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Posted on May 21, 2015 by Westwind Weekly
By Melissa Villeneuve
Residents of a Raymond mobile home park are relieved council has listened to concerns over what would have been a significant property tax hike. The owners of the 32 units in the park received notices on May 7 that they would have to pay a minimum $1,000 tax for improved properties this year, sparking a petition in protest.
For David Sims, who started the petition, his taxes would have gone from $411 last year to $1,111.
Sims, who lives on government pensions, pays his property tax in monthly installments, which are withdrawn based on the previous year's rates. He's already paid $430.
He says the town assessed his mobile home at over three times its value. He hired an outside consultant to re-assess it, who spoke to the town and advised Sims it wouldn't make a difference because of the minimum tax.
The majority of those living in the park are seniors on pensions, people living on AISH or social assistance, or low-income earners, according to Sims. He said the trailers are on average 35-40 years old.
Scott Barton, Raymond chief administrative officer, said Raymond's 2015 tax rates were slightly reduced, and the majority of properties will see nominal changes. However, the minimum property tax payable for improved properties increased from $800 to $1,000 and for vacant properties from $600 to $800.
"As the tax amounts were being entered into the town's financial software this year it was noticed by administration that the 32 units in Designated Manufactured Home Community were not being charged the minimum tax amount," wrote Barton in an email last Tuesday.
"The minimum tax was implemented in 2004 at $500 for improved properties and $250 for vacant properties and has increased over the years."
When the administrative omission was corrected, it led to a significant increase in the property taxes for those units.
On May 12 Sims was worried about how he would scrounge up $700 to meet the July 15 payment deadline, before incurring a 12 per cent penalty.
By the morning of May 13, he was relieved to learn council discussed the issue at its committee meeting that night, and agreed to establish a specific $400 minimum for the trailer court.
"I'm waiting to see the new tax notice, but it's a whole lot better than what they had before, because nobody here could afford what they had," said Sims.
Barton wrote in a follow-up e-mail that administration would be contacting the 32 home owners and adjusting their tax bills.
"This will remove any significant increase to their tax bill."
Sims had intended to present the petition and voice his concerns at the town council meeting on May 19. Instead, council formalized its decision.
"We're looking at getting some kind of homeowners association going, so we can nip anything like this in the bud if it happens again," said Sims. "We're not out to hurt anybody. We just want fair play."


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Sri Lankans may get to know who is awaiting the death penalty in the country's prisons on Tuesday if the Right to Information Commission rules in favor of an RTI request submitted by the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA).
An RTI request asking the Justice Ministry and the Prisons Department to release a host of information with regard to those facing the death penalty was submitted by CPA several months ago.
This includes the names of the people on death row, their case numbers and on what grounds they received the sentence, a CPA spokesperson told RepublicNext.
The request was rejected by the Ministry. The CPA then appealed to the Commission to compel the Ministry and the Department to comply with the request.
However when President Maithripala Sirisena announced at a press conference on June 26 that he had signed the death warrants for four people on death row the matter became urgent.
CPA resubmitted the appeal to the appeal to the RTI Commission hours after Sirisena's announcement stating that this should now be considered urgently as it as it is a matter of life and death.
The RTI Commissioners have asked the Justice Ministry and the Prisons Department to release the information to them so that they can rule whether the details can be made public or not.
The RTI Commission is due to announce its decision on Tuesday.
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Summer 2018 The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
Summer 2018 Essays
The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon:
Born, 1962; grew up in Fairview, Alberta (pop. 3,000).
Enrolled at Grande Prairie Regional College in 1979 to study political science and English literature.
Transferred to the University of Alberta, and received a B.A. in psychology in 1984.
In 1985, moved to Montreal to attend McGill University and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology under the supervision of Robert O. Pihl.
Taught at Harvard University from 1993 to 1998 as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department.
Returned to Canada in 1998 and took up a post as a full professor at the University of Toronto.
Published Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999 (released as an audiobook in June 2018).
Has authored more than 100 scientific papers in the fields of psychopharmacology and psychology (including abnormal, neuro-, clinical, personality, social, industrial and organizational, religious, ideological, political, and creativity).
Began posting his lectures to YouTube in 2013; as of June 2018, had more than 300 videos, 1,250,000 subscribers, and 60 million views.
Twitter: 740,000 followers; Jordan Peterson Subreddit: 65,000 subscribers; Jordan Peterson Study Group on Facebook: 8,000 members (as of June 2018).
For most of his career, has maintained an active clinical practice, seeing 20 patients a week.
Gained prominence in 2016 by opposing Canada's Bill C-16, a proposal to add "gender identity or expression" as a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Placed his clinical practice on hold in 2017, and in 2018 temporarily stopped teaching because of new projects.
Current book tour for 12 Rules for Life has encompassed 45 cities in North America, Europe and Australia, reaching 100,000 people at live events, as of June 2018. Additional appearances are planned.
Long after the American Revolution launched our experiment in self-government, the tenuousness of civilization continued to define frontier life. Hollywood westerns captured this experience, memorably and even nobly. These movies "portrayed a world in which genuine heroes and therefore genuine villains were possible, where human and American virtues and vices contended in all seriousness," John Marini wrote in these pages ("There Once Were Giants," Spring 2001). By probing "the deepest tensions in modern conceptions of the human condition or human happiness," these movies "confronted the fundamental questions of politics."
Though Jordan Peterson is not an American, his work takes up these same fundamental issues, familiar yet still unsettled. Indeed, it is not wrong to consider Peterson in connection with the cowboys of the Old West. "I come from northern Alberta, I come from the frontier," he says, describing it as "kind of a rough place." Peterson's hometown, Fairview, "was scraped out of the bloody prairie 50 years before I lived there." His earnest demeanor and forthright way of speaking attest that a doctorate in clinical psychology and tenure at the University of Toronto have not erased the frontier's influence. (See the sidebar on the facing page for an outline of his life and career.)
Peterson's lessons for helping people make their way in the world, outlined in the bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, published in January, can be as gritty as anything uttered by John Wayne or Clint Eastwood: find your burden and carry it; stand up straight with your shoulders back; tell the truth…or, at least, don't lie. But what Peterson is attempting goes beyond campfire aphorisms, beyond even the academic skirmishes that first launched him to fame. As a result of his book and extensive collection of lectures on YouTube, he has become a phenomenon, in part because he has a project—or rather, a mission. Like a lawman on the plains, he represents something larger than himself.
End of an Age
To appreciate Peterson's popularity fully, one must look at the massive social and political transformation underway as America's 75-year-old Age of Television draws to a close. Its demise is closely related to the collapse of the liberal establishment's "Blue Church"—a metaphor popularized by Jordan Greenhall's essays on Medium.com. Greenhall, a tech entrepreneur with a law degree, explains the 2016 election as a "revolutionary war" that saw the end of television as a centralized, top-down method for reinforcing a dominant moral-political "narrative"—a set of authoritative customs that have defined American culture. Television powerfully reflected and enforced liberalism's quasi-religious authority, respectability, and expertise—a process thoughtfully explicated by another Canadian, Marshall McLuhan.
The ascendant digital media, unlike television, are dynamic, decentralized, and interactive. Their veneer of anonymity encourages disdain for traditional authority. Television had been the preeminent pulpit of the Blue Church liberal establishment, which includes much of the Republican Party's country-club wing. Donald Trump and his supporters represent a red-state insurgency that uses digital media—and more haphazardly, the powers of the White House—to try to overthrow the old establishment, including the administrative state. "The old weapons have no more sting," Greenhall writes. "The collapse of the Blue Church is going to lead to a level of 'cultural flux' that will make the 1960s look like the Eisenhower administration."
The crumbling of the liberal establishment's moral orthodoxy is superintended by the nation's first exuberantly anti-P.C. president. Of course, the U.S. has been through worse political crises in the past. Even as recently as the 1960s, radical protests and violence—including riots, bombings, and kidnappings—seemed to threaten our constitutional order more than today's political correctness does. Some, therefore, might consider Greenhall's apocalyptic warnings to be overwrought.
Jordan Peterson, however, is deeply worried. "There's a reasonable possibility that things are going to go very wrong, very soon…for all of us," he remarked in one video interview. "We're playing with fire." With the centrist accord on what constitutes respectable opinion falling apart—especially on the most sensitive issues of race and sex—political extremists at both poles are rushing to stake new claims. The "alt-right" sees itself as a new counterculture, gleefully embracing a shock-and-awe strategy to leverage digital vulgarity. Meanwhile, the zealous Left on and off campus has beaten the plowshares of postmodern views on identity and social construction into swords for tribal warfare.
For calling out the resultant anti-intellectualism, such eminent men of the Left as Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, and Steven Pinker find themselves attacked as enemies of the new progressivism. In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (reviewed by Edward Feser on page 68), which has been sharing the bestseller list with 12 Rules, Pinker deplores the irrationalism of the regressive Left, and seems to accept or even welcome his prospective excommunication from the Blue Church.
Enlightenment Now defends the Age of Reason and its heroes: Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and the other scientific conquistadors who gave us the New World. If the political center cannot hold, then perhaps—as Pinker suggests—scientific progress can provide surer ground for our comfort and safety. There is, of course, a great deal to be said for modernity's achievements in medicine, technology, and democracy. The Federalist gamely notes that "the science of politics…has received great improvement."
But there are deep questions about the underpinnings of modern science. The 20th century's greatest statesman, Winston Churchill, and greatest philosophic thinker, Leo Strauss, both doubted the utopian presumption that science could liberate mankind from all restraint and hardship. Churchill warned against the possibility of a new Dark Age, "made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." Strauss observed that "while science has increased man's power in ways that former men never dreamt of, it is absolutely incapable of telling men how to use that power."
One of Strauss's first students, Harry Jaffa, explained that modern rationalism sought "to discover premises that could not be doubted, and to proceed therefrom both inductively and deductively to conclusions that could not be doubted." This would lead to the "ultimate transformation of philosophy into wisdom." By confining wisdom to the world of objects that can be measured and manipulated, modern science tried to remove from sight and mind anything beyond this materialist focus—above all, the human soul.
But advances in quantum mechanics cast grave doubt on how well we can really understand the one thing science purports to grasp: matter, the substance held to be the source of all causes and recipient of all effects. As early as 1927 biologist J.B.S. Haldane came to suspect that the universe would prove to be "not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Nature, with its quirks and quarks and charmed particles, appears far more mysterious and less manipulable than the Cartesian rationalists thought. Strange and indifferent, the universe would seem to offer no support to the ancient philosophers' aspiration for a cosmological ground of virtue; but neither does it anymore underwrite the modern desire for a natural predictability and lawfulness that could be counted on to help liberate mankind from necessity. Those seeking refuge from the chaos of politics will find little comfort in quantum indeterminacy.
Peterson, likes Strauss, sees the Enlightenment's utopian project as a dead end. "Prior to the time of Descartes, Bacon and Newton," he wrote in his first book, Maps of Meaning (1999),
man lived in an animated, spiritual world, saturated with meaning, imbued with moral purpose. The nature of this purpose was revealed in the stories people told each other—stories about the structure of the cosmos, and the place of man. But now we think empirically (at least we think we think empirically), and the spirits that once inhabited the universe have vanished.
His project, which here departs significantly from Strauss, is to rehabilitate the wisdom of this pre-scientific understanding by melding together three modern approaches to find a non-arbitrary ground of spiritual meaning amid the dislocations of modern life. The moral framework he constructs, which resonates powerfully with his many admirers, combines neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and Jungian analytical psychology (drawing especially on the narrative tapestry of persistent human archetypes, based on ancient myths, that Carl Jung called our "collective unconscious"). This mélange is held together by Peterson's pragmatic common sense, and a deep well of empathy formed by his years as a practicing psychologist treating patients.
12 rules (with a chapter for each axiom or lesson, plus an "overture" and "coda") shot to the bestseller list in part because Peterson was already well known for his lectures and interviews on YouTube. His intensity and erudition combine to produce an engaging speaking style; he was nominated for the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize when he taught at Harvard in the mid-'90s. Much greater notoriety came in 2016 when he vociferously opposed Canada's Bill C-16 and its guarantees for "gender identity and gender expression." According to some of its critics, this law would make the failure to use an individual's "preferred pronoun" into a hate crime. Peterson made clear that he would, as a matter of courtesy, address people however they wished, but would not submit to legal compulsion of his speech. This stand crystallized his long-standing opposition to academic postmodernism and what he calls "cultural Marxism," whose influence he deplores repeatedly in his lectures and writings.
A few weeks before 12 Rules was released, Peterson received an inadvertent, hilarious publicity boost from British journalist Cathy Newman. Throughout an interview for Britain's Channel 4 TV, Newman proved unable to integrate Peterson's reasonable, thoughtful statements with her stubborn image of him as a misogynistic bigot. Instead, she kept reformulating his arguments into something like their opposite, with the phrase (now a popular internet meme), "So, what you're saying is…." The YouTube video of the interview has become a cultural milestone, viewed more than 10 million times. At one point Peterson discusses how social-dominance hierarchies, far from being artificial constructs, run so widespread and deep in the evolutionary past that they can be observed in crustacea. The "nervous system of the lobster and the human being are so similar that antidepressants work on lobsters," Peterson explained. "And it's part of my attempt to demonstrate that the idea of hierarchy has absolutely nothing to do with socio-cultural construction, which it doesn't." Like that student who never shuts up in class but also never grasps the central point, Newman responded, "Let me get this straight. You're saying that we should organize our societies along the lines of the lobsters?"
In fact, Peterson does not think humankind should resettle to the bottom of the ocean. He does, however, believe that we can't ignore the way our behaviors and social interactions have been shaped by 2 million years of evolutionary adaptation. In his battles against political correctness Peterson has been criticized for his lack of academic rigor in conflating Marxists, postmodern deconstructionists, and feminists. But 12 Rules is not a study of leftist intellectual history, dissecting the finer differences between, say, Jacques Derrida and Simone de Beauvoir.
His intent is to refute all "blank slate" doctrines that deny our biological hard-wiring and teach the same disastrous lesson: humans are merely social artifacts with no inherent or evolved nature. From there it is but a quick step to insisting that any differences in abilities or interests leading to disparate outcomes are arbitrary and unjust, and that men and women are essentially the same. This last emphatically erroneous point is of particular concern to Peterson, because it is at the root of so much of the unhappiness he sees in his clinical practice; not to mention that a society incapable of supporting stable families and raising healthy, well-adjusted children won't long survive.
Peterson has been dismissed as a men's rights advocate, whose message is of little interest or relevance to women. And it's true that his early online admirers were mostly male. (YouTube has—for whatever reason—a predominantly male viewership.) He likes to point out that this is changing, and attendance at his book tour lectures is much more evenly divided between men and women. Still, he does have special concern for young males, for the simple reason that elite opinion today largely ignores the problems of boys, and often regards natural displays of masculinity as "toxic." Young men have a much trickier time navigating the shoals of acceptable behavior. As he points out:
Boys' interests tilt towards things; girls' interests tilt towards people. Strikingly, these differences, strongly influenced by biological factors, are most pronounced in the Scandinavian societies where gender equality has been pushed hardest: this is the opposite of what would be expected by those who insist, ever more loudly, that gender is a social construct. It isn't. This isn't a debate. The data are in….
Girls can win by winning in their own hierarchy—by being good at what girls value, as girls. They can add to this victory by winning in the boys' hierarchy. Boys, however, can win only by winning in the male hierarchy. They will lose status, among girls and boys, by being good at what girls value.
Because our society makes it so hard for boys to find a respectable path to manhood without sacrificing their rambunctious and competitive nature, the arc of Peterson's sympathy does bend a bit more toward justice for young men. But this focus, he argues, should be of interest to both sexes. Aren't women, he likes to ask, interested in finding spouses who are mature, attentive, and reliable—virtues his rules are designed to cultivate? Presumably these qualities would be considered desirable even by the most enlightened women. But of course the whole premise of Peterson's approach—helping young men to become appropriately strong and manly to make themselves attractive to women—is objectionable to feminism's emphasis on systematic oppression and gender identity politics.
Peterson uses references to lobsters, and other recurring bits of whimsy and humor, to leaven the severity of his lessons. 12 Rules does not shrink from telling readers that life means pain and suffering. His deft exposition, however, makes clear that duty is often liberating and responsibility can be a gift. A chapter called, "Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street," is a beautiful meditation on imperfection, and the idea that "when you love someone, it's not despite their limitations. It's because of their limitations." In the book and on his videos, Peterson sometimes argues against pursuing happiness, in the sense of pleasure or instant gratification. He makes clear elsewhere that he agrees with Aristotle that eudaimonia—the happiness of the well-lived life—is the true goal.
Other classical threads weave through the text, as when he recognizes that spiritedness, an elemental part of the soul, is important to both morality and politics. His advice is reliably sound ("make friends with people who want the best for you"), frequently clever ("a postmodern man is one whose moral virtue consists in his harmlessness"), and occasionally moving. He can sound tough—"young people are mostly worthless, because they don't know anything"; "an unruly child brings disgrace on himself and his parents"—but it's clear on every page, and even more so on video, that he wants to help people who are lost, or ailing, to put their lives back together.
In a perceptive Weekly Standard review of 12 Rules, Tanner Greer wrote that because Peterson is on a "quest to totalitarian-proof the Western world," his target audience is civilization itself. Indeed, Peterson says he wants to immunize people against "ideological possession" by guiding readers away from extremism and toward a purposeful self-understanding that cultivates moderation, courage, and independent thinking. His enmity toward the alt-right has not gone unnoticed. Richard Spencer and his followers call him the "Cuck of Canuckistan," even as leftists routinely assail him as a crypto-fascist. When people "sort themselves out," Peterson says, they should become "dangerous," meaning capable of harm but with the self-control that prevents it. Of course, the challenges to our psychic health include personal tragedy or trauma in addition to ideology. People are responding to Peterson's message less to escape a monolithic, suffocating doctrine than because they believe there are no solid doctrines or authorities they can trust. An Antidote to Chaos seems especially welcome when the shadows on the cave's wall no longer make sense.
Generally, the most insightful reviews of Peterson's work are by believing Christians, who seem to welcome anyone with a sympathetic appreciation for the Bible. These reviewers acknowledge Peterson as an insightful interpreter of Scripture. (His online lectures on the Bible are among his most popular.) Yet Peterson sidesteps the question of whether he is himself a believing Christian, and hints that he is agnostic. Some critics refuse to accept Peterson's half-loaf of Scripture without God. They conclude, with Friedrich Nietzsche among others, that there is no Christian morality without Christ. But Peterson is actually correct, without ever quite saying how, in suggesting that God and His Word can be understood separately, that it's possible to see the Old Testament as one among many ancient stories, and yet somehow radically different. He sees the centrality of the Bible for Western civilization, but misses something essential.
In "Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political Philosophy," an essay published in 1991, Harry Jaffa explained that all the ancient cities claimed that their laws were of divine origin. In this sense, the Torah was like the stories of any other ancient city. But all other ancient cities were polytheistic. Only Judaism (and then Christianity) proclaims the "One God who is separate from the universe, of which he is the Creator." Because the God of the Bible is "both separate and unique," He is therefore unknowable. Jaffa elaborated on this in an exegesis of Deuteronomy 4:6-7, which reads:
Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people…. And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?"
"Why," Jaffa asked, "were the 'peoples,' i.e., the Gentiles, expected to say of the Israelites, that they were a 'wise and understanding people?' What in them enabled them to recognize wisdom and understanding[?]" The reason is that "wisdom is a human potentiality." God endowed man with the capacity for reflection and choice, and thus we can discern that the laws of Moses are "righteous." Do we not see in this passage from Deuteronomy, Jaffa asked, that in the Torah, "the teachings of reason and of revelation will not contradict each other, since both reason and revelation are God's gifts to mankind?"
None of us is tempted to worship Marduk, Horus, or the other ancient deities Peterson discusses. Those gods died with their cities. Only the God of Israel—the God of both revelation and reason—could survive the destruction of ancient Israel. But because he is radically unknowable, belief in that God requires a leap of faith. Peterson—or anyone—can therefore find himself unable to make that leap, but nevertheless see in the Word of the Hebrew God the "wisdom and understanding" that makes the Bible unique.
Blazing a Trail
Curiously, Peterson doesn't seem fully to appreciate the radical unknowability of the Biblical God, even though one of the key psychological insights throughout his work concerns how the human brain deals with uncertainty. Both the premise and title of Maps of Meaning indicate that we are constantly mapping our environment—physically, mentally, and emotionally. We confront, overcome, and occasionally succumb to never-ending assaults on our "familiar territory." The rules by which we act, Peterson writes, constitute "the most essential aspect of the social contract." Within our clan or group, "patriotic rituals, stories of ancestral heroes, myths and symbols of cultural or racial identity," define our "established territory, weaving for us a web of meaning that, shared with others, eliminates the necessity of dispute over meaning." Long before the Age of Television and the collapse of the Blue Church, humans had established their psychological need for nomoi, authoritative opinions.
When we leave the familiar, Peterson explains, we tend to negotiate new or unexpected territory with a mixture of fear and cautious hope:
Appearance of the unknown motivates curious, hopeful exploratory behavior, regulated by fear…. The simultaneous production of two antithetical emotional states, such as those of hope and fear, means conflict…. We are protected from such conflict—from subjugation to instinctive terror—by…culturally-determined beliefs, by the stories we share.
We can never ignore the new territory. Those who try—as well as those who can't or won't successfully manage the "instinctive terror"—become the broken and the wicked. Every healthy, well-developed psyche always lives, as it were, on the frontier. Peterson's book is intended to help establish psychological order with justice, to provide a survival guide for life on the border between civilization and nature.
Every new territory, like every epic saga, needs a first settler, the trailblazer who decides voluntarily, courageously, to face some aspect of the still-unknown and threatening…. His "descent into the underworld" and subsequent reorganization makes him a savior—but his contact with the dragon of chaos also contaminates him with the forces that disrupt tradition and stability…. His return to the kingdom of threatened order may hardly be accompanied by praise, however, since the information he now carries (or perhaps is) will appear disruptive and destructive long before it proves redemptive. It is very easy to view the hero as the most profound danger to the state.
Despite this account's similarities to Socrates' description of the philosopher in Plato's Republic, the model that Peterson follows is neither Socrates nor Plato. He alludes here to Jungian archetypes of the hero and his emergence from, or rather through, self-doubt—a transformation popularized by Joseph Campbell and familiar to every Star Wars fan. But Peterson has deeper sources in mind, too. In his essay "Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity," Peterson rejects "psychological models…based on the assumption that the world is made of objects, existing independently and given, or, more abstractly, of stimuli." To the contrary, because people "live in a sea of complexity," we "perceive meaningful phenomena, not the objective world." This description of seeing the world pre-scientifically, as a place not of objects but of meaningful phenomena, derives fundamentally from Martin Heidegger and existentialism. Peterson calls himself an existentialist, in fact, and generously salts his book with references to "Being," acknowledging his "exposure to the ideas of the 20th-century German philosopher."
Thus in Peterson's idiosyncratic—and likely problematic—melding of myth, existentialism, and neuroscience, the truth is mysterious but somehow real; it is both pre- and post-philosophic. From this murky well he nevertheless draws sensible advice and clear moral guidance.
Contrast his practical wisdom to the young and not-so-young technocrats who propose to create "Society 4.0" through computerized mechanisms and solutions, such as blockchain, crypto-currencies, digital crowdsourcing, and artificial intelligence. Some rather fanciful proposals for re-engineering society even draw explicitly on science fiction. More ominously, the enormous creativity and ingenuity in Silicon Valley have led some internet entrepreneurs to foresee the emergence of a superior "creator" class that will furnish the transfigurative ideas for society's ultimate metamorphosis. Only a few, most notably Peter Thiel, seem to appreciate that while Asimov may fire our imaginations, it is still Aristotle who grounds us in reality.
The hubristic yet fanciful ideas of these keyboard legislators, seen alongside the Peterson phenomenon, should prompt political philosophers to consider what role, if any, they intend to play in our unfolding political drama, and to reflect on why no book by one of their own has engaged the popular imagination in this way since Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind 31 years ago. To the degree that Straussians, in particular, still care about American public opinion, it may be time to show that their political prudence—like Peterson's—has room for scientific and technological literacy. A modest first step in this direction would be to reconsider Charles Darwin and evolution. (Peterson's emphatic embrace of Darwinian evolution does not seem to have turned away any of his conservative or religious admirers, and it probably has helped to attract many to his arguments who are neither conservative nor religious.)
A number of Straussians, including Roger Masters, Ken Blanchard, and Larry Arnhart have argued for a more open-minded attitude toward evolution. Arnhart has even written a very compelling book, Darwinian Natural Right (1998). But they have met with either indifference or resistance from many of their colleagues, notwithstanding Strauss's own comment in Natural Right and History (1953) that "however indifferent to moral distinctions the cosmic order may be thought to be, human nature, as distinguished from nature in general, may very well be the basis of such distinctions."
Almost alone among academic departments, biology—especially evolutionary biology—defends human naturalness and sociability, and thus opens a door to lead public opinion back to Aristotle's acknowledgement of man as "the political animal." With postmodernism now insisting not only on the social construction of gender, but even of biological sex—"Some men have a uterus," a Planned Parenthood affiliate informed the world—evolutionary biologists deserve, and would profit from, modern Aristotelians' insight and support.
Spirited Engagement
Jordan Peterson concludes an academic journal article with this quite non-academic call to spirited engagement:
Life is not the constant shrinking away from the terror of death…. It is that which keeps the spectre of mortality at bay, while we work diligently, creatively, at work whose meaning is so powerful and self-evident that the burden of existence seems well worth bearing. Terror management, be damned! The path of the eternal hero beckons, and it is a doomed and dangerous fool who turns his back on it.
In the public persona he has developed, Peterson clearly sees himself as a hero—inspiring welcome fortitude and self-discipline among his admirers. But his embrace of existentialism indicates that he may be more audacious than courageous. Political philosophers, for their part, need to admit that beyond their well-rehearsed arguments and well-thumbed books lie frontiers that demand exploration: the metaphysical challenges of modern physics, the new horizons of Aristotle's empirical biology made richer with modern tools of discovery, and even the tumultuous potential of social media. In their ideal form, the lawmen of the Old West displayed a rough and ready sagacity that reflected Socratic wisdom, a harmonizing of courage and moderation. If there is a lesson for such thinkers to learn from Peterson it is the need to supplement their caution with appropriate boldness. With a civilization to be saved, we may all need to cowboy up.
Glenn Ellmers is a speechwriter at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is former director of research at the Claremont Institute. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Boston... read more
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Originalism is the most meaningful approach to constitutional interpretation.
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The First Amendment guarantees the press freedom, not respect.


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[04:00:20] DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR: The U.K. will announce a new prime minister this morning. Big changes could be in store if Boris Johnson gets the nod.
ERIK HANELL, STENA BULK CEO: It looks like the crew is in good health considering the circumstances. Of course, a lot of psychological pressure on them, I'm sure.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: A CNN exclusive. Concern for the crew of the British ship detained by Iran. The U.K. response creating some distance from the U.S.
BRIGGS: Stay in your lane. DOJ warns Robert Mueller not to stray from his report when he testifies tomorrow.
ROMANS: And can magic keep kids from vaping? The first TV ads are out targeting a growing national problem.
Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world, this is EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.
BRIGGS: Good morning to you. Good morning, everyone. I'm Dave Briggs, Tuesday, July 23rd, 4:00 a.m. right here in New York. It is 9:00 a.m. in London.
That's where we begin this morning, a pivotal day in the United Kingdom. Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt? In just a few hours, a new prime minister will be announced. But a number of government ministers are pledging to resign if Johnson, a polarizing frontrunner, wins and that list is growing.
CNN's Nic Robertson joins us live from 10 Downing Street with the latest.
Nic, good morning to you. Why do they call Boris Johnson the Trump of the U.K.?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: He plays to a populist base and that's why he's expected to win this vote. We'll know the result of that in a couple of hours' times.
The challenges of whoever takes over as prime minister will be immediate. Iran is the most pressing. Brexit is the one that will have led whoever, whether it's Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson.
And everyone, of course, is expecting Boris Johnson to take over as prime minister, would have let him to do that position. He has taken a do-or-die position. He will take a hard Brexit come the 31st of October. If he doesn't have a deal with the European Union, it is said he will form a cabinet of like-minded people which is the fundamental reason why you have people, number 11 in there, saying that he will resign before Theresa May goes.
You have a senior minister at the foreign office yesterday resigning and there were a couple of other ministers as well who would be expected to resign, who said they couldn't work with Boris Johnson on a no deal Brexit.
But who is he? He is incredibly smart. He is gifted, he's an intellectual, is an unorthodox thinker. But he also has a reputation of being an eccentric and has made a virtue out of his ability to charm people about the comedic effect he can have embracing some of the situations he's gotten himself into.
The zip line across London a couple of years ago when he was the mayor of London is one that people think about. But at he same time, he is also someone who is sometimes seen as economic with the truth, less than truthful. He's lost two jobs, one as a senior party member and one as a journalist for lying. So this is the reputation that he has.
Theresa May, still in number 10 behind me holding her last cabinet meeting in the coming hours. Boris Johnson, if it is him, won't step over the door as prime minister until around midday tomorrow waiting for that vote that he is expected to be the one to come in winner -- Dave.
BRIGGS: Quite the visual. Big day there in the U.K.
Nic Robertson live for us at 10 Downing, thank you.
ROMANS: All right. Now to a CNN exclusive, CNN's Melissa Bell speaking with the CEO of a company operating that British tanker seized by Iran. He says the ship did not violate any kind of law and he shares his concerns for the crew. Now, they appear to be in good condition based on a video broadcast on Iranian state TV.
HANELL: One of the requests we have recently, which was yesterday, was that we should have access to the crew. And I have confirmed that they have received the request but we're still waiting for reply. It looks like the crew is in good health considering the circumstances. Of course, a lot of psychological pressure on them, I'm sure.
ROMANS: President Trump disputing Iran's claims that there are 17 people who are spies.
Meantime, differences emerging between the U.S. and the U.K. as the allies respond to Iran.
CNN's Matthew Chance is live in the United Arab Emirates. He is near where that tanker was seized.
Now, we've seen that video. We've heard from the CEO of the company. I mean, this crew essentially, are they hostages?
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They're in detention. But, yes, you saw this video that was broadcast on Iranian state media. It was the first glimpse we have inside the Stena Impero, that British flagged ship that was seized by Iran on Friday.
[04:05:05] And, you know, the appearance that's given, and, you know, obviously, these shots were to some extent staged. The appearance that's given that they're in relatively good health. Their problem is that they are now pawns in a much broader geopolitical game in which there is no end in sight.
And in reference to that, the British authorities yesterday, Jeremy Hunt, the man who, you know, is in the run thing to be the next British prime minister, probably won't be, is the British foreign minister at the moment. He enacts Britain's latest tough new measures in response to that seizure. He said Britain is engaged in forming a maritime protection force that will take care of the Straits of Hormuz where that British flagged ship was seized, along with several other European countries.
And he made a point of saying this is not going to be part of the U.S. maximum pressure policy. So that's being interpreted as a further sign of a rift between the United Kingdom and Washington on the issue of Iran. Remember, the U.S. pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal last year. Britain has been sticking to it, saying that it still thinks the Iran nuclear deal can be rehabilitated.
ROMANS: All right. Matthew Chance for us, near where that tanker was seized, thanks, Matthew.
BRIGGS: All right. Hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of Puerto Rico blocking a major expressway and launching an island wide strike to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello. Singer Ricky Martin is among the celebrities fueling the demonstrations.
A river of protestors flooding the streets near the governor's mansion. On Sunday, Rossello said he will not step down and he will not run again. The embattled governor claiming he can regain the confidence of his people.
SHEPARD SMITH, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Governor, who's come forward to support you in the middle of this chaos?
RICARDO ROSSELLO, GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO: There are folks that have supported me.
SMITH: Who specifically is supporting you today?
ROSSELLO: The role -- look, there are people.
SMITH: Could you give me one name?
ROSSELLO: There is a protest -- well, it's -- I've talked to --
SMITH: Just one name.
ROSSELLO: -- people from different groups. A lot of people from the administration.
SMITH: Governor, you're not able to give me the name of one person who supports you continuing as governor, is that correct?
ROSSELLO: I can. So, the mayor of San Sebastian, for example.
ROMANS: CNN asked San Sebastian Mayor Javier Jimenez if he indeed supports Rossello, Jimenez called the governor's claim wrong and mentioned the impeachment process.
More now from Nick Paton Walsh in San Juan.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Dave, Christine, Monday started peacefully with hundreds of thousands of people blocking an expressway, sending a message they wanted to but then frankly, they changed direction and a small number of them ended up here in front of the governor's mansion. And as you can see now, the police had to move in to clear them out. There was a smaller number of protesters, some turned up with masks and an altercation began with the police. Some of protesters throwing what seemed like water bottles initially. Ranks of police changed. You can see them behind me here.
And then tear gas was fired by the police to disperse the crowd after they used a number of warnings to try and move the protesters on. That led to them being chased through the streets by some of the units you can see here. And then also continued a sense of a standoff in San Juan.
So many had hoped that today would go peacefully. The protesters had wanted their message of unity to try and change Governor Ricardo Rossello's mind, to get him to step down immediately.
Now, you have these ugly scenes, frankly, where it will feed into the protesters' narrative that they face a brutal, corrupt government here, and feed into the government's narrative that they have hardcore elements in the protest who won't accept political compromise -- Dave, Christine.
BRIGGS: All right. Nick, thank you.
The Justice Department with guidance for Robert Mueller on the eve of his must watch testimony, before two House committees. Mueller is being warned by the DOJ to, quote, remain within the boundaries of his written report. In other words, don't say anything you haven't already said.
So, why is the Justice Department cautioning Mueller who has already said this?
ROBERT MUELLER, FORMER SPECIAL COUNSEL: Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. And the report is my testimony.
BRIGGS: CNN's Jessica Schneider has more on tomorrow's hearings.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Dave and Christine, the DOJ has informed Robert Mueller that any of his testimony in those back-to-back hearings tomorrow must remain within the bounds of his public report. It's a blunt warning from the Justice Department and it came via email on Monday. And it was in response to Robert Mueller asking for guidance on how he should testify.
[04:10:01] The DOJ is also telling Mueller that he cannot testify about any redacted portions of the report, nor about any conduct of any uncharged third parties. Now, that would likely prevent Robert Mueller from making any comments about the president, since Democrats are sure to ask if Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction if he had not been the president.
Bu one thing that be will stay under wraps until tomorrow and won't be shared beforehand with the attorney general, Mueller's opening statement. A spokesman for Mueller tells me that the DOJ will not see the former special counsel's opening remarks prior to its delivery. Now, the spokesman wouldn't comment on Mueller's frame of mind heading into the hearings since we know that Robert Mueller is a reluctant witness. The spokesman would only say that any indication of his tone or demeanor will just have to wait until tomorrow -- Dave and Christine.
ROMANS: All right. Certainly, interesting. Thank you so much for that, Jessica.
A debt ceiling deal has been reached, effectively putting an end to a looming crisis that threatens to send Washington and Wall Street into a fiscal tail spin. President Trump tweeted Monday that all four leaders signed off on the deal adding this is a real compromise in order to give another big victory to the military and the vets. The Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told CNN that a fear that rocking the stock market and risking the nation's borrowing power led to this deal. It was on a delayed flight from Detroit where Pelosi negotiated the final points as captured by our Jeff Zeleny.
If the deal is passed, it would eliminate the budget caps put into place in 2011, and suspend the debt ceiling until July 31st, 2021. And, get this, in total this agreement blocks in a $1.3 trillion budget deal which includes $320 billion in additional spending over the course of the next two years. The offset ending up totaling $77 billion, half of the White House requested. And essentially, it locks in deficit.
BRIGGS: Trillion dollar deficits. That is where we are. The new Republican Party.
Ahead, 300,000 customers in the dark after violent storms in New Jersey.
[04:16:40] BRIGGS: Keeping the lights and the AC on remains a problem after days of hot, stormy weather. In New Jersey, Monday's thunderstorms killed the power to more than 300,000 customers across the state. They say restoration efforts may take several days.
In New York City, Con Edison says it shut off power to people who recently had electricity restored. About 8,000 customers in the dark right now in New York City and Westchester.
More than 140,000 customers in the Metro Detroit area have been without power since the weekend. DTE Energy says it expects to have powerfully restored by tomorrow.
ROMANS: All right. There is growing concern. Two missing teenagers in Canada could be linked to the recent murders of two people in the same region. Canadian federal police are searching for 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky. Their car was found burning on the side of a highway in British Columbia on Friday.
During their investigations, detectives found a body so far unidentified a little more than a mile away. Now, the location is some 300 miles along remote highways from the spot where an American woman, Chynna Deese, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler, were found murdered a week ago.
BRIGGS: R. Kelly's crisis manager has resigned after creating a crisis of his own. Listen to this comment made by Darrell Johnson in an interview with CBS.
GAYLE KING, CBS HOST: You have a 20-something-year-old daughter. Would you allow her to be alone with R. Kelly?
DARRELL JOHNSON, R. KELLY'S FORMER CRISIS MANAGER: Absolutely not. I wouldn't leave my daughter with anybody that's accused of pedophilia.
BRIGGS: Johnson claims he is stepping down for personal reasons in a text to CNN. He tells "USA Today" he should have worded it better and that R. Kelly is in good hands with his current attorney, Steve Greenberg.
The R&B star has repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual misconduct. He's been indicted on 18 counts, 13 in Illinois, five in New York, including sexual exploitation of a child, and kidnapping. And the reports are he's struggling in prison, in particular because he cannot read.
ROMANS: All right. Eighteen minutes past the hour. A grocery store worker missing for ten years has finally been found. You'll never believe where.
[04:23:49] ROMANS: All right. The very first television ads against teenage vaping are out and they're using magic to keep kids away from e-cigarettes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to put it into your hand. This is what I'm going to do, OK? Watch very carefully. Boom.
ROMANS: The ad is part of the FDA's $60 million the Real Cost Prevention Campaign. It features street magician and social media personality Julius Dein performing illusions.
In 2018, the FDA revealed vaping increased nearly 80 percent among high schoolers, 50 percent among middle schoolers over a year before. A previous real cost ad campaign against cigarettes is estimated to have prevented 350,000 11 to 18-year-olds from smoking in United States from 2014 to 2016.
BRIGGS: The body of an Iowa grocery store employee who went missing ten years ago has been found behind one of the store's coolers. Workers were removing the cooler when they discovered the remains. Detectives used DNA to match Larry Murillo-Moncada whose parents reported him missing in November of 2009.
Investigators believe he climbed on top of the cooler, which was a hiding spot used for unofficial breaks.
[04:25:05] They think he fell and got trapped between the cooler and the wall. Noise from the compressors may have drowned out any calls for help. The death ruled accidental.
ROMANS: All right. We are now getting our first look at Oscar winner Tom Hanks bringing kids' TV icon, Mr. Rogers, to life on the big screen.
TOM HANKS AS MR. ROGERS: It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor, would you be mine? Could you be mine?
ROMANS: Is there nothing that Tom Hanks can't do? I'm serious. I mean, Sony releasing the first day for a trailer of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." The film is loosely based on a 1998 "Esquire" article that described the effects Fred Rogers' optimism and kindness had on millions of people, including the journalist who wrote the article.
Rogers died in 2003. "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" comes out just before Thanksgiving.
BRIGGS: I'm just bathing in the sound of Mr. Rogers. Isn't he more needed now than ever before?
ROMANS: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Mr. Rogers and --
BRIGGS: How would that play, huh?
ROMANS: Wow.
All right. The United Kingdom hours away from announcing the new prime minister. The decision will have, of course, major ramifications worldwide.
BRIGGS: And don't stray far from your report. Why is the DOJ warning Robert Mueller ahead of his testimony?


Often small business owners worry unnecessarily when it's time to hire employees. They fear because they can't offer the same high salaries and impressive benefits of a large company, they won't be able to attract skilled workers.
Fortunately, for many young workers these days, the ideal job doesn't necessarily come with a big salary. Often it's the opportunities and experiences a smaller company can offer that will pique their interest and win their loyalty.
If you're looking to hire, be sure you feature these perks to spark interest in your small company.
Work-life integration is a concept embraced by many younger workers for whom round the clock connectivity is the norm, and who desire a more flexible work schedule.
For some, the need to care for their families make flexibility a priority over salary when job seeking; for others, the ability to telework – saving time and the cost of a daily commute – can easily outweigh the draw of a larger paycheck.
Offering potential employees the freedom to work from home can also be a plus for you. Hiring remote workers will eliminate the need to reconfigure your work space to accommodate new staff or rent a larger office space.
Paid time off is a huge plus for many workers and a great incentive to stay with your company long-term – especially if you offer earned extra vacation days over time.
Providing more than the standard number of vacation days is a win-win for both you and your staff. It's been shown that employees who take regular vacation days are less prone to illness and absenteeism, and enjoy improved mental health and greater productivity.
Performing meaningful work that provides a strong sense of purpose holds great appeal for millennial workers. In fact, according to a recent Fast Company article, more than 50% claimed they would take a pay cut to join an organisation that shared their values.
Consider instituting paid volunteer days and other opportunities to give back. As a side-benefit, activities that support community causes increase employee engagement, which can improve team building and productivity.
Offering personal and professional growth opportunities is another simple way small businesses can attract employees.
Let potential hires know you're committed to providing co-leadership, mentorship and training opportunities – and when it's time to hire management positions, you'll be looking to your staff for advancement.
Letting employees take on greater responsibility shows you value their contributions and want to invest in their future – something that can be missing in larger companies who hire externally when recruiting senior positions.
Nurturing a positive work culture can be a real competitive advantage when hiring new staff and can help with retaining employees long-term.
Think about how you might make your workplace more inclusive, social and fun. Consider organising a monthly social event, Friday potluck or pizza lunch. And be sure to ask your employees for ideas on what a more appealing work culture would look like.
Last but not least, encourage open communication and recognise your employees for their hard work – key ways to maintain a friendly workplace, keep your staff motivated and minimise turnover.


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Dog the Bounty Hunter is asking for prayers for his wife
Beth Chapman was first diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in September 2017.
Dog the Bounty Hunter's Beth Chapman has been hospitalized amid her battle with cancer.
PEOPLE confirms Beth, 51, was admitted to Hawaii's Queen's Medical Center's on Saturday. According to Hawaii News Now, she was put into a medically-induced coma.
"It's quite serious," a rep for the Chapmans tells PEOPLE.
In a statement to Hawaii News Now, her husband Duane "Dog" Chapman said both he and his family "humbly ask everyone to please pray for Beth."
Early Sunday morning, he also shared a message on Twitter, asking his followers to "please say your prayers for Beth right now."
Without mentioning her mother's hospitalization, on Saturday evening, the couple's daughter Bonnie posted a sweet photo of her parents cuddling up together, captioning it with two red heart emojis.
Beth was first diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in September 2017 — cancer that, two months later, she and her husband told fans had been completely removed.
Unfortunately, the cancer returned last year. Beth was rushed to the hospital in November for emergency surgery to clear a throat blockage that was obstructing her airways, and was hospitalized once again in April.
Addressing churchgoers in Florida on Mother's Day, Beth admitted her diagnosis has been "the ultimate test of faith."
"I don't go to God and go, 'Why did I get cancer?' " she said. "He'll roll his eyes at me again, because I know why — because this is the ultimate test of faith. It is the evidence of things hoped for and it is the substance of things not known."
She also appeared to allude to having stopped chemotherapy treatments during her speech.
"Chemotherapy is not my bag, people. Sorry, that's not for me," she said. "So for me, this is the ultimate test of faith. This is my ultimate lesson. And it will either be taught to me or to you. And I am fine with taking the hit for everyone else. Because I think I know another guy who did the same thing."
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CHARLIE HEATON 'STRANGER THINGS' STAR BUSTED WITH COKE Denied Entry to U.S
12 year old boy creates bow ties for shelter animals to help them get adopted
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The minimum balance to open an account is 5000 SYP, 200 $, 200 €.
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Full Details of the 2001 Energy Act are contained here.
Of interest to both landlords and tenants is the plan to make renting out a residential or business premise unlawful if it doesn't reach a minimum energy efficiency standard. This is proposed to be set at an EPC rating of Band E.
News, thoughts of the fast changing world of Energy Efficiency and Certification.


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per my project White Eagle I have been scanning the digital libraries for images of eagles in Polish art prior to 1795. In my opinion the most beautiful Polish eagles appeared in the Baroque art.
While looking for some works of Samuel Twardowski I found a very nice image of our Eagle.
This White Eagle in the Baroque setting shows itself beautifully in a woodcut from the Jesuit father Adam Makowski's published sermon said on the occasion of Polish Crown victory during the the Polish-Muscovite War of 1632-34, where the genius of king Władysław IV Wasa (Vasa) shone its brightest..
There is a famous 1634 map engraved by Willem Hondius studio after the drawings of royal military engineer Jan Pleitner (done in situ), showing this Polish victory.
Nota bene the engraved coper plates survived the winds of war and destruction of time and are held in Sankt Petersburg Fine Arts Academy museum. We had some discussion about the Polish cavalry images from the map and Hondius/Pleinter on Kadrinazi blog.
I will bring some images from this monumental map in the future, as they hold very interesting information about horse care etc while at war.


Wynton Marsalis recorded "Esta tarde ví llover" by Armando Manzanero this week in Cuba with Omara Portuondo and Chucho Valdés. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is in Cuba with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a series of concerts on the island.
"When I had the opportunity to record with Omara and Chucho I started to get full of emotion" Said Marsalis.


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Mel Kenyon
One of the greatest midget car drivers in history, Mel Kenyon started his career in modified stocks in 1955, then switched to midgets two years later. His first title was NASCAR's Florida midget series in 1962, but he switched to USAC in the middle of '62 and wound up 5th in that series. Kenyon was second in 1963, then won the first of his USAC titles in 1964. Kenyon had gotten a Champ car ride in '65, but his career was seriously threatened by a wreck and fire in June. Kenyon returned to racing the next year, despite losing part of his left hand. He finished second in midgets, and also fought his way to 5th place in his first Indy 500. Kenyon won 17 of 49 features to claim the midget crown in 1967, then placed 3rd at Indy and won the Midget title again in 1968. His career included 111 victories and seven USAC Midget championships. Kenyon still races from time to time, and won the 1993 Indianapolis Speedrome Midget Car Series. The Mel Kenyon Classic for midget race cars at IRP was so named to honor him.


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Сертификация автомобилей Geely в России была проведена в начале 2022 года. В России автомобиль получил название Monjaro в честь вулкана Килиманджаро.

Автомобиль производится на платформе CMA вместе со своим «собратом» — «близнецом» Geely Tugella. Платформа разработана компанией Volvo. Автомобиль близок по габаритам к Škoda Kodiaq и Hyundai Santa Fe. Объём багажника составляет 562 литра.

В России автомобиль оснащается бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания Volvo JLH-4G20TDB, восьмиступенчатой автоматической трансмиссией Aisin и подключаемым полным приводом с муфтой BorgWarner.

Предлагаются следующие комплектации: Luxury, Flagship и Exclusive. Изначально дебют модели планировался в феврале 2022 года, однако он был задержан до 15 марта 2023 года. Продажи автомобиля осуществляются с апреля 2023 года.

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What are care home fees?
When living at home becomes unsafe or unworkable due to old age, mental incapacity or physical disabilities, residential care may offer the services and safety an individual needs. Most people will have to contribute towards the cost of their accommodation and personal care (although nursing care is currently covered by the NHS).
Unless you choose and fund the residential placement privately, your local authority will normally play an important role in making the arrangements for your care. The first step is a care needs assessment, which establishes exactly what care and services you need. The amount you pay will be calculated by completing a means test. Following national guidelines, this test assesses your ability to contribute towards care costs, given your income and assets. If a spouse, partner or close family member still live in your home, its value will not be included in the calculation. If your assets total more than £23,250 you will be expected to pay your care costs in full.
The Care Act makes many changes to the way the social care works across England and Wales. It comes into force in two stages – April 2015 and April 2016. From April 2016, nobody will be expected to contribute more than £72,000 of their own money towards the care and support services they need. In addition, April 2016 will also see the current asset threshold of £23,250 rise to £118,000, reflecting the vastly increased value of properties over recent decades.
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Turns out the model's skills extend beyond the catwalk.
Kendall Jenner's fans know that she's always hard at work. Her dedication to modeling was even one of the standout plot points on the last season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians when she told her mom, "I don't want to be forgotten about because I have to work a lot." And it turns out the runway isn't the only place where Jenner has been putting in work.
In the latest installment of Vogue's video series, "73 Questions," the September issue cover star reveals her secret talent, and it is truly extraordinary. Jenner can recreate a bird's call to the point where you'll be wondering if you've somehow wandered outdoors.
True Kendall Jenner fans will recall her chirping from a video posted to her Instagram last year, where she showed off her skills for fellow model Cara Delevingne.
If Jenner is ever in need of a career change, she clearly has a backup.
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Ахме́д Магоме́дович Цеби́ев (, Махкеты, Веденский район, Чечено-Ингушская АССР, РСФСР, СССР — , Грозный, Чечня, Россия) — советский физик, кандидат технических наук, автор открытия и 26 изобретений в области радиоэлектроники и радиосвязи, подтвержденных свидетельствами Государственного Комитета СССР по делам изобретений и открытий, автор более 50 научных работ в открытой и закрытой печати.

Биография
Родился в 1935 году в селе Махкеты Веденского района Чечено-Ингушской АССР. В 1959 году закончил Ростовский государственный университет. По окончании был направлен в город Фрязино. В 1975 году защитил диссертацию на соискание учёной степени кандидата технических наук.

Им было установлено ранее неизвестное явление генерации СВЧ-колебаний полупроводниковым диодом при напряжении близком к пробивному.

Фамилия Цебиева приводится в двухтомнике «Открытия советских ученых», изданной в 1980-х годах. В этой книге упоминается одно открытие, внесенное в реестр открытий СССР 17 марта 1964 года. Сам же он утверждал в брошюре «Кто есть кто в Чеченской Республике», изданной в начале 1990-х годов, что является автором трёх открытий.

В 1977 году группа сотрудников была представлена на соискание Ленинской премии. В числе соискателей был и А. М. Цебиев. Все члены этой группы получили премию за исключением Цебиева, хотя его вклад был наиболее существенным. И, как показывают официальные документы, сделано это было недостойными методами с участием его коллег по работе. Этот удар серьёзно отразился на его здоровье.

В 1983 году вернулся в Чечено-Ингушетию. Работал в Грозненском нефтяном институте. С 1983 года работал в НПО «Промавтоматика» в Грозном. В 1987 году в двух школах Чечено-Ингушской АССР были открыты первые компьютерные классы в Урус-Мартане (СШ № 5) и Грозном (СШ № 9). В СШ № 9 Грозного в 1988 году А. М. Цебиевым компьютеры были объединены в беспроводную локальную сеть. В то время это было большим достижением.

В 2000 году был убит. По одной из версий, расстрелян мародёрами за отказ отдать свой компьютер.

Память
 О Цебиеве сняты документальные фильмы «Ахмед Цебиев. Избранный» и «Ахмед Цебиев. Жизнь замечательных чеченцев»;
 Его имя присвоено средней школе № 9 Грозного, в которой с 1988 года работала созданная им беспроводная компьютерная сеть.

Семья
Сын Цебиева Руслан, журналист, ведущий грозненской радиостанции, был убит в 1995 году.

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The house has two stories and is constructed from concrete with stone infill panels and a corrugated metal roof.
The accommodation is arranged with the three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the upper floor and the living area on the ground floor.
Photo of the Living Room.
The upper was recently refurbished with a new roof, new ceramic floor tiles and new wardrobes.
Photo of the Master Bedroom.
The rooms are light and airy.
This house is just 2 miles South of Roseau and well situated on a semi-secluded hill top and surrounded by beautiful gardens.
It enjoys commanding views of the Caribbean sea and the surrounding area.
The house, which has stairs both front and rear, has all the normal amenities and also has an office, garage and two potable water cisterns on the ground floor.
Property is private, yet not too secluded.
The house is surrounded by beautiful flower gardens and cultivated bananas. There are other fruit trees; soursoup, limes and coconut trees etc.
The house sits within approx. 0.38 acre of land, most of which is gardens.
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Vierlinden är en kommun i östra Tyskland, belägen i Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland i förbundslandet Brandenburg, omkring 60 km öster om Berlin.
Kommunen bildades den 26 oktober 2003 genom en sammanslagning av de tidigare kommunerna Diedersdorf, Friedersdorf, Marxdorf och Worin.
Kommunen har 1 466 invånare (2012) och administreras som en del av kommunalförbundet Amt Seelow-Land, vars säte ligger i Seelow.

Genom kommunen passerar förbundsvägen Bundesstrasse 1 på sträckan mellan Berlin och polska gränsen vid Kostrzyn nad Odrą.

Kända invånare
 Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934-2007), författare och dramatiker, levde de sista åren av sitt liv i Alt Rosenthal-Vorwerk och är begravd i orten.

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NomeDaBarbarian
Surprising perhaps noone.
I really don't love how this test is worded, though, because everything's from the perspective of a neurotypical baseline.
"Overly" talkative? Compared to...? "You do X when it's inappropriate." According to...?
https://www.idrlabs.com/adhd-spectrum/test.php https://twitter.com/danidonovan/status/1369748422513856517
It's phrasing like that which kept me from diagnosis for my entire life - phrasing that assumes a frame of reference I by definition cannot have.
Which means *I'M* not supposed to notice my disorder. It's instead supposed to be reported on by people in my life.
ADHD, as described, isn't ADHD as experienced.
Instead, it's just a list of the behaviors which piss off parents and teachers, which they want us to stop.
And that's kind of hot garbage.
Like, here are the diagnostic criteria for ADHD.
"1: Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, at work, or with other activities."
Well... no. Obviously not. I pay VERY close attention to details, and by definition, any mistake is/
a careless mistake. What, are people out here making CAREFUL mistakes?
What I'm not paying close attention to is what you would LIKE me to pay attention to. What you have failed to make interesting, since there's so much that's louder in the room. /
"2: Often has trouble holding attention on tasks or play activities."
I can play minecraft for nine hours straight and forget that my body exists.
It's not that I have trouble holding attention - it's that I'm not in CONTROL of my attention. The tasks are, whatever they are.
"3. Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly."
Literally nothing to do with my experience, here.
What if, instead, you ask "Do people have to say your name to get your attention, or to have to pull you out of your thoughts before they start talking to you?"
"4. Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (e.g., loses focus, side-tracked)."
Okay, that one seems fair enough. Would be great if it wasn't also the one that was taken as a glaring personality flaw.
"5. Often has trouble organizing tasks and activities."
No, that's hot garbage. I am /excellent/ at organizing tasks and activities.
Because my brain can't do it automatically.
So I have to consciously do it.
But the DSM isn't asking about that - it's ignoring what the /
actually Neurotypical experience is, possibly because that's not an experience they examine all that much.
"6. Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to do tasks that require mental effort over a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework)."
Again, ridiculous.
I can pour out mental effort like water for days at a time.
What I can't do is to spend that energy on something that's boring, that doesn't hold my attention, or which has too many different steps.
You want me to organize your file cabinet? Give me a podcast, it's done.
"7. Often loses things necessary for tasks and activities (e.g. school materials, pencils, books, tools, wallets, keys, paperwork, eyeglasses, mobile telephones)."
Again, the only ones in relatable plain terms are the ones that get called personality flaws.
"8. Is often easily distracted."
No. If the thing I'm working on is interesting, I /can't/ be distracted.
"9. Is often forgetful in daily activities."
If I'm trying to self-report, how exactly would I know?
"9. Often fidgets with or taps hands or feet, or squirms in seat."
Or a thousand other coping mechanisms we use to stim, because you made it clear that what we were doing was inappropriate.
"10. Often leaves seat in situations when remaining seated is expected."
Expected.
"11. Often runs about or climbs in situations where it is not appropriate (adolescents or adults may be limited to feeling restless)."
'Appropriate.'
"12. Often unable to play or take part in leisure activities quietly."
When, precisely, was 'quietly' a word used to describe the platonic ideal of children at play?
"13. Is often "on the go" acting as if "driven by a motor"."
I sat and focused on books for ten hours straight, forgetting that meals or bathrooms existed. Is that on the go?
It's definitely the behavior you're TRYING to ask about, but not what you're actually asking.
"14. Often talks excessively."
'Excessively.'
Anyone else follow the rules, raise your hand to answer questions, and eventually have teachers tell you to stop raising your hand?
Hard to follow a rule you never make explicit, there, champ.
"15. Often blurts out an answer before a question has been completed.
16. Often has trouble waiting their turn.
17. Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or games)"
All more or less the same thing - and none of those are what I experience.
What I experience is either
A) The world seems so slow - people pause for SO LONG, and you think they're done talking. People use SO MANY extra words. People don't move efficiently! They don't line up right! They're all... just so slow, always!
B) My brain has, without letting me know, already filled in the last words you were saying, thought of five questions in response to it, sorted those in order of importance, queued up one to ask, and made me start asking it.
And that's it. This is quoting directly from the CDC, who are in turn quoting the DSM-V.
It's only different for adults in that they require fewer symptoms from each category to be present.
Because you've probably built some coping mechanisms by then. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html
Symptoms and Diagnosis of ADHD | CDC
Deciding if a child has ADHD is a several-step process. This page gives you an overview of how ADHD is diagnosed.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html
The diagnostic criteria are criminally short, criminally flimsy, and based almost entirely on possibly misunderstood signs (as observed by other people) instead of lived experience of symptoms (as observed by the person actually dealing with them).
Perfectly said -
So much of what is read by others as "deficit,"
Is in fact "surplus," which we're unable to regulate.
I'm paying attention to everything, always, and I have no goddamn choice in the matter. https://twitter.com/MeatyHD/status/1369852922977087489?s=20
https://twitter.com/MeatyHD/status/1369852922977087489?s=20
It's that disconnect that makes me so thankful for #NeurodiverseSquad / #ADHDTwitter.
If it weren't for y'all, I'd never have recognized myself. The adults the world was apparently counting on to recognize it called me by turns "Lazy" or "Gifted." "Talented" but "Unmotivated".
It's why I try to pass that favor on, too, because fuck -
It is so much better, knowing myself.
With that in mind, here's what it feels like for me to live inside an #ADHD brain: https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1311687107128123393?s=20
https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1311687107128123393?s=20
JESUS CHRIST A THOUSAND TIMES THIS
"How long was it between you thinking you needed this appointment, and taking your first steps to make it?"
"What were your steps?" https://twitter.com/_wordsfromspace/status/1369854410097098753?s=20
https://twitter.com/_wordsfromspace/status/1369854410097098753?s=20
I seem to have done a thread.
That was... unexpected.
I'm new to this, but I think this is where I put my Ko-fi link. If you think I did the words good and want me to do more good words, it's a great way to let me know. https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian
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Additionally, if you're part of Twitter (and even more so, part of TTRPG twitter), and find a lot of this ringing true...
I maybe have some extra news for you: https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1340890641421615105?s=20
With this doing numbers, I'm probably going to have to mute this soon. Feel free to tag me in the QTs.
make sure you know who you're following. https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1370049529605541888?s=20
An update:
I've had some folks defending the DSM and its definitions, or suggesting that I'm quoting it in a different way than it's intended, or saying that psychologists/psychiatrists use other tools.
I'd like to address that a bit.
The DSM is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition." It is the principal authority for psychiatric diagnoses, and the definitions it uses are often used to determine things like "will my insurance cover this."
It's a diagnostic manual.
To the folks saying that it /has/ to rely on (external) signs instead of (internal or self-reported) symptoms,
I don't think that's true.
ADHD and OCD and SPD and ASD might all present with certain identical signs, rooted in very different symptoms. They may also be comorbid.
If the only diagnostic criteria are signs as noticed by parents and brought to a health care professional, then you are assuming
A) Children's signs will be noticed by parents, who
B) Recognize them as indicative of a disorder, instead of just calling the kid dumb/lazy/bad, and
C) Have the resources to bring that child to a mental health provider, because
D) There is a pediatric psychologist in their area who
E) Will recognize the kid's behaviors and
F) Accurately diagnose the kid.
And y'all?
I wish you could see my mentions.
Because that process does /not/ work.
It assumes that the kid won't invent any coping or masking behaviors on their own:
SPOILER ALERT, MOST OF US DO. WE'RE PROBLEM SOLVERS.
It assumes a stable household with parents who give a shit.
It assumes doctors who won't ignore or discount the kid's behaviors.
And even once you get past all of that,
It assumes that the behaviors listed will match the ones in the DSM.
And - FUCK, I DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER - given that this disorder has a documented genetic / inherited component,
It assumes a LIKELY UNDIAGNOSED PARENT will have the ability to navigate the multi-headed hydra of our medical system in the US to do so. https://twitter.com/q_aurelius/status/1370476719052836864?s=20
https://twitter.com/q_aurelius/status/1370476719052836864?s=20
Given that we're being raised by the generation where it was thought of as a disorder that only male children got, and grew out of?
(Because, surprise, sexism?) https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1370070103367110656?s=20
There isn't a seperate DSM section for Adults. These are the criteria.
We're left with in all likelihood tens of millions of undiagnosed Americans,
Who almost certainly don't have access to Mental Health Care,
Who have to first suspect something fixable is up with them.
Instead of just internalizing the voices of every authority figure in our lives, and deciding that we're clearly just pieces of shit, full of wasted potential.
So, when we as adults finally decide, based on hearing something from someone about maybe this being something, to check The Book,
You know, the one that's available to us, the one that doesn't require us spending money we don't have to go to a doctor?
We get the DSM.
And we take one look at the diagnostic criteria, and go, "Well this clearly isn't me."
Or maybe we decide to do it right, and we got to a doctor we can't afford, and they're not a specialist in ADHD, so they ALSO go to The Book,
And ask us the questions out of it,
And we say "No, that's not me."
So they tell us we don't have ADHD.
We can't go directly to the specialist after all, because we have to be referred TO a specialist by our GP, and if they have something in their head like "ADHD doesn't happen in girls" or "ADHD goes away when you grow up" or
"You can't have ADHD if you did well in School."
Then that care is walled off from us.
And we're already prone to think of ourselves as failures, somehow. So a doctor said, "No, you definitely don't have it,"
And what are we supposed to do, say we're smarter than them?
Having diagnostic criteria that relied on the honest self-reported experience of the patient, as INFORMED BY the signs reported by others in their life, would save this trouble.
Hell, even just phrasing the questions that way. "Have people SAID TO YOU that you [x,y,z]?"
You know, since we have a disorder that's often characterized by answering the exact question asked, without understanding the context of the question?
By not understanding rhetorical questions to not be wanting an answer?
You know, we natural and accidental pedants?
"Psychiatrists are using other tools than this."
Great. Good. Glad to hear it.
I didn't see a psychiatrist until I was thirty, and that was only AFTER doing the groundwork myself.
So unless you're pushing for a system of universal mental health care, including screening?
Well, until that day, I stand the fuck by what I the fuck said. https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1369852771281735684?s=20
You can follow @NomeDaBarbarian.


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Parcel trailer reveals a multi-layered story under the garb of a thriller
The film, directed by Indrasis Acharya, stars Rituparna Sengupta and Saswata Chatterjee in lead roles
Kolkata - 12 Feb 2020 15:13 IST
Roushni Sarkar
The trailer of director Indrasis Acharya's upcoming film Parcel offers glimpses of a multi-layered story. Featuring Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Sreela Majumdar, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Damini Benny Basu and Anindya Chatterjee, the film also won Acharya the Hiralal Sen Memorial award for Best Director at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival last year.
Acharya appears to have used a greyish colour tone in the entire film to resemble the grey areas and emotions in the life of his characters. In the film, Nandini (Sengupta), a doctor by profession, begins to receive parcels from a stranger. The parcels not only bring up her past but also create a rift in her relationship with her husband Souvik (Saswata), who is also a doctor.
The trailer hints at the film's underlying themes of guilt and infidelity and the characters' anxiety grows as the crisis unfolds in the life of the protagonists. As Nandini's past unravels, her husband turns suspicious, but she too begins to voice the breach of commitment by Souvik. In short, the arrival of the parcels begins to highlight the underlying issues in the couple's marital relationship, which had so far been brushed under the carpet.
The other characters in the the film, played by Anindya and Damini, create intrigue with their interesting equation with Nandini in the trailer. In the end, the threat to Souvik's medical career shows that the film's story unfolds at multiple levels, addressing societal and psychological issues under the garb of a thriller.
Parcel is slated to release on 13 March. Watch the trailer below and let us know if you are keen to watch the film.
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1. Switch off ignition and disconnect a negative wire from the battery. Remove the panel of an internal upholstery of a corresponding door.
2. Disconnect from the switch of a door-lock electroconducting.
3. Remove the switch from the panel of an upholstery of a door.
4. By means of an ohmmeter check up conductivity distribution between switch plugs in each of its regular positions, - conductivity should take place at the drowned button of the switch and to disappear at it release.
5. Replace the faulty switch.