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We enrolled him in puppy classes and he did really well. He was one of the feistier dogs but he was also one of the most intelligent ones. He picked up on things pretty quickly. I plan on continuing the puppy classes and then looking into some agility classes. I think he would be really good at it. What I enjoy a lot about him is when we take him out on walks or to the beach and I unleash him, he doesn't run off. His herding instincts kick in and he's watching us to make sure we're all together. It's really cute. We get<|fim_middle|> found you on-line because we had never even known that Aussie's were bred to be little like this. Thanks so much."
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Lost Sphear - How Artifacts Work
Restore the land and gain powerful buffs by using memories to build Artifacts.
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At its core, Lost Sphear is a game about a world<|fim_middle|> and the benefits players can expect to see once they're created.
Creating Artifacts In Lost Sphear
Right at the outset, Lost Sphear extolls the virtues of memories. In the game, memories take the form of stones that the player will collect from fighting or simply by exploring. Loads of different memory types are available, and players will want to track down an assortment in order to be able to craft Artifacts.
Throughout the course of the game, players will stumble upon glimmering areas on the overworld map that can be restored — these places are in fact potential locations for Artifacts, or little structures that provide passive buffs from everything to movement speed to battle skills like increasing the critical hit chance when using Momentum abilities.
Only one or two Artifacts can be crafted near the early stages of the game, but by the time players make it to the capital city, several more will have opened up. Creating Artifacts is simple: all players have to do is approach specially-marked lost areas and press the primary button in order to bring up a menu box. From there, they can choose which Artifact they'd like to create. Assuming all the right memory types are in the inventory, the Artifact will be created, and players can watch in delight as their skills increase. For a better look at how the system works, check out the video featured above.
There are loads of different Artifacts to be found in Lost Sphear, so many that we're sure we haven't yet found them all. From what we've seen so far, however, many of them are absolute necessities, including an Artifact that gives the overworld its own minimap, as well as one time-saving Artifact that increases the player's general movement speed. Some of the Artifacts' bonuses stack, too, and players can change their chosen Artifacts at any time simply by approaching them and selecting a different choice. Just remember that doing so will use up additional stores of memories.
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Australian born and trained Dr Jordana Hyman works as a senior consultant in IVF at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre Jerusalem. Her work includes helping young women with cancer preserve their fertility and look forward to a healthy future.
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"We settled in Jerusalem and I started residency in obstetrics and gynaecology in Shaare Zedek.
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"One of my passions is working with oncology patients to provide fertility preservation treatment, which involves freezing eggs or embryos for future use before a woman or girl begins chemotherapy, which may render her infertile in the future.
"Shaare Zedek's Oncology Department, especially young women with breast cancer, has rapidly expanded in recent times. As a result, we have a lot more women being referred for fertility preservation.
"I was always interested in obstetrics and gynaecology, but the focus on IVF came later. About halfway through my residency I had a rotation in IVF and from very early on in the rotation I felt it clicked and I had "come home". I am blessed to be a mother to my amazing children, and I think it motivates me to want to help every woman and couple struggling with challenges of fertility.
Sometimes, Jordana meets women who have babies after enduring chemotherapy. When this happens, she says "It's a really amazing experience to see the fruits of our work, especially after everything these women have been through.
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Hyundai's Kona compact SUV makes landfall in the U.S. market at the 2017 LA Auto Show.
With the debut, we gain a bit more insight into packaging and launch window.
The 2018 Kona will be available at Hyundai dealers in the first quarter of 2018. That's not far off, yet we still don't have details on pricing.
We do know that the B-segment<|fim_middle|> with a six-speed automatic transmission in both front and all-wheel drive configurations.
The step up is a 1.6-liter turbocharged Gamma four-cylinder generating 175 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque. This mill sends its power through a 7-speed dual clutch gearbox.
Hyundai's Safety Sense driver aid suite is available with lane keeping assist, blind-spot warning and forward collision-avoidance with pedestrian detection.
The dashboard is home to the automaker's BlueLink infotainment with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. We've seen it dozens of times before and it's always good.
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To hell and back
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The stunning military victory at Dien Bien Phu remains its major tourist attraction.
Dien Bien Phu was made the capital of Lai Chau Province 17 years ago, but partly by default. The previous capital kept suffering devastating floods, caused partly by deforestation. It may soon disappear altogether under the reservoir of a huge hydro dam. But, of course, there was also another reason to elevate the status of DBP: patriotism. The stunning Vietnamese military victory there in 1954, ending French colonialism in Southeast Asia, is an event celebrated in school books, songs and public art, in street names, memorials and museums.
The town's place in history has brought a certain amount of tourism, leading to construction of such modest local institutions as<|fim_middle|> population at 22,000, another at 9,000. The latter seems more accurate to me, but judging the number of people in any Asian town or city is an iffy thing for westerners to attempt because density is so high and census-taking is not a cherished art. The place is a world away from Hanoi. There are no stylish shops and no fancy restaurants. The best spot to eat is a depressing seafood place where customers sit crunched together at long tables, as in a prison, and the drinking water is served in old vodka bottles. In short, DBP is a very small and isolated locality with little commotion and less cosmopolitanism. Let me illustrate further.
I have one badly arthritic knee that will need replacing in the next few years. Until then, it acts up from time and time, buckling at inopportune moments. I had one such incident in DBP while climbing stairs at the only place with a vacancy: a combination hotel/massage parlour. The next day I had to hobble about in search of ice with which to bring down the swelling. The only supply I found was in a cell phone shop that also sold beer from an ancient fridge badly in need of defrosting. I paid the owner a few dong for the ice that had built up at the bottom. For days afterward, I was a famous personage in town: the westerner who spends good money on frozen water!
The community, whose local crops include rice and (in nearby tribal areas) opium, sits on red clay soil that reminded me of Prince Edward Island. In the dry season (I was there in February, the driest of the dry), the stuff is hard and dusty, but by the end of the rainy season it has the consistency of pancake batter. For the past 56 years, as it has dripped down the hillsides and embankments at the conclusion of each monsoon, it has revealed artifacts, including bits of human bone and sometimes teeth (French teeth, presumably). I was there to research part of a book about the French in Indochina, and without any effort whatever, I found three dirt-encrusted brass casings from 50-calibre machine gun ammunition. Two days before my arrival, a history buff from Britain discovered a French helmet. Inside was a scrap of scalp. But that was exceptional. After the French War, just as after American War two decades later, the Vietnamese picked the countryside clean of valuable scrap metal.
The Englishman's discovery of the helmet was somewhat out of the ordinary in another way as well, as relatively few western visitors spend time in DBP. I was the only one aboard the incoming flight, and while there I saw no more than three or four particularly hardy American and Canadian backpackers. Groups of Vietnamese school children on field trips—certainly. People with parents and grandparents buried in neat rows in the huge Vietminh cemetery—of course. But few Europeans, for example. The ranks of Frenchwomen widowed by Dien Bien Phu are pretty thin now, and the place is so far away and so difficult to get to, even from the major Vietnamese cities. In fact, it's hard to get out of as well.
The tiny airport is built on the site of the French military airstrip whose destruction by General Giap's artillery ensured the Vietminh victory. After an hour or so on the ground, the empty Vietnam Airlines flight to Hanoi hadn't refuelled or allowed us few ticket-holders to board. Eventually, two workers came and removed all of our luggage from the hold. Then mechanics, overseen by an official with a clipboard, began to disassemble part of the engine and the fuel system, leaving the components on the tarmac before quitting for the day. Eventually we heard an announcement that no other plane would be available for a day or two.
I had an important meeting in Hanoi the next morning. There being no bus and, of course, no train, I hired a taxi. The fare was astonishingly low but the journey took the rest of the day and all night, over narrow mountain roads, unpaved for long stretches, with rock cliffs on one side and 1,000-foot drops on the other — with no guard-rails or even white lines. The driver played loud Vietnamese rock on a CD player the whole time and honked the horn whenever he feared another vehicle was approaching in the darkness or when, as sometimes happens, a water buffalo, trying to stay cool, had taken refuge in a mud puddle in the middle of road.
I got to my meeting with moments to spare.
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Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia: East confronts West » | the Lottery Hotel, the Construction Hotel and the Beer Factory Guesthouse. But the past hasn't made anybody rich. DBP is a town of small-business people, families mostly, who live upstairs over their shops. Old men kneel on the sidewalk to spit, talk and gamble. Their game resembles checkers except that the pieces are numbered and, like the board itself, very crudely carved from scrap lumber.
Development, such as it is, has chewed up some of the edges of the battlefield but not enough to keep visitors from getting a clear understanding of what the fighting must have been like. In contrast to China, which will often raze some historical site to build a modern replica of it, Vietnam tends to skilfully redo or replace lost or damaged elements without taking away from the original. Examples include some parts of the French blockhouses and bunkers. Others include the surprisingly deep trenches dug by both armies during their deadly and deadly serious game of cat-and-mouse.
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REVIEW: NUMARK ORBIT WIRELESS DJ CONTROLLER
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Numark Orbit Full Review: Looking like a kid's toy and a game controller rolled into one, the Numark Orbit Wireless DJ Controller has people thinking "gimmick!" as soon as they see it. Which, it turns out, is a monumental error of judgement, as I've discovered over the last few days testing the unit for our Numark Orbit review.
It turns out that the Orbit is a brilliantly conceived, well-built wireless Midi controller that has been aimed by Numark at not only button-pushing DJs, but all sorts: Avant-garde lighting artists looking for a performance controller, all the way to jobbing "jocks" who are tired of having to plug in a separate Midi controller just to do their cues and library browsing – and just about everyone in-between.
First impressions of the Orbit
If you've only seen the pictures of the Numark Orbit, don't judge it just on those. Because I promise you that when you hold it, some of your preconceptions will change instantly. It's really nicely made, and feels great in the hands. It's got a decent weight to it, and the black casing is slightly rubberised with natural indentations on the underside for your fingers to settle in as you grab it, game controller-style, with two hands.
One thing people are right about: It really does look and feel like a game controller, clearly quite deliberately. Like the best such controllers, it is built to stand abuse, too. It has high-quality metal buttons top left and right on the edge for forefinger control, although unlike some game controllers there are no buttons on the back. The eight pads either side of the central jogwheel lend themselves to thumb control, so when you're holding it in both hands, you have effectively two forefingers and two thumbs to access its buttons and the jogwheel. Everything else has been designed for that position to feel simple and natural.
On the right-hand edge of the Orbit is a small indentation where an on/off switch and a micro USB socket live, along with an LED to show you if the unit is charging via USB. Turning this switch on causes the unit's lights to display arbitrary colours, and even when nothing's plugged in, turning the jogwheel in the centre of the unit makes a blue LED ring rotate in the direction you're moving the jog in. In a shaded place or at night the units lights are clear to see; in bright sunlight, however, it's impossible to see them.
There are two chrome loops left and right bottom of the unit presumably for attaching a neck strap, and there's a well-designed detachable brace at the back which could be used with the supplied Velcro strap to attach the unit presumably to your arm or something, although it felt way too wobbly when I tried it. Point is that it's been designed to be carried, strapped, attached or hung however it suits you – befitting for a wireless device.
Setting up the Orbit
No software at all in the box. All you get, in fact, is the Orbit unit is self plus a slim slip carry case, the micro USB cable, the wireless dongle and a little USB extension, presumably for plugging the dongle into tight spots. To get the software, then, it's off to the Numark website. The process is currently convoluted (two website addresses, each with different procedures to get your software; you have to give over an awful lot of personal information to get anywhere near a downloaded link, the "locate my serial" page doesn't work…); Numark says it is working on streamlining this process.
Once you've jumped that hurdle (and, on a Mac at least, got past your computer bleating about unknown developers), you can get two basic pieces of software to play with. The first is the Orbit DJ program, which is the simplest way to experiment with the device, and the second is a Midi editing software so you can roll your sleeves up and get it to do custom stuff. Finally, Numark provides mapping files for existing DJ software too, and has started with a Traktor mapping, which we will look at here. Whatever you choose to use, to get started, you simply plug a the dongle into your computer, turn the Orbit on and – that's it! I found the unit worked instantly.
Basic function & Orbit DJ software
Orbit DJ is a small program designed to show you what Orbit's 16 backlit pads, 4 selectable banks, 4 virtual knobs per bank, and 2-axis accelerometer can do. Orbit DJ is essentially an over-simplified two-deck DJ program. No headphones cueing, no BPM analysis, no sync, no tempo adjustment, no library controls – you drag and drop tunes onto its decks and then control rudimentary transport and simple crossfading, volume, EQ and FX using the Orbit. As a DJ program, it's a non-starter; as a demonstration of the Orbit, it's fine. From that angle, let's see what you can do with it. The Orbit's top four buttons select what the jogwheel does. In this instance, only two of them work. They let you alter the volume of the current track, or use the jog as a crossfader. The bottom four buttons switch between four banks of main pad controls, and in this case they switch between transport/cues/loops and FX for each deck.
Meanwhile, the top metal buttons turn the motion control on or off; hold down this button with another (i.e. filter), and the further you move from level, the more pronounced the effect. It's pretty neat stuff. When using the motion buttons, though, it also became clear to me that a very good additional way of using this unit is flat on a surface; cue juggling would be easier that way, and it has big rubber strips underneath it to keep it sturdy when being used like this. Being wireless, of course, it would easy to pick it up and put it down whenever you want.
With some improvements, Orbit DJ could actually be useful<|fim_middle|> controller, that just happens to be wireless. Now that means that you can use the free, supplied mapping editor to do all kinds of things. (First thing: If all you want to do is change the colour of the LEDs, you can do that from the unit itself – clever. But I'm assuming if you're reading this section you need to do slightly more than that.)
For instance, at the moment there's no Serato Scratch Live mapping. I assume Numark will come up with one fast enough, but you could get to work mapping your own – it's not exactly hard to map SSL. Or, you could map this to control the video elements of your performance software, while your DJ controller or other traditional gear takes part of the audio. Or, as in this video & case study, you could use it to take control of VJ software. And it doesn't take a genius to point out that those pads and banks would lend themselves nicely to Ableton Live mappings, too.
Now, many years ago, summer would approach, school would be out, and I'd kick back with some project or other (I was a geek, it usually involved building radios and things with my dad's electronics components), and happily get absorbed in it for weeks on end. Later, when I first got into digital DJing, I did the same with mappings (although at this point, I was a weekend-busy, week-lazy DJ!). However, I am not ashamed to admit that nowadays the idea of spending more than a couple of hours on a non-mission critical project (like experimenting with a mappings editor) fills me with priority-violating panic. So I'll admit: I took a quick look at this software, scoped it out, and got out of there!
Point is, the mapping editor is there, and I saw enough to know it works. If you're into that stuff and you want to map this for yourself, that means that the Orbit is basically a highly advanced, innovative wireless Midi controller that you can blow your mind mapping in all kinds of as-yet-unimagined ways, to basically any software with Midi capability.
For the rest of us, Numark has promised hand on heart that it'll continue to post useful mappings for Orbit over at http://www.numark.com/ozone. It should definitely start with Serato Scratch Live, in my opinion, to match the Traktor mapping it already has.
It's ironic that while those who've never seen or touched this are dismissing it as a toy, those who have are realising it has huge potential as a serious performance tool. It is in absolutely no way, shape or form a toy. It is a highly practical, well made, well thought-out Midi controller, with the motion control being a "wow!" factor, and the wireless being a stroke of genius.
It is clearly meant to be a secondary controller, to slot in to "fill gaps" or extend the possibilities of existing systems. For sample triggering, combination buttons, button mashing as well as FX and more mundane (loop, cue) controls, it is perfect. It can basically assist with missing functions on any set-up, with no need for any wires or fuss – just the right mapping (that you can make yourself, or that surely the ecosystem will begin to provide). Even at the moment, Traktor users should seriously consider getting one of these, if for nothing more than the fun you can have with effects.
Technically it works on the 2.4GHz wireless band, the same as wireless mouse/keyboard devices, and I certainly found negligible to zero latency, so if you're worrying that this might be a problem, I'd say not to. Of course, the further you stray from the laptop the more it is likely to be, although Numark claims a decent distance. It also claims a long (six hour) battery life. The unit can be charged by USBing it into your computer; you can also perform on it that way, so if latency/battery life do loom their heads, that's an easy fallback for both.
Shortcomings and competition
So, my dislikes? Having a "shift" button (or buttons) underneath the unit would have been good (currently, holding a pad assigned to shift plus another button/turning the jog is tricky). The Orbit DJ software is poor for doing anything useful with; they should talk to Virtual DJ and get an Orbit skinned version of that program sorted (maybe they are already doing so). Oh, and forget about seeing any of the unit's lights in the sunshine – it's a no-go.
And what else is it like out there on the market? well, the Numark Orbit borrows from all kinds of technologies. The LPD8 and other pad controllers are used by DJs currently who may be interested in this for sample control and so on.
As a utility controller for Traktor Scratch or Serato Scratch Live, controllers like the Traktor Kontrol X1 or similar are alternatives. The QuNeo is wireless. And the Midi Fighter Spectra put tilt control in a DJ controller first, but is wired which is obviously a downside for a motion controller.
At least for some users, the Numark Orbit will improve on all existing solutions. If you want to bring extra Midi control to your DJ, VJ or even production set-up, and you want something small, neat and practical to set up and use, take a look. If you like the idea of actually using its motion control and lights to show your audience what you're doing, double so. the simple, easy to use wireless, though, is the clincher. Well done to Numark for talking the risk; hopefully people will understand this already misunderstood little unit in sufficient numbers to make it a success.
Beautifully built and massively fun to use, it's clear that a lot of thought has gone into this little DJ controller. Its motion control elements are fun, the wireless side turns out to be highly practical, and especially for Traktor users wanting to liberate effects, it's perfect (there's a mapping) – although you can map it yourself too. It may look like a toy, but it's anything but.
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How To Play 'Atonal' Guitar Metal Licks | for playing parties and the like. It needs a sync function, library browsing and loading, the ability to use the jogwheel to manipulate current track, plus some weird behaviour ironing out (the "clear" button for the cues clears all of them, not allowing you to tap the one you want to clear), but I repeat that it's there to show you what Orbit can do and prove the concept to you – plus, it's only a v1. (Why not make those waveforms parallel in any future version too, Numark?)
Using it with the Traktor Pro 2 Mapping
Downloadable from http://www.numark.com/ozone, the 2/4-deck transport plus Nebul4 FX mappings are as easy to install as any Traktor mapping ("do it twice to make sure" – ah, the straightforward world of Traktor). Once you're in, you'll immediately see that it brings a whole new set of possibilities to the ballpark.
The mappings lets you control, across two decks, many of the basics and a LOT of the effects in Traktor. Volume, (low) EQ, filter, key, crossfader, library browsing and loading – all are areas accomplished by the jogwheel. The "gaming" buttons top left and right are instant motion control filters (again, one per deck). Play, sync, master sync, loop, flux mode, even beatjumping is all easy, and the right-hand eight buttons are your eight hot cues.
Meanwhile, select banks 3 and 4 (for effects, one for each channel), and it's like an Aladdin's cave of goodies, with all the popular effects present and correct, and even combo knobs mapped to the four jogwheel buttons and the jogwheel itself (of course). Meanwhile, the "gaming" buttons let you use motion control to take charge of the main parameter of the effect in question. It's brilliant fun, cleverly mapped, and I'll bet you'll love it.
At this point, one user case scenario became blatantly clear: In two words, Traktor Scratch. If you use Traktor Scratch, especially with vinyl but also with simple CDJ players (i.e. no Midi/HID), you generally either use your laptop's keyboard a lot, or take along a Traktor Kontrol X1 or something similar in order to do transport, library selection, loops, cues and so on. With this unit you get all of that, plus an expressive effects controller that is frankly about a million times more fun. And it's wireless all. Now that's pretty cool.
By the way, there's also a track preparation and beatgridding mapping for Traktor. Now that could just be a killer use of this little unit, churning through your beatgridding on a handheld instead of hunching over the keyboard…
Using it with the mapping editor
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Connecticut Audubon Society has been working on this project with Donna Ellis, senior extension educator at the University of Connecticut. Earlier this month, she and her assistants released about 50 weevils on a small patch of mile-a-minute at the Field preserve and about 1,000 in a bigger area of Smith Richardson. We'll return to the sanctuaries in August and in the fall to assess the results. | Croft Memorial Preserve in Goshen.
What's the big deal about rabbits? The species that we confirmed at Croft was the New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis), which is far more rare and elusive than the common Eastern Cottontail (S. floridanus). Although the New England Cottontail is not yet an endangered species, it is in danger of becoming endangered.
Connecticut Audubon Society is now in a great position to help them thrive again.
For several years we've been using federal grants and a team of volunteers and staff to manage and expand a pocket of scrub and shrub thicket on Croft, in hopes of improving the habitat the New England Cottontails need.
But New England Cottontails are not only elusive, they are virtually impossible to identify without DNA testing, and for that we needed droppings to analyze. Rabbit droppings are easiest to find in the snow, so last January, after our only snowfall, Robin Blum, a wildlife biologist from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, traipsed into the sanctuary and came back with the goods: two pellets, which tests confirmed were from a New England Cottontail.
Our habitat conservation efforts worked! The scrub-shrub habitat we created is in the middle of the 800-acre Croft sanctuary, and our best guess is that maybe a dozen individual New England Cottontails live there.
We're working on a plan to expand the scrub-shrub habitat at Croft to about 15 acres, and we'll be applying for grants through the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program to help pay for the work, so the cottontails don't peter out. The work will also be a benefit to a host of declining bird species, such as Blue-Wing Warbler, Chestnut-Sided Warbler, Prairie Warbler and Brown Thrasher – that need scrub-shrub habitat.
While we're trying to help New England Cottontails at one preserve, we're trying to stop mile-a-minute weed from taking over at two other preserves, the John W. Field and John Mahoney Sanctuary in Fairfield, and the H. Smith Richardson Wildlife Preserve in Westport.
Invasive and – as its name suggests – fast-growing, mile-a-minute weed (Persicaria perfoliata) arrived in the United States in 1930. As usual with | 501 |
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CLIFTON PARK, N.Y —The Colgate women's hockey team earned the top spot in this year's Eastern College Athletic Conference women's ice hockey preseason poll, released by the conference office on Tuesday.
<|fim_middle|>After a stellar freshman season, Osborne finished sixth in the nation and first in the conference in saves with 473.
The Westport, Ontario native also posted a .926 save percentage and 1.70 goals against average, helping her earn ECAC Rookie of the Year.
The Raiders open the season at home on Friday against RIT at 5:00 p.m. Prior to face-off, a banner ceremony will be held celebrating Colgate's ECAC championship and NCAA tournament appearance last season.
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The Raiders, who won are coming off their second ECAC regular season title and first ECAC tournament championship in program history, totaled 115 points and seven first place votes.
Colgate finished last season with a 15-7-1 mark and made its second ever NCAA tournament appearance, falling 1-0 in overtime to Minnesota Duluth in the quarterfinals.
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Danielle Serdachny, Forward
Tallying nine goals and 12 assists last season, Serdanchy led the Raiders with 21 points, good for second in the conference.
The Edmonton, Alberta native earned CCM/AHCA First Team All-American honors last season, making her the first Colgate All-American in Division I era.
Serdachny also took in major conference honors, earning Player of the Year, Best Forward, and All-League First Team accolades.
Tanner Gates, Defenseman
Gates finished last season with 12 assists, tied for the team lead, and also tied for third-best in the ECAC.
The senior from Oceanside, Calif. also earned Best Defenseman and All-League First Team honors.
Kaylee Osborne, Goalkeeper
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Lebanon and Jordan, Volume XI
Document 372
372. Memorandum of a Conversation, New York, September 18, 1959, 2 p.m.1
New York, September 18, 1959, 2 p.m.
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U.S. Aid Programs for Lebanon
Prime Minister Karami and Ambassador Abou Khater called on the Secretary at their request for a preliminary exchange of views prior to their visit to Washington.2
Karami was primarily concerned with the drop in U.S. economic aid following the change in government in Lebanon.3 He said the people of the Middle East believe in the same principles as the Western world. They could never espouse Communism because this is totally contrary to their religious beliefs. However he claimed the U.S. economic policy in this area was geared to maintaining friendly governments in power and once this was achieved the U.S. stopped economic aid.
Because of this fact and because the U.S. was still linked to the U.K. in the minds of the people in the Middle East, most of the national revolts which had taken place in the Middle East had necessarily [Page 640]been forced to join with Communist elements to achieve success, although they would have preferred to achieve their<|fim_middle|> to New York as head of the Lebanese Delegation and served as President Pro Tern of the General Assembly in place of Charles Malik at the opening session on September 16. He visited Washington at his request September 21–22 to meet with President Eisenhower.↩
Karame became Prime Minister and head of a four-man cabinet serving under President Chehab on October 15, 1958.↩
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history@state.gov | goals without their help and with the tacit support of the U.S. The Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine had been premature and a further element in forcing nationalists in such countries as Iraq and the UAR from adopting tactics they would not necessarily have preferred to adopt.
Karami agreed with the Secretary's answer that very often the Communists take advantage of proper nationalist aspirations for their own ends and we ourselves had been deluded by what had originally appeared as an agrarian revolt in China but which had proved to be a ruthless Communist coup. However Karami said that public opinion in the area was still convinced that U.S. military and economic aid was geared to U.S. political interests in the Middle East. He did admit that since Suez there had been a slight change in their attitude and we were not quite as linked with the U.K. as we had been in the past.
The Secretary concluded by saying that the U.S. only attached certain conditions to military aid but never to economic aid and that economic aid had consistently been used for the benefit of improving economic conditions in these countries and not for political purposes. While it was true that economic aid to Lebanon had diminished, this was due to certain conditions beyond our control and based on limitations imposed by existing aid legislation. We had confidence in the present Lebanese Government and we have never used, nor do we intend to use, economic aid for political purposes.
Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1476. Confidential. Drafted by N. Armour. The source text indicates that the conversation took place in the Secretary's suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.↩
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More than two-thirds of Americans over age 70 have meaningful hearing loss, experts say, but according to the New York Times, only 20 percent of people in this country who need hearing aids buy them.
Hearing loss is so gradual, you may not even realize what you're missing. Or you may know you need hearing aids but balk at the cost, thinking you can get by without them. The problem is, hearing loss is more devastating than many of us realize. If you have uncorrected hearing loss, you're more likely to suffer falls and broken bones, social isolation and depression, even Alzheimer's.
Since expense is the biggest roadblock that Americans with hearing loss confront, we've been on a mission to search out viable options for lower-cost solutions. The hearing aid options below—some of them fairly new—range from technologically basic to advanced, with basic offering little more than sound amplification and advanced giving you multiple app-enabled settings for sound customization and tech that automatically adapts to your audio environment. The most sophisticated also stream wirelessly from your mobile device.
Maybe you'll find something that serves your needs in your price range.
1. IQ HEARABLE EARBUDS: $299 per pair.
One of the best currently available is Nuheara IQ Buds for $299. These Bluetooth-enabled buds not only stream music and phone calls directly to your ears, but efficiently dampen ambient noise, enhancing your ability to hear speech both at home and in noisy environments. The smartphone app that the device pairs with has settings for different audio environments—home, music, restaurant, driving, office, and so on.
How it works: Since these are not hearing aids, they're available without prescription by ordering online. There are no programming or adjustments to be made, except to customize your hearing experience via the paired app.
Word up: Hearable options are sure to expand and improve in the next couple of years. Stay tuned.
The downside: While hearable buds like the IQ may work well for people with low hearing loss, or in certain situations for people with moderate loss, they are not currently a viable everyday solution for anyone with moderate to severe hearing loss. They only work properly when paired with a smartphone app, have limited battery life and can cause discomfort if worn for long periods.
What you get: You'll get a basic hearing aid from this online-only manufacturer-supplier. You can choose between two versions—an invisible, in-the-ear model and one that fits behind the ear. Unlike more expensive hearing aids, neither version is highly versatile; while the devices have basic settings, they are not designed to distinguish between and automatically control for different audio environments. Nevertheless, these hearing aids will substantially improve mild to moderate hearing loss in a variety of situations where there's not a lot of ambient sound.
How it works: You send iHearMedical your audiogram (which you must get from the audiologist who tests your hearing), and the<|fim_middle|> claims to offer significant relief for tinnitus sufferers.
How it works: When you call HearingRevolution, you're referred to a local audiologist. The company prides itself on its expertise in hearing health and education, along with transparency. that means when you call, you can get up-front advice as well as up-front prices on hardware options you're interested in before you visit the audiologist—a rarity in this industry. You can find a list of brands and models with prices on the website.
Word up: Besides offering one of the least expensive options for hearing aids with full audiologist services, HearingRevolution also offers a low-cost by-mail hearing aid repair service, which might save you the cost of ordering a new pair.
The downside: None that we know of.
What you get: Epic Hearing does not advertise to consumers and is known primarily as a provider of major hearing aids to Medicaid recipients, along with members of managed care organizations, health plans and unions. (EPIC claims to be the country's largest provider of hearing benefits). Some employers also offer the EPIC hearing health plan as part of their benefits package.
But the company does sell directly to consumers at very affordable prices for hearing aids from eight major manufacturers. EPIC partners with audiologists across the country and offers a free hearing test, pre-programming and adjustments as part of the package. Epic offers hearing aids by price tier.
The company has nine set price points for all hearing aids: $495 to $1,899 per ear for basic; $2,099 per ear for advanced and $2,399 to $2,499 per ear for premium.
How it works: An EPIC representative refers you by phone to a local partner audiologist. You order your hearing aids from the audiologist, but pay EPIC directly. You can call EPIC at 877-606-3742.
Word up: You may be able to get a better deal if an association or union to which you belong offers an EPIC plan as part of its value add. It's worth checking.
The downside: Some bad reviews on Yelp suggest that there may be a downside to EPIC's service. That said, the company has been awarded the Health Network Accreditation from the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC), one of the country's two top healthcare accrediting organizations.
What you get: Audient is a national nonprofit hearing care alliance that unites audiologists with suppliers to provide deeply discounted basic to mid-level hearing aids and related care for hearing impaired people on low incomes.
How it works: You fill out an application stating that you fit Audent's annual-income guidelines—up to $27,000 for an individual and $36,000 for a couple. No additional documentation is required. Once you are approved, the organization contacts you to coordinate your referral to an Audient Program participating hearing care professional. For questions, call 1-866-956-5400 extension #2.
Word up: Audient was formerly run by the Lions Club and is now administered by EPIC.
The 7 Signature's specifications are similar to the top of the line Signia hearing aid's, including all the bells and whistles—t-coils, multiple channels, customization of your hearing experience via a smartphone app and more. And while this Kirkland doesn't have integrated streaming, you can buy a standalone Bluetooth streaming gadget that you wear to stream phone calls, music and other audio from your mobile device directly to your hearing aid.
Costco also offers hearing aids from other manufacturers in a variety of styles and price points, but the Kirkland 7 is the least expensive.
How it works: Simple: Make an appointment at Costco, where you'll get your hearing test and audiogram, discuss options and order a hearing aid pre-programmed for you. Come back whenever you need to for free cleanings and adjustments.
Word up: Costco was rated one of the top two hearing aid providers by Consumer Reports readers in a large survey.
The downside: When you buy a hearing aid at Costco, you see a "hearing instrument specialist" rather than an audiologist. Training requirements for these specialists vary from state to state. That said, since Costco lets you come back for as many adjustments as you need, you should end up with a hearing aid that's programmed just right for you.
Another potential downside: Costco hearing aids are "locked," which means no one but Costco can adjust them. If you are moving to an area without a Costco hearing center you might want to consider buying elsewhere.
What you get: Leasing is a way to finance hearing aids without interest charges. HearTek, a division of EPIC, claims that almost everyone will qualify during the application process and there are no application fees or required security deposit. You have access to all levels of technology at four monthly payment levels – $49.99 (basic), $79.99 (standard), $99.99 (advanced) and $149.99 (premium). By spreading hearing-aid payments across a lease term up to 30 months, patients can finance a hearing aid up to $5,000.
How it works: Patients go to a participating audiologist to select a hearing aid best suited for their needs. Call 844-586-9403 for more info.
Word up: HearTEK is using the cellphone-plan approach, giving participants the option at 18 months to trade in their hearing aid and upgrade to a new model either in their current pricing tier or a higher tier. If you're not interested in upgrading, you can continue with your lease unchanged. You can also buy out the lease at any time to purchase your hearing aid without penalty.
The downside: Currently, HearTEK only leases hearing aids from three manufacturers: Phonak, Unitron and GNResound. As a new program (it launched in summer 2016), it's still early to evaluate the service. Customer communications appear to be spotty, and there are currently no independent online customer reviews.
Erica Manfred wrote this guide for SeniorPlanet with the support of a journalism fellowship from New America Media, the Gerontological Society of America and the Silver Century Foundation. Visit SeniorPlanet.org. | company will pre-program your hearing aids. You also can do the programming yourself with a gadget iHearMedical sends you, but it's a very difficult process.
Word up: iHearMedical has improved its service, not only by offering the pre-programmed option, but also by buttoning up its shipping operations. Delivery schedules are now reliable.
The downside: While you do receive a pre-programmed hearing aid, any adjustments that you'll need to make over time are DIY by using the complicated gadget iHearMedical ships with its hearing aid. You also don't get the kind of testing and precise fit that you get with an audiologist, or even from a hearing care specialist.
What you get: This online-only company sells all major manufacturers' hearing aids at 50 percent off a typical audiologist's price. At the lower end of the scale are basic options; at the top are the high-tech Oticon Opn and Widex Beyond, both of which offer advanced technology.
How it works: You select your hearing aid from the company's website. Then you send the company your audiogram and get your new hearing aids mailed to you pre-programmed. If you need adjustments, you can make them yourself at home up to twice a year with phone help from a company representative, using an adjustment kit that you can order for free through BuyHear.
Word up: BuyHear's in-home self-adjustment service has been reviewed and deemed easy and painless. If you know which brand you want, this may the cheapest way to get it.
The downside: As with any other online-only supplier, you don't get the kind of testing and precise fit that you get from a professional. And without the benefit of an audiologist's advice, you have to do your research and know which hearing aid is a good choice for you—or you could be sneaky and ask an audiologist for recommendations (consults are usually free), and then buy from BuyHear.
What you get: This company offers insurance providers deeply discounted hearing aids from major manufacturers for their members through a national network of audiologists (in that role the company is known as HearingCareSolutions). The company also sells direct to the consumer, using the same audiologist network and offering similarly discounted prices.
The top of the line, Oticon Opn, one of the newer iPhone compatible hearing aids, is $3995 a pair from HearingRevolution. That's only $500 more than BuyHear's price and comes with in-office fitting and ongoing adjustment services. The company also offers a new Signia model that | 532 |
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Image: "Anthropod," mixed media on canvas, 2018, 47.2×55 in.
Jenny Reddin
Jenny Reddin defines herself as a "poured paint artist," producing abstract works that rely heavily on chance, accident and the surrrender of control. Whilst her work is the result of experimentation with materials, methods and process, she has perfected the chemistry involved in achieving an outcome that satisfies her search for "a beautiful surface."
Jenny's works allow the viewer to draw their own interpretation, to create their own relationship with the work. She achieves adelicate transience in the work that suggests fragility of life. They are often reminiscent of aerial landscapes and of nature magnified to reveal structure and life force.
Because she uses largely translucent pigments in highly mobile solutions, her works glow as if lit from within. They bear witness to the almost ritualistic dance that she performes to deliver the pigment to the support as they shift across the carefully prepared surface to stain it or to settle in mirror perfect pools of colour.
Her recent series titled "The Very Stupid Man" references a story that she wrote several years ago for inspiration. The story tells the tale of the ignorance and stupidity of early humankind compared to today's clever people. The kick in the story is that when men were stupid and lacking technology, the earth was pristine and rich with nature's diversity. It seems that we have become amazingly clever but at the expense of the earth.
Jenny exhibits regularly in Australia and she has successfully exhibited both in the USA and Hong Kong.
"Ancestor," Mixed Media on Canvas, 2018, 47x47in.
"Filtered," Mixed Media on Canvas, 2018, 31.5x 31.5in.
"Remnant," Mixed Media on Canvas, 2018, 79.7x 59in.
"The Very Stupid Man," Mixed Media on Canvas, 59×79.7 in.
ArtIssue #42Jenny Reddin
Jenny Reddin is an award winning Australian artist who is held in collections in the USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. She describes herself as a poured paint artist who uses gravity and chance as her paint brushes. Her works are often reminiscent of aerial photography of geographical features. This series employs a Rorschach technique to give her a symmetrical image that references skulls and fossils of prehistoric man.
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Sap Rising: A Natural History of Neighborhood
By Arthur Plotnik
Like old homesteaders circling their spread and recalling the early days, we often walk the forty steps of our cherished one-tenth-acre plot reflecting on when we settled in an unsettling Chicago neighborhood some three decades ago. We didn't face locusts, dust storms, or massacres (though one murder took place around the | 618 |
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by Goh Bee Lian , May 16, 2001 | Destinations: Malaysia / Singapore / Kuala Lumpur
Image © 2001 Goh Bee Lian
Ask any true-blooded Singaporean what comes to mind when he or she thinks of Chinese New Year, and chances are that, included in the list of festive favorites, right up there with the auspicious red/gold home decorations, red packets containing cash for good luck, lion dances, meter-high pussy willows in tall Chinese vases, raw fish salad, Mandarin songs over the radio and department store PA systems cheerfully announcing a fresh start in spring and the new lunar year, will be the mouth-watering selection of delicacies which are offered to guests at every home.
The advent of Chinese New Year used to be a time for housewives to try and outdo each other in coming up with the most delicious and the widest range of cookies to offer to family and friends dropping by to pay their respects during the first fortnight of the new lunar year. More pragmatic women settle on specialization, making large quantities of those cookies that they are best at, and swapping with relatives and friends, so that each ends up with a wide variety.
While a number of delicacies consumed during this festive<|fim_middle|>, regular shape. Then, using a pair of brass or stainless steel clippers with serrated edges, she pinches the edge of the pastry, forming patterns which frame the depression in the center. Each piece of pastry is then placed in rows on a baking tray, ready for the next person.
In the meantime, someone else has been scooping teaspoons full of pineapple jam and forming them into little balls by rolling them between both palms. Perhaps therein lies a big difference between home-made pineapple tarts and those produced by factories. The homemade variety has been cooked to retain enough moisture so that the tangy pineapple taste comes through. The factory-made variety are often made with more sugar for a longer shelf-life, and drier so that they are easier to handle. These ladies take their time shaping the soft jam, which will dry out slightly during baking, to just the right level of moistness.
The little balls of pineapple jam are placed into the depressions at the center of each piece of pastry, and gently pressed down so that a nicely-shaped mound of pineapple gleams happily out, looking so much like the smiling face of a sunflower. After baking, the pineapple in the middle turns a bright sunshine-yellow.
When they are in a whimsical mood, the ladies roll out more bits of dough into thin strips, and form patterns and figures to decorate the top of the tart. One year, her niece decided to create smiley faces with two little dots for the eyes, and an upturned strip of dough to form a happy mouth. After the tarts were baked and arranged in layers in transparent plastic bottles, row upon row of smiley faces beamed out, bringing a smile to everyone who saw them. The young girl said that everyone who ate them would feel happy, and looking at the smiles that just the sight of them brought, it was easy to believe that.
The demand for pineapple tarts is at its peaks during the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya seasons, but never really disappears. Shops can be found that sell pineapple tarts all year round, but somehow the feeling of eating pineapple tarts at other times in the year is different. And the taste of tarts purchased at a shop can never beat the taste of that first tray of tarts that comes out hot from the oven, that first bite into tangy pineapple and melt-in-your-mouth fresh pastry, with the fragrance of baking still lingering in the air.
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AFP/Sarah Stewart | season can also be found in other countries such as China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, there are a number of cookies that are found only in Singapore and Malaysia. These are unique to this area, and make use of ingredients that are readily available here, such as coconut, pandan (screwpine) leaves and pineapple.
The pineapple tart must rank as one of the most popular of the cookies offered at CNY. Months before the new year, a thriving cottage industry begins to bubble. Friends, colleagues and relatives exchange notes on the sources of the best pineapple tarts, orders are placed for delivery just before the new year for hundreds of pineapple tarts per household. An invisible army of enterprising women and their part-time helpers re-group once a year to join in the fray. Newspapers run comparisons on which outlet has the best pineapple tarts.
Connoisseurs swear that the best pineapple tarts are those made by hand. Which explains why this cottage industry shows no signs of flagging year after year, even against the formidable resources of big factories that churn out these tarts with their gleaming machinery and automated production lines.
What makes a pineapple tart different? Let us join a Singaporean lady as she prepares a batch of pineapple tarts to be shared with family and friends.
She starts by visiting her neighborhood wet market, a common sight in Singapore's many housing estates. The wet market is the focal point of the neighborhood, usually a large open hall housing a number of stalls selling fresh produce. Walking down the fan-ventilated aisles of the hall whose floors are wet (hence the term "wet market") from stallholders rinsing coconuts or fish under running water, and the melting of ice chips piled high over the seafood to keep them fresh in the heat, she passes the many stalls selling fish, beef, chicken, pork, vegetables, flowers and spices, and heads straight for the stalls selling fruits.
Greeting her usual pineapple-supplier, she notes with pleasure that he has just received a fresh shipment, as the large rattan basket is piled high with about 50 pineapples freshly trucked from Malaysia that very morning.
She places her order for 10 pineapples, and the stall assistant begins the task of slicing the skin off the pineapples. Grasping a pineapple in one hand, he takes up a sharp long knife, and in one swift movement, lops off the crown, and then the base, of the pineapple. Then, carefully, he places the blade of the knife at an angle against the bottom edge of the pineapple. Moving the blade back and forth with one hand, he turns the pineapple in the other hand against the blade, so that the skin comes off in one long spiral strip, ever mindful to cut off enough of the skin so that the brown, spiky "eyes" which dot the sides of the pineapple, are removed, and yet not too much that the fruit is wasted.
Back home, she washes the whole pineapples, and removes any remaining "eyes" by making wedge cuts into the flesh of the fruit around the "eyes". Then she cuts each pineapple length-wise into 4 wedges and trims off the edge of each wedge which is the fibrous heart of the fruit that has little flavor. She tastes a small piece of the pineapple to find out how sweet it is. Some pineapples are sweeter, others more sour, and she needs to ascertain this in order to adjust the amount of sugar to add into the jam later.
In her mother's day, the pineapple had to be grated by hand using a coconut grater. Nowadays, she can just toss the pineapple wedges into her efficient German food processor that does the job quicker and just as well.
The grated pulp is then poured into a plastic colander to drain off most of the juice. She collects the juice into bottles and places them in the fridge for a refreshing drink on a hot afternoon.
The drained pineapple pulp is placed into a large pot over a medium flame. Enough of the juice remains for the pulp to bubble and boil, and gradually the pineapple pulp is softened by the boiling, and reduces in volume. Two sticks of cinnamon go into the pot, to add a rounded flavor. When the pineapple mixture starts to become dry, sugar is added in batches. As the sugar melts, the mixture turns liquid, and has to be constantly stirred to ensure the pineapple is mixed well with the sugar, and to avoid burning at the bottom of the pot. Some yellow rock sugar is added to add a thicker consistency. The sugar is added gradually, until the right level of sweetness is reached.
And all the while, the mixture has to be stirred. She takes care not to get hit by hot bits of the pulp splattering out of the pot, like larva from a little seething volcano, but has yet to chalk up one occasion of cooking the pineapple jam when she did not get hit. When she gets the first sting of hot pineapple pulp on her arms (or sometimes even her feet!), she steps out to snap a leaf from her aloe vera plant growing in a pot outside her apartment and smears the gel over the affected parts of skin, and knows that this will soothe the burn and prevent blisters from developing. The thickening mass is hot and heavy and she knows she will feel the ache in her arm muscles the next day from all that stirring. It is a case of literally toiling over a hot stove.
But for now, she breathes in the sweet smell of the pineapple cooking, and knows that her neighbors staying in the same block of flats will be getting the smell too. So will people walking by the block. And it will conjure in each person's mind their favorite pineapple tarts. She also knows the puzzlement that will cross some minds if they get that aroma at any other time of year than the Chinese New Year or Muslim New Year, for pineapple tarts are enjoyed just as much by the ethnic Malay community.
She uses a gas stove for this task, a compromise between the old method of boiling the pineapple over a charcoal stove, and the factories that use huge metal vats with attached stirrers powered by electricity, over multi-ring gas stoves. By the time the pineapple jam has reached the right consistency and golden hue, 3 - 4 hours have elapsed. Once the jam has cooled down sufficiently, she scoops the precious golden paste into containers and stores them in the fridge, ready for use whenever she decides to bake.
The making of pineapple tarts at home is a social activity. This is an opportunity to rope in (usually female) friends, colleagues, cousins and sisters to join in the fun. Many hands make light work of the many little tasks involved, removing the tedium of tackling this task alone, and the womenfolk maintain a continuous chatter as deft hands work, pretty much as their mothers had done before them, albeit chatting about different subject matter. Successful businesswomen, secretaries, teachers, administrators, students, housewives, they all enjoy this annual ritual of gathering with friends and relatives, to catch up with one another, gossip, or bitch about work problems.
They enjoy the simple pleasure of making something tasty with their own hands, never mind that the rationalists who insist on doing a cost calculation of the time spent on the tasks against the various women's salaries, will wonder why they don't just go out and buy a bottle of the tarts from a shop and save themselves the bother. And in their own way, they are defying the dying out of this skill, as it would not occur to many people nowadays to actually attempt to make pineapple tarts themselves. Pretty much as little children nowadays have never seen a chicken except those cling-wrapped in Styrofoam trays at the supermarket, many people have not tried their hands at making pineapple tarts. In the fast-paced life we live, there is the familiar refrain, "I just don't have the time."
Meanwhile, our bunch of ladies proceed with the task at hand. To prepare the pastry, the flour is sifted into a large bowl. Chilled blocks of butter are cut into small cubes and mixed into the flour with the aid of a pastry cutter, yielding a mixture resembling dry breadcrumbs. The butter has to be firm to yield this texture, as butter which has melted in the tropical heat will just bind with the flour in a sticky mass, and will not be light and crumbly after baking. A few egg yolks, one egg white, a dash of vanilla essence. And more kneading using only the finger-tips, so that the butter is not melted by the warmth of the palms, until a smooth dough is obtained.
Now the fun can begin.
One person rolls out the dough to the right thickness. Then she cuts the pastry with a metal mold that has a plastic or wooden insert which creates a depression in the middle of the shape. These molds used to be made of brass, and the inserts which create the depression for the pineapple filling, made of wood. These have given way over the years to stainless steel and plastic, which do not tarnish or grow mouldy in the tropical humidity.
These pieces of pastry are passed to someone else who shapes the piece of dough by hand if it is not of a nice | 1,898 |
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Final Report Summary - GENIES (GENomic evolution In Ecological Speciation)
The project GENIES aimed at disentangling the factors creating biodiversity, one of the most general biological theme that has, for example, lead to the Darwin's discovery, the origin of species. All organisms interface with abiotic and biotic environments, which eventually bring to the evolutionary changes that generate biodiversity. In the age of global change and threats generated by human activities, it is fundamental studying biodiversity and the factors that promote it, because biodiversity regulates ecosystems and supports sustainable agriculture and welfare. Understanding the nature of biodiversity in its fundamentals is the starting point to manage it.
This project looked at what happens to the genome, the genetic material of an organism, during the long process of diversification and how in turn the genome changes during this process. The project focused on an organism that thanks to its biological characteristics perfectly suits the research questions: a land snail (Murella muralis) with an admirable spectrum of shell variation. Its phenotypic variation hides a more deeper variation in the genome: the raw matter of the evolution. Thanks to ultimate sequencing technologies, we had exciting opportunity to look at the still poorly known bridges that link organism appearance with its genetic makeup: the association between the genotype and the highly variable phenotype of my study organism. The project focused on some of the most important questions in the current debate about speciation: which and where are the speciation genes, how<|fim_middle|> work out solutions through the tools offered by the novel integration of genomic and ecological approaches. | do environmental and climatic changes affect them and how and how much does the genome change when the diversification starts?
The project also integrated molecular data with ecology, climatic and environmental data to build a comprehensive analysis of the processes and factors involved in the spread of forms, called evolutionary radiation. Snails are one of the most specious groups and so they are very good models to understand how biodiversity is generated in nature. The snail Murella muralis is an advantageous system because of (1) an extraordinary phenotypic diversification displayed in an amazingly small geographic area – that also makes it of conservation interest (2) a wealth of information available for past and present habitat conditions, which is commonly difficult to have for empirical studies on wild organisms.
Results showed that environmental changes in the course of time acted in the study system at different level of the genome, as the main promoter of differentiation, but also as constrainer. Different lines of evidence suggested that palaeochanges and local palaeogeographical factors in landscape caused populations to repeatedly come into contact and separate, promoting adaptive divergence in the present of gene flow.
The project showed that shell shape diversification is due to adaptation to contrasting environments: keeled-flat shells were an adaptation to dry open habitats along the coast. Thus past environmental changes contributed to a mosaic of shell shapes and unique genetic lineages.
Moreover, results demonstrate that independent gene regions were under selection and distributed throughout the genome. Divergent ecological selection can have genome-wide effects even at early stages of speciation. Storages of standing variation may facilitate the evolution of genome-wide reproductive isolation and then adaptive radiation with gene flow, confirming that speciation-with-gene-flow is more likely when there is a transition from effects of selection on individual genes to large portions of the genome. Also standing genetic variation and structural features of the genome may facilitate adaptation to environmental changes.
The analyses also revealed that population-level differences in shell shape contribute to the level of genomic differentiation. In some cases geographically isolated populations showed pattern of "Isolation by Adaptation", when divergent selection on traits acted directly impeding gene flow, or, in allopatric populations, through the association between genome-wide divergence and trait divergence.
The study has important returns in demonstrating the potential for genetic diversity to facilitate survival of species under the effect of climate/environmental changes: prominent recent studies that are also investigating these aspects are called "evolutionary rescue" studies and will provide the basis for mitigation strategies. The matter of the project's results is a prerequisite to predict how the on-going climate change affects biodiversity in the short and long term, thereby offering new insights on how to plan conservation and restoration strategies. Those strategies will have to | 544 |
Driven & Co. | Entrepreneurship | Sales Insight | Thought Leadership
Driven & Co. Ep: 19 – Entrepreneurship, Tech & Real Estate Collide
March 28, 2017 | Justin Gray | No Comments | Podcast
Marc Chesley, President of OfferPad, talks with host Justin Gray about practicing law, flipping homes and helping grow Infusionsoft into a $100M company—all on the the latest episode of Driven: How Did I Get Here?
What are you working on these days?
At OfferPad, our purpose is to revolutionize the way homes are sold. We have the technology platform where you can go to OfferPad.com, put in the address of your home and within 24 hours you will get a very strong, very fair, purchase offer, where OfferPad is the buyer. We're solving the pain, uncertainty and worry that usually comes with the traditional model of selling and buying residential real estate.
I wanted to be an entrepreneur. My grandparents were great entrepreneurs. My grandpa Tilby started up JT Aviation and built one of the largest private hangars in the Northwest. My other grandpa, Earl Chesley, owned Chesley Well Drilling. It inspired me, as a young boy, to watch my family, so I think that's where the foundations of my entrepreneurship journey may have started.
What was your first job after earning a law degree?
I wanted to have some trial time, so I volunteered for a bunch of unsexy cases. I did a bunch of M&A, veteran capital, and private equity financing, but the court room stuff I did was mostly real estate-based. Then I got recruited out of the firm by a tech company called Wind Force Technologies, which was a great startup tech company that rebuilt case management software for big legal cases. It was a great blend of my legal training and my technology passion. That's really where I cut my teeth in software development, product development, user experience and design, solving problems for customers.
How did your path to entrepreneurship<|fim_middle|>-Myth by Michael Gerber, and in the early days that was one of our manuals. One of the co-founders at Infusionsoft, Scott Martino, and I went to a seminar that Michael was holding that was a hot seat format. He got us up there on the stage and was really was grilling us: What is the meaning? What's the purpose? Why are you doing this?
The world needs somebody to really carry the torch for small business. He started talking to us in terms of, "Hey, the world needs this" rather than "this is a good opportunity and you're going to have a good exit one day." He emphasized this was our responsibility and we had a duty to help small businesses succeed. That really touched us in a profound way.
What are the traits you look for when hiring?
I look for five things in an A-player candidate. They have to be a solid core values fit. They have to have a high "give a damn" for the target customer. They have to be smart, hardworking and be a good team player.
To find out more about the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) Marc has planned for OfferPad in 2017, click here to listen. Plus, visit Offerpad.com and find Marc on LinkedIn.
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Change Agency: Why Did The Customer Sign The Contract? → | and technology converge?
From Wind Force Technologies I helped start up another company called IP Partners. While I was helping those guys, I started flipping houses on the side. In 2004, I flipped about 56 houses. Later, I could tell that the rate of appreciation was unsustainable and I wanted to get back into tech so I liquidated everything.
Looking back, it was perfect timing in 2005 because it helped me be one of the first investors and get Infusionsoft up on its feet. I did my part and had some fingerprints on Infusionsoft through the next decade until I left the company at the end of 2015. So over 10 years I helped grow it from startup to over a hundred million a year.
Have any mentors played an important role in shaping who you are?
There's a great book called The E | 179 |
Amref Gender Technical Advisor – Big 4 Agenda, Policy and Strategy Unit - Jobs in Kenya
Amref Gender Technical Advisor – Big 4 Agenda,
Policy and Strategy Unit - Jobs in Kenya
Amref Health Africa is the largest international health development organisation based in Africa.
Working with and through African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa's vision is for lasting health change in Africa and is committed to improving the health of people in Africa by partnering with and empowering communities, and strengthening health systems.
For more on Amref Health Africa please visit www.amref.org The Big Four Agenda On 12th December 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the "Big Four" agenda – the transformative socioeconomic plan that his administration will focus upon during his second term of office (2017- 2022).
Broadly, the "Big Four" agenda seeks to create shared prosperity through the creation of jobs, increased revenues and levelling the playing field.
This would be achieved through (i) increasing the share of manufacturing to GDP, (ii), achieving universal health coverage (iii) ensuring food and nutrition security and (iv) providing access to affordable housing.
Recognizing this strong interdependence to achieve productivity, equity and long-term socio-economic growth, the Policy and Strategy Unit (<|fim_middle|> the "Big Four" agenda.
In particular, the individual would bring gender expertise or analysis to better understand and articulate the interface between universal
health coverage and food and nutrition security; the health and socio-economic intergenerational benefits that successes in these pillars could portend, especially in respect to gender aspects.
Additionally, this expert would ideally draw connections between ongoing work to improve gender data and statistics at national and county level s in Kenya with the "Big Four" agenda and other relevant gender programs and policies.
Under the administrative supervision of the Programme Director, the job holder will report directly to the Deputy Chief of Staff (PASU), the Executive Office of the President, Government of the Republic of Kenya.
Main Purpose of Job
The technical expert would be the lead interlocutor between the Policy and Strategy Unit and the line ministries and other stakeholders in:
Establishing a platform that convenes the relevant stakeholders in both national and county
governments, private sector, civil society organisations and other interest groups to further develop the focus areas of inter-sectorality:
The relationship between food and nutrition security with the role of women's economic
empowerment and emancipation in the decision of household level diets.
The intergenerational benefits in health and economic emancipation of the timely
investments in adolescents sexual and reproductive health
The integration of gender considerations in the interventions targeting food productivity
recognizing the centrality of women as the key labour production unit at both the farming
and agro-processing levels.
The platform would also provide a continuous feedback mechanism from the stakeholders and
beneficiaries.
Developing a robust analytical framework and data base that will highlight quantifiable gender
aspects in the ongoing and upcoming work streams at the Policy and Strategy Unit. The framework
would guide
key policy and legislative processes (including national/county budget making
processes,
identification of interventions with "quick wins" that elevate gender aspects
mitigation efforts against systemic bottlenecks such as teenage pregnancies, gender based violence, early marriages and other harmful practices such as FGM that undermine economic participation of women.
Anchoring these work pieces in international best-practice and in the development blueprints in
Kenya (Vision 2030) and in the global aspirations of Sustainable Development Goals.
A Master's Degree or higher in the relevant subject area(s), preferably in International development, Community Development or Public Health with focus areas in gender, social work, development economics is required.
At least three years' experience in gender working across other development sectors
like agriculture and nutrition.
Demonstrated ability to use data, research and analysis to influence policy design, programming,
implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
Knowledge of and experience with the design, management and implementation of programmes
related to international development (agriculture, nutrition, livelihood, health programs) and the
nexus of these development issues with gender aspects.
Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the socio-economic and political situations
and gender sensitive programming
Ability to navigate politically sensitive terrain and maintain constructive relationships with a diverse set of key stakeholders;
Required Competencies
A Proven record of excellent management, leadership, decision-making and interpersonal skills.
Effective English oral and written communication skills; ability to interact professionally in English.
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and transmit his/her vision to partners and colleagues.
Communicating with impact with various stakeholders.
Excellent Communication (written and oral) and Public Relations skills
Good organisational, research, negotiation and analytical capabilities
Ability to identify, obtain and analyse information from a variety of sources
Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among staff,
subcontractors, consultants, and recipients of assistance.
Ability to travel as needed.
Principal Responsibilities
Provide technical expertise to ensure integration of gender aspects in interventions focused on nutrition security, agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the "Big 4" Agenda within the PASU development team, in particular the rural livelihoods, nutrition and health teams, to ensure that a sound gender analysis informs design, management, and identification strategic interventions to be undertaken to improve the quality of programme implementation for the "Big 4" Agenda.
Monitor and analyse developments in ongoing and upcoming work streams at a national and
international level that enhance cross-cutting issues, in particular gender aspects.
This will include the review and technical feedback on interim results and the identification of potential synergistic opportunities.
Draw connections between ongoing work to improve gender data and statistics at national and
county levels in Kenya with the "Big Four" agenda and other relevant gender programs and policies.
Distil and document, through continuous assessments, reviews and audits, lessons for enhancement of gender aspects for policy dialogue, continual targeting and future programming and organise dissemination of learning within the PASU team and with partners.
Provide advice on appropriate gender sensitive indicators in the performance measurement
framework and support colleagues in the monitoring and reporting of programme results/outputs and objectives against agreed indicators.
Develop and maintain positive working relations with a wide network of partners, including other Government departments, development and UN partners, parliament, media and NGOs/civil society.
In particular, drive improved coordination between and among key government ministries
and agencies involved in gender work
Identify successful practices in the interventions that can be showcased in publications, communication materials and conferences and prepare communication materials for the same.
The assignment will be for an initial contract period of 24 months but eligible for renewal upon
agreement between PASU and BMGF
A remuneration package commensurate with the experience and qualifications of the selected
candidate and within the context of applicable remuneration rates for similar posts in public service will be agreed upon.
Interested applicants are encouraged to apply online and submit a Cover letter in PDF specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements and an updated CV in PDF (3 pages max).
Deadline for applications is
Wednesday 10th April 2019
Please visit Amref Health Africa website at http://amref.org/vacancies/ to view full job descriptions and procedure on how to apply.
For more information and job application details, see; Amref Gender Technical Advisor – Big 4 Agenda, Policy and Strategy Unit - Jobs in Kenya
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leadership and follow-through working in close partnership with line ministries and key stakeholders.
Amref Health Africa is supporting the secondment of a highly proficient technical expert to assist in developing a structured platform for strategic and systematic engagement, employing research, evidence and analytics in cross-cutting thematic areas across | 91 |
Q: Using a class constructor to create object arrays of 2 different types I'm implementing a database of sorts for a data structures project and i'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around the logic of what I need to do.
I have an abstract superclass,<|fim_middle|> public static UniversityPeople forStudents(int size) {
return new UniversityPeople(size, 0);
}
public static UniversityPeople forInstructors(int size) {
return new UniversityPeople(0, size);
}
}
You could perform a check against each size and only allocate if it's greater than 0 if you really want to. But as I say, I'd revisit the design if possible.
A: If you need only the direction: look for the design pattern "factory". This should help you.
| called Person, which has two child classes named Student and Instructor.
Lastly, I have another class called UniversityPeople which creates a reference to an array of both Student and Instructor objects when used by the application. When the constructor for UniversityPeople is called, it creates an array of the specified object using size as a parameter. I can't seem to think how to distinguish the two objects in the constructor at creation. My first thought was 2 constructors:
Instructor[] instArray;
Student[] stuArray;
public UniversityPeople(int size)
{
Student[] stuArray = new Student[size];
}
public UniversityPeople(int size)
{
Instructor[] instArray = new Instructor[size];
}
But after thinking about it(and doing some reading) I know I cannot do this.
My next thought was to use a type of object validation method in the UniversityPeople constructor, but i'm having a hard time implementing one.
Basically, the class needs to know when to create an array of Student objects and when to create an array of Instructor objects with an integer size as an argument.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. I've been mostly coding in C lately so the return to OOP has felt a little weird after so much time. Thanks!
A: Firstly, I'd question the approach - it sounds like this single class is trying to do too many things. But if you really, really want to do it, I'd recommend static factory methods calling a private constructor:
public class UniversityPeople {
private final Student[] students;
private final Instructor[] instructors;
private UniversityPeople(int studentCount, int instructorCount) {
students = new Student[studentCount];
instructors = new Instructor[instructorCount];
}
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I See You - A Zine By Crack Magazine curated by Thom Yorke
Crack Magazine and Thom<|fim_middle|>writer Luca Guadagnino, experimental musician Kali Malone and Brooklyn-based visual artist Christian Holstad. Thom Yorke has decided to donate any profits from the zine to Greenpeace; by purchasing the zine a donation will be made to the organisation. | Yorke have collaborated on a one off, limited-edition zine, titled I See You. The zine comprises interviews with eight artists, activists and musicians chosen by Yorke, who answer questions set by him. The zine is prefaced by Thom answering the questions himself. Those featured in the zine are: pioneering electronic music composer Laurie Spiegel, writer and environmentalist George Monbiot, Edinburgh-based poet Harry Josephine Giles, New York contemporary artist Amy Cutler, fashion designer and founder of Undercover, Jun Takahashi, director and screen | 116 |
Ogilvy Andina Appoints Gastón Potasz as VP Creative
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Gastón Potasz joins Ogilvy Andina as VP creative. In this role, he will have the mission of managing the integral strategy for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela, with creativity as the driving force across business capabilities such as Advertising, Brand & Content; Consulting; Health; Experience and PR.
"We are very glad that Gastón joins our team. Our office stands out for having a strong creative capability that we´ve built over the years. And Gastón is the right person to take the region to the next level. He has had an extensive career in different countries, and this gives him a very important vision and understanding of the market. Our purpose is to create solutions that impact our client's businesses and people's lives, always with the focus on developing the best creativity, which is what distinguishes us, our DNA and our north," said Mauricio Barriga Barragán, CEO Ogilvy Colombia /Andina.
Gastón added. "I'm very excited. I´m proud to return to Ogilvy, where I spent the most beautiful years of my career, and to join again an agency like Ogilvy Colombia, which over the years has become such a big school of borderless creativity. It is a special challenge for me. The best part is that I´ve met great team willing to keep growing. This is a key point because the challenge is big".
Gastón has more than 20 years of experience in the field of communication. His career has been consolidated working for important clients throughout Latin | 325 |
What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties. Siegel starts by analyzing the notion of the contents of experience, and by arguing that theorists of all stripes should accept that experiences have contents. She then introduces a method for discovering the contents of experience: the method of phenomenal contrast. This method relies only minimally on introspection, and allows rigorous support for claims about experience. She then applies the method<|fim_middle|>4 (11).
The Phenomenology of Face‐to‐Face Mindreading.Joel Smith - 2015 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2):274-293.
Visual Contents: Beyond Reach?Kristjan Laasik - 2015 - Philosophical Forum 46 (2):193-204.
How Can We Discover the Contents of Experience?Susanna Siegel - 2007 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (S1):127-42.
Can We See Natural Kind Properties?René Jagnow - 2015 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 44 (2):183-205.
Reply to Campbell.Susanna Siegel - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (3).
Reply to Prinz.Susanna Siegel - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (3).
Aspect-Switching and Visual Phenomenal Character.Richard Price - 2009 - Philosophical Quarterly 59 (236):508-518.
The Contents of Visual Experience, by Susanna Siegel. Oxford: Oxford. [REVIEW]Heather Logue - 2012 - Mind 121 (483):842-849.
Subject and Object in the Contents of Visual Experience.Susanna Siegel - 2006 - Philosophical Review 115 (3):355--88.
Susanna Siegel's the Contents of Visual Experience.John Campbell - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (3):819-826.
The Contents of Visual Experience * by Susanna Siegel.B. Maund - 2012 - Analysis 72 (3):627-629.
Visual Experience and Motor Action: Are the Bonds Too Tight?Andy Clark - 2001 - Philosophical Review 110 (4):495-519. | to make the case that we are conscious of many kinds of properties, of all sorts of causal properties, and of many other complex properties. She goes on to use the method to help analyze difficult questions about our consciousness of objects and their role in the contents of experience, and to reconceptualize the distinction between perception and sensation. Siegel's results are important for many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. They are also important for the psychology and cognitive neuroscience of vision.
An Externalist's Guide to Inner Experience.Benj Hellie - 2010 - In Bence Nanay (ed.), Perceiving the World. Oxford University Press. pp. 97–145.
The Multidisjunctive Conception of Hallucination.Benj Hellie - 2013 - In Fiona Mapherson (ed.), Hallucination. MIT Press.
Automatically Minded.Ellen Fridland - 2017 - Synthese 19 | 214 |
The Gala Casino in Bournemouth was sold to Gros<|fim_middle|> and Stag Nights, restaurant offers and much more. | venor in 2014 and is now a Grosvenor Casino. My review was conducted before the switch but the main points remain the same.
Gala themselves still continue to offer UK players casino games but only via their online website where you can find live dealer games, slots and more. Click here to play online.
The casino is located on Westover Road and offers all the facilities you expect from a decent UK casino to be honest. Games include Roulette, 3-Card Poker and Blackjack plus a stack of electronic Roulette machines and the maximum 20 slot machines allowed under a standard UK gaming licence. The casino also has card rooms that regularly host poker games.
Or you can just sit back and relax in the lounge and watch the latest and the best in live sport from horse racing across the UK to football matches on Sky and BT Sport.
The restaurant offers a fabulous menu complete with great wine list while the bar offers a variety cocktails, spirits and wines. If you fancy a quick bite while gaming, try the Valet Menu that is guaranteed to keep your hunger at bay. Take your food to the floor so you can eat, drink and play at the same time.
The Gala Casino is Bournemouth offers valet parking and the nearest public transport is a bus to the town center. A covered smoking zone is also available for smokers.
No membership is required to play or dine at Gala and the dress code is smart and casual.
Registering for the Gala Fortune loyalty program entitles members to earn and redeem points in any Gala casino across the country on games, food, drink and gift vouchers.
The Chargrill restaurant is known for its selection of mouth watering steaks made from Aberdeen Angus beef, aged for a minimum of 28 days. The extensive wine list makes a perfect accompaniment with wines specially selected from all over the world. Try the Sunset Menu with special offers such as 2 courses for £9.95 and 3 courses for £11.95. For those that fancy a quick bite, the Valet Menu consists of finger foods like pizzas, burgers, paninis and more that can be taken to the gaming floor so you can eat and play at the same time.
Celebrate a big win at the Epernay Champagne Bar with their range of Moet & Chandon champagnes or spend some time at the 18° Below Ice Bar which stocks a vast range of vodkas, beers, spirits and cocktails - a great place to meet friends or just relax by yourself.
The new Air Lounge offers the latest in sport action on large plasma screens.
The casino hosts several special events throughout the month including Casino Magic Nights where new players can learn to play Roulette and Blackjack, Dice Magic nights where you can learn to play the game, Hen | 567 |
Whether you're a UFC fighter like<|fim_middle|>,995). Have you ever thought of doing a flying knee? You need this. | Johnny Hendricks and Chael Sonnen or a hip-hop producer like RZA, the Nexersys can give one heck of a workout whatever your fitness level. Go crazy on it or use the onboard sophisticated computer wizardry that acts as your coach and training partner. The Nexersys is also a very good motivation to work out because it turns punching and kicking the pads into a game. There are almost an unlimited number of gaming rounds in Avatar Sparring mode, where you spar with the Avatar on screen; his body parts are the pads. There are also other modes: Circuit Training and High Intensity Interval Training. You get a personalised workout based on your historical performance; profiles can be saved so you can pick up where you left off and compare your performance to other users. It also measures your number of calories burned, accuracy metrics, intensity levels, and heart rate. Available in two models: Home ($2,995) and Pro ($6 | 193 |
Gross & Co: Top Recognition for Bury Immigration Lawyers...
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The Complete Works of John Milton. Vol. VIII: De Doctrina Christiana edited by John Hale and J. Donald Cullington
Oxford, 1263 pp, £225.00, September 2012, ISBN 978 0 19 923451 6
Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-42 edited by Edward Jones
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The Complete Works of John Milton. Vol. III: The Shorter Poems edited by Barbara Lewalski and Estelle Haan
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The quatercentenary of Milton's birth was in 2008. The celebratory shenanigans – the conferences, public lectures, biographies and privy pieces of self-promotion that in our wicked age accompany all major anniversaries – are over. But one key question remains unanswered. How is it possible to like Milton?
There is certainly a great deal to dislike. Most people would think of him as an overlearned poet who combines labyrinthine syntax with a wide range of moral and intellectual vices. His views on sex and women, for example, were mostly gruesome. In Paradise Lost he described the perfect union of loving angels with beguiling delight: 'If Spirits embrace,/Total they mix, Union of Pure with Pure/Desiring'. But in Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce he declared that if mortals didn't find a perfect spiritual mate they could end up having to 'grind in the mill of an undelighted and servil copulation'. 'Grind' is such a terrible verb to use there. It combines traces of the abject Samson, milling for the Philistines, with simple lack of mortal lubrication in a way that makes you feel it's a very bad idea indeed to be made of flesh. Even in the prelapsarian world imagined in Paradise Lost women are condemned to a secondary relationship to the divine. Milton's most dislikeable line – 'Hee for God only, shee for God in him' – suggests that Eve spent all day gazing at Adam for shadows of reflected divinity. When Adam eats the apple he is described as being 'fondly overcome with Femal charm'. Not all of Paradise Lost is quite that hard on Eve, with whom Milton at his kinder moments seems to be almost in love, and whom he sometimes treats as a virtual embodiment of the wayward poetic fancy. But it is not difficult to hear in Milton's works the grating sound of misogyny emerging through the frictions of the flesh.
Miltonophiles also have to overcome his regrettable tendency to present himself to the world as a prig. His aspirations to be what he calls 'a Poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him' didn't make him a paragon of modesty. In an autobiographical passage in An Apology for Smectymnuus he described watching his contemporaries taking part in undergraduate theatricals at Cambridge, 'writhing and unboning their Clergie limmes to all the antick and dishonest gestures of Trinculos, Buffons, and Bawds … They thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools.' What, I wonder, did these 'fools' think of John Milton as he watched and judged and yet abstained from their pleasures? Towards the end of his Latin poem on the death of his university friend Carlo Diodati, Milton expresses the fear that he might sound 'turgidulus'. He then launches into a description of the poems he hopes to write in the future, which include an epic on King Arthur. A Latinist as good as Milton might remind us (though his editors curiously do not) that the single usage of 'turgidulus' in classical poetry means something like 'welling up with tears' rather than 'turgid with self-regard'. But once that second sense has taken root in one's mind it is difficult to extirpate. Was Milton a turgid little prig?
Certainly he had a brutal sense of self-worth, which often comes through in his disputatious works: 'I mean not to dispute Philosophy with this Pork, who never read any.' Certainly he knew too much about more or less everything. He was steeped in classical poetry and almost every line he wrote is in close conversation with one source or another. His relationship to Ovid, beautifully explored in a recent book by Maggie Kilgour, is constantly both intimate and transformative.[*] He could animate the bare bones of a biblical text with flesh from Homer or Lucretius. But he could also cite Eusebius and Solinus and Ortelius and Grotius and Bucer and Paraeus, and moreover Leunclavius and Wesenbechius, and many other non-household names too, as though they were his bedtime reading – which they probably were, though it's not entirely clear how much he saw of his bed.
For all these reasons De Doctrina Christiana is probably the worst place to begin trying to like Milton. But even this long, late and rebarbative work has a bloody-minded wonderfulness that is all Milton's own. De Doctrina is a 745-page unpublished (and probably unfinished and unpublishable) systematic theology in Latin, which Milton composed probably in the<|fim_middle|>13 » Colin Burrow » Shall I go on?
Vol. 35 No. 7 · 11 April 2013
It certainly is irritating when people confuse apostrophes with opening inverted commas: shame on the OUP for getting the form wrong – and shame on Colin Burrow and the LRB's editors for getting the term wrong in his Milton review (LRB, 7 March).
James Fanning
Universität Greifswald, Germany | later 1650s. In it he attempted to derive the truth about God, creation, salvation, justification, church discipline and good works purely from minute analysis of biblical texts, all of which were recalled from memory, since by the time he dictated this work to his amanuenses he was completely blind. The treatise shows Milton's characteristic delight in refuting errors: 'How many enormous tomes of Theologasters shall we throw out from God's temple like pollutants and dust-heaps?' The Oxford edition presents Milton's Latin text facing a new English translation. This is on the whole less snappy than the version in the Yale edition of the prose by John Carey (which often adds grunt to Milton's already pugnacious arguments), but provides an excellent guide to the processes of Milton's thought. In sharp-edged Latin prose, shaped and structured by the habitual divisions and distinctions of the Ramistic logic in which he had been trained, Milton sets out his beliefs about God, the universe and everything.
Most of these were refreshingly unorthodox. And that's one good reason for liking Milton: he was never entirely predictable. It's perhaps a shame that the Oxford editors' focus is so austerely on the text and the process of translating it that they have no time to provide a brief guide to Milton's chief heretical beliefs, since many of these were curious and difficult. He did not believe that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are coessential and coeternal, since he thought it nonsensical that two distinct beings could share a single essence. He held instead that the Son had an essence distinct from that of the Father and was generated by him in time as the agent of creation. This is a version of the Arian heresy which rumbled through the early centuries of Christian thought. Complex doctrinal positions beginning with 'A' were a Miltonic speciality, since his views on salvation were more or less Arminian. Where Calvin believed that God predestined the damned and the saved to hell or to heaven from the beginning of time through no merit of their own, Arminius held that God offered the opportunity of faith in him to all, and foreknew who would accept and who would reject that offer. Milton's willingness to find support for Arminian views about the process of salvation in the Bible shows that his theology did not follow predictable confessional grooves. In the 1630s and 1640s the word 'Arminian' was often hurled out as a term of abuse, and tended to mean, roughly, 'filthy crypto-papist scumbag'. It was often used by the opponents of Archbishop Laud to suggest that he had pushed the English Church towards the sink pit of Rome and away from the purity of its beginnings.
Milton in his early life seems to have worshipped contentedly in a parish church presided over by a minister of Laudian sympathies, as many 'conformable puritans' did in that period. Some biographers believe, as Edward Jones notes in his learned overview of archives relating to the young poet, that Milton lost sympathy with orthodox worship when an inspection of Horton parish church in 1637 required that the raised pew occupied by the Milton family should be lowered and his mother's monument moved. Whether this is true or not (and it sounds a bit small-minded for Milton) he does seem to have retained a theological Arminianism even late in life. God in Paradise Lost has a preoccupation with human freedom ('if I foreknew,/Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault'), and does seem to offer the opportunity of salvation to all who choose to accept it. And yet just as we might be persuading ourselves that Milton's theology of salvation had a Rowan Williamsish inclusiveness and universality to it, God comes out with the strange suggestion that 'Some I have chosen of peculiar grace/Elect above the rest; so is my will.' Milton seems to have held a potentially democratic or at least universalist belief that God offers all people the opportunity of salvation, while also thinking there was a special little bit of super-grace left over for really wonderful people. Perhaps for people as wonderful as John Milton. Was even his thinking about salvation coloured by his super-priggery?
At the climax of Satan's temptation of Eve in Paradise Lost he perplexes her with a series of unanswerable questions, and concludes 'these, these and many more/Causes import your need of this fair Fruit./Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste.' She does, and the rest we know. When faced with all the questions surrounding Milton's theology it is tempting, in the absence of an apple that might provide all the answers, to decide that if you want to read a poet who seriously messes with your head why not just stick with Sylvia Plath. A good honest depressive is, after all, so much easier to handle than a thwarted don and would-be theologian.
To like Milton we really need to go right back to the beginning. And by that I do not mean to the birth of the infant John Milton on a dark December morning in 1608 in a house on Bread Street, London, where the scrivener and keen amateur musician John Milton (Snr) waited to hear his third child scream into life. The best place to begin to like Milton is with his volume of Poems both English and Latin (1645). This was described by its publisher Humphrey Moseley as 'as true a Birth as the Muses have brought forth since our famous Spenser wrote' when it appeared in what we now call January 1646. By that date Milton was in his late thirties, an age by which it was quite possible for a 17th-century Londoner to be dead. He had written pamphlets advocating divorce on grounds of mutual incompatibility (which for Milton mostly seems to have meant cases where a man found his wife incompatible with him, rather than the other way around), and was reviled as a libertine for doing so. He was working as a private tutor, having travelled in Italy, having read, having not become a clergyman despite all the reading, and having read some more, having compiled a commonplace book that digests some of his reading, having married, having thought about antiquarianism, having been unhappy in his marriage, and having read some more still. The king had been defeated at Naseby in June 1645 and was taking refuge in Oxford. The nearly kingless nation seemed as though it might have a destiny, but it was not quite clear what that destiny was; and Milton thought he might have a destiny too, but was not entirely clear what that might be either. So he gathered together poems written in English, Italian and Latin, some of which had been composed more than twenty years before.
Why is the retrospective volume of Poems the best place to start if you want to like Milton? The answer is that it shows not Milton turgidulus, or Milton the sage and serious defender of republican learning, or Milton the achieved polymath, or Milton the heretical crank. It shows Milton in the making. In this volume you can hear the swirl of literary influences running through his mind. At this point Milton is willing to ravish the senses rather than simply to suspect them. In Young Milton William Poole describes the 1645 volume as 'a curious cacophony of radical and conservative voices, anxious to promote both his precocity and prophecy'. That seems exactly right: in this volume potentiality exceeds certainty, and that makes it exciting. It is also one of the most vivid witnesses to the processes of deliberation and interior dialogue by which poets become poets. The volume includes a miscellany of poems, some written, as the headnotes proudly record, when the author was only 15. There are hymns and psalm paraphrases as well as jokey university elegies, grand pastoral effusions, light-fingered Italian sonnets (delightfully translated for the Oxford edition by Andrew McNeillie), Ovidian neo-Latin elegies, two of the best answer poems in English ('L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso'), a masque and two of the best neo-Latin elegies ever written in England and probably even in Northern Europe. These pieces were arranged and effectively edited by the young-middle-aged Milton in order to suggest that he had a poetic destiny, which ran from his early 'Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity', which starts the volume, to the elaborate Latin elegy to Carlo Diodati which ends it with Milton's turgidulus anticipation of his future as the British Epic Bard.
In these poems Milton is attempting to work out where he stands both in relation to a classical tradition and to earlier English poets. As a result they are full of audible edits from one poetic style to another. Hearing these edits is part of the pleasure of the volume. Spenser, as Moseley recognised in his preface, was one of the many voices singing in the young Milton's poetical head. Several poems positioned early in the volume deploy Spenser's signature 12-syllable alexandrine stanza ending in order to give a weight of wisdom to the young poet's work. Sometimes this just allows Milton to pack in extra adjectives ('Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night', or the overtly Spenserian 'Of labours huge and hard, too hard for human wight'). Slightly later poems are more artfully Spenserian. 'On Time' ends with the saved 'Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time'. The expected ten syllables of the line run out for Time before he is named, and the expansion of the line into an alexandrine has the effect of a jab of the finger: 'Time's up, Time'.
These early poems also construct a distinct Miltonic mood. Twilight and pastoral, dew and ooze, dibblings in the glebe, these are the stuff of Milton's early verse. This is not just a topographical and temporal atmosphere, but virtually a grammatical mood too, since early Milton is repeatedly drawn to non-finite forms of verbs. He just loves infinitives and participles, and these help create the temporal suspense and excitement of his early poems. Even the ultimately finite act of triumph over time is a process: the redeemed are described 'Triumphing', continually, rather than as having triumphed once and once only over their adversary. Participles also repeatedly serve as adjectives. There are the soon to become cod Miltonic 'nibbling flocks' (which Milton seems to have invented, but which went on to chomp their way through most of the pastoral poetry of the 18th century), the 'slumbring morn', the 'labouring clouds', 'glimmering bowrs and glades'. Even when Milton directly addresses Time, at the ripe age of 23, as 'the suttle theef of youth' he declares that 'My hasting dayes flie on with full career.' His days are not 'wasted' or 'ill-spent'. They are 'hasting', always running and never quite arriving. The quintessential early Miltonic moment is one in which a series of participles weaves all the world together and creates a rapturous arrest of temporal process which just makes your legs melt with its beauty: 'The melting voice through mazes running;/Untwisting all the chains that ty/The hidden soul of harmony.'
These apparently simple grammatical preferences had big consequences. They made Milton's early poems appear to be in time and yet hurtling towards the end of time. In the context of the civil wars of the 1640s this gave them a near apocalyptic thrill: Time is hasting on with full career, but Time is also ending now. The suspenseful musing potency of Milton's early verse had major consequences for his literary afterlife. Young Milton not only created a characteristic, unending moment of hopeful but incomplete action. He associated that curious temporal space with the process of becoming a poet, and with what Moseley called 'a poetic birth'. This made his early poems central to the creative activity of later English poets. The timeless stasis of Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', the 'sprightly race' of young scholars 'disporting on thy margent green' while more sober spirits 'their murmuring labours ply' in Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' are tributes to early Milton and his efforts to imagine time stopping while he and it were for ever hasting onwards with full career. And because Milton was so audibly making himself become Milton in these early poems, that state of stasis-cum-movement came to be identified with the moment of contemplation and creation. Coleridge's 'France: An Ode' ('Ye Woods! that listen to the night-birds singing,/Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined,/Save when your own imperious branches swinging,/Have made a solemn music of the wind!') would have been unimaginable without the early Milton.
But the poems in the 1645 volume also display another side of Milton. This is the 'buck up and get on with it' Milton, who insists that 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise/(That last infirmity of Noble mind)/To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes.' This is not an entirely likeable voice, but it is a vital part of the mix. The appeal of these poems lies in the abrupt way these peremptory tones of virtue intrude. This makes them seem to enact a battle between the world of participles (roving, rushing, plaining, weeping, singing, trembling, glistering, glowing, whelming, gushing, sounding) and those of finite verbs, abstract nouns and virtuous activity. The most direct displays of this inner dialogue can be hard to take, and can even be crude. In A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, which is commonly known by the name of its villain, the sensuous enchanter Comus, the chaste Lady (oh, no self-portrait there then, from the poet known as the Lady of Christ's) hears music, and then abruptly throws off its alluring charms with a string of abstract nouns:
A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory
Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire.
And airy tongues, that syllable mens names
On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound
The vertuous mind, that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion Conscience. –
O welcom pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering Angel girt with golden wings,
And thou unblemish't form of Chastity.
'Calling shapes' and 'beckning shadows dire' – those ultra-Miltonic participles become disembodied moral threats on the edges of the Lady's vision. This is engaging rather than great writing, though, since it seems almost brutally edited together. The Lady abruptly reminds herself that Fame is the spur, that Virtue is the thing, and Chastity with its armour of complete steel is the final resting place of poetic virtue. At the same time Milton is reminding himself that he is not Shakespeare, that the twangling instruments the Lady hears in the wood are not quite the beautiful sounds Caliban hears and fears not in The Tempest. That interior poetic dialogue is the reason Milton can get into your head, and seem to be (as he was for the majority of the Romantic poets) the voice of English poetic tradition as it took stock of itself in the 17th century. He is coming to terms with the exuberance of Shakespeare, taking on the moral asperity of Jonson (the Lady's careful distinction between things that 'startle' and those that 'astound' is very much Jonson's rhetorical and moral terrain: he loves fine distinctions such as 'Man may securely sin, but safely never'), and is always running with or away from the mellifluous metrical discipline of Spenser.
In the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s this would have been seen as a Freudian psychodrama, as Milton fought with the spirits of his poetical fathers in order to fashion his own poetic ego, and in turn set himself up to become the big poetical daddy of the Romantic poets whom they sought Oedipally to terminate with extreme prejudice. It's probably the result of something rather more straightforward. Milton belonged to the first generation of English poets who could have owned collected editions of the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare – and indeed he wrote a particularly wonderful (literally: 'Thou in our wonder and astonishment/Hast built thy self a live-long Monument') dedicatory poem for the Second Folio of Shakespeare's works. For poets learning their craft in the 1620s and 1630s distinct poetic styles were associated with names on the spines of big books. Milton was also trained to write neo-Latin poetry, which was partly an art of suturing phrases from Virgil or Ovid together, changing adjectives while keeping the rhythms of the original, or turning the moral force of a phrase in a way that was designed to be noticed by learned readers. Milton transplanted these skills to the vernacular, and tried to weave his own volume of poems out of the voices of earlier English poets. He did it by a kind of imaginative oscillation between different volumes in his brain. The repeated references to choirs and choruses in his early writing – which Christopher Tilmouth beautifully unfolds in Young Milton – are in this respect a manifestation of his larger poetic design. Milton wants to create a solo voice that could alternately blend into the choir of vernacular poets and then soar above it.
Learning to hear how hard Milton is working in these early poems is a big part of learning not just how to like but (for me anyway) to love the cussed old so and so. I have talked metaphorically of his 'editing' together different poetic voices, but this is slightly more than a metaphor, since Milton was a compulsive tweaker and editor of his own writing. He needed to prod his own imagination on, and sometimes (rather like his keenest student, Wordsworth) he felt the need to tell it severely to back off. There is an almost comical late addition to Comus which illustrates this. The Lady resists Comus with a huge aria on temperance. Then Milton inserts a new passage which begins with what is almost a prompt to the poet himself: the Lady says 'Shall I go on?/Or have I said anough?' and then does go on, rather a lot. That question – 'Shall I go on?', but also the larger question 'Where shall I go on?' – is always in the background of these early works, which are punctuated by sharp passages of self-address in which the poet goads himself onwards.
In this as in almost every other respect 'Lycidas' is the climactic poem in the 1645 volume, where it appears last in the sequence of English poems – a sequence the Oxford editors, quite rightly, follow. Later 17th and 18th-century editions of Milton's verse tended to put it first, as his prime anthology piece and greatest hit, but 'Lycidas' gains immeasurably from being read in its original position. By 1645 Milton wanted the poem to sound like a prophecy of (as he put it in his headnote) 'the ruine of our corrupted Clergy then in their height'. But when 'Lycidas' is read in the context of young Milton's other works it sounds less sure of itself, and all the better for it. It contains the sudden harsh intrusion of the 'Pilot of the Gallilean lake', who makes the rivers and flowers of pastoral shrink away while he denounces the English clergy, and threatens the ever mysterious 'two-handed engine at the door' (which John Leonard in Young Milton convincingly argues is not so much a sword which is literally at the door as a threat of the imminent separation of wheat from chaff by a kind of apocalyptic flail). 'Lycidas' is not the stilted exercise in vernacular pastoral that Samuel Johnson was to deplore and which generations of schoolchildren had reluctantly to endure as the voice of 'classic English poetry'. It makes audible the sutures which hold together Milton's poetic identity. So when the poet fears that death will slit 'the thin-spun life' the god Apollo intrudes his voice into the poem with 'But not the praise,/… and touch'd my trembling ears'. Intrusive voices in Milton's early verse often 'but' in, with a firm grammatical marker that they are bringing a new perspective. As Milton and his readers all knew, Apollo's intervention is a direct allusion to Virgil's Sixth Eclogue (and through that to a passage from the learned Alexandrian poet Callimachus) in which the god encourages the poet to write short poems. That allusion is not another bit of pedantic Milton showing off. It illustrates just how much Milton the vernacular poet learned from writing his neo-Latin verse: writing Latin poetry taught him how to use an audibly rough edit to signal a poetic allusion. That learned trick co-operates with the unsteadiness of young Milton. He wants to splice together different poetic voices. The voice of human lament and uncertainty is set abruptly against the voice of a god. The voice of a poet turgidulus, with self-regard or with tears, is abruptly replaced by a voice of apocalyptic threat. The effort of stitching different voices together makes Milton's early verse less awe-inspiringly assured than Paradise Lost, but it also makes it infinitely more touching. It is young writing, which is full of aspirations and which openly displays the efforts that went into making it.
Scholarly editions tend to be at least a decade behind the dominant ways of thinking about the texts they present. That's mostly a good thing. The weightiness of the big blue Oxford editions of English texts, slightly over three kilos of which are stacked on my desk as I write, serve partly to counterbalance fashion. The edition of Milton's Shorter Poems has so many solid virtues that it might seem churlish to do more than doff a humble cap in its direction – though the editors really ought to have ensured that inverted commas before 'tis were the right – which is to say the wrong – way about, which they often aren't.[†] The poems are presented elegantly on the page, with short but clear notes at the back. But with no index of first lines this is, I fear, an edition to be studied rather than used. It includes at its end a cornucopia of transcriptions from the Trinity Manuscript and of early versions of Comus. These are available elsewhere, but are difficult to gather in a single place, and they give generous space within the volume to Milton the tentative reviser. But the form in which these manuscript versions are presented makes it very hard to get inside the creative processes of early Milton. The collation of textual variants at the foot of each page records the readings of Milton's final manuscript versions. It does not, however, record the words he crossed out. These would surely have been of more interest to most readers than painstaking lists of extremely minor differences between the 1645 and 1673 printed editions, most of which reflect the foibles of compositors rather than the revising pen of the poet (so we learn that in 1645 'The Nativity Ode' reads 'twise-batter'd' but in 1673 it read 'twice batter'd'). Since Milton was sand-blind by 1673 this kind of trivial difference is very unlikely to derive from him. In the earliest surviving version of 'Lycidas' Milton said that his 'forced fingers rude' 'crop yor young leaves'. He then revised that phrase – a touch too crude, a touch too consciously youthful – to 'shatter yor leaves before the mellowing year'. One needs rather a lot of fingers, forced, rude or otherwise, to flip back and forth and find the places where Milton changed his mind, and to discover that, for instance, the youngish Milton altered 'the garish columbine' of the early version of 'Lycidas' into the more sober 'well-attir'd woodbine'.
That reluctance fully to register the tentativeness of early Milton extends into Barbara Lewalski's expert introduction and notes. As a result the Milton represented in the Oxford edition of the Shorter Poems is not a young poet nervily shaping his talent and hearing the voices of earlier poets in his head. Nor is he the reactive and uncertain figure so persuasively evoked in many of the essays in Young Milton. Instead he is the Milton of 1645, a more or less committedly radical church reformer and prophet. He becomes, rather prematurely, Milton as he eventually wanted himself to appear: a stately neoclassical godly republican edifice grounded on a comprehensive knowledge of everything.
[*] Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid by Maggie Kilgour (Oxford, 400 pp., £70, February 2012, 978 0 19 958943 2).
[†] Oxford has just announced that this edition has been withdrawn, citing unspecified 'textual errors'.
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The pessimist might be tempted to look back on 2018 and focus on all the things that sports video games did wrong throughout the year, but the truth is that there's plenty to be positive about when appraising the last 12 months. From AAA titles making the usual incremental progress in getting their games ever closer to looking like the real thing to smaller companies and games making a name for themselves, the reasons to be optimistic about sports games in 2018 were there if you just knew where to look for them.
Here are some of the trends that were most encouraging this past year.
We've come to the point where it's almost impossible for game developers to ignore the complaints and suggestions of sports gamers now that they have more and more ways of having their voices heard. Through dedicated forums and the amplifying power of social media, people are increasingly expressing their opinions to let everyone know how they feel about the sports games they play. It's also become obvious that those who make the games are listening.
For instance, MLB The Show 18 spent pretty much the entire game cycle listening and reacting to feedback on the game's online hitting engine and trying to appease those who saw the results as less rewarding than random. EA has been inundated with gripes about its cadre of games (Madden, NHL, FIFA and Live), and the company has released patch after patch to address as many concerns and game exploits as possible. The same can be said of NBA 2K, as the studio was was forced to reckon with the prevailing opinion that the MyCareer mode, yet again, relied too heavily on microtransactions and a progression system that saw your player improving at a glacial pace.
But for all of the chatter offered by the masses, the jury's still out on how much people's feedback actually helped developers improve their games and, in some cases, it's possible that hearing everyone's opinions could actually hurt the final product. One thing that's becoming abundantly clear is that there's no way to please everyone, and by catering to one group's game preferences it's likely that you end up leaving another group unhappy. While it may be hard then for developers to strike a balance in their approach while keeping their ears tuned to the appropriate channels for feedback, that doesn't change the fact that it's important that people keep airing their grievances and providing positive reinforcement when needed.
In hindsight, we may look back at 2018 as the year where competitive sports gaming finally went mainstream. Of course, the biggest development on this front was the inaugural season of the NBA 2K League, a joint venture between 2K and the NBA that saw the Knicks Gaming team take home the first championship in August after putting together an unlikely run. Though the league experienced some predictable growing pains, the broadcasts of the games were pretty impressive and viewership was encouraging enough that the league decided to add four more teams for the upcoming 2019 season.
Elsewhere, competitive sports gaming had some ups and downs. The Madden<|fim_middle|> modes that it has even started to branch out beyond basketball in the expansive MyCareer Neighborhood. Here you can play boring old basketball in a plethora of different ways, but you can also play dodgeball, capture the flag or even win some rewards answering trivia questions. It's all enough to make you wonder where these games can possibly go from here.
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goillini03 01-01-2019 04:05:42 PM (EDT)
I love the OS original content, but it was a very lackluster year for sports gaming. Moving more towards micro transactions, and less from realistic elements of the sports. I also cannot think that eSports breeds anything other than exploitive styles of play that moves sports games further from the sports that they are supposed to represent. I will take the pessimist tag.
PPerfect_CJ 01-01-2019 06:27:59 PM (EDT)
My one hope is that some day all of the Ultimate Team stuff will be considered gambling and made illegal so they'll have to take it out of our sports games.
Kentaurus 01-03-2019 05:08:16 PM (EDT)
Madden unfortunately took a step back, taking what was by far their most promising title because the esports community complained. The problem wasn't that the game was bad, it just didn't play the same as previous editions. The biggest and most destructive change was the patch that made Linebackers into superhumans again, allowing players to continually use base defensive formations against any offense. Prior to that patch, LBs would lose to WR consistently and couldn't cover the entire field, THIS WAS A GOOD THING!
HenryClay1844 01-06-2019 02:50:42 PM (EDT)
I played more video games this year than in any point in my life do to job changes, conversely I probably played fewer sports games than in many years due to their poor quality and reliance on awful online modes and micro=transaction modes.
mariejustice54 04-29-2019 12:41:05 AM (EDT)
Really I love to play this game, it's my most favorite game so far.
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Wolfeboro-Phyllis Arlene York, 88 ,of South Main St., Wolfeboro, beloved wife of Wallace W. York, died February 13, 2014, at Wolfeboro Bay Center in Wolfeboro. Her husband and other family members were by her side. Phyllis was born in Gilford, NH, November 4, 1925. She was the daughter of the late Clinton and Olive (Willard) Flanders, and the youngest of eight brothers and sisters. She lived in Wolfeboro, graduating from Carpenter School prior to moving to Laconia and graduating from Laconia High School class of 1945. During the 1940's, Phyllis lived and worked in Washington, D.C. She was a clerk at the Department of the Navy. Returning to New Hampshire, Phyllis married Wallace York, and they took up residence in Wolfeboro. In addition to being a loving wife and mother, Phyllis was successful in a number of positions. She worked part time at the Wolfe<|fim_middle|> Arlene York, please visit our flower store. | boro Laundry in the mid-1950's. She worked in the Carpenter School Lunch Program and at Huggins Hospital for many years. Before retiring, she worked at the Clothes Inn and at Relay Testing. In each position, Phyllis was a dedicated, productive employee with an ever cheerful, can-do attitude. Her part-time work never interfered with raising her family and being there for them. Mrs. York was one of the founding mothers of the Wolfeboro Kindergarten, and a Brownie and Girl Scout leader. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wolfeboro where she had many friends. She enjoyed a festive birthday party given by the church to celebrate her 88th birthday in November. Phyllis enjoyed sewing, knitting, and crocheting, and she was an avid quilter. The products of her loving handiwork will live on for generations with her children, grandchildren, other family and friends. They all loved being the recipient of her yummy holiday goodies. For many years Phyllis took a long daily walk. She was instrumental in getting the South Wolfeboro sidewalk built. Her year round physical activities, including her beloved paddle boating on Rust Pond, contributed to her health and longevity. She loved going to the ocean, especially after the long winters in Wolfeboro. Another passion was watching her Celtics and Red Sox games, and following the teams through each season for many years. Phyllis is survived by her husband, Wallace, with whom she would have celebrated her 66th wedding anniversary next month, and by her three children, her daughters, Cheryl York-Cail and husband Lawrence Cail, of Amherst, New Hampshire and Barbara Chase and her husband, Kenneth, of Merrimack, New Hampshire; and son, Wally York, of Wolfeboro. She leaves four grandchildren, Malinda L. Jones of Nashua, Jessica Belch of Chandler, Arizona; Adam Chase of Haverhill, Massachusetts; and Rachel Connors of Quincy, Massachusetts. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Phyllis was predeceased by her four brothers and three sisters, Wallace, Calvin, Willard, and Forrest Flanders, Priscilla Kimball, Christine Wilkes, and Pearl Tardif. Her family and friends will greatly miss Phyllis' spirit and energy. A graveside service will be in Pine Hill Cemetery in the spring. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her memory to VNA/Hospice of Southern Carroll County, PO Box 1620, Wolfeboro, NH 03894.
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SPIRITUALITY: Oneness of Being: Fact or Fiction?
Dr. Robert Dickson Crane
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Oneness of Being: Fact or Fiction?
by Dr. Robert Dickson Crane
I. Origin of the Issue in Contemporary America
Throughout history in all religions people have been tempted to invent distant gods or to anthropomorphize the divine in order to bring the gods closer. In order to avoid these extremes, in all religions the spiritually aware have developed the concept of tawhid not in the sense of the coherence of the universe as a reflection of the Oneness of God but in the sense of the Oneness of all existence and all being.
Perhaps the most universal symbol of this third approach is the color green, which is known especially among Muslims as the Green-Man archetype, otherwise known in the Quran as Khidr, a mysterious figure who taught Moses that there is higher knowledge than he was or even could be aware of. This, in turn, reflects the quest in all religions through this universal symbol of esotericism to go beyond the limitations of the rational intellect toward the source of knowledge that transcends it. This in turn can lead to the search for union with the One, known in Arabic as wahdat al wujud.
The internet has many web-sites dedicated to illuminating this symbolism. Perhaps the most erudite discussion may be found in David CatherineҒs The Green Fingerprint: Exploring a Critical Signature in the Quest for the Authentic Self.Ӕ His thesis is that, The mythological manifestations of the Green-Man archetype appear as counterweights to the institutionalized tendency to suppress gnosis [direct experience of the Divine] and to instead erect fragile concepts of distant gods through mental abstraction and fear. Ӆ Abandonment and the existential guilt-soup that ensues from our distant and disapproving thought-gods is often what forms the basis of a spiritual market trading in a fragmented culture characterized largely by drug-dependency, hyper-entertainment, and a host of personality disorders.Ŕ
Catherines cure for this cultural degeneration in the modern world is spiritual ecology or Holism, in which the person is regarded as part of, rather than separate from, nature. This can lead to pantheism in the sense that all nature is God or to panentheism in the sense that God is in all nature and hence to the belief that the purpose of every person is to become God. The extremes in modern American culture include well-known celebrities, such as Shirley McClaine who is famous for running along California beaches shrieking ғI am God! I am God. This search for gnosis or direct experience of the Divine can also lead to denial of the very existence of nature and of oneself so that God is the only being and the Gnostic therefore becomes God. This was the well-known case of Hallaj, the Sufi of the classical period of Islam who exclaimed ԓAna al Haqq! Ana al Haqq! [I am God! I am God!], for which he was crucified.
The issue debated intensely in and among many Sufi orders in America is whether Oneness in the sense of denial of all other than the Ultimate (la illaha ille Allah) is an objective reality (wahdad al wujud) or merely a subjective experience (wahdad al shuhud), the former typified by the more radical Shadhili and the latter by the more orthodox Naqshbandi. The Naqshbandi contend that taking the Oneness of Being literally denies the infinite difference between the Creator and the created, which they insist is essential to monotheistic religion. They contend that la illaha ille Allah refers to the denial of anything ultimate other<|fim_middle|> God, not from man; or, more radically, is truth God, as suggested by the QurҒanic word haqq, which means simultaneously God, truth, and human rights?
In l982, two newly arrived Tibetan Buddhist monks summarized their own wisdom on this subject in less than one minute in Baca, Colorado, at a big conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute. According to them, the process of the spiritual life is modeled by the Hinayana Buddhists, who seek to separate themselves from the physical world, the Mahayana Buddhists, who then seek union with the ultimate (nirvana, nothing, no-thing), and finally the Tantrayana Buddhists, who say that such enlightenment requires the introduction and practice of justice in the world. Each part of this trinity of process requires the other two. This, according to the Tibetan Buddhists, is what wahdat al wujud should mean both in concept and practice.
Schuon discusses this in different ways in eight different places in his book Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, as well as throughout his library of published works. On page 42 he translates wahdat al wujud as "ontological monism," but this merely raises the question of what this is. He states that, "Whereas for Platonism, as for all true metaphysics, the true, the beautiful, and the good are such because they manifest qualities proper to the Principle, or to the Essence if one prefer, and because God, though supremely free, cannot be free in opposition to His nature, Asharism [the origin of Salafi fanatics today] on the contrary proclaims that the true, the beautiful, and the good are such because God wills it so, without our being able to know why. In this system, which is voluntaristic because it is moralistic and therefore individualistic, God and man are defined as will." Schuon notes on page 43 that this "immanent moralism doubtless coincides with moral and social opportuneness [and] the ontologically absurd." On page 56, he explains that the Qur'anic expression, 'God does what He wills' means above all that 'God is what He is'."
Some Muslims have problems with the Qur'anic references to one's purpose in being close (qarib) to Allah, such as "We are closer to him [each person] than is his own jugular vein" (wa nahnu aqrabu 'alayhi min habil warid). Closeness is seen to exclude oneness, but it should not because oneness, wahhdat al wujud, is to some extent metaphorical.
The issue of closeness versus union involves also the definition of a "personal God." When people ask whether one believes in a personal God, one can answer by asking in return whether they mean anthropomorphically or ontologically, because the one leads to chaos and the other to cosmos.
IV. The Wisdom of Kabir Helminski
One answer to the question about a personal god, is given by Shaykh Kabir Helminski in his two articles reproduced in Sheila Musaji's www.theamericanmuslim.org, specifically his "What is a Truly Universal Spirituality?" in the Jan-Feb, 2003, issue, and "Alienation and Faith: the Postmodern Situation" in the issue of July 2002. In the latter essay, Shaykh Kabir writes, "In most traditional cultures, which place so much emphasis on unity and continuity, the modern preoccupation with personalizing a religion or path would have seemed insane." This is particularly true in the postmodern atmosphere of alienation from tradition and the resulting vulnerability to cultism, whereby the would-be adepts lose the wisdom of the past in the pursuit of an exclusivist and therefore false universality. Shaykh Kabir writes, "In the name of transcending forms, beliefs, and identifications, they seem to acquire many of the characteristics of a cult - especially a focus on a single charismatic figure without whom the whole enterprise would dissolve." He adds, "It is a particularly modern and Western (and especially American) notion that we can customize our spirituality in a 'self-service' way." This utilitarian approach resembles the worship of the anthropomorphic self or a compulsive escape from this self in the worship of a false identity.
Helminski asks whether there is still need for spiritual guides and for what purpose. "To what extent," he asks, "is it desirable and possible to distill the spirituality from a religious tradition, receiving what is most pure and essential while leaving behind the dregs of cultural relativity and historical bias? In a sense this is a task that must be done by every generation: restoring the essential message, the living impulse, the spirit of a tradition." He emphasizes that this must be done within every tradition, because each is a valid path to the truth and the truth must be pursued within established tradition in order to avoid post-modern insanity.
Shaykh Kabir takes Ibn 'Arabi as a model of practicing a universal faith through a particular path, which was Islam as a "matrix of Truth in a unique sense." In his article, "Alienation and Faith: The Postmodern Situation," Shakyh Kabir begins by quoting Al Ghazali: "Human perfection resides in this, that the love of God should conquer a man's heart and possess it wholly, and even if it does not possess it whole, it should predominate in the heart over the love of all things." Shaykh Kabir explains, "To grasp this statement, we must understand that this word 'God' has the following synonyms: Reality, the Source of Life, The Most Subtle State of Everything. The love of God is the love of the greatest Truth. This quest concerns Reality not religion. The 'love of God' is our essential relationship with what is most real."
This answer to the question whether one believes in a personal God does not satisfy those who associate love with the relationship between finite human beings? They cannot conceive of love between the finite and the infinite, and perhaps only those can who have experienced it.
Due to our very nature as beings created "before" the origin of the physical universe, this so-called oceanicӔ experience may be very common in one degree or another or even almost universal. One's response is important, because the experience is not the end of wisdom, though it may seem to be, but rather only the beginning. Love almost by definition is centered on the "other" to the extent that there is none other and in its place is union. This raises the question whether this union between the human person and the ultimate is actual and objective or metaphorical and whether even the pursuit of an impression of oneness is desirable.
V. Frithjof Schuons Conclusions
Although Rafi Zabor clearly answers "yes" to both of these questions whether the Oneness of Being is real and whether one should abandon oneself to it, Frithjof Schuon gives more qualified answers. He explains that even the impression of oneness is an ideal and not factual. He writes on page 57, "A Sufi author was able to write without hesitation that the supreme state, with regard to which every other state is but a veil (hijab) and a drawing away (b'ud), is that there is no longer any place in one's consciousness for any created thing, and in so saying he is not speaking of ecstasy; he means it with regard to man's habitual state, as if this were not to ruin the very notion of the human being or of the creature as such, and as if any saint, beginning with the Prophet himself, had ever shown an example of such a sublimity, which in fact is as impossible as it is unnecessary. This sublimity nevertheless offers an 'ideal' image, which is very suggestive in its fashion of union with God; this we concede in taking account of temperaments that are sensitive to this type of hyperbolism."
On page 81, Schuon praises the Sufi whose aim is to be "one who is extinguished before the world to the point of no longer seeing anything but God; or one who sees only God to the point of no longer seeing the world. This Sufi did not realize [accomplish] this, for on the one hand, it is not realizable and on the other hand for this reason it does not have to be realized; this ideal nevertheless bears witness to a heroic intensity toward the Divine, and this is what counts here." In a footnote he suggests that the Christian theological expression applied to Christ, "true man and true God," can mean the realization of the "Self" without excluding individuality, an individuality liberated from concupiscence. He adds on page 82 that, "We would not dream of reproaching a Hallaj or a Niffari for the obscureness of their expressions, any more than we would dream of reproaching the Song of Songs for such an obscureness. It suffices us a priori, in the absence of keys [to this particular language], to perceive the beauty, the grandeur, the profundity, the power of language, its perfume and majesty, quite apart from the fact that the incomprehensibility cannot be total and that, moreover, there are keys that end by delivering their secrets, depending on their nature and on our receptivity."
The same applies to Qur'anic exegesis. As Schuon notes on page 84, "Tafsir, 'explanation,' is the ґoutward (zahir), semantic, historical, and theological exegesis of the Qur'an; ta'wil, 'interpretation,' is its 'inward' (batin), symbolist, moral, mystical, mythological, metaphysical commentary. According to the Qur'an, 'no one knows its interpretation but God.' This means that man can know it only by divine inspiration, and not by reasoning alone - but inspiration and reason are not mutually exclusive since the one can produce or actualize the other."
The greatest challenge is how to express the inexpressible. Schuon writes on page 78, "Some might take the view that the theological or philosophical framework of an idea that is both true and fundamental - such as ontological monism (wahdat al wujud) - is of little importance, even if this framework leaves much to be desired; it is true that in Islam - inasmuch as it is a world of dogma and faith - the thing that is important is 'what' one explains and not 'how' one explains it. For the 'what' is divine, thus absolute, whereas the 'how' is human, thus contingent and provisional; here lies the whole opposition between faith and reasoning, or between Revelation and thinking."
One problem is the tendency of humans to avoid uncertainties and complexities by going to extremes. Schuon writes on page 80, "Compared with the case of the fideists or inspirationists with their lack of concern for coherence, the case of the Greek sophists and scientists and their successors presents exactly the opposite excess: logic on the one hand and phenomena on the other are self-sufficient and they are therefore used as if they were cut off from their roots; whence the philosophical, scientific, and cultural monstrosities which made, and which make, the modern world.Ҕ
The position apparently supported by Rafi Zabor is that of the ontological monism school of Ibn 'Arabi, which Schuon calls the Wujudiyah, one of several monist schools in the Sufi world. "According to the school of Wujudiyah," writes Schuon on page 138, "To say that 'there is no divinity (ilaha) if not the (sole) Divinity (Allah)' means that there is only God, that consequently everything is God, and that it is we as creatures that see a multiple world where there is but one reality; it remains to be seen why creatures see the One in multiple mode, and why God Himself, in so far as He creates, gives laws, and judges, sees the multiple and not the One."
Schuon concludes with the more nuanced answer that, "Multiplicity is objective as well as subjective - the cause of diversifying contingency being in each of the two poles of perception - and that multiplicity or diversity is in reality a subdivision, not the Divine Principle of course, but of its manifesting projection, namely, existential and universal Substance; diversity or plurality is therefore not opposed to Unity, it is within the latter and not alongside it. Multiplicity as such is the outward aspect of the world; but, it is necessary to look at phenomena according to their inward reality, and thus as a diversified and diversifying projection of the One. The metacosmic cause of the phenomenon of multiplicity is All-Possibility, which coincides by definition with the Infinite, the latter being an intrinsic characteristic of the Absolute. The Divine Principle, being the sovereign Good, tends by this very fact to radiate and thus to communicate itself; to project and to make explicit all the 'possibilities of the Possible'."
This explanation may be as far as one can express or even imagine ultimate reality. Schuon says on page 162: "It is true that we cannot imagine God, any more than we can hear light or see thunder." Higher understanding, like that of the angels, can come only from Allah, who responds to our awareness and awe of Him (makhafah), i.e., our recognition of reality, and to our love of Allah and of His prophets (mahabbah), and to our level of knowledge (ma'rifah). As Schuon puts it on page 153, "The higher planes always include the lower planes, while the latter prefigure or anticipate the former, be it only by opening onto them, for reality is one, in the soul as in the Universe. Moreover, Action joins Love to the extent that it is disinterested; and it rejoins Knowledge to the extent that it is accompanied by an awareness that God is the true Agent."
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Failure to appreciate the distinction between subjective experience and objective reality can lead to the search for spiritual ԓexperiences as a goal in itself, without the higher purpose of applying higher understanding to promote justice in the world. The lures of this false path of spiritual consumerism may constitute the major cultural baggage of so-called ԓAmerican Islam.
II. Secrets of the ԓWhirling Dervishes
The issue of Sufi secrets to Reality was popularized by Rafi ZaborԒs article in the June, 2004, issue of Harpers, entitled "The Turn: Inside the Secret Orders of Istanbul," which allegedly outedӔ the secrets of the "whirling dervishes." In his travelogue style, Rafi Zabor reveals much wisdom in his both informative and critical assessment of the real and the less real in the spiritual life.
Although he admits that he is a tourist in the world of Sufi tariqas, including the tariqat of the Turkish tekkes and their sama, he has learned, as he puts it on page 57, that, "Ecstasies are the sugar candy of the spiritual diet, and if all you do is gratify your sweet tooth you'll spoil your appetite for dinner, or your palate sugared over won't even taste dinner when it's served." He comments on the next page, "What was crucially important to such practice [the Mevlevi whirling zikr of the Rumi followers designed cosmologically to center a person in the heart rather than the head] was the understanding one brought to it." In other words, does the "tidal signature of primary light" inspire one to be exclusivist and condemn all others to hell, which can be the first step in becoming a suicide bomber; or does it do exactly the opposite and inspire one to be merely a better person in submission to Allah? Zabor relates his meeting at a secret Sufi gathering with a well-dressed businessman who proudly announces that he has graduated from selling shotguns to trading and smuggling high-powered automatic weapons. As Zabor puts it, "I wondered, did the glow and smiles and embraces of the aftermath savor of accustomed orgasm reliably achieved and not some fresh intellection or intuition of the unmodified absolute?"
Zabor asks himself whether the private lives of the people he has met at the secret Sufi hadarat has anything to do with the teachings of Sufism. He suggests that the primary profession of Islamic faith, la ilaha ille Allah, means esoterically, "That there is no reality but the Reality, i.e. nothing in manifest or non-manifest existence but the Divine Itselfness, so that all subsequent individuation is therefore an itemized declension, or, to cut to the chase, there is only One Unique Being, period, for Whom everything apparently other than He is His particularized self-expression, which does not constitute an actual Otherness." The question is, what does this statement of belief mean both in theory and in the lives of those who believe it.
III. Frithjof Schuons Critique of Wahdat al Wujud
This statement is simple, but it is only the beginning of wisdom, because it raises more questions than it answers. Perhaps the most learned student of this issue, because he spent a lifetime studying the inner and outer dimensions of all world religions, was Frithjof Schuon, who published a shelf of books on comparative religion. Among them, one of the most pertinent to the issue of wahdat al wujud is his Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, which like all of his books uses the analogy of the circle with the forms of religion on the circumference and their paths as radii converging toward oneness at the center. As he puts it on page 55 of Veil and Quintessence, "God is the same for all the religions only in the Divine 'stratosphere,' and not in the human 'atmosphere.' In this sense, it could be said that esoterism alone is absolutely monotheistic, it alone recognizing only one religion under diverse forms. For if it is true that form, in a certain manner, 'is' the essence, the latter on the contrary is in no wise the form; the drop is water, but water is not the drop."
Commenting on page 89 on the teaching of Jesus Christ that "No one cometh unto the Father but by me," Schuon observes that, "Christ said [this] on the basis of an inward absolute truth, which nevertheless does not prevent other religions from being valid in their turn, independently of Christ, but on the basis of the same truth, insofar as it is essential and thereby universal, and not insofar as it assumes in the case of Christ a particular extrinsic significance personified precisely by Jesus."
The true path of all spiritual wisdom, according to Schuon on page 88 and basically by all the great spiritual teachers, is conception, meditation, concentration, and conformation. That is to say, the concept of Unity with its intrinsic and extrinsic mysteries; assimilating meditation and unitive concentration on Unity and its mysteries; moral conformation to Unity, to its mysteries and its demands; these together with the appropriate traditional supports, are the [five] constituent elements of the Way."
The point that Rafi Zabor perhaps intends, but has not expressed, is that zikr of whatever form is merely a means at best in a process that leads not only to enlightenment but to its application in moral conformation within a particular tradition. By analogy, one might say that orgasm is pleasant, but the ultimate purpose is conception in the form of both love and new life. This is a gift from God, and should be appreciated as such.
Philosophically, Schuon explains this in terms of the Universal Law, which one may also call "transcendent law" or "transcendent justice." In his discussion of the typological castes in Hinduism, as distinct from the social expressions, on page 107-108, he compares the higher castes with verticality and the lower one with horizontality. In reference to this lower caste he states, unfortunately only in a footnote: "It could be said that this mentality looks upon the whole from the starting point of the details - whence its specific moralism - whereas the higher mentality looks upon the details from the starting point of the whole. In the first case, analysis takes precedence over synthesis; in the second, synthesis takes precedence over analysis."
This is the essence of the distinctions that can be made among legal systems, whereby the holistic systems, best represented by the maqasid or universal principles or goals developed by scholars over the centuries in Islamic jurisprudence but functionally dead for six hundred years, can be compared with the positivist systems whereby law is what human precedent says it is. The holistic system is primarily educational and inspirational, focused on transcendent justice, whereas the positivist system usually serves primarily to consolidate the status quo with all of its injustices. The holistic regards the use of any force to assure compliance as a failure of the system, and it reveres non-violence though not to the extent of absolute pacifism, whereas the positivist regards the monopoly of violence and its application by the power of established government as the very definition of rule by law.
The critical philosophical issue for Muslims is the real meaning of the concept of "Oneness of Being" or wahdat al wujud. Is it ontologically and objectively real or is it only intellectually a subjective impression. Is it a message from Allah or is it only an experience like a trip on drugs?
For most Muslims the simple answer is "who cares?" For many intellectuals, however, this leaves two questions: what purpose does Allah have in giving persons enlightenment, and how and to what extent must this purpose be fulfilled in the world of existence. Do truth and transcendent justice come from | 1,670 |
A Friday night, CWRU style
Un-sCWRU your lifestyle
Theresa Smetona
Friday. 4:54 p.m. Myra, your typical CWRU student, frantically types up the last few sentences of her lab report and successfully submits it via Blackboard. She checks her iPhone. It is 5:00 p.m. She exhales a sigh of relief and pulls up Twitter, indulging in a celebratory tweet: "Lab report done and ready to party! #workhardplayharder #CWRU" She has had a particularly demanding week and can't wait to recover from her stress by spending the weekend alternating between being drunk and hungover.
6 p.m. Myra has showered and is now pondering her next course of action. She can't eat the cold pizza in her refrigerator, because it is her designated drunk food for when she comes home ready to binge. She plans her outfit for that night— stilettos, crop top and a bandage skirt that arguably covers her tuchus.
7 p.m. Myra exchanges numerous texts with her girls, deciding where they should meet up and pre-game before heading to the party. Everyone knows that big kids don't start raging till after 11 p.m., so Myra and her friends plan to meet up at 10 p.m. in order to drink and take copious amounts of photos that they will later Instagram to show just how much fun they had.
8 p.m. Myra sends another Tweet in order to emphasize her excitement for the night. "Can't wait to take shots with my girls! Much needed therapy."
10:30 p.m. Myra and her friends are eager to get their party on, but they feel that it would be unacceptable to show up at a house party before 11 p.m., so instead they talk about how much fun they will have, and insist that each girl is hotter than the rest of them.
10:45 p.m. Myra's sense of civic responsibility compels her to tweet again: "Disclaimer – I am not to be held responsible for any of my actions tonight."
11 p.m. The horde of tipsy girls begins its exodus to Hessler Road. Their journey is marked by stumbling, screams, and phrases such as "You deserve to have fun once in a while," "You look SO hot," and "Will you be my drinking buddy tonight?"
11:15 p.m. After getting lost a few times and knocking on a couple wrong doors, the girls finally arrive at their destination. As the girls make their noisy entrance, a few guys, who clearly have not showered recently and are wearing faded jeans and dirty t-shirts, glance up. The guys notice all the clothing that the girls are not wearing, and revert to playing beer pong. The girls clump together in a corner and begin sending mass texts to all their friends, demanding, "Where are you? Come to Hessler! It's so much fun!"
11:30 p.m. Having exchanged a grand total of about two words with the guys at the party, Myra decides that music will remedy the situation. "Can we play some music?" she demands. "I'm ready to dance!" The host complies with her request, but the blaring music is so loud that no one can hear anyone else, and Myra's attempt to boost conversation proves futile. One girl who particularly resembles Bambi attempts to dance, but the combination of her high heels and the numerous puddles of beer on the floor prove too much for her delicate balance, and she falls. Myra joins the rest of her friends in loudly expressing their concern for Bambi.
12 a.m. A few more people straggle in and seek out the remaining available corners of the house. Eager to gain some attention, Myra moves to the beer-pong table and apologizes too loudly every time she misses a cup. Once, when the ping-pong ball rolls off the table, Myra is faced with a dilemma. Her formerly appropriate skirt will not permit her to bend down and pick up the ball. Hoping to attract the attention of some helpful man, Myra suggestively looks at the guy standing a few feet away. But this would-be knight in shining armor is too busy sipping his natty light to notice Myra's invitation. Several minutes pass before the ball is returned to the table.
1 a.m. Having already been to the two other houses hosting parties that night, everyone ends up at the house where Myra is now pretending to be super busy responding to urgent texts. Conversation is still minimal, and the heat and stickiness have reached unbearable levels. But there are no corners left to hide in, and aided by their drunkenness, most people engage in some sort of grinding. The hosts of the party are proud of their success.
2:30 a.m. Shoes in hand, Myra returns home. She would have liked to party longer, but the police showed up and ended the night. While inhaling slice after slice of pizza, Myra contemplates what shirt she should wear tomorrow to flaunt the hickeys that are developing on her neck. She sends a final tweet: "And that's how it's done. Ready to repeat tomorrow #ilovecollege."
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Friday's roundup: Clemson plays Ohio State in CFP playoff late into Friday night and basketball news for Charlotte and Gardner-Webb
Lannden Zanders
Clemson's dream of<|fim_middle|> it wasn't enough for the 49ers as they dropped their Conference USA opener to Western Kentucky (8-2, 1-0).
Charlotte (4-4, 0-1) hosts the Hilltoppers again on Saturday at 4 p.m.
"WKU is really talented," Charlotte 49ers coach Ron Sanchez said. "They were picked to be the best team in the league for a reason. I am pleased with the way that we played and that we did do a lot of things well. We also made a lot of mental mistakes. We gave up a back door cut at the wrong time. We gave up offensive rebounds at the wrong time. WKU is a good offensive rebounding team, I am really proud of the way that we did the job for the most part on the glass. We did do a lot of good things but the mental lapses are the things that hurt us."
Gardner-Webb schedule altered: The Big South Conference announced Friday night changes to the league's schedule, including a switch of opponent for the Runnin' Bulldogs on Monday and Tuesday.
Gardner-Webb (2-5, 1-1) will now host Campbell on Monday at 6 p.m. and Tuesday at 4 p.m. as the Runnin' Bulldogs schedule was adjusted due to a pause within the High Point program due to COVID-19 concerns.
Gardner-Webb's previously scheduled Monday and Tuesday home games with Charleston Southern will be rescheduled for a later date. | a College Football Playoff championship died late Friday night in a 49-28 Sugar Bowl loss to Ohio State.
The Tigers, who finished the season with a 10-2 overall record and as ACC champions, has previously won CFP titles in 2017 and 2019.
Lannden Zanders, a 2019 Crest graduate, was one of Clemson's leading tacklers in the loss with five solo stops and one assist.
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Western Kentucky 67, Charlotte 63: Jahmir Young had a game-high 23 points and Brice Williams had a career-high 21 but | 138 |
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Living among bears: a homeowner's guide
Prevention the key to avoiding bear encounters
MONTANA LIVING — When it comes to living in bear country, it takes preparation and prevention to avoid encounters with this kind of wildlife.
That's the upshot of a new report from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, which recently released three new annual reports for grizzly bear, black bear and mountain lion management in Region 1 of northwest Montana.
The reports are available to read online at http://fwp.mt.gov/regions/r1.
The reports, prepared by FWP bear and lion specialists, provide an overview of management work, conflict response and prevention, monitoring, mortalities, public outreach and more in 2018.
Tim Manley, a wildlife management specialist with FWP in Region 1, prepared the 2018 Grizzly Bear Management Progress Report for the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Portion of Region 1, with Justine Vallieres, an FWP seasonal technician.
Last year, FWP received over 150 calls related to grizzly bears in and around the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem portion of Region 1. Of those, most were classified as bear conflicts. Most reported conflicts involved unsecured food attractants, such as garbage, chest freezers left outside, pet food left outside, bird feeders, chicken feed and fruit trees.
"The best way to minimize conflicts between people and grizzly bears is to prevent conflicts from occurring in the first place," Manley said in his report.
Prevention can include a wide range of options including installing and maintaining an effective electric fence, using approved bear-resistant garbage containers, educational events and increasing human tolerance.
FWP personnel regularly work with landowners to address issues. A very successful effort has involved FWP working with residents to protect chickens, pigs, and fruit trees with electric fencing.
In 2018, Manley and Vallieres helped install 18 temporary and permanent electric fences. An additional 13 electric fence energizers and net fences were loaned to landowners. Manley, as well as other FWP staff, also presented at several educational and outreach events throughout the year promoting bear awareness and safety.
FWP prioritizes human safety and human-wildlife conflict prevention.
Last year there were 23 captures of 20 individual grizzly bears in the NCDE portion of Region 1. All but one of the captures occurred on private land. Four of those bears were euthanized. Bears are moved are taken to an approved site with permission from the landowner or land management agency. The decision to capture or remove grizzly bears for management reasons is not made without careful consideration.
Erik Wenum, FWP bear and lion specialist based in the Flathead Valley, prepared the 2018 Northwest Montana Black Bear and Lion Conflict Management Report with Chad White, an FWP seasonal technician.
Last year there were 975 calls related to black bears in the greater Flathead Valley, which is slightly above the 10-year average of 813. The number of on-site visits – 95 – was below the 10-year average of 172. The number of captures – 22 – was below the 10-year average of 35.
In northwest Montana, many areas with<|fim_middle|> the primary cause of human-bear conflicts, Annis said. Domestic fruit trees and small livestock were a close second.
Temporary electric fencing was used at 20 locations as the primary tool to resolve conflicts in 2018 in the CYE. Annis helped an additional three residents with permanent electric fences to secure small livestock. Of the 180 electric fences set since 2009 in the CYE, only two have proven ineffective at eliminating a conflict with a bear, according to Annis. One, in 2017, was due to a flaw in the initial design of the fence. The other, in 2015, involved black bear cubs of the year willing to take a full jolt from a well-designed electric fence to access a fruit orchard.
Annis continues to work with Lincoln and Sanders counties to secure the public waste transfer sites and make them bear-resistant. Since 2017, a combination of chain link fence and electrified wires were installed to secure several sites, and these measures have proven 100 percent effective at preventing bears from accessing garbage.
She also regularly participates in community outreach and educational events to promote bear awareness and safety.
Northwest Montana is home to abundant populations of grizzly bears, black bears and mountain lions. Bears are active from springtime through fall before winter denning. FWP encourages the public to "Be Bear Aware" and take precautionary measures to work, recreate and live safely in bear country. This includes removing or securing food attractants and carrying bear spray. Safety and conflict prevention information is available on the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks website, fwp.mt.gov.
For a list of educational events in the region, visit the FWP Region 1 Facebook page. Residents can call FWP regional offices to learn more about wildlife or to report bear or lion activity. In northwest Montana, call (406) 752-5501. | the highest densities of lions are also areas with expanding human population, Wenum notes. This is related to the concentration of deer and elk in their winter and summer ranges at the edges of the valley. Thanks to outreach and education programs, the number of lion conflicts has slightly decreased through time.
Kim Annis, FWP's wildlife management specialist based in Libby, prepared the 2018 Grizzly and Black Bear Management Report for the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem.
Last year Annis received 109 bear-related calls. Of those, 47 were confirmed human-bear conflicts (both species), which is down from recent years. No bears were captured, relocated, or euthanized due to confirmed conflicts in 2018 in the CYE.
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From Inside the Ring: Programmatic Punch Round 1: Transparency
The ad:tech conference is one of the leading industry events for marketing and media technology, where marketing, technology and media communities assemble to<|fim_middle|> up for what could be a friendly discussion or a pugilistic exchange. However, at yesterday's AdTech Conference, 'get in the ring' became a literal action, with the members of the Programmatic Transparency panel and its moderator stepping into an actual boxing ring created for the forum.
Fortunately, no punches – verbal or otherwise – were thrown as the members discussed many components of the current and future digital landscape. With three varying backgrounds ranging from publisher to tech to media and strategy advisor, the panel covered a wide array of topics and opportunities beholden to advertisers and their partners as they traverse the digital landscape.
The conversation began with mention of the K2 Intelligence report for the ANA Transparency Initiative. The members of the panel agreed that the report spurs questions and conversations amongst brands of their partners, and that such discussions aid insights and education – always a good thing. Additional details spoken to revolved around:
the recommendation that brands can begin assigning a Chief Media Officer to enable understanding and accountability
the need for internal governance and contract and data management
The questions progressed from there, covering whether more brands are beginning to take programmatic buying in-house and what types of brands are interested in doing so.
The focal points:
understanding of purpose is key
exploring options in order to decide what is best is a must
access to resources based on the final decision is vital
As the conversation evolved into programmatic transparency, Ebiquity and The Guardian made mention of the steps that brands and publishers are taking to see what lies under the hood of such buys.
I spoke to the Ebiquity North America working vs non-working media cost breakdown study that we are co-sponsoring.
Jen Soch, EVP of Commerical Delivery at The Guardian, discussed her own company's buyback investigation: The Guardian is repurchasing its own live-in-the-marketplace media through programmatic buying means and analyzing its in-market costs. The publisher has found serious cost inconsistencies and is continuing to investigate.
A final topic revolved around digital privacy. Ebiquity's recommendation regarding data ownership and management helped drive the conversation. Additionally, Adam Towvim of Orchrd spoke to what brands should ask about regarding privacy issues as the calendar year turns. Questions included:
– Where is digital/personal information coming from outside of org?
– How am I managing and protecting the data in house?
– Am I communicating privacy by passing across organization?
To conclude the talk, each member made a statement about the value of transparency.
The final word from Ebiquity:
"Transparency provides access to information, a necessity for making the informed business decisions that ultimately drive optimal goal fulfillment."
Overall, it was a very full discussion. With a wide range of topics to speak to, the subject experts, from various facets of the digital media landscape, and we were all happy to get in the ring for the purpose of collective education.
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Lynne Ault | share new ways of thinking, build strong partnerships, and define new strategies to compete in an ever-changing marketplace. Ebiquity was honored to participate in the first day of the conference to speak on two key issues: transparency and programmatic.
The Drum Hall hosted Round 1 of the Programmatic Punch, which was held in an actual boxing ring so that the industries' top programmatic leaders can go head-to-head on the industry's most pressing topics. Ebiquity was asked to speak and as the Head of Digital Ebiquity North America, I was invited into the ring to discuss the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Transparency Initiative, the steps forward based on our recommendations, and the future of the industry.
Often when it comes to panels, the term 'get in the ring' is a figure of speech, as participating members gear | 171 |
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HOW MIGHT WE ASSESS FEMINISM'S INITIAL IMPACTS ON ART, ITS SUBSEQUENT HISTORICIZATION, AND ITS CONTINUING INFLUENCE? ARTFORUM ASKED LINDA NOCHLIN, ANDREA FRASER, AMELIA JONES, DAN CAMERON, COLLIER SCHORR, JAN AVGIKOS, CATHERINE DE ZEGHER, ADRIAN PIPER, AND PEGGY PHELAN TO CONSIDER THIS QUESTION IN AN ONLINE ROUNDTABLE ASSEMBLED IN AUGUST. THEIR RESPONSES--REFINED BY THE PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES--SUGGEST THAT FEMINISM AND FEMINIST DISCOURSES AS THEY HAVE FOUND EXPRESSION IN CONTEMPORARY ART ARE AMBIVALENT ("IN THE FULLEST SENSE OF THAT TERM," AS PHELAN PUTS IT), MULTIFACETED, AND EVER EVOLVING.
Contemporary art and art criticism are unimaginable without feminism.
As a participant in the women's art movement of the late '60s and early '70s, I have decidedly mixed feelings about the historicization of feminism. It is difficult to see lived experience transformed into historical text. Things that seemed open and dynamic are now pinned down and displayed like butterflies in a case. Of course, there is also the tendency to idealize the past, to see the women's art movement as totally united. This was not the case: Although all of us were for justice, equity, and a fair shake for women artists, critics, and academics, our views we extremely varied, and we were often at odds with one another. I, for instance, disagreed with the perhaps unconscious essentialism of those who propagated Central Imagery as a compositional characteristic of women's art, or believed in Great Goddesses, or saw women as victims.
Today, it seems to me that the fundamental differences within feminism exist between those artists and critics who think of "woman" as a fixed category and those who think of it as something more fluid, constructed, and variable. There is also a difference between those who think of feminist art and art history as critical practices and those who think that pure, "positive" images of woman are possible--that there is some essence of femininity out there to be captured. Perhaps '70s feminism, powerful and necessary though it was, is now outmoded; feminism has transformed and is itself transformed in contemporary practice. Feminist politics today is far more multivalent and self-aware; the battle lines are less clearly drawn. The binaries--oppressor/victim, good woman/bad man, pure/impure, beautiful/ugly, active/passive--are not the point of feminist art anymore. Ambiguity, androgyny, and self-consciousness, both formal and psychic, are de rigueur in challenging thought and practice. But there is no point in asking how relevant feminism is to art practice, history, and criticism today, since feminist consciousness is pervasive even when unacknowledged or demeaned. Feminism is not only overtly present but has over the past thirty years irrevocably changed the way we think about art, the body, the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, and the standing, the various media.
Despite its import, there remains a general lack of interest in feminism in American museums, which is unfortunate, to say the least--but which is only part of more general refusal by museums to deal with anything controversial. (The Brooklyn Museum, which is opening an important center for feminist art with a regular exhibition program, is a rare exception.) It is hard to imagine an American museum putting on a show like Louvre curator Regis Michel's "Possess and Destroy: Sexual Strategies in Western Art" (2000), which demonstrated that much of the great drawing of the past is based on cruelty toward the female body. The show included Renaissance artists, continued through the nineteenth century with Ingres and Degas and ended with Picasso. Of course, most of their pieces, drawn from the Louvre collection, were beautiful. Michel's show and catalogue essay made you think about this strange, contradictory relationship--between morality, as it were, and aesthetics--which has long marked the high and low culture of our civilization.
In 1971, I wrote an essay titled "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" but I don't really believe that "greatness" is the issue at present. Women artists are recognized as among the most stimulating, provocative, and visually inventive of contemporary artmakers. Recently I have been particularly intrigued by the writings of Aby Warburg, and Georges Didi-Huberman's fascinating book about him, detailing the relation of the Nachleben (afterlife) of antique images to contemporary feminist art. For example, Pipilotti Rist's Ever Is Over All, 1997, a wonderful video of an energetic woman marching down a city street smashing car window with a kind of iron flower, is vitalized by the "afterlife" of the antique maenad and her thyrsus--the female activist is even dressed in drapery of a sort! Or take Sam Taylor-Wood's poignant large-scale self-portrait Fuck, Suck, Spank, Wank, 1993, which brings up antique and Renaissance memories in the contrapposto pose, the escaping strands of hair, the trousers falling about the sitter's feet (displaced classical drapery)--it's Venus, transposed by Botticelli and made utterly new in the artist's studio, with a cabbage instead of a scallop shell. This photograph is as harmoniously composed as any Greek frieze, and much the richer for its references, however unusual, to the past. I am not talking about anything as academic as influence here nor anything as trendy as appropriation. I am speaking, quite literally, of the afterlife of elements of the Western tradition achieving new meaning in the work of women artists who use them as both continuity and critique in the representation of women.
Linda Nochlin is Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
Feminism not only provided institutional critique with a critical object; it provided a practical methodology.
I consider myself a second-generation feminist--I don't mean historically, as in second wave, but biographically. My mother got involved in the women's movement in the early '70s and came out shortly thereafter. I spent the second half of my childhood in an all-woman, lesbian-feminist household. At thirteen, I cut school and took a bus to San Francisco to go to the unveiling of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party at SF MOMA (a friend's mother worked on the project). When I moved to New York a few years later, I was confused to find that the feminist discourse I encountered in the art world constructed itself in opposition to the feminism I grew up with. I could appreciate critiques of the essentialist and normative aspects of '70s cultural feminism, but those critiques often seemed to dismiss the activism of radical feminism as well.
I see my work in the '80s as very much an effort to integrate the performative and interventional dimensions of feminist work from the '70s into an engagement with the construction of femininity and female subject positions within discourse, representation, and, above all, institutions. My attraction to institutional critique had everything to do with what Griselda Pollock has described as the gendered myths, values, assumptions, silences, and prejudices that underlay the institutional inscription of artistic subjects and works. I understood institutional critique as a feminist practice, not only in terms of the politics of inclusion and exclusion, but in terms of the hierarchical systems of classification that mandate exclusion, and of the monopolies on definitions of legitimate culture and cultural legitimacy that empower exclusion.
Feminism not only provided institutional critique with a critical object. More important, it provided a practical methodology. In the context of paradigms of site-specificity defined by physical, urban, architectural, geographical, or geological spaces and places, the constitutive sites of feminist practice were above all the body and the political, social, sexual,<|fim_middle|> this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all. After reading all of this stimulating talk I find I have nothing to contribute after all.
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"Adrian Piper Since 1965: Meta-art and Art Criticism" travels this month to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
Feminism makes ambivalence a necessary worldview.
Feminism belongs on the shortlist of recent intellectual revolutions that includes Darwinism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Like these other dramatic sea changes, feminism radically alters our perception of history, value, meaning, and experience. The world no longer looks the way it did before feminism, and artists, those maestros of revision, quickly absorbed, translated, extended, and recorded the force of this new vision. Feminist artists of the '70s--from body artists such as Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke to Earth artists such as Ana Mendieta and Mary Beth Edelson--revised the categories of what art is and to whom it is addressed. But the history of feminist achievement is much messier, more contradictory, and more ambivalent, in the fullest sense of that term, than the epistemological and cultural transformations achieved by Darwin, Marx, Engels, and Freud. This ambivalence, sewn right into the political and intellectual core of feminism, has made it extraordinarily difficult to assess feminism's influence and to take its measure in contemporary art.
Almost from the start, the feminism that swept the West in the '60s and '70s was beset with the problem of belatedness on the one hand (how could it have taken so long to see the sanctioned hatred of women at the heart of modernity?) and enormous anxiety about its radical we-want-it-now "fringe" on the other. Not surprisingly, therefore, feminism's history is rife with betrayal, envy, and schisms. Women of color, lesbians, sex adventurers, transsexuals, and even, weirdly, straight white women have suffered the pain of being outcast from the community they want/ed to love and be loved by. Thus the story of feminist awakening is a traumatic one. What makes this awakening more than a melodrama of the anguished soul is that it is a collective trauma that happened with an acceleration and pervasiveness that short-circuited and helped repress some of the high personal costs that individual women and men paid for its success. The notion that "the personal is political" was widely successful in establishing the politics of everyday life and exposing the politics of the art world but not always up to sorting out the emotional and psychic fallout from such rigorous equations. (Laura Cottingham's important video Not For Sale, 1998, documents some of these fallouts but concentrates oil celebrating heroines.) In pointing out this trauma, I am not minimizing feminism's astonishing achievements, especially in art: It is undeniable that the political passion inspired by feminist consciousness infused art in ways that cannot be undone. Nonetheless, as an intellectual and political revolution, feminism differs from previous epistemological transformations because it refuses to be "merely" an intellectual matter. Assessing its influence requires that one go beyond intellectual assessments of feminist history and take into consideration emotional and psychic costs and benefits. Central to these costs and benefits is a pervasiveness of ambivalence that now dominates our lives.
While it is more or less accurate to credit Darwin, Marx, Engels, and Freud with the basic discoveries that spurred evolutionism, socialism, and psychoanalysis, crediting one or two people with the origin of feminism is much more fraught. Many historians of feminism note the influence of Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, but these acknowledgments almost always come with a heavy sense of apology for establishing an almost arbitrary beginning point. (Registering the" force of belatedness in feminist history, most scholars frequently refer to the feminism of the '60s and '70s as "second wave.") Feminism's anxiety about its origins is one reason why many feminist artists in the '70s tried to revise art history, recovering long-ignored work of women. Linda Nochlin's 1971 essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" was the call that revolutionized art history. Artists began to "redo" masterpieces, resisting that the historical imagination of the past include women as more than objects of what Laura Mulvey aptly dubbed "the male gaze." One consequence of this art-historical revision was an acknowledgment that the history of women's lives, experiences, and intellectual and artistic contributions was simply too vast to recover. This loss propelled a political grief that was rehearsed again in the '80s and '90s as AIDS and breast cancer began killing more young people.
The recognition of ignorance at the heart of the historical enterprise prior to feminism has had an enormous influence on poststructuralist philosophy, with its emphasis on the "undecidability" of textual meaning and on antiracist and anticolonialist theory--work often animated by the aspiration to recover a history centered on the experiences of slaves and the disenfranchised. Taken together, these aspirations have changed how history is written, what counts as evidence, who can serve as witness, and who can serve as judge. This role of feminism in historiography illuminates the broader story of feminism's revolutionary achievements. Feminist thinking required more than "filling in" missing content: It insisted on revising the fundamental questions thai defined the disciplines. It also made clear how quickly insights from the present will be themselves a product of both blindness and insight. For example, just as feminists of the '70s were pained to see what dominant history had been long blind to, so too did feminists of the '80s and '90s regret and critique the previous generation's blindness to differences of race, class, and sexuality.
With art history as practice and method in mind, it is worth revisiting the question frequently posed to feminists today: "Is feminism passe?" (It is useful to note that this same question also haunts Marxism and psychoanalysis--and the question about evolution is more severe: Does it exist? The New York Times recently reported that Americans are three times more likely to believe in the Virgin Birth.) The structure of the question is designed to elicit either a yes or no, or something along the lines of "'70s feminism is passe, but...." A more generative way to approach political and historical continuity is to consider which questions exposed by feminism in the '60s and '70s still persist and what forms these questions take so far removed from their initial exposure. AIDS and global capital, for example, have radically transformed the persistent question of women's sexual freedom. For women in South Africa or South Central Los Angeles, sexual freedom is deeply connected to earlier feminist conversations, but now refracted through medical biology as well as differing local economies and cultural politics. The zigzagging successes and failures of feminism throughout the world today--women are routinely prime ministers in some places, and routinely maimed or killed for alleged sexual infidelity in those and other places--are symptoms of the ambivalence that still haunts feminism as an intellectual revolution. Yet that ambivalent zigzag is one of the most radical consequences of feminism as thought practice and, I believe, anticipates the likely trajectory of the next great intellectual revolution, the biogenetic one. Uneven distribution, economic access, and the larger forces of what we might call medical capital will similarly compromise it.
Today, intellectual revolutions cannot but be greeted with ambivalence. In this, feminism's history and future are writ large. Thus feminism remains for me the richest intellectual vantage point for surveying the history of thought over the past 150 years. It leaves nothing untouched in the past or the future, and it infuses our present with both its dismaying failures and its astonishing achievements on the world stage. Feminism makes ambivalence a necessary worldview. In these days of hideous fundamentalism, the capacity to acknowledge ambivalence is revolutionary.
Peggy Phelan is Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts at Stanford University.
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Rosemarie Trockel: Museum Ludwig, Cologne. | and intersubjective relations in which that body exists: a kind of "relational specificity" that I see as fundamentally feminist. But what I found most radical about feminist site-specificity was less its substantive reformulation of "site" than the reflexivity demanded by its relational turn. I understood "The personal is political" above all as a call for a relationally specific practice of critical self-reflexivity. And for me it mandated an institutional critique that engaged the body within institutions as a gendered body, and the subject of institutional discourse as a sexed subject, but a subject whose desires and fantasies and even whose body itself are constructed within that institution.
I continued to pursue a feminist institutional critique into the '90s, especially through the work of the V-Girls, a performance group in which I collaborated with Martha Baer, Jessica Chalmers, Erin Cramer, and Marianne Weems. In my own work in the course of the decade, however, the feminist site-specificity that informed my artistic strategies often seemed to lead me away from explicitly feminist content. The principles of that site-specificity demanded that I engage the most determining forces of the sites in which I worked. In the context of cultural institutions, the most determining forces seemed most often to work their effects through hierarchies of capital and competence--hierarchies that are often bound up, historically and institutionally, with gender but which also seemed able to traverse gender in increasingly agile ways. At the same time, my conception of institutional critique as an ethical rather than a political practice--a practice, that is, concerned not with the condition of being dominated so much as the condition of being dominant--also seemed to lead me away from explicitly feminist engagements. While that notion of an ethical practice was also deeply rooted in feminism--particularly in feminist critiques of expertise and mastery--it led me away from work through which I might engage my own experiences of gender-based domination or even determination. So while I continued to consider myself a feminist, it become more difficult for me to consider my work feminist.
Recently, however, that began to change. When I returned to performance a few years ago to engage the position of the artist, I was brought back to the very genderedness of institutional inscriptions of the artist's body and of the fantasies of freedom and satisfaction, recognition and reward, for which that body serves as a kind of screen. Returning to performance also meant returning to my own body as a primary site, to my own subjectivity, and also, reflexively, to my own (institutionally constituted) fantasies as objects of critique. What is ironic is that feminism itself made it possible for the female artist to serve as a site for the production and reproduction of such fantasies. That fact may be responsible for the fundamental ambivalence of what I consider a feminist institutional critique, an ambivalence that is for me, once again, rooted in my personal history as much as in the history of feminist practice. As I explain at the end of my recent performance Official Welcome, my mother was also an artist, a good one, who never got any recognition.
I don't feel any need to apologize for the feminist art practices of the '70s. The women's art movement was one of the most important of the twentieth century, above all because of the degree to which it was integrated into a political movement. It was a political movement that expanded the definition and scope of what we understand as political struggle to relations of power and domination in every domain and dimension of public and private life. One of the things that made the women's art movement so powerful was the way it overcame narrow definitions of aesthetic culture and of political struggle at the very same time, and did so within a project of integrating cultural, social, and subjective transformation into a single practice. The challenge for contemporary feminist art practice is to continue that project. However, in a context in which that historical relationship between cultural and political practice no longer exists, the danger posed for--and by--contemporary feminist art practice is the abstraction of"feminist art" from feminism.
Andrea Fraser's midcareer retrospective is on view at the Hamburger Kunstverein through November 9.
Feminine identity is always imbricated in other aspects of our perceived and experienced identity.
I don't think feminism has moved beyond anything, nor do I think it's productive to bracket off the '70s as some primitive period of feminist theorizing that has been superseded. Each climactic moment of feminist art-history theorizing and artmaking has developed in complex relationship with other discourses and with the feminisms that preceded it. I think the all-too-common tendency in feminist art writing to legislate which feminisms are good--i.e., productive or theoretically sound--is less interesting than accounts exploring the historical complexities of why and when particular ideas in feminism were developed. After all, one person's "good" feminism is another person's "bad" feminism. And such judgments throw us right back into the abhorrent (to feminism, I think) role of legislating value. Today, I think feminisms need to address and theorize gendered identity so as to accommodate the intersectionality (per Kimberle Crenshaw's valuable theorization in her essay on the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings) of how we position ourselves in the world and how we are understood by others. Women, if there is such a discrete category--Sandy Stone and others might argue otherwise--are never perceived simply or exclusively as women: Our feminine identity is always already imbricated in other aspects of our perceived and experienced identity. Every woman of color and every queer woman knows this because she has to. She has no choice.
I see the most interesting artists instinctively or explicitly working through intersectional identifications, producing work that navigates the complexities of identity in the contemporary world of highly technologized global capitalism. All we have to do is think about the difference between how "American" (as an identity category) was understood on September 10, 2001, and how it is now understood today (after 9/11, in the midst of the Bush presidency) to understand why conceptions of gendered identity from the '70s, '80s, and even '90s (with its "Bad Girls" shows) must be rethought. A woman wearing a veil on a Manhattan subway reads very differently today from how she would have read before 9/11 (and before the current US administration suddenly noticed the misogyny of the Taliban). Given this situation, I find myself admiring and learning from Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Kara Walker, Renee Cox, Susan Smith-Pinelo, and Laura Aguilar--artists whose work presses a feminist critique into, and along with, a critique of racial and ethnic identity, as these inflect sexual identifications of all kinds--and from artists such as Susan Silton, Mira Schor, and Catherine Opie who explore gendered experience through aspects of pleasure and sexual orientation or self-identified sexual positionalities.
I think the crux of the problem (if there is one) for feminist visual practice and analysis lies in how we approach identity, and how we theorize and do interpretation. I would like to see feminist art historians, critics, and theorists become more sensitive to the philosophical difficulties of attempting to break down authoritative modes of analysis (per the '70s and '80s models of feminist critical practice) while retaining a political and coalitional thrust in our practice. That is, we want to argue for certain "ways of seeing" (as John Berger would have it) but without legislating these ways as the only ways. We want to be forceful, passionate, and politicized without sliding into prescriptions of what everyone else should or must do in order to be considered feminist. We might be more flexible, acknowledging when our models no longer work, rather than trying to hang on to them at the cost of blinding ourselves to new kinds of visual culture and critical practice. Part of this project, for me, has to do with being a historian. In my "Sexual Politics" show at the UCLA Hammer Museum in 1996, my goal was to look again at artworks, such as those from the '60s and '70s by Hannah Wilke and Judy Chicago, that had been legislated out of dominant narratives of feminist art history, in order to understand the trajectory of debates surrounding feminist art. If we ignore works that have been determined (by feminists) to exemplify "bad" feminist practices, then we are in danger of getting very confused about the complexity of past decades' feminist debates.
Amelia Jones is Pilkington Chair Professor in the History of Art at the University of Manchester, England.
The women's movement of the past is a phenomenon of the present in less-industrialized countries.
In discussing feminism within the art world today, I have to confess to feeling somewhat estranged by a discourse that often seems distant from my experience of contemporary art and theory. Perhaps that is compounded by the fact that I am writing this from Turkey, where so many issues associated with the "heroic" phase of '70s feminism are at the forefront of current popular debate--precisely because the women's movement of the past is very much a phenomenon of the present here and in other less-industrialized countries. (My research over the past several years has taken me to countries like Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey, where achievements that we take for granted--birth control, antirape laws, no-fault divorce--are sometimes a matter of women's life and death.) The women's movement has triggered broad cultural changes with extraordinary social and political repercussions, and therefore I believe that addressing contemporary feminism from a global perspective is of particular importance. Granted, no feminist has yet been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize or offered a retrospective by MOMA, but I would rather focus on the movement's ongoing accomplishments than on its underrecognition (or underestimation) within mainstream culture. I have always believed that it is semidelusional to seek reward (rom the very system you have set out to reform.
Sixteen years ago I published an article tn Flash Art titled "Post-Feminism," proposing that the rise of neo-Conceptual photography as an explicitly feminist project signaled a shift that required a retooling of what was meant by feminist practice in the art world. As a curator and writer, I still cannot imagine feminism in the past tense; I experience it as a constantly evolving phenomenon, one that reforms my responses to the ever-subtler shadings of value in contemporary art production. Since "Post-Feminism," I have tried to expand my own sense of feminism, so that not only arc class, race, and sexual preference enmeshed in the discussion, but also war, poverty, and the environment What worries me at times is what seems a tacit backing off from the prospect of radical practice, as if the future of art were not completely dependent on the assimilation of today's most radical practices into tomorrow's mainstream.
Which leads me to feminism's historicization and the corresponding implication that the art history of the '60s and '70s has already been written. The quagmire might be hypersimplified as the Carolee Schneemann/Matthew Barney question: If Schneemann is a clear historical forerunner of Barney, why is her work marginalized by every major art institution and historian, while he is held up as the embodiment (pun intended) of great art in our time? My answer is simple: The historian in each of us knows that we are all, at best, only contributing to a history that will be written long after we are gone. Yes, as curator of Schneemann's 1996 retrospective at the New Museum, I was quite content with having momentarily pushed that argument to the forefront of critical discourse, just as I was dismayed by the inflated rhetoric surrounding Barney's recent survey at the Guggenheim. But if I sincerely believe that Schneemann's contribution will be seen as having far surpassed that of Barney's a hundred years from now, why should I grant much importance to what big museums do today? To paraphrase one of the most hoary cliche of the counterculture, they are part of the problem, not the solution.
One other compelling point concerns the broadening influence of feminist principles, including the increased artistic investigation into the global epidemic of violence. I am thinking of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo's exploration of the more pernicious effects of mass murder on an entire culture; of Serbian artist Milica Tomic's gripping video of herself suffering the visible marks of invisibly inflicted wounds as she calmly repeats in several languages, "I am Milica Tomic"; of Indian artist Nalini Malani's lonely campaign against anti-Muslim violence within her home state of Gujarat (the heart of Hindu nationalism). These examples, while perhaps seemingly peripheral to the concerns of American or Western European artists--one exception is New York artist Marlene McCarty, whose terrifying drawings viscerally explore violence against women--deserve consideration with regard to a culture that methodically exports real and simulated violence on an unprecedented scale. Hence, they might also be thought of as representing a further extension, and a replenishment, of feminist art from the roots of its development thirty years ago.
In conclusion, it might make sense to speak to how a growing hunger for spiritual fulfillment in a spiritually degraded society is leading people to feminist art (or, I could add, any other idealistic art practice). I recall the New Museum's experience hosting the Adrian Piper retrospective a couple of years ago: Having thought of Piper as a bit of a cult figure, we were unprepared for the hoards of twenty-somethings who, filling our galleries, seemed entirely comfortable with what they were experiencing. At the time, I reflected that most art skips a generation before finding its audience and that a generation raised on the Internet no longer questions the precepts of Conceptual art. Now I'm happy to expand that thought to propose that feminism, as a phenomenon, must seem refreshingly radical to a generation raised on Baywatch. Or, to put it more generously, this generation, facing a previously unimagined set of challenges, assumptions, and possibilities, can now experience feminism as something its founders never could: a historical continuity, flowing from one generation to the next, always adaptable to the needs anti strengths of a new wave of the curious and the bold.
Dan Cameron is senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and curator at the 2003 Istanbul Biennial, which remains on view through November 16.
Is feminism a celebration of the "feminine" or of freedom and optimal choice? Clearly, the two are not always the same.
It is interesting that the "destruction of pleasure" is sometimes cited in relation to earlier feminisms. I never thought that women in the '70s movements were rejecting pleasure--rather, they were claiming authorship of it. Of course, this is the perspective of someone who grew up reading her mother's copies of Ms. magazine. I think we often overlook the fact that bra burning was actually sexy and that women's sexuality had to--if only momentarily and symbolically--extricate itself from the masculine domain in order to write itself into the script. For me, feminism has often been the by-product of a heterosexual constitution. As excited as I was by late-'80s and early-'90s postfeminism and French theory, as applied to the work of Barbara Kruger and Laurie Simmons and others, these arguments were situated in a dialogue with men. At that point, you began to see a schism between the goals of a more homogeneous feminism and the ideologies of queer theory. In fact, queer theory, which includes the possibility of changing one's gender through grammar (i.e., a woman sees herself as a man, so she calls herself a man, a "he"), could hardly be seen as celebratory of femininity when it offers a clear desire for masculine privilege. In that sense, contemporary queer theory actually almost becomes reactive conservatism: The same woman--who may sleep with other women--adopts a different gender and simultaneously opts out of homosexuality. The advent of this nonsurgical sex change has all the uncomfortable baggage of racial "passing" and creates, in its most political sense, an erasure of early feminism. But then we must ask: Is feminism a celebration of the "feminine" or of freedom and optimal choice? Clearly, the two are not always the same.
The potency of '70s feminist art existed in its direct correlation to the advent of the women's movement. Performative gestures, avant-garde film techniques, and nontraditional materials were used by artists in immediate contact with the emotional and political concerns of women. Their work was in no way ambiguous, suggestive, or reflective, as much art of the later '90s and present may be. (The same case can be made for work by David Wojnarowicz, or the Silence=Death projects, which specifically engaged a contemporaneous political straggle.) Such artwork, made at the epicenter of activism but now seen without the backdrop of a particular crisis, may be considered illustrative. Yet I think there remains a correlation between how disenfranchised women feel and how women artists represent women. For example, why is Cindy Sherman's work so continually relevant to young artists and to collectors, while Kruger seems banished to a world of book bags and bumper stickers? With Sherman, an artist I have always admired, we have a body of work that exudes criticality from every adroit gaze; she remasters feminine cinematic cliches. But is the work so successful in the art world and among the general population because it challenges the mainstays of patriarchal society or because the narcissism and presentation of the solitary, longing, or trashed-out woman is a crowd pleaser? And is it that very flexibility that attracts younger photographers? Sherman's work is successful because it retains illustrative powers while simultaneously serving as a celebration of every feminine stereotype. In fact, still photography is the most problematic of the mediums, because it is the eternal pause--and, to paraphrase Stevie Smith, one often can't tell the difference between someone waving and someone drowning.
Ambiguity is a luxury. With every piece I make, I am aware that my feminism may be difficult to detect. This bothered me for some time--the idea that I might make work that seems to deny a female presence. And I cannot say I've resolved this; perhaps, like Kara Walker, I find myself swimming in the fantasy of the crisis. But, in this vein, I have thought a great deal about Richard Prince's work, which has linked a crisis within masculinity to that within femininity. I lived for a time with his Spiritual America, 1983, the portrait of the prepubescent Brooke Shields: The success of that piece is as a critical commentary about representation and the feminine body in photography and about the look and shape of desire. The secret surprise within that photograph was that its appropriation allowed it to exist. We could look at the image not as it was originally--a pornographic picture of a child made with an ambitious mother's permission--but as a critique. For me, an important facet of understanding the picture was to look at the idea of masculine desire mediated by historical feminism and '80s postfeminism. Living with this glistening and truly disturbing photograph gave me the opportunity to examine my own desirous gaze. Was it different from the author's because of gender differences, or was it similar because we both were attracted to women? Are men and women different? I can't remember if Ms. magazine answered that question for me or not.
Collier Schorr will have simultaneous shows of new work at 303 Gallery, New York, and Modern Art, London,in January 2004.
It turns out the questions once posed by women, for women are of critical import to everyone.
Twenty years or so ago, during my student days in the South, I found my way into feminist art and theorizing more or less on my own--that is, the subject wasn't offered in my school's art-history curriculum, even though historical anthologies of women artists had begun to be published and revisionism was already well under way. The almighty canon's flaws had been revealed, a spotlight had been shone on biases and practices that remained white male-centric--and yet it seemed that nothing had changed. It was just lip service--all talk and no action. Today, of course, things are different. The influences that derive from feminist art are so pervasive as to be immeasurable, and it turns out the questions once posed by women, for women are of critical import to everyone. (Remember Lutz Bacher's Vargas pinup images shown at Pat Hearn in the early '90s? In the politicized climate of those times, the works achieved meaning on the basis of who was presenting them--a woman, not a man. Today we have Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin both painting voluptuous blond women, and their paintings are often discussed in the same breath. Clearly something has changed.)
What was feminist art then? What is it now? Today we point with case to the virtues and attributes of feminist models of fragmentation, pluralism, diversity, subjectivity, activism--all leitmotivs of postmodernity. We recognize that with respect to the twenty-first-century forces of technology, mass culture, and globalization we (as individuals) are all "feminized" subjects. But when it comes to talking specifically about contemporary feminist art, we quickly discover that there is little consensus. It's important that we acknowledge this disarray and fluidity, that we not commit ourselves to histories that write out the "problems" that feminine models embody (and disembody)--the unofficial, the marginal, the in between, the idiosyncratic, the elusive, the impossible to represent.
And so, having learned that in writing history, it's impossible to get it right--to be sufficiently comprehensive and "objective"--I want to introduce a few very basic questions about how feminism plays today in contemporary art. For example, if feminist art is so important, why is it still perennially neglected and relegated to a relatively minor note? Why haven't there been major museum shows, one right after the other? Are we to believe that the jury is still out on the subject of feminist art or, worse yet, permanently hung? Why is a show such as "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s," presented at the venerable nonprofit White Columns last fall, viewed as a "major achievement"? It was a very nice curatorial effort, and flat-out fabulous to see the visual and material icons of feminist art, hut those two tiny, crammed galleries and the low-budget feel of the exhibition reeked of marginality. It was a "boutique" event. And chronic neglect doesn't simply manifest at the level of zero big shows. We lack the sorts of visual intimacy with the objects and artifacts of feminist art that are sustained by repeated encounters.
Here's another dispiriting example taken from the logs of daily life. I'm thinking about a lecture I gave last year on Roni Horn's work during her exhibition at Dia. Looking at a wide range of her art, from the first trip to Iceland to the clowns, and working directly with her drawings, photographs, sculptures, and book works, I explored many subjectivities in her art--personal, psychological, sexual, and, I posited, lesbian. Several of her collectors attended the lecture, and one called the artist the next day, joking that she didn't know she was a collector of "lesbian art." (Yuk, yuk.) The connotation was that any such content in Horn's work was put there by (my own) whimsy and could easily be erased, as one would remove dust from the surface of a sculpture. Meanwhile, Horn's market is well established and can easily tolerate such "aberrant" readings of the art. No one loses, and everybody has a nice day. Feminism in art is something that interests scholars and artists but that dealers, museums, and most other people often politely tolerate or assiduously avoid.
More generally, how relevant is feminism to art practice, history, and criticism today? Many models have mobilized from feminism, and feminism has been contaminated a million times over. There's room for that to happen. The more complexities, the more freight we acknowledge, the more relevant the work. Whether desired forms of recognition occur today or tomorrow, one thing is a given: Historical feminist art is poised to be the next big thing--in part because we increasingly need it to describe contemporary practice and how we got where we are, but also because much feminist art (particularly of the vintage varieties) is affiliated with the search for authenticity. I'm wondering if a near-future, fuller cultural embrace of feminist thought and practice in art might not catalyze when "spiritual America"--what I call this widespread, mainstream craving for authenticity--discovers the emotional reservoirs in feminist art. (I think of Madonna sponsoring MOMA'S 1997 exhibition of Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" as an example of this phenomenon.) It seems possible, looking down the road, that these "spiritual Americans" could discover feminist art and--seeing their own image in the art--fall in love.
Jim Avgikos is contributing editor of Artforum.
CATHERINE DE ZEGHER
The twenty-first century may well develop an aesthetics of relation and reciprocity.
Today, younger artists are clearly inspired by the legacy of feminist practice and theory, and at the core of their work is the intersection of gender, class, race, and ethnicity. Mona Hatoum and Ellen Gallagher come to mind, for example: Transgressing the racial, ethnic, and gender dictates of society, their work asks us to consider the ambiguous boundary between the self and otherness not as an occasion for horror and fear but as an opening into a new form of identity construction. The daughter of Palestinian exiles in Lebanon and herself now an exile in London, Hatoum has had to reconceive herself as "subject matter out of place" and so has inventively mapped reality at the fringes of vision, reforming female imagery. Similarly, Gallagher's work resists the intelligible invocation of identity as it operates through the stylized repetition of bodily gestures and movements. For Gallagher, the possibility for transformation is found in the interruption of such repetition--or in a parodic repetition that, in the words of Judith Butler, "exposes the phantasmatic effect of abiding identity as a politically tenuous construction."
Indeed, in the second half of the twentieth century, many artists have challenged the phallic paradigm of binary thinking--rejection or assimilation, aggression or identification--that shapes everything from how art is viewed to how societies treat immigrants. Against this restrictive, modernist axis, they posed questions of audience and distribution, of participation and the "feminine"--making art imbued with thoughtful reciprocity between artist and viewer. New possibilities for connections in the shared (exhibition) space between work, maker, and beholder emerged. In this context, feminism, often employing semiotics and psychoanalysis, enabled us to see what formerly was (or still is) eclipsed: what does not align with that which is considered important at the moment, or which has different conditions of perceptibility.
These artists have included many feminist women--Hannah Hoch, Carol Rama, Louise Bourgeois, Lygia Clark, Nancy Spero, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Anna Maria Maiolino, and Joelle Tuerlinckx, for example--but also men such as Helio Oiticica, Paul Thek, Cildo Meireles, Richard Tuttle, Craigie Horsfield, Giuseppe Penone, and Yun-Fei Ji. All these figures recognized the great potential for notions of relation and connectivity to provide a larger understanding of what art could be. Consider Clark, who--using terms like "matrix," "pregnancy," and "relational objects" to describe her projects--is only lately being recognized. In her last works, she called herself a therapist, interpreting the experiences of the "patients" who entered into her artistic "sessions," creating the possibility of a permanent change in a person's sense and structure of self and the world. While neither critics nor psychoanalysts valued this turn in her work, Clark bridged the separation between artistic domain and psychotherapy--the latter having provided her with the only theoretical structure available in the '60s and '70s to apprehend her practice.
Later, in the '90s, artist and psychoanalyst Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger developed the groundbreaking theory of the "matrixial": a relational and fluid space of co-emergence involving not only an altered perception of art but also a redefinition of the "feminine." She used a metaphorically loaded image--of mother and unborn child in the latest stages of pregnancy--to conceptualize an archaic experience of several unknown partial subjects co-emerging and co-affecting and to generate a symbol for an intersubjective encounter radically different from the historically predominant (phallic) model. The naming is most important, as it allows the feminine to become legible in works of art--radically extending and reshaping our understanding of some artistic practices and their temporary eclipse. As Griselda Pollock argues: "If we allow ourselves to introduce into culture another symbolic signifier to stand beside the phallus (signifier of difference and division in terms of absence and loss orchestrating these either/or models), could we not be on the way to allowing the invisible feminine bodily specificity to enter and realign aspects of our consciousness and unconsciousness? ... This feminist theorization is not an alternative in opposition to the phallus; rather, the opening up of the symbolic field to extended possibilities which, in a nonphallic logic, do not need to displace the other in order to be."
The work of Oiticica and Rosler (most recently in this year's Venice Biennale) and Horsfield (in Documentas 10 and 11) has often included large-scale collaborative and social projects, another significant relational model, and their extensive writings have clarified this sociopolitical attitude. For Horsfield, the artwork is only realized in togetherness, conversation, and communality--questioning, in effect, the validity of modernist notions of alienation and separation in the formation of art. Another current example is the Royal Art Lodge, whose young artists similarly overturn modernist formulations of artistic solitude and negativity, but only while appearing to pursue no particular aim other than to spend time together and share domestic jokes and concerns. Many other collectives and collaborations appeared in Lawrence Rinder's Whitney Biennal and also in Okwui Enwezor's Documenta 11, whose curatorial project I consider feminist, despite it not having been defined as such.
Considering all these artists' practices, I am hopeful that it will be possible to "degender" and "deracialize" difference and to think of it in positive, nonreifying terms. If modernism's radical and inventive strategies were dependent on alienation, separation, negativity, violence, and de(con)struction, the twenty-first century may well develop an aesthetics of relation and reciprocity defined by reconstruction, inclusion, connectivity, binding impulses, and even by healing attitudes.
Catherine de Zegher is the director of the Drawing Center, New York.
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MARIANGELI SERRANO: (Through interpreter) The students say that when walking over the bridge, it shakes, meaning it's not secure.
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Quadriplegic Weds High School Sweetheart
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In February 2016, Anna Claire Waldrop was driving home with her then-fiance, James "Jimbo" Waldrop, when they were involved in an accident. The couple sustained injuries, and Anna Claire was left a quadriplegic.
The accident occurred nine months before their wedding, and it initially created fear and doubt in Anna Claire. "I was very scared," she admits. "I wondered, 'Will I ever be happy again?' But the thought of my upcoming wedding was motivation to get better."
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One day, I knew I was completely broken. I never denied Christ when it came time as a young adult to walk – or spring – to the altar for the first time.
But once, in a country not my own, in a house temporarily my living quarters, on a carpet that I was happy to have, I was broken.
It was the day when I knew only God could work the miracle I needed and for the first time in my life I felt compelled to hit the floor.
I poured out everything I had harbored and asked God to show me what else was in His way of healing me.
It started that day, in my soul.
A week later I walked into my military hospital to return my records from the German Neuro Surgery clinic. My legs walked and my face beamed as I "accidentally" ran into my doctor. His face lit up and he knew I had been healed.
After a big hug of thanks, I turned on my heels and left to wander the hard cobblestone and brick streets of the city with my family.
Thank you for sharing this story of healing. I love the name of your blog, as we all are "unfinished" children.
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Senida Mesi (* 16. Dezember 1<|fim_middle|>2000 an der Universität Tirana. Anschließend arbeitete sie im Bankwesen und schloss 2009 ein Nachdiplomstudium an der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management ab. Parallel zu weiteren internationalen Weiterbildungen gehört sie als externe Dozentin der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Shkodra an.
2015 wurde Mesi in den Stadtrat ihres Heimatorts Shkodra gewählt, zwei Jahre später trat sie für die Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë bei der Parlamentswahl in Albanien 2017 an. Nach der erfolgreichen Wahl wurde sie von Ministerpräsident Edi Rama als seine Stellvertreterin ins Kabinett berufen. Nach einer Phase längerer Studentenproteste kam es Ende 2018 zu einer Kabinettsumbildung, in deren Folge Erion Braçe im Januar 2019 Mesi als stellvertretender Ministerpräsident beerbte. Ihr Abgeordnetenmandat fürs Albanische Parlament behielt sie bei.
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Q: Python Fast data import column-wide I'm using the following code to import 2 columns (trigger and amplitude) out of 3 from 500 *.txt files :
from glob import glob
import pandas
dataFileList = glob( '*.txt' )
nbDataSamplesFiles = len(dataFileList)
amplitudes = []
colnames = ['time','trigger','amplitude']
for dataFileName in dataFileList :
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data = pandas.read_csv( dataFileName, delim_whitespace=True, skipinitialspace=True, names = colnames ) #Environ 4.5s pour 500 fichiers
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It takes about 3.5 seconds to do the job.
I need it to be much faster, is there a way to do it using the same or another python module ?
And how can I achieve it ?
UPDATE 1 : Using dask
import dask.dataframe as dd
amplitudes = []
for dataFileName in dataFileList :
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Protecting your people, data and brand against advanced threats and compliance risks. Built on the cloud and the world's most advanced intelligence platform, our solutions help you effectively detect and block targeted attacks and respond quickly to suspected compromises. Proofpoint's solutions stop 99% of attachment-based attacks. And every day, we detect and block advanced threats and compliance risks in more than 600 million emails, more than 7 million mobile apps, and hundreds of thousands of social-media accounts.
Producing a software platform for indexing, searching, analysing and extracting knowledge from unstructured data. It has applications that include digital investigation, cybersecurity, e-Discovery, information governance, and email migration and privacy based on the Nuix engine. The Nuix Engine combines load balancing, fault tolerance and processing technologies to provide insights from large volumes of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data.
Revolutionizing cybersecurity with products and services that proactively prevent, rather than reactively detect the execution of advanced persistent threats and malware. Cylance's technology is deployed on over ten million endpoints and protects hundreds of enterprise clients worldwide including Fortune 100 organisations and government institutions.
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With a Next-Gen Cloud Access Security Broker solution that enables your enterprise to embrace the cloud while ensuring data security and regulatory compliance, Bitglass secures your data across any cloud app and any device.
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Since 2001, Bitdefender has consistently produced award-winning business and consumer security technology, and is a leading security provider in virtualisation and cloud technologies.
Through R&D, alliances and partnership teams, Bitdefender has elevated the highest standards of security excellence in both its number-one-ranked technology and its strategic alliances with the world's leading virtualisation and cloud technology providers.
Focusing on a single driving principle: making the world's apps and data secure and easy to access. Anywhere. At any time. On any device or network.
As the world of networking moves to software-defined, Juniper remains at the forefront of the movement, helping organisations to introduce intelligent automation, build in application security as standard, and ready networks for powerful new capabilities made possible by network functions virtualisation (NFV). Based on open technology, your customers can properly future-proof their network for the cloud era, unleashing cloud-like attributes that ensure always-on performance, elasticity, and security.
Juniper is a leader in network innovation – renowned for creating high-performance networks and security solutions that enable smarter, more efficient business processes, secure valuable assets, and help create better user experiences.
Providing a Unified Security Management platform helps organisations of all shapes and sizes achieve world-class security without the headaches and huge expense of other solutions. AlienVault's unified platform combines 5 key security capabilities; intrusion detection, behavioural monitoring, asset discovery, SIEM and vulnerability assessment with expert threat intelligence that is updated every 30 minutes.
With a comprehensive security solution set to protect your most valuable information assets from cyber attacks and insider threats, Thycotic Secret Server, Privilege Manager, and Privileged Behavior Analytics solutions protect privileged accounts and enable organisations to enforce least privilege policies for business and administrative users, as well as control applications to reduce the attack surface without halting productivity.
Protecting organisations from cyberattacks by seeking to eliminate the threat of malware from the web, documents and email. Menlo Security's cloud-based Isolation platform scales to provide comprehensive protection across enterprises of any size without requiring | 603 |
Luchador Super Porky dies
Posted by Amos Mina | Jul 27, 2021
José Alvarado Nieves, who used the ring names Brazo De Plata and Super Porky in his time in WWE, passed away on July 26, 2021, from a heart attack. He was 58-years-old.
Nieves began his wrestling career in 1977, where he took on the name Brazo De Plata which translates to "silver arm" in Spanish. Nieves was apart of the Alvarado wrestling family, a dynasty of Mexican luchadors with over three-generations of talent. Originally, Nieves wrestled under a mask alongside his brothers (Brazo de Oro & El Brazo -Los Brazos). However, this came to an end on October 21, 1988, when the Villanos defeated Los Brazos in a mask vs. mask match<|fim_middle|> Despite him being only 5′ 7″, facing him in the ring, you felt he was 7′ tall! Very tough man! He died of a heart attack at the age of 57! Rest in Peace amigo! Descansa en paz! Los Brazos and Bill Anderson in Mexicali, Mexico in 1989!
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Nieves was a staple of Mexican promotion, CMLL, where he made his debut in 1985 and wrestled there for over 20 years. In his time with CMLL, Nieves held the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship once and the CMLL World Trios Championships once with his brothers, Los Brazos. It was during his run in CMLL where Nieves character took a bit of a shift, as he showed visible weight gain and began to portray a comedic relief wrestler.
Super Porky heads to the ring in 2006. Photo by Christine Coons, www.coonsphotography.com
Nieves left CMLL in 2005, when he was signed by the WWE for its short-lived juniors division, wrestling under the new name Super Porky. Nieves was released in early 2006, along with all the other juniors, when the company scrapped the division not long after its inception.
After his short WWE run, Nieves then jumped ship to his former promotion CMLL's rival, AAA. He wrestled there until 2009, after which he would work independent promotions and spend time back in CMLL until his death in 2021.
Wrestler Bill Anderson said this about Nieves on his Facebook:
Very sad to hear of the passing of Brazo de Plato (Super Porky) today in Mexico! In the photo below, he is to my left with my hand on his shoulder! I wrestled him many times as one of the team Los Mercenarios! | 331 |
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul has to correct the church in Corinth for using the elements of communion for selfish gain<|fim_middle|> ultimate sacrifice. Since You were willing to come to earth and die for me, I should be willing to die to myself and serve others. In Jesus' name, amen. | . Rather than meditating on the bread as the body of Christ broken for them, they selfishly eat it without sharing. Instead of reflecting on the cup and the blood spilled for their sins, they were drinking to excess. Like a child with a toy, the church of Corinth had begun using that word so many toddlers use perfectly. "Mine!"
As followers of Christ, we should be daily dying to ourselves and our "mine" mentality. Just as Christ left the riches of Heaven and all that was rightly His, we too should be willing to give up of ourselves for the sake of others. As we lose more of ourselves, we will find we have gained more of Christ.
Life Lesson: We should be growing less and less selfish.
I thank You for Your amazing grace. Because of Your body which was broken and Your blood that was spilled, I have been forgiven. Lord, help me to be mindful of Your | 185 |
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One of the great appeals of Costa Rica real estate comes from the advantageous property laws offered by this beautiful Central American nation. Property laws in Costa Rica are the same for nationals and foreigners.
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Some of the first tourists to Costa Rica were intrepid surfers, attracted by an endless summer and consistent<|fim_middle|> But when a job opportunity to design a housing community arose there, he jumped at the opportunity.
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We often receive queries about safety in Costa Rica. Since it is a worldwide issue, I would like to dispel some of those rumors and arm you with a little information to make your experiences of traveling and living in Costa Rica a bit more stress-free...
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Seeking a new thrill? Try sampling amazing fruits that are rare in northern climes. Try fresh lychee (looks like a hairy red insect before peeling), papaya, star fruit, and jocote (a cashew relative, but nothing like a nut).
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A Wellness Business Offers a Laidback Life in Nosara, Costa Rica
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In the near decade since Madeline traded her home city of Portland, Oregon, for the sunnier shores of Costa Rica, she's used yoga to sustain herself physically, emotionally, and financially. Despite the inevitable challenges along the way, Madeline loves living in Costa Rica.
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Earning Income from Vacation Rentals in Tamarindo, Costa Rica
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After a number of trips to Tamarindo, Jeanne was convinced she should buy property there. She felt that the entire area of Guanacaste province on the northern Pacific coast, known as the Gold Coast, had a big future.
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"Buenas!" "Hola!" "Pura Vida!" Common greetings among friends and strangers alike. Despite a surge of growth, Tamarindo still offers that "place where everybody knows your name, " small-town vibe. Historically this Pacific coastal town nestled along the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica's Guanacaste region, just two-and-a-half hours south of the Nicaraguan border, was a quiet fisherman's town. A few boats in the bay and not much else other than lush flora and native wildlife.
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I am learning solvespace as a substitute for Solidworks, a multi-thousand dollar program that crashes a lot and maintains the same failings year after to year and so far solvespace is far superior in so many ways. It has some difficulty doing things that most high powered CAD packages do like filleting around a hemispherical end of a part or putting a counter bore on a curved surface.
I was able to that on this part by using the assembly feature. I modeled the base part as the center section with the corners filleted in the extrude. Then in a separate part, I made the ends by revolving the fillet around 360 degrees, and the cutting the result into the hemispherical half moon piece that I needed.
In assembly I put the two ends together to match the fillets. Great, however I still needed the counter bore<|fim_middle|>uded a square as a union that would fit by counter bore diameter such that the counterbore would wipe out the extrusion when it was modelled. It did give a nice flat work plane surface on the end of the half-moon. There I was able to cut the hole and counter bore perfectly.
Then going to assembly it showed up perfectly. There is a little imperfection on one end. I could not get the M command to place a point in the middle of a line, so I dimensioned it to the center and made a small circle cut to have something in the assembly to glue the parts together. That could be fixed by I am lazy.
If you want the pdf file as me since I can only attach one file at a time.
> The linked file "../FWD020Half.slvs" is not present.
> I can only attach one file at a time.
Just compress all files in single ZIP archive and upload it. | . To do this I used a work plane on one of the half moon pieces and extr | 18 |
I was shoveling the snow and thinking how much I wasn't looking forward to the work week. Then I thought about SoxFest coming up in a couple of weeks. Then I learned that son-of-tebman, my faithful baseball companion, didn't have to work that weekend. Then I remembered I have vacation days available. Then I went in and ordered the tickets.
It was Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Part III" who said, "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."
Okay Sox, you got me.
It would be easy to prattle on about the music and magic of baseball and how it rides above the foolishness. And because I ride above and through the foolishness, I'll prattle away.
I look forward to Opening Day now the same way I did when I was a kid. The difference now is that I have the means to actually go to the game. SoxFest didn't exist when I was a kid so I had to rely on reading Jerry Holtzman's articles in the Sun-Times to<|fim_middle|> good feeling.
I got some of that same vibe last year standing in line at SoxFest. After shoveling snow and grinding on to work, I decided I could use some of that now. So we're going to SoxFest.
There -- I said it again. | get my off-season fix. We went to SoxFest for the first time last year, and though we spent several hours each day standing in lines, it was time well spent.
All those people waiting in line with us were there for the same reason. Conversation was easy since we all had White Sox stories to tell, and we all indulged each other in that strain of four-seam cabin fever that afflicts baseball fans in January.
One of my stories is of Opening Day, 1991. I went by myself to the strange new place across the street from the whitewashed funhouse I knew so well. The old ballpark looked like roadkill with a huge gaping wound in its southeast corner. I walked into the new place disoriented, climbing into the vertiginous upper deck to find my seat. Blue plastic, bare concrete, corrugated metal...I felt like I'd walked into a new parking garage.
The game was terrible. The Tigers were clobbering the Sox and ended up winning 16-0. This did nothing to alleviate my sense of unease in this spaceship of a ballpark. But it was at the end of the Tigers' 4th inning when I knew it would be okay: the Tigers scored 10 runs in the 4th, a humiliation. When the third out was finally made there arose a loud, derisive, and unmistakably sarcastic cheer that I recognized like the voice of the old friend I knew it was. The people were the same even if the ballpark changed, and they were still here!
It was then that I relaxed and knew even as bad as this game was, there would be 161 more to get it right. And my street-smart brothers and sisters would be there along with me, no matter where the game was played. It was a | 377 |
With the first glimmer of sunshine my thoughts are turning towards sunnier days and the shedding of all the winter gloom, not to mention woolies!
I am a seasonal sort of girl, I have always enjoyed the variety of living according to whatever season we happen to be in, there is nothing more wonderful than the anticipation of new life as the first lambs are born and the daffodils are nodding away<|fim_middle|> do it on a commercial scale. For me if my crops fail, oh well off I go to the farm shop, however for the professional growers, especially the local growers that I will always try to support, a bad season could be a disaster and let's face it we have had bucket loads of rain this year making it difficult to plant early crops for many farmers and growers.
Today after a soggy start it's now gloriously sunny so hopefully all will grow well on allotment and field and we can all enjoy the goodness of the coming seasons.
I will be blogging about health and wellbeing tips according to the season we are in and hope you will enjoy joining me on a seasonal living journey and remember be kind to your liver and it will be kind to you!
I'm not sure exactly how she does it, or how it works, but whenever I visit Paula I come away feeling so much better than when I arrived! | in the breeze. This is the time of year that I feel it is time to pay special attention to my liver. Having spent a year studying with a Chinese doctor I am a big fan of the Chinese five elemental laws of the seasons. Spring is wood element time and wood governs the liver Chi or energy, so as you can see it's a great time for a Liver boost!
I don't believe drastic measures are required just a gentle awareness of boosting and assisting. I find the best way to do this is to add in beautiful, fresh and delicious juices. At this time of year I would not recommend a full on go for it juice fast but rather adding in one or two a day boosting your nutrient intake.
Once your body gets the signal that you are loading it with the good stuff you will almost certainly notice cravings for sugar and carbs reducing and will naturally want to eat more health supporting foods. As I have said before no diets here, oh no!! It is also amazing how cleaning up your act can help with other things too such as low self-esteem; depression and I have especially seen how it helps people who are trying to break other habits too for example food and alcohol addiction. There really is a truth in the expression mood food. I am very keen on helping clients to work out good nutritional programs to assist them on their journey. I am a holistic hypnotherapist which means that where appropriate I can help with many aspects of health and well being and believe in an overall approach. I would usually offer this through a series of coaching and hypnosis sessions.
I love our local farm shop and have just come back fully loaded with two huge boxes of delicious fresh produce; I can't wait to crank up the juicer. I love the deep purple of the beetroot and the earthiness of both taste and smell. There is even something satisfying about having madly stained fingers and chopping boards, I feel healthier just looking at it.
I am anticipating the joy of the concoction that I shall make any minute now. I think some lovely apples and curly Kale (I love the name curly just sounds so friendly) and newly picked English carrots in with the mix will be delicious as well as liver fortifying. It feels great to be finally coming out of the winter fog.
I like to think of all the hard work and care that goes into the growing process from farm to table and I try to be mindful of that when I am eating. I am lucky enough to have a tiny little vegetable plot myself and even on my small scale it is often a hit and miss affair dependent upon weather and critters.
I do love the evening ritual of watering and picking and generally making sure that everything is tended too. Since beginning to grow my own veggies four years ago I have a deep appreciation for those that | 565 |
Leadership changes at<|fim_middle|> promoted to the management team as commercial manager.
UK sales manager Andy Sabin, who has worked at Thwaites for more than 20 years, is made general sales manager for both UK and export markets.
Ian Brown said: "These changes will further develop the business as we maintain our investment in the factory and product development with the focus on enhancing our customer base in UK and export markets." | Thwaites
4 Dec 19 Dumper truck manufacturer Thwaites has promoted finance director Simon Hill to take over as managing director.
Shown left to right are Tim Frost, Simon Hill, Ian Brown and Andy Sabin
Simon Hill replaces Ian Brown, who becomes deputy chairman. Now in his 60s, Ian Brown has worked for Thwaites for more than 30 years – 20 as sales director and the past three as managing director.
Tim Frost, another Thwaites stalwart with more than 30 years' service, is | 116 |
Founded in 2012 by Leibish "Big Mike" Gondelman who has 13 years clean and sober, Jerusalem Sober House provides sober living along with comprehensive therapeutic services for newly clean and sober Jewish men with co-occurring disorders. Located in Jerusalem, Israel, the house is the first English-speaking facility of it's kind. It also observes the Jewish heritage, which is woven into the curriculum.
Jerusalem Sober House accommodates no more than 12 men at a time between the ages of 18 and 30. The house includes a spacious living room with tile floors, and wall-to-wall bookshelves stocked with books. The room is furnished with contemporary leather couches, a wooden table and an entertainment center with a television. Residents are paired in furnished rooms, which include twin beds and closets.
At Jerusalem Sober House, all meals are provided and the food is Kosher. From Sundays to Thursdays, Kosher dinners are catered. Entrees include Moroccan stew, meat and chickpeas on couscous, lasagna, chicken and rice and shepherd's pie. The house includes on-site staff.
Prior to admittance, clients must have undergone detox. Length of stay is typically between six and nine months. During the first month, residents undergo a black-out period and focus on their recovery, which includes on-site individual and group therapy and attendance at local 12-step meetings. Jerusalem House utilizes several evidence-based modalities during individual therapy including CBT, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI)<|fim_middle|> 2001 to pursue his dream of opening up a sober living home to help others the way he had been helped. His wife Tatiana is the chief operations officer on board.
Jerusalem Sober House is definitely one of a kind. Not only is it a labor of love on Big Mike's part, but this unique sober living home in the ancient city of Jerusalem provides a holistic approach in helping young men recover emotionally and spiritually from chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders. The only downside of Jerusalem Sober House is that it is geared only to men, but perhaps, a female-only version might open in the near future.
Do you have a complaint or review of Jerusalem Sober House to add? Use the comments area below to add your Jerusalem Sober House review. | and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). At Jerusalem Sober House, there is the belief that trauma is the source of many addictions, and EMDR is used to help clients with traumatic issues when appropriate. Group therapy topics include recovery tools, relapse prevention, Big Book study, reflection and gratitude. Traditional psychotherapy and a 12-step approach are two modalities implemented during group.
After 30 days, clients incorporate outside activities into their recovery protocol. These activities include attending Yeshivah (an Orthodox Jewish school of higher learning), volunteering or finding gainful employment. At Jerusalem Sober House, the Sabbath is observed. Residents are encouraged to connect with their Jewish heritage at a level that makes them comfortable. There is the belief that connection to one's heritage makes it easier to click with the 12-step concept of a Higher Power.
Founder and clinical director Gondelman is a certified addictions and substance abuse professional (CASAP) who also holds a Bachelor's in Judaic Studies. Besides Gondelman, the staff includes a substance abuse professional who holds a Master's in Social Work from Columbia University, a Master's-level clinical social worker, a chief operations officer, a case manager and a program manager.
Additionally, there is an on-site Cholent Anonymous meeting provided, which is an open spiritual 12-step meeting. Residents also have the option to participate in weekly yoga and daily meditation groups.
As a native New Yorker, Gondelman moved to Israel in | 305 |
Q: Memory requirements for back propagation - why not use the mean activation? I need help understanding the memory requirements of a neural network and their differences between training and evaluation processes. More specifically, the memory requirements of the training process (I'm using a Keras API running on top of TensorFlow).
For a CNN that contains N weights, when using a batch of size x, there is a constant amount of memory required for the weights themselves and the input data. During the forward pass the GPU needs additional x*N units of memory (the specific required amount is not crucial to the question) for passing all the samples simultaneously and calculating the activation of each neuron.
My question is regarding the back propagation process, it seems that the process requires additional x*N units of memory(*) for the specific gradient of every weight for every sample. According to my understanding, it means that the algorithm calculates the specific gradients of each sample and then sums them up for the back-propagation to the previous layer.
Q. Since there is only a single update step per batch, why isn't the gradient calculation performed on the mean activation of each neuron? That way the additional required memory for training will only be (x+1)*N and not 2*x*N.
(*) This is according to my own little experiment of the maximal allowed batch size during evaluation (~4200) and training (~1200). Obviously it is a very simplified way of looking at the memory requirments
A: The short answer is: that is just the way the mini-batch SGD back-propagation<|fim_middle|> the results of such an algorithm. It would be more memory efficient however it is likely that it will also be less capable of reaching good minimum points.
| algorithm works.
Looking back at its origins and difference between using the standard SGD and mini-batch SGD it is clearer why.
The standard stochastic gradient decent algorithm passes a single sample thru the model, then back-propagates its gradients and updates model weights before repeating the process with the next sample. The main downside is that it is a serial process (can't run samples simultaneously because the each sample needs to run on a model that was already updated by the previous sample), so it is very computationally expensive. In addition using just a single sample for each update results in a very noisy gradient.
The mini-batch SGD utilizes the same principle, with one difference - the gradients are accumulated from multiple samples and an update is only performed once every x samples. This helps to get a smooth gradient during training and enables passing multiple samples thru the model in parallel. This is the algorithm which is used when training with keras/tensorflow in mini-batches (commonly called batches but that term actually means using the batch gradient decent which is slightly different algorithm).
I haven't found any work regarding using the mean of the gradients in each layer for the update. It is interesting to check | 235 |
Local Va Beach Fishermen, Captain "Pat Foster" and Mate "Adrian Colaprete", of the "Wave Runner" charter fishing boat based out of Ruddee Inlet, rescue endangered Northern Right Whale.
It's a happy ending to an amazing fish story!
Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the "right" whale to kill on a<|fim_middle|> back in time with Raven Lundy and relive some epic moments from the last decade in part one of our new series, The Archives.
Filmed by : Eddie Compo, Brad Bennet, Jake Barbini, Raven Lundy , Tyler Balak, Bryce Humphrey.
Edited by : Raven Lundy.
Spend a few days during the spring 2013 turkey season with The Wild Lyfe. To us spring turkey season is all about having fun with your friends and enjoying each others company. Taking in all the beautiful sights and interacting with game in the wild.
Featuring: Tucker Terry, Greg Orrel, Adrian Colaprete, Mike Kirk, Eddie Compo, Peter Sutphin, Ian Lundy, and Alexis Orrel. | hunt. These whales had enormous value for their plentiful oil and baleen, which were used for corsets, buggy whips, and other contrivances. Because of their thick blubber, right whales also float accommodatingly after they have been killed. Populations of these whales were decimated during the whaling heydays of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. During this period they came close to extinction.
A while back we met Peter Sutphin and the Edmunds and they've been a part of The WildLyfe family ever since. We went and stayed with them this spring for turkey season and got a taste of the paradise they call home. Besides managing over 6,000 acres of wildlife they also run a food plot company called Nontypical outdoors. This video was filmed on location at their R&D headquarters.
Filmed by : Peter Sutphin , Paul Edmunds, Eddie Compo.
Step | 199 |
Already in the early years of Russian cinema Protazanov's name was a hallmark of artistic excellence. "The Queen of Spades" is a brilliant example of his extraordinary talent. The film has not only a first-rate story and ingenious Mozzhuk<|fim_middle|>. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
The Queen of Spades is a 1916 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, noted for high producer and operator culture, with the psychological depth of actor's game, first of all of Ivan Mozzhukhin. It was one of the best pre-revolutionary films.
Film was the second production (first was the silent film adaptation of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera) of mystical novel of Aleksandr Pushkin, named by critics as "monumental". Director used the receptions, unexpected for those times, like retrospection, visions of heroes (as if the prototypes of the stream of consciousness), the combination shot. | hin's performance, but also all the tricks that were available to filmmakers in 1916. The use of crosscutting in the film is quite sophisticated for the time; superimposition is yet another important device; and the use of flashbacks here is very effective. Unlike most pictures of that time "The Queen of Spades" made a genuine contribution to the evolution of Russian film art. I think it would be great if more people see one of the best pre-revolutionary Russian films.
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess | 127 |
There are many ways to be engaged with Romemu. Whether you are interested meeting new people, continuing your Jewish education, committed to growing Romemu, there is a group that is right for you. We are so looking forward to meeting you, and working together to make Romemu your<|fim_middle|> to be Jewish and female-identified in the 21st century. To learn about this gathering, please email Shana Deane.
ShabbatAsana – Yoga and meditation circle every Shabbat, 8:30am. It's that simple. It's that radical. To learn more, reach out to Rhonda Rose. This is on Hiatus.
* This committee is not actively seeking new members, but we welcome hearing from you. | new home.
Adult Education* – An evolving adult learning program features a rich selection of Jewish study practices and a transformative chance to deepen our connection with the Torah through study.
Hesed – Serve our members' well-being through mitzvot: visit the sick, comfort the bereaved, and provide support during joyous occasions. To join the team of Romemu members who are responding to these needs in the community, please reach out to Eitan Agai and Valerie Kanofsky, co-chairs of the Hesed Committee.
Chevra Kadisha – A holy society to take care of those members of the community who have just died. The practice involves sitting vigil with the body of the deceased while reciting psalms and other prayers. To join the team of Romemu members who are responding to these needs in the community, please reach out to Nili Weissman and Rabbi Eva Sax Bolder, co-chairs of the Chevra Kadisha.
Community Band – Our band plays at services once a month and also brings a special flair to Romemu community events. Join us and bring your musical talents to Romemu. To inquire about joining the band, please email Hazzan Basya Schechter.
Development – Cultivate greater financial resources, partnerships and ultimately opportunities for our community's future. To inquire about joining the Development Committee, please email Ariel Ingber.
Family Programming – Help plan Shabbat and holiday celebrations for our youngest families.
Gabbai – If you read Torah or would like to participate in Ritual leadership, please reach out to Rabbi Mira Rivera.
Yad B'Yad – Membership – Build and sustain Romemu membership by spreading the word with in-reach and outreach activities. Please reach out to Karen Goldstick and Marcia Meislin, co-chairs of the Membership Committee.
Social Justice – We present opportunities for topic study, direct service and systems change aiming towards working for a more just world. To get involved, please email Kelsey Repka.
Seekers Holistic Hebrew School – Romemu Seekers is a new model for Jewish education based on Romemu's values and the centrality of spirit in our lives. Help guide our evolving efforts to create programs that kids and parents LOVE.
The Young Tish – 20s and 30s gather within a progressive Jewish context for Shabbat meals, dessert and wine onegs with creative play, celebration, and Jewish meditation workshops and trainings. Email Miriam Rubin to join the email list.
Red Tent – Enjoy a safe and sacred space where we share and explore what it means | 528 |
Coelacanth genome surfaces
Widespread trauma
Coelacanths today closely resemble the fossilized skeletons of their ancestors of more than 300 million years ago. Their genome confirms what many researchers had long suspected: Genes in coelacanths are evolving more slowly than in other organisms. "This is the first time that we've had a big enough gene set to really see that," said Jessica Alföldi, a research scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
<|fim_middle|>anth genome has also allowed scientists to test other long-debated questions. For example, coelacanths possess some features that look oddly similar to those seen only in animals that dwell on land, including "lobed" fins, which resemble the limbs of four-legged land animals (known as tetrapods). Another odd-looking group of fish known as lungfish possesses lobed fins, too. It is probable that one of the ancestral lobed-finned fish species gave rise to the first four-legged amphibious creatures to climb out of the water and up onto land, but until now, researchers could not determine which of the two was the likelier candidate.
In addition to sequencing the full genome — nearly 3 billion "letters" of DNA — from the coelacanth, the researchers also looked at RNA content from the coelacanth (both the African and Indonesian species) and from the lungfish. This information allowed them to compare genes in use in the brain, kidneys, liver, spleen, and gut of lungfish with gene sets from coelacanths and 20 other vertebrate species. Their results suggested that tetrapods are more closely related to lungfish than to the coelacanth.
However, the coelacanth is still a critical organism to study to understand what is often called the water-to-land transition. The lungfish may be more closely related to land animals, but its genome remains inscrutable: At 100 billion letters in length, the lungfish genome is simply too unwieldy for scientists to sequence, assemble, and analyze. The coelacanth's more modest genome (comparable in length to our own) is yielding valuable clues about the genetic changes that may have allowed tetrapods to flourish on land.
By looking at what genes were lost when vertebrates came on land as well as what regulatory elements — parts of the genome that govern where, when, and to what degree genes are active — were gained, the researchers made several unusual discoveries:
Sense of smell. The team found that many regulatory changes influenced genes involved in smell perception and detecting airborne odors. They hypothesize that as creatures moved from sea to land, they needed new means of detecting chemicals in the environment around them.
Immunity. The researchers found a significant number of immune-related regulatory changes when they compared the coelacanth genome to the genomes of land animals. They hypothesized that these changes may have been part of a response to new pathogens encountered on land.
Evolutionary development. Researchers found several key genetic regions that may have been "evolutionarily recruited" to form tetrapod innovations such as limbs, fingers and toes, and the mammalian placenta. One of these regions, known as HoxD, harbors a particular sequence that is shared across coelacanths and tetrapods. It is likely that this sequence from the coelacanth was co-opted by tetrapods to help form hands and feet.
Urea cycle. Fish get rid of nitrogen by excreting ammonia into the water, but humans and other land animals quickly convert ammonia into less-toxic urea using the urea cycle. Researchers found that the most important gene involved in this cycle has been modified in tetrapods.
The coelacanth genome may hold other clues for researchers investigating the evolution of tetrapods. "This is just the beginning of many analyses on what the coelacanth can teach us about the emergence of land vertebrates, including humans, and, combined with modern empirical approaches, can lend insights into the mechanisms that have contributed to major evolutionary innovations," said Chris Amemiya, a member of the Benaroya Research Institute and co-first author of the Nature paper. Amemiya is also a professor at the University of Washington.
Sequencing the full coelacanth genome was uniquely challenging for many reasons. Coelacanths are an endangered species, so samples available for research are almost nonexistent. This meant that each sample obtained was precious: Researchers would have "one shot" at sequencing the collected genetic material, according to Alföldi. But the difficulties of obtaining a sample and the challenges of sequencing it also knit the community together.
Although the coelacanth genome offers some tantalizing answers, the research team anticipates that further study of the fish's immunity, respiration, physiology, and more will lead to deep insights into how some vertebrates adapted to life on land, while others remained creatures of the sea.
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Unexpected insights from a fish with a 300-million-year-old fossil record
By Haley Bridger Broad Institute Communications
An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth. A sea-cave dwelling, 5-foot-long fish with limblike fins, the coelacanth was once thought to be extinct. A living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in 1938, and since then, questions about these ancient-looking fish have loomed large.
Coelacanths today closely resemble the fossilized skeletons of their ancestors of more than 300 million years ago. Their genome confirms what many researchers had long suspected: Genes in coelacanths are evolving more slowly than in other organisms.
"We found that the genes overall are evolving significantly slower than in every other fish and land vertebrate that we looked at," said Jessica Alföldi, a research scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and co-first author of a paper on the coelacanth genome, which appears in Nature this week. "This is the first time that we've had a big enough gene set to really see that."
Researchers hypothesize that this slow rate of evolution may be because coelacanths simply have not needed to change: They live primarily off the Eastern African coast (a second coelacanth species lives off the coast of Indonesia), at ocean depths where relatively little has changed over the millennia.
"We often talk about how species have changed over time," said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, scientific director of the Broad Institute's vertebrate genome biology group and senior author. "But there are still a few places on earth where organisms don't have to change, and this is one of them. Coelacanths are likely very specialized to such a specific, non-changing, extreme environment — it is ideally suited to the deep sea just the way it is."
Because of their resemblance to fossils dating back millions of years, coelacanths today are often referred to as "living fossils" — a term coined by Charles Darwin. But the coelacanth is not a relic of the past brought back to life: It is a species that has survived, reproduced, but changed very little in appearance for millions of years. "It's not a living fossil; it's a living organism," said Alföldi. "It doesn't live in a time bubble; it lives in our world, which is why it's so fascinating to find out that its genes are evolving more slowly than ours."
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Based on the beloved story by Dr. Seuss and produced by Despicable Me studio Illumination Entertainment, The Grinch (directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney) is narrated by Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Pharrell Williams and stars Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Strange, Sherlock) as the infamous green meany, who lives a solitary life in a cave on Mt. Crumpit with only his loyal dog, Max, for company. The voice cast also includes Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) as Donna Who, Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live) as Bricklebaum, Cameron Seely (The Greatest Showman) as Cindy-Lou Who, and featuring legendary actress | 200 |
Mr. Write: Corey Nelson's Got Game Off The Field As Well
If you were to look at the Notes app on Corey Nelson's iPhone, you might be surprised by what you see.
It's not just pages of X's and O's from game plans. It's not just general life memos and reminders.
Instead, it's filled with original poems written by the Eagles linebacker himself. Nelson listed poetry as his favorite hobby and considers it his "thing" outside of football.
"I just like to be able to put words on paper and to be able to play with words," Nelson said, "especially big words I find in the dictionary, that's kind<|fim_middle|> doesn't typically let his teammates, or many others for that matter, read his work.
"I don't really share it," Nelson said. "A lot of guys would give you a hard time if they found out, you know? A football player writing poetry? So I just kind of keep it to myself unless I'm close with someone enough to share that side of me."
Despite that, Nelson said he's proud of his talent and his interest in poetry. He said it's important for players to show the other sides of their personality and their interests without fear of judgment.
"You definitely want to express other talents that you have," Nelson said. "You want to let the world know that you're not only a football player, but you're also talented in X, Y, and Z, and this is just one of those things that I feel like I should express to the world that I'm talented in." | of what I like to do so I just do it. It's definitely one of my talents for sure."
Nelson said he's been writing poetry for as long as he can remember. His love for writing stemmed from his English classes, a subject in which he said he excelled. And he doesn't limit himself to one style of poetry.
"I do a little bit of everything," Nelson said. "I don't try to focus on just one thing. I just try to stem from a number of things, of different emotions, of how I'm feeling in the moment."
Nelson said that while he's in the locker room or on the practice field, his primary focus is getting his body healthy and playing at this best. So, he said most of his writing happens when he is at home and "just whenever I'm feeling inspired."
"Football takes up most of my time, so whenever I feel like I want to write something down or whenever I want to send my wife (Jordan) something sweet, then I'll write something," Nelson said. "Mostly when I'm inspired I'll think of something. I'll be like, 'Huh, OK.' And I'll just start writing."
Nelson used to have a pad and a pen to write his drafts. Now, he "types away" in the Notes app on his phone, so there is little delay from the strike of inspiration to the writing process.
Inspiration is often the product of being well-read. Nelson said there are plenty of poets he regularly reads - too many to choose a favorite.
"I read a lot, really quite often," Nelson said. "Most of the time it's poetry or it's books. Also, magazines, comics, and even within that, I find ways to wordplay and switch words up and use it to my ability to pick and choose what I want to add into my stuff."
And there is one subject Nelson clearly likes to write about.
"Love," Nelson said. "I love love. I feel like this world needs better love. So I like writing about love."
Nelson wrote his most recent poem about a month ago, he said, as a present for his wife on their three-year wedding anniversary. It made for a great gift, along with flowers, as he said she "always likes" what he writes.
"I'm going to really take it seriously sometime in the offseason next year and think about writing a book," he said. "A story and then I'll probably do a poetry book. A little bit of both."
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Created in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (and launched as thefacebook.com), the site was initially only open to users with a collegiate email address. By 2006, the site was open to anyone 13 years or older with an email address.
At the core of Facebook has always been maintaining a profile page, which includes an image of the user, their location, birthdates, interests and forms of contact information, and being "friends" with people on the site. Status updates, high scores in social games and new photos all appear in the constantly updating News Feed, which is the first thing users see after they<|fim_middle|>notably Eduardo Saverin) have all at one time or another hounded the site.
Facebook's creation, as well as those involved, was dramatized in the 2010 film "The Social Network."
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A grade of C-minus or better is required in Statistics and all Bioscience Core, BMCB Core, and Major Elective courses.
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Matt joined the Nichols Street staff in September 2015. He has attained a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX and a Masters<|fim_middle|> into the Matagorda area in 2005. They placed membership & became actively involved with Nichols Street. Vic has worked in the petro‐chemical engineering field in piping design for over 30 years. He is currently employed by Fluor Engineering in Sugarland. Vickie is a registered nurse. He has served as a deacon & most recently as an elder of this congregation.
Bob Noster
Bob concentrates on the following areas: Communications, Harvest House and Life Groups.
Bob Noster has been an Elder at Nichols Street Church of Christ since 2000. He is married to Sue Noster and they have 2 grown children and 3 grandchildren. Bob and Sue are both retired. Before he retired, Bob was District Manager for Jackson Electric Cooperative at Bay City. Prior to working for Jackson Electric, Bob was a manager for Central Power and Light, where he worked for 26 years. Sue was an Elementary School Teacher. Bob and Sue have worshiped with the Church of Christ in Bay City each of the 3 times that they have lived in Bay City in their working careers.
Willie Rollins
Willie concentrates on the following areas: Benevolence and Young Adults.
Willie Rollins has been an Elder at Nichols Street Church of Christ since 2006. He and his wife Audrey have 5 grown children and 8 grandchildren. Willie has been a small business owner for over 25 years and Audrey is retired from the Matagorda County Tax Office as Deputy Tax Collector after having served for 35.5 years. Willie is very active in community affairs and has served on the boards of numerous non- profit organizations. He is the original founder and organizer of the Boys and Girls Club of Bay City and Matagorda County where he still serves as a member of the board of directors. He is the visionary behind the Harvest Field Community Development Corp. a 501(3)C corp. which is currently being developed by members of the Nichols Street Church family.
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Chris Webber has been on board with Nichols Street since early August of 2015. Chris married Katie Sue in March of 2017. He has a bachelors in Youth and Family Ministry from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas where he graduated in 2014, and a Masters in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary where he graduated in May 2016. Chris' main responsibilities are working with our youth and their families, Young Adults and leading worship on a monthly basis.
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Diane Beyer
Diane Beyer joined the staff at Nichols Street in March 2010. Diane and her husband James have 2 daughters and sons-in-law, 1 son and daughter-in-law and 7 grandchildren. Diane's main responsibllity is working with children and their families.
Tricia Burt
Patricia Burt joined the Nichols Street staff in 2000. She has been married to G.W. Burt for 43 years. She has one son, Geordan and a granddaughter, Vanessa. Tricia's main responsibilities fall under the category of office administration, but she has also served many years as the Prison Ministry leader at Nichols Street.
Bill Beaver
Bill has served on the Nichols Street leadership team for several years as a deacon before stepping into his current role as a shepherd. Bill and his wife Suzanne both have huge hearts for people.
Vic Fagan
Vic Fagan grew up in Missouri City, Texas. He was baptized at Southside Church of Christ. As a teen, he attended the Stafford Church of Christ. In 1981, he married his wife, Vickie, at the Stafford church building. He has 3 adult children, one son & 2 daughters. His son has blessed him with a Christian daughter‐in‐law and two beautiful granddaughters. Vic & his wife moved | 436 |
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday encouraged Zanu-PF supporters, who might have joined the MDC during the previous administration, to return home and assist in developing the country.
He said there was no hope in the opposition.
VP Chiwenga made the call while addressing thousands of Zanu-PF supporters at Gwanzura Stadium in Highfield, Harare.
He said President Mnangagwa was toiling to turn around the economy and uplift the lives of the people. This, said VP Chiwenga, was evidenced by developments in the health sector where patients above 65 years and children below five years are no longer paying user fees.
He castigated MDC-run councils for failing to deliver services yet residents were paying rates.
"We are aware of the challenges you are facing. You do not get safe water everyday but you are made to pay high rates even for the service that is not available. In some areas the sewerage systems is no longer functional and we will make sure that we correct that.
"We are also aware that street lights are no longer functional. You have tried going to MDC to seek solutions for your challenges but for the past 18 years the party has done nothing for you. Better you come back home to Zanu-PF, the political party that brought<|fim_middle|>s and have been paying for the houses. It is high time that we assess and see who qualifies to get title deeds for the houses. Some are only left with a few months before they can get the title deeds," he said. | independence. Let us unite and build the Zimbabwe we want," said VP Chiwenga.
He said Highfield like Mbare, was an important area in the history of Zimbabwe especially during the early days of the liberation struggle and urged residents not to throw away the legacy.
"It is also in Highfield that people gathered at Zimbabwe Grounds and marched into town demonstrating and this brought the new political dispensation. The Zimbabwe we are building will never be the same again. When President Mnangagwa was sworn in, he proclaimed that Zimbabwe was open for business to both local and foreign investors. All the interruptions that have been preventing development were removed and now we are open for investment.
"We need investors to come and improve our infrastructure, mining and tourism sectors. We no longer had tourists coming to our country. We want investors to come peacefully and even those whom we had quarrelled with are welcome so that we promote development and create employment. For us to develop we need peace.
"Instead of concentrating on fighting, we should unite and focus on developmental issues that bring food on the table and create employment. Now we are heading towards elections and we should vote peacefully. Supporters and candidates should campaign peacefully and the electorate should vote peacefully. It is not good to fight, we should have free, fair and credible elections," he said.
VP Chiwenga said it was now time for some Highfield residents to get title deeds for their houses as they have been paying for rates since the 1960s.
"Some of you or your grandparents occupied these houses during the 1960s and 70 | 324 |
How about you (discussions.godandscience.org) presenting a platform for these discussions. You instigate the possibility for these kind of argueing and are surprised that it actually works?
For every atheist, or agnost, there is at least one theist here that is as passionate over maybe a much longer period. Aren't you surprised by that.
And isn't this platform intended for these dicussions? We learn from it, change our point of views, or stick in<|fim_middle|> about you (discussions.godandscience.org) presenting a platform for these discussions. You instigate the possibility for these kind of argueing and are surprised that it actually works?
JH, if you're asking why Christians are passionate about the issue vs. atheists and agnostics, it's like comparing those who think the issue is vitally important to a person's situations now and eternal well-being later vs. those who think whatever one believes concerning God is really irrelevant speculation or unmerited speculation. Christians are highly concerned about people and our world. We see God-given insights and following His moral teachings as critical to both people and society. And we're very passionate about people not otherwise heading to a terrible afterlife. But if atheists / agnostics are correct, it doesn't matter if I believe in the Lord or the toothfairy, as they are both only imaginary.
JH: And isn't this platform intended for these dicussions? We learn from it, change our point of views, or stick in what one believes.
The other think that is very curious is the level of hate, anger and obsession we relentlessly see aimed at Christians by atheists and agnostics - as if they find our beliefs threatening or harmful. Oh, they can drum up unScriptural beliefs and strawman arguments to argue against, but to assertion Christ-based teachings are harmful or dangerous - why the widespread mindset of such anger?
Philip wrote: JH, if you're asking why Christians are passionate about the issue vs. atheists and agnostics, it's like comparing those who think the issue is vitally important to a person's situations now and eternal well-being later vs. those who think whatever one believes concerning God is really irrelevant speculation or unmerited speculation. Christians are highly concerned about people and our world. We see God-given insights and following His moral teachings as critical to both people and society. And we're very passionate about people not otherwise heading to a terrible afterlife. But if atheists / agnostics are correct, it doesn't matter if I believe in the Lord or the toothfairy, as they are both only imaginary.
It is a mistake to think that atheists/agnosts could not be as caring and passionate about many of the same things you mention, just because they are atheists. Is there a fundamental difference between that "caring for" in an atheistic world or in a theistic world? I don't think so. The perception of that caring is for both exactly the same, but it is "the end" that is different. Theists have an ultimate goal, while atheists only have their momentary goal.
Being an atheist/agnost myself I can understand the benefits of the existence of God, the guidance it gives in life, to be cared for, the safety of Him being there, the warm and comfortable presence of someone that watches over us, the heaven that awaits when we die, etc.
It feels "save", but to me also "temptingly ignorant".
Well… the motivation is understanding, or better, the lack of understanding. It is not that I (as I can only speak for myself) want to "argue beyond a point", it is the non-understanding that continues the arguing. And that goes both ways. As I try to grasp what drives the theists, I expect that theists try to grasp what drives atheists. As long as there is an inballance between those two the arguing (or discussions) can continue. If either side is not willing (or unable) to delve into the other side, further arguing is indeed pointless.
If atheists are right, it indeed doesn't matter what we believe, but hey, that is not the end of the world!
Philip wrote: The other think that is very curious is the level of hate, anger and obsession we relentlessly see aimed at Christians by atheists and agnostics - as if they find our beliefs threatening or harmful. Oh, they can drum up unScriptural beliefs and strawman arguments to argue against, but to assertion Christ-based teachings are harmful or dangerous - why the widespread mindset of such anger?
Is this a personal experience? It is not something I see or experience around me.
JH: It is a mistake to think that atheists/agnostics could not be as caring and passionate about many of the same things you mention, just because they are atheists.
A person who doesn't believe God doesn't even exist is a person who ultimately thinks the belief is largely irrelevant - unless there are negative consequences to the atheist for the belief of others. But no Christian following the Bible would show hostility towards an unbeliever, or hate of despise them. If fact, we're commanded to love all people as we would ourselves. And yet we constantly see unbelievers who are angry over the beliefs of Christians. Now, I fully understand the anger at some so-called Christians - as these are people who do not follow Christ teachings in how they treat unbelievers. Again, why the anger, why would they care, unless it impacted them in a negative way? I didn't say atheists or agnostics can't be nice people or compassionate - they often are. But there's also a large percentage of them that are very angry and hate Christians and their beliefs. It's obvious - go on any Christian-themed discussion forum, and you'll see relentless venom from unbelievers.
JH: Being an atheist/agnost myself I can understand the benefits of the existence of God, the guidance it gives in life, to be cared for, the safety of Him being there, the warm and comfortable presence of someone that watches over us, the heaven that awaits when we die, etc. It feels "save", but to me also "temptingly ignorant".
How is it temptingly ignorant?
JH: Well… the motivation is understanding, or better, the lack of understanding. It is not that I (as I can only speak for myself) want to "argue beyond a point", it is the non-understanding that continues the arguing. And that goes both ways. As I try to grasp what drives the theists, I expect that theists try to grasp what drives atheists. As long as there is an inballance between those two the arguing (or discussions) can continue. If either side is not willing (or unable) to delve into the other side, further arguing is indeed pointless.
One would think further arguing is - but this site has long experienced atheists (mostly) and agnostics consumed with disproving Christian and theistic beliefs. We see it all the time!
Philip: The other think that is very curious is the level of hate, anger and obsession we relentlessly see aimed at Christians by atheists and agnostics - as if they find our beliefs threatening or harmful. Oh, they can drum up unScriptural beliefs and strawman arguments to argue against, but to assertion Christ-based teachings are harmful or dangerous - why the widespread mindset of such anger?
JH: Is this a personal experience? It is not something I see or experience around me.
Perhaps you don't experience this because you're not a Christian. I've been debating these issues for 30 years - there are tons of strawman arguments leveled, often with sarcasm and anger over our belief in the "Sky Fairy." It's very common and widespread!
A person who doesn't believe God doesn't even exist is a person who ultimately thinks the belief is largely irrelevant - unless there are negative consequences to the atheist for the belief of others. But no Christian following the Bible would show hostility towards an unbeliever, or hate of despise them. If fact, we're commanded to love all people as we would ourselves. And yet we constantly see unbelievers who are angry over the beliefs of Christians. Now, I fully understand the anger at some so-called Christians - as these are people who do not follow Christ teachings in how they treat unbelievers.
Well evidently there are a lot of Christians who don't always follow Christ's teachings in how to treat unbelievers. If you don't see this, perhaps its because you are not an Atheist.
Yes, Christians that show hate and intolerance of others ( rather than of the ACTIONS of others) are showing that THEY need more Christ in their life.
You asked why are some Atheists hostile towards Christians. I'm suggesting perhaps it is the "so called" Christians that you mentioned, that they are hostile rather than the real Christians who are loving.
JH, those of us who have been Christians for a long time - and for me, that's over 50 years - we can tell you with confidence that a huge number of people who self-identify as Christians are not. How can we tell? We can tell by the way they have long lived and acted, and for many of them we know personally, we know they've almost certainly never submitted themself to Christ in a desire to follow him, or try to follow his instructions. Such people only THINK they are saved. Which is why so many of them (not all) see no problem with hating or treating self-identifying atheists, agnostics, and those of non-Christian faiths terribly. And I'm not saying that ALL atheists and agnostics are very hateful or antagonistic toward Christians - yet a huge percentage of them are like this.
Different Christians claim they are the true Christians. So, which one is the right one? There can be only one.
Since you mentioned the hatred from some atheists towards Christians, maybe your claim is at some basis of that. "God exists, and I am right. Period." There is no room for 'alternatives'.
It is like the the atheist claims "I am right, and you (as a theist) are wrong. Period."
It is tempting to hand yourself over into the strong and save arms of a loving God (it takes away burdens, pains and sorrows, life is not 'futile' and your future is 'saved'), but it is ignorant to then ignore/dismiss the (cold) reality around us. | what one believes. Otherwise we would do circular reasoning. We need other viewpoints, other ways of thinking to see clear the history behind us and the path in front of us.
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Ryan Brown '18 returned to John Carroll University to share insights on his experience at NBC News in Washington, D.C.
Five months into his nine-month role—and only seven months removed from graduation—Brown addressed a crowd of 75 students who have shown interest in the next fellowship. Brown is the 10th graduate to accept the NBC/John Carroll University Meet the Press fellowship, which is given annually to a graduating<|fim_middle|> Todd. | senior in honor of Tim Russert '72, the longtime host of the program.
Brown shared stories from his roles as a researcher, producer, and "guest greeter" for Meet the Press, the longest-running program in television history. He also highlighted his behind-the-scenes work related to Meet the Press segments–including Chuck Todd's interview with Michael Bloomberg focused on climate change, and the show's coverage of President George H.W. Bush's death.
Brown also explained a unique role he enjoys part-time: as Meet the Press guest greeter. Part of his duties include welcoming politicians, pundits, and other special guests upon their arrival at NBC studios in northwest D.C.
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Martian oxygen factory passes first major test
New results from the red and rocky surface of Mars have shown that MOXIE, an oxygen generator that Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and fellow institutions have been deeply involved with, has passed its first year of testing. A scaled-up version could be used to generate oxygen for the crew of astronauts that NASA is working hard to launch to Mars in the 2040s.
Oxygen generation will provide astronauts with the oxygen needed to both live on and return from Mars. Photo: Getty
The MOXIE oxygen generator is roughly the size of a car battery. Since NASA's Perseverance Mission landed on Mars last February, its job has been to prove that oxygen production on Mars is possible.
With dust storms, temperatures as low as minus 140 degrees Celsius, heavy g-forces and an epic journey through space, University of Copenhagen researchers, among others, have been curious whether the design of MOXIE (Mars OXygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) was good enough.
So far so good. MOXIE has now produced 50 grams of oxygen on the oxygen-poor surface of Mars – enough to keep an astronaut alive for an hour and a half.
This is good news for NASA, who plan on sending humans to Mars in the 2040s, according to Associate Professor and astrophysicist Morten Bo Madsen from the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute. Madsen has been part of the scientific team behind MOXIE since 2013.
"MOXIE has survived the powerful shaking of both launch and landing and now proven that it can produce oxygen by solid-state electrolysis directly from the Martian atmosphere while operating in the planet's often hostile environment. We've also learned a lot more about how MOXIE could be optimized and how it could be scaled up to produce enough oxygen for human missions, which is a big step forward," says Morten Bo Madsen.
Experiences from MOXIE's first tests have just been published in the scientific journal Science Advances. Link to PDF.
The MOXIE oxygen generator produces oxygen on Mars by splitting carbon dioxide molecules from the Martian atmosphere. Illustration: NASA
Astronauts must be able to breathe and get back home
Only 0.13 percent of the Martian atmosphere is made up of oxygen, while 95 percent of it is composed of carbon dioxide. MOXIE sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into what Morten Bo Madsen calls "the heart of the machine" – a kind of reverse fuel cell.
Here, MOXIE splits the carbon dioxide molecules apart, which contain one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. It then stores the oxygen. The energy required by MOXIE to split molecules and store oxygen comes from a relatively large rechargeable battery. For human missions, a much larger energy source will be needed.
<|fim_middle|> row, for six astronauts to be able to live on a base, explore the planet and, not least, get them home again. Here, it would be possible to use a small nuclear power plant, like those used in submarines, to supply a larger version of MOXIE with power. Another alternative NASA is looking into is the development of more advanced units that could convert heat from radioactive sources into electricity, so-called 'kilopower reactors'," explains Morten Bo Madsen.
According to the researcher, the larger "factory" version of MOXIE will probably be one to two cubic meters in size and will need to be flown to Mars and put into service at least 26 months before any astronauts launch from Earth. This is because the oxygen generator will not only provide the astronauts breathable air on Mars, it will also allow them to refuel and lift off from the planet and head back to Earth when their mission is over.
"The plan is for the machine to produce all of the oxygen that the astronauts need for the mission in advance, so that prior to leaving Earth, we know that they can survive on Mars and get home. By far, it is most economical to produce oxygen on Mars, as opposed to bringing it from Earth," says Madsen.
Astrophysicist and planetary scientist Morten Bo Madsen has participated in NASA space missions since 1997. Photo: Ola J. Joensen, NBI/University of Copenhagen.
MOXIE technology can be used in the green transition
The MOXIE experiment is an example of one of several technologies that, according to Morten Bo Madsen, could be used in the green transition.
"The technology used to capture CO2 from the Martian atmosphere could also be used down on Earth to convert electrical energy from wind turbines and solar cells into chemical energy, which could either be converted back into electrical energy when needed, or as a starting point for producing liquid fuels for aircraft, ships and other means of transport," says the researcher.
Both DTU Energy and Topsøe are working to develop these green transition technologies.
The researchers will continue testing MOXIE in every conceivable Martian scenario – hopefully including a dust storm – and analyze the data they get back from the oxygen generator fitted into the Perseverance Rover.
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Blackhawk expects and STC for its XP67A version of the P&WC PT6A-67A in the second quarter of 2019.
Just under a score of years ago, Blackhawk Modifications was founded in Waco, Texas, to do what they do best in that state: make things bigger. Specifically, to beef up the power output of utility aircraft suffering from tired-engine syndrome. Today, they are celebrating the completion of the 800th upgrade and releasing details of a new project that will soon be enlarging on that number.
Cessna Caravans and Conquests; Piper Cheyennes; Beechcraft King Air 90, 200s and 300s – all have benefited from Blackhawk's installation, under STC, of higher-rated Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprops driving Hartzell, McCauley or MT propellers. According to type, operators have seen between 20- and 40-kt. increases in speed; rates of climb up to 60% greater; and higher cruising altitudes.
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Owners are offered a $50,000 discount for pre-certification orders, plus $70 per remaining hour on their existing PT6A-60A engines. Horsepower is not the name of Blackhawk's game here, for the old and the new engines are both rated at 1,050 at sea level. The key factor is that the XP67A engine suffers less drop-off at higher-density altitudes, which is where the upgrade justifies itself.
King Air and Conquest operators are also offered the Phoenix treatment, which has already been taken up by six customers. In this, the engine upgrade is accompanied by new avionics, interior and paint scheme – a complete nose-to-tail refresh of your tired airplane. | boosted performance is a genuine lifesaver, allowing the aircraft to climb smartly after takeoff and not churn its way laboriously into the skies while disaffected locals use it for AK-47 target practice.
Next for the treatment is the King Air 300, a prototype of which is under test with XP67A engine versions (the P&WC PT6A-67A) and expecting its STC in the second quarter of next year. It also is confident of gaining the epithet of the fastest King Air, predicted cruising speed being 345 to 350 kt., while time to FL350 will be under 17 min. "From turboprop to rocket ship," says Blackhawk president and CEO | 155 |
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Professor Sigalet is a Pediatric General Surgeon with more than 25 years' experience in surgery, research and academia. He is also appointed as Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar and Adjunct Professor of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Professor Sigalet is the President of the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons, a member of the Publications Committee for the American Pediatric Surgery Association, and a member of the Editorial Boards of both the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Journal of Surgery.
Prior to joining Sidra, Professor Sigalet was Professor of Surgery in the Department of Pediatric General Surgery at the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation, University of Calgary, one of Canada's top research universities. Before taking up his position at the University of Calgary, Dr. Sigalet held a post at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor.
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The Astoria Park Hotel Lloret De Mar is located near the center of town and in close proximity to the beaches. The entirety of the city is oriented toward the seafront, and the beach and the shopping district are within easy walking distance of one another. The Girona airport is 30 minutes from the Astoria Park Hotel Lloret De Mar. From the Barcelona airport, the drive is 60 minutes.
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This tiny and isolated hamlet, right on the route, is centred around a former watermill in a narrow and very beautiful densely wooded valley. There are two B&Bs and camping possibilities. There is a public phone kiosk but no shop or pub.
A typical, traditional Bed and Breakfast providing comfortable accommodation and a warm welcome, and just a half mile off the Coast to Coast route. Evening meals, and there are no nearby alternatives, need to be booked with your hosts. Private Bathroom for visitors. Dinning room and separate lounge with TV and Video. Twin room/Double room can be used as single. Shower<|fim_middle|> Road(tarmac) to the right after the church. Please telephone if you would like to be picked up. Please phone for details of shortcut. Private bathroom, dining and sitting rooms with TV/Video.
Situated in Sleights, approx. two/three miles from Littlebeck, The Plough Inn, is a short drive from Whitby. The inn provides wireless internet and luggage storage. In addition, the multilingual staff are on hand to offer assistance and local tips, ensuring an enjoyable stay in Sleights. The inn's rooms are bright and provide cable / satellite channels, tea and coffee making facilities and a CD player. Facilities include a TV, a DVD.
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Depression and anxiety are not lovers of plans, nor do they tolerate or abide by commitments. Dates on the calendar are to be feared as if each and every one of them were the funeral of a loved one.
With one wedding, three birthdays, two family gatherings, and a stay with friends filling the weekends of September and October, I find myself feeling incredible sadness that I am bereft of the joy not only of the actual event itself, but also of the warm feeling that is Looking Forward to such occasions. All I can do is be a mere observer of those who are cheerily planning, chatting and creating a general buzz surrounding the upcoming events.
Only now do I appreciate the true value of anticipation – it breaks up the monotony of everyday life – not only that, but it helps build and maintain healthy bonds and fulfilling relationships. A life devoid of pleasurable anticipation makes for a very dull existence, and a dull existence makes for an empty Soul, and an empty Soul is not conducive to happy unions.
I manage these disappointments, the events come, I find my way through and they pass. It is the every day happenings<|fim_middle|> a date to meet a friend for coffee becomes an impossibility when you don't know what your physical state or mental being will be within the next few minutes, let alone the next few hours, days or weeks.
Friends never leave me, but at the same time, their World continues, they can't wait, I wouldn't expect them to. Likewise husbands, sisters, parents. The World doesn't make many allowances for the mentally-ill-but-just-about-getting-through. Full blown breakdowns warrant immediate action and care . Just surviving warrants making your own way. And making your own way is a lonely place to be. | requiring my commitment which trouble me most. Inability to commit, for whatever reason, breeds isolation. Making | 21 |
They talk during lunch. Sometimes the conversation flows freely, and sometimes long periods of silence occur. The silence is broken, sometimes after a time period that feels like minutes, rather than seconds. Oliver imagines how they all think, intensely, about a new topic to bring up, and when one of them is brave enough to break the silence, a new discussion can start.
They mostly talk about facts. They do not talk about feelings. No one says "did you read that book, it was truly fantastic, it gave me a complete new picture of the Chinese culture." Perhaps someone says "did you know that there is a golf player who can reach 300 meters using only his putter." This may be followed by comments like "did he do it in a contest?" and "can he control his muscles or does he hit that hard all the time?" Someone may even joke, like "I was kidding, it was 300 yards, not 300 meters."
Sometimes they talk about airplanes, or cars. They are not so interested in the design of cars, or if the cars are beautiful, or ugly. They are more interested in the internal, technical properties, of a car. Oliver remembers a discussion that ended with the phrase "it is called toe-in." He remembers that it had to do with how the wheels are oriented, and toe-in meant that the wheels are oriented inwards. He imagined the wheels like the feet of a shy child, standing in front of an angry parent, and he did not hear when he was asked for his views on the matter.
He looks out of the window, and his mind wanders away. His colleagues continue their talking. Their discussion has shifted, and the current topic concerns methods for cleaning a roof from moss. They give lengthy descriptions of their favourite methods, involving manual work, performed while standing on tall and unsteady ladders, but also machine-assisted work, performed with the aid of high-pressure water hoses, aimed with precision at the unwanted weeds, and used with success thanks to their automatically generated, fluid-carried, force.
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Tags: art and science, crime, DNA, Elizabeth, J. C. Dashwood, Munich, museum, Oliver, science, society | grey clouds, and he remembers the start of the semester, in the midst of August, when the sun was shining and he travelled to work on his newly acquired bicycle. He continued using his bicycle until the beginning of November, and his goal was to use it also when he returned from Munich.
He remembers one August morning, a few days before the start of the fall semester. He was approaching the University building where his office is located, and his pace was slow and relaxing. He was travelling along the bike road, with its winding path through the campus lawns and the small groups of planted trees. He saw the students, marching, and he recognised what he had seen before, at the start of each fall semester.
It was the annual ceremonies and rituals for the new students of Engineering. He looked at the spectacle, and he tried to convince himself that it was interesting and meaningful, and that it gave the students a chance to meet new friends, and relax, before their demanding studies took off.
He did not participate in such ceremonies when he started his own studies. He found them ridiculous, and he wanted to concentrate on his school work, already from the first day. Some of his friends have reminded him, later in life, of his decision to put studies first, and to be very restrictive with social activities, and they have let him know that he perhaps made a bad choice.
"You see," they said, "those years were the starting point for some really good networking."
A grey, almost black, cloud enters his field of view. It moves slowly, eastwards, along the sky. Oliver wonders, silently, if some of his former student colleagues have utilised their networking experiences for the purpose of coordinated actions and confidential meetings, with the specific goal of unlawful extraction of data from National databases. He is confident that their academic competence, as well as their connections in different parts of the society, would be useful ingredients to ensure the success of such a task.
The tapping of a government-owned pen towards the wooden table alerts him. He turns, from the window, and looks towards his colleagues. They sit, around their lunch table, and some of them look directly at him. He sees the Department Administrator rise, and after a while he hears her voice.
"Oliver," the Department Administrator says. "Dear Oliver, I should say."
She stands, next to her seat, in one of the corners of the table. There is a light, from behind her, and Oliver realises that it is the winter sun. It has appeared, magically and without warning, and it blinds him a bit, so that the contours of her body, and her head, become a bit blurry.
He shifts his body, so that he can look at her more from the side. He straightens his back, and his view is more clear now. He lets his gaze move from the Department Administrator, towards some of his colleagues. He sees their faces, and some of them smile, slightly. They do not look in his direction. There are no eyes that meets his own, and he decides to focus his gaze on the Department Administrator.
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"Did you know," Elizabeth says to Oliver, "that some researchers explain the war crimes as a result of a rational and systematic reasoning. It was not aimed at certain ethnic groups when it started. It was, initially at least, an attempt to create a more efficient society, by simply promoting the ones who were best suited to contribute. Have you thought about it like that? Oliver, hello, I am talking to you …"
Oliver was reading. And taking pictures. He liked to take pictures at museums. He took pictures of the artefacts – old machines, airplane mockups, and electricity stations. He also took pictures of the texts. He liked this, to have a recording of the texts describing the artefacts. Often these texts said something, about the time when this machine was new and considered state-of-the-art, and in that way also something about the people living then, operating the machine, doing their work, living their lives, one day at a time.
"No, I did not think about it in that way," Oliver said.
Oliver had listened to Elizabeth, and he had done it at the same time as he was reading. He sometimes took this opportunity, to point out his female traits, and he found it especially convenient when he was asked to do practical work. Practical work meant working with their house, doing necessary repairs and perhaps also some paint work, and from time to time there was also a need to do something to their car. By keeping a safe distance from these activities, he prevented himself from doing the wrong things, or breaking things, and he had no intent to fall down from a ladder, or get crushed under his car while changing tires.
"But for sure, it could happen again, also in our country," he said.
He felt like a lesser skilled reporter, echoing words from intellectual persons, now and then letting their voices out in popular documentaries on one of the state-owned television channels.
"But it was another time then," he said. "I think we are more protected from certain things now, due to everyone communicating with everyone all the time."
He turned towards Elizabeth, who was standing some metres away.
"I mean," Oliver said, "look at the recent uprisings, Spring Uprisings I think they are called. In several countries, almost at the same time, people have taken action. And they have made some real progress. Not only with words in underground magazines, or through the use of protest songs. They have made real things happen, and real persons, although some of them being dictators but still persons, have paid with their lives."
"All right, my dear Professor," Elizabeth said. "I get your point."
She communicated her response in her standard, matter-of-fact, hmm-sounds-interesting, voice. She had been there before, in similar situations, listening to her beloved husband as he made one of his little speeches. They were delivered in an illuminating and enthusiastic tone, but more often than not she could not help but listening to the undertone – perhaps it was involuntary but nevertheless it was not so skilfully hidden – of a man talking to someone slightly below his own rank.
She wanted to continue her previously initiated discussion, and she knew that Oliver would be sincerely interested had he been able to concentrate on what she had to say. He had always been debating the rationality of his own world, with his equations and his models, and they often discussed what could happen if humankind decided to go all the way, towards a scientifically proven and rationally structured society, with productivity and growth as the only measures of progress.
"Of course there would be no art, of any kind, in such a world," Oliver once said. "But I'm sure there are many who would not be missing it – at least not the more modern kinds."
She looked for her husband, and after having surveyed half of her field-of-view, looking towards the direction where they were supposed to continue, she spotted him. He was on his way towards the next Exhibit hall. It was a newly restored and freshened up exhibition, located in the building assigned to the Theory and Applications of Genetic Engineering. This was a new topic at the museum, and it had been initiated with financial and intellectual support from a recognised combination of established researchers and industrial top executives. They represented a mix of organisations, of which some were governmental and others private.
Medical and pharmaceutical research institutes and corporations were represented, as one would expect. Lately, however, an increasing share of the sponsoring had been contributed by industries in software and computer engineering. Oliver found this interesting, and he was fascinated by the fact that his home field of computers and software systems – which in his own view was more related to technology and materialistic things than being scientific and systematic as genetics and biology – was represented here, among the museum donors.
He was aware of recent research and experiments where a parallel computer had been created, with a complexity similar to the brain of a reasonably advanced animal (he remembered something about a cat, but he was not sure). Oliver was confident that this was very far from creating a real brain, and he sometimes found himself irritated when he listened to his technologist colleagues, talking and gesturing, all progress and glory in their eyes, about computers with brains and intelligence. If they had studied the results we see here, at this fantastic museum, nicely displayed right in front of us, they would have known that putting a lot of computer power in one place is one thing, but making it evolve like life itself is a completely different matter.
They were inside the new hall, with Elizabeth wondering where to find a decent cup of coffee, and Oliver wondering how to find the most efficient way of spending the time they had, to maximise his learning experience.
"Look," Oliver said enthusiastically, "here we can see the history of the discovery of the DNA. Look at all the pieces, the beautiful double helix, the codes, using only four letters isn't that amazing."
He turned towards Elizabeth, and his arms were wide apart, and Mother Nature was filling his eyes with glitter and light. He felt the wonders of science, discovered by great minds belonging to interesting persons, and in some – perhaps small but still – way he was part of it.
"And here we see the enzymes," he continued. "The great protein creators, acting like workers in a factory, doing their systematic job, almost like a computer carrying out its instructions, one by one, step by step."
He was in his best mood, and it was somewhat contagious.
"I love you too," his wife said, as she kissed him on his left cheek.
His interpretation was the usual one. Take your time, she had said, and let's have some coffee later.
"Isn't it interesting?" he asked himself, and perhaps also subconsciously addressing Elizabeth, "that all these tiny pieces, when they come together, make up such an intelligent machinery?"
He became aware that she had left the room, but his conversation continued.
"Thinking about it a little bit more," he said, addressing an elderly woman standing beside him, "you are almost convinced that there must be some kind of design behind it."
"Aha, I see what you are getting at," said the woman. "We have some talk about it back home. They call it Intelligent Design, and soon it may be part of the school curriculum."
"Ssh," Oliver said, holding his upright index finger in front of him, and smiling towards his newfound acquaintance.
She looked back, somewhat puzzled, and before she had a chance to comment, Oliver continued.
"We have this new party," he said. "They are interesting but in a sense also somewhat fanatic."
"Ok," the woman replied. "Tell me more."
"They totally advocate a renaissance of science," he said. "And had they been here, undercover and spying on us, the people they are set out to protect, they would not have liked us talking about Intelligent Design."
"Who knows," he added, "some day they might arrest people for unscientific public behaviour."
He wanted to say more, but he felt the presence of his better half nearby, and as a precaution, preventing him from being told to stop his academically styled wit, thrown upon an innocent bystander, he nodded towards the woman, and said, towards Elizabeth.
"Yes, darling, I'm coming. Coffee would be perfect. I'm all done here."
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U16 Team Nova Scotia scores shutout win over New Brunswick at Maritime Challenge in Wolfville
WOLFVILLE, NS - The Annapolis Valley was well represented as the Under 16 Nova Scotia team scored another shutout win over New Brunswick at the football Maritime Challenge.
Kirk Starratt | Posted: June 26, 2017, midnight | Updated: Sept. 30, 2017, 12:45 a.m. | 4 Min Read
The Under-16 Nova Scotia team was victorious over New Brunswick at the football Maritime Challenge at Acadia University's Raymond Field on June 25.
When the two teams first squared off earlier this year, Team Nova Scotia scored a 49-0 win. In the rematch at Acadia University's Raymond Field in Wolfville on June 25, the Nova Scotia players had another strong showing, this time scoring a 40-0 shutout.
The Valley Bulldogs minor football club was well represented. For example, 14-year-old Riley Comeau scored a touchdown with 5:50 left in the third quarter. 14-year-old Owen MacRae scored a touchdown with 5:02 left in the fourth quarter, which he followed up with a successful kick through the uprights for an extra point.
MacRae, who just finished Grade 8 at Evangeline Middle School in New Minas, said it felt great to be part of the win.
Owen MacRae of Team Nova Scotia.
"It's just a big team effort all around," MacRae said. "Everybody's giving it their all."
The Canning resident said he was pleased with his overall performance. He's being used in quite a few positions playing with Team Nova Scotia, including quarterback, although he wasn't put in as quarterback for the June 25 game.
MacRae said he felt that he had to concentrate on his kicking while preparing for the rematch. He felt that he performed well blocking.
MacRae said that, at the end of the tournament, 10 players would be selected to go play in Texas. A lot of the players, including MacRae, have this opportunity on their radar.
Riley Comeau and Ryan Suffron of Team Nova Scotia chase down a member of Team New Brunswick at the Maritime Challenge.
Comeau, a 14-year-old from Canning who just completed Grade 8 at Northeast Kings Education Centre, said it felt great helping to secure the win by scoring a touchdown for Team Nova Scotia.
Riley Comeau of Team Nova Scotia.
He's enjoying representing his province on the football field. He's finding the level of play "more aggressive." The team is up against different, bigger players from another province so it feels great to have scored two shutout wins against New Brunswick.
With a temperature of approximately 29C during the June 25 game, Comeau said he tried to stay cool and drank lots of water to stay hydrated.
Head coach Jason Warren said that perhaps the key to success for the Nova Scotia U16 team is having the right combination of players on the field at the right time.
He said he doesn't believe this shutout win over New Brunswick carries any more significance than the first.
"New Brunswick is still in the process of selecting their 40 so we haven't saw their best yet, I don't think," Warren said. "It takes a lot of effort co-ordinating all those extra guys and making sure everybody gets equal time…so I expect that they'll be better when we play them in the tournament here in<|fim_middle|> execution but, other than that, they should keep doing what they've been doing. The guys play hard and are hungry and excited. The team features a lot of good athletes and they just have to get them in the right places. Warren said that responsibility falls to him as head coach.
Malcolm Bussey and Myles Sweet of Team Nova Scotia close in on a member of Team New Brunswick at the Maritime Challenge.
- The Maritime Challenge games serve as tune-ups for the Football Canada Under-16 Eastern Challenge, which will be played at Acadia University in Wolfville from July 18 to 21.
- The Football Canada Cup national Under-18 championship will be played at Acadia from July 8 to 14.
- The six-a-side Atlantic Bowl will be played at Acadia from July 16 to 21.
- For more information visit www.footballnovascotia.ca. | July."
Team Nova Scotia has already established its 40-player roster, so if one of the players happens to get injured, they'll bring another up from their six-a-side program that played earlier on June 25 against PEI.
Warren said the Nova Scotia players must concentrate on | 59 |
Speech by the Prime Minister
2017 Independence Day Message by the Most Hon. Andrew Holness
Posted on August 7, 2017 August 8, 2017 by OPM Communications
Fellow Jamaicans,
On the 55th anniversary of our Independence, it is fitting that we celebrate our achievements and strengths while pondering our challenges. Our independence theme this year is, "Celebr<|fim_middle|> citizens individually –you—and I—have to be more peaceful.
As our anthem says, "teach us true respect for all". Let us value people not on the basis of what they possess, where they live a or what class they are from. Let us value each person as a child of God, with just the same God-given rights as anyone else. And those of us who have the privilege to lead, in whatever sphere, let us lead with responsibility, accountability and justice. As leaders we are stewards, not masters. Let's be good stewards.
Economic growth, social justice, social peace and strong social capital are the building blocks of a vibrant and independent Jamaica. Happy birthday, Jamaica, land we love.
PM Holness urges Jamaicans to take responsibility for the country
Official Opening of Kupius Bridge in Clarendon | ating Jamaicans at home and abroad".
And how appropriate that we should have that theme when our athletes from home and abroad are right now holding our flag high at the World Championships in Britain, as they did for Jamaica 50 during the Olympics in London. So they will no doubt bring glitz and glory to this little island which always stamps its weight in gold.
We can draw inspiration from our sports men and women who have quintessentially incarnated the true spirit of Jamaica: A spirit of excellence, extraordinariness, daring, resilience, optimism, faith and hope. We have been stunning the world with our sporting prowess even before our independence. Jamaica had the first person to make the final in all three major Olympic sprint events—the 100m, 200m and 400m sixty-five years ago. To this day no one has equaled that Herb McKenley's record. We were also the first Caribbean team to hold the 4 by 400m relay world record, and that again 65 years ago in Helsinki, when the Jamaican greats of Arthur Wint, Herb Mckenley, George Rhoden and Leslie Laing mined gold. .
We little, but we Tallawah. Our island has produced the fastest man alive (Usain Bolt) and the fastest woman this year (Elaine Thompson). We are proud of all our athletes. However let me pause to pay tribute to the legendary Usain Bolt. His phenomenal exploits on the track were capped yesterday (August 5) by an emotional run at the World Championships in London to close out his illustrious career. He has been a true Ambassador for the Sport and for Jamaica. To Usain we say thank you. As we celebrate Jamaica 55, we celebrate you too.
There is so much in his life which parallels ours. As the recent Gleaner book published in his honour, Usain Bolt: Legend, says, Usain's history, and I quote, "mirrors Jamaica's—a history of struggle against the odds and against naysayers who have said this little country cannot fulfill its dream of Independence. ..Usain Bolt is a metaphor for Jamaica.
Our rich culture—our sport, music, dance, drama, fashion, language — represents our soft power. Culturally, Jamaica is a superpower. How many countries in the world —not just counties of comparable size—have produced someone as internationally famous and influential as Bob Marley, Usain Bolt or Marcus Garvey? How many countries have produced either world-famous music or sporting legends, let alone both? Many scholars are now writing about the importance of soft power in international affairs. All over the world, people identify with Jamaican culture.
As we celebrate Jamaicans at home and abroad this independence, let us note that it is not just in the area of culture where we have made a decisive mark. In science, we have made notable achievements. Just a few weeks ago it was announced that one of our internationally recognized scientists, Dr Henry Lowe, was granted what is called an orphan-drug designation by the US Food and Drug Administration for developing a drug from cannabis to treat myeloid Leukemia. This drug, which could be on the market in three years, is projected to have estimated annual sales of US$250 million dollars in the US market alone.
There are other Jamaican scientists doing cutting-edge research in North America, Britain and continental Europe. There are Jamaicans like Dr Vincent Reid, Director of Surgical Oncology at the Mercy Medical Centre in the United States who is doing pioneering cancer research and being published in the best scientific journals in the world. In whatever field you can mention, there are Jamaicans at home and abroad who have distinguished themselves internationally. We are a people of excellence.
As we mark Jamaica 55, let us not be overwhelmed by our challenges. Our problems do not define us. Our achievements and strengths do. Let's focus on the positives for, indeed, there are many. Among our noteworthy achievements have been the macroeconomic reforms that we as a people have fostered. As a people, we have said "enough is enough!" with regard to debt and budget deficits. Jamaica took the hard decisions and you made the sacrifices to strengthen our independence by putting our macroeconomic house in order. We knew the debt trap and double digit inflation were whittling away our independence, making us more vulnerable to external pressures.
Fellow Jamaicans, you have shown the discipline necessary to undertake the reform measures. We have achieved record low inflation rates and have significantly cut our debt-to-GDP ratio. We now boast a budget surplus after many years of chronic deficits. Jamaica achieved a primary balance surplus of $135.9 billion in the 2016/2017 fiscal year, 7.7%, or $12.9 billion above the minimum 7% target. Our independence is being strengthened.
We have demonstrated as a people that we are quite able to manage our own affairs and to show economic discipline without social unrest.
Let us celebrate this fact at independence, as I salute you for supporting economic measures which secure a bright future for our children and advance our independence.Nobody owes us anything. We seek no patronage. We are a self-respecting nation — proud, free and quite capable to be masters of our own destiny. We have something –indeed, many things— to give to the world. We seek no special favors. There is no reason for us to be poor. With our creative human capital and fortitude in tackling our economic and social challenges, there is no problem we can't defeat. As the Scripture says, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
We have no reason to be poor. We have valuable natural resources and wonderful people who have impacted the world. We have the resources for an economic take off. People are flocking to our country to enjoy the Jamaican Experience. Jamaica generated US$1.46 billion in tourism earnings during the first six months this year alone, with the industry growing by an impressive 7.5%.
We welcomed more than 2.1 million visitors up to the end of June. Our Special Economic Zone regulations are expected to be passed into law soon, opening up a significant economic opportunity for Jamaicans in terms of employment generation, manufacturing, small business development and foreign exchange earnings. Our growth in business process outsourcing (BPO) continues to explode as we move up the value chain.
We are a tough, courageous, purposeful and determined people. We have proven over and over again in our fifty-five years that we are equal to any task, once we put our collective minds to it.
There are some challenges but I have absolutely no doubt that we can successfully defeat them.
As we celebrate our 55th anniversary as a nation, let us individually recommit to building the Independence Project. Let us each take responsibility personally for our country. Let us turn up to work on time and give a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. Let us increase our personal productivity. Let us ask ourselves regularly, "How can I do my job better and more creatively?"
Let us care for our children. Let us find out how they are doing at school. Let us check up on their homework—mothers and fathers. Let us for work for peace in our homes, workplaces and communities. Use the soft word to turn away wrath and to counter disrespect. Talk it out, don't fight it out. Forgive. For Jamaica to be a more peaceful nation, its | 1,546 |
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UN leaders urged countries to take concrete actions to tackle climate change
Today in Geneva, the heads of the main agencies of the UN system agreed on measures to combat climate change. They said they would support countries' efforts to mitigate the negative effects of global warming and called for more decisive actions.
"We, the heads of the UN agencies, call on the Organization's member states to" raise the bar "and take concrete<|fim_middle|> New York will completely abandon disposable plastic tableware.
Let us remind that in September in New York there will be a Summit on climate. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on leaders of all countries of the world to come to him not with formal speeches, but with specific proposals.
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Website development ITG-SOFT </> | measures to keep the global temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level and to adapt to the effects of climate change, without forgetting their obligations to respect human rights, "says a joint statement of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination members.
They reminded the world leaders that, in accordance with the Paris Agreement on Climate, by 2030 greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 45 percent, and that adaptation measures presuppose, first and foremost, the protection of population groups living in areas degrees are subjected to the negative effects of global warming.
The leaders of the UN system stressed that developed countries should make efforts to mobilize financial resources - about 100 billion dollars a year - to support measures to combat climate change in developing countries.
They noted the crucial role of innovation in reducing emissions, the transition to a green economy and new development models.
"Innovations are not only technologies, they are also forward-looking plans, new business models and financial instruments, innovative methods of cooperation, including regional ones," said the UN leaders.
They also promised that measures to reduce the negative impact on the environment will be integrated into the UN system itself. Many agencies of the Organization have already taken the first steps towards reducing emissions, efficient waste management, energy saving and switching to renewable energy sources. Since June of this year, the UN headquarters in | 283 |
Joe Ortiz's head and Lexi Nutter's right leg led to Albuquerque Metro Soccer Championships on Friday night.
Ortiz's late header was the difference for Cibola against La Cueva, while Nutter had a pair of direct-kick goals for Rio Rancho in their victory over La Cueva at the APS Complex.
CIBOLA 1,<|fim_middle|> over the Bears' defense and over Walker's head for a 2-0 advantage.
"I was just hoping to get a good cross," Nutter said.
"I just told her to put it on goal as hard as she could," Rams coach Uwe Balzis said.
Rio Rancho is off to a flying 7-0 start, and now the Rams face perhaps the toughest week of their regular season, with matchups against last year's Class 4A state champion, St. Pius, on Tuesday, and a rematch with these Bears (4-1) on Thursday.
La Cueva's Cassie Boren had the Bears' goal, which was also off a direct kick, in the 62nd minute. | LA CUEVA 0: The Cougars won their second straight metro title, and this one came down to sheer math against the 4-1 Bears.
In the 74th minute, the 6-foot-1 Ortiz and another Cibola teammate, went up in the air for a 50-50 ball with a La Cueva defender and Bears freshman goalkeeper Anthony Muñoz right near the penalty-kick stripe.
Ortiz, a junior, got his head on the ball before Muñoz, shorter by several inches, could get his hands on it, and Ortiz redirected the ball into the open net.
The goal send Cibola's large and loud crowd into a lather as the Cougars finished a 5-0 run through the metro field.
"When it really matters in big games, Joe is usually one of the guys that comes up big for us," Cougars coach Cameron Clarke said.
Muñoz, La Cueva coach Kevin Driggs said, hesitated ever so briefly before making a play on the ball, which probably gave Ortiz the brief opening he needed on the game-winner.
But Muñoz helped keep this game scoreless for most of the way, playing beyond his years.
Cibola will face perhaps its toughest test of the season next week, when the Cougars meet Sandia Prep.
RIO RANCHO 2, LA CUEVA 1: Nutter occupies a center-back position for the Rams, but when Rio Rancho has a direct kick, they turn to the junior.
And did she ever deliver on Friday night, with two terrific direct-kick goals, one of them from her half of the pitch.
Nutter's first goal came from 55 to 60 yards away with about 10 minutes left in the first half.
It took one bounce and went over the head of La Cueva goalkeeper Grace Walker.
Five minutes later, she lined up for another one, this time from about 35 yards out. She used a helping wind to curve it | 420 |
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ASI elections: What if there's no winner?
by jon April 22, 2014 August 29, 2022
In the case that no Associated Students, Inc. presidential candidate receives at least 50 percent of the student<|fim_middle|> any election strategies. Wasta said while the campaign managers are aware of the rule, it's not continuously on his mind.
"We're not running this campaign telling people to vote for Joi as your No. 2 choice," Wasta said. "But we're saying, 'Even if you're not voting for Joi, make sure to rank another candidate.'"
Voting opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday and continues until 7 a.m. on Thursday. Students can vote for president and Board of Directors on their My Cal Poly Portal. ASI will announce the winners on Thursday at 11 a.m., after the Atmosphere concert in the Recreation Center.
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Candidates need a majority of the vote – 50 percent – to win the Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) presidency. But what if that doesn't happen?
With three candidates running for the presidency this year, it's a very real possibility the one with the most votes might not have enough to win outright. This brings in a practice called instant run-off.
When students vote for their next president, they can also choose a second candidate. If their No. 1 pick doesn't win and the overall winner doesn't have at least half the votes, the student's vote will be transferred to their No. 2 choice.
This happened last year, when four candidates ran, because current president and agricultural business senior Jason Colombini wasn't able to win at least half the votes in the first round. Political science senior Daniel Wasta, who ran against Colombini and is managing Joi Sullivan's election campaign this time around, said he thinks the strength of this year's candidate pool could mean an instant run-off scenario is likely.
Still, it doesn't appear to be changing | 252 |
FOMC recap: Powell doesn't rock the boat, key trends intact
Matt Weller, CFA, CMT December 17, 2020 4:22 AM
With the Fed doing little to rock the proverbial vote, the market's well-established trends are likely to reassert themselves in the coming days...
As we noted in our FOMC preview report earlier this week, traders were split on what to expect from the central bank, with one subset expecting no immediate changes to policy, another group looking for a change to the maturity profile of asset purchases, and a small contingent even anticipating an outright expansion of the central bank's quantitative easing program.
As it turns out, the first group was correct. The FOMC opted to leave its interest rates and all of its policies unchanged, though the group did vow to keep its asset purchases "until substantial further progress has been made toward the Committee's maximum employment and price stability goals." Compared to the outright policy changes that (some) traders were expecting today, this vague, nonbinding restatement of an already-enacted policy was a disappointment to doves.
Turning our attention to the Fed's Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), the central bank has seemingly grown more optimistic on the prospects for the US economy. Specifically, the median Fed member made the following changes to his/her economic projections:
Raised real GDP forecasts by 0.2% for both 2021 (to 4.2%) and 2022 (to 3.2%)
Lowered unemployment rate expectations for 2021 (to 5.0%), 2022 (4.2%), and 2023 (3.7%)
Raised core PCE inflation projections for 2021 (1.8%) and 2022 (1.9%)
In other words, US central bankers see the US economy growing more quickly, with fewer unemployed citizens and marginally higher inflation, than they did three months ago. Nonetheless, the central bank's infamous "dot plot" of interest rate expectations was essentially unchanged, meaning that the median Fed policymaker still expects interest rates to remain at 0.00% through at least 2023.
Combining these takeaways, it's clear that the Fed has taken its "average inflation targeting" policy to heart; Jerome<|fim_middle|> the maturity profile of the Fed's asset purchases were quick to close their trades once the central bank opted to stand pat. The kneejerk reaction was a 20-pip bounce in the US dollar against its major rivals, a quick 2bps spike in 10-year treasury yields to 0.94%, and a dip in major US indices.
However, as Fed Chairman Powell has taken the stage and indicated that any reduction in bond purchases is still a ways off, these initial moves have started to unwind. Most notably, US indices are now trading higher than they were before the Fed's statement hit the wires, with all major indices now back in positive territory.
With the Fed doing little to rock the proverbial vote, the market's well-established trends (stocks up, dollar down, gold and bitcoin up) are likely to reassert themselves in the coming days, so traders may want to consider fading any short-term counter-trend moves over the next week.
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More from FED | Powell and company will only remove current stimulus programs and consider raising interest rates once inflation starts to approach, if not meaningfully exceed, the central bank's 2.0% target.
As anticipated, traders who were positioned for changes to | 47 |
Simoncelli's WorldSBK podium: Imola Race 2 2009 set for FREE streaming
Friday, 8 May 2020 10:40 GMT
The 2009 World Superbike season had it all but the Imola round will be remembered for one reason: Marco Simoncelli's outstanding podium…
Another Sunday without live motorcycle racing continues but the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship is ready to supply your fix for more classic action. With this weekend being the weekend of Imola, there's plenty of races to choose from. Having already got the all-time classic of Imola in 2002 and Race 2 ready<|fim_middle|>1 | for you, this time, we will relive the incredible moment of Marco Simoncelli's only WorldSBK podium, which also featured a Ducati 1-2 at the front of the field. It will be streamed from 3pm CET.
The battle was on from the start as Michel Fabrizio led teammate Noriyuki Haga, Max Biaggi and Shane Byrne. However, all attention would soon turn to Marco Simoncelli, with the Italian in a one-off ride in place of the injured Shinya Nakano. 'SuperSic' was up to sixth by the end of Lap 1 and soon, we be in a battle with his Aprilia teammate Max Biaggi. On Lap 13, Simoncelli made a bold pass to take third, forcing Biaggi wide with the Italian veteran pushing Ben Spies off-track in the process. Out front, it was a fairytale for Fabrizio, who won at Monza earlier in the year and now, added Imola to his list, beating Haga. However, it was Marco Simoncelli who dazzled in third.
Other classics that've premiered on our YouTube Channel are available. The all-timeless moment of Tom Sykes' title-clinching moment from Jerez Race 1, 2013 is already available. Neil Hodgson's first win in front of 100,000 home fans at Donington Park in 2000 in Race 2 is also there, whilst the latest one to enjoy is the Battle of Buriram from Race 2 in 2016, when Tom Sykes defeated Jonathan Rea in an epic last lap shootout. There's also the awesomeness of Race 1 at Assen in 2009, with a head-to-head final lap dogfight between Ben Spies and Noriyuki Haga and the first title for an Italian in WorldSBK, with Max Biaggi at Imola in Race 2, 2010. The most recent Premiere was the titanic duel from Race 2 at Hockenheim in 1996, Carl Fogarty's first win for Honda.
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Known for starting his<|fim_middle|> posters | Sort by size: All | A0 | A1 | own production company while a student at The University of Texas at Austin, Ashton Holloman has produced multiple films while learning every aspect of the filmmaking process. He was born in Killeen, Texas and grew up on a small ranch. He spent his childhood playing football and learning to box with his coach Roland Cager. He first studied acting through an online masterclass taught by Dustin Hoffman. Inspired and moved by that class and the passion Dustin Hoffman brought to it, he subsequently took classes at The University of Texas in both improvisational drama with José Casa and acting with Elizabeth Doss. Continuing his pursuit, he studied acting for film in Austin with acting coaches Mona Lee, Marco Perella, and Will Wallace, then started his own film production company, Holloman Films, Inc. In addition to acting and filmmaking, he studies business and economics, invests in publicly traded companies, and takes classes in Krav Maga. He attended The University of Texas, where he studied Government and Economics. read more
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Are ETF better than mutual funds?
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When following a standard index, ETFs are more tax-efficient and more liquid than mutual funds. This can be great for investors looking to build wealth over the long haul. It is generally cheaper to buy mutual funds directly through a fund family than through a broker.
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Want to know how Shopify increased their userbase by 55% in a single year? How they're about to cross $400 million/year in revenue? It's campaigns like this one."
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I talked to Zack a few weeks ago to learn more about his career and success stories, what made him switch from design to growth, what he learned building 3 growth teams and how people should think about growth. Below is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.
"The road to $100M doesn't start with product. Which is why the term Product Market Fit never sat right with me. Starting with product puts the cart before the horse. You are starting with the solution, and then trying to fit it to the problem. We need to do the reverse. Start with the market, then look at the product. The problem your company exists to solve lies within your market and target audience, not within your product.
Products are built to fit with channels. Channels do not mold to products. The reason for this is that you do not define the rules of the channel. You define your product, but the channel defines the rules of the channel."
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What separates the best acquisition marketers from everyone else is both their ability and determination to figure out the mechanics of how a certain channel works.
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Nuclear Treason Part 1 Who Was Leo Szilard?
Sane nations do not willingly surrender a position superior military strength to potential enemies, for no reason.
Why then did the U.S. Senate recently sign START 2 with Russia, despite a long record of blatant and persistent cheating by Moscow?
Obama and Medvedev, START 2
The United States has signed several nuclear disarmament treaties with the Soviet Union/Russia, always from an ever decreasing position of superiority. Always Moscow has gained and Washington lost ground.
Why has Washington always conceded advantages to Moscow, when there was absolutely no necessity to do so? The blunt answer? Because U.S. policy makers have been persuaded to do so, by American citizens who's loyalty to their home country is questionable.
Leo Szilard
One of the most influential leaders of the U.S. disarmament lobby was former nuclear physicist and Manhattan Project scientist Leo Szilard.
In 1962, two years before his death, Leo Szilard founded a little known organization that would come to have a huge impact on U.S. defense capabilities , the Council for Abolishing War, now known as the Council for a Livable World.
In the early 1960s, Szilard sought a way to influence U.S. defense/disarmament policies at the highest levels.; In 1962, he founded the Council for Abolishing War to raise money for U.S. Senators who favored arms-control treaties. By Szilard's calculus, all states had two Senators, so votes came cheapest by supporting campaigns in the least populous states. The Council's first successful candidate was Sen. George McGovern from South Dakota.
Today the Council supports candidates from all states and the House of Representatives as well.
It was America's first and most successful Political Action Committee for arms control and disarmament.
But who was this man, who sought to buy his way into the heart of U.S. defense policy making?
Leo Szilard was born in Hungary in 1898.
In Budapest during the 1919 Bela Kun Hungarian Soviet Republic, Szilard founded a socialist students association to "help clarify political and economic issues." The Hungarian Association of Socialist Students distributed a pamphlet on tax and monetary reform purportedly written by Szilard.
Bela Kun
Leo Szilard was an enthusiastic supporter of Bela Kun's communist regime. When Kun's government fell, the backlash against communists and Jews persuaded Szilard to leave Hungary for Berlin. there he was involved in a study group dedicated to analyzing Soviet affairs.
In London in the 1930s, Szilard helped organize the Academic Assistance Council to aid refugee scholars. He also proposed enlisting Nobel laureates to protest Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the first time the group was politicized in this way. Both causes were legitimate, but both were also heavily infiltrated by communists and sympathizers.
Szilard's best known political efforts involved his mentor, friend, and fellow communist sympathizer Albert Einstein. In New York in 1939, Szilard proposed and drafted a letter from Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that warned about German nuclear weapons research and urged a U.S. counter-effort.
Einstein and Szilard
Their letter prompted Roosevelt to convene a federal Advisory Committee on Uranium (with Hungarian physicists Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, and Szilard as members) that promised money for Enrico Fermi and Szilard to conduct chain-reaction experiments at Columbia University.
But when this funding from Washington hadn't materialized by the spring of 1940, Szilard enlisted Einstein in an effort at political blackmail. He drafted for Einstein a letter warning the White House that if those funds were not forthcoming, Szilard would publish<|fim_middle|> F.A.S. was founded in 1945 with a membership of more than 2,000 scientists and an advisory panel that included several more communists or sympathizers, including Robert Oppenheimer, Harlow Shapley, and Edward U. Condon , a known associate of several Polish embassy officials.
Leo Szilard was, co-organizer of the first Pugwash conference in 1957, a major series of gatherings involving Western and East Bloc scientists, diplomats and politicians.
Khruschev
In 1960, Szilard gained a private audience with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in New York City. During their two-hour conversation, Szilard gained the Soviet leader's assent for a Moscow-Washington "hot line" to help prevent accidental nuclear war. As a gift, Szilard brought Khrushchev a new razor and promised to send him blades as long as there is no war. "If there is war," said Khrushchev, "I will stop shaving. Most other people will stop shaving, too."
Szilard was also an early affiliate of the far left and pro-disarmament Washington DC based think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies – once described by British security expert Brian Crozier as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the K.G.B."
Leo Szilard died before his attempts to influence U.S. disarmament policies came to fruit, but bear fruit they did.
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6 thoughts on "Nuclear Treason Part 1 Who Was Leo Szilard?"
joel rice says:
That is some quite remarkable reporting. I had no clue that he supported Bela Kun. I did hear that John von Neumann's father played a big part of deposing Kun and his commie pals. Very interesting.
McCarthy was right! From FDR's administration to JFK's administration our government was full of Sovist spies and our secrets were plundered. What is most interesting looking back at what was known was that many of these spies were aided and provided cover by "good people". Politicians sell their souls and will do anything for a vote, power or money. Does anyone think for a second that our government isn't full of spies today? Most of China's sophisticated weaponry was stolen from us. Are we doing enough to find spies and sympathizers today?
Reid of America says:
Unmentioned in the article is Szilard was the first to conceive the atomic bomb. In fact he had a British patent on it. The patent was assigned to the British Admiralty in 1936 to ensure its secrecy.
Szilard had a much larger impact on history then he is given credit for.
That picture of Einstein and Szilard looks fake.
The photographic of Einstein and Szilard appears in a slide-show on the DOE's website devoted to the Manhattan Project, at
http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/people.htm
On the page giving sources, at
http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/sources.htm ,
DOE writes of this photo:
1939-1942: Early Government Support
The photograph of Albert Einstein with Leo Szilard is courtesy the Federation of American Scientists.
There is a link to the FAS site, where a search for the exact string
Einstein Szilard
turns up several interesting-looking articles; but I haven't searched through them for the photo.
So let me see if i get this right… Szilard invents the chain reaction fathers the nuclear reactor and atom bomb among other things, brings his ideas to the US where he literally had to blackmail the US government into action on the development of the bomb just so he can spy for the Russians??? LOL… What a silly illogical hit piece on Szilard…
btw, Szilard was offered 1 dollar for the patent of the nuclear reactor by the US government and when he refused Groves went ape on him… and now Trevor does the same for no reason… | a paper detailing just how a chain reaction in uranium could work. Soon, Fermi and Szilard received their money.
By 1942 Szilard was working on the Allied effort to develop the Atomic Bomb – the Manhattan Project,
However Szilard was already under suspicion.
General Groves, head of the Project declared Szilard to be detrimental to the project and that he should be arrested and interned for the duration of the Second World War.
Were Groves' suspicions founded?
Sudoplatov
According to Pavel Sudoplatov, former wartime director of the Administration for Special Tasks, an elite unit of the Soviet intelligence service, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, knowingly supplied information to Soviet contacts during their work on the Manhattan Project.
Sudoplatov wrote in his 1994 book "Special Tasks, Memoirs of an unwanted witness-A soviet Spymaster";
The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American atomic bomb – Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard."
Oppenheimer, Fermi, Szilard, and Szilard's secretary were often quoted in the NKVD files from 1942 to 1945 as sources for information on the development of the first American atomic bomb. It is in the record that on several occasions they agreed to share information on nuclear weapons with Soviet scientists. At first they were motivated by fear of Hitler; they believed that the Germans might produce the first atomic bomb. Then the Danish physicist Niels Bohr helped strengthen their own inclinations to share nuclear secrets with the world academic community. By sharing their knowledge with the Soviet Union, the chance of beating the Germans to the bomb would be increased."
As early as 1940, a commission of Soviet scientists, upon hearing rumors of a superweapon being built in the West, investigated the possibility of creating an atomic bomb from uranium, but concluded that such a weapon was a theoretical, not a practical, possibility. The same scientific commission recommended that the government instruct intelligence services to monitor Western scientific publications …
We were able to take advantage of the network of colleagues that Gamow had established. Using implied threats against Gamow's relatives in Russia, Elizabeth Zarubina pressured him into cooperating with us. In exchange for safety and material support for his relatives, Gamow provided the names of left-wing scientists who might be recruited to supply secret information. …"
Another route was from the mole who worked with Fermi and Pontecorvo. The mole in Tennessee was connected with the illegal station at the Santa Fe drugstore, from which material was sent by courier to Mexico. The unidentified young moles, along with the Los Alamos mole, were junior scientists or administrators who copied vital documents to which they were allowed access by Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Szilard, who were knowingly part of the scheme.
We received reports on the progress of the Manhattan Project from Oppenheimer and his friends in oral form, through comments and asides, and from documents transferred through clandestine methods with their full knowledge that the information they were sharing would be passed on. In all, there were five classified reports made available by Oppenheimer describing the progress of work on the atomic bomb."
Not only were we informed of technical developments in the atomic program, but we heard in detail the human conflicts and rivalries among the members of the team at Los Alamos. A constant theme was tension with General Groves, director of the project. We were told of Groves's conflicts with Szilard. Groves was outraged by Szilard's iconoclastic style and his refusal to accept the strictures of military discipline. The "baiting of brass hats" was Szilard's self-professed hobby. Groves believed that Szilard was a security risk and tried to prevent him from working on the Manhattan Project despite Szilard's seminal contribution to the development of the first atomic chain reaction with Fermi. ...
Sudoplatov claims that Soviet spy chief Lavrenti Beria had post war plans for their Manhattan Project friends.
Beria
After our reactor was put into operation in 1946, Beria issued orders to stop all contacts with our American sources in the Manhattan Project; the FBI was getting close to uncovering some of our agents. Beria said we should think how to use Oppenheimer, Fermi, Szilard, and others around them in the peace campaign against nuclear armament. Disarmament and the inability to impose nuclear blackmail would deprive the United States of its advantage. We began a worldwide political campaign against nuclear superiority, which kept up until we exploded our own nuclear bomb, in 1949. Our goal was to preempt American power politically before the Soviet Union had its own bomb. Beria warned us not to compromise Western scientists, but to use their political influence.
Comrade Beria's advice turned out to be sound. Szilard's usefulness to the Soviet cause only incresaed after the War.
One of Szilard's first projects was the strongly pro-disarmament Federation of American Scientists, started with former communist and alleged spy Philip Morrison, and communist sympathizer Harold Urey . | 1,093 |
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The Beekman Group has invested in Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry. Financial terms weren't announced. Riccobene Associates, of Cary, North Carolina, provides general and multi-specialty dental service. Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP and David Keys of BB&T Capital Markets advised Dr. Riccobene. Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP advised Beekman on the transaction.
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Israeli Medtech Startup Kahun Harnesses AI to Provide Doctors With Real-Time Covid-19 Data
Kahun's new tool offers quick and easy access to information from thousands of published medical studies on the disease, using an algorithm that mimics the diagnosis process of physicians
Ron Friedman 15:3007.04.20
Kahun
Though coronavirus (Covid-19) has only been in our lives for a few months, according to online medical library PubMed more than 2,500 research papers have already been published on the virus, more than any time-pressed physician can hope to catch up on between caring for patients and worrying about protecting themselves and their families. Enter Kahun Ltd., an Israel-based medtech startup that harnesses artificial intelligence technologies to scan vast amounts of data from published peer-reviewed studies and offer it in the form of easy to use knowledge graphs.
Last week, Kahun launched a free artificial intelligence tool that gives doctors access to the most recent information from medical research on coronavirus, in order to help them come to a quick diagnosis.
Eitan Ron (right) Dr. Michal Tzuchman Katz and Tal Goldberg are the founders of Kahun. Photo: Ariel Sacerdoti
Journal-published medical studies are the bread and butter of physicians, Kahun co-founder Eitan Ron told CTech in an interview Tuesday. "What we do is give them a tool to make their searches more efficient, help them make decisions, and offer workup suggestions, all while providing a transparent path to the clinical reasoning behind the AI-produced graph," Ron said.
According to Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz—another of Kahun's co-founders and a practicing medical physician who helped design the algorithm—the knowledge graph is updated in real-time as more research related to coronavirus becomes available. The symptom correlation score and the graph are a reflection of how a physician thinks in the real world while treating patients, she wrote in a statement.
An example of serach results on Kahun's Covid-19 website
The Covid-19 outbreak caught Kahun in the middle of a pilot conducted in partnership with several Israeli hospitals to test its core application, with a focus on diagnosing internal medicine issues. The shift to coronavirus-related studies was the company's attempt at joining the international medical community's efforts to deal with the pandemic, Ron said.
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A graph shows the number of medical studies on Covid-19 found on Pubmed9
Kahun's Covid-19 website is open not just to doctors but to the public, as well, letting anyone enter symptoms and dive into a vast world of medical studies and statistics on symptom correlation with relatively easy to understand scores and links to the relevant literature.
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Harleighblu album launch – Nottingham Contemporary, Friday October 18
Posted in gigs, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Post by Mike A on October 26, 2013
Originally published in the Nottingham Post.
Can't Stop Won't Stop,<|fim_middle|>, Supernatural took on the role of musical director, coaxing the band members into unscripted breakdowns and solos, and making the homecoming homegirl blush with his tributes: "Nottingham's queen… better than Amy Winehouse!"
It was a suitably climactic end to a triumphant show, celebrating Harleighblu's achievements and launching her career onto the next level. "Absolutely mental", it might have been – but it was thoroughly deserved, too.
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[…] Harleighblu album launch – Nottingham Contemporary […] | the promoters of Harleighblu's Friday night album launch at Nottingham Contemporary, chose their support acts wisely. First up was local lad Ady Suleiman, who is also enjoying a landmark year, with appearances at the Glastonbury Festival and on the Radio One playlist. Accompanied by Ed Black on guitar, and performing without the safety net of a rhythm section, he delivered a crisp set of acoustic R&B that showcased an impressive vocal command and a razor-sharp sense of timing.
Special guest MC Supernatural – a veteran of the New York hip hop scene, who holds the world record for the longest continuous freestyle rap – charmed the swelling crowd with a warm-hearted and hugely entertaining display of his skills. His quickfire impersonations of Busta Rhymes, Slick Rick, Biggie Smalls and DMX drew roars of laughter, as did his closing freestyle session, in which he grabbed items from the crowd – lipstick, beer, vaseline, you name it – and incorporated them into his non-stop rhymes, never missing a beat.
Interrupting an effusive opening speech from organiser Parisa Eliyon, for fear of bursting into tears before the show had even started, Harleighblu strode onto the stage wreathed in smiles, and eager to entertain. This was her second album launch of the week – "we've got London out of the way" – and the 21 year-old's delight was plain to see. "I've even seen my liitle bobble head in HMV", she grinned, gazing wide-eyed at the packed room and declaring that "this is absolutely mental".
Released last Monday, Harleighblu's debut album Forget Me Not is a shrewdly sequenced collection, which divides into two contrasting halves. At the start, we find her struggling to set herself free from a toxic relationship with a charismatic and charming cheater. Wise to all his tricks, and refusing to play the role of victim, she nails him with devastating eloquence. In the second half, as the mood switches from gritty funk to swooningly orchestrated neo-soul, a new love enters her life, bringing fresh hope for a better future.
Songs such as these require dexterity and range, and it was a delight to witness the singer rising to the challenge with such consummate ease. Opening with the withering Enough Now, and following it with her mocking re-interpretation of Annie Lennox's Who's That Girl, she commanded the stage, expertly fusing the roles of soul diva and jazz chanteuse. Her regular six-piece band surrounded her, supporting her vocal flights with empathy and precision.
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Our weather is temperate year round, and many would describe it as "Mediterranean". It's | 189 |
Herbal Ice is applied as a superior alternative to ice for fresh injuries.
Made from the San Huang San formula!
San Huang San is a combination of 3 cooling herbs that effectively alleviate pain and inflammation in injuries. Unlike the ice pack that is used in Western settings, these 3 herbs help increase local circulation to break stasis, while cooling energy reduces heat and pain, helping accelerate and smooth the natural healing process. Try applying this liniment instead of ice and see the difference!
Additionally, we add 1 extra "yellow" to the original San Huang San formula which assists the original recipe by increasing local circulation to reduce stagnation from bleeding (hematoma): The Plum Dragon Herbs 4<|fim_middle|> cover the injury with liquid and rub into skin. Repeat as often as needed to manage pain and swelling.
Rhubarb, Phellodendron Bark, Skullcap, Cattail Pollen.
Use as an superior alternative to ice for fresh injuries where there are no cuts or broken skin. | yellows Herbal Ice formula is born!
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<|fim_middle|>0: Adele's "Easy On Me" Earns 8th Week As #1 Song In America, "Heat Waves," "We Don't Talk About Bruno" Top 5
The Weeknd's "Sacrifice," GAYLE's "ABCDEFU" Share Most Added Honor At Hot Adult Contemporary Radio | Lauren Spencer-Smith's "Fingers Crossed" Makes Billboard Hot 100 After Short Tracking Week, Set For Pop Radio Push
"Fingers Crossed" is making early waves in the music industry.
Lauren Spencer-Smith | Fingers Crossed Cover | in2une
It may not have officially launched until late in the tracking period, but Lauren Spencer-Smith's "Fingers Crossed" earned enough activity to make the Billboard Hot 100.
"Fingers Crossed" starts at #69 on the all-genre listing, which ranks songs based on streams, sales, and radio airplay. This week's chart accounts for the December 31-January 6 tracking period; "Fingers Crossed" notably did not arrive until January 5.
It had also not officially launched as a radio single by the time tracking concluded, although that fact will be changing. "Fingers Crossed" is now going for mainstream airplay, with the first playlist adds to be reported this week.
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Billboard Hot 10 | 223 |
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Mobile and other technologies make possible anytime, anywhere learning to extend education to previously underserved adults and to expand learning beyond<|fim_middle|> digital learning in any topics and with all demographics.
Watch the webinar, then join the discussion!
Recorded on Friday, February 23, 2018. | classroom walls. Technology can also accelerate outcomes through personalized instruction and practice. In this webinar, our EdTech Center experts Heide Wrigley and Alison Ascher Webber highlight emerging best practices and innovative program models that organizations across the country are using for distance and blended ESL instruction for immigrants and refugees at all skill levels. They share the range of critical supports the organizations provide to meet the needs of specific demographics as they recruit, train, and coach immigrants for educational success, career mobility, and increased civic engagement. Though the examples in this webinar are primarily from ESL programs, the best practices discussed apply to | 120 |
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