Wait a moment. This is a misleading list. All these failures and one, final success only? It doesn't work this way. Do you want a proof? Let's take a look at this second, longer list instead.
Now the progression towards success appears more clear and reasonable.
A common misconception: "You need to learn from your mistakes". What do we really learn from our mistakes? We might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? We still don't know what we should do next.
Let's contrast that with learning from our successes. Success gives us real ammunition. When something succeeds, we know what worked and we can do it again. And the next time, we'll probably do it even better.
Failure is not a prerequisite for success. Jason Fried in his book "Rework" reports that a Harvard Business School study found already-successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again (the success rate for their future companies is 34 percent). But entrepreneurs whose companies failed the first time had almost the same follow-on success rate as people starting a company for the first time: just 23 percent. People who failed before have the same amount of success as people who have never tried at all. Success is therefore the experience that actually counts.


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Mr. Berkeley received his undergraduate degree in 2005 from the University of Washington, Seattle, double majoring in Political Science and Communication. Mr. Berkeley graduated from California Western School of Law in 2008. Mr. Berkeley was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2009 and is licensed to practice in all California state and district courts. Mr. Berkeley is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association. Mr. Berkeley joined the Firm as an associate in June 2009.


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Schwanengesang (Originaltitel Swan Song) ist ein Science-Fiction-Film von Benjamin Cleary, der am 17. Dezember 2021 in das Programm von Apple TV+ aufgenommen wurde. In dem Filmdrama lässt sich der von Mahershala Ali gespielte Protagonist klonen, um seiner Familie nach seinem Tod Schmerz und Kummer zu ersparen.

Handlung
Cameron Turner ist unheilbar krank. Er verschweigt seinen Zustand jedoch gegenüber seiner schwangeren Frau Poppy und ihrem kleinen Sohn Cory und wendet sich an die Arra Labs in Vancouver, wo Dr. Jo Scott und der Psychologe Dalton gemeinsam mit ihrem kleinen Team von menschlichen und androiden Mitarbeitern ihren Klienten eine noch experimentelle aber revolutionäre Behandlung anbieten. Sie klonen diese und statten deren Duplikate mit ihren ganzen Erinnerungen und ihrem Unterbewusstsein aus. Auf diesem Wege versuchen kranke Menschen ihren Liebsten ein Geschenk zu machen und ihnen Trauer und Sorgen zu ersparen, die mit ihrem Tod einhergehen würden. Das Verfahren stellt alle Beteiligten auch vor ethische Herausforderungen. Die tief im Wald gelegene Einrichtung fungiert zugleich als ein Hospiz für die Kunden, die dort ihre letzte Lebenszeit verbringen.

Nachdem man den perfekten und gesunden Klon von Cameron mit all seinen Erinnerungen ausgestattet hat, die bis zu seiner Geburt zurückreichen, wird der Jack genannte Doppelgänger aktiviert. Als ihm klar wird, dass dieser nun seinerstatt bis zu seinem Lebensende glücklich bei "seiner" Familie leben wird, während er selbst seine letzten Tage in dem Labor verbringen muss, kommen Bedenken in Cameron auf.

Produktion

Regie führte Benjamin Cleary, der auch das Drehbuch schrieb. Es handelt sich nach den Kurzfilmen Wave und Stutterer um seine erste Regiearbeit bei einem Spielfilm.

Mahershala Ali übernahm die Hauptrolle von Cameron Turner und die seines Klons Jack, Naomie Harris spielt seine Frau Poppy. Die Mitwirkung von Glenn Close wurde im November 2020 bekannt. Sie spielt Dr. Jo Scott, die Leiterin der Arra Labs. Adam Beach spielt ihren Kollegen Dalton. Awkwafina ist in der Rolle von Kate zu sehen.

Die Dreharbeiten fanden im kanadischen Vancouver in British Columbia statt.

Ursprünglich sollten Dustin O'Halloran und Herdís Stefánsdóttir die Filmmusik komponieren. Letztlich wurde Jay Wadley mit dieser Arbeit betraut. Das Soundtrack-Album mit insgesamt 25 Musikstücken soll am 17. Dezember 2021 von Lakeshore Records als Download veröffentlicht werden.

Der Film feierte am 12. November 2021 beim AFI Fest seine Premiere. Kurz zuvor wurde der erste Trailer vorgestellt. Am 17. Dezember 2021 wurde Swan Song in das Programm von AppleTV+ aufgenommen.

Rezeption

Kritiken
Von den bei Rotten Tomatoes aufgeführten Kritiken sind bislang 79 Prozent positiv.

Reinhard Kleber vom Filmdienst schreibt, Benjamin Clearys Langfilmdebüt besteche durch eine erstaunlich stilsichere Inszenierung, die trotz des heiklen, schicksalsschweren Themas jeden Anflug von Rührseligkeit oder gar Weinerlichkeit zu meiden versteht. Der Film punktet überdies mit elegant-kühlem Design, starken Bildkompositionen und einer zurückhaltenden, aber wirkungsvollen Filmmusik, die sich nie in den Vordergrund drängt. Dazu kommen smarte Science-Fiction-Objekte, die die Handlung unaufdringlich in der nahen Zukunft verorten. Auch wenn Clearys bemerkenswert reifer Regieeinstand kleine Schönheitsfehler aufweise, so die in der zweiten Hälfte des Films durch die vielen Rückblenden entstehenden Redundanzen, stelle das Near Future-Drama umso dringlicher schwerwiegende moralische und philosophische Fragen, so Kleber: "Welche Opfer ist man bereit zu bringen, um seine Familie zu schonen? […] Was bleibt vom Menschsein, von der Einzigartigkeit des Individuums, wenn ein perfekter Klon einen Menschen offenkundig nahtlos ersetzen kann?" So liefere der Film reichlich Denkanstöße, unter anderem mit Blick auf Potenziale und Risiken des Transhumanismus.

Valerie Complex von Deadline.com hebt in ihrer Kritik die elektrisierende Leistung von Mahershala Ali hervor. Der zweifache Oscar-Preisträger habe in Swan Song eine tolle Chemie mit sich selbst, und der Zuschauer könne sich in Camerons Lage versetzen und seinen inneren Kampf nachvollziehen. So erzähle Swan Song eine kraftvolle und bewegende Geschichte von den fünf Phasen der Trauer, der Leugnung/Verdrängung, Wut, Verarbeitung/Bewältigung, Depression und letztlich der Akzeptanz, die Cameron durchläuft, während er sich selbst an seinen eigenen Klon verliert.

Auszeichnungen
Black Reel Awards 2021
 Nominierung als Bester Hauptdarsteller (Mahershala Ali)

British Academy Film Awards 2022
 Nominierung als Bester Hauptdarsteller (Mahershala Ali)

Golden Globe Awards 2022
 Nominierung als Bester Schauspieler (Mahershala Ali)

Irish Film and Television Awards 2022
 Nominierung als Bester Film
 Nominierung für die Beste Regie (Benjamin Cleary)
 Nominierung für das Beste Drehbuch (Benjamin Cleary)
 Nominierung für den Besten Filmschnitt (Nathan Nugent)
 Auszeichnung für den Besten Ton (Steve Fanagan)
 Nominierung für die Besten visuellen Effekte (Ed Bruce und Manuel Martinez)

Weblinks

 Swan Song – Drehbuch zum Film (PDF; 744 kB)
 Swan Song – Official Trailer von Apple TV+ bei YouTube (Video, englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2021
US-amerikanischer Film
Filmdrama
Science-Fiction-Film
Klonen im Film

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Preview: Hitmen vs Blades Oct. 5
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There's no place like home.
The Hitmen continue their six-game homestand Friday night against the Saskatoon Blades in the first meeting of the season between the clubs.
Last year saw the Hitmen finish 2-2 against the Blades, with both teams winning once at home and once on the road, and three of the four meetings decided by a single goal. Tristen Nielsen led the Hitmen in scoring during the season series with six points, (4G, 2A), while Jake Kryski was next with five (1G, 4A).
The Hitmen are coming off a tough winless three-in-three set last weekend, with the most recent clash ending in a 6-5 overtime loss to the Red Deer Rebels. Mark Kastelic scored a pair of goals, while Zach Huber, Carson Focht and Josh Prokop added single markers. Prokop's goal was the first in his WHL career.
Despite still searching for their first win, head coach Steve Hamilton knows that the club has yet to reach their potential and play to their capability.
"The schedule is never soft," Hamilton said about the tilt. "It's another high octane team and we can't play a loose defensive game. If we do we'll pay the price for it, we have to be all in for every detail of the game.
"We need to see our game through for the whole duration."
Saskatoon meanwhile head into the tilt after a 5-3 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings Wednesday night, to improve their record to 4-2 on the new season. Friday will mark the second game of a four-game Central Alberta road swing which wraps up Saturday night in Lethbridge.
The Hitmen will have a couple of days off after Friday's game, returning to action Monday afternoon on Thanksgiving Day when the Prince Albert Raiders roll into town for a 2 p.m. start, in the fourth game of a six game home swing.
Vladislav Yeryomenko sits one assist shy from 50
Hitmen Milestones:
Mark Kastelic is six points shy of 100.
Vladislav Yeryomenko is one assist away from 50.
Carson Focht is eight points shy of 50.
Hitmen Streaks:
Mark Kastelic (3G, 1A) is riding a three-game point streak.
Jake Kryski (2G, 1A), Josh Prokop (1G, 1A), Luke Coleman (2A), Riley Stotts (2A) and Vladislav Yeryomenko (2A) all have points in back-to-back games.
Jake Kryski leads the Hitmen in four different statistical categories
Hitmen
Goals For: 14
Goals Against: 21
Goals: Jake Kryski (4)
Assists: Several Players Tied (2)
Points: Kryski (5)
Powerplay Goals: Kryski (1)
Shorthanded Goals: Luke Coleman, Kastelic (1)
Shots: Kryski (17)
Top Goalie: Carl Stankowski, 0-2-1, 5.04 GAA, 0.837 SV%
Goals: Kirby Dach, Max Gerlach (4)
Assists: Dach (8)
Points: Dach (12)
Powerplay Goals: Several Players Tied (1)
Shorthanded Goals: Eric Florchuk (1)
Shots: Gerlach (27)
Top Goalie: Nolan Maier 4-2, 2.79 GAA, .899 SV%
Special Teams Rankings:
Powerplay: 1 for 18 5.6% (20th Overall)
Penalty Kill: 69.9% (17th Overall)
Powerplay: 7 for 27 25.9% (8th Overall)
Penalty Kill: 77.3% (14th Overall

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Spatchocked whole chicken with steamed humitas.
Spatchcocked chicken is a great way to prepare a whole bird. By removing the spine & flattening the chicken you get a more even cook, plus it also cooks a little faster.
In a dry heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat, toast the cocoa nibs & sesame seeds. Grind them in a spice grinder or use a mortar & pestle.
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Cobblers boss happy with Croatia progress
Northampton Town boss Aidy Boothroyd has declared himself pleased with the progress of the club's pre-season training camp in Croatia after the first three days.
"The best news is that there is no news," said boss Aidy Boothroyd.
"Things are going perfectly to plan out here. The lads are working hard and although this sounds like a contradiction, we are seeing them both get fitter and getting more tired as the week goes on and as the work they have done builds up.
"Their strength, speed and fitness is improving and we know they are working very hard because most of them are fast asleep by 9pm each evening!
"But that's the point of this trip, to work hard and get this work in the bank.
"We have arranged a behind closed doors training game against a team made up of local players on Saturday evening (4pm kick off BST) just to give some of our lads the feel of an eleven a side game again.
"So far, so good."


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Liberty Green Historic District is a local historic district in the town of Clinton, Connecticut, and Liberty Green is a triangular town green within it.  The district was created in 1979 following a lengthy study, report and enabling ordinance

Description

The Liberty Green Historic District consists of six 18th-century houses and stone walls surrounding a triangular common. The six contiguous properties included within the district are defined on the National Register of Historic Places and consist of four Colonial structures, one Federal/Greek Revival, and one undefined style structure.  The corner property of Liberty Street and East Main Street is an established bed and breakfast.

The district is located within the larger, National Register of Historic Places-listed Clinton Village Historic District.

History
A vestige of 17th-century common land, Liberty Green is a park-like triangle between Liberty Street and East Main Street, encompassing the village green. The common town land was part of a larger open space for militia war drills, and was also the site of one of Clinton's earliest schoolhouses. The Liberty Green Historic District was chosen as the site for the town's Civil War monument (a granite soldier atop a tall pedestal), and a small cannon from the War of 1812.

Beginning in 1846, a group of citizens banded together to plant shade trees and Liberty Green came to assume its present park-like appearance and function. In addition to providing a peaceful public open space, it served a symbolic function, recalling the town's patriotic past and providing the site for memorials to the town's soldiers.

On 5 December 1976, a school group buried a time capsule called the Legacy I on Liberty Green. The schoolchildren indicated that the capsule should be opened on 4 July 2976.

In 2009, the Clinton Town Tree Warden ordered a public tree removal in order to clear half-dozen overgrown trees and prune many large and dangerous branches from the Liberty Green trees. The tree removal provides additional open space and sunlight.

In 2010, the Liberty Green retail complex, located across the street from the historic district, was set to be completed with the construction of a two-story building affording  of retail space and three second-story apartments. This building joins a hardware store, Japanese restaurant, and community health center in the same complex.

Today Liberty Green continues to serve as an important public gathering space for Clinton's townspeople. It is a location for small church festivals and other events, as well as the ceremonial destination of the annual Memorial Day Parade.

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Clinton, Connecticut
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Colonial architecture in Connecticut
Federal architecture in Connecticut
Greek Revival architecture in Connecticut
New England town greens
National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Connecticut


Here are three of our favorite cookie recipes for the Christmas season. These yummy treats are always included in our Christmas cookie tins that we give away to family and friends. And they are always a hit! Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
Directions: Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl with your hands. Easy!
On a large cookie sheet, place the short bread dough and flatten out until even distributed across the whole sheet. Place in a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes. The crust should be slightly golden. Remove from the oven and allow it too cool.
When the crust is relatively cool, place the caramel chips, dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, chopped nuts, and sweetened flaked coconut on top, each in layers. When all is in place, add two cans of sweetened condensed milk to the top, being careful to pour evenly over the top so that it is well distributed.
Place back in the oven for about 10 minutes, or until the edges begin to get golden and bubble.
Allow to cool completely, then cut into 1-2 inch squares. They are very rich, so you don't want them to be too big!
These are always one everyone's top favorites!
In a large mixing bowl, add the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Cream together until smooth with an electric hand mixer. Add the flour and 1 tsp. salt gradually until well mixed.
Take tablespoon sized chunks of dough, roll into a ball, and roll in your egg wash (1 egg in a shallow bowl). Roll the egg washed dough ball in the coconut flakes until well covered. Place each ball on a parchment covered cookie sheet. Press a small indentation into each ball with your index finger. Place in each indentation about 1/4 – 1/2 tsp. of the jam of your choice. You can typically place about a dozen on a sheet. Place in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes, or until the coconut is golden.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla. You can mix all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl, but I never do. Throw all the rest of the ingredients into your mixing bowl and mix together just until everything is incorporated…don't overmix!
Scrape the dough onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. It will be kind of sticky, so you will need a bowl of water close by. Dip your hands into the water so that the dough will not stick to them as you mold the dough into the shape of a log. Gently flatten the log until it's about an inch thick. Place the cookie sheet into the oven for 25-30 minutes. It should be firm, but it will still be a little pale when it comes out.
Allow the biscotti log to cool long enough that you are able to handle it. Using a serrated bread knife, cut individual pieces of biscotti on the bias. Place the biscotti back on the cookie sheet laying it on the cut side. Place them back in the oven for 15-20 minutes until they are golden brown. They should be crunchy and are enjoyed best by dunking in hot coffee!


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UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Twenty-six New Year's Eve parties will be coordinated for children of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation's employees and everyone else in Nizhniy Tagil during this holiday season. 17,656 children will be given candy and chocolate as presents, the company press service reports.
'An ice sculpture park was put up next to I.V. Okunev Culture Palace by order of Ural Vagon Zavod. This year's theme is reminiscent of a special date for the Soviet film-making company Soyuzmultfilm (which was founded eighty years ago this year), so the thirteen ice sculptures represent famous and beloved characters from Soviet animation films: Winnie-the-Pooh, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, Three from Prostokvashino, Nu, Pogodi!, Cheburashka (Topple), and Mother For a Little Mammoth. Several tintamarresques are provided for special photo moments, as well as two-slope slides for the younger children. There are banners featuring the most memorable episodes from the animated series around the New Year's tree. A little rooster, this year's animal according to the Chinese zodiac, is the key feature of the park,' the press service says.
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'The festering issue' – the legality of a second independence referendum
Posted on June 20, 2022 by The Constitution Unit
With the Scottish government gearing up for a second independence referendum, questions have been raised about whether or not the Scottish Parliament can legislate for such a poll in a way that the courts will find lawful. In this post, David Torrance discusses the wording of the relevant legislation and the impact of subsequent caselaw, concluding that the prevailing legal understanding is that even a consultative referendum would be outside the scope of the parliament's powers.
During the House of Lords' consideration of what would become the Scotland Act 1998, Lord (Donald) Mackay of Drumadoon (a former Lord Advocate and subsequently a Scottish judge) told peers it would be 'perfectly possible to construct a respectable legal argument' that it was within the legislative competence of the soon-to-be-created Scottish Parliament to pass a bill authorising an independence referendum.
Lord Mackay added that he remained 'convinced that the law on this matter should be clarified. If it is not then the festering issue as to whether the Scottish parliament is competent to hold such a referendum will rumble on.' That was arguably a dictionary definition of prescience.
The debate, if not 'festering' does indeed 'rumble on' nearly a quarter of a century later, yet much of the commentary seems curiously circular, turning over arguments which might have been relevant in 1998 or 2012 but are less so in 2022. Chief among these is the idea that an 'advisory' or 'consultative' referendum might pass muster if the dispute were to reach the Supreme Court.
But first let us return to the Lords in 1998. Speaking for the government, Lords Sewel and Hardie (respectively a Scottish Office minister and the then Lord Advocate) were clear that an independence referendum bill would 'relate to' the reserved matter of the Union between Scotland and England and would therefore be ultra vires and outside the competence of the Scottish Parliament. As Lord (David) Hope of Craighead later observed, 'the Scotland Act provides its own dictionary'.
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The Sewel convention and Brexit
In March, the Constitution Unit co-published a new report, Parliament and Brexit, in which some of the UK's leading academics examine how parliament has managed Brexit to date, and how it might seek to handle the issue in future. Here, Nicola McEwen discusses how the Sewel convention, which regulates the relationship between the UK Parliament and its devolved counterparts, was put under strain by Brexit.
There are four legislatures in the UK, but only one of these is sovereign. The sovereignty of the Westminster parliament remains one of the most important principles of the UK constitution. Each of the devolution statutes made clear that conferral of law-making powers on the devolved institutions 'does not affect the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make laws' for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales – including in areas of devolved competence. But Westminster's parliamentary sovereignty is offset by the constitutional convention that it will not normally legislate in areas of devolved competence, or alter the competences of the devolved institutions, without their consent.
That convention, commonly known as the Sewel convention, has become an important principle underpinning UK devolution. It represents a tacit understanding that the devolved institutions, each of which was founded on popular consent in a referendum, have primary democratic and political authority over laws within their areas of competence.
From the outset, the scope of the Sewel convention was ambiguous. The UK and devolved governments have frequently disagreed on the extent to which UK legislation necessitates legislative consent from the devolved institutions. When tasked with determining its status following its inclusion in the Scotland Act 2016 and the Wales Act 2017, the Supreme Court in Miller I concluded that it remained a convention rather than a legal rule, therefore 'the policing of its scope and the manner of its operation does not lie within the constitutional remit of the judiciary'. The Court thus left it to politicians and parliament to determine the operation and interpretation of the convention. Continue reading →
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Politics, courts and the UK's single market
Posted on November 22, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
Brexit is likely to pose numerous legal questions about how the various parts of the UK relate to each other once the UK leaves the EU. Deborah Mabbett argues that the recent Supreme Court decision on prorogation is therefore unlikely to be the last time the judiciary is called upon to decide a matter related to Brexit.
Even among those who welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on the prorogation of parliament, there has been concern that it has entered into dangerous new territory. It might have been forced there by a Prime Minister who failed to observe convention, or by a parliament that resiled from its duty to remove a government which has no majority, but forced it was, and this is a source of concern and regret. Several commentators have argued that the decision paves the way for a nasty and unpredictable election structured around a populist opposition of courts and parliament versus 'The People', and indeed those who see Dominic Cummings as an evil genius fear that this was the intention of the prorogation in the first place.
For those seeking a calmer view, the Court is clear in its self-assessment that, far from entering new territory, it is firmly placed on ground it has held all along. It has upheld the rule of law, in the specific sense of imposing limitations on arbitrary authority. This is the daily bread and butter of administrative law, of which there is a great deal more than excitable commentators seem to realise. Below the public gaze, the courts have dug in their heels over countless daily exercises of executive power, including the mistreatment of immigrants, the removal of welfare rights and the denial of access to justice. True, the arbitrary power challenged in these cases is not exercised by the contemporary king—the Prime Minister—but by the agents and minions of the state. Escalating the level of scrutiny to the actions of high political figures makes the prorogation decision a matter of constitutional rather than administrative law, but law it is.
On what grounds can it be claimed that the Supreme Court's decision is 'political'? The domains of law and politics cannot be defined by their subject matter, which clearly overlap across great swathes of social issues. We must look instead for differences in method and modes of reasoning. The characteristic method of politics is the structured antagonism of government and opposition, organised around the general political orientations of left and right. The belief that the Court had made this kind of decision seems to be behind the claim of Toby Young and Douglas Carswell, among others, that the prorogation judgment calls for action to ferret out and expose the partisan leanings of the justices. Yet left and right partisanship was obviously beside the point in the decision. Continue reading →
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Is Tory unionism the greatest obstacle to Brexit?
As the Brexit process continues, the Conservative Party is finding it hard to reconcile its desire to leave the EU with its longstanding commitment to maintaining the territorial and political union of the United Kingdom. Michael Kenny argues that, far from introducing a destabilising element to an otherwise sound constitutional set-up, Brexit has instead amplified and accelerated the debate about the UK's territorial constitution.
'I didn't know it would break the United Kingdom'. This regretful rumination from columnist Peter Oborne – in a fascinating interview given in the wake of the recanting of his support for Brexit – touches on one of the key developments in the Brexit story. This is the gathering realisation in some Conservative circles that leaving the EU may well be incompatible with one of the foundational values of the Conservative party – the preservation of the integrity of the United Kingdom.
The painful discovery that these two goals are very hard – and maybe impossible – to reconcile is one of the great under-estimated political ironies of Brexit. For it has been those calling for the UK's departure from the EU who have talked most confidently and directly about the distinctive character of Britain's model of parliamentary sovereignty and the territorially differentiated unity expressed in in its constitutional arrangements. And whilst anxieties about whether Brexit might reignite the independence cause in Scotland were aired in the campaign leading up to the 2016 referendum, for the most part these remained at its margins.
But Prime Minister Theresa May has sounded a more anxious note ever since she entered office in July 2016. She has repeatedly – and a little mechanically – invoked the importance to her own politics of 'our precious union', a mantra that betrays a telling worry about the implications of a vote which accentuates a growing sense of political differences across the different nations and peoples contained with it, and also signals the salience in her own mind of the question of what implementing Brexit means for the domestic union. Continue reading →
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Monitor 71 — Brexit: the constitution under strain
The latest issue of Monitor, the Constitution Unit's regular newsletter, was published today. When the previous issue came out in November, the lack of a withdrawal agreement was a cause of great uncertainty. Four months later, a deal has been reached with the EU, but it has failed to gain parliamentary support and what will happen on 29 March remains an open question. As our editorial team says below, the current crisis is testing our constitution on multiple fronts and the strain is starting to show. This post is the opening article from Monitor 71; you can download the full issue (as well as past editions) here.
This Monitor appears less than three weeks before the date set for the UK to leave the European Union. Remarkably, the form that Brexit will take – indeed, whether it will happen at all – remains highly uncertain. The coming days and weeks will be crucial in determining the UK's future direction. Brexit has placed the UK's political and constitutional system under great strain. That is partly because it is so contested – dividing the main parties internally and risking alienation between the popular majority who backed Leave in 2016 and the parliamentary majority who opposed it. The 2017 general election added to these challenges by resulting in a minority government. Meanwhile, the political task is immensely complex and the stakes exceptionally high.
This strain has manifested itself in numerous ways. The Independent Group (TIG), created on 18 February (see page 12) and currently including 11 former Labour and Conservative MPs, is the largest breakaway from the main parties since the 'Gang of Four' founded the Council for Social Democracy – precursor to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – in 1981. Labour disquiet is widespread, and Deputy Leader Tom Watson has proposed an intra-party grouping of social democrats to stem further defections. The Conservatives have their own party-within-a-party, in the strongly pro-Brexit European Research Group. After many false starts, it forced a vote of no confidence in Theresa May's leadership of the party in December, which she won by 200 votes to 117. Continue reading →
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From Plate to Plough: How India can overcome malnutrition
Focussing on women's education, Access to sanitation & potable water, diet rich in proteinaceous foods and biofortification of grains can curb malnutrition
In 2015-16, almost 38.4% of India's children under the age of five years were stunted, 35.8% were underweight, and 21% suffered from wasting, as per National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16 (Express photo/ File)
By Ashok Gulati & Kriti Khurana
President Donald Trump applauded India's achievements in his address at the crowded Motera stadium. These ranged from religious freedom to reducing poverty to the giant emerging economy. This should have made every Indian feel proud, except that only in the next three days, riots in Delhi made us feel ashamed of our poor governance, lack of communal harmony, and intolerance of opposing ideas. In this piece, however, we want to focus on the UN's top three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), namely poverty elimination, zero hunger, and good health and well being by 2030.
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The World Bank's estimates of extreme poverty, defined as $1.9 per capita per day at the 2011 purchasing power parity, show a secular decline in India from 45.9% to 13.4% between 1993 and 2015 (see graphic). If the overall growth process continues, as has been the case since, say, 2000, India may succeed in eliminating extreme poverty by 2030, if not earlier. Also, given the overflowing stocks of foodgrains with the government, and a National Food Security Act (NFSA) that subsidises grains to the tune of more than 90% of its cost for 67% of the population, there is no reason not to believe that India can also attain the goal of zero hunger before 2030.
The real challenge for India, however, is to achieve the third goal of good health and well being by 2030. India's performance in this regard, so far, has not been satisfactory.
In 2015-16, almost 38.4% of India's children under the age of five years were stunted, 35.8% were underweight, and 21% suffered from wasting, as per National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16. The situation is some states like Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh is even worse (see graphic). No wonder, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranked India 102nd out of 117 countries in terms of severity of hunger in 2019.
How can India overcome this colossal challenge of malnutrition? The National Nutrition Strategy 2017 aims to reduce underweight prevalence in children (0-3 years) by 3 percentage points from the NFHS 2015-16 estimates every year by 2022. This is an ambitious target given that the decadal decline in underweight children from 42.5% in FY06 to 35.8% in FY16 amounts to less than 1% annual decline. Similar targets have been set by the National Nutrition Mission (renamed POSHAN Abhiyaan) 2017 for reducing stunting, undernutrition, anaemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls), and low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3%, and 2% per annum, respectively.
Our research at ICRIER tells us to focus on four key areas if India has to make a significant dent on malnutrition by 2030. First and foremost is women's education as it has a positive multiplier effect on child care, and access to health care facilities. It also increases awareness about nutrient-rich diet, personal hygiene, etc, and can help contain family size in poor, malnourished families. Thus, a high priority to female literacy, in a mission mode through liberal scholarships for the girl child, would go a long way to tackle this problem.
Second, is the access to improved sanitation and safe drinking water. From that angle, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Jal Jeevan Mission would have positive outcomes in the coming years.
Third, there is a need to shift dietary patterns from cereal dominance to consumption of nutritious foods like livestock products, fruits and vegetables, pulses, etc. But, they are generally costly, and their consumption increases only with higher incomes and better education. Diverting a part of the food subsidy on wheat and rice to more nutritious foods can help.
Lastly, India must adopt new agricultural technologies of bio-fortifying cereals—zinc-rich rice and wheat, iron-rich pearl millet, and so on. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has to work closely with Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research's The Harvest Plus programme to make it a win-win situation and curtail malnutrition in Indian children at a much faster pace and a much lower cost than a business-as-usual scenario would achieve.
Global experience shows that with the right public policies focusing on agricultural, improved sanitation, and women's education, a country can have much better health and well being for its citizens, especially children. In China, agriculture and economic growth significantly reduced the rates of stunting and wasting among the population, and lifted millions of people out of hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, Brazil and Ethiopia have transformed their food systems, and have targeted their investments in agricultural R&D, and social protection programmes to reduce hunger in the country. Despite India's improvement in child nutrition rates since FY06, it is way behind the progress experienced by China and other countries. According to the Global Nutrition Report 2016, at current rates of decline, India will achieve the stunting rates currently prevalent in China by 2055. India can certainly do better, but only if it focuses on this issue.
Gulati is Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture & Khurana is Research Assistant, ICRIER. Views are personal
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Did you know that there are more than 400 million tweets sent per day on Twitter? Did you know that there are more than 699 million active Facebook users every day? This list only grows when we start including other growing social networking sites such as Google+, Pinterest, Instagram and so on.
These stats only mean that the freedom, the ability to have your own platform where you can say things you like to say, has made social media so popular. The number of people adapting to social media, and at the speed of growth, is simply astounding.
But wait, there is a third group as well. This belongs to those who use every opportunity to speak against it but can't stay away from it.
Social media is the new media. It is here to stay, whether or not you and me like it. This is the way we are going to communicate and stay in touch with the world. This is the way businesses are being conducted, connections are made, jobs are being searched and new business ventures are being established.
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10 Ways To Get Arrested For Tweeting.
I have shared earlier how social media can be helpful in your endeavors. This time, I want to bring your attention to things which won't get you arrested, but can damage your reputation, dampen your brand identity and possibly repel people, if you aren't careful.
It boils down to your awareness of your brand reputation in the first place. Do you know what do you want to be known for? Do you know what people should think (and visualize) when they think of you? Being aware of your branding goals can be of tremendous help in managing your brand reputation.
On the other hand, if you don't know who you want to be online, that is a very challenging situation. This is because you are still online doing things, not knowing whether those things are helping you or destroying your brand value.
So, if you don't have branding goals, take time to define them for yourself. Declare how you want to be known online. When people Google on your name, what should they find about you? Write your goals down and that will drive your online activities.
When you are posting Facebook status updates, putting your LIKEs and sharing other people's content on Facebook, you should be aware that what you are doing is a public information. Your activity is permanently being associated with your name forever. You should be extremely cautious of what you are engaging with before you put that LIKE or post that status update.
How about Twitter? When you are tweeting something or retweeting somebody else's tweet, are you being careful? Is that tweet going to add value to your brand reputation? Does that tweet represent your view on that subject? If not, why are you tweeting it?
Does this post/tweet/Like/Share represent me?
Does this post/tweet/Like/Share add value to somebody ?
Does this post/tweet/Like/Share add any value to my own brand identity?
If the answer to these questions are not affirmative, may be, you don't want to click on the PUBLISH button.
A lot of people come to me asking for help in building their personal brand. People who want to start their own business, people looking to grow their business, small business owners, aspiring book authors, life coaches and others who want to build their online footprint.
Husband-wife jokes, cute jokes at the cost of other people etc. are also inappropriate along with other inappropriate jokes category. If you will not be comfortable sharing that joke with your family and children – it is inappropriate. Do not associate yourself with a joke of that nature because a moment of pleasure will only damage your brand reputation in the long run.
If the controversy is not part of your branding goal, why would you engage in expressing your opinion about such an issue in public? What value are you going to add to anybody by participating in such an activity in public?
Things like sharing your view about a government bill that a foreign government is passing (where you have no influence), why would you use your public platform to express your opinion especially when nobody is asking for your opinion? It just doesn't make sense!
I see professionals, entrepreneurs and others who are working so hard in building their brand reputation, sharing unrelated songs and YouTube videos on their Facebook wall. I wonder how that fits into their branding goals.
You may have interest in music (I love listening to Bollywood songs from 80's). But that doesn't mean that you should keep sharing those YouTube videos on Facebook and Twitter if music is not your line of business. Sharing YouTube song videos and movie clips can damage your brand reputation faster than anything else unrelated that you post.
Believing in God is a good thing. Having an in-depth knowledge of your religion is a great thing and I take it as my obligation. But, if my followers/fans do not share my religious views, I am not adding any value to my brand reputation by pushing my religious views to everyone who is connected to me.
Unless your goals are to create your brand reputation as a religious person, you want to avoid sharing your religious views in public unwarranted just like you wouldn't do that in public without an appropriate occasion.
Again, do you see why this is inappropriate to comment on a certain political figure (especially in a negative tone)? I often see people sharing political thoughts (mostly negative) about politicians, government policies and asking others to "share as many times as possible". I also notice that these people don't have their own brand value.
On the other hand, if you look at leaders, successful entrepreneurs, they do not engage in such activities. Why? Simply because by doing so, they realize that they are neither helping anybody, nor it is helping their own brand reputation.
Not even racial cute jokes. We live in a very sensitive world. You have no idea which joke will hurt somebody's feelings and they will go ahead and write a blog post and publicize everywhere that you made a racial comment. This activity doesn't help you or anybody else. But it can certainly hurt your brand reputation big time.
Posting personal pictures such as a picture or two with family in a presentable way, gives a personal touch to your brand reputation. People like it because it shows the human aspect of your brand. However, posting pictures of you partying on a Friday evening, drinking, gambling and all kinds of activities is inappropriate. Too much of anything is bad, and you should avoid posting too many personal pictures.
You may know that sending automatic private welcome messages on Twitter is considered as spam. Do you also know that sending "Hi" and "Hello" type private messages on Facebook to people without a purpose is also spamming?
Everybody's time is valuable. If you can't say something that really needs attention of the person you want to message, why would you want to take their time for nothing of significance (especially if they are not your close friends)? If you have a habit of sending messages to people to just check on them, I highly discourage you from doing that. Send that feature for a meaningful purpose and it will add value to your brand reputation. But if you waste it just like that, you are hurting yourself.
If you know somebody personally, you can always pickup your cellphone and call them to present your business proposition. But, if you just got connected to me today, why would you send me a link to an opportunity that you think, will help me? If I indulge in such activities, I will immediately add myself to your spammer list, won't I?
This is another big NO NO! Society in general is negative. We already have enough negativity all around us. I don't go online to add some more negative to my mind. Similarly, I need to be contingent of people around me.
People can be so negative that they even use Facebook to criticize those who share positive things such as quotes and positive thoughts. I have seen some people complaining about that as well while those who complain, say nothing uplifting. My recommendation is, if you can't say something good, then don't say anything.
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While these are not the only 10 things that are not to be done, but I think it gives a good idea as to what we should avoid doing online on social networks. Don't you think?
Would you like to add a couple of more activities that you think we should also avoid to protect our brand reputation as a student, professional, entrepreneur, job seeker etc.? Please share your recommendations in the comments section. Thank you kindly!
The corollary, of course, is are the "do" points. I would say, chief among these is simply be who you are online no differently than being who you are in person.
I think that conducting yourself in a manner that earns respect, being authentically you, wherever you are, is very important.
Absolutely Bill. Only do things online which you are comfortable doing in real life. That's the mantra. But sometimes, we need these reminders 🙂 Thank you for sharing your views.
Great tips on personal branding. We were fortunate to be associating with right folks since the beginning of our social media era and it has really helped. Many people are going to benefit from this blog post, I am sure.
These are great tips brother. I see many people making these mistakes. I have also made these in the past. But these make sense and I realize that we should be cautious of what we do and don't when we are online at all these places.
Excellent post Mr. Kumar and thanks for the great 10 pointers. I have heard some stuff like this before but it is always good for me to hear it again, now I know where I stand and how I am doing on these. I'm completely agree with you on all of these points and I would like to thanks again for your advice.
Very good post, Kumar 🙂 Many people should really carefully read this info. One thing I always pay attention when being online is to act exactly the same as I act in life.
A perfect guide to keep in check our online activities. Learned a lot. Thank you for sharing Bhaiya.
Awesome Ankit. Glad to see you around.
These are the golden rules when on social media. Never ever go to religion or politics. I won't do it online or off line. It only causes a heated argument in the long run. Some things need to be private.
I'm happy to see that you mentioned "likes" because so many people will just "like" something that can be inappropriate, or even worse, something that is not even true on social sites.
I happen to be very picky when it comes to these things. I'm very cautious to even press that like button, even if it is something amusing because I don't want to share my opinion on anything not pertaining to who I am or what my brand stands for.
I see too many people re-tweating things they never even read! Not me!!! It does have to meet my approval. This is why I don't like automation that much. Things get tweeted by people just to gain numbers. I'm a gal that likes quality, not quantity.
I want to thank you very much for writing this post to enlighten people to be more cautious when on social sites.
First of all,thank you for taking time to share your thoughts and adding value to this post.
And when it comes to LIKEs, you said it all. People don't understand how much damage it may cause to their own image in public if they are not careful about what they are liking/sharing especially on Facebook and Google+. Most people get wrapped up in the glamour of the post and indulge themselves in completely irrelevant topics. We, as entrepreneurs, need to be cautious of every action we take in public because everything matters.
Comprehensively, masterfully and insightfully presented!
Lots of good advice here that many people don't necessarily take to heart, especially when you're first starting a business. When you are first starting out, any activity on social media seems to help, but you might be unintentionally digging yourself a hole that can be hard to get out of. Bottom line: just be smart on social media, and consider every post on those sites as an official company statement.
A very nice article with a great point. I will be very helpful for all.
I definitely get a lot of spamming in linked in with the excuse of "private messages". Point #10 is one that I live by because it's a waste of time to complain about or criticize others when you could spend your time building your brand with promotions, surveys, and customer involvement. Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed the article.
Some great advice here, I was doing "social media" back in the 90's when it was known as CompuServe GEnie and America Online. We had compa y forums as well as a proprietary BBS (bulletin board system). I think the biggest problem with companies and social media now is how they overreact to just a few negative comments. They're very skittish.


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Q: Entity Framework Optional Relationship causing "conflicting multiplicities" I am using Entity Framework code first for a simple database containing multiple choice questions. Each question has multiple possible answers and specifies one as the correct answer.
public class Question
{
    public int QuestionId { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("CorrectAnswer")]
    public int CorrectAnswerId { get; set; }
    public string Text { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Answer> Answers { get; set; }

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This all works fine, but I need to avoid the catch 22 situation where you can't create a question because it needs a correct answer, but you can't create an answer because it needs a question. So I want to make the CorrectAnswerId field nullable, allowing you to create the question, then the answers, and then specify the correct answer.
I've tried variations on the following, but always get a "conflicting multiplicities" exception:
modelBuilder.Entity<Question>()
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A: Change
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to
int? CorrectAnswerId {get;set;}


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GUCCI APOLOGIZES AND REMOVES CRAZY LOOKING 'BLACKFACE SWEATER' FOLLOWING BACKLASH – VIDEO
OK, let's cut to the chase. Does this ugliness from Gucci convey racism to you?
If you said no, it doesn't, you can go and stand in the no-it-doesn't line. So what's the deal on this whatever it is thing that you wear over your face and look completely stupid in?
Well, as we said it's from uber couture fashion house Gucci and it's making headlines, not because it's crazy looking, but because people are calling it a racist blackface sweater.
Would you believe that before it was pulled from shelves and online, Gucci was selling this balaclava black knit thingy for damn near $900?!
The design of the sweater features a neck portion that can be pulled up over the face to cover the lower half, specifically the nose and mouth area, that portion also has a cut-out for the lips which are outlined in bright red. The image of the sweater quickly brings to mind the racist images of blackface from the past—and the backlash was immediate.
"What's going on here @Gucci this is blatant Disrespect #Blackface," posted Twitter user identified as King James shortly before Gucci tweeted its apology.
Once the negative response to the sweater started rolling in, Gucci issued a formal apology:
"Gucci deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the wool balaclava jumper. We can confirm that the item has been immediately removed from our online store and all physical stores.
We consider diversity to be a fundamental value to be fully upheld, respected, and at the forefront of every decision we make. We are fully committed to increasing diversity throughout our organization and turning this incident into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond."
"The uproar also coincides with another controversy threatening Virginia's political leadership. Gov. Ralph Northam has been resisting calls to resign after a racist photograph emerged last week of a person in blackface next to another in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood that appeared on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. Northam initially apologized for appearing in the picture, then denied it was him. In a news conference, he admitted to having darkened his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume in a separate incident around the same time," reports NPR. Check out the video posted below.


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Adobe releases Photoshop CS6 beta -- get it now!
Adobe has released a free public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS6.
And while these are relatively early days -- we don't have information on pricing, yet, or a firm date for the final release -- it's already clear that this is going to be a significant upgrade.
The program is now more intelligent, for instance. The new Content Aware Move option enables you to move an object from one part of an image to another, while Photoshop figures out itself how to fill in the background; skin-tone aware color masking helps you to more easily select faces in an image; and even the automatic image corrections have been revamped, delivering notably better results.
If you prefer manual tweaking then there's even more on offer. Adobe Camera Raw 7.0 adds useful Shadow and Highlight adjustments; new blur options -- Field, Iris and Tilt-Shift -- provide on-image controls and full-sized previews; shape layers are replaced by vector layers, which support a stroke and full (solid colours, gradients or patterns); and the Adaptive Wide Angle tool supports fine control over lens corrections.
Other additions include an enhanced cropping interface, more 3D options and the faster Mercury Graphics Engine.
Major video improvements start with the video engine, which can now import a wider range of formats (including AVCHD); a new Timeline panel presents your video more intelligently; and you can add a separate audio track, drag and drop transitions and fades, and easily cut, splice and preview clips to produce the results you need.
And all this is presented in a revamped, darker interface, which apart from the colour change also does a good job of simplifying many previous complex tasks.
As betas go, this one seems quite stable (and even if the program crashes, a new recovery option should be able to restore your work). But still, it won't be for everyone: the beta only works on 64-bit Mac systems, for instance, and the 1.7GB Windows download may also put a few people off.
If you're a Photoshop fan and not bothered by such issues, though, the Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta is available now. You can run it alongside previous versions of the program, and no serial number is required; just choose the "Try" and "Trial" options during setup and you'll be able to run it as normal.


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Meet The Applegates (1989)
Director Michael Lehman's follow-up to Heathers is a devastating and funny look at how modem life in America can ruin and devolve even the closest family, disguised as a science-fiction comedy.
Richard P. Applegate (Ed Begley Jr), Jane Applegate (Stockard Channing) and their family of giant, garbage-eating Brazilian shapeshifting cockroaches arrive near Akron, Ohio, on an important mission and disguise themselves as a "typical" American family.
Almost immediately, they are seduced by TV, drugs, heavy metal music, sex, and alcohol.
The daughter Sally (Camille Cooper) becomes a bitter, pregnant lesbian (after being date-raped by an obnoxious jock neighbour), son Johnny (Bobby Jacoby) turns into a burned-out pothead, and mother Jane becomes a credit-card junkie and shoplifter. They forget their mission and all secretly spin cocoons around tasty humans.
Meet The Applegates is a clever, bizarre movie, and the human-cockroach makeup and special effects are excellent.
Co-stars Dabney Coleman in drag (a bad idea).
Richard P. Applegate
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Bobby Jacoby
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Camille Cooper
Aunt Bea
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by Dr. Richard H. Bulzacchelli | Jul 2, 2021
In Part III of our series on "The Invisible Schism," I spoke of Liberation Theology as one of the items rolling around the ecclesial "junk drawer." I explained that, in essence, the different currents of Liberation Theology are Marxist or Neo-Marxist, and as such, are fundamentally materialistic theories of reality. They aren't really Christian at all, in anything even remotely resembling an "orthodox" sense, and the Church needs to be freed from those distortions, though they have fairly wide adherence, even among some high-ranking members of the clergy. I also mentioned, however, that there were other variants of Catholicism in the drawer that needed to be tossed because they were incompatible with or at least deleterious to the Faith. In this installment, we'll be talking about "Progressivism" in the Church.
Progressivism—What It's Not
There's certainly a link between Marxism and Progressivism, historically, but the two aren't exactly the same thing. But before we get into what Progressivism is, I want to talk about what it isn't—or at least, what it isn't most essentially.
During the Second Vatican Council, many spoke of a division between two factions among the Council Fathers and periti: the Conservatives vs. the Progressives. Some in the Progressive faction may have been Progressivists incidentally, in the way I mean "Progressivist" here, but I'm not specifically talking about the "Progressive" faction in the conciliar-era Church. Let's be clear on this distinction. At the Council, there were those who held that older modes of thought and discipline should give way to newer ones—that we should recognize that some aspects of Catholic life and thought, which might have made sense in the past, have since proven themselves outdated and no longer useful. Those were the "Progressives" at the Second Vatican Council and theirs is a complex bit of history involving people all over the doctrinal map, but it's not what I'm talking about in this post, when I speak about "Progressivists" and the ideology of "Progressivism".
What is Progressivism?
For our purposes here, what I mean by "Progressivism" is the idea that management of societal affairs, up to and including the global level, should be placed into the hands of an "expert" class. This thesis dates back to the nineteenth century, gaining a great deal of momentum from the 1880's through the 1930's. It goes hand-in-hand with the growth of a bureaucratic, managerial structure in society, because, if societal affairs are to be governed by an "expert" class, then the practical mechanism whereby their expert judgments are implemented has to be managed by intermediaries whose job it is to follow directions and make sure everyone else does, too.
In the United States, for example, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson would be classified as "Progressivists."
The Church hasn't been immune from the attitudes of the Progressivists. In the Church, over the course of the twentieth century, we saw a massive growth of bureaucracy in the hierarchy. How many congregations, councils, and dicasteries, are there now? How much of what affects the daily lives of ordinary Christians has devolved upward, from their own homes to their parishes, or to the diocesan offices, or to the congregations of bishops, or even to the Roman Curia? The Church teaches that subsidiarity is a good thing—that human agency should always be exercised at the most particular level capable of addressing the goods in question, because human beings are both rational agents and social beings, to whom it's appropriate that their own acts are immediately connected to their own lives and to the communities in which they live and work—but subsidiarity isn't consistently reflected in how we do things, institutionally. In practice, everyone is asked to look up for an answer: not up to God, mind you, but up to the next level of bureaucracy.
Practical Manifestations of Progressivism in the Church
At a practical level, the common religion of the people in the pews has, to a great extent, been modified or even, in some cases, supplanted by the religion of these "experts." Take, for example, the Novus ordo missae—the liturgy the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholics pray today. Without getting into a critique on its merits, I wish only to point out the historical fact that this liturgy is the wholesale product of a commission, not an organic outgrowth of custom and tradition. I don't deny that it borrows from tradition and does so, in many instances, in admirable ways, but it only borrows from tradition. In itself, it's not tradition.
But, once drawn up, the Novus ordo replaced the liturgy the people in the pews had been praying, with periodic, minor modifications here and there around the edges, for hundreds of years. Let that sink in. This work-product of a committee of "experts" replaced the actual, received, living tradition of the Latin Rite Catholic liturgy.
Now, correlation may not be causality, but it should at least raise the question of causality, and it's an objective fact that the introduction of the Novus ordo correlates with a crisis of catechesis, faith, morals, and pious devotion in the Church that persists to the present day. Evidently, many ordinary Catholics simply couldn't recognize the liturgy of the "experts" as meaningful, because what followed was, by any measure, a sociological catastrophe.
And yet, since the later part of the twentieth century, nearly every aspect of ecclesial life has been handed over to "experts"—a term I place in quotation marks because I think it's a matter of debate whether those we recognize as experts are truly more informed or more aware or better prepared than those bearers of tradition they've displaced. In fact, I tend to think they're not, in many cases. But there they are, nonetheless, because they have "certifications."
Most notably, here, are the various parish and diocesan officials: the professional catechists, the directors of liturgy, the youth ministers. Nearly everything about typical parish and diocesan life today is programatized and placed under the authority of someone who, in theory, knows how it all works and can organize things the right way so that what we want to have happen actually happens, in fact.
Have you ever been to carefully scripted parish or diocesan renewal program, conducted by a visiting team of trained facilitators sporting professionally prepared materials for distribution to the participants?
This whole way of doing things threatens to crowd out the Holy Spirit. It crushes the spontaneous responses human beings have to his promptings, which, for their own part, come when they come, wherever we may be or whatever we're doing. "The Spirit moves where he wills" (John 3:8), after all, and God "does not ration the gifts of the Spirit" (John 3:34).
So, when, for example, we try to fit a person's conversion into an academic calendar, starting in October and ending at the Easter Vigil, we essentially try to put the Holy Spirit in a box. Did St. Paul's experience of conversion look like that? Did St. Augustine's? Then why should I expect John Doe's experience of conversion to look like that?
Indeed, the very idea that we can define the terms on which the Holy Spirit might move should trouble us deeply if we're really thinking with the faith. Not even the Church can control that movement, because not even the sacraments themselves, which the Church can neither invent nor retire, but only regulate, fully exhaust the range of the Holy Spirit's activity.
The Theological Error of Progressivism in the Church
More broadly speaking than in religious terms alone, the Progressivists are, for all intents and purposes, synonymous with the "globalists" in secular politico-economic terms. They're the champions of the UN, the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organization. The big-tech oligarchies are Progressivist corporate agents, as are many of the global philanthropic NGO's. Some of these, like the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, are at least loosely affiliated with the Catholic Church. The Progressivists, in other words, are the global, institutional "Establishment" inhabited by those who could live anywhere, in contrast the common man, who lives in a particular place by default of birth and circumstance, from which he's essentially unable to move nor wants to do so.
But how does it happen that Progressivism enters the life of the Church? Basically, there are two reasons this happens.
First, Progressivism, remember, is about rule by the "expert" class, and the Church largely invented expertise. This statement is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much if we remember the historical link between the Church and the major institutions from which experts have emerged, generally, in Western Culture. Hospitals were basically invented by the Church. The University was invented by the Church, as, therefore, whether directly or indirectly, were advanced degrees in a wide range of disciplines. The Galileo affair aside, misrepresented and misunderstood as it was, the Church has, historically, championed the natural sciences and does so even today. So, the Church has a natural affinity for the "expert" class.
The Second reason, though, that the Church has been prone to a Progressivist current is that Christian eschatology tends toward the harmonization of the whole world under the headship of Christ. Given the Church's understanding of herself in this world as the mediating historical organizing institution by which the emergence of the eschatological reality is advanced and overseen, it's not hard to see why Catholic thinkers are inclined to favor globalist agendas. Consider, for example, the diminishment of national sovereignty in favor of international federations (like the EU, NATO, and the UN), tending toward increasingly transnational or even thoroughly global economic and juridical systems. Or consider how some in the Church press for free systems of international migration, calling for destination countries to forego enforcement of immigration laws and receive all comers without regard to the economic, political, or cultural concerns of their own citizens.
In theory, it's not wrong, from a Catholic point of view, to envision the ideal of a one-world government in which all human beings enjoy common citizenship. But the world in which we actually live and the world in which we ought to live aren't the same thing, nor can they be this side of the Parousia.
While, every year in Latin Rite Catholicism, we celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, the reality anticipated in that feast belongs distinctly to the end of time as we know it. It's not a reality of the fallen world but of the world wholly taken up into heaven, and as we discussed in Part III of this series, we can't reduce heaven to a future historical condition. It's foolish, therefore, to attempt in the here-and-now, through the machinations of an "expert" class, to attempt to model this world too closely upon it.
Those who advance such an agenda are too often found prioritizing secular organization above the conversion of souls to Christ—the Kingdom of Man above the Kingdom of God. That's the very reason Pope Pius XI so vehemently opposed Catholic involvement in false irenicism (attempts to establish fraternal cooperation and even common worship with those divided along creedal, confessional lines without, in fact, resolving the confessional causes of those divisions).
Augustine makes clear that the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man can't actually exist in parallel. One of the two must always be our true concern. So, the tendency, then, when Progressivist thinking enters the Church, is to make the Kingdom of God a means to an end rather than an end in itself; and doing that derogates from the faith. It contradicts what we profess in the Constantinopolitan Creed, wherein we say, quite literally, that, "of his Kingdom, there will be no end-purpose-beyond-itself."
In the final analysis, the question is whether God or man is the beginning and end of our faith and life. If man, then we can look forward only to the narrowing of our whole horizon of expectations, because man can never, by any power of his own, live and move beyond the frame of the merely material world. Progressivisim is rigid and stifling and incredibly arrogant—in other words, something quite other than the Catholic Faith.
What we need is humility before God and our fellow human beings, recognizing that, "out of the mouths of babes" (Psalm 8:2) can come words of wisdom by the movement of the Holy Spirit. What we need is the flexibility that comes from knowing that God is in control of things, not us, and that we need to be ready to follow his lead, unpredictable as it always is. We need to let God be God and accept that we're not him. So, Progressivism—that product of the hubris of the Modern Age—actually works against what's most essential to the life of the Church, and it has to go.
In the next installment, we'll talk about another great threat to the integrity of the Faith: ideological ecologism.
The Invisible Schism: Part III – What's in the Junk Drawer? Liberation Theology
The Invisible Schism: Part II The Heterodox Majority
The Keys to Effective Writing: Purpose and Concision
The Myth of Self, Part 3: Objections and Resolutions
The Invisible Schism: Part I – Can there be two "Catholicisms" side-by-side?
The Myth of Self, Part II


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The 19 Biggest Medical Breakthroughs of the Decade
The last decade has far surpassed previous ones in terms of medical innovation, from the once-a-day HIV pill to the ability to make adult stem cells imitate embryonic cells. See our list of the most important discoveries.
Max Read
Updated Jul. 14, 2017 8:13PM ET / Published Dec. 03, 2009 4:46PM ET
On a September morning in 1928, Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming noticed one of his cultures had been contaminated by a fungus, which was killing staphylococci bacteria in his petri dish. Eighty-one years later, the substance produced by the Penicillium notatum fungus is still in wide use as an antibiotic.
Fleming's discovery is indisputably one of the most important moments in the history of modern medicine. But had The Daily Beast curated a list of the previous decade's biggest medical breakthroughs in 1929, would Fleming's accidental find have made it? It seems unlikely: It took 17 more years to develop a stable, mass-producible form of penicillin.
Click Below for The Daily Beast's list of the most startling medical discoveries of the last 10 years.
GALLERY: Our List: Most Startling Medical Discoveries of the Last 10 Years (PHOTOS)
Such is the nature of medical innovation: Entire careers, innumerable dead ends, and uncountable sums of money spent solving health problems are abridged, with the benefit of hindsight, into stories of single moments and heroic individual researchers. Many of the breakthroughs on The Daily Beast's list of major medical discoveries of the last decade are steps on a continuum of discovery and progress—important midpoints in research and treatment that might one day be elided in favor of good stories like Fleming's.
Our list covers innovation across several different categories, including new drugs (for cancer and HIV), vaccinations (like Gardasil, the HPV vaccination), and surgical and diagnostic techniques (such as natural orifice surgery and prenatal genetic blood tests). We also explain medical techniques that have been refined (such the use of drug-eluting stents in interventional cardiology), as well as research breakthroughs, such as the mapping of the human genome and advances in stem-cell research.
One of the most important advances of the decade is the newly discovered ability to give adult stem cells some of the important properties of embryonic stem cells, by inducing pluripotency, or the ability of one cell to morph into any cell in the body. Not only does this help sidestep ethical concerns over using lines derived from human embryos for research, but it opens up a much larger supply of stem cells for medical use. "The embryonic research is a necessary tool to understand the work," says Michael J. Dixon, president of UNeMed Corp., a division of the University of Nebraska Medical Center that helps bring the university's discoveries to the market. "But there's never going to be a large enough supply of embryonic cells to use."
While stem cells allow researchers to make progress in treating once-hopeless afflictions like Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries, important advances have also been made in the treatment of the top two killers in the U.S.—heart disease and cancer.
"If you were asking me about '89 to '99, there was not nearly so much change," says Dr. Michael Fisch, chairman of the department of general oncology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. "There has been prolific change from '99 to now." Fisch sees a number of important developments in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. One of these is targeted therapy, which attacks the molecules that cause cancer, instead of just stopping the duplication of cancer cells, as chemotherapy attempts to do. "There's a whole armory of brand-new oral drugs that have real impact on the way we treat patients," Fisch says. "That's a big deal."
Targeted therapy drugs like imatinib mesylate—marketed as Gleevec—erlotnib, and gefitnib are offering new hope to patients with gastrointestinal tumors, lung cancer, and deadly blood cancers such as chronic mylogenous leukemia. These new drugs allow doctors to make "a gigantic impact on a small group of patients," according to Fisch. "All our research and standards of care are set up for what affects a broad number of people. We need to divide those big cancer categories into molecular subsets. And that is a big enterprise, and it'll take a redesign of the way we do research."
In cardiology, the development of stents that release drugs after being inserted into a coronary artery could significantly reduce problems with restenosis—or the narrowing of the blood vessel—that can sometimes be a problem after heart surgery. "If you project that to, say, the next five to 10 years, the next-generation stents will be less of an irritant yet produce the same efficacy," says Dr. John Lasala, chief of interventional cardiology at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Older treatments, too, have been refined and improved, in part by consolidating many drugs into one. The 2000s saw the introduction of the one-a-day HIV pill, Atripla—a huge boon to HIV-positive patients who have difficulty maintaining a strict drug regimen. And Pentacel is a five-in-one vaccine that immunizes children against diphtheria, polio, tetanus, influenza B, and whooping cough.
When we look back at the years from 2000 to 2009 in several decades, though, it's worth remembering the lessons of penicillin. Medical innovations that haven't made our list may then seem far more consequential—accidental findings and overlooked discoveries, research being made without hype or publicity, investigation put into motion now that could change the face of medicine, as much as Alexander Fleming cleaning his lab once did.
Max Read is a writer living and working in New York City.


The problem of speech/noise discrimination has become increasingly important as the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is applied in the real world. Robustness and simplicity are two challenges to the speech/noise discrimination method for an embedded system. The energy-based feature is the most suitable and applicable feature for speech/noise discrimination for embedded ASR system because of effectiveness and simplicity. A new method based on a noise model is proposed to discriminate speech signals from noise signals. The noise model is initialized and then updated according to the signal energy. The experiment shows the effectiveness and robustness of the new method in noisy environments.


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