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The Ever-Present Puritan
Posted by Fritz Pendleton on August 15, 2019 August 11, 2019
There is a half-cocked theory in one of George Orwell's essays that I have been eager to steal. It is not a true theft, of course, if I give some credit to Orwell for the inspiration, so this is my obligatory nod to that great essayist. I feel as if he stumbled on an idea so profound that it transcends his original subject matter; it was a political paradigm too good to leave half-cocked. I, therefore, have decided to take up the slack.
In his essay, Charles Dickens, Orwell examines the life and work of Dickens and in seeking to add some weight to his literary analysis, Orwell strays from the literary into the political. He places Dickens in his historical context, as a man from a rising middle-class family of puritans who were once obscure and fringe religionists in English society but who rose to prominence quite unexpectedly in the Victorian era due to the industrial revolution. They were hard-working, no-nonsense city dwellers who were a natural choice to be the managers and bookkeepers of Britain's manufacturing boom. Dickens's obsessions with the poor house, the damp, squalid streets of London, the greedy moneylenders in back alleys, and the preteen chimney sweeps were the obsessions of a city man preoccupied with work, and work is one of the foremost preoccupations of the puritan. Noticeably absent from Dickens's world are battlefields, card playing and sherry swigging, poetry, pitchforks and plows, the slow sunset over a pond surrounded by frogs – these things belong to a world altogether alien to the urban puritan with his accounting logs and contracts. They belong instead to the world of the leisure class, that is to say, the landed gentry and the aristocracy.
This observation was so apt that Orwell missed an opportunity by not taking this thought and extending to British politics as a whole. This split between the puritan and the gentleman of leisure is found not only in the work of Dickens, but it is present in all English politics since the Reformation. This divide in the Anglo-Saxon psyche is so profound, so fundamental in its particulars, that one can almost couch it in spiritual terms, as if it were stamped deep into the hard wax of the Anglo-Saxon's soul. It is so ever-present, in fact, that this divide turns up in every country where the English have emigrated in significant numbers: places like Canada, Australia, and most especially the United States.
On the one hand, there is the puritan, the round-head, the petty little naysayer who in an effort to make everyone as dour as himself attempts to make society miserably conformist. He mocks priests for their titles, he shuns aristocratic largess, and he is deeply suspicious of beauty, especially if it exists for its own sake. The puritan is an ideologue in that he places his ideals at the nucleus of his existence and judges everyone by how closely they are able to live in accord with these ideals. He is a prude and he is proud of it.
On the other hand, there is the cavalier, the dandy, the rapscallion, the reckless spendthrift who spurns manual labor but is willing to die in the service of some great cause, especially if it is a lost cause. He makes no effort to pick his battles wisely: he fights whenever he feels like it. The cavalier is an idealist but he is not an ideologue. He follows his own code of honor, even if it works sometimes to his detriment, but he does not demand that others follow him; in fact, he outright refuses it. His code of honor, like his brand of whisky or his cuff links, is something accommodated perfectly to his own taste.
Both men live for their ideals. To the puritan, sincerity is the highest ethic; to the cavalier, good manners. The puritan prizes efficiency; the cavalier, wit. The worst thing for the puritan is to be idle; for the cavalier, it's to be craven.
It is not hard to see how the puritan has evolved into the progressive of our era. On a superficial level, of course, they seem to be different. The progressive despises Christianity, has lax sexual standards, probably has more than one tattoo, and has difficulty holding a regular nine-to-five job. But the similarities are there. The puritans sought to establish a utopian, shining city on a hill in the New World, using the word of God to perfect the fallen men of Earth. The progressive seeks to perfect who they see as the many wretched fallen men around them with their new Gospel.
The progressive hates Christianity mostly because it is a rival philosophy that is too close for comfort. If anything, it is seen as a less pure, less consistent form of progressivism in much the same way that the puritan saw Anglicanism as a less pure, less consistent form of his own puritan theology. The progressive has done the Christian a favor by carving out most traces of Christ from his beliefs, but his progressive ethic is still fundamentally the same as the puritan's.
The puritan believed that people are fundamentally the same, that we are all God's children, and that we are divided by our commitment to good works. Similarly, the progressive believes that people are fundamentally the same, that our genetic differences are negligible, and that we are divided by our commitment to good works. These good works have been altered somewhat in the conversion from the puritan to the progressive faith, but they are not dissimilar. The puritan felt that he should spread the gospel of Christ, build churches and statues, mold the minds of the youth with his theology, and use the state to stamp out heresy, which was practically any point of view with which he disagreed.
The progressive feels that he should spread the gospel of equality, tear down churches and statues, mold the minds of youth with his egalitarianism, and use the state to stamp out fascism, which is practically any point of view with which he disagrees. Much like how the puritan was encouraged to go on missions to spread the gospel, the progressive is encouraged to join non-profit organizations and volunteer to "raise awareness" for progressive issues.
The puritans used every means possible to triumph over the unbelievers. They shamed people publicly, fined them, banished them, and even hung them. They outlawed gambling, prostitution, boxing, and even the celebration of Christmas and Easter. The progressive pushes a remarkably similar agenda. One can imagine them agreeing to banning each of those things for similar reasons: Christmas and Easter banned for anti-LGBT bigotry, boxing and gambling banned for being a sign of toxic masculinity, prostitution banned because it demeans women. Even their violent methods look similar, seeing as how Western progressives have used every means listed except hanging – and that, I'm sure, will be next on their agenda.
The similarities between the two are so numerous because their method of belief is nearly identical. Both the puritan and the progressive see their beliefs not as opinions, but as incontrovertible dogmas. Belief is therefore a moral judgment on their part. Those who disagree with them are not simply wrong, but immoral. This approach removes all middle-ground discussions, all compromises, all nuances and shades of meaning – there is belief and the rest is heresy.
Even the apparent differences between the two can be explained when one understands their innate prudery. The prudes of the puritan era were against premarital sex and bodily mutilation just as how today the prudes are for it: now having odd sex and getting tattoos and piercings are a way of signaling that one is indeed a progressive, that one has joined the team of believers, much like how the shunning of jewelry and wigs was one obvious identifier for the puritan. It is a means of discerning the chosen ones from the heretics.
I think it is also no coincidence that the training grounds of the puritan clergy, Harvard and Yale, are now the primary training grounds of the progressive left. It is true that the demographics of Harvard and Yale have changed noticeably since that time but even that, I would argue, is no coincidence. The new money Sterns and Goldbergs, who are now dominant at Harvard, are not much different than puritans: they both have strong in-group preferences, they both want to use the state to persecute rival groups, and they both use material gain as a marker of religious favor. The one point of divergence, the puritan's loyalty to ideas over ethnic affiliation, only made him easier to manipulate in the end. The two are now wedded together in America's higher education, which means that they set the tone for most academic discourse in the West.
Until this point, I have been glad to point out the very obvious parallels between the puritans and the progressive left. This idea is not original and would hardly warrant an essay on the matter if I did not carry the idea a little further: I would argue that not only the left, but also the modern right, has succumbed to puritanism. The 21st century so far has been a depressingly puritanical century and I can only hope that we on the right are capable, in the coming decades, of overcoming this trend.
If we examine the conservative parties of the anglophone world, the Tories in Canada and Britain, and the Republicans in the United States, we find a dismal puritanism at work. Although it is not as pronounced as the puritanism of the progressive left, it is there nonetheless. We need only look at the platforms of these conservative parties. What is the modern conservative's solution to the world's problems? Lower taxes. Create jobs. Trade more. Notice how these proposed solutions reveal a dogma that man is first and foremost an economic being and that his ills can be solved through the magic of money. This is puritanism. It reduces a man's worth to the size of his bank balance. It disregards his virtue entirely. It effectively says that faith in the market is more valid than the results that are readily observable in one's society. What will make ethnic minorities who have lived on welfare for several generations get off the dole? Work. What will reverse the trend of major corporations using their money and influence to further progressive ends? The free market, of course! These conservatives offer up the same dogmatic answers.
Even if one were to leave the everyday conservatives alone, they are easy targets after all, one finds just as much of the puritan spirit among the alt-right. They frequently accuse one another of not being hard right enough, that is to say, they are not inclined to tolerate shades of belief because their beliefs are dogmas. The long-standing dispute between ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism is the kind of struggle that would make a puritan feel right at home. One camp rallies around the notion that race should be the sole determinant of a nation-state, while the other camp thinks that there is some magical propensity in Western culture to make thousands of years of evolution and racial division irrelevant.
Both sides of the dispute have become too extreme to take very seriously. A Serb and a Croat have genetic profiles that are almost indistinguishable from one another, and yet these two peoples have proven throughout history that they cannot live together. Race is clearly not the sole determinant in the formation of a nation-state. I think that most reasonable people can agree that culture is a significant factor in nationhood.
But one cannot go so far as the alt-lite and the civic nationalists. One cannot say that the West's culture will be capable of erasing the differences between a Somali and a Scotsman and that the two will be capable of integrating perfectly. We cannot say that importing millions of intelligent, but clannish programmers from India and scientists from China will work to the nation's benefit. If you think the takeover of America's tech industry by upper-caste Indians can be attributed to their programming abilities and not to their sense of ethnic loyalty, then you are very naïve.
These two extremes require some sort of happy medium, a golden mean solution that is based more on nuance than dogma. But, as one might expect, the puritan despises nuance. These two camps remain as firmly entrenched as ever.
Another, more pernicious influence of the puritan over the alt-right can be found in the movement's senseless bickering over religion. Pagans attack Christians constantly and Christians often attack one another. The pagan accuses the Christian of being beholden to a crypto-socialist Jew, the Orthodox attack the Catholics for being beholden to a not-so-crypto socialist Argentine, the Catholics attack the Protestants for being beholden to no one but their own sense of narrow pride. This is another case where the puritan rears his head: each group has to rally around its own banner and the notion that we all contribute to this great tradition known as Western civilization is entirely lost on them. The arguments degenerate instead into who is pure and who is impure.
As a direct descendant of cavaliers, I am disappointed with the right wing at present. I expect the progressive left to be puritanical and I have no desire to change them. I enjoy the fact that the other team is a bunch of miserable sourpusses because that tells me that my cause is just and that I have chosen the right side. Voltaire famously wrote that he only offers one short prayer to God and that is to make his enemies look ridiculous; I cannot help but think that God has granted us right-wingers that favor. The progressive left truly is ridiculous.
But having ridiculous enemies does not matter if one is not much different than one's enemies. The right-wing needs to exemplify a way of life that is different from the progressive's. It is better that the right shelves the moral outrage, the thought policing, and the groveling repentance. These are puritan tactics.
It calls to mind the idea that the right needs to be not just a political foil for the left, but something deeper, something much more fundamental. It needs to be an independent aesthetic.
I hope that someday the right can return to good manners and that we can disagree amicably with one another. I hope that we can face our puritan enemies with that good old aristocratic sangfroid: the kind of polished nonchalance that suggests we will not beg for our lives even when we are accused of thought crimes and taken to the scaffold. I hope that we can move on from shock humor and oven jokes and name calling and return to wit and irony. In my mind, this is the best way to defeat the progressives; it is to be different from them not just in our opinions but in our very being. It is not enough for us to think differently than them, we must also live differently.
As right-wingers, we are supposed to believe in hierarchies. We are supposed to believe in aristocracy, in quality over quantity, in a man's worth over his market value: we are natural elitists but we make almost no effort to win over, or if need be, take over the elite. The right has ceded everything to the left, from academic institutions to government agencies, because it has allowed the left to determine the cultural aesthetic: the right has been transformed into a kind of tepid puritanism that pretends to be an opposing faction.
When Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after a doomed coup, he did not do it because of inflationary economic cycles and bracket creep. He did it out of love for what the imperial throne represented to Japan. When a besieged militia suffered communist shells and starvation for a month at the Alcazar, they did not do it for a point-based immigration system. They did it out of a love for Christ and country. Acts of sacrifice are not prompted by a dry acknowledgment of facts. They are emotional. They require an aesthetic feeling so profound that they might be categorized as religious. It is clear to me that the right-wing needs an aesthetic at odds with the puritanism of this era: it needs its own hymns, its own art, its own fraternities and clubs, its own clothes, its own architecture, and its own unique sense of humor.
I hope the right-wing can recapture the spirit of the cavalier: the wit, the cheerful courage, the snobbish sense of its own heritage and tradition. If we were to behave this way again the puritan would very quickly lose his hold on culture: he is too dour and too hysterical to hold on to the popular imagination in a time of stiff competition. It is telling that after nineteen years of puritan rule, the English people welcomed back their Stuart king and a royalist parliament.
I think it is time that we on the right dealt with the puritan in the most decisive, the most merciless way possible – by killing him in our own psyche.
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Unreconstructed Fenian says:
The Anglo Saxon Puritan North vs the Celtic Cavalier South. As President Davis said, Our enemies since the time of Cromwell, have been rootless and traditionless disturbers of the peace.
Well Aristocrats weren't privileged by wit or manners but by the Sword.
They fought for their beliefs, they didn't just go lightheartedly to the scaffold (most in fact fled).
Good manners be damned, and all talkers.
Alfonz Cavalier says:
Good article, disposition, aesthetics and feelings matter a lot more than facts. The fight we're in is essentially spiritual, and we won't win by sharing graphs and statistics. The dissident right's discourse has been dominated by statistician/ programmer types for too long, and to be honest, it leads to a victim mentality. These are talented and intelligent people, often with good jobs, who nevertheless feel excluded from true power and acceptance within the culture. They are technicians and functionaries, servicing an agenda that is being decided elsewhere by people who loath them as socially introvert or uncool.
Bitterness never wins, however, and that's where another comparison to the Puritans comes in. The Puritans were perennial losers and victims, believing themselves to be persecuted on all fronts, shunning the world and scowling at it. That's no position from which to win victories, it breeds a bunker mentality, which is precisely what we see on the dissident right at the moment.
Fritz Pendleton says:
It's clear you understand what I was driving at in this piece.
boomrx says:
What about just ripping Fredo Cuomo's throat out?
🇰🇬Hulagu🇰🇬 (@AqBoga) says:
I can understand the motivations of the article, and I appreciate several of the arguments that it makes, but the Nemesis that the author describes her has little to do with the historical Puritans.
Take, for example, the well-worn equivalence made between New England Puritans and New England Progressives. Historically, the WASP descendants of the Mayflower pilgrims remained firmly in the conservative side of the aisle, and those regions only flipped to progressive camp once they were demographically flooded with decidedly non-Puritan immigrants: Roman Catholic Irish and Italians, and Jews. You mentioned this replacement with regard to Harvard and Yale, but chose to ascribe the predilections of the demographers replacers to the attitudes of the replaced. Here, again, the historical nuts and bolts do not bear out this position, as the Ivy League remained more Right Wing than the United States as a whole until the institutions were hijacked from the WASP ethnic elite by another elite which more closely cleaves to your idea of the Puritan. If we can blame a group which used to live in a place for the behaviour of another cadre which now dwell there, we might as well blame the crime rate of Detroit on the Iroquois.
As for the notion that Puritanism can be equated with hatred of poetry, I have only to offer the name "Milton" and to note that whilst the Puritan strain of poetry perhaps did not have the flourishes of those produced by their Cavalier counterparts, we would not be good right wing particularists if we did not accept that both were in fact poetry, if not necessarily equally valid forms thereof. I will also note that American Puritanism bled into Transcendentalism, to which "the slow sunset over a pond surrounded by frogs" is by no means alien.
Finally, in the latter portion of your article, it becomes increasingly apparent that Puritanism is nothing but a metaphor for a certain mode of being – if Left wingers and Right-wingers, Alt-Lite and Alt-Right, Pagan, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic are all actually Puritan, does Puritan even mean anything? If Leftcaths are actually puritan, than puritanism has no peculiarity to Puritanism – it seems to mean only that one believes zealously enough in something to be willing to impose it on another person.
Now, I obviously understand the danger of the allowing mercantilist ways of being to infiltrate both society at large and the right wing which ought to be suspicious them. However, to equate this with puritanism is misleading – in one time and place, the urban elite espouse Puritanism, in another Christianity, in a third, Marxism. Even now the primary base of Islamist Neo-Ottomanism is among the Turkish bourgeois. To derive our etymology from historical accidents causes us to become misguided, and in doing so makes us weaker. Let us not succumb to that.
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It's time to learn how to build flavors. From a sweet skill drill making doughnuts to a savory main dish challenge making roulades, the recruits are asked to experiment for the first time in the kitchen and create their own take on these dishes to drastically unpredictable results.
Chefs Mike and Joe make the most of the doughnut Skill Drill.
The Worst Cooks get a sweet challenge: a doughnut-themed Skill Drill.
The recruits are summoned back to Boot Camp for their next challenge. As they approach, a garage door opens, which alarms Carol. "When a gate rises in New York," she says, "you run the other way." But not this time, because it's Anne and Bobby driving a doughnut truck stocked with all different kinds of flavors.
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The recruits take extensive notes as Anne and Bobby start the demonstration. Bobby explains they must create their "own flavor combination using a doughnut as a blank canvas." Anne continues: "It's about combining flavors, salty and sweet ... sweet and spicy or sour and spicy." But it all starts with the dough.
"I could see myself baking forever," says Mike, "waking up at 3:00 in the morning to roll out some dough alone." But when it comes to waiting for that dough to rise, it's another story because they have only one hour, 30 minutes for the challenge. Stephanie's over it. She's just thinking about her toppings: gummy bears, confetti sprinkles and bacon.
"Mine is, like, so clunky," says Danielle about her dough. She and Carie both have issues kneading it. But when it comes to using an appliance, it gets worse. Neither is able to get the food processor to pulverize Carie's toppings. Carie decides to switch gears: "If it's one thing I know how to use," she says, "it's a blender. I make my margaritas in it all the time."
Jamie's pumped up about the challenge, smack-talking the Blue Team, but when it comes to making his doughnut, he's at a loss since he doesn't eat them. "I'm trying to get my flavors together," he says. "And my go-to is Key lime pie." Unfortunately the mentors find it dense; Anne calls it a "ring toss doughnut."
What's different with this tasting is that Anne and Bobby are doing it blind. After getting through a number of dense and dry doughnuts, Anne and Bobby find one they love, doughnut C, a s'mores-inspired creation. "I like that they tried to burn the marshmallow-y kind of stuff," says Anne.
Before announcing the winner of the challenge, Anne announces a game-changing advantage. The mentor for the winning team will be able to trade a player. After a number of upsetting losses for the Red Team, Anne is overjoyed to discover doughnut C belongs to Mike. She chooses to trade Stephanie for Carie.
For the Main Dish challenge, the recruits must attempt to make a roulade, a thinly pounded meat rolled up with filling. It will further teach them "how to combine flavors," says Bobby. Amber can't get over how good Bobby's chicken roulade is: "This tastes so good. You can leave me alone with this roulade."
As a new member of the Red Team, Carie really wants to impress Anne, but Carie admits, "She scares the dickens out of me." Carie decides to fill her roulade with spicy sausage, lemon zest and pears. Anne tells her: "Don't let trying to impress me get in the way of you learning."
Danny is pounding away at the chicken for his roulade. His filling will include bacon, onions and cheese. "I am impressed at this combination — that I thought of that," he says. He calls the finished dish a "chicken Dijonnaise roulade," which Bobby finds very good, calling it one of his best efforts.
Anne is worried about Carol, who has her water boiling but still hasn't added the potatoes. "Stop and think what you need to do," Anne tells her. Carol admits to feeling overwhelmed and ends up adding too much cream to her potatoes, which turn out as thin as soup.
Amber and Danny work on the plating of their roulades. As she finishes hers, Amber thinks it looks "kind of like little chickens in a Jacuzzi," resembling five-star cuisine. On tasting her dish, Bobby thinks it's very good and that it does actually look like restaurant quality. Amber is speechless when Bobby tells her she won.
Ken dives right into the challenge, but he soon goes overboard, choosing to "try something out of the box" by using lobster, peaches, basil and mozzarella cheese in his pork roulade filling. Anne is worried, as it's his first time cooking lobster. But when time starts dwindling, he switches to ground lamb.
Anne couldn't get through to Stephanie, but maybe Bobby can. Stephanie says: "I am excited to ... see how his teaching method works with my personality." Bobby thinks her combination of spinach, bacon and cheese in her roulade is flavorful, but he calls her out for not frying the bacon beforehand.
Mike decided to use lychees in his dish because they reminded him of Anne's hair. Unfortunately Anne finds it to be "a weird flavor combination" but actually likes the stuffing. Surprisingly, though, she calls it the most successful roulade and names him the winner. "One is a win. Two is a streak," says Mike.
For coming up with his flavor combination, Joe decided to go for broke: "I'd rather do too much than not enough." Even though Joe was hoping to live up to his chef grandfather's name, Bobby finds the dish has too many ingredients that are "fighting each other." Bobby tells him: "Good cooks have restraint."
Anne calls forward Carol and Ken as the Red Team's bottom two. She points out that this week Carol took a big step back, whereas Ken got caught up in thinking too much. But in the end she sends home Ken. "I think I won, in my own way," he says. "It's been a wild ride." He adds, "I enjoyed every minute of it."
Bobby announces Joe and Danielle as this week's bottom two. Bobby says, "I would like to keep both of you," but in the end he sends home Joe with the lesson that "more is not better." Joe is bummed. "I definitely learned a big lesson about flavors and the simplicity of a dish," he says. "I just wish it wasn't at the expense of me being knocked out of the competition."


Is there a way to set the default application version in azure batch account using java sdk? The sample script that they have in the git does not show how to set the default version(https://github.com/Azure-Samples/batch-java-manage-batch-accounts/blob/master/src/main/java/com/microsoft/azure/management/batch/samples/ManageBatchAccount.java).
Also I was trying to dig in the interface(https://github.com/Azure/azure-libraries-for-java/blob/master/azure-mgmt-batch/src/main/java/com/microsoft/azure/management/batch/Application.java) to get some clues but couldn't see anything that supports updating the default version.
It does not appear that default version is being surface at the client layer of the SDK.
To get around this you should be able to call the implementation methods manually, which have the full functionality of the REST API (as they are auto-generated). To do this create either CreateApplicationParameters or ApplicationUpdateParameters and set the defaultVersion property. Then you can call the implementations create or update methods manually (https://github.com/Azure/azure-libraries-for-java/blob/78e8ff2940eba34bc63f8e7be6807a377500f5c7/azure-mgmt-batch/src/main/java/com/microsoft/azure/management/batch/implementation/ApplicationsInner.java#L474).
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Bill de Blasio brings another professional leftist into city government.
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New York mayor Bill de Blasio has finally announced his choice to head the city's massive welfare agency: Steve Banks, attorney in chief of the Legal Aid Society. It was hard not to be awed by the sheer brazenness of the appointment. Banks and Legal Aid have spent the last three decades fighting to expand public assistance and housing entitlements in the city and to slow down the pioneering welfare reforms initiated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1995. With his choice of Banks, de Blasio has signaled that he's not interested in even the illusion that he seeks nonpartisan technocratic managers for his administration. Instead, he is committed to bringing into the heart of City Hall the aggressive left-wing advocacy that constituted his own brief private-sector experience.
Banks's appointment as commissioner of the Human Resources Administration likely portends rollbacks to the substantive areas of welfare reform, such as work requirements and anti-fraud checks. It also raises a more subtle question of conflict of interest. Like many so-called public-interest outfits, the Legal Aid Society has proven masterful at stretching out its fee-generating class action lawsuits against the city long after the suits' initial complaints were resolved. The Society has kept alive a suit from 1998 that initially sought to block the rollout of welfare job centers, a key component of the Giuliani administration's effort to nudge welfare recipients into the workforce. Though the initial claims in that suit, Reynolds v. Giuliani, have long since been resolved, Legal Aid is still receiving quarterly reports from the city regarding its compliance with the (allegedly) final judgment. Another suit from 1996, Davila v. Turner, claimed that the city was not taking the preferences of unwed mothers sufficiently into account in deciding whether to assign them to a workfare job instead of to "education and training." The Legal Aid Society is still overseeing the city's performance in assessing single mothers' education inclinations; it has recently added to the case's purview the issue of whether homework can count toward the hours that a recipient must devote to work or training.
As the head of Legal Aid, Banks was ultimately responsible for Reynolds, Davila, and other cases against the city. Without impugning his personal or professional integrity, it is fair to ask how he will respond to Legal Aid's suits against the Human Resources Administration now that he, as commissioner, will be the defendant. Will he guard the city's interests in protecting taxpayer resources and promoting work as zealously as he once advocated for expending city funds on transfer payments and other public assistance? Will he hold the Legal Aid Society and other advocacy groups at arms' length, or will he regard them as a brain trust and policymaking extension of the Human Resources Administration? To be sure, attorneys specialize in being able to switch sides as professional circumstances dictate, but even assuming good faith, it would be hard for anyone to transfer his allegiances and instincts so completely.
Mayor de Blasio has been willing to sell out his police force to signal his progressive values: he not only dropped the city's appeal of a defamatory court opinion against the New York Police Department and agreed to a federal monitor for the department, but also acceded to a misguided city council bill that makes it easier to sue individual police officers for alleged profiling, racial and otherwise. If Banks backtracks on HRA's commitment to placing welfare recipients in jobs, however, he will be selling out the poor themselves, who are often among the most enthusiastic backers of welfare reform.
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The great Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky was nothing if not consistent: he made beautiful, artistic, slow-burning films that are an immersive experience for viewers. We may not ever see his like again. "Solaris" is one such film but for its subject matter and themes of memory, guilt, the nature of reality as opposed to hallucination and the power of the human unconscious and how it may guide one to redemption. Psychiatrist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), in a morose mood and not on good terms with his father and aunt, is called by his superiors to travel to a far distant planet, Solaris, around which revolves a space station. It seems something mysterious has occurred to all the humans working there and he must investigate. Kelvin duly flies out there and finds only two survivors, Straud and Sartorius. It seems that the other crew members succumbed to hallucinations and other phenomena of a paranormal nature generated apparently by the station's close proximity to the planet which is completely surrounded by an ocean.
Surprise, Kelvin himself finds himself affected by the planet in the shape of his wife, Hari (Natalya Bondarchuk), an emanation extracted by the forces of the planet from his memory, which has repressed all conscious reminders of her as a result of the guilt he continues to feel over her poison suicide in the distant past. Initially Kelvin tries to get rid of Kari by sending her off in a rocket away from the station – but she resurrects from nowhere. Again he rejects her, she becomes despondent and commits suicide – again she comes back to life. She clings to him; gradually Kelvin's guilt and reawakened love for his wife change his attitude towards the phantom. Straud periodically challenges Kelvin's decisions and attitudes regarding Hari. Eventually Kelvin must decide whether to leave Solaris, having experienced for himself what the disappeared crew members endured, or to travel to the planet itself to discover more and communicate directly with the planet's ocean which turns out to be a sentient life-form.
The pace is glacial, allowing viewers to absorb the film's themes and issues concerning the way in which we perceive reality and how we decide who or what is real for us; the limits of scientific investigation, reason and rationality; and the incomprehensible nature of the universe. However far humans search for answers to the meaning of life and other major questions of existence, the truth, whatever it is, always remains out of reach and ultimately we must decide whether to continue searching or come to terms with what we can know and accept that we will never fully know.
Tarkovsky's particular filming technique emphasises long slow panning and close-ups of still life, including nature and inanimate objects: this gives "Solaris" an epic quality appropriate to the conundrums it deals with. Judicious use of animation and sets – the film's budget was small for its ambitions – manages to convey impressions of the planet's giant, moody-looking ocean as its thick magma surface swirls slowly. The film is rather dated in its look but once Tarkovsky starts delving into Kelvin's mind and repressed memories, the movie becomes absorbing. The cinematography is often very graceful and visually rich; characters sometimes appear as statues and scenes may be set up like dioramas.
Minimal acting is required but Banionas and Bondarchuk play their roles capably. Yes, there is a lot of talk and no action. The plot is threadbare with big narrative holes and at the end of the film, Kelvin is no closer to finding out what happened to all the crew than he was when he first landed on the station. Instead he finds new hope for living and has a chance to reform his relationship with his father in an unexpected way: the resolution has a religious connotation of a human rediscovering his/her faith and being reunited with God.
The film can be very pretentious: the science fiction aspects exist mainly as a setting for Tarkovsky's investigations into human nature, feelings and motivations, and how humans might reconcile their reason with their emotion. The stretch can be tedious and over-long for many, and the narrative is chaotic at times. Viewers will often have to fill in narrative gaps – and there are several – with their own imaginations to make sense of the film. For all its imperfections, "Solaris" is not a bad film to watch.
For Western audiences used to fast action science fiction movies, "Stalker" is a very slow-paced post-apocalyptic mover with a barebones plot that symbolises humanity's search for hope and faith. In a future world devastated by war, a man (Alexander Kaidanovsky) known only as the Stalker works as a guide taking people through a territory called the Zone in his country. The area is actually off-limits to the public and heavily guarded and fortified and both the Stalker and his wife (Alisa Freindlich) know his work is illegal – he has been imprisoned before. The reason for taking people through the Zone though is to reach an area called the Room where entrants will find their deepest wishes fulfilled. So the Stalker – we'll call him S for convenience – continues doing his risky work in spite of the wife's pleas and anger. At the film's opening, S is preparing already to meet two new clients, the Writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and the Professor (Nikolai Grinko), at a bar. This part of the film unfolds slowly: the opening scenes, done in sepia tints, are much like early 1920's expressionist silent films in their close focus on still objects in S's room. The deliberate use of sepia and not colour calls attention to the drab, impoverished surroundings in which S's family lives and S makes his living.
Entering the Zone is fairly quick if tricky – the trio must evade guards on motorcycle and in a Land Rover – and the men then ride an open railway carriage into the heart of the Zone. The landscape changes from bombed-out ruins and mud tracks to a lush and verdant paradise where abandoned buildings are scattered here and there. The filmstock changes from sepia tones to colour to emphasise the men's crossing from reality to a place of non-reality. Normal laws of physics apparently don't apply in the Zone and S advises his clients to follow him and do exactly as he says to avoid the invisible dangers that surround them. He tests routes through the Zone with metal nuts that he throws with slings. While they advance towards the Room, the men have philosophical discussions and reveal why they want to visit the Room. The Writer (W) needs new inspiration for his work and the Professor (P) wants to make a discovery that will win him a Nobel Prize. Sometimes in conversation S refers to his mentor, a previous stalker called Porcupine, who himself entered the Room, came into a lot of money and then hanged himself.
They walk through fields, go through a long dark tunnel and travel through a chamber called the "meat mincer" where long ago, Porcupine's poet brother died. On reaching the entrance to the Room, P reveals his reason for coming is to blow up the Room with a bomb in his knapsack to stop the general public from hearing about it and clamouring to visit to fulfill their desires which more often than not might be base and selfish. W, who has been skeptical about the Zone and the Room for much of the journey, accuses S of exploiting people's hopes and dreams.Quarrelling and fisticuffs follow during which the reason that Porcupine's brother died in the mincer is revealed.
"Stalker" doesn't seem much like a science fiction film at all though it is based on a novella written by two brothers, Boris and Arkay Strugatsky, who are famous in Russia for writing science fiction stories and novels, some of which have been adapted to film. In its early sepia-toned scenes, the film resembles a war movie with film noir elements inserted, thanks to the style of cinematography used which emphasises sharp contrasts of light and shadow to the extent that darkness may frame shots, and textures of walls, detritus on floors and scum in water are readily noticed. The camera often operates from behind a wall or a structure, peering into a scene where action is occurring. Scenes are very prolonged so as to draw viewers into the action, the mood and the atmosphere: an extended scene of rainfall through an open ceiling while the men sit on the floor just outside the Room conveys their indecision and perhaps a loss of belief and faith in themselves and what the Room may hold. When the camera moves, it often tracks slowly, forwards or backwards in the tunnel scenes; around actors close-up, showing off their haggard profiles; or upwards over objects and relics buried in mud or shallow putrid water. The film seems to meditate on a notion of a lost civilisation and religion whose knowledge and wisdom can never be brought back.
The men and their journey may be symbolic in themselves: W and P represent the artistic, creative aspect and the scientific, rational aspect of humanity while S represents the spirtual impulse and belief in faith that bridges creative imagination and down-to-earth investigation and materialism. The journey can be interpreted in different ways: it could be a journey from the conscious world – the one outside the Zone – into the subconscious, represented by the Zone. The invisible dangers in the Zone that force S and his clients to improvise their route through the tunnel and the mincer represent inner complexes such as phobias and repressed memories that prevent us from tapping into our subconscious for inspiration and purpose to life. P's plan to bomb the Room might represent some individuals' denial or desire to control what they see as their irrational impulses; the possibility that he may be working for the tyrannical government that rules his society might suggest that governments desire to control what people think and feel. W's skepticism could reflect a loss of faith and belief in one's abilities: at one point in the film he admits he hates writing and rants about the culture of criticism in society and how too often it seeks to pull down talented if eccentric people to the same level rather than judge and improve the quality and worth of their artistic output. The journey through the Zone might also be interpreted as a flight or escape from the struggle and pain of life: shallow ponds of water and mud in parts of the Zone have religious icons and syringes buried in them, showing the ways in which people try to cope with problems in their lives. Incidents throughout the journey which include P's search for his knapsack containing the bomb suggest that W may be right about S: that S does manipulate people's hopes and beliefs for personal gain and so in a sense S represents organised religion that manipulates people's desire to come close to God through rituals and prayers that lose meaning over time. Or perhaps the Zone is simply a bridge between life and death and S is its psychopomps: an ominous black wolf-like dog appears in the Zone and befriends S. Maybe the Room itself is irrelevant and the journey through the Zone and what S's clients get out of it is the important thing. Viewers are free to interpret what they see depending on where they are coming from in terms of life experience and knowledge.
Significantly S loses his faith in himself and in his life's purpose but redemption is unexpectedly at hand in the form of his crippled child Monkey who, though deformed by the Zone's influence, also displays an unusual psychokinetic talent. This suggests that what the Zone and Room represent can always be found around us or within us in spite of limitations we have and people don't have to rely on external phenomena or travel to places to find creativity, inspiration or purpose in life. The Zone then doesn't really exist as a physical phenomenon and in that form it is a figment of S's imagination to give him a reason to live and to enable him to cope with the problems of daily life.
Actors Kaidanovsky, Solonitsyn and Grinko play their parts well: they are minimal in their movements, speech and actions but convey a wide range of emotions as they are forced to admit their real reasons for entering the Zone and wanting to enter the Room, and through their conversations and arguments discover, gain or lose something in themselves that radically changes their lives forever. The only piece of acting that's overdone and irrelevant to the film is the frenzy S's wife goes into when S leaves to meet W and P in the bar. This is one of a few flaws in the film; other flaws include the concept of the "mincer" which doesn't come across on screen as very frightening or frightening enough that it could kill someone. The music by Edward Artemev is a bit of a mishmash of orchestral music, some ambient and strings influenced by Russian and Middle Eastern music styles and for a movie like "Stalker", really needs its own identity. The suggestion that religious belief must underpin creative and scientific endeavour may be too facile given that S is revealed as a flawed priest or prophet conducting a pointless ritual.
At times depressing and uplifting, ugly and beautiful, this film is worth watching at least once and preferably a few times to immerse oneself in its atmosphere and scenes of post-industrial decay and of nature reasserting itself among dilapidated factory buildings and tunnels still filled with pools of polluted water and spilt chemical toxins. Tragically several people associated with "Stalker", including Tarkovsky himself and Solonitsyn, died of cancer-related conditions which may have been caused in part by exposure to pollutants in the places where the film was made.
Loosely based on the life of the eponymous 15th century Russian icon painter, "Andrei Rublev" examines the relationship of an artist with his faith and what place he can make for himself in a society that doesn't necessarily value faith or art. The movie consists of seven episodes bookended by a prologue and epilogue related to its themes; the episodes cover the years 1405 to 1425 in Rublev's life. Each episode involves an event or incident, not necessarily historically accurate, in which Rublev is an observer or participant and shows the political instability, stagnation and spiritual corruption of mediaeval Russian society which made it vulnerable to foreign attacks. Criticism of the Soviet society at the time the film was made is implied. There is a definite linear narrative in which Rublev faces criticism from his fellow monks for wanting fame and renown, nearly succumbs to sensual temptation, has doubts about his skill as a painter, suffers punishment that severely curtails his ability and desire to paint, and finally finds unlikely inspiration to resume painting and renew his faith in God, himself as a person and in his art.
Most of the movie is filmed in black and white with only the epilogue, detailing some of Rublev's actual works, done in colour: this most likely was done to emphasise that the artist himself is not that important but that his inner spiritual life, his beliefs and his doubts, faith and weaknesses informed his art and artistic journey, and what resulted from that journey is most important. (The black-and-white film is a convenience to first-time non-Russian-speaking viewers as well: it makes following the narrative, themes and dialogue subtitles much easier!) There is a mix of aerial panning shots, tracking shots, long shots and close-ups, all done very smoothly and gracefully, so the movie is as much about Russia itself at a particular time in its history when the country was struggling to throw off Mongol-Tatar rule and Orthodox Christianity was becoming a major force in Russian culture and society, though not without resistance from the common people. This is evident from episodes which include Rublev as an observer and near-participant in pagan fertility rituals, and as an observer of a Tatar raid on the town of Vladimir where he has been at work painting murals in the cathedral which the Tatars pillage and burn. Parts of the film, especially those featuring shots where the camera circles an entire scene where something significant is happening, have a disinterested, almost documentary feel about them that can be reminiscent of work done by German director Werner Herzog. Nature and weather are prominent in many scenes: Rublev and his apprentice Foma walk through a forest discussing Foma's faults, walking over or along fallen branches; Foma later prods at a dead bird while Rublev converses with a monk; a naked woman swims in a river to escape her captors in an extended shot; Rublev and other characters comment on the singing of nightingales; and there are many shots of horses, some of which are very close to the camera.
As Rublev, actor Anatoly Solonitsyn doesn't have a lot to do: in many episodes, especially the last episode in which a teenage boy called Boriska (Nikolai Burlyayev) oversees the construction of a bell, Rublev is only a minor character who reacts to incidents or is affected by them. Solonitsyn's acting is very minimal and even his facial expressions give little away; by contrast, other actors such as Buryayev, Ivan Lapikov as Rublev's fellow monk Kirill, Rolan Bykov as an animated jester and Irma Rausch as mute girl Durochka can be very emotional and their actions expressive in a naturalistic but not melodramatic way. The seven episodes emphasise Rublev's quest for spiritual and artistic integrity and have the quality of parables. External events, his self-doubt, his weaknesses and the hypocrisies of the society he lives in, not to mention the compromises he is forced to make as a result, all complicate the quest. Even the ideal Rublev ascribes to – love of Russia, love of the Russian people, or agape (spiritual, selfless love as practised by Jesus Christ) – is tested by his encounters and his reactions: in one episode, he saves Durochka from being raped by killing her would-be attacker (a Russian soldier) while Tatars are plundering the cathedral where he and Durochka are sheltering. For this murder, Rublev must do penance by taking care of Durochka, being silent and refraining from painting anything at all. (This scene could also suggest that defending others unable to defend themselves can result in one being deprived of rights and freedoms of expression and speech in a repressive society; many other scenes in "Andrei Rublev" can be interpreted at different levels to mean different things.) In a later episode, Durochka "betrays" Rublev by accepting an offer of marriage from a Tatar soldier and riding off with him. Understandably this causes a crisis of faith for Rublev both personally and at a deeper level and he is unable to function at all as a painter for over ten years.
The supporting cast clearly represent the movie's themes: Kirill as the monk lacking artistic talent who renounces monastery life and goes into the world, only to return to the monastery years later in spiritual and moral despair, represents an extreme example of what can happen to individuals when they lose faith and the torments they must endure to regain it; Boriska, who blusters his way through making his first bell and admits after making a perfect-sounding bell that he really didn't know his father's secret of making bells, represents youth, vitality and creativity buoyed by hope, hard work, belief in oneself or trust in God; and minor characters like Marfa (Nelly Snegina) and the jester represent aspects of a more sensual, natural though pre-Christian Russia which Rublev as a young man finds hard to resist.
Yes, there are scenes of bleakness, of unbelievable cruelty and violence (especially to animals: a horse is filmed falling down and through a wooden staircase, later to be stabbed to death, and a cow is set on fire) and of sheer pig-headed bigotry, all of which help to paint and embellish director Andrei Tarkovsky's vision of Russia in all its contradictory glory. Tarkovsky's love for his country and people is obvious but it is love tempered by knowledge of his society's shortcomings. The film isn't easy to watch: the pace isn't slow but it's fairly leisurely and viewers used to more conventional narratives in which a hero tries to overcome obstacles rather than simply endure them might find Rublev an unsympathetic and distant figure. Repeated viewings are recommended to understand the film's messages more fully as it's a many-layered creature. The episodic nature of the film lends itself to viewing in installments for those viewers of little faith as the episodes are fairly self-contained and only a minor incident in episode 7 refers to an earlier episode: in that regard, the important episodes to see are 2 (meetings with Theophanes the Greek) and 5 to 7 which cover the Tatar invasion of Vladimir, Durochka's running away and the bell-making story.
The best and most emotional moment of "Andrei Rublev" comes near the close of the seventh episode (and the effective end of the movie) when the bell is finished and is made to ring: its resonant sound brings unspeakable joy to its young maker who sobs uncontrollably in Rublev's arms and admits to the monk that all he had to go on was faith and sheer risk-taking bluff, only to realise he really did have the talent to make a bell. In that moment all the movie's themes come together and Rublev experiences a rebirth: he is able to speak at last and resume painting.
Knowledge of Russian history and of the real-life Andrei Rublev, of whom little is actually known, isn't absolutely necessary to follow the film though viewers may find it helpful to know something of the Mongol-Tatar invasions and how Russian politics was affected: while there was some resistance among the Russian nobility, some princes did co-operate with the invaders and the political disunity perhaps allowed the Mongols to rule the country for as long as they did (over 250 years). While "Andrei Rublev" might not suit most Western audiences who prefer more dynamic narrative forms and active heroic characters, it is a rewarding film about art and the artist's place in a less-than-ideal society.


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Studies find that giving schools more money helps students. How 'bout that?
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Modern education reformers often repeat the idea that simply throwing more money at public schools isn't enough to improve them. As Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution who's done a great deal of academic writing on the subject, puts it, "We know that there's not much relationship between spending and performance." Rather than funnel more dollars to public education, the thinking goes, we need to change how funding gets used (which, in the minds of many, means strict standards enforced by a boatload of testing, plus weaker teachers unions).
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[A] 10 percent increase in per-pupil spending each year for all twelve years of public school leads to 0.31 more completed years of education, about 7 percent higher wages, and a 3.2 percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income families. Exogenous spending increases were associated with notable improvements in measured school inputs, including reductions in student-to-teacher ratios, increases in teacher salaries, and longer school years.
This finding is important on two levels. First, schools seem to use their new funding in reasonable ways—smaller classes, longer school years, and better paid teachers—rather than wasting it all on, say, layers and layers of administration. Second, they get results.
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Still, this new wavelet of research should at the very least weaken the by-now-conventional wisdom that cash alone can't ease the problems that ail our education system. Maybe money is a solution, after all.


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What is the product of all the prime numbers less than 10?
The primes less than 10 are 2,3,5 and 7 with a product of 210.
Q: What is the product of all the prime numbers less than 10?
Product of prime numbers less than 100?
The product of the prime numbers less than 100 is 2.3055679639455188e+36
How can you determine whether the LCM of two numbers is the product of the numbers or is less than the product of the numbers?
If the two numbers have no prime factors in common, their LCM will be their product. If there are prime factors in common, their LCM will be less than their product.
How can you determine from the prime factorizations whether the least common multiple of two numbers is the product of the numbers or is less that the product of the two numbers?
If there are no prime factors in common, the LCM will be the product. If there are prime factors in common, the LCM will be less than the product.
What is the product of the four prime numbers less than ten?
Numbers less than 30 expresed as a product number of three prime numbers?
What are all the numbers less than 100 that are the product of exactly three different prime numbers?
All the numbers less than 100 that are the product of exactly three different prime numbers are 30, 42, 66, 70, and 78.
What is the product of all the prime numbers less than 100?
2.3055679639455188e+36
What is the product of the first and last prime numbers less than 100?
What are numbers less than 100 that are the product of exactly 3 different prime numbers?
All the numbers less than 100 that are the product of exactly three different prime numbers are 30, 42, 66, 70, and 78. Need to know how to get the answer
what is the product of all the prime numbers more than 30 but less than 40?
How can you determine from the prime factorizations whether the least common multiple of two numbers is the product of the numbers or is less than the product of the two numbers?
If none of the prime factors are in common, the LCM will be the product of the two.
What are 3 numbers less than 100 that are the product of three prime numbers?
30, 42, and 70
What is the greatest prime number That can be multiplied by two other prime numbers to get a product less than 100?
The prime numbers that are less than 14?
The prime numbers that are less than 14 are: 2,3,5,7,11,13.
What prime numbers less than 150?
There are 35 prime numbers less than 150.
Which numbers less then 100 have exactly three factors?
The squares of all prime numbers less than 10.The squares of all prime numbers less than 10.The squares of all prime numbers less than 10.The squares of all prime numbers less than 10.
What is the product of the first and the last prime numbers less than 100?
2*97 = 194
How many prime numbers are less than 1500?
They are 239 prime numbers less than 1500.
How many prime numbers are there less than 220?
How many prime numbers are there that less than 50?
There are 15 prime numbers less than 50
What are all of the numbers less than 100 that are the products of exactly three different prime numbers?
What is all the prime numbers less than 100 that are the product of exactly 3 different prime numbers?
How do you know when two pairs of numbers will have an LCM that is less than the product of the numbers?
When their GCF is greater than 1. When they have prime factors in common.
What are all the numbers less than 100 that are the product of three prime numbers?
What is the sum of the prime numbers between 40 and 60?


Discussion in 'Members Rides' started by Soren, Sep 19, 2018.
Well, I started looking for the Elgrand seriously at the end of June. I used Derek as per usual. I found that many had quite a few scratches or chipped glass. I also found the prices hard to predict and ended up losing on around 10 auctions usually by 100 or 200 canadian.
My checklist included 4wd, 3.5l engine, leather or leather/alcantra, all the toys I could get and sunroofs, with low mileage.
I got some of that. No rear screen. No sunroof. Higher mileage than I have ever bought before.
So... Ben picked it up monday.. And sent me this pic.
The fam and I are sitting in the airport and I can't wait.
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Congrats on the purchase Soren!
All of them have 3.5 L. 102K kms is not much, this engine is using chain, no need to worry about timing belt.
You mean the white van man!
Hey..i have these like...2000.00 dollar speakers left over, of a brand you have never heard of. Super high end. I can let them go for 200.00 but it has to be right now.
Congrats! Wait, are you getting two of them?
Nah. The one in the back is Hunters. The foreground one is mine.
Picked it up, and he wasnt there.
Mini Pajero, 2 Legacies and 2 elgrands there when I got there. Left to get gas, and popped back...lo and behold..another jdm car. Some kind of honda on a truck. Looked like an acura TSX.
I just can't get over how huge these things are!
Nice buy! What do you do with the headlights to pass safety?
@Soren van is super nice, i have the Clothe interior in mine, and well im jealous of his.
Good to see him its been awhile.
It is like they designed the whole thing, then decided it should be 8"-10" taller and just stuck it in the middle section.
Very neat! What kind of fancy do-dads does it have?
Cool features on the screen. Compass. Night view encorporates a star map that changes based on the direction you face...to the constellations you see...all in 2003 graphix. Maintanance log with a "pit soon" message. Fuel consumption and range messaging. Three zone climate control.
Selectable 2/4wd or auto select and lockable also.
Intellikey..just keep the key in pocket, press buttons to unlock doors, or use the auto open slide doors with a remote button. When you go to start the car, you dont need the key either.
Man too many features to list to be honest. Im pretty impressed.
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You should show me this van sometimes, seems sweet. Import Era Edmonton meets.
Ran ito some problems last night on the way up silverstar mountain in Vernon.
CEL and 4WD flashed. Hiccup and loss of power. Kept driving..no CEL.
Parked at hotel. Came out to move to the right spot. Elgrand wouldnt fire. Crank and crank and crank.
Try again and it fires but there is a CEL now, no power steering and mushy brakes. Just what I wanted, when Im up a high mountain road. In the middle of nowhere.
Found the code of 0335 by doing the pedal dance.
Found a common issue on these engines of a crank sensor failing.
Phoned everyone I could. Found the part at LORDCO. Could not find anyone to work on it. Changed it muself in the can tire parkong lot.
Cost me 80.00 for the part and 30 for the tools.
Jacked it up a touch on passenger side. Removed the plastic guard. And then removed the clip and sensor. Just at the back of the engine at the bottom. Near where your feet would be in the footwell I guess.
Import era white elgrand and company meet?
Does your 2003 have heated seats? That and cruise are the only things I didn't get on mine.
I also have a 300+pg owners manual in English PDF I can send you if interested, just PM me. I'll try upload it to a new thread too.
No heated seats. No cruise. Both would have been great.
Glad that wasnt a Huge issue, that would have not been fun.
Whats the part number on that?
No idea. Ill write it up as soon as I get back. LORDCO used some brand i hadnt heard of. "Import parts" or somesuch. I asked for a 2003 350z crankshaft sensor. Lordco didn't give any further choice. Some of the shops i called wanted to know what month it was made..2 part numbers. I dunno. I think they are pretty much the same thing.


Competition for the £109 billion Scottish Widows mandate withdrawn from Aberdeen Standard Life this year is heating up with three major fund houses through to a final round.
JPMorgan Asset Management, Schroders and BlackRock are in a three-way race for the contract.
Scottish Widows parent Lloyds Banking Group chief executive George Culmer said on Wednesday that the bank had moved to a fresh round of offers, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) had managed the mandate since 2014, but Lloyds pulled the contract in February over competition concerns.
SLA is now on a 12 month notice period and will be given a chance to bid for the mandate, although it was not a part of the latest round of negotiations.


At Control China 2013, ZEISS releases the next generation of EVO 18. This scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides customers with the latest technology for materials analysis in areas such as steel production and manufacturing cleanliness.
The system is now available in a choice of models with industry specific solutions to suit customer needs. EVO 18 Research offers an analytical tool to academic and research organisations. EVO 18 Particle Analyzer offers a powerful image analysis tool to commercial industries, with the option for a fully integrated particle analysis and identification solution including an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). Furthermore, the 5 segment diode BSE detector of both models offers improved low kV performance and enhanced topography information.


Commemorating a much loved dog, this was commissioned as a house sign to be fixed to a stone wall. It required considerable reference to photographs to get the dog's particular character. The leaves and fungi in the carving indicate the rural setting of the house. The leaves of the mountain ash, or rowan, allude to the dog's name. The panel is carved in oak, painted with acrylic colours and finished with exterior acrylic varnish.
When commissioned to make a carved house sign, a headboard or any special piece I pay attention to the client's particular wishes and invite them to contribute ideas and collaborate with the design. As the project develops and progresses I send emails with photos of sketches, drawings and work in progress.


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Trump: A godless, tyrannical & traitorous wannabe emperor
Trump, as president, has a title he does not deserve -- and one he dishonors frequently -- of Commander and Chief of America's military.
Ousted Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer, fired for not following the illegal and tyrannical demands of a corrupt president, sent a final message to that dishonorable president because he could not "in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath that I took."
"The rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries. Good order and discipline is what has enabled our victory against foreign tyranny time and again, from Captain Lawrence's famous order "Don't Give up the Ship", to the discipline and determination that propelled our flag to the highest point on lwo Jima," Spencer wrote. "The Constitution. and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, are the shields that set us apart. and the beacons that protect us all."
Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin calls Donald John Trump "the worst commander in chief ever."
In a column posted on the Post website Monday morning, Rubin writes:
President Trump has repeatedly dishonored the military. He sent troops to the southern border before the 2018 midterms in a xenophobic stunt designed to win votes. He seized funds for military construction to build his useless wall, which will never be built. He humiliated our forces by announcing an impulsive retreat from Syria, betraying our allies and allowing Russians to seize and occupy our former facilities. Then came the case of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher.
Rubin praised two former military officers — Joseph Kristol and Stephen Petraneus — who wrote:
We fear that President Trump's recent decision to pardon two service members involved in war crimes cases and reverse disciplinary action against another — and his stated motives for doing so — will damage Americans' perception of the military, encouraging the view that veterans are "broken."
On Thursday, the president showed fresh contempt for the professional judgment of military officers, tweeting "The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's Trident Pin." The Navy had intended to oust Gallagher from the SEALs for, among other things, his conviction at court-martial for posing in a photograph with the corpse of a 17-year-old captive Islamic State fighter.
Trump, as president, has a title he does not deserve — and one he dishonors frequently — of Commander and Chief of America's military. He used his daddy's connections to avoid military service with fake claims of "bone spurs" manufacturered by a doctor who owed Fred Trump some favors.
Adds Kristol and Petraneus:
Today, even as the war in Afghanistan nears the end of its second decade, more than 70 percent of Americans express confidence in the military — a higher level than for any other American institution, according to Gallup. The president's pardoning of those who dishonored the uniform threatens to erode this high level of confidence.
We are disappointed that the commander in chief is now perpetuating the caricature of the broken veteran and endorsing a cynical view of what it means to support the troops and those who have served.
Writes Max Boot:
Trump is telling the troops: Don't listen to your superiors. Ignore the rules of engagement. Feel free to commit atrocities in the expectation of a presidential pardon.
There is no more corrosive message a commander in chief could send, which is why so many veterans who served honorably are so appalled by what Trump is doing. If Congress had any honor of its own, Trump's incitement of unlawful behavior by the troops under his command would be yet another count in the articles of impeachment against him.
Sadly, expecting honor from either Trump or Congress is a waste of time. Honor, like "truth, justice and the American way of life" are lost concepts in a government controlled by a despotic president and his cult of equally corrupt, dishonest and despicable traitors who continue to ignore the facts and support his lawless moves.
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I didnt vote for this POS Traitor……. In fact I have voted GOP since Bush the Smarter was President


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

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    public class ListReceivedByAccountTransaction
    {
        public string Account { get; set; }
        public double Amount { get; set; }
        public int Confirmations { get; set; }
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Pakistan Software Export Board is now welcoming all applications from member companies of the organization. The applications will be about participation in Trilateral Trade and Investment Conference. The conference is to present 'Pakistan as a Digital Powerhouse'. The conference is going to be held in London on 8th of March, 2017.
As per the news the conference aims to bring stakeholders together to discuss an effective future plan for the socio-economic transformation of Pakistan's digital sector. The conference will also look forward on possibilities and benefit of working with United Kingdom and Czech Republic.
It could prove to be a great learning activity that could open the doors of new ideas. It will open new opportunities for IT companies of Pakistan to work with other London based organizations.
To attract more participants the organizers have announced to reimburse the air fare to 50% on the return.
Dully filled in, signed and stamped application form and signed and stamped TORs. Application Form & TORs are available here.
After all the applications are reviewed the authorities will inform the applicants if they have qualified or not till January 16, 2017.
A best opportunity to socialize and learn.


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Prayer for Georgia under newly appointed prime minister
https://agenda.ge/en/news/2019/2390
Dear Lord, we pray for the nation of Georgia under the new leadership of Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia. With a tumultuous summer behind Georgia and anti-government protests happening outside the parliament as Gakharia's government was approved, Gakharia will need great wisdom and fortitude as he leads his country. Please surround him with wise, godly leaders to assist during this transition, and help them lead well up until next year's elections. Grant Gakharia wisdom in the areas where he intends to focus: security as he addresses Russian occupation of part of the nation, and growth as he focuses on a strong partnership with the United States and a newly designated reputation as the easiest nation in Europe for doing business. Most of all, Lord, we want to see you do a great work in Georgia—among the nation's leaders and regular citizens. May your Spirit move mightily in this land during this time of transition and into the future. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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How much milk does my baby belly can hold?
Your newborn has a tiny tummy and only needs a small amount of breastmilk at a time for the first few days. For the day 1, your newborn can hold about 6 ml of breastmilk and from the day 3, your baby can hold upto 26 ml of breastmilk. Around day 10 your newborn can take up to 60 ml of milk. It may vary slightly with each babies but don't push or overfed the newborn as they are having tiny bellies.
Your newborn needs frequent feedings to grow and feel full.So Breastfeed your baby at least 8-12 times every 24 hours.
Weight gain: Normal newborns lose up to 7% of birth weight in the first few days. The average breastfed baby gains 6 oz per week.So go for weight check up after first week to make sure that the baby is getting enough milk.
Dirty diapers: Look for two diapers from day one and 4 dirty diapers after day 4.
Wet diapers: In early days baby has one wet diaper and when the mom milk comes in, you expect up to 6 wet diapers a day.
Do I need to wake my baby?
Try to undress your baby and place them in your chest and skin to skin contact.
Massage your baby's back in a circular motion.
Put a little colostrum or milk in his mouth.


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Ariel Winter Is Really Out Here Trying To Break The Internet
Eric Italia | May 30, 2017 9:36 am | Sep 30, 2020 5:24 pm
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUsYjMlh_AO/
There are people who say they do not concern themselves with other people's opinions, and then there are people who actually mean it.
Ariel Winter is truly one of those people who actually doesn't give a f*ck what others think about her, and honestly, it's her most attractive quality.
Starting off as a teen actor on ABC's smash hit Modern Family, Winter has grown into a full-blown sex symbol over the last year. With revealing Instagrams and sexy Snapchat's, Winter has become one of the best social media follows out there.
Naturally, given her age and the provocativeness of her Snaps, people seem to take issue with Ariel Winter.
Well, if these photos say anything at all, it's Winter saying 'f*ck what everyone else thinks.' And we love her for it.
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Q: being interrupted while joining other threads How should I handle InterruptedException while joining other threads, assuming I don't actually anticipate being interrupted, and there is no sensible thing to do? Just swallow the exception?
try
{
    t.join();
    u.join();
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
    // should not happen
}

Or should I put each join in its separate try/catch, so if an InterruptedExeption does happen while joining t, at least u gets a chance of being joined?
try
{
    t.join();
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
    // should not happen
}
try
{
    u.join();
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
    // should not happen
}

Or should I defensively swallow the exceptions in a loop, so I will eventually join both threads, even if some malicious guy tries to interrupt me?
while (true)
{
    try
    {
        t.join();
        break;
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
        // no way, Jose!
    }
}
while (true)
{
    try
    {
        u.join();
        break;
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
        // no way, Jose!
    }
}

On a side note, is there any case where InterruptedExeption doesn't make my code look ugly? :)

A: If something shouldn't happen, you probably want to know if it ever does happen - and the best way of making it obvious is often to throw a RuntimeException of some description (e.g. IllegalStateException). If you're not anticipating the possibility of being interrupted, that suggests the system is in a state you're not really happy to support, so I wouldn't then try to keep going - aborting quickly is often the best option here.
You may want to write a helper method which does this for you, to make the calling code cleaner.

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Weather pushes FSU-Mercer game to Howser
Written by FSU sports information	in Olympics sports
Olympics sports
Due to expected weather Tuesday in Macon, Ga., FSU's game against Mercer will now take place in Tallahassee. The game will be played Tuesday, March 3, at 4 p.m. in Dick Howser Stadium.
The Fan Appreciation Game will be free to everyone, though the FSU Clear Bag Policy will still remain in place. The game will not stream through the ACC Network Extra, so fans are encouraged to either attend the game in person or listen to Eric Luallen on the FSU Gameday App.
FSU will have freshman left-hander Bryce Hubbart (0-1, 8.31 ERA) on the mound against Mercer right-hander Josh Farmer (1-0, 1.04 ERA).
FSU men's golf
Senior Jamie Li fired an impressive 66 in Monday's second round of the Cabo Collegiate, helping Florida State Men's Golf move up to a tie for fourth place heading into the final round of play.
FSU shaved five strokes off its aggregate score from Sunday, shooting a 7-under 277 in the second round. The Seminoles' total score at 9-under is six strokes off the pace of tournament leader Arizona (-15). Vanderbilt (-12) follows in second place, trailed by Arizona State (-10), FSU and Stanford (-9).
Li recorded two huge eagles in the second round, scoring 3s on the 555-yard, par-5 fourth hole and the 550-yard, par-5 16th hole. Li leads all Seminoles on the leaderboard at 5-under, tying for sixth. There is logjam in the Top 10, with just two strokes separating three tournament leaders at 7-under and five players tied for sixth at 5-under.
Li leads all golfers in par 5 scoring with an average score of 4.13. His 66 on Monday marks his lowest score of the 2019-20 year.
Junior John Pak produced his ninth consecutive round under par, shooting a 1-under 70 in the second round. Pak strung together five birdies to help offset four bogeys in the round.
Redshirt freshman Cole Anderson shot even-par and is tied for 19th at 2-under. Anderson is coming off an opening-round 69 that led the Seminoles in the early going.
Sophomore Calvin Sierota provided a huge round for FSU, shooting a 1-under 70. Sierota rattled off five birdies in the round, but was hurt by a triple bogey on the par-5 fourth hole. Sierota responded with a birdie on his next hole at the long par-4, 490-yard fifth hole.
FSU softball
Playing both at home and on the road during the upcoming week, No. 8 Florida State (10-6) will host Holy Cross (0-5) on March 3 before heading down to Orlando to play RV UCF (16-2) on March 4. The game between the Seminoles and Knights was rescheduled after rain cancelled the game originally scheduled in Tallahassee on February 26.
"Excited to be back at home and welcome a former Nole back to Tallahassee," said FSU head coach Lonni Alameda. "Jen Lapicki was a big part of my first ACC Championship here at Florida State and I'm proud of her continuing to grow the game and develop young women as a coach at Holy Cross. Also, I'm glad that we were able to find a spot to play UCF again after last week's rain. We always love to compete against them, and are looking forward to facing them down at their place on Wednesday night."
Tuesday's game against Holy Cross will be the first meeting between the Seminoles and Crusaders in fastpitch softball. The head coach of Holy Cross, Jen Lapicki, played at Florida State in 2010 and 2011 after transferring from Tennessee.She earned Academic All-ACC honors during both of her seasons with the Seminoles, in addition to being named to the All-ACC Second Team and the All-ACC Tournament team as a senior in 2011, when FSU became the lowest-seeded team to ever win the Tournament title as a No. 4 seed.
Florida State leads the all-time series against UCF, 19-5, and have won each of the last nine games in the matchup, dating back to 2012. The Noles are 9-3 against the Knights in Orlando, last falling to UCF on the road in a 2-1 loss on April 6, 2011.
UCF assistant coach Kendra Lynch is in her second season on the Knights' staff and was Florida State's volunteer assistant coach during the 2018 season as the Seminoles won their first NCAA National Championship. Brandi Stuart, former FSU softball player and two-time NFCA All-American, is the UCF Executive Associate Athletic Director and serves as the department's Senior Woman Administrator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator.
Tuesday's game against Holy Cross will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra, while Wednesday's game at UCF will be streamed on their Twitch channel.
What to watch this spring: Quarterbacks
FSU's pitching holds up to competition, defense will take some work


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Die Seja () ist ein linker Nebenfluss des Amur in der Oblast Amur im Fernen Osten Russlands.

Sie entspringt im östlichen Teil des Stanowoigebirges, fließt von dort anfangs in südwestlicher Richtung und durch die nördlich der Stadt Seja gelegene Seja-Talsperre. Danach wendet sie sich nach Süden, um schließlich bei Blagoweschtschensk in den Amur zu münden. Die Länge der Seja beträgt 1242 km. Das Einzugsgebiet umfasst 233.000 km². Der mittlere Abfluss an der Mündung beträgt 1910 m³/s.
Von November bis Mai ist die Seja zugefroren. Ihr größter Zufluss ist die Selemdscha.

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