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Back in 2007, Sony released one of their first unique gaming experiences on the PlayStation Network known as flOw. This PlayStation 3 exclusive title gathered much attention and gave PS3 owners something cool to play that no other console offered. Now Sony is bringing the experience over to its PlayStation Portable next month.
The one glaring change of flOw on the PSP is the lack of Sixaxis. When I first heard about the plans to bring flOw to the handheld platform, I wondered if some sort of motion device was going to be added to the console. While this would have been a very interesting add-on, the cost and relatively few uses for the device would have ultimately made it not worth the expense for Sony. Instead, players on the PSP will utilize the Analog nub. The d-pad is not able to be used
The world of flOw on the PSP will seem almost identical, despite the control issues mentioned above, to the PS3 version. However, another difference is the scaled down feel of the game. The organisms you need to eat are all much smaller and it can make finding them a little bit more of a challenge than it was on your huge TV.
flOw will be available for the PSP as a download title on the PlayStation store starting on March 6, 2008. No details about pricing or if a UMD version will be available later. If you are looking for a slightly different experience on your Sony portable and haven't had a chance to check out flOw on the PlayStation 3, the portable version may be the game for you. Stay tuned for more details on flOw as we learn more from Sony.
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Kaleb Rutherford has had a passion and love of Games and Technology since he came out of the womb. From his earliest memories, he has always loved using the latest technologies and have been gaming since the Commodore 64.
In 1997, Kaleb started CVGames and since then ttended and covered a variety of different events for the public including PAX, QuakeCon, E3, and many others. With over 20 E3 events covered, there isn't much that surprises Kaleb anymore in the industry as he has seen it all.
Kaleb is married to Emily and they have been together over 20 years. They have 4 boys who share a passion and love for technology and gaming as well.
Kaleb started Parents Press Play to begin podcasting and reaching a more casual segment of the world that tends to have coverage dominated by by "Hardcore," or "Core players. CVGames still exists to cover that section of users.
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You are not alone, as the average person who comes to see me has weekly treats plus cheat days on the weekends before we learn fun and easy ways to enjoy eating healthy more consistently!
There is a difference between cheat day and treat meal so let us chat more about this to get clear. Enjoying one donut here and there, one piece of pizza along a day of healthy eating every now and again will not throw you off your goals. Having a whole day of sugary treats, pastries and processed foods and a mindset that one unhealthy food intake leads to a day of unhealthy eating is where there is a misunderstanding. If there are daily habits of treating oneself like the food diary described below it will likely lead to cases for hormonal imbalances, weight struggles, gastrointestinal discomfort, diabetes, hypertension etc.
As a nutritionist and someone who used to have many too regular indulgences and a wicked sweet tooth. It has taken me years of practice, many failed attempts at building strong habits, overcoming of binge eating and food addictions.I am sure many other health professionals and people who have chosen to follow a healthy lifestyle change have experienced challenges to balance out the rollercoaster of breaking unhealthy habits and following intuitive eating consistently. To this day if I want a piece of pizza, fried chicken, french fries, dessert I will eat it but that is the case once a month if that and it will be one meal among my day of vegetables and I feel happy about that. That is what I want for you.
I understand the matrix of these addictive habits so I ask my clients to start with outlining a food diary when we start working together. This exercise helps us to understand where we start and demonstrates a clear picture of progress by the time we have finished. It helps us to understand how this way of eating leads to weight gain instead of weight loss, and how having treats every day is not aligned with your goal of weight loss. We will further explore some top tips of embracing a healthy mindset when it comes to your relationship with food and outlining the fine line between enjoying a treat moderately and consuming a diet linked to an unhealthy lifestyle. Let us have a look at this food diary of clients who come to see me who struggle to lose the weight.
Lunch : Carrot rice, broccoli pie (cream of mushroom soup, breadcrumbs, cheese, broccoli), sweet potato & 1 glass pineapple juice.
Dinner: Baked chicken (shake n bake), carrot rice, broccoli pie, carrot rice.
Nutritionist Note: The good parts in this day include broccoli and carrots. What is holding this person back from weight loss? The daily pastries, high calorie dairy in most meals, high calorie processed foods as sauces and excess sugar in beverages. This client has improved their day remarkably over 6 weeks and is now consuming much less dairy, less pastry and a smoothie for breakfast. They are enjoying fitting into jeans that they haven't touched in years.
Nutritionist notes: It is great seeing pigeon peas, chicken, salad in the diary. The day is however packed with high sugar, high fat, total high caloric energetic intake inclusive of processed foods with low nutritional value. The ingredients in terms of sauces are packed high calories. There is room for more whole foods, fruit, vegetables and less sugar.
This client has swapped out creamers for dairy free milk without sugar and matcha lattes, reduced sugars from daily treats and juices and is eating salads more regularly with soups during the week. This client is enjoying their weight loss and noticing that there are healthy quick recipes that taste great.
A healthy mindset is related with wanting to eat mostly fruit and vegetables daily alongside other whole foods (grows from the earth, swims, flys, run in it's natural state) and happily having a treat or indulgence once in a while or a very special occasion.
Remember to plan for success, focus on one thing at a time and practice mindfulness. Mindfulness helps to solidify healthy thought communications. A thought process that thinks okay well had a doubles or bake for breakfast bring on the day of junk food binges is something to look into improving. A great start towards this improvement would be mindful eating using a food journal. These mindsets are very strongly linked to the reasons that you are not achieving your weight loss and body fat percent goals. There has to be a practice of balance in consuming a diet of at least 80 percent healthy foods and recommended portions for you to see the results you crave. Starting with cleaning up your weeks and choosing one treat meal that is well portioned to enjoy with a group of friends or family per week is a recommended place to start. I encourage you to find friends who love smoothies, working out and enjoying a healthy balance and to open up the perspective that you can have it all, but not all at once.
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Now imagine that if, during the course of this hypothetical Israeli attack on the Arab bus station, the only person to die was actually an Evangelical Christian. Just consider for a moment the massive significance of such an occurrence for those who condemn Christian support for Israel. Inevitably, Christian friends of Israel would be severely criticised for supporting a state committing an atrocity that had resulted in the death of a believer, and come under tremendous pressure to ditch such support for Israel. Yet the single individual who died in last week's far from hypothetical cowardly bombing in Jerusalem by Palestinian terrorists was indeed an Evangelical Christian, a Bible translator with Wycliffe who was brushing up on her Hebrew in preparation for her return to Africa to translate portions of Scripture into a little-known African language. Yet more than a week after the bombing and death of Mary Jean Gardner, Christian critics of both Israel and the Jewish state's Evangelical friends have been strangely quiet... well, quiet about that particular bombing, but in some cases far from quiet in continuing to demonise Israel during the past week (including just a day or two after the Jerusalem bombing).
At best, such hypocrisy is distasteful to the memory of a believer who was brutally killed as she went about God's work (and thus a real martyr, a far cry from those who - in the name of God- wrap explosives and bags of nails about their body and denotate themselves among everyday folk going about their business). But there is also another issue at play here, one where some (not all) Christian critics of Israel are so driven by hate towards the Jewish state that they will quite easily draw on the plight of believers if it suits their political purposes (indeed they have a track record of doing so), yet remain eerily silent when the situation is completely reversed. It all rather smacks of taking a side "right or wrong", which is deeply ironic given this is the very charge they lay at the door of anyone remotely holding to the view that God retains a plan and purpose for the Jewish people (whether or not they are Christian Zionists). It also demonstrates a complete inability to respond to issues and events honestly and objectively, and such selectivity doesn't go unnoticed by those who want to engage in genuine debate and dialogue. Indeed, there is a very important lesson to be learned here for Israel's Christian friends, namely, to avoid similar selectivity and lack of objectivity when responding to the conflict. There are some people on both sides of the debate who genuinely seek to be sincere and objective, dealing openly and frankly with some of the complexities of the current conflict, engaging fairly with arguments on the other side, and as such commanding respect and a far greater likelihood of being listened to (I, for one, will now take much more seriously the group which unequivocally condemned the Jerusalem bombing, while I have debated with Christians who take a different view from me but whose honesty and fairness has won my respect). Then there are the others who are highly selective, simplistic, polarised and disingenuous, even if it means ignoring an inconvenient truth, all in the name of "my side right or wrong" (or in this case "Israel is always wrong"). They are a classic example of how not to be taken seriously.
No one gains from this and we should offer our sympathy for the loss of life without showing political favouritism or point scoring.
For my part the main issue is foundationally theological and relates to what it means for Israel to be 'in Christ' or in 'Messiah'. I believe that there is a coming revival amongst the Jews who will be brought into Christ at the end, but I maintain that all things are through Christ.
Calvin, your main motive of looking at Israel is your right belief that God has a plan for them in spite of most of them being objecting Jesus Christ whatsoever. Muslims at least accept Him as a prophet and one who will judge the world in the end. But forget not that Israel is generally careless of what happens to the poor civilian palestinian arabs who are caught in the middle. If Gaza is ruled by Hamas why the West Bank is not helped more in creating a prosperous and fair society? Because they don't care! Jews with meaningful exception of socialists by conviction - do not care about others. Why? Because they do not care about God's will - if they did they would be much more considerate.
So Andrew, its not theological but social and behavioural in nature our problem with the Jews. May God bless them in knowing Him and with peace!
so driven by hate...that they will quite easily draw on the plight of believers if it suits their political purposes (indeed they have a track record of doing so), yet remain eerily silent when the situation is completely reversed. It all rather smacks of taking a side "right or wrong".


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Palladium Facilitates Optical Switching
Hydrogen Adsorption Alters Properties of Rare Earth Films
Hydrogen gas can permeate palladium, diffuse through it and be stored in it. This property has been known for many years, and has been discussed in this journal on numerous occasions; see (1–3) and references therein. Similarly, the effects resulting from the alloying of palladium with rare earth metals have been reported here (4). Now, physicists at Vrije University in The Netherlands have combined these properties to produce thin yttrium and lanthanum films coated with palladium, which display an optical switching phenomenon as they adsorb hydrogen (J. N. Huiberts, R. Griessen, J. H. Rector, R. J. Wijngaarden, J. P. Dekker, D. G. de Groot and N. J. Koeman, "Yttrium and Lanthanum Hydride Films with Switchable Optical Properties", Nature, 1996, 380, (6571), 231–234).
Thin films of yttrium and lanthanum (500 nm) were evaporated under UHV and then coated with a thin layer of palladium (5 to 20 nm). The palladium film acts as a support for the films, forms an oxidation barrier, and allows hydrogen to permeate through and be adsorbed by the rare earths. It also enables various physical properties to be measured.
Films were examined by electrical resistivity and light transmission measurements. At the start of the experiment hydrogen, at room temperature and 0.9 × 105 Pa pressure, was introduced into the apparatus and began to diffuse through the palladium overlayer. The yttrium film adsorbed hydrogen and changed to yttrium hydride, YHx, which remained metallic up to x ~ 2, but as more hydrogen was adsorbed, the YHx changed to a semiconductor, corresponding tO YH2.86.
The films also undergo optical changes as hydrogen is taken up. After 17 seconds of exposure to hydrogen, an initially perfectly reflecting yttrium film, begins to precipitate the dihy-dride phase, with resistivity ~ 5 times lower than that of pure yttrium. After 65 seconds the resistivity increases rapidly and for a few seconds there is increased optical transmission, shown by a partially reflecting film, close to the dihydride composition. As hydrogen adsorption increases, optical transmission drops to zero, but after 80 seconds there is an abrupt and drastic increase in the optical transmission intensity, shown by a non-reflecting, transparent yellow film. This corresponds to YH2.86 to the trihydride, YH3.
For a lanthanum-palladium film the pattern is similar, but without the transparency window which occurred around 67 seconds; optical switching in LaHx is more gradual than in YHx.
Thus, there is a continuous, reversible metal-insulator transition in thin yttrium films supported and protected by a palladium overlayer, which can be brought about at room temperature by changing the hydrogen pressure, between hydrogen : yttrium ratios of 1.8 and 2.9. As hydrogen pressures increase, the films change from a reflective, shiny, mirror-like state to a yellow transparent state.
It is suggested that this technique could be used to investigate other rare earth films which undergo similar changes, and that such a significant optical phenomenon might find wide technological applications.
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Life and Letters
A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency
Peter Sloterdijk has spent decades railing against the pieties of liberal democracy. Now his ideas seem prophetic.
Peter Sloterdijk has emerged as his country's most controversial public intellectual.Illustration by Mikkel Sommer
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One weekend last June, in an auditorium in the German city of Karlsruhe, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk celebrated his seventieth birthday by listening to twenty lectures about himself. A cluster of Europe's leading intellectuals, academics, and artists, along with a smattering of billionaires, were paying tribute to Germany's most controversial thinker, in the town where he was born and where he recently concluded a two-decade tenure as the rector of the State Academy for Design. There were lectures on Sloterdijk's thoughts on Europe, democracy, religion, love, war, anger, the family, and space. There were lectures on his commentaries on Shakespeare and Clausewitz, and on his witty diaries, and slides of buildings inspired by his insights. Between sessions, Sloterdijk, who has long, straw-colored hair and a straggly mustache, prowled among luminaries of the various disciplines he has strayed into, like a Frankish king greeting lords of recently subdued fiefdoms. The academy bookstore was selling most of his books—sixty-odd titles produced over the past forty years. The latest, "After God," was displayed on a pedestal in a glass cube.
At a dinner in his honor, Sloterdijk surveyed the scene with a Dutch friend, Babs van den Bergh. "Do you think I should read out the letter?" he asked. In his hand was a note from Chancellor Angela Merkel praising his contributions to German culture.
"You really shouldn't read it," van den Bergh said.
"It's not even a good letter, is it?" Sloterdijk said. "It's so short. She probably didn't even write it."
"Of course she didn't write it," van den Bergh said. "But you would never get a letter like that in the Netherlands or anywhere else. Someone in her office worked very hard on it."
Reverence for intellectual culture is waning in much of the world, but it remains strong in Germany. Sloterdijk's books vie with soccer-star memoirs on the German best-seller lists. A late-night TV talk show that he co-hosted, "The Philosophical Quartet," ran for a decade. He has written an opera libretto, published a bawdy epistolary novel lampooning the foundation that funds the country's scientific research, and advised some of Europe's leading politicians.
Sloterdijk's colleagues offered encomiums. The architect Daniel Libeskind said that his books have inspired a rethinking of European public space. Bruno Latour, the sociologist and historian of science, apologized for not knowing German, and recited in French a long, droll poem he had written, describing Sloterdijk as a scribe of God. There was a video montage of Sloterdijk's television appearances across the decades, in which a young blond mystic with arctic-blue eyes and torn sweaters gradually morphed into the burgherly figure before us.
On the second night of the symposium, Sloterdijk and his partner, the journalist Beatrice Schmidt, invited some friends to their apartment, on a stately street next door to a Buddhist meditation center. A picture by Anselm Kiefer of a bomber plane hung in the hallway to the kitchen. In the building's untamed back garden, Sloterdijk began pouring bottles of white Rhône wine for his guests. There were whispers about the wonders of his cellar. On a small wooden porch, Sloterdijk spoke to two young women about his recent travails while getting his driver's license renewed. "It's a complete horror," he said. "It takes nine hours in Germany. Only your most maniacally loyal friends are willing to go with you." When Sloterdijk goes into one of his conversational riffs, there is a feeling of liftoff. A rhythmic nasal hum develops momentum and eventually breaks into more ethereal climes, creating the sense that you have cleared the quotidian. "The car is like a uterus on wheels," he says. "It has the advantage over its biological model for being linked to independent movement and a feeling of autonomy. The car also has phallic and anal components—the primitive-aggressive competitive behavior, and the revving up and overtaking which turns the other, slower person into an expelled turd."
In Germany, where academic philosophers still equate dryness with seriousness, Sloterdijk has a near-monopoly on irreverence. This is an important element of his wide appeal, as is his eagerness to offer an opinion on absolutely anything—from psychoanalysis to finance, Islam to Soviet modernism, the ozone layer to Neanderthal sexuality. An essay on anger can suddenly plunge into a history of smiling; a meditation on America may veer into a history of frivolity. His magnum opus, the "Spheres" trilogy, nearly three thousand pages long, includes a rhapsodic excursus on rituals of human-placenta disposal. He is almost farcically productive. As his editor told me, "The problem with Sloterdijk is that you are always eight thousand pages behind."
This profligacy makes Sloterdijk hard to pin down. He is known not for a single grand thesis but for a shrapnel-burst of impressionistic coinages—"anthropotechnics," "negative gynecology," "co-immunism"—that occasionally suggest the lurking presence of some larger system. Yet his prominence as a public intellectual comes from a career-long rebellion against the pieties of liberal democracy, which, now that liberal democracy is in crisis worldwide, seems prophetic. A signature theme of his work is the persistence of ancient urges in supposedly advanced societies. In 2006, he published a book arguing that the contemporary revolt against globalization can be seen as a misguided expression of "noble" sentiments, which, rather than being curbed, should be redirected in ways that left-liberals cannot imagine. He has described the Presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as a choice "between two helplessly gesticulating models of normality, one of which appeared to be delegitimatized, the other unproven," and is unsurprised that so many people preferred the latter. Few philosophers are as fixated on the current moment or as gleefully ready to explain it.
Sloterdijk's comfort with social rupture has made him a contentious figure in Germany, where stability, prosperity, and a robust welfare state are seen as central to the country's postwar achievement. Many Germans define themselves by their moral rectitude, as exhibited by their reckoning with the Nazi past and, more recently, by the government's decision to accept more refugees from the Syrian civil war than any other Western country. Sloterdijk is determined to disabuse his countrymen of their polite illusions. He calls Germany a "lethargocracy" and the welfare state a "fiscal kleptocracy." He has decried Merkel's attitude toward refugees, drawn on right-wing thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Arnold Gehlen, and even speculated about genetic enhancement of the human race. As a result, some progressives refuse to utter his name in public. In 2016, the head of one centrist party denounced him as a stooge for the AfD, a new far-right party that won thirteen per cent of the vote in last year's federal elections.
The rise of the German right has made life more complicated for Sloterdijk. Positions that, at another time, might have been forgiven as attempts to stir debate now appear dangerous. A decade ago, Sloterdijk predicted a nativist resurgence in Europe, a time when "we will look back nostalgically to the days when we considered a dashing populist showman like Jörg Haider"—the late Austrian far-right leader—"a menace." Now Sloterdijk has found himself in the predicament of a thinker whose reality has caught up with his pronouncements.
The rest of Germany thinks of Karlsruhe, when it thinks of it at all, as a placid city where the Supreme Court is situated. Nestled in the far southwest, where Germany begins to blend into France, Karlsruhe was one of the first planned cities of Europe and an oasis of the Enlightenment. When Thomas Jefferson passed through, in 1788, he sent a sketch of the street plan back home, as a possible template for the layout of Washington, D.C.
The town is also the birthplace of the inventor of the bicycle, an entrepreneurial baron named Karl von Drais—a fact that Sloterdijk, who loves cycling, cherishes. When I met him a few weeks after his birthday celebrations, he suggested riding into town to try a new steak restaurant. He talked about advances in bicycle design, which got him onto one of his favorite topics: inventors. "There are people who are all around us who have invented something essential," he said. "There's a man in Germany who invented the retractable dog leash. Can you imagine? Millions of people have them now. Of course, these leashes present an existential threat to me, since I'm an avid cyclist. Sometimes I'm riding fast and there's an owner over there, and the dog over there, and in between—!"
We embarked. On his bike, Sloterdijk seemed massive. In the light wind, his plaid short-sleeved shirt became a billowing tube. The fusion of man and machine looked top-heavy and precarious, but his pedalling was strikingly efficient, unstrenuous yet powerful. From the chest up, he appeared no different from the way he does in a seminar room.
At the restaurant, Sloterdijk ordered a glass of rosé. I asked him about the German federal elections, which were a few months away. Sloterdijk spoke disparagingly of all the major parties, except for the F.D.P., Germany's closest equivalent to libertarians. "The most appealing scenario would be for the F.D.P. to share a coalition with Merkel's Christian Democrats," he said. "They could inject some sense into them."
Most Germans think of health care, education, and other basic services as rights, not privileges, but the F.D.P. has argued that the country's welfare state has become hypertrophied, a view close to Sloterdijk's own. "It creates a double current of resentment," he said. "You have the people making money who feel no gratitude in return for all they give in taxes. Then you have the people who receive the money. They also feel resentment. They would like to trade places with the rich who give to them. So both sides feel bitterly betrayed and angry." Sloterdijk argues that taxation should be replaced with a system in which the richest members voluntarily fund great civic and artistic works. He believes that this kind of social web of happy givers and receivers existed until around the end of the Renaissance but was then obliterated by the rise of the European state. He gets excited about the profusion of philanthropic schemes emanating from Silicon Valley and sees in them an attractive model for the future.
Compared with many other countries in the West, Germany still has a relatively high level of social equality. The Second World War decimated the German aristocracy, and anti-élitist sentiment surged during the protests of 1968, as a generation of German students began to question the bourgeois priorities of their parents. There is a widespread skepticism of unbridled American-style capitalism and consumer culture. German bankers earn a fraction of what their American counterparts do, and avoid ostentation. It is not uncommon for C.E.O.s and C.F.O.s to painstakingly sort through their household recycling on the weekends. People are wary of credit—nearly eighty per cent of German transactions are made in cash—and customers in hardware shops and bakeries pay, with unfathomable diligence, in exact change.
But even in Germany inequality is growing. Sharp hikes in apartment-rental prices in major cities have dissolved neighborhoods and pushed ordinary workers into long commutes. Last year, the government put forward a plan to privatize the Autobahn. Deutsche Bank, once a stolid provincial lender, has transformed itself in the past two decades into a steroidal, Wall Street-style multinational, a leader in the collateralization of debt, and a major creditor of Donald Trump. Hippie beach enclaves on the Baltic Sea have become resorts for trust-funders.
Germany's embrace of luxury delights Sloterdijk. He believes that it was a historic mistake of the international left to "declare war on the beautiful people," and welcomes signs that Germans are allowing themselves to take pleasure in extravagance. The proliferation of sleek steak restaurants, such as the one we were in, is but one promising sign among many.
The waiter stopped by our table, and Sloterdijk handed him back his second glass of wine. "Was it not cold?" the waiter asked. "Yes, but I want it colder," Sloterdijk said. Later, as we got up to leave, the waiter tentatively approached him and asked, "Are you Herr Sloterdijk?" For a second, it seemed as if he was going to kiss his hand.
As we rode our bikes through Karlsruhe, I asked Sloterdijk what he remembered of his childhood. "We lived in another part of town," he said over his shoulder. "I've gone back to visit it, looking for traces, but nothing came back: there was no temps retrouvé! " Sloterdijk was born in 1947, part of the generation that Germans call "rubble children"; he remembers playing in the ruins left behind by the Allied bombing campaigns. His mother worked at a radar center during the war, and met his father, a Dutch sailor, after the German collapse. The marriage did not last long, and Sloterdijk lost contact with his father in early youth. "I had to find my own father and mentors, which meant that I had to look in the world around me," he has said. "Somehow I managed to divide myself into teacher and student."
Part of the "somehow" involved his mother, who taught him ancient Greek sayings and harbored no doubts about her son's genius. When Sloterdijk was a teen-ager, they moved to Munich, where, outside school, he started consuming large amounts of expressionist poetry. In the late nineteen-sixties, he studied literature and philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Munich, where his friend Rachel Salamander, now an editor and the owner of a Jewish-literature bookshop in the city, remembers him as a dazzling presence. "He spoke faster than everyone thought, and wrote faster than they spoke," she told me. "I was not surprised at all by what he became."
"He's somewhat risk-averse, so you might have a hard time getting him onto a pier."
Sloterdijk pursued a doctorate at the University of Hamburg but received only a middling grade on his dissertation, and, for a while, his academic prospects were uncertain. In 1979, he moved to India, where he studied with the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, near Pune. He says that the greatest discussions of Adorno he ever heard were on the fringes of an ashram there. His time in India led him to challenge many of his intellectual assumptions. "In the German philosophical tradition, we were told that we humans were poor devils," he said to me. "But in India the message was: we weren't poor devils, we contained hidden gods!"
In 1983, a few years after his return, Sloterdijk published a thousand-page book that has sold more copies than any other postwar book of German philosophy. The title, "The Critique of Cynical Reason," seemed to promise a cheeky update of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," but the book instead delivered a wildly personal polemic about the deterioration of the utopian spirit of 1968 and called for Sloterdijk's generation to take stock of itself. His peers, as they reached middle age, were pragmatically adjusting to global capitalism and to the nuclear stalemate of the Cold War. He issued a challenge to readers to scour history and art for ways of overcoming social atomization. Punning on Kant's concept of the thing-in-itself, he asked, "Have we not become the isolated thing-for-yourself in the middle of similar beings?"
The antidote to cynicism, he suggested, was a re-immersion in the heritage of the Cynics of ancient Greece. He looked to the philosopher Diogenes, who rejected the social conventions that governed human behavior and said that people should live instinctively, like dogs. The word "cynic" comes from the Greek kynikos, meaning "doglike," and Sloterdijk coined the term "kynicism" to differentiate Diogenes' active assault on prevailing norms from the passive disengagement of the late twentieth century. He celebrated the direct way that Diogenes made his points—masturbating in the marketplace, defecating in the theatre—and suggested that the answer to his generation's malaise was to repurpose the spontaneous currents of sixties counterculture.
The book caught a moment and made philosophy seem both relevant and fun, beguiling readers with arguments about the philosophical import of breasts and farts. But although it made Sloterdijk's name, he remained an academic outsider, drifting from post to post for almost a decade. His response was to dismiss those who dismissed him—"Their codes and rituals are reliably antithetical to thought," he told me—and to forge his reputation instead with articles in magazines and newspapers. He received job offers from America, but it was becoming clear that he was by nature a gadfly—that he and Germany needed each other because they agitated each other so much.
Sloterdijk began picking fights with some of the most renowned members of the German academic establishment, in particular the leftist theorists of the Frankfurt School. "It's not advisable to go up against Sloterdijk in a public setting," Axel Honneth, a leading figure of the school, told me. "He wins on points of rhetoric that are in inverse proportion to the irresponsibility of his ideas." A French-Canadian academic recently produced a diagram of Sloterdijk's feuds with other German intellectuals; it looks like a trick play in football.
The most notorious episode occurred in 1999, after Sloterdijk published "Rules for the Human Zoo," an essay about the fate of humanism. Since Roman times, he argued, humanism's latent message had been that "reading the right books calms the inner beast" and its function was to select a "secret élite" of the literate. Now, in the age of media-saturated mass culture, reading great books had lost its selective function. "What can tame man, when the role of humanism as the school for humanity has collapsed?" he wrote. Channelling Heidegger and Nietzsche, Sloterdijk imagined an "Über-humanist" who might use "genetic reform" to insure "that an élite is reared with certain characteristics."
In Germany, where the very word "selection" is enough to set off alarms, Sloterdijk's essay invited antagonism. Was he making a plea for eugenics? Jürgen Habermas, the country's most revered philosopher, declared that Sloterdijk's work had "fascist implications," and encouraged other writers to attack him. Sloterdijk responded by proclaiming the death of the Frankfurt School, to which Habermas belongs, writing that "the days of hyper-moral sons of national-socialist fathers are coming to an end." German intellectuals mostly sided with Habermas, but Sloterdijk emerged from the scuffle with his status considerably enhanced. He was now a national figure who stood for everything that Habermas did not.
Sloterdijk's professional uncertainties resolved themselves in the early nineties, when his appointment to a prime post at the academy in Karlsruhe gave him the freedom to do whatever he liked. Since then, his newspaper articles and TV appearances have gradually established him as a media celebrity. Over the summer, ordinary Germans who spotted his books in my hands engaged me in conversation on trains, in coffee shops, at universities, and in bookshops. "Sloterdijk creates for his readers the feeling that they are suddenly in possession of the solutions to the greatest problems in philosophy," the German literary critic Gustav Seibt told me. He also has a strong following among wealthy élites, who value the intellectual patina he provides for their world views. Nicolas Berggruen, a billionaire investor who recently established an annual million-dollar philosophy prize, told me, "Sloterdijk takes on the biggest issues, but in the least conventional ways."
In the academy, he is still regarded with suspicion. The English philosopher John Gray argued, in a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, that, sentence by sentence, much of his output is simply incomprehensible. It's a common reaction among Anglophone readers, who are often baffled by the scale of his reputation. This is in part because his metaphorical, image-addicted style of philosophy has been in short supply in English since Coleridge. But in Europe it finds a ready audience. His writings, abstruse yet popularizing, have made him an uplifting guru for some and a convenient devil for others—the crucial fact being that he is never ignored. "The most interesting thing about Sloterdijk may not be anything particular he has written," the Berkeley intellectual historian Martin Jay told me, "but simply the fact that he exists."
Shortly after the German federal elections in September, I met Sloterdijk for lunch, at a small Italian restaurant in the west of Berlin. "This is a restaurant where Gerhard Schröder used to come," Sloterdijk told me with satisfaction. The former German Chancellor began inviting Sloterdijk to gatherings of intellectuals in the nineties, when his broadsides against left-leaning public moralists were first winning him a following among conservative and centrist politicians. After our lunch, Sloterdijk was going to see the country's current President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. I asked if he ever saw Angela Merkel, and he laughed, saying, "She's got to this point where she exudes the persona of a woman who no longer needs anyone's advice."
Since I had last seen Sloterdijk, Merkel and her party, the C.D.U., had pulled off a narrow victory in the federal elections, but major gains achieved by previously marginal parties were making it hard for Merkel to assemble a governing coalition. The leftist party Die Linke had made inroads into the youth vote, recalling the successes of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. The libertarian F.D.P., which Sloterdijk had praised months before, had done well, too, but eventually turned down the opportunity to join Merkel in a coalition government. Overshadowing everything else in the headlines were the advances made by the nationalist AfD.
When I brought up the AfD, Sloterdijk sank his head in his hands, and his expansive manner gave way to something more cautious. For years, the German media have been making connections between Sloterdijk's thought and new right-wing groups, and he's become used to rebutting the charge of harboring far-right sympathies. In my conversations with him, his political preoccupations seemed closer to libertarianism than to anything more blood and soil, but he has a habit of saying things that, depending on your view, seem either like dog whistles to the far right or like the bomb-throwing reflexes of a born controversialist. When Sloterdijk said, of Merkel's refugee policy, that "no society has the moral obligation to self-destruct," his words called to mind Thilo Sarrazin, a former board member of the Bundesbank, who, in 2010, published an anti-Muslim tract with the title "Germany Abolishes Itself," which became a huge best-seller and made racial purity a respectable concern of national discussion.
I asked Sloterdijk about Marc Jongen, a former doctoral student of his who became the AfD's "party philosopher" and recently took up a seat in the Bundestag. "In a perfect world, you are not responsible for your students," he said. "But we live in a half-perfect world, and so now people try to pin Jongen to me." I asked if there was any common ground between him and Jongen, and he replied with an emphatic no, calling Jongen "a complete impostor." He went on, "He came to the university to study Sanskrit classics like the Upanishads, but then he gave it all up. A political career is the way out for him." The response was unequivocal, but couched less in terms of moral abhorrence than of professional disdain.
Sloterdijk deplored the rise of the right, but he couldn't resist seeing something salutary in the spectacle. "It's been coming for a long time," he said. "It's also a sign that Germans are more like the rest of humanity than they like to believe." He started talking about "rage banks," his term for the way that disparate grievances can be organized into larger reserves of political capital.
He described this concept in his 2006 book "Rage and Time," an examination of the loathing of liberal democracy by nativist, populist, anarchic, and terrorist movements. The book follows his usual detour-giddy historical method, comparing political uses of anger, and of related emotions such as pride and resentment, from Homer to the present. In premodern societies, he argues, vengeance and blood feuds provided ample outlet for these impulses. Later, loyalty to the nation-state performed a similar function, and international Communism managed to direct class rage into utopian projects. But modern capitalism presents a particular problem. "Ever more irritated and isolated individuals find themselves surrounded by impossible offers," he writes, and, out of this frustrated desire, "an impulse to hate everything emerges." It was this kind of rage, Sloterdijk believes, that was on display in the riots in the banlieues of Paris in 2005.
In "Rage and Time," Sloterdijk writes that the discontents of capitalism leave societies susceptible to "rage entrepreneurs"—a phrase that uncannily foreshadows the advent of Donald Trump. When we spoke about Trump, Sloterdijk explained him as part of a shift in Western history. "This is a moment that won't come again," he told me. "Both of the old Anglophone empires have within a short period withdrawn from the universal perspective." Sloterdijk went so far as to claim that Trump uses fears of ecological devastation in his favor. "The moment for me was when I first heard him say 'America First,' " he said. "That means: America to the front of the line! But it's not the line for globalization anymore, but the line for resources. Trump channels this global feeling of ecological doom."
I asked Sloterdijk if there was something specifically American about Trumpism. "You can't go looking for Trump in Europe," he told me. "You know, Hegel in his time was convinced that the state in the form of the rule of law had not yet arrived in the new world. He thought that the individual—private, virtuous—had to anticipate the state. You see this in American Westerns, where the good sheriff has to imagine the not-yet-existent state in his own private morality. But Trump is a degenerate sheriff. He acts as if he doesn't care if the state comes into being or not, and mocks the upright townsfolk. What makes Trump dangerous is that he exposes parts of liberal democracies that were only shadowily visible up until now. In democracies, there is always an oligarchic element, but Trump makes it extremely, comically visible." For Sloterdijk, Trump's true significance lies in the way that he instinctively subverts the norms of modern governance. "He's an innovator when it comes to fear," Sloterdijk told me. "Instead of waiting for the crisis to impose his decree, his decrees get him the emergencies he needs. The playground for madness is vast."
The day after our lunch was the five-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation. The city of Wittenberg, half an hour outside Berlin, where Luther had—allegedly—nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church, had suddenly been transformed into something like an American Christian-college campus. Midwesterners and Californians mixed with fellow-pilgrims in squares and outside churches, discussing the doings of St. Paul and debating whether Luther was a monk or a friar. Faux-medieval stalls were selling Reformation souvenirs, including T-shirts that said "Viva la Reformation!" and Luther socks that read "Here I stand, I can do no other."
Sloterdijk had come to speak at a local Protestant academy about the meaning of the Reformation. "Luther had the great fortune to be followed by Bach," Sloterdijk told his audience. "His form of individualism was illuminated by the most beautiful music."
"But he was also followed by Hitler!" a young man in the audience said.
"Hitler was a degraded Papist," Sloterdijk shot back.
Little by little, the discussion gravitated to assaults on Sloterdijk's positions. "You sound like the right-wingers when you speak of the refugees," an elderly doctor stood up and declared. "We cared about refugees after the war and we can do it again."
Sloterdijk replied impatiently. "The Americans gave us this idea of multiculturalism that suited their society fine, but which, as software, is not compatible with our German hardware of the welfare state," he said. "There's this family metaphor spreading everywhere: the idea that all of humanity is our family. That idea helped destroy the Roman Empire. Now we're in danger of letting that metaphor get out of control all over again. People are not ready to feel the full pressure of coexistence with billions of their contemporaries." He went on, "In the past, geography created discretionary boundaries between nations and cultures. Distances that were difficult to overcome allowed for mental and political space." Space and distance, he argued, had allowed for a kind of liberality and generosity that was now under siege—by refugees, by social media, by everything.
At the end of the talk, the faithful of all ages lined up to buy copies of "After God." The polite chatter momentarily gave way to the brisk ritual of book-signing. Sloterdijk scrawled on the open books offered to him. Bearing a freshly signed copy, a pastor visiting from the Rhineland sympathized with Sloterdijk's predicament as a salesman. "We become more like America every day," he told him. "Isn't it a pity?" ♦
Published in the print edition of the February 26, 2018, issue, with the headline "Doktor Zeitgeist."
Thomas Meaney, a writer and a historian, is a Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellow at the American Council on Germany.
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Donald Gilbert Kennedy (March 1898 – 1976) was a teacher, then an administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. For his services as a Coastwatcher during the Pacific War (World War II), he was awarded the DSO, and the Navy Cross (U.S.).  He published journal articles and books on the material culture of Vaitupu atoll, land tenure and the language of the Ellice Islands.

Childhood and education
Kennedy, the son of Robert and Isabelle Kennedy (née Chisholm), was born at Springhills near Invercargill. The family moved to Oamaru in 1904 and Kennedy attended local public schools: Tokarahi primary school (1904–1910) and Waitaki Boys' High School (1911–1915).
He attended Kaikorai School in Dunedin where he gained a Teacher's Certificate. He also completed the first part of an arts degree in French, Latin and History at Otago University, although he did not complete the degree. He served in the territorial army and in March 1918 he enlisted in the New Zealand army. When World War I ended in November 1918, he was a second lieutenant with his unit in training.
He was a teacher at the Native College at Otaki (1919) and Dannevirke High School (1920). In December 1920, he married Nellie Chapman; they divorced in 1944.

Service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
In 1921, he became assistant master at the Suva Boys' Grammar School in Fiji. He accepted a position with the Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC) which administered the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT) and was appointed the headmaster to the Banaban School on Ocean Island in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. In 1923, he went to the Ellice Islands to found and direct a new school called Elisefou (New Ellice) on Funafuti, which he moved to Vaitupu the next year as the food supply was better on that atoll.  He was the headmaster for 8 years and was a disciplinarian who would not hesitate to beat his students. The two most famous Tuvaluans from the school were Tuvalu's first Governor General, Sir Fiatau Penitala Teo and its first Prime Minister, Toaripi Lauti. In 1925–26 he built himself a radio transmitter, which he used to send messages to New Zealand. He also taught students how to build and operate radio transmitters.

In 1926, he was instrumental in establishing the first co-operative store (fusi) on Vaitupu, which became a model for the bulk purchasing and selling cooperative stores established in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony to replace the stores operated by Palangi traders.

In 1929, Kennedy donated a large quantity of Tuvaluan artefacts to the Otago Museum. He published Field Notes on the Culture of Vaitupu, Ellice Islands in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in instalments between 1929 and 1932 and as a book in 1931.

In April 1932 Kennedy became the resident District Officer at Funafuti in the administration of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. He also served as the Native Lands Commissioner from 1934 to 1938.   In 1938 he was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship to study for a year at University College, Oxford for a Diploma in Anthropology.  Kennedy's plans to return to Funafuti was ended by a deputation of islanders to the WPHC Commissioner, Sir Harry Luke, who provided a list of grievances about Kennedy's drunkenness, cruelty and "always [being] after the native women and girls." However, this deputation does not appear to represent the commonly held opinion of the Ellice Islanders, as a second deputation asked for Kennedy to return to the islands to complete his work as Land Commissioner and because the Islanders were grateful for Kennedy's work including in educating the Islanders at Elisefou school. An investigation of the complains after World War II concluded that the allegations were 'vague in the extreme' and that, without a proper enquiry, including giving Kennedy the opportunity to respond to the allegations, no judgment could be formed about his culpability. In August 1939, the WPHC appointed Kennedy to an administrative position on Ocean Island.

Service in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in World War II

In 1940 he transferred to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) to work at the protectorate headquarters on Tulagi. He was allocated the administration of the district of Gela in the Nggela Islands. Following the attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, he was commissioned as a captain in the BSIP Defence Force. He continued in his administrative duties, with his responsibilities covering the north-western half of the Solomon Islands and included Ysabel, Nggela and the Shortland Islands.

He organised an intelligence-gathering network of local informants and messengers to carry out the role of Coastwatchers; who were planters, government officials, missionaries and islanders who went into hiding after the Japanese invasion of the Solomon Islands in 1942. The Coastwatchers monitored Japanese shipping and aircraft (reporting by radio) and also rescued Allied personnel who were stranded in the territory held by the Japanese.

On 20 April 1942, Kennedy established a base at Mahanga (Mahaga), which overlooked Thousand Ships Bay on the south coast of Santa Isabel Island. Following further Japanese advances, in July 1942 he transferred his headquarters to Seghe (Segi or Sergi) on the south coast of New Georgia, which was on the channel between New Georgia and Vangunu in the Western Province. On 7 August 1942, U.S. forces captured Tulagi and an airfield on Guadalcanal. As Seghe was under the flight path of the Japanese aircraft flying from Rabaul, Kennedy was able to provide warnings by radio to the U.S. forces of attacking aircraft. Kennedy reported on Japanese shipping in the New Georgia Sound (known as 'The Slot'), which were attempting to reinforce the troops on Guadalcanal, and also rescued downed American airmen.

Kennedy lead a force of about 30 Solomon Islander fighters, with about 60 carriers of equipment. Kennedy gained a reputation for physical abuse of his subordinates and islanders that he viewed as defying his authority.

By March 1943 the U.S. command were planning  the New Georgia Campaign, which included an assault on the Japanese airfield at Munda, in the north-west of New Georgia and also landing at Seghe to build an airfield. Kennedy directed engagements when Japanese patrols were in the vicinity of Seghe. During the night of 19 May 1943 Kennedy and his crew on the 10-ton schooner Dadavata engaged a Japanese patrol in a 25-foot long Japanese Whaleboat on the Marovo Lagoon. During the firefight, Kennedy received a wound to his right thigh. At the time the wound was attributed to a bullet fired by the Japanese, however following a confession in 1987, it appears that the bullet was fired by Kennedy's own lieutenant, Bill Bennett, who had recently been flogged by Kennedy. Two companies of the 4th Marine Raider Battalion landed at Seghe on the morning of 21 June to defend it against an attack launched by a Japanese battalion. He ended his war service with the rank of major.

1944–46 Resettlement of Banabans on Rabi Island, Fiji
In February 1944, he was appointed as acting district commissioner, based in the new capital of the BSIP in Honiara on Guadalcanal. In July 1944 he returned to New Zealand and divorced Nellie then married Mary Campbell. In December 1944, after receiving hospital treatment for alcoholism, he was appointed by the WPHC to an administration position in Fiji.

In August 1945, he was appointed as the 'Banaban adviser' to draw up a constitution for the 'council and the management of a cooperative society' for the Banaban people of Ocean Island, whom the colonial administration were resettling on Rabi Island in Fiji. The Banabans had been deported by the Japanese to Nauru, Tarawa and Kosrae. They were unwilling migrants to Fiji, and they were angry because the British Phosphate Commission had made Ocean Island uninhabitable.  Kennedy was forced to call on the police when the Banabans began protesting. Kennedy was subsequently replaced as the Banaban adviser in May 1946.

Activities 1947 to 1950
Following vacation leave he retired as 'District Officer, BSIP' on 25 April 1947. He and Mary went to live on 'Glen Aros' station in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, which Mary had inherited from her parents. He continued to suffer from alcoholism.

He was employed by ASIO for 7 months in 1950. He spent three months of that time in Lae in Papua New Guinea (PNG) before resigning. Kennedy was involved in the establishment of a branch of the Australian Security Service in PNG, which appears to be motivated by a fear of Communist infiltration.

1951–52 Resettlement of Vaitupuans on Kioa Island, Fiji
In 1945 Kennedy had visited Vaitupu, where overpopulation was an issue, some of the islanders were receptive to resettlement. Kennedy encouraged Neli Lifuka in the resettlement proposal that eventually resulted in the purchase of Kioa island in Fiji.

In June 1946, Kennedy and Henry Evans Maude, bought the island of Kioa in Fiji on behalf of the Vaitupuans who wanted to migrate. Between 1947 and 1963, 217 people moved to Kioa. Kennedy was invited to Kioa to act as an advisor to the community. He arrived on Kioa in September 1951 and initiated an ambitious development program involving clearing bush, planting coconuts and grazing cattle in order to create an enterprise that could attract further Ellice Islanders to live on Kioa. This program was not accepted by the settlers and the following year they expelled him from the island.

Retirement 1952 to 1976
He purchased the small island of Waya, in the Kadavu Group, Fiji in 1952. He and Mary were divorced in the same year.

In 1958 Emeline, an Ellice Islander, became his common-law wife. In 1973 Kennedy's health declined; as a consequence he sold the island, after marrying, he and Emeline retired to New Zealand. He died in 1976, aged 77 yrs.

Publications
 Kennedy, Donald Gilbert, Field notes on the culture of Vaitupu, Ellice Islands' (1931): Thomas Avery & Sons, New Plymouth, N.Z.
 Kennedy, Donald Gilbert, 'Te ngangana a te Tuvalu – Handbook on the language of the Ellice Islands' (1946) Websdale, Shoosmith, Sydney N.S.W.

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1898 births
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History of Kiribati
History of Tuvalu
1976 deaths
Gilbert and Ellice Islands people
British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers
Solomon Islands in World War II
People from Southland, New Zealand

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