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Henri-César de Castellane, marquis de Majastre, dit « Castellane-Majastre », né le  à Marseille et mort le  à Riez, est un officier de marine et aristocrate français du . Issu de la Maison de Castellane, très ancienne famille noble de Provence, il s'engage dans la Marine royale comme nombre de ses aïeux avant lui. Il se distingue pendant la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis et notamment au combat livré en baie de Chesapeake en . Il termine sa carrière avec le grade de chef d'escadre des armées navales.

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Origines et famille
Henri-César de Castellane descend de la Maison de Castellane, une très ancienne famille de la noblesse provençale descendant de la maison souveraine de Riez, Basses-Alpes (actuelles Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) et connue depuis le . Il est le fils de César-Henri de Castellane (1694-1788) et de sa femme Agathe de Martin (v. 1710-?). Sa famille a fourni seize officiers supérieurs à la Marine royale, aussi bien dans le corps des vaisseaux que dans celui des galères.

Carrière militaire
Garde de la marine du  à Toulon , puis sous-lieutenant d'artillerie en 1751 il est promu successivement aux grades de lieutenant de vaisseau en 1762 puis à celui de capitaine de compagnie en 1775.

Il est fait chevalier de Saint Louis en 1773. Il prend part aux préparatifs de la guerre contre les Britanniques. Au début de l'année 1778, Castellane-Majastre est en station à Toulon, où il a récemment obtenu le grade de capitaine de vaisseau (1777) et reçoit le commandement de la frégate La Flore, au sein de l'escadre de l'amiral d'Estaing, avec laquelle il effectue quatre prises. Il participe à la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis, et est l'un des membres d'origine de la Société des Cincinnati.

Il commande  Le Caméléon en 1778, Le Sagittaire en 1780, puis Le Marseillais, de 74 canons, dans l'escadre du Comte de Grasse qui met les voiles depuis Brest le . Il est présent à tous les combats livrés par cette escadre. La flotte française relâche à la Martinique. Il est au combat du 29 avril 1781 devant Fort-Royal de la Martinique et à la prise de Tobago le  suivant.

Il participe également à la victoire navale décisive de Chesapeake, le  contre la flotte britannique de l'amiral Graves. Il va notamment se mesurer lors de cette bataille rangée au HMS Intrepid, un vaisseau de 64 canons. Les Britanniques finissent par se retirer. L'amiral de Grasse dira de lui après le combat de Chesapeake : « Très instruit, bon manœuvrier, d'un très grand sang-froid ». Il est également présent lors de la reddition de l'armée de Lord Cornwallis après la bataille de Yorktown, en . Le , il reçoit pension de  sur le budget des Invalides.

Retournant dans les Indes occidentales en , Castellane-Majastre commande Le Marseillais lors de la bataille de Saint-Kitts les 15 et . Il a neuf hommes tués et 19 blessés sous ses ordres. Il est également présent au combat des Saintes en avril de la même année. Son navire fait alors partie de l'escadre blanche et bleu, commandée par le marquis de Coriolis d'Espinouse, chef d'escadre ; mais les Français sont lourdement vaincus. En , il est présent à Saint-Domingue au sein de la flotte placée sous les ordres du marquis de Vaudreuil. Moins combattif qu'en baie de Chesapeake, le commandant du Marseillois n'engage presque pas son vaisseau, le ramenant à Brest avec les autres rescapés de la bataille. Le , il se voit attribuer une pension de  sur le budget de l'ordre de Saint-Louis et il est promu chef d'escadre des armées navales avec rang à prendre au . Il est représentant de la noblesse aux États provinciaux tenus à Aix en 1788. Enfin, son acte d'inhumation établit son appartenance à la Société des Cincinnati.

Mariage et descendance
Il épouse, le  à Marseille, Marie Claire de Montolieu († 1800). De cette union naissent 6 enfants dont 2 fils:
 Charles de Castellane (1783-1857)
 César Elzéar de Castellane, Comte de Castellane-Majastres (1784-1835)

Notes et références

Annexes

Sources et bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Histoire de la marine française de Richelieu à Louis XVI
 Guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis
 Maison de Castellane
 Chef d'escadre

Liens externes

 Dossier individuel  fonds marine, archives nationales
 Manuscrits du marquis de Castellane-Majastre, conservés par la bibliothèque de l'University of Michigan
 Sa généalogie sur pierfit geneanet.org

Amiral français du XVIIIe siècle
Famille de Castellane
Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
Naissance en mars 1733
Naissance à Marseille
Décès en mai 1789
Décès à Riez
Marquis français du XVIIIe siècle
Décès à 56 ans
Décès dans la province de Provence


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Q: Laurent series of $\frac{1}{z^2}$ centered at $z=-1$ in the annulus $1<|z+1|<2$ I have managed to compute the Laurent series for $\frac{1}{z}$, which is $\sum_{n=-\infty}^{-1} (z+1)^n$. Now, I'm no expert at power series, so I wonder how to compute the Laurent series for $\frac{1}{z^2}$. Is it possible to do the following:
$\frac{1}{z^2} = (\sum_{n=-\infty}^{-1} (z+1)^n)^2 = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{-1} (z+1)^{2n}$?

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Since$$\lvert z+1\rvert>1\implies\frac1z=(z+1)^{-1}+(z+1)^{-2}+(z+1)^{-3}+\cdots,$$you have, when $\lvert z+1\rvert>1$,\begin{align}\frac1{z^2}&=-\left(\frac1z\right)'\\&=(z+1)^{-2}+2(z+1)^{-3}+3(z+1)^{-4}+\cdots\end{align}

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At their best, the Marvel Television Universe series have each been about price. What is the price one pays to be superhuman? The reason why Daredevil was compelling was as much about watching Matt Murdock get sewn up between battles as for its phenomenal cinematic action sequences. Luke Cage pays his price both in time and persons, losing loved ones to violence and years to prison. In fact, part of the reason Iron Fist was so disappointing was precisely because it lacked that narrative. We didn't see Danny Rand lose anything. Yes, he lost his family in a plane crash as a child, but his life as a hero in New York led only to gains, regaining his fortune, and gaining personal victories as well.
But that's not what I found so compelling about the second season of Jessica Jones. I was really into this season because I really felt what Jessica was going through. Within twenty-four hours of the first episode dropping, I was put on two weeks medical leave by my psychiatrist due to a series of episodes of self-destructive impulsive behavior brought on by work stress and anxiety. So, as I'm watching a show about a character on the verge of an emotional breakdown, I'm dealing with one of my own.
I saw the signs and symptoms of what I'd been going through. I saw a character drinking to regulate mood. I saw a character engaging in self-destructive behavior. I saw a character using sex to numb pain. I saw a character isolate herself because she wasn't comfortable asking for help. I saw a character hide her feelings behind snark and rage. I didn't reach the point at any time where I saw the faces of dead people and heard their voices telling me things I didn't want to hear, but I found myself talking to some people who've been long gone more than once.
It's a rare thing to see a show that does such a perfect job of showing what you're going through when you're going through tough times. I can only think of two shows that have ever moved me with that kind of immediate and jarring level of gut-punching power, and they're both Netflix originals set in worlds not our own: Jessica Jones, season two, in its world of superheroes and Bojack Horseman in its world of talking animals. I was watching one of the final episodes crying as I was sweating on a treadmill at the gym, and I'm not usually one to cry in public.
This season talks about grief, unflinchingly, a lot. And it's a funny thing about grief: it never really goes away. You learn to live with it as you get older, but it never passes, not entirely. My mother has been dead for sixteen years this month, and I still find myself in times of crisis wishing I could call her for advice. It brought up a question: What would I be willing to sacrifice to see my mother again, to be able to spend time with her? It's a tough question. We all value living life on our own terms. We each like to think of ourselves as adults who make choices and no longer live in the shadows of our parents, but the death of a parent really does bring some perspective. And I miss my mom and dad. I miss them a lot. And I hadn't thought much about for quite some time.
You should watch Jessica Jones, season two. You should watch it because it's doing things nothing else in television does. You should watch it because it's great television, with compelling characters, well acted by charismatic performers. You should watch it to support one of the most diverse and exciting productions in the history of American television. It has been a very long time since I've seen television this good, and, I suspect, it will be a long time before I do. And frankly I'm glad of that, because this was so good it gut-shot me.
It was so good, it made me miss my mom.
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Editorial: Beacon Hill in denial
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PUBLISHED: December 8, 2016 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
The midyear cuts that Gov. Charlie Baker announced this week as part of an effort to bring the state budget back into balance amount to $98 million — a vanishingly small percentage of the $39.3 billion state budget. One-quarter of 1 percent, to be exact.
That's not to suggest the cuts won't be painful in some program areas. But they might not have been necessary at all had the Legislature not reversed Baker's earlier spending reductions.
And the revenue picture remains uncertain. So Baker's move this week isn't "premature," as House Speaker Robert DeLeo said Monday. It's fiscally responsible — certainly more responsible than a policy of just waiting-and-hoping for things to improve.
Naturally after Baker detailed his budget-balancing efforts, some lawmakers turned right to their happy place — to exaggerated claims that the cuts are a threat to life and safety. We trust that those lawmakers will be too distracted by the sky falling down upon them to detail the $53 million worth of legislative earmarks that the governor excised, so allow us to provide some examples.
Baker trimmed nearly $8 million in earmarks from the famously porky travel and tourism account. Perhaps Beacon Hill can one day restore the $250,000 set aside for a landfill in Newburyport — no, really, it's "tourism" spending — but for now it's gotta go. We suspect the commonwealth will also survive the elimination of a $200,000 state subsidy for the private Dr. Seuss Museum.
Lawmakers and advocates will surely also lament the $1.8 million in cuts to education. But if the town of Cohasset has to come up with its own $100,000 to pay a school resource officer — an "education" earmark trimmed by Baker — then such is life.
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation weighed in after Baker acted this week, noting that "disappointing tax revenues and growing exposures have heightened the need for midyear spending reductions." The Legislature can reject Baker's solution — they're already talking about restoring the cuts in January — but given current conditions it would be a difficult choice to defend.
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Eira member Sue Spencer's solo album is a collection of her favorite traditional songs and tunes from Newfoundland, Ireland, and Scotland, along with two contemporary songs. This album was first published in 2002, and has now been reprinted in 2020 in the form of a digipak, updated from its original jewel case form.


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School visits to East Midlands Airport's Aerozone resume
East Midlands Airport's education facility, the Aerozone, has opened its doors to schools as the new autumn term starts.
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Yesterday, the airport welcomed students from Birkett House School in Leicester, kickstarting a busy schedule of events that will take place at the Aerozone education centre this term.
For some students, aged 16-19, it was the first time they had been to an airport. EMA's education outreach team put together a programme of activities to give them a memorable and hands-on experience of what it takes to operate an airport that is open 24/7.
The students had a tour of the terminal before heading back to the Aerozone to take part in role-play activities at East Minilands (the airports interactive activity centre), which includes a check-in desk and security area with 'mock' security scanner. The session concluded with members of Jet2.com cabin crew talking to them about what it's like to work in the skies.
The sessions offered at EMA's Aerozone are designed to inspire and attract the next generation of aviation talent and annually welcomes over 3,000 young visitors.
Joanna Wood, EMA's education coordinator, says: "We are excited to welcome schools back to East Midlands Airport this term. The sessions are fun and interactive and give young people a real insight into what goes on behind the scenes at an airport. We tailor visits for students of all ages, EYFS through to KS4 and college students, as well as those with special educational needs."
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Paramount Pictures has released their Super Bowl trailer for The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which debuted during NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLIX today. The trailer comes on the heels of 30 new photos and a music video by Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D. that debuted last week. As you can see in the latest footage, Spongebob and his Bikini Bottom buddies get "super-sized" in this new movie, which combines animated characters from the hit SpongeBob SquarePants TV series with live-action elements.
The story follows SpongeBob as he goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate. Antonio Banderas stars as the pirate in question, dubbed Burger-Beard, who holds the key to the stolen recipe that Spongebob and his friends are trying to find. SpongeBob SquarePants voice cast members Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward Tentacles), Mr. Lawrence (Plankton) and Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy Cheeks) reprise their roles in this live-action/CGI hybrid.
Paul Tibbitt, who directed 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, returns to the helm for The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which hits theaters nationwide on February 6. Take a look at the latest footage before heading to theaters this weekend, to see how Spongebob adapts to the real world, far away from his home in a pineapple under the sea.


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Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (Rantasalmi, Finlandia, 20 de agosto de 1873-Bloomfield Hills, Míchigan, Estados Unidos, 1 de julio de 1950) fue un arquitecto finlandés, famoso gracias a sus construcciones en estilo Art nouveau a comienzos del siglo XX.

Biografía
Saarinen estudió en Helsinki en la Universidad Politécnica de Helsinki. Desde 1896 hasta 1905 trabajó como compañero con Herman Gesellius y Armas Lindgren en la firma «Gesellius, Lindgren, y Saarinen». Su primer gran trabajo fue el Pabellón Finlandés de la Exposición Universal de 1900, exhibía una extraordinaria convergencia de influencias de estilo: arquitectura de madera finlandesa, el neogótico británico y el jugendstil. La primera época de Saarinen fue posteriormente bautizada con el nombre de «romanticismo nacional» finlandés y culminó con la Estación central de Helsinki (diseñada en 1904, construida en 1910-14). En 1910–15 trabajó en el amplio proyecto de planeamiento urbanístico de Munksnäs-Haga y más tarde publicó un libro sobre el tema.

En enero de 1911 se convirtió en asesor de planeamiento urbanístico de Reval, Estonia y fue invitado a Budapest para que asesorara sobre desarrollo urbano. En 1912, se publicó un folleto escrito por Saarinen sobre los problemas de planeamiento de Budapest. En abril de 1913 obtuvo la primera plaza en una competición internacional por su plan para Reval. Durante 1917-1918 Saarinen trabajó en el planeamiento para un Helsinki mayor. Saarinen también diseñó los billetes del marco finlandés introducidos en 1922.

El 6 de marzo de 1904 Saarinen se había casado con Louise (Loja) Gesellius, una escultora de Helsinki, hermana menor de Herman Gesellius. Tuvieron una hija Eva-Lisa (Pipsan) el 31 de marzo de 1905 y un hijo Eero el 20 de agosto de 1910.

Eliel Saarinen se mudó a los Estados Unidos, después de presentarse al concurso para el diseño de la Tribune Tower, en Chicago. A pesar de que el diseño de Saarinen resultó el segundo lugar del concurso, su edificio fue realizado en 1929 con la construcción del Gulf Building en Houston. Saarinen se estableció primero en Evanston, Illinois, donde trabajó en su esquema para el desarrollo de la fachada del lago de Chicago. En 1924 se convirtió en profesor visitante de la Universidad de Míchigan.

En 1925 George Gough Booth le pidió que diseñara el campus de la Cranbrook Educational Community, planeado como un equivalente estadounidense de la Escuela de la Bauhaus. Saarinen enseñó en esta escuela y se convirtió en director de la Cranbrook Academy of Art en 1932. Entre sus estudiantes-colaboradores se encontraban Ray Eames y Charles Eames; Saarinen influyó sus siguientes trabajos de diseño de muebles.

Se convirtió en profesor en el Departamento de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Míchigan; actualmente, una cátedra en el «A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning» de Míchigan, lleva su nombre, y el College realiza anualmente una serie de conferencias en su honor.

Su hijo Eero (1910-1961), se convirtió en uno de los arquitectos estadounidenses más importantes de mediados del siglo XX, como uno de los líderes de estilo internacional. El estudiante de Saarinen Edmund N. Bacon logró una prominencia nacional como Director Ejecutivo de la Comisión para el planeamiento urbano de Filadelfia desde 1949 hasta 1970.

Obra
 Pabellón Finlandés, en la Exposición Universal de 1900, París
 Finca Hvitträsk, hogar de Saarinen en Kirkkonummi (1903)
 Sede del club en la fábrica Luther, Tallin, Estonia 1905
 Estación de Tren de Helsinki (1911)
 Museo Nacional de Finlandia, en Helsinki (1911)
 Ayuntamiento de Lahti, en Lahti (1911)
 Edificio de la Asociación de reserva mutualista, Tallin, Estonia 1912
 Estación de Tren de Vyborg (1913)
 Iglesia de San Pablo, en Tartu, Estonia (1917)
 Primera Iglesia Cristiana de Columbus, Indiana (1942)
 Kleinhans Music Hall, Búfalo, Nueva York; diseñado en colaboración con su hijo Eero Saarinen
 Ala original del Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa 1945–1948
 Comunidad Educacional Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Míchigan
 Iglesia Luterana de Cristo, Mineápolis, Minnesota 1949
 Centro de la Comunidad de Fenton, Fenton, Míchigan

Véase también

 Medalla de Oro del AIA

Enlaces externos

 Eliel Saarinen en Biografías y vidas
 Obras de Eliel Saarinen en Urbipedia

Ganadores de la Medalla de Oro del RIBA
Arquitectos de Finlandia
Arquitectos de Estados Unidos del siglo XX
Arquitectura moderna
Arquitectos del Modernismo
Ganadores de la Medalla de Oro del AIA
Finlandeses del siglo XX
Alumnado de la Universidad Politécnica de Helsinki
Miembros del American Institute of Architects

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Varied Lorikeets are small lorikeets. Their plumage is dimorphic, i.e. males and females are slightly different. Both sexes have a bright-red frons, lores and cap, which touches the white eye-rings, behind which there is a light-yellow ear patch. The rest of the head is dark-green. Like the rest of the body plumage, it is streaked light-yellow. The throat is dark-green, the chest pinkish, the belly and vent light-green. The upperwings are light-green, the tail is green (without scalloping). The underwings have green coverts and dark-brown flight feathers. The cere is grey, the bill is bright orange, while the irises are black and the legs and feet are dark-grey. Male Varied Lorikeets have an all-red cap and a clearly visible mauve-pink base colour on the breast. In females red on the cap does not reach as far back towards the nape of the neck and the mauve-pink wash on the chest is reduced. In juveniles only the front half of the cap is red, while the back is green. They have no mauve-pink wash on the breast and their bill is horn-coloured.
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The global distribution of the Varied Lorikeet is available HERE .
Varied Lorikeets are endemic to northern Australia. They populate only the tropical North of the continent, from most of the Kimberley, WA, via the Top End of the NT, towards the southern tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD, where their range extends southward to Mt. Isa and western inland QLD. In parts of that range and also on Cape York peninsula they are seen only occasionally.
Varied Lorikeets have a preference for open forest and monsoon woodland, especially along water courses, and also swamps.
B. Hensen reports spotting Varied Lorikeets at Casuarina Coastal Reserve, Darwin, NT, in March 2013 and along the Marrakai track, NT, in August 2013 and - together with P. Brown - along Bird Billabong Road, near the Arnhem Highway, NT, in July 2018.
We spotted Varied Lorikeets at Lake Copperfield near Pine Creek, NT, in August 2014.
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The law of utility maximization through cost-benefit analysis holds true to human action in the market as the theory of gravity holds true to physics.
Utility maximization simply means every individual wishes to maximize the benefit they receive for every dollar, and for every moment of their time. Every consumer wish is to maximize the value they receive with the lowest cost.
The consumer navigates through the unlimited number of goods and services to satisfy their needs desires. It takes place when you're buying anything, as you are always attempting to determine if the cost of something is worth the benefit received. For example, you might like sushi more than hamburgers, but you can get twice is full for less of a cost by buying a hamburger compared to sushi, so your cost-benefit analysis determined the benefits for purchasing the hamburger outweighs the benefits for purchasing the sushi.
On the same token, The same analysis is taking place when hiring a service provider or choosing a place to shop. Say for example grocery store A has a slightly smaller selection and bad customer service but low prices. And Grocery store B has a much larger selection, better customer service, but higher prices. Depending on the time and circumstance, you will choose one over the other.
A rational individual will purchase a good or service if the benefit they receive from that service is equal to or outweighs the cost of it.
Consumers are assumed to be rational, trying to get the most value for their money.
Consumers' incomes are limited because their individual resources are limited. They face a budget constraint.
Consumers have clear preferences for various goods and services, thus they know their MU for each successive units of the product.
Every item has a price tag. Consumers must choose among alternative goods with their limited money incomes.
This praxeological action taken by the consumer is what drives competition. It is what drives an individual to pick one service provider over another even if they offer slightly better prices or slightly more quality services. This, of course, forces companies who provide bad services at high prices to either compete and get better or go bankrupt. It's a bit like Darwinism except we're not tearing each other apart in the jungle.
Utility maximization through cost-benefit analysis is one of the underlying functions of human action in the market. Not only that, but it allows for a symbiotic relationship between service providers and consumers. The service providers who supply the most benefit at the least cost will be the ones who the consumers will choose and therefore will be the ones who succeed.
How crazy is it that President Trump is now the subject of conversation relating to the Nobel Peace Prize because he's considering a non-interventionist policy.
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Q: Is it possible to have application.properties depend on multiple profiles? Is it possible to have a Spring Boot properties file depend on two or more profiles? Something like application-profile1-profile2.properties?

A: Spring Boot does not support this out of the box. It only supports a single profile as described here.
However, it does provide enough flexibility to add your own property sources using EnvironmentPostProcessor.
Here is an example of how to implement this:
public class MultiProfileEnvironmentPostProcessor implements EnvironmentPostProcessor, Ordered {
    private final ResourceLoader resourceLoader = new DefaultResourceLoader();

    @Override
    public void postProcessEnvironment(ConfigurableEnvironment environment, SpringApplication application) {
        String[] activeProfiles = environment.getActiveProfiles();

        for (int i = 2; i <= activeProfiles.length; i++) {
            Generator.combination(activeProfiles).simple(i)
                    .forEach(profileCombination -> {
                        String propertySourceName = String.join("-", profileCombination);
                        String location = "classpath:/application-" + propertySourceName + ".properties";

                        if (resourceLoader.getResource(location).exists()) {
                            try {
                                environment.getPropertySources().addFirst(new ResourcePropertySource(propertySourceName, location));
                            } catch (IOException e) {
                                throw new RuntimeException("could not add property source '" + propertySourceName + "'", e);
                            }
                        }
                    });
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getOrder() {
        return Ordered.LOWEST_PRECEDENCE;
    }
}

Couple of things to note:

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*This implementation only supports .properties files but can easily be extended to .yml files as well.

*getActiveProfiles already returns the profiles in an order where the last one wins. This implementation relies on this order and builds the different file names leveraging this order. i.e. if active profiles are: profile1,profile2,profile3 then application-profile1-profile3.properties is supported but application-profile3-profile1.properties isn't, and application-profile1-profile3.properties will override properties defined in application-profile1.properties or application-profile3.properties.

*This implementation uses a third party library com.github.dpaukov:combinatoricslib3 to create the different sets of profiles.

*The property sources are added to the front of the property source list to override existing sources. But if you have custom property sources that should take precedence you need to modify this a bit to consider them in the order, i.e. by leveraging methods like Environment.addAfter.

*Registering an EnvironmentPostProcessor is done using the spring.factories file.

A: There are 4 ways I know.

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*insert .yaml or .properties programmatically like Asi Bross Said. Use ResourceLoader or YamlPropertySourceLoader to insert.

*Use .yaml. but it will be replace when you have a another spring project to dependent it.

*Use properties instead of profiles. (For api project)

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*Use one @PropertySource to define properties file A.

*Get the variables from properties file A and assign them to the parameters in another @PropertySource file path expression.

For example:
resources
/-application.properties  <-- remove or empty,because it will be override by application project
/-moduleA
     /-application.properties               <-- Intellij can identify properties files started with application-
     /-application-mysql-dev.properties
     /-application-psql-dev.properties
     /-application-psql-prod.properties

The content of resources/moduleA/application.properties :
moduleA.custom.profile1=mysql
moduleA.custom.profile2=dev

Content of Java Config file:
@SpringBootApplication
@PropertySources({
        @PropertySource("/moduleA/application.properties"),
        @PropertySource("/moduleA/application-${moduleA.custom.profile1}-${moduleA.custom.profile2}.properties"),
})
public class ModuleConfig {}

*Use properties instead of profiles. (For application project)
resources
/-application.properties
/-application-mysql-dev.properties
/-application-psql-dev.properties
/-application-psql-prod.properties

The content of resources/application.properties :
moduleA.custom.profile1=mysql
moduleA.custom.profile2=dev

The content of SpringMvcApplication.java:
@SpringBootApplication
@PropertySource("/application-${moduleA.custom.profile1}-${moduleA.custom.profile2}.properties")
public class SpringMvcApplication {...}


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Really? English profs 'can't step on the toes of policymakers?'
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In an interview with the BBC, reported in the Telegraph today, expressing disappointment that only 10% of 12-15 year-olds in England had been vaccinated because of the flawed government strategy of only doing it in schools, Prof Calum Semple OBE said:
I can't step on the toes of the policymakers [but] I do think some flexibility would be great. And I'm sure there are people thinking about it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-slow-vaccine-rollout-children-risks-new-covid-spike/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1633787996
Really what sort of public intellectual is that? That's what makes a real prof, challenging lazy uncritical thinking in the public interest, stepping on toes.
Compared to Sridhar, Bauld and others he's a government poodle. Imagine the media reaction if they said anything like that?
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'Thinking about' perhaps maybe saving some lives? Hmm, sounds far too taxing for the er, government whose responsibility is to the people, but that's a fantasy in BritNat UK. Wow.
I notice the price of a barrel of North Sea oil today is around $85. I doubt the rising prices, along with the unreported increase in the production of oil and gas will make a dent to the next set of GERS figures because reported revenues accruing to the Exchequer from the North Sea have always been notoriously low when compared to Norway. The principal benefit of Scotland's renewable energy from wind, and the production oil and gas in the North Sea (if not profit) would appear to be to support the pound by helping the UK's balance of payments.
'Little England, Great England, whatever you wanna call it' he says to 'Francine', this
makes me laugh every time I watch it!
Don't usually comment on peoples' dress sense but he looks like he'd be a perfect part for that Yorkshire programme about the vet, can't remember the title of it…or, the dodgy Doctor in a miss Marble episode!
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Having heard Professor Semple speak on TV with a Scottish accent, I've done a quick online search for him. He is a distinguished scientist. See the link below.
I think one of the problems with SAGE is that the government has not always followed SAGE advice. Perhaps Professor Semple is just circumspect? I sometimes watch the weekly Indie-Sage broadcasts, and one featured work led by Professor Liz? Stokoe, a timeline with graphics showing the occasions when UK government actions diverged from (official) SAGE advice.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/infection-veterinary-and-ecological-sciences/staff/malcolm-semple/
Ah but 'Scottish' can mean not really Scottish even if a person has the 'accent'. Like Professor David Macmillan who just received the nobel prize for chemistry, you could be just 'born Scottish', which means you are not really proper Scottish according to the media, because you couldn't possibly have acheived such an accolade!
I was going to watch a YT vid about the prize, from a distinguished English guy scientist can't remember his name, and he says 'David Macmillan originally from Scotland but whose scientific career has been in America'. i decided to not watch it not giving them click bait.
Like many renowned clever people, they often study and end up working in a country they were not 'born' in. I just don't think he would have said the same about an English scientist, am I being too sensitive?
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Dr Nicholas Osborne is an epidemiologist and toxicologist. He has experience in epidemiology studies examining the complex genetic and environmental aetiology of disease.
He is a co-investigator of the environment strand at The Centre for Improvement in Population Health through E-records Research (CIPHER). It is one of the four co-ordinating centres of the Farr Institute. It is a multinational research partnership between academia, the UK national health service (NHS) and industry, focussed on improving the lives of patients and the population through informatics.
Dr Osborne was previously employed at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne in the Gut & Liver group as a postdoctoral research fellow. Here he worked on the HealthNuts study which was designed to determine the prevalence and risk factors for food allergy in a cohort of Australian children.
In addition Dr Osborne is an investigator on a Department of Human Services Public Health Research Project (2007-08) examining the health risk assessment for cyanobacterial toxins in seafood from the Gippsland Lakes.
Dr Osborne's previous post-doctoral position was with the HealthIron study at the University of Melbourne/Cancer Council Victoria examining the association of haemochromatosis-related genotypes with specific chronic diseases, the natural history of the disease in susceptible people, and the genetic and environmental modifiers of disease expression. Prior to that he was senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth/King's College Hospital examining novel drug therapy approaches for brain tumours.
He completed his PhD at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland/National Research Centre of Environmental Toxicology working on the toxicology and public health effects of cyanobacterial toxins in southeast Queensland.
Dr Osborne is an ASPIRE Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Even though most Americans have access to recycling programs, less than 10 percent of the single-use plastic items produced in the United States are recycled.
To highlight the danger single use plastic waste poses to wildlife, Zoo Knoxville and Waste Connections of Tennessee, Knoxville, teamed up with a special offer to raise awareness and encourage recycling.
A total of 1,200 visitors to the zoo brought a plastic bottle to be recycled in exchange for admission to the zoo (a $10 value) during the Monday, Aug. 27, through Sunday, Sept. 2 awareness event. The bottles were made of the most commonly recycled plastics - #1 PET and #2 HDPE.
Recycle quality, not just quantity. An entire bale of recyclable materials can be rejected if it's contaminated with unapproved items.
Use reusable containers for water, food, rather than single-use containers when possible.
Thanks to the 1,200 zoo visitors who participated in the event to raise awareness on how plastic littering poses risks to wildlife.


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Der Smeaton-Koeffizient, benannt nach John Smeaton, beschreibt das Verhältnis von Druck zu aerodynamischem Widerstand eines gasumströmten Körpers. Dabei bleibt jedoch der dynamische Druck des Mediums unberücksichtigt.

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ergibt für den Smeaton-Koeffizienten k

Smeaton gab 1759 in seinem Werk An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on Circular Motion einen Wert von k=0,005 an.

Bis etwa 1900 ergaben sich nach weiteren Experimenten Streuungen für den Wert k von 0,0027 bis 0,005. Die Brüder Wright vertrauten dem Wert von k=0,005 und bauten zunächst zwei Gleiter, die jedoch nicht flogen. Umfangreiche Experimente ergaben dann einen Wert von k=0,0033, der dem heute gültigen Wert von k=0,00327 ausreichend genau entsprach.

Wegen seiner eingeschränkten Verwendungsfähigkeit wird der Smeaton-Koeffizient seit etwa 1920 nicht mehr verwendet. Stattdessen kam die Bernoulli-Gleichung zum Einsatz.

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Tbilisi - Europe's New 'City of Lights' Breaks Tourism Record With Former Milan Football Star as Mayor
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06 Jan, 2020, 15:24 IST
Kakha Kaladze, Mayor of Tbilisi and former Milan footballer, makes it possible for the capital of Georgia to break the tourism record in 2019.The city was recently painted with spectacular light displays for the new year, making it Europe's official new city of lights.
TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Tbilisi is generating a lot of buzz in Europe after breaking tourism records for the second year in a row. In 2018, the city hosted over 3.6 million people, an unprecedented record of tourists, which grew by 15.7% in the first three quarters of 2019.
The main increase in incoming tourism came mainly from Europe, as more tourists began to flock to the capital of Georgia. The five countries leading the growth rate of incoming tourism are Ireland (72%), Switzerland (45%), Germany (38%), Denmark (32%), and England (28%).
Rustaveli Avenue At Night (Photographs by Davit Tabagari)
Kakha Kaladze, Mayor of Tbilisi (Photographs by Davit Tabagari)
Tbilisi's Main Christmas Tree (Photographs by Davit Tabagari)
Festivities for this tremendous achievement began mid-December. And Georgia's capital does look magical for 2020 with all its impressive decorations.
The main Christmas Tree in Tbilisi is 25 meters tall and beautiful. Created by the Italian company IDO SRL, it's even more charming thanks to its resemblance to a regular spruce tree.
In an annual survey conducted by the Georgian National Tourism Administration, only 1.7% of visitors were dissatisfied with their stay in the city. Referred to as 'The city full of history', Tbilisi is known for its appreciation of history as well as its love of change. And there's something here for everyone. Most tourists enjoy shopping, the local cuisine, fine Georgian wine, and sightseeing.
The mayor has turned Tbilisi into the new city of lights in 2020 as he remains focused on pilgrimage from all over Europe.
The city's decorations will be cleared away on January 14th, when the city releases its official 2019 tourism data. Given the anticipated growing demand, the tourism record is expected to be broken once again in 2020 and an even more impressive light show for the new year will be planned. Tbilisi Officials will wait, check, and keep travelers posted.
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Founded in the 5th century AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, Tbilisi has served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics.
The Tbilisi City Hall is a representative body in the city government of Tbilisi, Georgia. It is responsible for the ongoing management of the City of Tbilisi. Like any local authority, the Tbilisi City Hall is involved in municipal matters of the type of education, culture, welfare, infrastructure, cleaning, sanitation and the like.
Kakha Kakhaber has served as a Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A former footballer, he played for the Georgia national team from 1996 to 2011. He was voted Georgian Footballer of the Year in 2001–2003, 2006 and 2011 and was considered one of Georgia's most important players.
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Interview: Mimi Huang
Huang Yi-Hsun (Mimi) is a journalist and writer currently studying at National Taiwan University. The following interview was conducted on November 8th, 2017.
Brian Hioe: The first question I wanted to ask is, how did you been participating in social movements? What kind of issues did you participate in and why did you begin to participate in these kinds of issues?
Mimi Huang: I began to participate in social movements from when I was in a five-year junior college. That's when I began to be concerned with social issues. Because I'm from Chiayi, I was originally in a five-year junior college in Kaohsiung, studying English and German. My classmates weren't too concerned with collective issues. Because my family was mostly in business, I didn't have too many opportunities to understand these sorts of issues regarding society or politics. I didn't have the conditions to understand these sort of issues.
Because I liked music while I was studying, I liked Desserts Chang a lot then. Desserts Chang is someone who very much likes to talk with her audience and to discuss social issues with them. At that time, when I had a grasp of these different terms, there was one time I heard her on YouTube or something talking about the Wukan incident in China. She asked her audience to pay attention to these issues. Around that time, the Dapu incident took place as well.
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There was a period of time in the middle, but that was something that influenced my life. And with the Dapu incident, I started to pay attention to these issues, and I listened to them sitting there drinking and discussing and gradually began to pay attention to these issues.
Those people were older than me quite a bit. My classmates didn't discuss these issues at all. Most of them were women and may have been discussing how to become a flight attendant or someone that focuses on their appearances. But then I started working at a different coffee shop and one day, because we had a dish with beef in it, when I was taking an order from a customer one day, that client asked me if the dish contained America beef. That was when the legislature was in an uproar about American beef. She said she didn't eat American beef. I didn't know.
I asked and later on, I asked why she was concerned with this, since nobody had ever asked me that before. She said that she had her political position. I said, there are few people concerned with this. Because she also opposed nuclear energy and things like that, he said that that night, because that was in Kaohsiung, there was a private meeting of people concerned with these issues, and she invited me there. There were some adults there and some students.
She asked if I wanted to go, I said yes. And that day, Neil Peng, Shinichi Chen, and people from Praxis in South were there. I'm not sure if people from the 02 Society were there.
Because my school was quite conservative, I didn't interact with too many people from other schools. I didn't know what a student activist group was. When I went that day, adults discussed what they discussed and I went in with them and discussed, what an activist group was. They said that they were from student activists groups from different colleges and told me what they studied.
At the time in Kaohsiung, people from Praxis in South were holding events similar to Cafe Philo regarding different political issues, with a different topic every week. I started to attend, since I was someone new to this. I got to know the 02 Society through this and to know a group of very different people. Zhang Ziling was the head of the 02 Society then.
Zhang Ziling invited Wu Jiehmin to give a talk on his new book, "The Third View of China" (2012). Because at the time in Kaohsiung, there were few events like this. There wasn't even one independent bookstore in Kaohsiung, there was only Eslite. I asked my then-boyfriend if he wanted to come with me. He happened to have the day off, so we went to Chenggong University to listen to this because I felt that he was more able to understand what they were talking about. I could understand the beginning, but what was discussed later, I couldn't understand. I didn't have the knowledge for that then. I didn't know what he was responding to and what he advocated.
After listening to the talk, seeing some people I knew, they were all people I normally knew, but standing on the stage and MCing and holding the discussion, they seemed very confident and could use specialized vocabulary to discuss social issues. I thought that was something which was quite attractive. I felt a bit possessed after, that although I couldn't understand what they were talking about, I wanted to be able to express and discuss socio-political issues as clear as they do. It was so fast. And that time, I had been preparing to enter college and I was considering what to study. I was planning on studying printing, with regards to brushwork and typography, since I have a background that has to do with aesthetics.
Going back that day, at the bus station at National Chenggong University, behind the Tainan Train Station, there's a large road with many bodhi trees. It's the tree that the Sakyamuni Buddha became enlightened under. That left a deep impression, passing by that road, and taking the train that day. I made a decision that day, that I would study social sciences. I decided to study politics, rather than sociology, as tested through statistics, since I'm not good at math. And if I took philosophy I'd have to study logic. With politics, I would have to study the constitution and use English. I thought it was more likely that I could study politics.
I spent half a year studying then. I tested at National Tunghai University and National Taiwan University. After that, I started studying at National Taiwan University.
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Brian Hioe: What were you doing at the time of the Sunflower Movement?
Mimi Huang: I had just entered National Taiwan University then. I started in my sophomore year, because I had to test in from the five-year school. You have take a test if you switch from a five-year school to a college. That's why I had to spend time studying.
Because I was very interested in student activist groups, I joined the NTU UniNews Club (大學新聞社) and the NTU Continent Club (台大大陸社). I joined both. The first year, I spent most of my time at the NTU UniNews Club. It had a long history to do with social movements going back to the martial law period, going back to the 1950s. Many activists came out of this. They're people that charge in social movements, emphasizing that they are willing to take direct action and clash with the police and are organizers. They're very close to labor issues, but they don't like to discuss issues regarding nationality. Including left independence.
So in my first semester, I began to encounter student activist groups and wanted to participate in these groups. And the NTU Continent Club was similar. It was a reading group. With 318, that was the next semester. There was already some sense this would happen.
On 317, I was at the old NTU Department of Social Sciences, at Xuzhou Road, near the Legislative Yuan. I had a comparative government class that day. I was attending class that day. The Chang Ching-Chung incident took place then and there was much discussion of this on Facebook. There was no way to keep on attending classes.
After getting out of classes, I ran to in front of the Legislative Yuan. At the time, there was only Huang Kuo-Chang and people from the Taiwan Association of University Professors. There were few people and people were holding a press conference there, holding up flags. I went there and there were too few people there. I was quite shocked, that it could be so empty. I wasn't sure what to do then. But nothing happened that day, I kept standing there until it was 11 PM, and then I went home.
I got to know Fang Huizhen then. When she was in Next Magazine, writing on reports on 318, part of it was discussing attending with me, since she was standing next to me. We started talking about Kafka and Hannah Arendt. Because in The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt discusses action in terms of participation. I had been studying this and hadn't been able to understand some of this discussion. But I saw this because Hannah Arendt is quite literary and I felt that this was humanity and that humans could come up with a new way of thinking about the world. I talked with Fang Huizhen then about the "plurality of action" in The Human Condition. Nothing happened, so I went back home to see what would happen.
The next day, during 318, I was in a discussion class, in which we talk with upperclassmen. I think we were discussing Simmel. After discussing Simmel, people said that there was going to be a rally or something like that in front of the Legislative Yuan because of what took place yesterday. In the discussion class (most members of which who were also members of the NTU UniNews Club) was disinterested. Nobody wanted to pay attention to this. I felt a bit disappointed, so I ate dinner and rode a bicycle from the backdoor of NTU to the Legislative Yuan.
By that time, it was already night. So I got up to there. I looked around and looked to see what people were doing. I stood there. And someone I knew came up, I forget who it was, said, "Mimi! Mimi! We're going to charge into the Legislative Yuan later! Later, you be responsible for the parking lot, downstairs, when we charge there!" I didn't know what was going on, so I said, "Oh, okay." Then I heard, "Everyone charge!" and everyone suddenly stood up and charged.
Because I stood in front of the door in the first row, more and more people started pushing, and I felt dizzy. The police came and blocked the door. The police went upstairs and someone said, "There are people up there!" People started pushing their way in. I got stuck between the police and the people and I felt like I was going to get crushed. Later on, the police let up, and people were able to force their way in.
We went directly to the second floor and we went to where the glass was. I looked down and the general assembly chamber had been occupied. Everyone was hanging banners. And in my heart, I felt, "What the fuck?! What am I doing here?" I didn't know what I was doing and people were all there, and started chatting. Nothing happened. There was all these posts on Facebook, so I posted a picture of me and my friends, showing that I was inside.
There's not more beyond that, since I looked around inside, began to see who was there and how many people were there. It's mostly that. Later on, around 3 or 4 AM, the police tried to force themselves in. I sat in front. In the end, they didn't force their way in. So then I didn't know what to do after 3 or 4 AM. But we had just finished discussing sociology. And I still had my textbook, so I started studying inside. [Laughs] I was studying Simmel. I couldn't understand, because that wasn't written in a very understandable manner. The reading material for that week was, "How is Society Possible?"
I studied until morning. And people started sending in food, so I was quite happy that there were so many things I could eat. Doujiang, donuts, and many things, so I kept eating things! [Laughs] It was up until around 3 or 4 when the Simmel class on The Sociology of Reflexivity was supposed to take place, I thought I couldn't skip this. I just didn't want to skip this class, even if I thought I could skip every other class. So I ran off to go attend class.
I also was wearing contacts and I had been wearing them for ten or twenty hours. I didn't have my classes on my. I had the need to change them, to go out and get my things. So I went to go study and everyone was discussing this situation.
Brian Hioe: What were your feelings during the movement?
Mimi Huang: The core decision making group was making decisions for the movement, but I felt somewhat conflicted about the fact that this group of people who were making decisions for the movement could appear so quickly. Why? Even if a few of them were my good friends, but I felt that they could decide that they could represent the movement, I felt that this was something I didn't want to be a part of.
Later on, there were divisions between the Legislative Yuan and Department of Social Sciences, as well as the Untouchables' Liberation Area. I didn't want to join. I knew the people who were watching the gates, so they let me in, even if they wouldn't let regular people inside. I went in once or twice. I felt a bit conflicted inside, so I left again.
Brian Hioe: Did you have any views regarding the large incidents of the movement, such as 324 or the decision to withdraw from the Legislative Yuan?
Mimi Huang: During 324, I was among the first to charge in.
Brian Hioe: Which group? I was at the back door.
Mimi Huang: I was at the front door. Because in the beginning, people contacted me that there would be this action. I was anonymous. But I helped out pass on messages about this action to Tsay Ting-Kuei. Because they also participated. So I waited there, pretending to walk around. And then someone shouted that we were going to charge and we all charged in. We had to climb over the wall. I remember my dress blew up then. [Laughs] But I climbed over and sat outside the entrance. The media kept snapping photos, so I felt afraid, and eventually ran off.
Later on, I participated in the rally for 324, because I was passing on information. I was quite shocked, because some people intentionally or unintentionally led to some unfortunate consequences. I felt that for this political action, they might have had some aims in mind, but at the time it looked like it failed and had some negative consequences. But looking bad about it, I don't think it was with bad intentions. It was quite meaningful.
Brian Hioe: I was at the back door then. I found out yesterday Hsueh-Chan was also there, but I didn't know him then.
Mimi Huang: I also found that looking through the pictures, there were some people I knew later on, but I didn't know then.
Brian Hioe: Do you have any views regarding the decision to withdraw?
Mimi Huang: By that time, it had gone on awhile. So I only noticed that they had decided to take think action. I didn't have too many thoughts, because people were wondering then when this movement would end. And they might have expressed what they were advocating and how they were planning on withdrawing, but I didn't think too much about it.
Brian Hioe: Do you think that your participation in this movement or other social movements has to do with Taiwanese identification?
Mimi Huang: I think it's related. The movement has to do with the CSSTA, after all. Because my political self-identification beforehand was clear beforehand that I advocate Taiwanese independence.
In the movement, the China factor was also widely discussed. When the movement broke out, a lot of people used the China factor as a way to explain Chang Ching-Chung's actions. The Black Island Youth Front did a lot of work establishing discourse regarding these issues. That may be one of the things that contribute to how I understood Taiwanese identification and participating in the movement.
However, I think most importantly is during the movement, you need to do a lot of work of persuading. That's the time you need to answer questions like: Who are we? Why do we (must) act? For me, the process is also the groundwork of civil consciousness.
Brian Hioe: What kind of movement would you feel this was? A movement opposed the black box? Or the KMT? Or to China? Or free trade? Why did people stand up? Or why did you yourself stand up?
Mimi Huang: It may have been that at the time, some sociologists or scholars had investigated why people participated beforehand. We can maybe let them respond to this.
I wasn't unaware of the CSSTA, because I came up from the south to study in Taipei at the same time as Lai Yu-Fen. They formed the Black Island Youth Front, which led discussion of the CSSTA as an issue. So at the time, I would often listen to how they discussed the CSSTA.
But why would I stand up? In terms of feelings, I felt that I had to do something.
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Brian Hioe: From your perspective, do you think there is any political orientation to social movement participation? Because I feel that social movement participants tend to be more progressive and they usually say that they are left-leaning. Do you think it's that way? I'm very interested to why young people say they are left-wing.
Mimi Huang: Sometimes, self-identification and your actual views, attitudes, and actions towards issues are not the same. But it may be that through studying sociology, you encounter left-wing traditions in terms of thought. Is it that people self-identified as left in Taiwan identify with this tradition? Sometimes how people who are self-identified as left organize or participate in issues may not be so left.
What is left-wing in Taiwan is very vague and some people may identify as left, but they are neoliberal in reality, towards certain issues. So I don't know the meaning of why they call themselves left-wing. Maybe they just think it's cool.
There may be some discussions of "independence left" or "left independence" in academic circles. But what do they mean by left and how did they come to know these ideas of being left?
Brian Hioe: Three years later, how do you think this movement has influenced Taiwanese society and Taiwanese politics? Many people will raise the election of Tsai Ing-Wen and Ko P or the appearance of the Third Force.
Mimi Huang: If discussing politics, such as regarding influence on the system, we all know there's been some influence, as in the appearance of the Third Force that claim they want to push for a new form of politics. Some political parties have entered the Legislative Yuan and begun to advocate for some things. But is this really a new political force? Or old wine in a new bottle? Do they really create new values or possibilities among political spaces? I think this is worth looking into.
Many people will discuss the civic awakening of the people, but I think this way of discussing things isn't new. It's not what I would want to say.
Something more related to my life is that after the Sunflower Movement, with the Third Force parties, or those who have entered the Legislative Yuan, with the DPP having taken power, many people have entered the DPP to work. Or related Third Force parties. You can see that after graduating, some people need income, so entering political parties was one option.
But at the same time, these people were organizers of student activist groups on campus. After the Sunflower Movement, student activist groups have gradually broken up on campuses and there's nobody to do very basic work.
Brian Hioe: What do you think social movement participants are doing now, three years later? As you mentioned, social movements have become weaker.
Mimi Huang: Everyone seems to feel that they just have to express their views on certain issues, within their groups, or on social media. That that's a kind of action. But I think organizational work is still necessary, whether on campuses, or addressing local issues outside of campuses, or human rights issues. Only then can there be actual social reform.
I don't reject political work. I respect those who I know that have entered into political work. But I have to admit, if you take on political work, you have to confront many issues. The means of persuading someone are different. Whether entering the legislature or political parties. There's both within the system and outside the system still. But what I want to emphasize is that because people have entered the political system, people aren't working on student activist groups.
Brian Hioe: Do you think that there could be a social movement in Taiwan such as the Sunflower Movement again?
Mimi Huang: It's harder. Because to a large level, the expectations that people have of social movements are weaker now. Realistically speaking, people may not be doing organizational work, so how do we have the strength to mobilize? Because the Sunflower Movement wasn't a contingent event. There were preconditions necessary for it to happen. There was a strength that had been growing for awhile. And so it happened that way. You can that it was overdetermined.
I think it is possible. However, I don't think that the conditions to occur on that scale and mobilize that quickly are present now. Like I said, when I raised Hannah Arendt, I believe that people can create something new, that people can change and create something new. Using new ways to tell people something. Maybe it can happen.
But how can it happen and what kind of a group of people would bring it about? I would emphasize it as a group of people, not a hero or superman bringing it about. That can be discussed further.
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Brian Hioe: Do you think that China has any views towards Taiwan's political circumstances after the Sunflower Movement? Or that the Sunflower Movement could influence the international world, or international social movements?
Mimi Huang: Does China care that the Sunflower Movement? It's a tough question. If the CCP admits that the Sunflower Movement affected civil society in Taiwan or Taiwanese identification or Taiwanese political views, it may care about the movement.
We'll see in that case. We might only see what it does behind the scenes to try and influence Taiwan, regarding civil society. A lot of Chinese friends of mine, as well as friends from Hong Kong, were quite interested in this. Does the international world care about the Sunflower Movement? Perhaps.
In Taiwanese history, it will be a very important incident, so if the international world cares about it, when NGOs or civil society groups confront an issue, they can maybe raise this as something which was created from social conditions or historical reasons which led to something that people had never thought would occur before. And because this movement could link to some international groups, that may be useful.
In conclusion, I think we shouldn't seem 318 movements as a spectacle. We must liberate it into our life: life for a better revolution. For me, the question is always about—if 318 movement happened again, am I able to respond? Can we act differently?
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