before he had that accident after leaving Spring Training in 2008, that I reminded him of Willie Mays in some ways. He told Lyle that it was not just the way I played center field and hit with power and ran the bases, but the way I work at my game, trying always to get better. I’m learning new things all the time, and I think I’m better now than I’ve ever been, because of the knowledge I’ve been able to pick up and apply to my game.
One thing Preston told Lyle that I especially appreciate is that I have a positive impact on my teammates. He said I was one of the best leaders, and it would show in the work ethic of my teammates. If that is the case, it’s something I’m tremendously proud of, because nothing is more important to me than playing the game right and being an example for the younger guys coming up.
When you think about it, being compared to Willie Mays in any way is an honor. Coming from a great and respected baseball man like Preston Gomez, that is something I’ll always cherish.
Written by mlblogstoriihunter1 Posted in Dailies Tagged with Angels, Giants, Nick Adenhart, Preston Gomez, Sean Rodriguez, Willie Mays
June 17, 2009 - 9:47 am jonnnnnn
Willie was one of the greatest to ever play the game… although I’m sure some of your catches… along with a couple by Jim Edmonds’ would be on a highlight reel right along with the Say Hey Kid…
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June 17, 2009 - 10:14 am truangelfan27
One day Torii, the next generation will be writing similar articles about you. I’m sure you make Willie proud!
June 17, 2009 - 3:10 pm ericpuma@clearwire.net
i hope someday you became a giant you would look good in the uniform just were the number 34 instead of 24 that number is already taken lol!!!
June 17, 2009 - 8:35 pm mauerfan
Torii, I am a Twins fan who watched you develop as a player. We in Minnesota sure do miss you!! I also spent my early childhood in the Bay Area, and I attended my first baseball games at Candlestick Park when Mays and McCovey were the Giants’ stars. You definitely are this generation’s Willie Mays. And let’s not forget Kirby Puckett in that lineage. All three of you play(ed) with joy and without fear, as baseball should be played.
June 18, 2009 - 8:48 am thatbaseballguy
Willie Mays was one of the greatest. It must have been a great feeling playing where Willie once did.
-Dillon
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June 19, 2009 - 9:02 am beesgal
Preston, Nick, Gabby. . .in times like these, we could all use a little boost. Thanks Torii, for taking on the mantle with grace and humility. Hope your ribs are feeling better. Willie, Hank, Jackie, Joe (Black). We honor their lives by doing our best to make things happen, inside and outside of baseball. . .BeesGal
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June 19, 2009 - 4:53 pm angelsgirl012
man glad to see you’re alright! You hit the wall pretty hard there it was 8-0 too! You didn’t have to do that but the fact that you did try your best is so admiring. You give it your all and I think that is what Mr Gomez saw in you to compare you with Mr Mays. Anyways best of luck (y’all are on a roll alright! winning streaks are fun huh?)
much love and support
June 19, 2009 - 5:49 pm bummedinoc
I grew up watching Willie Mays…he was my hero. I collected all his
baseball cards and pictures. The man was the most dynamic player of his
time. I can only imagine what it must be like playing on a big league
field (in what used to be called Candlestick Park) on his home turf. I
only saw him play live once (when the Giants were in town for the Dodgers) but
it was an experience. He hit two homers that day…I almost caught
one…it was literally taken away from me by an guy who was twice my size…I
was 9. I’d kill to have that ball now.
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June 20, 2009 - 11:22 am carmine
Growing up I always remember my Dad talking about the GREAT ball players and Mays was definetly one in the group. I can only imagine the thrill that you felt while standing very near one of your idols. And, for you to want to be one of the GREATS is more than anyone can ask for. As I see you in the dugout before a game I see you as the CHEERLEADER and I see all of your other team mates wanting to receive and give the same kind of leadership. You are in my book a GREAT player and I love and can very clearly see your hard work and effort. Stay healthy and have the best season ever.
June 20, 2009 - 5:14 pm MiCorazonEsAzul
In your post you stated “I think that’s why he’s always been so admired — that attitude he brought to the game along with his incredible tools.”— Torii, you bring the same attitude and skill to the game that Willie did back then, that’s why you are so admired in the game today. And this is coming from one of your arch-rival Dodger fans. I, too, was sitting on the edge of my seat when you were lying in the warning track in SF holding your ribcage. Glad to see you are none the worse for the wear! Keep up the good work. We will all be watching with big smiles on our faces.
July 2, 2009 - 8:58 pm geemee
Torii, Are you going to post any more episodes of “Hanging with Mr. Hunter”? I really enjoyed the one you did post. Made me smile all day thinkimg about it. You are so awesome to let us fans into a bit of your thoughts and privacy. Thanks, CJ
July 3, 2009 - 11:26 pm john51s@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for your Willie stories. I met Mr. Mayes at a golf tournament in 1993. What a great day, what a great person. I’m glad you have as much passon for the game as Willie. I think you are the most class act in baseball today. Always looking foward to reading your blog’s. All baseball fans should keep an eye on Torii. This guy is the full package. Sorry Minnesota, he’s an ANGEL now.
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Browse: Home > History of the Irish Parliament > Constituencies > Innistiogue
Innistiogue
Innistiogue in the early part of the century appears to have been dominated by the Deanes: at least one member of the family (0599, 0600, 0601, 0604, 0605, 0610) sat continuously from 1692 until 1768. However, there was an ongoing dispute over the control of the borough between the Deanes and the Fowneses (0812). It is recorded that:
On one occasion the clan [Deaneites], having mustered in force
is said to have marched towards Innistiogue from the direction of Graigue in full battle array and determined to carry the borough by storm. However, at that time, no goodly bridge spanned the Nore at this point, and the staunch supporters of Sir William Fownes having by a grand stroke of generalship removed all the boats to the Innistiogue side of the river, the followers of the rival Knight were stopped short in the midst of their career, and were obliged to content themselves with assailing the enemy by showers of stones across the water, after the fashion of Homer's heroes. The foe no less heroically returned the compliment; volley after volley of stones flew across Nore's classic stream, but as the combatants were unable to come to close quarters, their ammunition was expended without any serious results, and the patience of the Deaneites having at length become exhausted, they retired 'boatless home' and the doughty Burghers of Innistiogue, in the Fownes interest, remained masters of the day.214
Sir William undoubtedly strengthened his position when, in 1739, he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Brabazon Ponsonby. He appears to have further increased his hold on the borough about 1754 when 35 people were elected freemen; as residence was no longer required, they included many far-away freemen, for instance Shapland Carew of Waterford and James Smyth of Limerick. In 1755 a further 80 freemen were elected. The Deanes appear to have quarrelled among themselves, as in 1759 Joseph Deane Sr and Joseph Deane Jr stood against each other for portreeve, which Deane Jr won by a large majority. Then from 1761 to 1769 Sir William Fownes was portreeve, and this probably marks his final triumph. There may also have been a financial element in Fownes' triumph, as in 1756 he complained that 'Ned Deane' (0601) had promised to give Fownes the borough and Fownes had maintained his family and him for a long time. Then Deane had allowed himself to be arrested for debt and refused to vote for Fownes unless paid £800.215
On Sir William's death in 1778 the borough was inherited by his heiress daughter, Sarah, who had married William Tighe (2072); their son, William (2073), received the £15,000 compensation for the disfranchisement of the borough at the Union.
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The Dark Tower Beckons
Written by Jon Williams
As The Dark Tower opens in theatres this week, casual observers could be forgiven for thinking it’s nothing more than another Stephen King adaptation; there are certainly quite a few of those happening right now. More devoted King fans will tell you that The Dark Tower is more than just a book, more than just the seven-book series it eventually turned out to be. It is, in fact, King’s magnum opus, spreading its tendrils to touch, in one way or another, perhaps every book he has ever written.
The series begins with the simple yet elegant line that has become one of King’s most famous: “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” He wrote those words in 1970, as a senior at the University of Maine. He was inspired by a poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” by Robert Browning, which itself comes from a line in Shakespeare’s King Lear. He wedded that in his imagination with elements of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name, and the Arthurian legends, among other influences, for a dark fantasy quest that was unlike any other.
He began writing in 1970 and laboured for twelve years before the first volume, The Gunslinger, was published in 1982. This established a pattern that would persist for much of the series, with several years elapsing between the publications of the individual volumes. The second book, The Drawing of the Three, came out in 1987; the third, The Waste Lands (also inspired by a poem, this one by T.S. Eliot), in 1991. One of the longest gaps, six years, came before Wizard and Glass appeared, with its many Wizard of Oz references, in 1997. This exploration of the gunslinger’s fundamental backstory will be the basis for an upcoming TV series that will feature Idris Elba in a reprisal of his role from the movie.
It was another six years before another Dark Tower book would be published. In 1999, King was hit by a minivan while out for a walk, an incident that threatened his life and drastically altered his writing career when he was finally able to get back to it. Seeing the Dark Tower series as his life’s work and now feeling his own mortality, King set to work with a will. Wolves of the Calla was released in November of 2003; the sixth and seventh books, Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower (currently unavailable on audiobook) came out three months apart in 2004.
The Dark Tower brought the series to a conclusion, but that wasn’t quite the end of the story. In 2012, King returned with The Wind Through the Keyhole, another framed story of Roland’s backstory that fits in between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla. There’s also a bit of backstory to be found in “The Little Sisters of Eluria,” a short story written in 1998 and included in the collection Everything’s Eventual.
Of course, the full tale of the Dark Tower isn’t contained solely in these books and stories. Readers and listeners will notice connections throughout King’s entire oeuvre, some more pronounced than others. For instance, near the beginning of Wizard and Glass, the gunslinger and his band of travelers pass through a world that has been ravaged by Captain Trips, the weaponized flu strand from The Stand. The man in black that Roland pursues throughout the first book of the series (played in the movie by Matthew McConaughey) appears, in different forms, in both The Stand and The Eyes of the Dragon. The character Father Callahan from ‘Salem’s Lot joins Roland’s crew for a time beginning in Wolves of the Calla, and Dinky Earnshaw (from the title story of Everything’s Eventual) and Ted Brautigan (from Hearts in Atlantis) show up with roles to play as well. The 1994 novel Insomnia becomes a plot point of its own in the final book of the series.
While the Dark Tower books are popular in their own right, they are somewhat less well known than King’s other works. With the movie in theatres and a TV show in the works, though, the series is about to come to the forefront in a big way. Patrons who are stepping into this world for the first time have a rich, rewarding journey ahead of them, and others will want to relive Roland’s adventures again and again. Make sure you have the series and its related works on your shelves for them to explore and enjoy.
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The IAPT Double Myth of Economic and Clinical Utility
21st June 2022 21st June 2022 admin BABCP Response - NICE Consultation January 2022
The impetus for the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service was derived from a) economic considerations and b) an assertion that the positive results of randomised controlled trials of, primarily CBT, for depression and the anxiety disorders would be realised in routine practise.
A Money-Saver?
In 2006 the Centre for Economic Performance stated that “the total loss of output due to depression and chronic anxiety is some £12 billion a year-1% of our total national income ”. The contention was that investment in psychological therapy would pay for itself by a reduction in such costs. But currently IAPT costs over £1 billion a year, where is the evidence of a substantial reduction in the loss of output? Where is the evidence that IAPT constitutes a no-cost talk therapy?
Poor Performance at the Coal-Face
In the randomised controlled trials on average 50% of clients lost their diagnostic status as assessed by independent blind assessors. But no such unbiased assessors have ever gauged the impact of IAPT’s ministrations. IAPT has always marked its own homework. Rather than the claimed recovery rate of 50%, the best available evidence suggests that only the tip of the iceberg recover, Scott (2018).
Each myth means that the other is not carefully examined and IAPT advocates can deftly switch the focus from one to the other under critical scrutiny – a politician’s dream.
Psychological Therapy – a history of exaggerated claims
T.S Eliot wrote ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’ this applies particularly to looking at the effects of mental heath treatment. In 1751 the scientist and Quaker, Benjamin Franklin petitioned the Pennsylvania colonial assembly for funds to build a hospital on the grounds that ‘it has been found , by the experience of many years, that above two thirds of the Mad People received into the Bethlem Hospital in England and there treated properly , have been perfectly cured’. He was reiterating claims made in published books by English doctors. Fast forward over 260 years, to 2012 and an editorial in the prestigous journal Nature declares IAPT ‘represents a world-beating standard thanks to the scale of its implementation and the validation of its treatments’ (p. 473)’. A decade later, NHS England echoes this declaring ‘the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme began in 2008 and has transformed the treatment of adult anxiety disorders and depression in England. IAPT is widely-recognised as the most ambitious programme of talking therapies in the world and in the past year alone more than one million people accessed IAPT services for help to overcome their depression and anxiety, and better manage their mental health’ and recommends the IAPT Manual (2021). In 2019, Pickersgill examined the proliferation of IAPT by canvassing the views of professionals and professional bodies, noting that IAPT fellow-travellers were in the ascendancy. But in this evangelisation for the in vogue psychological interventions nobody has asked the consumer or considered the operation of vested interests.
The Absence of Open Discussion
Psychological disorders are ubiquitous and can negatively impact the course of coexisting physical conditions. Since the days of Benjamin Franklin, UK data on mental health treatment, has been used to foster the belief that UK treatments are a ‘world beater’. But independent evidence to support this contention is lacking. There is not just a gap between the psychological treatments delivered in randomised controlled trials and what comes to pass in routine psychological services, such as the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) service, but a chasm. Efforts to have a meaningful debate on the issue have been met with a deafening silence. In the silence, the scope of psychological treatments has gradually been expanded, beyond the initial focus of depression and the anxiety disorders to include patients with long term physical conditions – a psychological imperialism. The power-holders definition of the outcome of routine psychological treatment reigns.
Nature (2012) Editorial: Therapy deficit. Nature 489(7417): 473–474.
Pickersgill M. (2019). Access, accountability, and the proliferation of psychological therapy: On the introduction of the IAPT initiative and the transformation of mental healthcare. Social studies of science, 49(4), 627–650. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312719834070
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2 thoughts to “The IAPT Double Myth of Economic and Clinical Utility”
Richard Vallée says:
I’m not sure where they got this from: “the total loss of output due to depression and chronic anxiety is some £12 billion a year-1% of our total national income ” because the figures don’t add up.
Total government UK government revenues in 2006 were £516B and GDP was £1888B. Even a generous interpretation doesn’t add up to more than 2%, let alone that anxiety and depression are not testable, usually arrived at within the first minute, and merely constitute an association anyway. It’s completely dishonest to claim that depression and anxiety “cost” any amount.
On brand with the habit of inflating the costs of “psychosocial issues” that underlie the entire IAPT program and the biopsychosocial ideology.
Looking at the numbers, I think they just rounded up from 0.6% and aren’t bothered that this is at best weak correlation.
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Man's First Extraterrestrial Contact!
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Charles Cornwallis
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Charles Cornwallis was a British army officer who served as a general during the Revolutionary War (also known as the American Revolution). He led British forces to success in New York and Philadelphia before moving to the war’s southern theater in 1780. Despite suffering a crushing defeat at the Battle of Yorktown, Cornwallis had a celebrated post-war career, serving as governor general of India and lord lieutenant of Ireland.
Early Life and Military Career
Cornwallis was born on December 31, 1738, in London, England, into an aristocratic family with a distinguished military pedigree. His own military career began in earnest during the Seven Years’ War when he traveled to Germany and initially served as an aide-de-camp on the staff of the Marquess of Granby. He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a regimental commander in 1761 and earning a citation for bravery for his performance in the Battle of Vellinghausen.
Did you know? As Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, Cornwallis unsuccessfully argued for Catholic emancipation and helped secure passage of the Act of Union, which created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
With his father’s death in 1762, Cornwallis was elevated to become the 2nd Earl of Cornwallis and took his father’s seat in the House of Lords in Parliament. Amid rising tensions between Britain and its North American colonies, Cornwallis voted against the Stamp Act and other British policies that antagonized the colonists. Despite this, he volunteered to command British troops once the Revolutionary War began in April 1775.
Early Battles of the Revolutionary War
Promoted to the rank of major general, Cornwallis left for North America in early 1776 and arrived in the Carolinas that May to reinforce the British southern expedition led by General Henry Clinton. After British forces failed to take Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island in Charleston, South Carolina, Cornwallis and Clinton headed north to join the forces of General William Howe in New York.
With Howe leading and Cornwallis in command of reserve troops, the British defeated American forces led by General George Washington in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776. Cornwallis, who often risked his own life by visibly leading his men on the battlefield, helped rout Patriot defenders at Kips Bay in mid-September when the British landed on the island of Manhattan. In November, he led a British detachment over the Hudson River to Fort Lee, New Jersey, taking the fort, cannons, ammunition and supplies after a hasty American evacuation.
After pursuing the Continental forces across New Jersey throughout November and December, Cornwallis and the British were caught off guard by Washington’s surprise attack on Hessian troops at Trenton on Christmas Eve and another American victory at Princeton in early January 1777. Cornwallis spent the winter in England but returned for the spring campaign, later aiding in the British victory in the Battle of Brandywine (September 1777) and the capture of Philadelphia two weeks later.
British Campaign in the South
In 1780, with the war in the north having reached a virtual stalemate, the British refocused on their southern campaign, counting on a larger number of Loyalists among the southern colonists. Promoted to lieutenant general, Cornwallis became Clinton’s second-in-command, but their relationship soon deteriorated. After a three-month-long siege, Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, in the most significant British victory of the war.
Clinton soon left for New York, leaving Cornwallis to secure South Carolina for the British. That August, Cornwallis’ forces defeated American troops led by General Horatio Gates at Camden.
But the surrounding region proved more difficult to pacify than Cornwallis expected, as many colonists resisted the order to pledge loyalty to the Crown.
The tide of war began to turn against the British soon after General Nathanael Greene succeeded Gates in charge of American forces in the south. Forces led by Cornwallis’ subordinates met defeat in the Battle of King’s Mountain (October 1780) and the Battle of Cowpens (January 1781).
Defeat in the Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis pursued Greene’s army, clashing in the indecisive Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March and suffering heavy losses. From there, he took his army into Virginia, capturing Richmond and Charlottesville, before heading toward the coast to establish a naval base on the Chesapeake Bay. Continental forces led by the Marquis de Lafayette and General Anthony Wayne pursued the British to their eventual destination, Yorktown, while a large French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse approached the coast.
Surrounded and under siege, with his planned escape route blocked by French ships, Cornwallis was forced to surrender his army of 8,000 British troops on October 17. Claiming illness prevented him from meeting Washington to surrender his sword, Cornwallis sent his second-in-command, Charles O’Hara, in his place. The British defeat at Yorktown effectively ended hostilities in the Revolutionary War, resulting in the Treaty of Paris (1783), which recognized the independence of the United States.
Post-War Career in India and Ireland
Back in England, Cornwallis was greeted as a hero, though he weathered criticisms from Clinton and others for his defeat at Yorktown. His post-war career showcased how the British Empire bounced back from the loss of its North American colonies. Cornwallis served as governor-general of India from 1786-93 and led a military campaign that helped consolidate British control of the southern region of India.
Appointed lord lieutenant and commander of chief of Ireland in 1798, he commanded British troops to victory against an invading French force and survived an assassination attempt in Dublin in 1799. Cornwallis returned to India for a second term as governor-general in 1805, but died shortly after his arrival and was buried in Calcutta.
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Charles Cornwallis. National Park Service.
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80 days around the world
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80 days around the world, we’ll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow’s ending. Time – we’ll fight against the time, and we’ll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won’t say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world.
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The Seon and Doctrinal Schools as Represented by Mahakasyapa and Ananda
The Mahkasyapa and Ananda that we know and recognize today reflect the values of the Seon schools that emerged much later, and are therefore different from the two who lived at the time of the Buddha. In fact, the current depictions of many people who appeared throughout history are a reflection of the expectations and prejudices of those who followed, rather than accurate descriptions.
In the early days when the Doctrinal school had gained much power, although the Seon school was like a servant allocated a small room in a great Vinaya temple, the Seon practitioners disregarded the situation and focused their minds only on practice.
To the ascetics who were accustomed to the practice of austerities, adherents of the Doctrinal school were like parrots endlessly reciting the Buddha’s words, fools looked down upon for their admiration of useless sutras who were far from the enlightenment of mind.
Thus, although Ananda was foremost in remembering the teachings of the Buddha and therefore was of great importance in their compilation, a similar atmosphere of contempt led to his banishment at the gate of the first council, presided over by Mahakasyapa. (He was, however, later to become the third partriarch of the Seon school).
As one who practiced austerities, Mahakasyapa was closest to being an ideal Seon practitioner. Although he was an elder, he never avoided physical labour. One day a young novice monk saw him doing the heavy work of kneading mud to plaster his walls and asked, “Noble One, why do you do such rough work yourself?” Mahakasyapa asked in return, “If I don’t do it myself, who will?” (Collection of Seon Dialogues and Verses (Kor. Seon mun yeom seong), case 79).
Furthermore, Mahakasaypa was the subject of mind-to-mind transmission from the Buddha on three occasions. The first of these was when the Buddha held up a flower before the assembly and Mahakasyapa smiled. The second was when the Buddha shared his seat with Mahakasyapa when the latter arrived late to the assembly. Finally, following the Buddha’s parinirvana, when Mahakasyapa arrived late, the Buddha thrust his feet through the bottom of his coffin. These cases of the direct transmission of the Buddha’s mind-seal led to the designation of Mahakasyapa as the Second Partriarch of the Seon school.
Finally, to conclude the discussion of the Seon school, it is also recorded that Ananda, who is representative of the Doctrinal school, asked Mahakasyapa, “Besides giving you the golden robe, what did the Buddha teach you?” (Collection of Seon Dialogues and Verses, case 81).
These examples indicate that effort was made to also include the Buddha’s speech in the analects of Seon. In fact, the first chronicle of the Seon school in China, the Transmission of Baolin (寶林傳) includes the entire Sutra in Forty-two Sections (Dvachatvarimshat-khanda Sutra). Whereas the inclusion of sections of text from sutras was common, the purposeful inclusion of the entire sutra is indicative of a more important intent.
The Sutra in Forty-two Sections was the first sutra to be introduced into China. It was carried to China on a white horse, which died from exhaustion on the way to China. As a tribute to it’s virtue, the first temple to be established in China was called White Horse Temple (白馬寺). By the time the Transmission of Baolin was compiled, this sutra had already served as an introduction which popularized Buddhism for the Chinese.
The sutra was reinterpreted from the point of view of Seon for incorporation into the historical records of the Transmission of Baolin, and was thereby endowed with the authority to serve as the first analects of the Buddha to be included in the records of the Seon school.
Indeed, in this way the Seon adherents wished to demonstrate that they in truth most closely conformed to the mind of the Buddha, exclaiming, “Look here and see!” Reflected also is their attitude of the historical and practical superiority of, and confidence in, the Seon school.
In this way, the Sutra in Forty-two Sections that was included in the Transmission of Baolin became the first Seon analects. This also served the purpose of setting a precedent for the elevation of Seon analects to the level of sutras. Hence, the Sutra in Forty-two Sections, along with the Testament Sutra (佛遺敎經; the last words of the Buddha before his parinirvana) and the Analects of Weishan (潙山警策; teaching of Seon master Weishan) together were referred to as “The Three Sutras of the Buddha and the Patriarchs” (佛祖三經). These were considered to be required reading, and afforded the same status as sutras.
In general, what we call “history” can not be other than that which has been coloured by the views of the present. In the present discussion we see that in the development of Seon Buddhism as a new form Buddhism based on practice, it absorbed values not only from Chinese Buddhism but from all other sects as well.
Thus, the history of Buddhism, interpreted from the point of view of the Seon school becomes the new history of Seon Buddhism. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that Seon Buddhism developed during the Tang and Song periods in China, when Buddhism was at the peak of its prosperity.
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IRON MAIDEN upcoming album details
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“The Book of Souls” is the band’s 16th studio album, since their eponymous debut in 1980 charted at #4 in the UK, in a career achieving sales of over 90 million albums worldwide. Their previous album, 2010’s “The Final Frontier” was Maiden’s most successful chart-wise to date, reaching Number One in 28 countries and was their highest chart debut in the U.S reaching #4 in the Billboard 200. Due to Bruce’s illness the band had to delay touring plans but promise to be out on the road again early next year, giving time for Bruce to make a full physical recovery to be ready for the rigours of Maiden live performances.
Steve comments: “We approached this album in a different way to how we’ve recorded previously. A lot of the songs were actually written while we were there in the studio and we rehearsed and recorded them straight away while they were still fresh, and I think that immediacy really shows in the songs, they have almost a live feel to them I think. I’m very proud of The Book Of Souls, we all are, and we can’t wait for our fans to hear it, and especially to take it out on the road next year!”
Bruce continues: “We’re really excited about The Book Of Souls and had a fantastic time creating it. We started working on the album in late summer 2014 and recorded it at Guillame Tell Studios in Paris, where we’d done the Brave New World album back in 2000 so the studio holds special memories for all of us. We were delighted to discover the same magical vibe is still alive and very much kicking there! So we immediately felt at home and the ideas just started flowing. By the time we’d finished we all agreed that each track was such an integral part of the whole body of work that if it needed to be a double album, then double its going to be!”
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Airbus Perlan Mission II soars to over 62,000 feet, setting second altitude world record and crossing Armstrong Line
Airbus' press release
Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world’s first initiative to pilot an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history again yesterday in El Calafate, Argentina, by soaring in the stratosphere to a pressure altitude of over 62,000 feet (60,669 feet GPS altitude). This set a new gliding altitude world record, pending official validation.
The pressurized Perlan 2 glider, which is designed to soar up to 90,000 feet, passed the Armstrong Line, the point in the atmosphere above which an unprotected human’s blood will boil if an aircraft loses pressurization.
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To soar into the highest areas of Earth’s atmosphere, Perlan 2 pilots catch a ride on stratospheric mountain waves, a weather phenomenon created when rising air currents behind mountain ranges are significantly strengthened by the polar vortex. The phenomenon occurs only for a brief period each year in just a few places on earth. Nestled within the Andes Mountains in Argentina, the area around El Calafate is one of those rare locations where these rising air currents can reach to 100,000 feet or more.
Built in Oregon and home-based in Minden, Nevada, the Perlan 2 glider incorporates a number of unique innovations to enable its ambitious mission:
A carbon-fiber capsule with a unique high-efficiency, passive cabin pressurization system that eliminates the need for heavy, power-hungry compressors.
A unique closed-loop rebreather system, in which the only oxygen used is what the crew metabolizes. It is the lightest and most efficient system for a sealed cabin, and its design has applications for other high-altitude aircraft.
An onboard “wave visualization system” that graphically displays areas of rising and sinking air in cockpits. For commercial flights, following lines of rising air would allow faster climbs and save fuel, while also helping aircraft avoid dangerous phenomena such as wind shear and severe downdrafts.
Unlike powered research aircraft, Perlan 2 does not affect the temperature or chemistry of the air around it, making it an ideal platform to study the atmosphere. The experiments carried aloft in its instrument bay are yielding new discoveries related to high-altitude flight, weather and climate change.
This season, Perlan 2 is flying with experiments developed by The Perlan Project’s science and research committee, as well as projects created in collaboration with organizations and schools in the U.S. and Argentina. Perlan 2 research projects currently include:
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- A second flight data recorder, designed by students at Argentina’s La Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN);
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- Two new environmental sensors, developed by The Perlan Project.
The Perlan 2 will continue to pursue higher altitude flights and conduct research in the stratosphere as weather and winds permit through the middle of September.
Tune in to live flights of the Perlan 2 on the Airbus Perlan Mission II Virtual Cockpit at http://bit.ly/VirtualPerlan2. Stay updated on flight schedules by following The Perlan Project on Twitter @PerlanProject and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/perlanproject.
For more information about Airbus Perlan Mission II, please go to www.perlanproject.org.
Want a heads up on the next flight? Sign up by email at PerlanProject.org/contact or if In the U.S. text “Perlan” to 57682.
A Press Kit with images, infographic, fact sheet, and videos is available at: http://bit.ly/perlanpress.
About Airbus Perlan Mission II
Airbus Perlan Mission II is an initiative to fly an engineless glider to the edge of space, higher than any other winged aircraft has operated in level, controlled flight, to open up a world of new discoveries related to high-altitude flight, weather and climate change. This historic endeavor is the culmination of decades of research and engineering innovation, and the work of a tireless international team of aviators and scientists who volunteer their time and expertise for the non-profit Perlan Project. The project is supported by Airbus and a group of other sponsors that includes Weather Extreme Ltd., United Technologies and BRS Aerospace.
Boeing completes autonomous synchronised flight tests in Australia
Boeing's press release
Australian-developed on-board command and control system automatically perceives, processes and reacts in coordination with other unmanned vehicles.
BRISBANE, Australia Aug. 17, 2018 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed the first suite of synchronised unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight tests using new on-board autonomous command and control technology developed by Boeing in Australia.
Conducted at a regional Queensland airfield, the test flights saw five UAV test beds equipped with Boeing’s new on-board system safely complete in-air programmed missions as a team without input from a human pilot.
The milestone comes six months after establishing the company’s largest international autonomous systems development program in Queensland.
“What we’ve created here in Australia has the potential to transform the use of unmanned vehicles for civil, commercial and defence applications – whether that be in the air, on the ground or out at sea,” said Shane Arnott, director of Boeing Phantom Works International.
“This capability will be a huge driver of efficiency and productivity. By safely teaming unmanned systems with human operated systems, we keep people away from dull, dirty and dangerous tasks so they can focus on activities that machines can’t or shouldn’t do.”
Boeing’s partnership with small and medium-sized enterprises helped drive rapid design, development and testing of this autonomous technology. In just two months, Boeing engaged small-to-medium enterprises and vetted and issued AU$2.3 million in contracts with 14 Queensland businesses.
Over the coming months, the Boeing Australia team will incorporate and test more advanced behaviours on high-performance air vehicles before exploring other domains such as unmanned ocean vehicles.
This activity is delivered in partnership with the Queensland Government as part of Boeing’s Advance Queensland Autonomous Systems Platform Technology Project.
For 100 years, Boeing has led manned and unmanned technology innovation and integration from sea to air to space. Visit www.boeing.com for more information. Follow Boeing Australia on Twitter: @BoeingAustralia.
ESA’s Aeolus wind sensing satellite successfully launched from Kourou
Airbus-built Aeolus satellite to map Earth’s wind in real-time
Kourou, 22/08/2018 - Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, built by Airbus, has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite will now undergo a series of tests in its operational orbit at 320km before beginning operations.
Built by Airbus, Aeolus is the first satellite capable of performing global wind-component-profile observation on a daily basis in near real-time.
The 1.4-tonne spacecraft features a LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) instrument called Aladin, which uses the Doppler effect to determine the wind speed at varying altitudes.
Aladin fires a powerful ultraviolet laser pulse down through the atmosphere and collects backscattered light, using a large 1.5m diameter telescope, which is then analysed on-board by highly sensitive receivers to determine the Doppler shift of the signal from layers at different heights in the atmosphere.
The data from Aeolus will provide reliable wind-profile data on a global scale and is needed by meteorologists to further improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and by climatologists to better understand the global dynamics of Earth’s atmosphere.
Nicolas Chamussy, Head of Space Systems at Airbus said: “Aeolus is another first for Airbus, delivering a revolutionary Earth observation satellite that will give wind profile data in near real time, improving weather forecasting and helping to bring the benefits of space down to every citizen on Earth.”
Aeolus will orbit the Earth 15 times a day with data delivery to users within 120 minutes of the oldest measurement in each orbit. The orbit repeat cycle is 7 days (every 111 orbits) and the spacecraft will have a lifetime of three years.
Additive manufacturing: Huge potential, big barriers
Need more consistent materials and equipment.
OEMs and regulators have to develop AM standards.
Design culture has to evolve to reflect AM capabilities.
continue reading. https://leehamnews.com/2018/08/27/additive-manufacturing-huge-potential-big-barriers/
Russian Navy Beriev Be-12 Amphibian Aircraft Intercepted By RAF Typhoons Over The Black Sea
https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/26/russian-navy-beriev-be-12-amphibian-aircraft-intercepted-by-raf-typhoons-over-the-black-sea/
Ryanair Reaches Agreement With Pilots' Union
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=0dca7d9f-c9e4-44b4-a66d-899a42dcd21d
XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration Update
Project Slowed Due To Complications, Wheels To Be Replaced The years-long restoration of a rare XP-82 Twin Mustang is inching closer to completion, with a goal of having an airworthy airplane at the end of the process.
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=adf8a1a0-ef47-490a-8217-95f8787bb642
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restorations/xp-82-twin-mustang-update-august-2018.html
Norway’s first electric-powered flight takes to the skies
Pipstrel ALPHA ELECTRO
Avinor's press release
“The Norwegian government has tasked Avinor with developing a programme that paves the way for the introduction of electric aircraft in commercial aviation. It was a great experience to be part of this flight and witness the evolution of aviation,” says Norway’s Minister of Transport and Communications Ketil Solvik-Olsen.
“At Avinor, we want to demonstrate that electric aircraft are already available on the market, as well as help make Norway a pioneer of electric aviation in the same way as the country has become a pioneer of electric cars,” says Avinor’s CEO Dag Falk-Petersen.
Reducing emissions
“Along with energy saving measures, the ongoing modernisation of aircraft fleets and the introduction of sustainable biofuel, electric aircraft can help to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions from Norwegian aviation in the coming decades. As electric engines cost must less to operate than current engines, this will result in lower prices for flight tickets,” says CEO Falk-Petersen.
Avinor and aviation industry partners are working to help Norway become a world leader in electric aviation. The objectives are for Norway to be the first country where electric aircraft account for a significant share of the market, and to electrify Norwegian domestic aviation by 2040. The project is supported by the government, and the project partners are Widerøe, SAS, the Norwegian Association of Air Sports, and climate foundation ZERO.
“We’d especially like to thank the Norwegian Association of Air Sports in connection with this flight. The association has gone to great lengths and played a vital role in preparations for the flight,” says Falk-Petersen.
Evaluating tools and consequences
Avinor does not intend to charge landing fees for electric-powered light aircraft and will allow them to recharge at no cost until 2025. The government has asked Avinor to develop a programme for the introduction of electric aircraft. This will involve an evaluation of the various tools required to make the electrification of passenger aviation a success. In addition, Avinor will consider other key consequences, including possible conflicts between objectives, consequences for the climate and environment, and the effect on competition in Norwegian aviation.
Norway is well-suited to the electrification of aviation
With its vast mountainous regions and huge distances between towns and cities, Norway depends on an efficient aviation sector. The country has many airports spread the length and breadth of the country. This results in sometimes short flights with relatively few passengers.
“The Norwegian short-leg domestic network is ideal for trialling the first commercial electric-powered flights, which are expected to have a limited range and capacity,” says CEO Falk-Petersen.
“There is also a great political willingness in Norway to establish a framework that promotes electrification in other transport sectors, such as road traffic and ferries. In addition, Norway’s capacity for renewable energy makes electrification particularly attractive from a climate perspective,” emphasises Falk-Petersen.
About Avinor
Avinor is a wholly-owned state limited company under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications and is responsible for 45 state-owned airports.
Twelve of the airports are operated in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces.
In addition to the airports, Avinor operates control towers, control centres and other technical infrastructure for safe air navigation.
The air navigation services is organised as subsidiary wholly-owned by Avinor. Avinor's headquarter is in Oslo.
[video] Metal with Memory: F-18 Wing Fold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpuReoirzk
The 300-pound wing section was removed from an F/A-18 at NASA Armstrong in Edwards, California, enabling the team to prove a full wing section could be folded using a newly developed nickel-titanium-hafnium high temperature SMA torque-tube actuator, capable of applying 5,000-inch-pounds of torque.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/metal-with-memory-f-18-wing-fold
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Daily readings about people, places, and events in American history.
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How the D.C. Got in Washington, D.C.
In 1790, a year after George Washington took office as president, Congress authorized him to find a site along the Potomac River for the new nation’s capital. It was the first time a country had ever established its permanent capital by legislative action. The president ended up choosing a spot just a few miles upstream from his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
Surveyors staked out an area of one hundred square miles straddling the river. The idea was to create a special territory, not part of any state, to contain the capital city. The land came from Maryland and Virginia, and the territory was named the “District of Columbia” (“D.C.” for short) in honor of Christopher Columbus.
George Washington hired French engineer Pierre L’Enfant to plan the city that would lie within the new District. In 1791, the District’s commissioners decided to name that city “Washington” in honor of the first president. The federal government moved there in 1800.
On May 3, 1802, Washington was incorporated as a city, with a city council elected by local residents, and a mayor appointed by the president. People began to refer to the capital city inside the District of Columbia as “Washington, D.C.” – just as they might write “Albany, N.Y.” or “Charleston, S.C.”
For a long time Washington remained a relatively small town, and much of the land inside the District of Columbia lay undeveloped. In 1846 Congress decided it would never need the District’s land on the south side of the Potomac River, so it returned that portion to the state of Virginia. But of course the city did eventually grow, especially after World War II. Today it fills virtually the entire District of Columbia.
American History Parade
The first U.S. medical school is established at the College of Philadelphia.
Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city.
West Virginia becomes the first state to impose a sales tax.
Air Service Lts. Oakley Kelly and John Macready land at Coronado Beach, California, completing the first transcontinental nonstop flight in 26 hours, 50 minutes.
Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Gone with the Wind.
Lt. Cols. William Pershing Benedict and Joseph Otis Fletcher pilot the first plane to land at the North Pole, an Air Force ski-wheeled C-47.
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HALL PASS Review
I have never been the biggest fan of the Farrelly brothers and their distinct brand of pure gross out humor, but I have enjoyed enough of their work to know what to expect from a raunchy R-rated flick like "Hall Pass". It also doesn't hurt that they seem to like working with members of my favorite comedy troupe. After success with Ben Stiller and Jack Black it is nice to see the Farrelly's team up with Owen Wilson and give "SNL" player Jason Sudeikis a major role. Wilson returns to the raunchy material that his surfer drawl is best suited to, but uses this film as a stepping stone into a more mature role than the ones he played in movies like "Wedding Crashers". All of this led me to have great expectations for the film and though it isn't as consistently funny all the way through it's nearly two-hour run time, it has some big laugh out loud moments and weighs it's raunch out with some enough sentimental moments to easily recommend it.
I always enjoy a high concept comedy and "Hall Pass" is exactly that. Taking the idea of the ongoing battle between men and women and putting it on front street so that something is forced to be done is nothing if not engaging. The fact that the women in the film result to giving their husbands a free week to do whatever they please, to let them go and get out of their system what they seem to be missing out on by being married to them, is a great set-up, my only worry was that the movie wouldn't be able to deliver on that premise. And the verdict? It does, well, most of the time. Wilson and Sudeikis make an good comedic pair, Sudeikis playing Fred, an insurance salesman who thinks he gets away with checking other girls out without his wife (Christina Applegate) noticing and Wilson as Rick, a family man that from the beginning we know loves his wife and children too much to learn any hard lessons from his week off. What he does learn may come as a surprise though. You expect the Farrelly's to ditch the sentimental crap and go all out with the vulgarity and farcical elements of their story. In some sense you expected them to kind of slander marriage and tell you that it really is better to be single and free to do whatever you please, instead we are served a story of what is sex without love? What is life without meaningful relationships? It's nice to see the directors go for this, and though it isn't up to Apatow standards yet, they're getting better at it.
What I found most intriguing and funny about the film though is they guys whole mind set on everything. It is as if they know how out of the loop they are when it comes to picking up ladies these days, yet they still try and they do fail horribly. But that is of course what makes this so much fun to watch and in that is where the film really capitalizes on its humor. From watching Rick and Fred go to Applebee's as a hotspot to hook up or eat brownies with a special ingredient only leading to a round of unforgettable golf, the film does in fact follow through on how big of goobers they make these guys out to be from the beginning. Because, let's face it, being married to women who look like Applegate and Jenna Fischer is nothing to complain about (it is also a nice touch that their wives get prettier as the film progresses) and it is nice to see the women be challenged as well, that this wasn't only a test of marriage for the men, but for the other half of these relationships as well.
Though the film may never reach the mature level it seems to be reaching for in its last fifteen or so minutes, it still contains enough laughs and good comedic performances to be one of the comedy highlights so far this year (again, not that this is saying much seeing as we are at the end of February) but none the less, it deserves a passing grade. Let's hope this only leads to more starring roles for Sudeikis who plays the square/doucher stereotype to a T as well as letting comedy directors know to cast Richard Jenkins in more stuff. After this and "Step Brothers" I'm convinced I want to see this guy in everything. We all know he can do drama and is an incredible character actor, but the guy is also funny as hell and in his too brief role here, he steals every scene. Hey. Farrelly brothers, want to really return to your "Something About Mary" glory days? Then cast Jenkins in the lead for your next film.
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RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review
The original Charlton Heston "Apes" is a film I mostly relegate to childhood memory when I would always seem to catch bits and pieces of it on TV. I never really looked into or realized the subtexts of the story until after Tim Burtons 2001 re-imagining appeared on screen. I have never seen the other films in the original series, but I went into "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" knowing where this all was heading and that is all you really need seeing as this is an origin story. That is part of the intrigue of this project as well, an engaging film has already given us a world audiences are interested in, to see the revolution that led to our roles being switched and how humanity was reduced to nothing more than wild animals ourselves seems, if not only a scheme to make more money off the franchise, at least a credible way to re-boot it. The film has been stacked with A-list actors and top of the line special effects that help create a performance by Andy (Gollum) Serkis as our star ape, Caesar, one of the most memorable and moving performances of the summer. It is a cautionary tale of human ignorance or should I say arrogance and the desire to know more even in the wake of danger. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" doesn't have to give us a reflection of our species as the apes, here, we see our own undoing.
Will Rodman (James Franco) hopes to have found
a cure for Alzheimer's.
It is easy to say this is one of the best "summer movies" this year, and it is, there is no ignoring the fact it has all the elements a big summer action flick should contain but this is also a very layered story. It gives us the progress of Caesar growing and learning at a pace that makes us completely believe the fact this ape could become what is essentially a human. Caesar is a real character, he is not simply a creation of CGI that is to be marveled at for his seamless integration into the real world but for the accomplishment of his emotional arc being expressed through the motion capture technology. What Serkis brings here is that layered performance that allows us to believe in Caesar and why he is led to do what he does. Truly, Caesar is the entire reason this film succeeds. While we also have the always interesting James Franco playing a young scientist working on a cure for Alzheimer's and "Slumdog Millionaire" alum Frida Pinto as his love interest, both of which have more screen time than John Lithgow but don't create near the impact. Pinto is mainly relegated to stale leading lady and is almost unnecessary if not for the brief moments when she is the voice of reason to Franco's blind drive. Franco on the other hand is not what you would call "in his element" here but it makes sense and his interaction with Caesar does nothing but to build the credibility of the lead ape and to make the eventual revolution he creates all the more heartbreaking.
Caesar the ape becomes very protective of his
human parents.
About that revolution, many will say the film devolves into the exact kind of movie it had rose above this summer, but the scenes of hordes of apes breaking their brothers out from zoos and causing chaos on the streets of San Francisco has been built up to so fantastically that this doesn't classify as mindless action. These actions and their deep-seated emotional ties give us sweeping portraits of these animals swinging through suburbia and under the Golden Gate bridge as they poke holes in the human race's belief we are invincible. The entire scenario gives into just how vulnerable we are and just how easily we could be over-run. The "Ape" films have always seemed to have bigger ideas in mind and though this latest addition doesn't aspire to be as much we do see hints of where this is going and what this "could" all lead to. While here we are simply witnessing the rise of an underclass it is the fact we as an audience identify with them and empathize with those that are rising against us is the real accomplishment. There is a pivotal scene after Caesar is placed in a primate sanctuary that is more prison-like than safe haven when Caesar has begun to rally his fellow primates and they are, for the final time, tried to be put in their place by a human. It is the moment we realize the extent of just how far Caesar's intelligence has come and in the theater I watched the film their was clearly a strong reaction to the moment, it wasn't one you had to cover a laugh at with either, this was genuine unbelievability and it set the tone perfectly for the final act of the film.
The apes make their presence known.
I went into "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" with modest expectations and left in honest surprise at how much I enjoyed the film. Not only did it offer an intelligent and engaging story but it is elevated so far by Serkis's one man show and the perfect tone set by director Rupert Wyatt, not to mention the beautiful cinematography by Andrew Lesnie. As said earlier, it is the inner conflict with Caesar that drives him to wreak the chaos at the climax of the film and to experience that fully engrossed causes the nearly two-hour film to fly by. This is a fun experience, an entertaining ride that is engaging to the point that even Brian Cox shows up in a small role that was completely unnecessary for him to play, but he only adds to the thought that being a part of an "Apes" movie is somewhat inspiring. I can't go without mentioning Tom Felton shows up here as some off version of Draco Malfoy as well, but c'mon dude you've played that gig for ten years, let's try something different. It might be the fact I didn't expect this to be as fascinating and engrossing as it turned out to be but I truly enjoyed "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and can say without a doubt and with all that has been previously stated that this certainly is one of the best summer movies of 2011.
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Tractus Logico-Philosophicus
Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico-Philosophicus (Which is Latin for Logical-Philosophical Treatise) is considered an important event in the Philosophical world.
The book looks at the principles of Symbolism, the relations which are necessary between words, the ignorance and misuse of the principles of Symbolism and language.
His book contains 7 main sections
The world is everything that is the case.
What is the case (a fact) is the existence of states of affairs.
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
A thought is a proposition with sense.
A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions.
The general form of a proposition is the general form of a truth fiction, which is: .
Whereof one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence.
The book is divided into parts to serve everyone, not just Philosophers, as more of a guide.
To understand the book, you firstly need to understand the problems it deals with. The book tries to tackle many problems with logically perfect language, such as the problem what naturally occurs in our minds when we use language with the intention of meaning something by it.
There is also the epistemological problem of defining the relation between thoughts, words and sentences and what they refer to or mean.
Another problem is using sentences to convey truth rather than falsehood, which refers to the special sciences dealing with the subject matter.
An interesting question the book also raises is what relation must one fact (such as a sentence) have to another in order to be capable of being a symbol for another?
The answers to these problems lay in one of the most fundamental parts of Wittgenstein's theory, which is the conditions for accurate Symbolism to define something definite. Day to day language is rather vague, so what we assert is never really definite.
In order to define something logic needs to be taken into account. A perfectly logical language has rules of syntax which prevent nonsense and has single symbols which have definite unique meanings; these individual symbols are put together to form sentences. Syntax is taken into account here as the meaning of a sentence is determined as soon as the component word is known. In order to know the meaning of a sentence there must be something in common between the structure of the sentence and the structure of the fact within it. However Wittgenstein states that the relation between the sentence and component word cannot be said in language, only shown.
Wittgenstein states that the first step towards a perfect language would be to have individual names for every simple symbol, and never the same name for two different simple symbols. The symbol as a whole will be a 'complex'.
Wittgenstein's thesis also has the prominent theme of facts. He states that the world consists of facts (1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things.), and that facts cannot, strictly speaking, be defended; we can only explain what we mean by saying that facts are what make propositions true or false. Facts may contain parts which are facts or may contain no such parts. If we regard for example 'Socrates is wise' as an atomic fact we perceive that is contains the simples 'socrates' and 'wise'. Therefore, we can label 'socrates' and 'wise' as simples as the have been annualised fully and defined as fact.
He explains facts that are not compounded of other facts are Sacherverhalte, whereas a fact which consists of two or more facts is called a Tatsache. For example "socrates is wise" is a Sachverhalt, whereas "socrates is wise and Plato is his pupil" is a Tastsache but not a Sachverhalt.
Facts are also the centre point of his theory of Symbolism, with the opening statement being "we make to ourselves picture of facts." He states a picture is a model of reality, with the object in reality corresponding to to the elements of the picture; the picture is therefore a fact. The fact that things have a relation to each other is represented by the fact that in the picture its elements have relations to each other; in the picture and the pictured there must be something identical in order that one can be a picture of the other.
Wittgenstein also discuses the subject of life after death and God, and that because these subjects cannot be proven as a fact, the are pointless thoughts in the world. He states “Much of philosophy involves attempts to say the unsay able, and by implication the unthinkable”, “what can we say at all can be said clearly. Anything beyond that—religion, ethics, aesthetics, the mystical—cannot be discussed. They are not in themselves nonsensical, but any statement about them must be.”
Wittgenstein also discussed the subject of names, and how they are only given to simples, and believes that we should not give one name to two things, or two names to one thing. He states that there is no way we can explain the totality of things that can be named, as to do this we would have to know of a property which must belong to every thing in existence.
Wittgenstein states that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole.
He explains that whatever is said about the world can only be subjected to a bounded portion of the world. As explained before nothing can be described as a whole as there is not a property which belongs to anything as a whole. We can however go beyond the boundaries of the world through the use of logic, but we cannot explain this as 'what we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.'
This is key to Solipsism, which explains that what cannot be said can not be shown.
Key criticisms towards the book include Bertrand Russell's criticism that the theories represented need a greater technical development. This applies most of all to the theory of numbers, which states that 'a number is the exponent of an operation'. The theory can only deal with finite numbers, and no logic can be logical if it does not break the boundaries of logic -meaning that his theory of numbers should be capable of dealing the transfinite numbers.
The book is extremely important for Journalists as it shows how important fact is in our world, explains the theories behind sharing an idea and explains how people picture the world and how to influence their prospective.
Labels: Bertrand Russle, journalist, language, logic, Ludwig Wittgenstein, pictures, Symbolism, Tractus Logico-Philosophicus
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The Gray Tsunami
Posted on Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 7:37AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Azra Raza
From Discover:
“Take Taiwan,” says Birt. “Its fertility rate has gone from about 7 in 1950 to less than 1 today. This trend applies to any country on the development escalator. It’s inevitable.” As a country develops, initially its death rate declines because of a rising standard of living and better medical care. Next, almost automatically, fertility goes down. “Japan got on the escalator first, and the emerging countries, like Brazil, will get there,” Birt continues. “The religion of the country is irrelevant. It’s happening now in Iran. It’s happening in Catholic countries that oppose birth control, like Italy and Spain. In Mexico the fertility rate is under 3, approaching replacement level.” The replacement rate is the number of children that the average woman must produce in order to replace herself and her mate. Demographers normally define the replacement rate as 2.1 children, the 0.1 increment allowing for infant mortality. It is a pivotal number, indicating that a population is stable, not expanding, and very likely to shrink. Among the 222 countries and territories in the world, two-thirds now have fertility rates below 3, while one-third have slipped under 2 and have begun to contract. Japan, the poster child for extreme trends in aging and fertility, is projected to lose a third of its population in the next 50 years. The most populous nation, China, has a fertility rate of 1.5. Though China’s strict one-child-per-couple decree obviously has holes, the policy is having the desired result. India, the second most populous nation, has brought down its growth to 2.6 children per woman. The United States stands at the cusp of population decline because American females are having an average of only 2.06 children apiece.
In those figures lies the turnabout in world population that Glick predicts, and also its senescence, because when people are taken off the population escalator—at the front end, by not being born—those already on it become more conspicuous as they near the top. There is no stopping the process. “That’s why we say demography is destiny,” Glick remarks. “There’s only one exit: death.” Birt describes a favorite graphic of his, derived from a 2007 United Nations publication. He calls it “Solving for X” because of the problem it raises for the world’s health-care systems. Two lines are crossing, the percentage of people over 65 and the percentage under 5. Back in 1950, children predominated in the world; in 2050 the seniors will be on top. “The percent over 65 and under 5 are trading places,” Birt says. “We’re almost at the X spot.” The forecast date for global X to occur is 2017, but each country will arrive at the transition at a different time. “Japan blasted through its intersection years ago,” he notes.
Was there a single factor to account for this world-shaking reversal? “Yes,” Glick says. “You start educating girls.” Birt agrees. “You start educating women, and they delay marriage and have fewer children,” he says. “It’s all due to not having children in societies that let women loose.”
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Paris St Germain officially announce Neymar signing
Paris St Germain have announced the signing of Brazil forward Neymar on a five-year contract.
Neymar joins the Parisians after his advisers handed over the €222m lump sum required to trigger his release clause on Thursday.
The Brazilian is reportedly set to earn 30 million euros (£27million) net per year, or close to 600,000 euros (£540,000) each week after tax, and said that he was attracted to the club by their ambition.
“I am extremely happy to join Paris Saint-Germain,” Neymar Jr told the club’s official website after signing his contract.
“Since I arrived in Europe, the club has always been one of the most competitive and most ambitious. And the biggest challenge, what most motivated me to join my new teammates is to help the club to conquer the titles that their fans want.
“Paris Saint-Germain’s ambition attracted me to the club, along with the passion and the energy this brings. I played 4 seasons in Europe and I feel ready to take the challenge. From today, I will do everything I can to help my new teammates, to open up new horizons for my club and to bring happiness to its millions of supporters around the world.”
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, President of Paris Saint-Germain, said that the signing of Neymar brings the club one step closer to ‘realising their greatest dreams’ and that the club is already at the highest level of national and European football.
“It is with immense joy and pride that we welcome Neymar Jr to Paris Saint-Germain, said Al-Khelaifi.
“Neymar Jr is today one of the very best players in world football. His winning mentality, strength of character and sense of leadership have made him into a great player. He will bring a very positive energy to this club.
“In six years, we have built a very ambitious project that has already taken us to the highest level of national and European football.
“Today, with the arrival of Neymar Jr, I am convinced that we will come even closer, with the support of our faithful fans, to realising our greatest dreams.”
Earlier on Thursday, Barcelona confirmed in a brief statement that Neymar would be leaving the Nou Camp and that the club would be passing details of his transfer over to Uefa to see if any disciplinary issues had been raised with the transfer.
“On Thursday afternoon Neymar Jr’s legal representatives visited in person the Club’s offices and made the payment of 222 million euros in the player’s name with regards to the unilateral termination of the contract that united both parties,” the club said in a statement.
“As such, the Club will pass on to UEFA the details of the above operation so that they can determine the disciplinary responsibilities that may arise from this case.”
“He wants Atletico, and no club else”
Real Madrid to help Manchester United in completing Mourinho’s third signing
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Home » Islamist victory in Tunisia, but still hope for Arab democracy
Islamist victory in Tunisia, but still hope for Arab democracy
Oct 26, 2011 | Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz
Enahdha's victory party - Al Jazeera
Here is something that I would not have been able to write until today: with election results pouring in, Tunisia’s Enahda party has declared victory. In its breakdown of the results thus far, Tunisia’s fledgling English-language news agency Tunisia Live has reported that Enahda has won 43 of the 101 seats so far declared in the 217-seat Constituent Assembly and is expected to win a further 45, making a total of 88 seats or roughly 41% of the total. The Assembley will be tasked with appointing an interim government and will then have a year to design and implement a new constitution, allowing for Parliamentary and Presidential elections to be held.
Al Jazeera‘s live election blog has reported that as it searches for coalition partners, Enahda issued a press statement indicating that it would cooperate with other parties and attempt to represent all Tunisians.
“We are pleased to see that the political climate has left behind the tension that was naturally part of the election campaign, and we are pleased to hear mature and responsible stances from political leaders. We certainly need to learn new democratic principles, including the fact that the opposition has an important role to play.”
“We stress once again that we wish to cooperate with all parties without any exclusion. We are open to all political parties inside the assembly and outside it, as well as civil society bodies such as the great Tunisian trade union and other unions.”
“We are in talks in order to form alliances based on a shared economic, social and political program.”
Enahda, of course, is Tunisia’s Islamist party, the party that “experts” have been predicting would win 25-30% of the vote, some suggesting that anything more would be disastrous and predicting that while they would appear moderate at first, they would slowly evolve into a more ominous presence over time.
Anything more than 30 per cent would result in heightened tensions, predicted Hamadi Redissi, at the University of Tunis. “Islamists will probably get 55-60 seats,” he added. “At this level the phenomenon can be managed. Anything more than that will create a political crisis.”
… Few Tunisians believe Nahda will immediately pursue a fiercely Islamist agenda even if it wins more of the vote than predicted. Instead, they believe the party will attempt a gradual change.
“Like all politicians, Ghannouchi and Nahda see a window of opportunity,” said a western diplomat. “This is a long-term game and they don’t want to scare people away.”
As its leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, told Guardian reporters Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Black, Enahda’s public agenda has followed what by Western standards would be a socially conservative but left-of-centre agenda.
Nahda has promised 590,000 new jobs over five years and to cut unemployment to 8.5%. Ghannouchi said: “Economically we want a model like Sweden, a social model [and] welfare state, while encouraging entrepreneurs.”
On family values, Nahda has promised not to touch the Tunisian legal code which made it the only country in the Arab world to outlaw polygamy, mandated women’s approval to get married and set limits on a man’s power to divorce. But Ghannouchi wants to promote the importance of marriage and lower the divorce rate.
“There was a process of dismantling and fragmenting society under despotism, the family was crushed,” he said. “We have the third highest divorce rate in the Arab world. There’s a societal problem, which we want to address and not brush over.”
Many questions remain as to Enahda’s true agenda. Skeptics point to the contrast between the party’s official rhetoric and the hardline actions of their supporters on the ground, which recently included the firebombing of a television official’s home because his channel aired a cartoon that depicted God. Ghannouchi himself has a history of less-than-savoury views. As Gabriel Scheinmann outlined in January, he has in the past desplayed overt antisemitism, anti-Westernism and support for terror.
Ghannouchi is, moreover, absolutely opposed to any negotiated solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, swearing to wait out Israel’s destruction. “Our Ummah,” he wrote, “will tear every document signed in a state of capitulation and incapacity and will disregard every treaty that in a moment of weakness is forged to strip it of its right to struggle for the restoration of what has been usurped. The crusaders’ occupation of Jerusalem lasted for about a century” and yet the Islamic claim to it was neither abandoned nor relinquished.
Following the end of the Gaza War in January 2009, Ghannouchi praised Allah who “routed the Zionist Jews,” and labeled the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 as “the first step in the complete victory of all of Palestine and the holy places of the Muslims.”
He branded the Palestinian Authority as illegitimate because it “has given up the choice of jihad in the way of Allah Almighty as an effective means of defeating the occupation and the liberation of the Islamic holy places,” and called for the recognition and support of the Hamas government because it was “maintaining the Resistance against the Jewish Zionist occupation.”
In all likelihood, as public scrutiny of the party continues, moderate and hardline factions will emerge. There are also a number of failsafes in the Tunisian system that could prevent any pernicious Islamist agenda in the near future. For example, in an absolute first in the Muslim/Arab worlds, the Tunisian election saw affirmative action quotas, with half of all candidates required to be women. This will likely go a long way in ensuring that women’s rights cannot be curbed overnight. In fact, Enahda has been at least using the terminology of human rights, making it extremely rare if not unique in terms of global Islamist movements.
… Ghannouchi said: “We want to strengthen women’s rights, on workplace harassment, domestic violence, and better childcare so women can continue their careers.”
Many point to the 2006 Palestinian elections as an example of the threat that Islamist parties pose towards democracy. In those elections, Hamas defeated the relatively secular Fatah party and subsequently siezed control of Gaza. That said, Enahda lacks what was ultimately Hamas’ key to power: military dominance. Tunisia’s army is firmly secular and would be unlikely to put up with an Islamist coup or a severe curtailment of democratic institutions.
Furthermore, even if Enahda is successful in forming a governing coalition, its failure to reach a clear majority will force it to engage in the dealings and compromises that are required for minority rule in parliamentary democracies. The party will be judged not only on its Islamist credentials, but on its economic management — an area in which its leaders have neither extensive experience nor a religious answer, forcing them to rely on external advice to a considerable extent.
Also, the possibility remains that the 60% of non-Islamist parties that were elected will be able to cobble-together a broad coalition, leaving Enahda to oppose and irrespective of this, the first term of the Assembly will probably see many of them joining due to aligned interests as the democracy matures. Of course, there is still the possibility that the democracy will fail, either due to an Islamic revolution or with the military being reluctant to hand over power. That said, there are enough positive factors to permit some degree of cautious optimism from the supporters of democracy.
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Young people gather for anti-bullying summit
The emergence of social networking has led to some tragic cases of bullying in this country. The whole point of Tuesday's summit at the GRB was to teach middle schoolers how to recognize bullying and what to do about it. It's called the No Place for Hate Youth Summit and it's sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League.
We caught up with some of the 7th and 8th graders Tuesday morning as they took part in some role-playing, break out sessions. The kids told us that bullying is different for boys and girls and that technology has made bullying easier for bullies.
"There's a lot more ways that kids can bully people since we have phones and internet. People think that they can get away with stuff better because it's on the internet," said 7th grader Vivian Martin.
"Mainly girls when they get mad, when we get mad, we start saying things that people tell us and we put people's information out," said 8th grader Toni Lee.
This is a one-day summit with kids here from all over the Houston area. By the end of the day, the kids say they hope to have some good ways to cope with the issues when they head back to the classroom on Wednesday.
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Open thread October 23, 2018
Dan Crawford | October 23, 2018 9:23 am
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EMichael says:
Trump voters.
“Naturally, when the Hobby Lobby theocrats began messing around with ancient texts for their preposterous Museum of the Bible in Washington, I watched with more than a casual interest. I knew from my study that hundreds of people made a decent living in the Middle East peddling fraudulent manuscripts allegedly written during or immediately after the time of Christ. And the Hobby Lobby people demonstrated quite early on that the provenance—or, for that matter, the legal ownership—of the documents they were acquiring was quite the secondary consideration.
And now, the roof falls in. From CNN:
‘ German-based scholars tested the fragments and found that five “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum.” CNN raised questions about the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments in an article published last November, as the Green family prepared to unveil their new, $500 million museum. At 430,000 square feet, and with views of the Capitol, the Bible museum represents a significant investment for its evangelical founders. Now scholars say the Dead Sea forgeries could be part of the most significant sham in biblical archeology since the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” a fiasco that hoodwinked a Harvard scholar and made worldwide news in 2012. Some scholars estimate that as many as 70 forged fragments have hit the market since 2002.’
This fills me with a flood tide of entirely un-Christian glee. The Green family, the sex-obsessed theocrats behind Hobby Lobby, have done quite enough damage to the country to have earned being played for suckers like this. And, as is customary for all modern Christian evangelicals in politics, the Greens ignored the warnings of experts in Biblical archaeology who told them they likely were buying fakes.
“They made it widely known that they were buying everything,” said Joel Baden, a professor at Yale Divinity school and co-author of “Bible Nation,” a new book about the Greens. “Every antiquities seller knew the Greens were buying everything and not asking questions about anything.”
Blessed are the theocrats, for they shall be called marks and rubes.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24121251/museum-of-the-bible-fake-scrolls-green-family/
And nothing says christian values to me like smuggling:
“United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby
Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates
Earlier today, the United States filed a civil complaint to forfeit thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae. As alleged in the complaint, these ancient clay artifacts originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, contrary to federal law. Packages containing the artifacts were shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (“Hobby Lobby”), a nationwide arts-and-crafts retailer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and two of Hobby Lobby’s corporate affiliates. The shipping labels on these packages falsely described cuneiform tablets as tile “samples.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-forfeit-thousands-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-imported
Thieves and trump voters.
So how come the biggest story in the “liberal media” is not the Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare?
“The long-awaited sequel to The Ebola Panic (2014) has hit theaters just in time for the homestretch of the 2018 midterms. The Caravan is the haunting tale of how thousands of Central American people left their homes, primarily in Honduras, and are currently walking through southern Mexico, a thousand miles from the United States border. Yes, did you know the caravan you’re seeing wall-to-wall coverage on was actually still in Huixtla, Mexico, on Tuesday—a city very near the southern tip of Mexico?
That probably wasn’t readily apparent from the front-page coverage afforded it by The New York Times for yet another day:
Never mind that The Caravan is incredibly far away, and that surely only some slice of the few thousand marching in it will make it to the U.S.-Mexico border, and that many will likely apply for an asylum hearing—a legal right under international law and treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory—based on the claim they are fleeing gang and domestic violence in their home countries. Never mind that only the tiniest percentage are likely to gain entrance to America.
The fact that this is getting exhaustive coverage is just the latest failure in a campaign homestretch from the Mainstream Media in this country, following a 2016 meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s email security protocol and a 2014 cycle where the media went apocalyptic over an Ebola outbreak in southern Africa. Both were hysterias ginned up by Republicans and their allied propagandists in the sprawling right-wing media ecosystem.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24164296/caravan-coverage-media-fail-donald-trump-republicans/
This is becoming increasingly frightening.
This guy Dayen is going to lead the charge to do the same thing he did in 2016. Separate the party.
I know no one who thinks this is not the liberal idea:
“Liberals prefer the concept of a mixed economy—which even Sanders supports, more than his democratic socialist branding would imply. Competition can come from the public sector or the private sector: Breaking up the banks through size caps, or separating their investment and deposit-taking wings, gets you to the same place functionally. The public sector may be better positioned to build a road, and the private sector better positioned to sell you sandwiches.”
Great. I’m in. Not enough for him though, he has to separate:
“The decision between Warren and Sanders as the standard-bearer on the left is not merely about personality or electability. It will have implications about what Democrats stand for: a party that wants to make capitalism work for everyone, or one that will nationalize parts of capitalism that don’t work.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/151871/essential-difference-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren
Now he shows some differences where there are really none. Another fen litmus test. Another attack on the Dem Party.
EM:
I am not a Bernie or Biden guy. Not sure if Warren would be elected. Gillibrand like to eat other Dems (Franken). Kamala? What is left which might be plausible? Dayen is an ass.
I am totally against Biden as a candidate, and see no way he can win a primary. Bernie scares me only because of the skeletons in his closet that would make the trump voters with a conscience(not a whole lot of them) rethink not voting for him again . Not that they would switch to voting for Dems(that doesn’t happen), but that they are truly appalled at trump and will stay home.
Still I would fully support Sanders if he wins the primary(that is how it should work) but I have only one demand of the Dems. Whoever wins the primary receives the full support of the losers, and if there is not a person of color that wins, the VP must be a person of color.
And Dayen is an ass.
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Summary of “The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans” by Benjamin Bailey
October 30, 2020 example, midtermBailey, midtermKhearona Chev
The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans by Benjamin Bailey explores the language used by Dominican Americans and its relationship to their identities in the United States. Dominican American lineage includes Hispanic, American, and African. Therefore, the majority of group members are racially mixed. On top of being racially mixed, Dominican American group members are multilingual speakers (Spanish and English). Due to the multiracial and multi-linguistic traits that the group holds, not all group members agree on the same self-identification. To further understand how linguistics play a role in shaping self-identity, including racial and ethnic categories, Bailey conducted ethnographic research on mostly low-income Dominican Americans second-generation high school students at Rhode Island, focusing on their use of language.
The second generation high school Dominican American students alternate their language from Dominican Spanish, African American English (AAVE), and the standard form of English; generally code-switching between Spanish and English. The students use and alternate between these languages to differentiate themselves from European Americans, African Americans, as well as in-group Dominican American members. Unlike European and African Americans who choose their identity that’s determined on a black and white scale, the Dominican American students choose to identify themselves through their ethnic traits: language. In a conversation that Bailey observed between two students named Isabelle and Janelle, the students were speaking in Spanish and English, casually code-switching between the two languages as they conversed. They were speaking in English, however, AAVE was used instead of standard English. Bailey writes, “…AAVE linguistic forms not only display a sociopolitical position or stance to others, but rather also suggest membership in an essentialized racial group” (204). This demonstrates the idea that Dominican Americans use AAVE to distinguish from the dominant group. They are choosing to classify themselves in a group that is neither Black nor White.
The students’ relationships are closer to their African American peers than their White peers, but they do not consider themselves Black. Even when they are phenotypically similar to their African American friends, and even when they are seen as African American by others, they argue that they are not Black because they speak Spanish. For Dominican American students, phenotype and ancestry are ignored if they are Dominican and Spanish speaking. Thus, this system of classifying identity is based on traits of individuals and not one’s race. For this reason, Bailey makes it clear that language is a tool in shaping Dominican American’s identity.
As Dominican American students oppose self-identifying as Black, they also oppose self-identifying as White even though they may appear white in skin color. Dominican American students use both AAVE and Spanish to differentiate themselves from being White. Oftentimes when an in-group member speaks standard English, they are criticized for “talking White”. In a sense, Dominican American students are mocking the standard form of English, as well as their own group members for using it. Mocking the standard form of English is a way that Dominican American students are resisting to become part of the dominant group and to maintain the social boundaries with White group members. However, this mockery of using standard English can lead in-group members to feel like an outcast. A student named Rosa that Bailey interviewed stated that she felt at ease with White Americans, but she had to be careful with switching communicative styles when she interacted with members of different groups due to fear of being criticized (Bailey, 200). Consequently, this mockery can break the solidarity within the group. Nonetheless, Dominican Americans still do not self-identify as White even though they may use standard form English. In addition to mocking in-group members for using standard English, recent Dominican immigrants are also mocked for their usage of Spanish. Due to the difference in language use (code-switching) of Dominican American students and recently immigrated Dominicans, there is a distinction that makes in-group members different. Therefore Dominican Americans can be sometimes called “bootleg Dominican,” and similar negative comments are also made against Dominican immigrants. In sum, Bailey showcases that language is the main source of maintaining one’s identity, such as resisting standard English or that not knowing enough of the language may revoke one’s status of being an in-group member.
Capturing the main points of the article, Bailey concluded that: Dominican Americans adopted AAVE to distinguish from the dominant group and to mock standard forms of English; Dominican Americans use the Spanish language rather than the racial category to self-identify; Dominican Americans also use Spanish to distinguish within in-group members. Through these points, it shows how language is used as a classification tool. Since Dominican Americans value their Spanish traits, their racial or ethnic category would be closer to Hispanic or Latinx as opposed to African American. By using language to determine self-identity, Dominican Americans are dismantling the racial hierarchy. In other words, Bailey’s arguments may be to point out how race is a social construct. All in all, language isn’t just a spoken instrument but plays a significant role in one’s identity, including race and ethnicity.
Bailey, Benjamin. 2000. “The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 10 (2): 190–223.
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