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State lawmakers face tough choices amid pandemic recession
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press | Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
FILE - This Jan. 23, 2014 file photo shows Hawaii state Rep. Della Au Belatti speaking in HonoluluCut spending, raise taxes, or perhaps both. Hawaii lawmakers face tough choices as they convene a new legislative session this week amid a pandemic that has pummeled tourism, the state's biggest industry, and depleted tax revenue. Lawmakers expect to spend time addressing how to spend federal funds allocated to help Hawaii test for the coronavirus, distribute vaccines, and bolster hospitals. They'll also consider how to help Hawaii's economy recover from the public health crisis. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
FILE — This May 2, 2019 file photo shows lawmakers meet on the floor of the state House of Representatives at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu. Cut spending, raise taxes, or perhaps both. Hawaii lawmakers face tough choices as they convene a new legislative session this week amid a pandemic that has pummeled tourism, the state's biggest industry, and depleted tax revenue. Lawmakers expect to spend time addressing how to spend federal funds allocated to help Hawaii test for the coronavirus, distribute vaccines, and bolster hospitals. They'll also consider how to help Hawaii's economy recover from the public health crisis. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, Gov. David Ige speaks to reporters in Honolulu after delivering his state of the state address at the Hawaii State Capitol. Cut spending, raise taxes, or perhaps both. Hawaii lawmakers face tough choices as they convene a new legislative session this week amid a pandemic that has pummeled tourism, the state's biggest industry, and depleted tax revenue. Lawmakers expect to spend time addressing how to spend federal funds allocated to help Hawaii test for the coronavirus, distribute vaccines, and bolster hospitals. They'll also consider how to help Hawaii's economy recover from the public health crisis. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2016 file photo, Democratic Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Honolulu. Cut spending, raise taxes, or perhaps both. Hawaii lawmakers face tough choices as they convene a new legislative session this week amid a pandemic that has pummeled tourism, the state's biggest industry, and depleted tax revenue. Lawmakers expect to spend time addressing how to spend federal funds allocated to help Hawaii test for the coronavirus, distribute vaccines, and bolster hospitals. They'll also consider how to help Hawaii's economy recover from the public health crisis. (AP Photo/Marina Riker, File)
HONOLULU — Cut spending, raise taxes or perhaps both. State lawmakers face tough choices as they convene a new legislative session this week amid a pandemic that has pummeled tourism, Hawaii's biggest industry, and depleted tax revenue.
Lawmakers expect to spend time addressing how to spend federal funds allocated to help Hawaii test for the coronavirus, distribute vaccines and bolster hospitals. They'll also consider how to help Hawaii's economy recover from the public health crisis. One possibility is to promote the expansion and improvement of broadband internet so it's easier for people to work and study at home.
Front and center, however, will be coping with what Gov. David Ige estimates is an annual budget shortfall of $1.4 billion.
Ige has already borrowed $750 million to cover operating expenses (a first) and put off contributions to employee retirement funds. He also raided an emergency fund.
He was on the verge of imposing furloughs resulting in a 9% pay cut, but put those off until at least July after a new round of federal stimulus funds freed up money to maintain existing salaries.
Some lawmakers are considering tax increases, possibly on higher-income earners, to help plug the hole.
Sen. Kalani English, the Senate majority leader, said another possibility might be shifting away from a fuel tax that imposes a levy on the amount of gas purchased to one based on the number of miles driven.
"We're just trying to be innovative and creative and say, OK, somebody have an idea, let's talk about it, because we need all the help we can get," said English, a Democrat.
In the House, Majority Leader Rep. Della Au Belatti said in addition to potential tax increases, lawmakers could divert surpluses built up in special funds with money allocated for a particular purpose. In some cases, those funds could be appropriated for other uses.
Despite "everything being on the table," Belatti also said "we're not going to tax our way out of this crisis." She said leaders will have to consider streamlining and consolidating state agencies to save money and improve the way government works. The pandemic provides an opportunity to take a close look at what government does, she said.
"How should we conduct government and how can we provide services smarter and better?" said Belatti, also a Democrat.
The president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii warned that raising taxes could backfire, squeezing a private sector already reeling from the pandemic recession.
"We're very concerned that additional taxes, fees or other kinds of revenue enhancements are really going to kick them when they're down," said Tom Yamachika. He warns even more people could leave the state and more companies could go out of business, which would reduce the number of people paying taxes that support government. He said sacrifices should be shared.
The unemployment rate in Hawaii stood at 10.1% in December compared to 2.6% the same month a year earlier. The state tied Nevada for the second worst jobless rate in the nation after New Jersey.
Beth Giesting, the director of the Hawaii Budget and Policy Center, said the state should avoid draconian cuts because the economy needs government spending to keep going at a time when the private sector is struggling.
She argued that cuts to public budgets only deepen and prolong recessions.
"We want them to understand that any dollars they cut are magnified in terms of the economic impact," she said of lawmakers. To help pay for spending, she favors tax increases on high income earners and capital gains and possibly temporarily eliminating some tax exemptions and credits.
English said one area of focus will be legislation that won't cost money, like reinstating Hawaiian Independence Day as a state holiday.
The holiday commemorates the day in 1843 when Hawaii was formally recognized as an independent nation by Britain and France. English said Hawaii observed the holiday until the 1920s. It could replace Election Day on the holiday calendar now that Hawaii has adopted mail-in voting and people don't need to go to the polls to cast ballots.
Some lawmakers are expected to try to reform the state's marijuana laws with bills to outright legalize it or tweak earlier decriminalization efforts it by changing the amounts that trigger criminal penalties. Currently Hawaii allows marijuana for medical purposes.
English said the need for more tax revenue could give legalization some momentum, but he cautioned other states that expected a financial windfall from such a move failed to get one.
For the first time, lawmakers will be accepting verbal testimony from the public via video. Though adopted to keep people safe during the pandemic, the step also makes it much easier for Neighbor Island residents to tell lawmakers what they think.
"They don't have to get on a plane, fly to Honolulu, rent a car, come to the Capitol, which is how it used to be," said English, who represents parts of Maui, Lanai and Molokai.
Members of the public will need to register online at www.capitol.hawaii.gov for an account, submit written testimony and receive a link to a Zoom videoconference to testify. For help, contact the Capitol's non-partisan Public Access Room at (808) 587-0478 or par@capitol.hawaii.gov.
The Capitol building will remain closed to the public because of the pandemic. No in-person testimony will be allowed.
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This is normally the part of the week where I share what our menu plan is. Planning ahead helps me manage my time and avoid calling Sean to beg for takeout.
But, this week, I don't have two legs to stand on. If you missed that story, feel free to read about what happened on the way to St. Louis.
Instead, kind friends have stepped up and volunteered to feed my family and help me chase kids until my broken leg heals. We are SO grateful for the sweet people who are giving their time to help pick up my slack. Goodness, I just can't say enough words to express our appreciation!
So for the next two to three-ish weeks, I won't have much of a meal plan to post. And honestly, I'm praising God that I don't have to worry about meals right now!
What is on your menu this week? Leave me some inspiration!
If you have a night that no one has offered to bring food, let me know. I'll be more than happy to make something for you guys.
How awesome people have stepped up and helped you! I love hearing stories like that, when people take care of each other.


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Géza Frid (født 25. januar 1904 i Máramarossziget, Ungarn (idag Sighetu Marmației, Rumænien) - død 13. september 1989 i Beverwijk, Holland) var en ungarsk/hollandsk komponist, pianist og lærer.

Frid studerede komposition og klaver på Franz Listz Musikkonservatoriet i Budapest hos bla. Bela Bartok og Zoltan Kodaly. Han har skrevet en symfoni, en sinfonietta, orkesterværker, koncertmusik, kammermusik, scenemusik, korværker, sange, klaverstykker etc. Efter endt uddannelse, flygtede Frid grundet nazisternes fremgang i Ungarn til Italien og Frankrig, hvor han boede forskellige steder, indtil han i 1929 emigrerede til Holland, hvor han bosatte sig i Amsterdam. Han underviste som lærer i klaver på Skolen for Musik og Dans i Rotterdam (1946-1948), og på Musikkonservatoriet i Utrecht (1964-1970). Han var også en omrejsende koncertpianist, og var solist med mange Symfoniorkestre i hele Verden. Hans kompositions stil var inspireret af ungarsk folklore, Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy og Maurice Ravel.

Udvalgte værker

 Symfoni (1933) - for orkester
 Sinfonietta (1963) - for strygeorkester
 Klaverkoncert (1957) - for to klavere og orkester
 Violinkoncert (1930) - for violin og orkester
 Suite (1929) - for orkester
 Nocturner (1946) - for fløjte, harpe og strygeorkester
 Sydafrikansk rapsodi (1954) - for orkester
 Symfoniske studier (1954) - for orkester

Eksterne henvisninger
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Komponister fra Ungarn
Komponister fra Nederlandene
Pianister fra Ungarn
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Every night at the Volvo Car Open attendees will experience live music, drink specials and a memorable evening of fun with family and friends. Happy hours, from 4 - 7pm, will feature the "official" beverages of the Open, craft beer, access to the tournament's beer and wine gardens and specialty cocktails.
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Well according to theory it doesn't. This is the method used by large stationary "forklift chargers". It just raises the charge voltage less than a volt to overcome the internal resistance to get the plates to charge at the fastest rate possible. I think it has the benefit of retarding the formation of sulfate crystal on the plates. Once it has charged to a pre-set charge it reduces the rate to a finish or float setting, which is a little below what "common" automotive voltage regulators at set to. 13.7-13.8 vs. 14.1-14.4.
My guess is the higher voltage/current is on the limit of where the electrolyte starts to disassociate into O2 and H2 and that is why it uses more water than the conventional automotive reg.
The time set for high charge is determined by how long the alternator takes to raise the charge voltage to 0.3 volts below regulator setting. The minimum time is 1 hr, and that is if the voltage rises to that 0.3 below on start-up. If it takes longer to reach that, it hold the reg on bulk charge longer, up to 9 hr according to the manual. In my case I've never discharged the battery bank to where it took more than 4-5 hrs at bulk charge rate.
The relatively small (low current output) of my chosen alternator for the size battery pack is also a factor. These regulators are designed for marine use, where someone might run a aux generator or main engine but want to run it for a shortest period to recharge a bank after running hotel loads off it all night. I am using it slightly differently as my "run time" is almost always more the 10 hr so I can afford a slower rate, just not as slow as the conventional automotive alternator reg setting, which would not fully re charge in a days running (as shown on the ammeter).
Automotive regs do a good job on batteries that have been subject to only quick discharges like cranking an engine then they quickly bring the battery back to full charge and hold it at a point where water use is at a minimum. They don't do a good job of recharging a deeply cycled battery, the charge voltage is too low and unless the time is increased to a much longer time, they never fully re charge the bank.
Does cooking the hydrogen and oxygen out of the water through electrolysis degrade the battery or plates in any way? You are doing it at a very slow rate so I wouldn't think there is mush heat generated. ???
Time to update this topic.
I had a problem with the regulator. After switching from high (bulk charge) to low, it would completely shut down after a few hrs on "low".
Factory thinks the unit is overheating but I don't know why. The field current on a 25SI is less than 4 amps, well below the capacity of the regulator and one would think if it overheated, it would do so under max field current not reduced current.
Anyway, the solution was to parallel it with the internal reg, with the internal reg set to float voltage. Once I did that, I have had no problems in several months.
It recharges in a few hrs and does a good job. They caution that the rapid recharge is done at the expense of water consumption. I have not found that to be a problem. After 5 months of use the four group 31 DC's took 2 qts of water in total for all 4! Part of the reason for that is I limit the current to 75 amps max (50 amps max if the headlights are needed). With the truck running for at least 10hrs at a time, there is no need for a bigger alternator, and 75 amps os more than enough to do the job. I suspect if I had 160 amps or more available, the water usage would be higher.
Took it for a run today, takes some getting used to. It has ""soft start" takes about 15-25 sec to "turn on" and it ramps up slowly. Once it has been on high charge for its proscribed time period it goes to float voltage, when that happens you'll think you lost the belt cause it will go to discharge side of the ammeter until you pull the "surface charge" down to float level. Like I said, takes some getting used to.
Yes the back cover is rubber gasketed to the main case. The rear cover is fin'd to help remove heat, air flows over the fins and thru the two stationary coils (field and stator) and out the front.
Nice job with the field terminal. What do they use a rubber gasket to seal it?
Got it installed today. I had to modify my Delco 25SI, but didn't what to "gut it" in case I have a problem with it. It needs to connect to the + and - of the field. The 25SI has one thru case stud for an idiot light, I re-purposed that for one of the field connections and added another thru stud for the other connection using nylon spacer and fiber washer to insolate it from the case.
Got it all wired in and test run. So far so good.
Ordered a Sterling reg today. I'll report back when it is installed.
Looking for someone with Balmar or Sterling marine voltage regulator experience. Or even any other muilti stage (fork lift, manlift) charger experience.
I have some but don't know the answer to my own question, although I can take a guess.
What happen if you use one while still having DC loads on the battery bank? My guess is it stays in "bulk" charging mode and cooks the batteries, the same as setting a single stage regulator to "bulk" charging voltage. I'm guessing that it never sense the battery is charged.
Called Sterling USA and they didn't know, Suggested I call the UK to their tech dept. Not ready for that phone bill..
You can beat the overseas phone rates. I do this if I need to talk to the programmer who writes the forums software. Put a couple bucks in a Skype account and use Skype to call England. Just remember the time change.
Nothing new, just trying to get the most out of my deep cycles in the trucks. The std automotive regs don't do a good job of recharging the batteries when deep dis charged. They really need 14.6- 14.8 for most of the charging but it needs to taper to 13.8-14.2 when charged or even less.
I am beginning to think I am going to have to resort to manual control, with two reg's set at different points.


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United Record Pressing was founded as "Southern Plastics" in 1949, the same year that RCA introduced the 45 rpm record. The company changed their name in 1971 when new management stepped in after they had found success by working with large labels like Motown to produce their 45 rpm singles.
In 1962, the company moved to this location where it still operates. They got their first big break when they were contracted by Vee Jay Records to press The Beatles first 7-inch records in North America.
Upstairs, the company built a suite of rooms for Motown recording artists who needed a place to stay when they came through Nashville. This became known as the "Motown Suite".
Notable Recordings Created Here Include:
The Clash by The Clash
Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan
Five By Five by The Rolling Stones
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow by Ramones
Personality Crisis by New York Dolls
The Next Day by David Bowie
Magnetic by Goo Goo Dolls
With A Little Help From My Fwends by The Flaming Lips
Rubber Factory by The Black Keys
By The Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Raising Sand by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Rock Steady by No Doubt
Breakfast In America by Supertramp
Keep Me Singing by Van Morrison
The White Stripes by The White Stripes
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Armed with huge reserves of institutional capital, lending firms are fighting for mainstream deals.
Pensions, endowments, and other allocators are driving the economy through private credit managers.
According to a study released today, institutional investors represent the majority of the $1 trillion expected to be in the hands of private credit managers by 2020. Such firms have been financing mid-market companies for a decade after banks dropped out of the market post-2008. But laden with institutional capital, they are increasingly lending to some of the largest corporations in the world and have become a massive determinant of economic growth.
Seventy percent of private credit capital now comes from institutional investors, according to the research from the Alternative Credit Council and law firm Dechert.
Many private credit managers are thinking through what happens when the current credit cycle ends and companies face a more difficult economic environment.
Even so, a third of managers surveyed said they will increase lending to middle-market companies over the next three years. About two thirds use fund structures that prevent investors from reneging on capital commitments during tough times. The authors of the study believe the structure helps steady the economy as borrowers can rely on getting access to funds even if economic conditions change.
Nearly a third of all capital invested supports non-corporate lending strategies, including asset-backed finance, trade finance, receivables, real estate, and distressed, the trade group and law firm's research found.
It's a borrowers market. They have a choice of lenders and power when negotiating, according to the report. Eighteen percent of respondents said arrangement fees have fallen over the past year, while only 4 percent say they have increased. The remainder reported fees holding steady. In addition, twice as many respondents said financial covenant protection weakened versus strengthened over the past year.
The study comes as global policy makers continue to debate the risks and potential benefits of the shift in lending from banks to investors. Regulators have often referred to the new regime as 'shadow banking,' because private credit managers are not subject to the same rules as banks once were, arguing that transparency has declined.
The authors of the study were quick to point out that organizations such as the Financial Stability Board are showing support for the new lending regime. Their jargon is even changing.
Is Direct Lending the Antidote for Shadow Banking?


New details have come to light regarding the night Prince and his entourage torched Eddie and Charlie Murphy on the court before serving them pancakes -- a tale made famous after being turned into a "Chappelle Show" sketch.
For starters, The Undefeated reports that the flavor of pancakes the late music legend served after kicking the Murphy brothers' butts was blueberry.
Also, Prince really did yell "game, blouses" after hitting the winning bucket, at least according to the publication's interview with one of his teammates that night, musician Micki Free. "Yes, it's true, we had on 'blouses,' and frilly shirts," Free told The Undefeated. "The same clothes we had at the club. Prince played in 6-inch heels!"
Free mostly corroborated the story Charlie and Dave Chappelle brought to life in 2004 , except for one detail: the matchup was actually 3-on-3, not 5-on-5.
Read the article, which has more information on that night and also excerpts from an interview with Prince's high school basketball coach, here.
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir is a 2018 adventure comedy film directed by Ken Scott and starring Dhanush and Erin Moriarty. It is based on a novel by Romain Puertolas titled The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, which was originally written in French. The film was shot in India, Belgium, France and Italy.

The film released on 30 May 2018 in France. It was released in India, USA, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia on 21 June 2019. It was released in 7 different languages; English, French, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

Plot
Ajatashatru "Aja" Lavash Patel (Dhanush), who has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood, is a street magician and trickster who tricks people into believing that he possesses special magic powers. He narrates his story to three kids caught by police and are now going for a four year judicial custody.

After his mother's untimely death, he sets off on a journey to find his estranged father in Paris with a fake EUR 100 note. There, he meets a woman named Marie Riviere (Erin Moriarty) in a furniture store whom he initially swindles, but is quickly attracted to her personality. Aja then experiences a series of wide-ranging adventures around the world, initially in an IKEA wardrobe to London, England, then a Louis Vuitton suitcase to Rome, Italy, and a hot air balloon to a ship heading to Tripoli, Libya. In the ship, he gets robbed the money he earned by selling the shirt on which he wrote an emotional incident from his childhood. In Libya, he meets a Somali man named Wiraj (Barkhad Abdi), an illegal immigrant whom he met on the way to London. Together with Wiraj and group of other friends he gets back the money. In the refugee camp where Wiraj lives, he distributes all the money to the people in the camp. He has just enough money for a fake passport and ticket to India. But before going to India he goes to Paris where he meets Marie, who is now dating another guy.

He comes back to India and starts working as a teacher in school. One day Marie comes to the school and tells Aja that she has left her fiance, and then they kiss. And with this he ends his story to the three kids. He then offers those kids to be pardoned for the four year custody if they attend Aja's school daily, which they agree to.

Just before the movie ends, one of Aja's colleagues asks "Was that a true story?" and Aja replies "Only the important parts.".

Cast
Dhanush as Ajatashatru "Aja" Lavash Patel
Hearty Singh as young Aja
Bérénice Bejo as Nelly Marnay
Erin Moriarty as Marie Rivière
Barkhad Abdi as Wiraj
Gérard Jugnot as Gustave Palourde
Ben Miller as Officer Smith
Abel Jafri as Captain Fik
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse as Rose
Kay Greidanus as Pieter
Amrutha Sant as Siringh, Aja's mom
Harshad Kumar as vegetable vendor
Rakesh Jaiswal as Doctor
Romain Puertolas as Thomas Grégoire

Production
The film was launched in January 2016 with Iranian director Marjane Satrapi and actors Dhanush, Uma Thurman, and Alexandra Daddario in the lead roles. However, the director left the project and was replaced by Canadian director Ken Scott. Thurman's role was given to French actress Bérénice Bejo. The filming began in May 2017 in Mumbai. In its first schedule the principal photography took place in India, Brussels, Paris and Rome.

Release
The film trailer for Australia was launched in August 2018 by Icon Films Australia & New Zealand on YouTube. For release in India the official trailer was launched on 3 June 2019 by Zee Music Company. It fetched more than 5 million views since its release on YouTube.

The Extraordinary Journey of The Fakir released on 30 May 2018 in France.
The film was released in India, USA, Canada, UK, Singapore and Malaysia on 21 June 2019. The film was also dubbed in Tamil as Pakkiri benefiting off Dhanush's popularity. The makers had previously considered the title Vaazhkaiyai Thedi Naanum Poren for the dubbed version.  The film was made available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Soundtrack

The music of the songs is composed by Amit Trivedi, with lyrics by Anvita Dutt. The chorus singers are Rajiv Sundaresan and Suhas Sawant in the song
"Madaari". The Zee Music Company holds the right.

Awards and nominations
The film won two international awards: in 2018 it won in Norwegian International Film Festival the Ray of Sunshine Award and in 2019 in Barcelona Sant-Jordi International Film Festival, it won an award for Best Comedy.

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of  based on  reviews, with an average rating of . The critics consensus reads, "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir is undermined by its mawkish indulgences, but Dhanush's charming central performance is difficult to resist." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100, based on 8 critics.

The New York Times stated that the film is "a bustling, whimsical voyage."

Box office
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir fared poorly at the box office, grossing $3.26 million against a $20 million budget.

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2018 films
2010s adventure comedy films
English-language French films
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Ken Scott
Films shot in Brussels
Films shot in India
Films shot in Paris
Films shot in Rome
French adventure comedy films
2010s English-language films
2010s French films


Hollie Gesaman, CPDT developed a passion for animals early in life. As a child, her cat Lucky became the star of the neighborhood when she taught him to 'take a bath' and 'kiss, kiss' on cue. Who says cats can't be trained?
Now, she is a professional member in good standing of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, an AKC Canine Good Citizen evalutor, a member of the IAABC, and a member and co-founder of the group Northeast Ohio Positive Dogs Trainers which is an organization dedicated to excellence in dog training and behavior consulting using methods that are safe, humane, effective and backed by the latest scientific research. After launching Paws N Claws Academy, Hollie has gained experience in training dogs, cats, and even rabbits. Her motto is, 'If it has a pulse, it can be trained.' Hollie has also appeared on WKYC's Good Company Today show as a dog expert and performed with her personal dogs at The Great Big Home and Garden Show. She has also titled her personal dogs in the highest levels of obedience, agility, and rally. Her dogs have also been certified as therapy dogs through Therapy Dogs International and regularly visit patients suffering from dementia.
Hollie firmly believes that continuing your personal education in the field is a necessary aspect of professional pet training. Because of this, she successfully earned her Certification for Pet Dog Trainers (CPDT) which required her to pass a comprehensive exam that covers a broad range of canine behavior and psychology. The CPDT is administered by a national independent testing agency and is designed to provide the public with an assurance of a high level of expertise. She also often goes to training related seminars and networks with other trainers, behaviorists, and veterinarians in order to keep herself up to date on the latest methods and research. Many local veterinarians recommend her to clients with confidence. She has extensive knowledge of all major training techniques and specializes in rehabilitating dogs who are dealing with aggression, separation anxiety, or acclimenting to new babies in the home. She prefers a positive approach that is tailored to the dog's individual personality and the owner's goals. In addition to training and behavior, Hollie often serves as an expert speaker for veterinarians, rescues, city officials, and other trainers who are looking to further their knowledge in dog behavior and safe handling techniques.
In addition to her well loved pets, Hollie Gesaman shares her home with one patient husband and two beautiful children. It is a requirement that every creature living in her house learn to 'kiss, kiss' on cue.


I have recently purchased the Panasonic GS200 MiniDV camcorder and was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me if there were housings available and if so which one would be best to purchase.
Cost is not important ....... what is important is size, weight, depth, and that i have as much control of the camera underwater as possible, the expierence i have had with underwater housings is the lack of control and therefore problems.
Try the Quest housing (Quest Delfin, I think), which is supposed to be sort-of-universal.
Good luck! When shopping for UW gear, one should shop for the housing first, then, the camera!


"I knew you were trouble," go the lyrics of Taylor Swift's most recent hit. While the song was allegedly about her liaison with Harry Styles, she could equally be recounting a weekend in her adopted Tennessee hometown, Nashville. From the moment you first pitch up on the neon babylon of main strip Broadway, you just know the country music capital will be mischief. Immaculate-looking girls strut down the street, bottles of Bud in hand, yammering away in gorgeous, "C'mon, y'all!" accents. Their alligator boots clatter on the sidewalk while Stetson-ed chaps pass by, battered guitars on backs.
Fittingly for America's self-proclaimed 'Music City', there's music everywhere. Street-speakers blast Dolly Parton's Jolene, jostling with the hootin'-and-a-hollerin' live music emanating from rowdy honky-tonk bars. On Sunday mornings you'll struggle to find bottled water, but there will still be four bars open offering a beer. Yes, Nashville is trouble all right, but you can't help being sucked right in.
Meanwhile, Nashville the city is buzzing. There's a thriving foodie scene. Formerly down-at-heel neighbourhoods are being regenerated. Designers and entrepreneurs are flooding into the place US GQ magazine christened 'Nowville'. They're not the only ones.
Nicole Kidman lives in the suburb of Franklin ('the Malibu of Tennessee') with country singer husband Keith Urban. Jack White (White Stripes) and his now ex-wife Karen Elson are Nashville residents too, with Manchester born Elson staying on with their two children after their 2011 divorce. Cult director Harmony Korine (famous for 1995's controversial Kids) recently moved here, joining homegrown talent Miley Cyrus, Kings of Leon, Paramore and Ke$ha.
But country music still propels Nashville. While the rest of the music industry crumbles, country is big business, shifting over 40 million albums a year. According to Nielsen Soundscan statistics, sales of country went up 4.2% in 2012, in a market where all album sales shrunk by 4.4%. Having evolved from old Scottish and Irish folk tunes sung in the Appalachian mountains, country first became popular in the Twenties, merging with pop three decades later to create the 'Nashville Sound' of artists such as Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves. Since then, it has split into various strains such as bluegrass, country pop and alt-country, but one thing remains constant: its tales of heartbreak and frontier spirit.
One mile west from the main strip Broadway are the nondescript villas and bungalows of 16th and 17th Streets. It doesn't look like much, but behind the clapboarded exteriors, million-dollar deals are brokered. This is Music Row where the record labels, publishing companies and agents who run Nashville's country music industry are based. It's universally agreed that the biggest player in Nashville right now is ex-racing driver Scott Borchetta, currently CEO of Big Machine Records, who became rich after discovering Taylor Swift as an unknown 15 year old.
Still, there's no doubting Nashville is a ruthless place. Just like Rayna, the ageing country queen in the TV show, there's an ever-present pressure to remain on top. Last month after years of substance abuse problems and having struggled to maintain the level of success she achieved in the Nineties, 37-year-old singer Mindy McCready was found dead in her Arkansas home, after apparently shooting herself in the head. "The business itself among the executives and artists is extremely competitive," notes Skates.
Consequently, in Nashville, ambition is just as compulsory as a pair of cowboy boots. Nowhere is this better exemplified than the tale of Taylor Swift. At the age of 14, she persuaded her family to relocate to Nashville to kick-start her career, securing a record deal a year later. She follows in the tenacious footsteps of Dolly Parton who went from being one of 12 "dirt-poor" kids crammed into a one-room cabin in the Tennessee mountains to a multimillionaire with her own theme park. But for every musician who graduates to the holy grail of the Grand Ole Opry (the auditorium which has broadcast a weekly radio show since 1925), there are many others stuck in honky-tonk limbo, hauling beer-bloated frames from one bar to the next, churning out covers of Islands In The Stream and egging customers to "holler-and-swaller" (the ubiquitous Nashville toast).
"Nashville is a 10 year town," reckons Skates. "It will take several years for songwriters to get attraction and get noticed." As Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy puts it, "Hustle's the name of the game and nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain." The upshot of all that rising ambition is that Nashville has an embarrassing excess of talent. Every bar Stylist visited featured bands in tasselled jackets and starched denim knocking out jaw-dropping live music that would convert even the most curmudgeonly country-hater. "Even karaoke singers in Nashville are amazing," notes Underwood.
Indeed, Nashville is a city in transition. Away from Broadway, southern stereotypes are being quashed everywhere you look, whether it's the garage bands of hipster enclave East Nashville or the city's burgeoning foodie scene. While southern cuisine is still mind-blowingly calorific (an accompaniment for chilli is not rice, but a grilled cheese sandwich), there's a new influx of visionary chefs updating it with fresh local ingredients. City House offers an Italian take on New-South food such as catfish with cornmeal crust and sweet potato fettuccine. In East Nashville, hipster types chow down at Pharmacy Burger Parlor, Marché Artisan Foods and Mas Tacos food truck. However, the undisputed jewel in the southern gastro-renaissance is The Catbird Seat. Run by two tattooed chefs with Copenhagen's Noma and Heston's Fat Duck on their CVs, their seven-course menu ($100) includes pigeon with sweet hay-grass yoghurt and burnt oak ice-cream.
But the best food Stylist ate in Nashville was at an eatery which we initially mistook for a soup kitchen. Inside Arnold's Country Kitchen, street cleaners, doughty pensioners and bolo-tied businessmen queued up, tray in hand, for the classic Nashville meal, meat and three veg – a heaping portion of fried chicken or indecently drippy roast beef served with a trio of sides (note: mac'n'cheese counts as a vegetable).
Start at Country Music Hall of Fame (countrymusichalloffame.org) to see Elvis' gold Cadillac and Patsy Cline's cocktail dress.
Next, scoff 'meat-and-three' at Arnold's, pausing to dig the crates at Jack White's Third Man Records (thirdmanrecords.com).
Explore Nashville's trashy side with NashTrash bus tours (nashtrash.com) before hurling yourself in the boot-stompin' mania of Broadway.
As Broadway's neon flickers into action, dive into honky-tonk bars Tootsie's (tootsies.net) and Robert's Western World (robertswesternworld.com).
Ponder the South's past by visiting the exact replica of the Parthenon (nashville.gov).
Then take a detour north of the river to eat Prince's Hot Chicken and tour the Grand Ole Opry (opry.com).
Head to 12South neighbourhood, which is littered with boutiques such as Imogene + Willie (imogeneandwillie.com).
East Nashville for more cocktails at Holland House Bar & Refuge (hollandhousebarandrefuge.com) and "Nashville's best hipster meat market" The 5 Spot (the5spotlive.com).


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The Clare Spark Blog
Populism, progressivism, and corporatist liberalism in The Nation, 1919
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Tags: Anglo-Saxon populism, cultural pluralism, Herder, Herman Melville, Horace Kallen, J. A. Hobson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oswald Garrison Villard, Rabbi Lee Levinger
Oswald Garrison Villard
In my last blog, I objected to David Brooks's drastic separation of populism and progressivism. Here is an excerpt from the second chapter of my book on psychological warfare in the Melville revival (Hunting Captain Ahab (Kent State UP, 2001, second ed. paperback 2006). Readers of prior blogs will see ample evidence of the deletion of "Jewish" materialism in favor of "Christian humanism" in the fused populist-progressive movement. The influence of Hobson's notion that finance capital was the cause of war is apparent in Villard's Nation of 1919; it seems that international finance capital had dictated the peace as well. The Nation recommends a racially-inflected moderation as the remedy of choice to defeat class war and Bolshevism. For more on J. A. Hobson's attack on "finance capital" see https://clarespark.com/2009/09/18/bad-sex-in-the-new-york-times/.
[Book excerpt:] Blue-pencil deletions in The Nation (1919) and in a book for Jewish immigrants (1925)
Raymond M. Weaver's 1921 biography of Melville had emphasized Melville's romantic propensity to buy the blissful illusions constructed by bourgeois sentimental culture; these "stupendous discoveries" necessarily evaporated upon contact and brought him down. It is a commonplace of liberal Melville criticism, following Raymond Weaver's lead, that "disillusion" with the bourgeois idea of progress after the debacle of the Great War to end all wars explains the receptiveness of writers and the reading public to the ever disillusioned Melville, who not only saw through the duplicities of confidence-men before anyone else, but prophesied the totalitarian dictators, Stalin and Hitler. Historicizing gobbet-girls will interrupt: "Just a minute: who was disillusioned after the war, who had been betrayed, and what was to be done?"
Weaver's essay celebrating Melville's centenary appeared in the Nation, 2 August 1919, the year of (apparently contagious) international revolution; the negotiation and ratification of the Versailles Treaty; raging class, ethnic, and racial conflict in the U.S.; and violent right-wing reaction, including the establishment of the anti-Bolshevik division of the FBI. The Nation responded with hysterical entreaties for reform even before the conclusion to the Versailles Treaty negotiations, regarded by editor Oswald Garrison Villard as a betrayal by Woodrow Wilson.[i] An editorial of February 8 unabashedly urged repressive tolerance as remedy of choice:
[Nation editorial:] The process of turning the thoughtful working people of the country into dangerous radicals goes merrily on…Readers of the Nation do not need to be reminded that for half a century it has opposed socialist dogma as energetically as it could; and it will continue to oppose it. But in the present premises it is concerned with preserving to every law-abiding citizen and organization the right to present for public consideration his ideas, no matter how erroneous they may appear. The democracy that cannot preserve that right for its minorities cannot live. It is the men who are denying that right, and not the Socialists or I.W.W.'s, who are the most dangerous enemies of the social order today.
For we live in perilous times. Privilege in Russia and Germany has dissolved, and in Great Britain is on the brink of dissolution. The people have lost faith in their rulers and leaders. Let not our privileged classes imagine that the United States is immune. Signs multiply that precisely the same unrest is working here. Deny men the right to discuss their grievances and to redress them through changes in the law, and you develop the temper recently expressed by one of the Socialist leaders: "I, for one, have severed all relations with the enemy. I have stopped signing petitions or other instruments of a pleading nature. I will endorse demands only. It is time that we came out in the open…We must isolate ourselves–fight alone. This is the method by which we will be able to demand–not beg–our rights."
This is a spirit that cannot be put down by threats or suppression, and woe to that society in which it becomes rampant. We desire no violent revolution, and therefore we adjure the holders of privilege and power solemnly to consider whither their present course of repression leads. Perhaps it is not even yet too late.[ii] [end editorial]
The progressive but counter-revolutionary theme was constantly reiterated: "reconstruction" in the conciliatory mode of the Anglo-Saxon heritage. The search for "common ground" would lead the masses away from proletarian revolution and dictatorship; against the Spartacist Manifesto (reprinted in the Nation, March 8) claiming only socialism could bring peace and order, Anglo-Saxon progressives summoned another voice from Germany. Berlin professor and pacificist, F.G. Nicolai, argued that Karl Liebknecht, the recently murdered Spartacist leader, could have been brought into the system: "Revolution must come; not the revolution which is put through by force, but ordered revolution fought with spiritual weapons."[iii] Another article opposed the "efficiency scientist," pleading for a reformed academic humanism to protect "ordered progress," the alternative to [Ahab-cancer]: "rampant Bolshevism" "malignantly seek[ing] to slay the great serpent, or at least scotch it into impotence." The triumph of materialism would result in pseudo-humanism–chaotic, sentimental and dilettantish. In a pre-emptive strike, the reformed Ph.D. would promote Christian humanism: gentlemanly art was a moderating criticism of social evil.[iv] Freed from [Jewish] materialist science, [Christian] scholarship–once more liberal and courteous, prudent and restrained, spiritual and holistic–would not present a clear and present danger to capitalist and (patriarchal) family order.[v] Structural change was somewhere else, far, very far into the future.
The "disillusion" explanation for the Melville Revival has truth in it, but has been misunderstood. Internationalism was in the air; the world was confronted with two sublime visions after 1917, Lenin's and Wilson's. Both would find intellectual support in Melville's White-Jacket: the perception of irreconcilable conflicts of interest between haves and have-nots, and the peace, order, and prosperity projected by the Protestant mission. Although Wilson's and Lenin's visions were apparently contradictory, at times the Left supported both. As Socialist H.W.L. Dana wrote to James Graham Phelps Stokes:
[Dana to Stokes:] The propaganda which I find most necessary here in Massachusetts is one in favor of Wilson's ideals. So anxious do I feel myself to protect Wilson from attack, that I find myself ready to hold a position more radical than his in order to draw the fire of the reactionaries upon us. What does it matter if we are crushed out, so long as his liberal ideals remain…I am willing to sacrifice those things which one holds dearer than life, my reputation and the understanding of my fellow men, if I can only contribute a little toward that great solution of the problem of war; so that my bleeding brothers may not have bled in vain. [vi]
Thus Villard's vehement opposition to the League of Nations gains added significance. The following is a synthesis of diagnoses and presciptions transmitted by the Nation, January-August 1919, reproducing the Judgment Day discourse of Villard and other writers. Materialism was linked both to Shylock/Wilson (international finance capital, the source of imperialism), and to Russo-Semitic mud of Greenwich Village (Freud's "nauseous juices").[vii] The "hostile spirit" of mass politics (likened to "white ants"), was eating at the foundations of society. Mammon, Freud, Eros, science, and cities marched past shriveling Anglo-Saxons.[viii]
Villard (who had once believed that the Fourteen Points would end war and arms races) howled at the betrayal of the Versailles Treaty, more or less denouncing Wilson as a hypnotic confidence-man, long aware of the Allies' secret agreements to divest Germany of land and colonies.[ix] At the "mad" Peace Conference, Wilson's disguise had been discarded of necessity; the lone wolf and egotist was snuggled in [Shylock's [x]] pocket, international finance capital. Thought by the pathetically eager and gentle millions to be the carrier of the Christian mission, Wilson was sponsoring the League of Nations to promote peace, while conniving with other insider imperialists to dominate the world.[xi] Meanwhile, Europe lay in smoking ruins, bankrupt and hungry. The red flame of revolution leapt from Moscow to Munich, to Budapest, to Vienna, to London, to Paris, to Milan: Americans should be quarantined with a "Chinese Wall" to block the news (or "whirlwind") from Europe.[xii] The disappointed, suspicious masses everywhere were tinder for the conflagration to come. Workers in Winnepeg, New York, Seattle, Toronto, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), and Waltham (Massachusetts) were poised to take power. In the vacuum left by the fallen Wilson, the most deluded, stubborn and headstrong false messiahs would be taking the van, pointing away from the calm, careful, and free deliberations of Anglo-Saxon politics, most plainly exemplified in the Puritan town meeting and its spawn, the "honest populism" of the North Dakota Non-Partisan League. They were moving toward the savage (Jewish) vengeance of socialist revolution, mind-control, and the bureaucracy that would follow in an inefficient, decadent worker's state.[xiii]
Under these desperate circumstances, what should a moderate man do? While praying for another Savior/Superman (an economic dictator or a Lord Robert Cecil), Villard's action-oriented magazine (with very few exceptions) put out a familiar appeal to rational conservatives. The Right, in its crusading zeal to stamp out the Left, was destroying the Constitution and every semblance of civil liberty, driving orphaned Wilson children into the arms of [Jewish Bolshevism] where presumably they would be betrayed once again, this time for good.[xiv] Similarly, by invading the Soviet Union, America and the Allies were only consolidating the irrational hold of the Bolsheviks. Unmolested, the Russians would revert to type and turn inward; meanwhile, a profitable trading relationship with the Russian masses beckoned.[xv] To avert the bloody massacre of class war, Christian conservatives were to make a few needed sacrifices, move sharply to the Left, and engage Labor as partners to Capital in a Christian, decentralized, associationist state of humanistic, anti-materialist but productive brothers and sisters.[xvi] Alien and exploitative international finance capital (up in the air) should be banished; native commercial capital (close to the ground) would remain. If even twenty intelligent industrialists set their minds to it, conferred and planned, the problem of class warfare could be solved in a matter of weeks.[xvii] The socialist claim for international solidarity through "workers' control"[xviii] was jettisoned in favor of spirituality and a reinstated family of democratic Christian gentlemen, one or more of whom would befriend the common people: a "builder of more stately mansions."[xix] In spite of the Nation's occasional support for liberal internationalism and opposition to racism and national chauvinism, (12 April, 540), the scientific but Jewishly-divisive suggestion of opposing interests between Capital and Labor had been discarded for the mystical but (internally[xx]) unifying glue of race and national character. Honest Anglo-Saxons invited shifty immigrants to rationally assimilate through class collaboration, even if they were racially unfit to get it, quite.
An anonymous review of George Woodberry's "Nathaniel Hawthorne: How to Know Him" clarified American historicism in the Nation. Every writer (not only Hawthorne) should be first considered with regard to his all-shaping environment and the ideas of his time. Second, the writer, now located geographically and molded accordingly, should be considered with regard to his peculiar and idiosyncratic responses. These are the relevant factors of his biography. "Art," however, was a separate category from life. "Aesthetics" were related to standards of universal literature; unity was found only in the aesthetic realm. Alas, non-Anglo-Saxons could only hope to peer at Hawthorne. As the reviewer noted of literary scholar George Woodberry: "[However singular and parochial Hawthorne might have been] there is no one now living who is so peculiarly fitted by racial inheritance to speak of Hawthorne with sympathetic understanding."[xxi] Relations between Hawthorne and Woodberry were guaranteed to be harmonious since, happily, a similar biological environment had pre-soaked their individualities; why, they nearly had the same name. (Relations between Hawthorne and the Melville revivers would be as trouble-free; it shall be seen that Hawthorne's insights into Melville's obsessive character, especially as recorded in the former's English Notebooks, would influence assessments of twentieth-century Melville revivers, almost as if a blood brother could not be contradicted.)
But such a rooted, blood and soil historicism would logically have to sabotage the rational search for "common ground" so strenuously advocated by Progressives as the approved Anglo-Saxon solution to class warfare. This impasse was addressed six years later by Nation reader Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, a pluralist and pragmatist, who was the self-proclaimed intellectual descendant of Kant, Comte, Spencer, LeBon, Durkheim, McDougall, Cooley, and John Dewey. Levinger identified two brands of extremism: 100 percent Americans pursuing the "lost cause" of anti-Semitism; and maladjusted Jews suffering from "oppression psychosis." In his book Anti-Semitism in the United States: Its History and Causes (1925), Levinger softly explained that American "soil" sprouted neither Marxists nor nativist hysterics: "class consciousness" and "prejudice" disappear when hard hearts melt and rationally adapt to new conditions. Jewish immigrants should leave behind their rigid European formulations of Fascismo versus Socialism, Czarists versus Bolsheviks. In racially and ethnically diverse, sprawling, brawling America, unity would yet be found in the "higher synthesis" of "group minds" admiring their "ideal self." An all inclusive God-figure smiled on equal opportunity, experiments in group adjustment, and a "scientific" sociology in which "group mind" (an "empirical fact") confers "functional unity." Worrisome dissension, hate and inter-group violence were produced solely by "hysteria," the residual "high emotional tone" left in the dissolution of artificial wartime unity. With corrected "gradation of loyalties" and discreetly harmonized "overlapping" "group affiliations," groups, not individuals, would be possessed of the "individuality" for which democrats yearned. The national (nascently international) symphony should commence. As for domination, there isn't any. Levinger explained after quoting James Mark Baldwin, a sociologist:
"The real self is always the bi-polar self, the social self." Empirically, not only are civilization, history and government the products of social heredity; the individual himself as we have him owes his mental content, many of his feelings and motor responses, and his ultimate ideals to the group in which he was born and has developed. On this basis the ancient conflict between the isolated individual and the group domination becomes unimportant, if not meaningless, from the empirical point of view (32)."
Regretfully, Levinger's "exceptional individual," the "genius or social discoverer" was linked to the "criminal or social rebel." Mad and tragic misfits–like stubborn, hypersensitive, primitivistic Jews regressively merged with their "alters" or "other"– refused the "tolerant" "social self."[xxii] By the end of the 1930s, Melville's isolatoes (Ahab, Pierre, Isabel, Margoth) would be desaparecidos. Wholeness (but not whaleness) commanded "American" literature.
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal rights to every individual citizen. The new social psychology was sanely designed to wrest the concept of individuality from individual persons to groups: races, ethnicities and business corporations.[xxiii] There might be no commitment to civil liberties in the practice of corporatist intellectuals had not the bloody repression of oppositional political speech during the first two decades of the twentieth century apparently propelled workers and their allies toward socialism, forcing moderate conservatives to forestall revolution in the disillusioned lower orders after the Great War by incorporating libertarian ideals and subversive writers. But the inspiring enlightenment rationalism of John Locke, Condorcet, and the Founding Fathers [xxiv] was vitiated by the racialist Progressive discourse derived from German idealism and the ideas of J. G. Von Herder, the hyphenated Americanism promoted after 1916 that advocated antiracist social and educational policies persisting today as "multiculturalism." [xxv] Horace Kallen's Culture and Democracy in the United States: Studies in the Group Psychology of the American Peoples (1924) [xxvi] linked blood and soil determinism with anti-imperialism, boldly asserting an eighteenth-century völkisch social theory against materialist class analysis, proletarian internationalism, and war:
[Kallen:] "The experiments on the salamander and the ascidian, on the rat and the rabbit, make a prima facie case, the importance of which cannot be seriously questioned, for the inheritance of acquired physical traits. The experiments upon the white mice make an even more significant case for the inheritance of acquired "mental" traits (29). …The American people…are no longer one in the same sense in which the people of Germany or the people of France are one, or in which the people of the American Revolution were one. They are a mosaic of peoples, of different bloods and of different origins, engaged in rather different economic fields, and varied in background and outlook as well as in blood…The very conception of the individual has changed. He is seen no longer as an absolutely distinct and autonomous entity, but as a link in an endless historical chain which is heredity, and as a point in a geographical extent involving political, economic, social organization, and all the other factors of group life, which are his environment (58-59).
[Kallen, cont.:] …The fact is that similarity of class rests upon no inevitable external condition: while similarity of nationality has usually a considerable intrinsic base. Hence the poor of two different peoples tend to be less like-minded than the poor and the rich of the same peoples. At his core, no human being, even in a "state of nature" is a mere mathematical unit of action like the "economic man." Behind him in time and tremendously in him in quality, are his ancestors; around him in space are his relative and kin, carrying in common with him the inherited organic set from a remoter common ancestry. In all these he lives and moves and has his being. They constitute his, literally, natio, the inwardness of his nativity, and in Europe every inch of his non-human environment wears the effects of their action upon it and breathes their spirit (93-94)…Americans are a sort of collective Faust, whose memories of Gretchen and the cloister trouble but do not restrain the conquest of the new empire, and perhaps, the endeavor after Helen (265). (my emph.)"
Researchers would not examine unique individuals with highly variable life experience, capabilities and allegiances: more or less informed individuals making hard choices in shifting situations that were similarly available to empirical investigation, reporting their findings to anyone who cared to listen and respond. For many "symbolic interactionists" or "structuralists," "society" or "the nation" was a collective subject composed of smaller collective subjects or "sub-cultures": classes, races, ethnicities, and genders; these collectivities each possessed group "character" expressed in distinctive languages; we communicated solely through the mediations of symbols or "institutional discourses," and badly. The dissenting, universal individual (the mad scientist) had been swallowed up, while at the same time the conservative reformers claimed to protect or restore individuality in their rescue of deracinated immigrants. Such confusing policies, I believe, are a futile attempt by planners from the right wing of the Progressive movement to impose a sunny, placid, crystalline exterior upon social actors–both individuals and groups–riven by unrecognizable but seething inter- and intra-class conflicts.[xxvii] Although Progressive "corporate liberalism" has been derided by recent populists and New Leftists, its critics have not brought out the organicist sub-text, which, curiously, many radical critics carry but do not seem to see. Melville as Ahab and other dark characters diagnosed the demented character of 'moderate' social nostrums;[xxviii] his conservative characters blinkered themselves for the sake of family unity. Why this semi-visible racialist discourse on behalf of a more rooted cosmopolitanism was deemed indispensable to many Progressives is one theme in my book. The construction of the Jungian unconscious as site for Progressive purification and uplift is further developed below as I draw a straight line between some aristocratic radicals of the 1920s and their New Left admirers in the field of American literature.
[i]. Villard believed that the Peace Conference would degenerate into a contest for spoils without the presence of Wilson, The Nation, 2/15/19, 252. On 2/22, "The Net Result" (on the Peace Conference) argued that leaders were failing to perceive the importance of class conflict as national alignments gave way to those of class (268).
[ii] "Danger Ahead," The Nation, 2/8/19, 186-187. (In the same issue, Nathaniel Hawthorne was lauded as a genius whose writing, formerly held to be parochial, was now to be judged in competition with universal art.) According to revolutionary socialists, tolerance is repressive when it masks social impotence; expression is "free" but may not be translated into measures for structural change beyond social democratic reformism.
[iii] "The Future of the World,"The Nation, 3/22/19, 298.
[iv] Norman Foerster, "Reconstructing the Ph.D. in English," The Nation, 5/10/19, 747-50. See also Richard M. Gummere, "The Modern World and the Latin Classroom," 1/4/19, 13-14; Grant Showerman, "Measuring the Immeasurable," 7/5, 12-13. Study of the classics would stave off the catastrophe resulting from the scientific vogue for quantitative results. See Norman Foerster, Literary Scholarship: Its Aims and Methods (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1941). Foerster et al were reforming the teaching of literature, seeking "to sort, order, weigh, apply—what the scholarship of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth so devotedly accumulated" (29-30); they will "expose and counteract the unbounded appetite for material power, combined with the self-deception of flimsy ideologies from eighteenth-century sentimentalism to twentieth-century totalitarianism" (31).
[v] See Nation 1/25, 136. Jews are perennial radicals, no matter how wealthy; 4/19, 664-65; 4/26, 646-647; 5/3, 668, 675, 678.
[vi] See the James Graham Phelps Stokes papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Butler Library, Columbia University. The Second International supported Wilsonian diplomacy, the Third did not support Wilson's "alternative to Bolshevism" (the League, the International Labour Organization) until 1933, when Stalin felt himself menaced by both Germany and Japan. See Kathryn W. Davis, The Soviet Union and the League of Nations 1919-1933 (Geneva: Geneva Research Center, 1934), 3-23. Also see Arno J. Mayer, Wilson vs. Lenin: Political Origins of the New Diplomacy 1917-1918 (Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1964), 368-393. Mayer saw both visions headed in the same direction: "Lenin's immediate aim was destructive: class war in preparation for the transitional dictatorship of the proletariat. However, his ultimate objective of the classless society in a warless world had the same hopeful and utopian quality as Wilson's search for a peaceful community of sovereign democratic nations of unequal power" (393).
[vii] See the hostile review of Albert Mordell, The Erotic Motive in Literature, 7/19, 94. Freud's only God is Venus who "rages like a fire" "defaming and defacing" noblest names like Galahad and Lancelot. See also Walter A. Dyer, "The New Order at Juniper Hill," 7/26, 104-106. The "Anglo-Saxon race" is free from ideas of "class revolution" (106); Fabian Socialism (bearing "inherent common sense") is contrasted to the Greenwich Village "red radical[s]" with their "Russo-Semitic" "lineage" (104). The Right (a banker, an economist, an editor) is not characterized racially. The same issue notes that British conservatives in a "National Unity Movement" will remove false teachings from the working class (131).
[viii] "Mental Reconstruction," a review of five recent books, 5/31/19, 871-873.
[ix] See Oswald Garrison Villard, "The Truth about the Peace Conference," 4/26, 646-647. See also 2/15, 252; 2/22, 268; 5/10, 721, 728-30; 5/17, 826; 7/5, 30. Also, "The Failure of Moral Leadership," 7/5, 4 (the hypnotic Wilson to which even The Nation had succumbed; the need for a spiritual revival); 5/5, 14-16; Lincoln Colcord, "Why Wilson Was Defeated at Paris," 5/17, 782-84. Colcord explained that the secret treaties of the Allies had been published by Trotsky, November 1917; Wilson had them, but would not act. "With the ineluctable knowledge of their existence and terms, he outlined, a month later, his famous Fourteen Points…It is only fair to assume that he himself was deluded; at all times he promised himself that he would rectify the error when the Peace Conference came" (783). The preceding article, "Madness at Versailles" was harsher: "His rhetorical phrases, torn and faded tinsel of thought which men now doubt if he himself ever really believed, will never again fall with hypnotic charm upon the ears of eager multitudes. The camouflage of ethical precept and political philosophizing which for long has blinded the eyes of all but the most observing has been stripped away, and the peoples of the world see revealed, not a friend faithful to the last, but an arrogant autocrat and a compromising politician." With the sane liberal center abandoned, there are two hostile camps: radicals and reactionaries. Wilson is with "the staunch supporters of power and privilege, the controllers of great wealth and dictators of social favor, the voluble champions of the established order against every form of revolution, the preachers of hate and prejudice, and the timid and dependent whose souls are not their own"(779). See also 7/19, 68.
[x] Although Polish pogroms were vigorously protested, anti-Semitism in The Nation was implicit in its characterizations of finance capital and foreign radicalism. See especially W.G. Roylance, "Americanism in North Dakota," 7/12, 37-39, a defense of the populists and their Anglo-Saxon antecedents the Lollards. "The League in North Dakota represents the organized revolt of the farmers, who make up the majority of the population, against long-continued exploitation of financial Shylocks and marketing profiteers." The populists are not "European [dishonest] radicals" but examples of "honest American progressive democracy." Failure will only come from outside the system (autocratic forces that hate democracy). In a review of a pamphlet, Shylock Not a Jew, by Maurice Packard and Adelaide Marshall, 6/28, 1018, the reviewer belittled "the little brochure" as unilluminating and belaboring the obvious.
[xi] See the reprint of a pamphlet by the English anti-imperialist, J.A. Hobson, "The New Holy Alliance," 4/19, 626-628: Wilson "willingly poured his idealism into the Smuts plan"; a "conspiracy of autocrats" will defeat true internationalism and control the world. Also, Lincoln Colcord, "A Receivership for Civilization," 6/28, 1009-1010: The press has been hiding this story–American boys will be giving their lives to protect bond investors in Europe. Cf. 5/24, 820: U.S. soldiers will die to protect loans to China; Anglo-American imperialism will rule the world; progressives in the Republican Party are splitting from the Old Guard on this. Also, 7/5, editorial, Elihu Root, the servant of finance capital is swaying Republican opinion away from the progressive bloc to join Wilson and the Democrats, all of whom are in their pockets. Also, "[P]ossibly other inner circles" of finance capital for the benefit of Wall Street are mentioned in connection with the Treaty, 8/2, 140-141. The anti-Semitism of Hobson's influential study of imperialism (1905) has been noted by Lewis Feuer, but from the Right. See Lewis Feuer, Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1986).
[xii] 4/15/19, 485, "the whirlwind approaches across Europe." Villard, "Germany Today: Food or Chaos," 3/29, 464-465.
[xiii] 2/15, 246-247; 3/29, 464-66, 496-497; 4/26, 650-652; 4/12, 542-49; 4/19, 601-603; "Reason in Revolution," 6/14/19, 932. If we open lawful channels for change, labor can realize its demands. 5/10, 726 on "May Day Rioting": we should stick to "the Anglo-Saxon method [the moderate way] of settling our difficulties by peaceful means and no others." Also, 6/7, 899, The "Anglo-Saxon way of altering social and political institutions by free debate and discussion" contrasted to "Prussian intolerance." Also, Allen McCurdy, "Wanted–A Ballot Box," 7/5, 9-10. Also, W.G. Roylance, "Americanism in North Dakota," 7/12/19, 37-39. William MacDonald, "North Dakota's Experiment," 3/22, 420-422, "The Technique of Revolution," 3/22, 417; 5/10, 738-39; 6/7, 899; 3/15, 396; 5/5, 10-11; 6/14, 955-56; 3/29, 460, 467-68; 5/17, 839-40; 5/31, 871-72; 7/5, 23; 7/12, 43.
[xiv] "While They Dance the Tango," 3/22, 452; Spartacism is unchecked, we need an economic dictator, also 459: labor and capital must sit down and transform industry; John Kenneth Turner, "A Pledge to the World,"7/5, 14-16: Lord Robert Cecil (like the model subscriber to The Nation?) had departed from the feudal and reactionary ways of his Vere de Vere type ancestors, standing for peace and cooperation with labor, in control of all the impulses that made for irresponsible demagoguery of the past. 3/8, "Poisoning the Wells"; 3/29, 485-486; 4/12, 553-54; 4/19, 595, 626-628; 5/3, 692, 699; 5/17, 806-808; 6/28, 1000; 7/12, 37-39; 7/26, 97.
[xv] 2/8, 188-190; 3/22, 413; 4/5, 522-25; 5/10, 792.
[xvi] See the review of M.P. Follet, The New State, 1/18, 97: the neighborhood group would be the embodiment of the "group state" that replaced the "crowd state." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Brandeis [ideological successors to Melville's father-in-law, Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the State of Massachusetts] represented the change from a state that protected individualistic privilege to a conception of law as the "outcome of community life and bound to its service." 3/1, 314-15; 3/29, 459, 463, 478-79; Richard Roberts, "England in Revolution," 5/17, 784-85; "The League of Nations in Danger," (sermon by Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford, who fears education and science as promoters of competition, not Christian corporatism), 806-808; 5/31, 866-67; "The Problem of the State," 8/2, 137.
[xvii] 6/7, 931-44; Lincoln Colcord, "The Carving of Russia," 6/14, 940-941, for the distinction between "industrial bankers" versus "financial bankers." The "international bankers" stand in the background of the negotiations in Paris, arranging the destinies of men." Commercial bankers are "outside" this scenario. Unlike the "financial" bankers, the commercial ones (e.g. National City Bank connected to Standard Oil, American International Corporation, and the banking-engineering firm of Stone and Weber) are close to production, wisely making concessions to labor. The former (e.g. J.P. Morgan) see the state as existing to clamp down on debtors. 7/12, 28: The Non-Partisans are not Socialists; they want to buy cheap and sell dear; alien speculators and alien control of markets and terminals are to be eliminated. In the same issue, a review entitled "Immanent Idealism" (a synthesis of the old idealism and pragmatism) recommends its formless self as best counter to emancipated, atheistic, international democracy (23). 2/15, 243; 3/22, 452; 4/12, 536.
[xviii] 2/8, 217, 241; Special Correspondent, "The Shop Stewards Movement," 2/22, 277-279 (favorable towards worker's control); 3/22, 451; 3/29, 477-78; 5/3, 680; 5/10, 722.
[xix] A.A. Berle, Jr., "The Betrayal at Paris," 8/19/19, 170. Cf. 160, "An Appeal to America Not Yet Written by Woodrow Wilson," in which the ideal leader is not a friend of one class over another, but helps classes to understand each other, then see their common interest and common justice.
[xx] Internal to "the race," not the individual psyche.
[xxi] Unsigned review, 2/8, 202, possibly Carl Van Doren.
[xxii] Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, Anti-Semitism in the United States, Its History and Causes (N.Y.: Bloch, 1925), 29, 333-34, 39-44, 51, 71, 78, 94-95, 110, 115.
[xxiii] A clipping preserved by Carey McWilliams is revealing in this regard: Woodruff Randolph's editorial in the Typographical Journal 9/4/37, protested recent right-wing offensives; the headline read "Incorporate Unions? Step Toward Fascism, Says 'Typo' Secretary." Randolph contrasted the business corporation "partly a person and partly a citizen, yet it has not the inalienable rights of a natural person" with "A labor organization [which] is organized to do in numbers what each may do individually under his inalienable rights." Carey McWilliams Papers, UCLA Special Collections, Box 14.
[xxiv] James W. Ceaser, Reconstructing America, Chapter 2. Ceaser differentiates among the Founders, arguing that Jefferson's political rationalism existed in tension with received ideas on race; the overall effect was to replace political science with natural history as the guide to sound government. Condorcet, the most comprehensively democratic philosophe, the champion of internationalism, popular sovereignty, public education, feminism, and progress, and enemy to separation of powers and checks and balances (as ploys of elites to subvert democratic will), was annexed to the conservative enlightenment to give liberal credibility to the New Deal elevation of the executive branch of government over the legislative branch. See J. Salwyn Schapiro, Condorcet and the Rise of Liberalism (N.Y.: Octagon Reprint, 1978, orig. pub. 1934, repub. 1963), 276-277: "Security for both capital and labor is essential if freedom of enterprise is to survive…Responsibility in government can be more efficiently maintained by giving more authority to the executive, who would wield power, not as an irresponsible dictator, but as a democratically chosen official responsible to a legislature whose essential function would be to act as the nation's monitor. Progress has been the peculiar heritage of liberalism to which it must be ever faithful in order to survive." Condorcet joins Paine and Jefferson as fodder for the moderate men of the vital center.
[xxv] I am using 1916 as a milestone in the promotion of ethnopluralism because of the publication of the Randolph Bourne article, "Trans-National America," and a now forgotten book by the head psychologist of the Boston Normal School, J. Mace Andress, Johann Gottfried Herder as an Educator (New York: G.E. Stechert, 1916). The latter introduced Herder as the precursor to Franz Boas and advocated the new "race pedagogy." There was no ambiguity about the welcome counter-Enlightenment drift of German Romanticism in this work. For Andress, the German Romantic hero was a rooted cosmopolitan, fighting to throw off [Jewish] materialist domination to liberate the Volksgeist. In 1942, Herder was presented as a Kantian, pantheist, cosmopolitan and quasi-democrat, even a supporter of the French Revolution in James Westfall Thompson, A History of Historical Writing, Vol. 2, 33-138, especially 137.
Some more recent intellectual historians are rehabilitating Herder along with other figures of the Hochklarung, similarly held to be avatars of the freethinking emancipated individual. In his talk at the Clark Library symposium "Materialist Philosophy, Religious Heresy, and Political Radicalism, 1650-1800," (May 1, 1999) John H. Zammito declared that Herder's philosophy (the demolition of mechanical materialism?) cleared the way for the further development of natural science in Germany. The key figure for these scholars is Spinoza, his pantheism the apex of "vitalist materialism." Margaret C. Jacob, author of The Radical Enlightenment, 1981, was organizer of the conference, but we are using the term with differing assumptions about scientific method and what, exactly, constitutes the radical Enlightenment.
[xxvi] Horace M. Kallen, Culture and Democracy in The United States: Studies in the Group Psychology of the American Peoples, (N.Y: Boni and Liveright: 1924), recognized in Alfred E. Zimmern's review in The Nation and the Atheneum, 5/17/24, 207, as a shift away from Lockean environmentalism toward hereditarian racism, however (benignly) characterized as "a cooperation of cultural diversities"; Zimmern linked Kallen's pluralism to that of William James. He did not mention Randolph Bourne's Atlantic Monthly essay of 1916, "Trans-National America." See also Robert Reinhold Ergang, Herder and the Foundations of German Nationalism, (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1931), Chapter III. On the explicit and implicit antisemitism/Counter-Enlightenment in Herder's position, see p. 92: "The Hebrews 'were a people spoiled in their education, because they never arrived at a maturity of political culture on their own soil, and consequently not to any true sentiment of liberty and honor.' " There it is, the Big Lie of rootless cosmopolitanism. See p.95 for the basis of Herder's anti-French revolt: Rousseau's Contrat social is not the force that binds a nation, but nature's laws of blood and soil; Nature, not Culture creates interdependence; for Herder there is only Nature and all history is natural history; environmentally acquired characteristics are inherited by the corporate entity.
[xxvii] See for instance, Louis Filler, Randolph Bourne (Washington, D.C.: American Council On Public Affairs, 1943). The Council was a Progressive organization producing pamphlets during the war and promoting cooperation between capital and labor. Louis Filler (also a Nation writer) explained why Randolph Bourne, espousing an orderly "international identity" for America and explaining war as an outgrowth of nationalism, had been wrongly deemed as irrelevant to the youth of the 1930s; we need Bourne today. Filler explained, "Alien cultures, Bourne declared, brought new forces and ideas to American life. [Those bossy, snobbish Anglo-Saxon assimilationists who controlled everything, so] discouraged retention by immigrants of their Old World heritage did not thereby create Americans. They created "hordes of men and women without a spiritual country, cultural outlaws, without taste, without standards but those of the mob." Moreover: "those who come to find liberty achieve only license. They become the flotsam and jetsam of American life, the downward undertow of our civilization with its leering cheapness and falseness of taste and spiritual outlook, the absence of mind and sincere feeling which we see in our slovenly towns, our vapid moving pictures, our popular novels, and in the vacuous faces of the crowds on the city street. This is the cultural wreckage of our time, and it is from the fringes of the Anglo-Saxon as well as the other stocks that it falls. America has as yet no compelling integrating force. It makes too easily for this detritus of cultures. In our loose, free country, no constraining national purpose, no tenacious folk-tradition and folk-style hold the people to a line." What would be done about such a state of affairs? "America is a unique sociological fabric, and it bespeaks poverty of imagination not to be thrilled at the incalculable potentialities of so novel a union of men. To seek no other good but the weary old nationalism–belligerent, exclusive, inbreeding, the poison of which we are witnessing now in Europe–is to make patriotism a hollow sham, and to declare, that, in spite of our boastings, America must ever be a follower and not a leader of nations." Do not, therefore, denigrate any culture that has driven stakes into the American soil: do not, certainly, term it un-American: "There is no distinctive American culture." Do not, above all, set up American material achievement as a token of American fulfillment: "If the American note is bigness, action, the objective as contrasted with the reflective life, where is the epic expression of this spirit?" We were patently inhibited from presenting in impressive artistic form the energy with which we were filled. The reason was that we had not yet accepted the cosmopolitanism with which we had been endowed. Americans of culture could be made of the Germans in Wisconsin, the Scandinavians in Minnesota, and the Irish and Italians of New York. "In a world which has dreamed of internationalism, we find that we have all unawares been building up the first international identity (76-78)…[Bourne's] ideas, his experiences, the warp and woof of his personality were not necessary to a generation that believed it had discovered impersonal economic laws that (properly applied) would at last bring about a settlement of human affairs (133)."
[xxviii] Cf. David Leverenz on the "Ugly Narcissus," Ahab: "He certainly is not afflicted with contradictory or discontinuous role-expectations. But he does start to experience a desire for [sadomasochistic] fusion, previously blocked by his obsession." In Manhood and the American Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1989), 294.
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I make an Animation object with many TextureRegions and I found this solution for update the frame's position in the render method:
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    batch.draw(currentFrame, w, h,120,160);
else if (currentFrame.equals(tex2))
    batch.draw(currentFrame, w+5, h+10,120,160);
    batch.end();

This draw each frame of animation in different position, in sequence;
is this a good solution or exist something better?
Thanks.

A: After you have initialized your animation object, you just get the current frame using the getKeyFrame method and draw it with the batch:
TextureRegion currentFrame = animation.getKeyFrame(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime(), true);
batch.draw(currentFrame, 0, 0);

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