The most important aspect while solving a marketing case study is to read the case. Although it has been observed that while solving a case study the major focus for the case study solution is generally upon the questions that needs to be answered. However, it reading the case study without skimming or overlooking any of the content has to be one of the best or the most feasible methods of analyzing the case study.
Since case study solution is all about solving the case within the information provided, therefore, it the case study is read thoroughly before analyzing it, solving it, it is necessary and rather obligatory to read it with clear mind and complete concentration. The information in the case is the ultimate source of coming to a conclusion; therefore, it is advisable to read the case with complete concentration.
This generally leads to better understanding of the dilemma presented in the case, the central figures are easier to identify and the analysis section along with the situation discussion becomes easier.
The solution to the case also becomes rather easy because once the case study is read thoroughly it tends to help the solver to come over to a conclusion based on the information within the case study rather than finding solutions through the external research.
Therefore, the most important tip while solving any case study and specifically marketing case study shall be to read the case thoroughly. This not helps understand the situation rather more accurately but it also helps in solving the case within the time frame provided.
Once the reader has gone through reading the case, the next step for solving the case study shall be to read the questions that need to answer within the case study. This is also one major tip that sometimes marketing case solver tend to miss out on.
The reason is simple, generally most of the cases in the marketing field are quite similar and they require more or less the same marketing techniques, tools and models to interpret the information provided in the case. However, it is very necessary for the case to make the reader accustomed to the questions that needs to be taken care off.
In most of the cases, the questions if read with complete concentration makes it lot easier for the person to solve the case because if the case is to be solved according to the requirements than it is rather obligatory and mandatory for the solver to go through the questions before solving the case study.
Once the questions are kept in mind before solving the case it becomes rather easier for the case to be solved accordingly. Most of the times one marketing case can be solved in more than one way, therefore, it is necessary to understand the questions more radically before making the next move.
Therefore, the second step or the tip to solve a marketing case shall be to read the questions more than once to better understand what needs to be solving in the case.
The third tip to solving a marketing case or any other case for that matter is to identify the major problem within the case. The reason is simple, every case has one significant problem that needs to be addressed and solved.
In most of the case studies, there is more than one problem. To identify the major or the significant problem is the most important task. If the problem is not identified as per the requirements, than it generally leads to poor decision making, therefore, it is mandatory on part of the case study that it needs to be solved as per the problem.
Since all marketing cases present more than one problem, therefore, to identify the most obvious one becomes rather tricky and sometimes even difficult. It is necessary to ensure and even highlight the major problem within the case, because it eventually makes easier to come to a solution to the problem.
Most of the times, the main issue or the major problem that needs t solved within the case is written on the very first page and in the last paragraph of the case study. So we can sometimes use the trick to identifying the major problem within the case.
Therefore, one major tip in solving a marketing case study shall be to identify the major problem within the case. If the problem is well understood, the solution, analysis, applying marketing tools and models, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, recommendations and conclusion becomes rather easy.
Hence, it can be said that the third tip to solve a marketing case will be to understand and pen-down the problem statement and solve the case based on the problem identified. This more often than not leads to better understanding of the case and eventually leads to improved results also.
The fourth tip to solving a marketing case shall be to describe how the business shall be responding to the problems identified in the case. Most of the times, the company within the case study has tried solving the problem by introducing new methods and ways which leads to the solution of the problem.
However, since the company does not find the right solution to the problem therefore, it leads to the issues becoming more intense and leads to decrease is sales, employee demotivation, limited employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, profitability, etc.
Therefore, it can be said that the reader before actually providing the alternatives or finding the solution to the problem within the case or in the company he needs to first of all study the solution company has tried using within the case. This helps the reader become aware of the situation and it helps in finding the right mix of solution to the specific problem.
Moreover, the solution of the case study needs to be gathering all the information and then look to trace a chronological progression of the different steps that shall be taken in the future which has been missed by the company. Over here, citation of the data included in the case study is very important where the solution of the case should be based upon the different exhibits that have been explained and shown in the case.
Finally it can be said that, before coming to the solutions for a specific marketing case it is necessary to understand the solutions that have been presented within the case, the steps taken by the company to solve the problems has to be considered as vital and necessary.
Tip number five in order to solve a marketing case is to conduct a situation analysis. It is an integral part of the case study analysis. Over here, the introduction to the company, its financial performance, its marketing strategies, human resource strategies, communication strategies, customer service strategies have to be considered.
Situation analysis is basically the summary the crust of the case. Over here, the overall analysis of the case study the future direction, the marketing tools that shall be applied can actually be drawn in mind based on the situation analysis. Most of the times, situation analysis can be a paraphrasing of the content and data provided in the case.
Therefore, it is one most important aspect of the case study solution which needs to be dealt with complete control and authority. If the situation analysis is overlooked and not conducted the decision to land up at a specific decision or the recommendation shall become quite difficult. Therefore, situation analysis is again a necessity while solving a marketing case study because it helps in studying the customers, the organization norms and cultures the direction of the company etc.
The fifth tip in order to solve a marketing case shall be to apply appropriate and accurate marketing models, methods, techniques in order to solve the problem presented in the case. This is the most integral part in solving a case after the problem diagnosis. The reason is simple, if the problem is identified correctly and if the marketing models and strategies are not well understood, the whole essence of the case study disappears. Therefore, it is most important for the solution of the case study that the marketing model used within the case has to be perfect and also well aligned with the situation presented in the case.
Since marketing a broad term and it has various branches to it therefore, while solving each case different marketing strategies can be implemented. Over reliance on specific marketing techniques might do the job and the problem might be solved, but in the long run it become difficult for the company to sustain? In order to stay ahead of the competition and in order to stay competitive it is mandatory for the case to be solved as per the requirements rather than being too generic.
Along with this, it can be said that the application of right marketing techniques and marketing strategies plays a pivotal role in the solution of any marketing case study. A well directed case study analysis can only become possible if the case study is thoroughly read and the questions presented in the case are well understood.
If the direction of the case study is confused and unclear it leads to poor decision making which leads to a weak analysis of the overall case study. Therefore, the fifth most integral part of solving a case study is to apply appropriate and accurate marketing tools, models and strategies to solve the problem.
Some of the most widely used marketing models and techniques by marketers while solving a marketing case include the SWOT analysis, Marketing Mix, Product Life Cycle, 7C's of marketing, Pricing Strategy, Ansoff Matrix, Porter Five Forces Model, PESTEL Analysis, Corporate Strategy, etc. The above mentioned tools and marketing models are more frequently used in the analysis section of the case study.
The seventh step in the completion of a case study has to be the developing of the alternatives. While the introduction to the case, problem diagnosis are a necessity in the case study, the step of developing the alternatives is also a major task for the person analyzing the case study. The development of the alternatives sometimes is taken quite casually because eventually under this heading the case study takes a direction which is entirely based upon the thinking and decision making of the person.
It is basically developed with the personal discretion therefore, sometimes the development of alternatives becomes unclear and it tends to loosen the grip over the case study. In order to sustain the credibility and the completeness of the case study it is obligatory on part of the personal to develop such alternatives that are aligned with the case study itself.
Under this section, the reader has to be presented with the pros and cons of each and every alternative. Sometimes since the section holds personal bias of the personal solving the case and he tends to overlook quite a few major aspects because he wants to come to a point where he develops the recommendations in the mind. However, this is not the right way of solving a case. To make the best use of all the possible resources it is necessary to develop alternatives perfectly and in accordance with the case study.
The reader has to be set up in a way where he cannot actually come up with the best possible alternative. If the analysis of the case study is accurate and if the alternatives are also developed perfectly, it makes difficult to pick the right and the most appropriate and the most feasible solution for the case.
Once the alternatives are developed, the next step is the evaluation of the alternatives. Over here, the most important tip for the marketing case study shall be to evaluate alternatives on certain criteria. These criteria help the reader understand the direction of the company, the goals to be achieved and the decision that needs to be taken in the future. Some of the basic methods for evaluating the alternatives include the element of customer satisfaction, sales of the company, employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, sales and revenue, investment in R&D, etc. These are some of the basic themes and ideas that are used in order to evaluate the alternatives.
Along with this, another major decision for the solution of the case study has to be the selection of the alternative that shall help the firm overcome its existing issue. Most of the times, the person solving the case makes the alternatives what he feels can be the right move for the company without realizing the importance of having alternatives that can rather be appropriate for the company.
In such a situation the evaluation of alternatives based on the set criteria that is necessary for the problem solving of marketing case is most important aspect. If the reader wants to gauge in the attention of the reader and if he actually wants to stay real and aligned with the case study content and data it is necessary to evaluate the alternatives according the requirements of the case study.
Once the alternatives are developed and are evaluated also, the next step that is elementary in the solution of a case study is the recommendations. This again along with the problem statement and analysis is an important part of the case study solution.
The reason is simple, if the problem within the case is well versed and identified correctly and if the analysis part is also done with the right direction and within the case. The step of forming the recommendation for the case study becomes a lot easier. However, sometimes recommendations are not considered as the most necessary times, the case study tends to sometimes lose its focus during the ending section. However, while solving a case study it is very important to find the right recommendations to actually compliment the analysis section of the case study.
One important aspect of recommendation section is that it needs to align with the analysis section with great effect. If the recommendations are not as per the analysis the case study tends to loosen its grip over the reader and the end result or the solution that comes across is not the one that shall help the company overcome its existing and current issues.
Along with this, another important tip in solving a case study is to understand that the recommendations have to be realistic and as per the needs and wants of the case study. If a case that has been well directed until the analysis section and somehow loses its grip in the final section, the overall impact of the case study diminishes away. It is therefore, obligatory on part of solving the case that the recommendations should be realistic and aligned with the material provided in the case.
Therefore, it can be said that the recommendations lead to better execution of the case and it actually helps the case study become more accurate if the recommendations are realistic and as per the requirements of the case study. For instance if the case is about the marketing course, than the solution or the recommendation should also revolve around the marketing subjects.
Action plan is the final step or the final stage in every case study. This section is the last step because over here whatever the recommendations are made by the firm they actually have to be executed. Action plan has to be again realistic and aligned with the vision and mission of the company. If the action plan is unrealistic it leads to poor implementation of the execution of the idea presented in the case, therefore, it is necessary on part of the person solving the case study that it is according to the recommendations.
For instance an action where a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy is given the action plan to invest X million in the research and development shall become unrealistic and might end up making the case become vague. Therefore, it is again one basic idea to make the action plan realistic and aligned with the case study.
Action plan makes it easier for the reader to understand how the recommendations can become practical, therefore, it is necessary for the person solving the case study that the action is well directed and well versed.
Based on the above ten steps that have been discussed for solving a marketing case, it is necessary to abide all of the above mentioned steps to make the analysis of the case study more in-depth and aligned with the provided material in the case. If the case study is solved while keeping the above mentioned 10 steps it is more likely that it shall gauge in more readers and the organization looking for the solution to the problem end up implementing the ideas printed in the case study solution. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze all the marketing case studies based on the tips that have been presented in the paper.
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In late January, Tasmania's Clarence City Council took delivery of a new Komatsu GD555-5 grader – its first purchase of a Komatsu machine in close to 20 years.
Clarence City Council is one of three councils comprising the greater Hobart area, and is located on the eastern shores of the River Derwent; more than one-third of the council area is untouched natural bushland.
According to Garry Oates, Clarence City's Fleet and Workshop Co-ordinator, the new Komatsu grader will be primarily used for the council's own road maintenance program, as well as carrying out some construction works.
Garry said there were a number of reasons the council opted for the Komatsu GD555-5 grader.
"After discussions with our operator Shane Bell, one of the main things in favour of the Komatsu grader was its visibility to the blade and work areas," said Garry.
"He also loves the automatic/direct drive transmission.
"And in terms of weight, the Komatsu grader falls midway between the operating weight of our previous machine, and that of the next size up in that range.
"Before making the decision, we went with Shane to a few other Tasmanian councils which already had Komatsu graders, and he was able to trial them, as well as talk to other operators – who were really happy with their machines.
"After discussions with our operator Shane Bell, one of the main things in favour of the Komatsu grader was its visibility to the blade and work areas.
"While we haven't bought Komatsu for many years, this product came out as the most suitable for our needs – and the price was right," said Garry.
"In arranging delivery of the machine, in late January, our local Komatsu rep Doug Fulton was really good; nothing has been too much trouble for him.
Allen to assist Shane in the first few hours.
"While we've only had it a few days, Shane has been very pleased with it so far," he said.
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its visibility to the blade and work areas," said Garry.
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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (The book)
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Aleksandr Golovnev, Alexander S. Kulikov, Vladimir Podolskii, and Alexander Shen
This book supplements the DM for CS Specialization at Coursera and contains many interactive puzzles, autograded quizzes, and code snippets. They are intended to help you to discover important ideas in discrete mathematics on your own. By purchasing the book, you will get all updates of the book free of charge when they are released.
The book supplements the Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science specialization at Coursera and contains many interactive puzzles, autograded quizzes, and code snippets. They are intended to help you to discover important ideas in discrete mathematics on your own, and to show you corresponding applications of these ideas in computer science.
The book contains material corresponding to the first course in the associated specialization at Coursera, Mathematical Thinking in Computer Science. Future editions will cover the additional four courses, Combinatorics and Probability, Graph Theory, Number Theory and Cryptography, and Delivery Problem.
There are 180 problems and 90 code snippets in the book. Most of the problems come with solutions and more than 50 are graded automatically (allowing you to check your solution immediately). We're constantly working on extending and improving this book. Please ask questions, report typos, and suggest improvements through this form.
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Alexander Golovnev is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. Prior to this, he worked at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Yahoo Research. Alexander works and teaches mainly in the area of Theoretical Computer Science.
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Alexander S. Kulikov is a senior research fellow at Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia and a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego, USA. He also directs the Computer Science Center in Saint Petersburg that provides free advanced computer science courses complementing the standard university curricula. Alexander holds a Ph. D. from Steklov Mathematical Institute. His research interests include algorithms and complexity theory. He co-authored online courses "Data Structures and Algorithms" and "Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science" that are available at Coursera and edX.
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Judge Amy Barrett criticized for charismatic affiliation- Who are the People of Praise?
Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: University of Notre Dame
By Christine Rousselle
Washington D.C., Jul 3, 2018 / 04:45 pm (CNA).- Since the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, reports have circulated that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a federal judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, is a leading candidate for the country's high court.
Barrett, a Catholic, was appointed a federal judge in 2017. During and after her confirmation process, questions were raised about her faith, and about her affiliation with a group called the "People of Praise," a charismatic "covenant community."
People of Praise has been referred to in the media as a "cult," criticized for leaders called "heads" and "handmaidens" and for its widely noted "loyalty oaths."
But what is the "People of Praise?" Is it a cult? CNA spoke with current and former members to find out.
Bishop Peter Smith is a member of the Brotherhood of the People of Praise, an association of priests connected to the group, founded with the support of the late Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. Smith was ordained a bishop on April 29, 2014.
People of Praise was founded in 1971 as part of the "great emergence of lay ministries and lay movements in the Catholic Church," Smith told CNA.
The group began with 29 members who formed a "covenant"- an agreement, not an oath, to follow common principles, to give five percent of annual income to the group, and to meet regularly for spiritual, social, and service projects.
Covenant communities- Protestant and Catholic- emerged across the country in the 1970s, as a part of the Charismatic Renewal movement in American Christianity.
While most People of Praise members are Catholic, the group is officially ecumenical; people from a variety of Christian denominations can join. Members of the group are free to attend the church of their choosing, including different Catholic parishes, Smith explained.
"We're a lay movement in the Church," Smith explained. "There are plenty of these. We continue to try and live out life and our calling as Catholics, as baptized Christians, in this particular way, as other people do in other callings or ways that God may lead them into the Church."
Cardinal George, who was widely reputed among bishops for orthodoxy, wrote of the group: "In my acquaintance with the People of Praise, I have found men and women dedicated to God and eager to seek and do His divine will. They are shaped by love of Holy Scripture, prayer and community; and the Church's mission is richer for their presence."
The group was tapped to assist with the formation of deacons in at least one diocese, and several members have been ordained deacons.
While Barrett is known for her judicial conservatism, particularly on life issues, the group is not partisan. A person's political viewpoints do not play a role in membership, Smith told CNA.
"I know for a fact there are both registered Republicans and Democrats as well as independents in the People of Praise," said Smith.
There are an estimated 2,000 adult members of People of Praise. The organization has priest members in two dioceses, and operates three schools in the United States.
Barrett's Catholic faith came under scrutiny in 2017, when she was nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. During a confirmation hearing, she was asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) if she was an "orthodox Catholic" who believed in the Church's teachings. Feinstein also said that "the dogma lives loudly" in Barrett- that phrase has become which a rallying cry of sorts among many Catholics. #DogmaLivesLoudly has even become a popular hashtag.
People of Praise has faced criticism, and some former members allege that leaders have exerted undue influence over family decision-making, or pressured the children of members to commit to the group before being able to make that decisions with maturity.
One critic, philosopher Adrian Reimers, has written that the group has made "serious errors" in its theological approach.
Despite the criticisms it has faced, a former member of People of Praise told CNA that "the rank and file People of Praise members are very, very good people, wholeheartedly dedicated to the Lord," he said.
Bishop Smith rejected the idea that there is anything out of the ordinary or inappropriate about People of Praise. If affiliation with the group were something to be concerned about, he said, he would not have been made a bishop.
"When one becomes a bishop, they check your background out very, very closely," Smith said. "My People of Praise affiliation was very clear in my consideration for appointment as bishop, so the Holy Father Pope Francis appointed me bishop, knowing full well my involvement with People of Praise."
"If this was a nefarious group, I certainly wouldn't be part of it, and I certainly wouldn't be in the position that I'm in as well."
While Barrett is reportedly a member of the group, People of Praise does not official disclose information about individual members, and declined CNA's request for comment. And while women in the group's leadership were previously referred to as "handmaidens," the terminology has since shifted and these women are now called "women leaders."
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I don't know why I'd forgotten about these photos. They were taken on another photo walk with one of my Camera Coach students in downtown Decatur. It was the middle of November, and everything was so Autumn-y and beautiful. The light was so perfect that day. It was a perfect day to be sharing some photography knowledge and helping out a fellow light junkie.


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Basketball coach pleads 'no contest' in CSC case.
Russell Swihart with attorney Mark Miller.
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By Allison Scarbrough, Editor.
HART — A 36-year-old former high school basketball coach faces three to 15 years in prison after pleading" no contest" to third-degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC) Monday, Dec. 3, in 27th Circuit Court.
Russell Douglas Swihart was initially charged with five felony counts of CSC stemming from the sexual assaults of two 13-year-old female players. Swihart's case was slated to go to trial this month, and it is no longer taking place in light of his plea.
Swihart, of 5755 N. 192nd Ave., Walkerville, was facing charges of first-degree CSC, second-degree CSC, two counts of accosting children for immoral purposes and child sexually-abusive activity. The five counts were dismissed when he pleaded Monday.
The former coach, who is free after posting a $100,000/cash/surety bond, appeared in court with his attorney Mark Miller.
He was arrested June 25 following a months-long investigation by the Oceana County Sheriff's Office that involved interviewing several witnesses.
Swihart was the boys JV basketball coach at Walkerville High School and assisted with the JV girls basketball team, said Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast said.
Oceana County Prosecutor Joseph Bizon said he consulted with the victims and their families, and they are in agreement with the plea deal. The victims are spared from having to testify at trial. The girls appeared in the courtroom, sitting next to each other and holding hands, demonstrating their support for each other. The girls' mothers and several other people sat in the audience in support of the victims.
After Swihart's arrest, school officials ordered him to not be on school property "until further notice."
The incidents occurred in Crystal Township during a time period of Dec. 1, 2017 to March 27, 2018, said Judge Robert D. Springstead. Swihart engaged in oral sex with the victims, said Springstead.
"You will have to make parole to be released," Springstead said.
"You are no longer denying the charge, but not admitting to it," the judge said of the "no contest" plea. "Basically it says, 'I surrender.'"
Swihart's attorney said he entered the "no contest" plea due to potential civil liability.
The judge ordered that Swihart be placed on house arrest within 48 hours of Monday's court appearance until his sentencing, which is set for Jan. 28 at 9 a.m. He will only be allowed to leave his house for work between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. If he violates the curfew, his bond will be revoked.
Bizon said Swihart will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
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On the sixth-floor gallery of the Museum of Modern Art, the soft-spoken, 75-year-old billionaire Wilbur Ross, Jr. is giving me a personal lesson in René Magritte. We stop in front of La Clairvoyance, one of the two paintings that Ross has lent to a new exhibit of the artist's work. He asks me to carefully consider the Belgian surrealist's iconic 1936 self-portrait, the artist staring at an egg while drawing a bird, a signature riff on the perception of reality. Ross gazes fondly at the painting. "It just draws you in," he smiles.
Ross' entire art collection, conservatively valued at $150 million, includes pieces ranging from Western surrealists to contemporary Eastern sculptures. But it's clear which artist he favors the most.
La Clairvoyance is just one of 25 Magrittes he owns, a collection that includes some of the artist's most valuable paintings, among them The Pilgrim, another imaginative self-portrait, which Ross once lent to the Tate Liverpool and the Albertina in Vienna. His Magrittes alone are worth about $100 million. Why the obsession with the Belgian? Ross says he likes art that makes him think. The pieces he collects, he says, have to be more than just appealing images. "They must have something to say."
As another example, Ross mentions Hegel's Holiday, another of his Magrittes. The 1958 painting, currently on loan to France's Maeght Foundation, depicts nothing but a glass of water perched on the top of an open black umbrella. According to Ross, the work is about contradiction and toys with our basic idea of water.
Gallery: Wilbur Ross' $100 Million Magrittes
His passion for art, the New Jersey-born-and-bred Ross says, began as an undergraduate at Yale. As part of a financial-aid package, he was assigned as a teaching assistant to an art history class taught by the renowned historian Vincent Scully. "Since I was responsible for taking attendance, I never missed a class," laughs Ross.
While at Yale, Ross had summer jobs at several financial companies. He eventually joined Rothschild Inc. and became a bankruptcy specialist, helping to clean up the mess left by the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. In 2000 he broke off to form his own eponymous company; all told he has helped clean up more than $300 billion in corporate liabilities. Ross now has an estimated net worth of $2.6 billion.
But he started collecting art before amassing his wealth, buying print reproductions of works he liked. With more money came greater seriousness. His first collection, which was sold after his first divorce, consisted of paintings by the American Pre-Raphaelites, who were followers of the English artist-philosopher John Ruskin. In 2003, he purchased his first Magritte, La Valse Hésitation, for a few hundred thousand dollars.
For the past decade, Ross and his wife, Hilary, have become "museum junkies," he says, and serious buyers. They go to auctions hosted by Sotheby's and Christie's several times a year, in London and New York. They buy some work from private collectors, including an oil painting from Sir Elton John. Ross says he and his wife have established a strict two-day rule when it comes to purchasing art: If they see something they like, they always postpone a decision until seeing it the next day, to examine it under different light. "Good art is expensive, and you don't want to make a lot of mistakes," says Ross.
Since the early 2000s Ross has also been collecting Chinese contemporary paintings, photographs and sculptures. He now has about 200 pieces in total, including works from artists Liu Guosong, Liu Bolin and Li Chen. Liu Bolin's Three Goddesses, a stylized scene of triumphant soldiers marching in Tiananmen Square, hangs over a couch in his New York City office. Ross says his business interests spurred his attraction to Chinese culture and the contradiction and juxtaposition of the country's traditional art with the contemporary Western world. "It's a very interesting experimental form of art," he says. "It tries to combine the heritages of two very diverse cultures."
Ross is quick to lend out his conquests, in keeping with his view of art as a way to educate and foster scholarship. "If we have important work, they shouldn't be put in the closet," he says.
One of his sculptures, Singe Avisé by French surrealist François-Xavier Lalanne, was displayed on Park Avenue in New York in 2009. The 6-and-a-half-foot-tall sitting bronze monkey with a Mona Lisa smile became a popular attraction immediately. Tourists put a tie around its neck and took photos sitting in its lap.
As Ross shows me his other favorite paintings in MoMA's exhibition, we run into his friend and fellow billionaire Sid Bass. Eager to explain to Bass the intricacies Magritte presents, Ross leads us across the gallery to find his other painting in the show, La Parure de l'orage . He points to the white abstract collage figures in the foreground and the shipwreck in the background.
"Are these refugees from the ship? Or are they standing there and watching the ship get wrecked?" Ross asks. "You can't be sure of what's going on. It captivates your imagination."


Self-care. You've probably heard of it, but are you actually practicing it?
If you're skeptical, I get it. In a world of non-stop emails, endless opportunity, and other people's "hustle" all over the internet, it's easier said than done.
And let's face it: Many of the people who preach about self-care seem to be yoga bunnies without bills to pay.
But self-care isn't just another social media trend—it's a mindset. And trust me when I say it's key to building a successful career you love, no matter your situation.
And, you don't have to quit your job or completely shift your routine to get started today.
My boyfriend and I recently instated a rule that I love: From 8 PM onwards, we don't check or reply to any work emails. No excuses. No exceptions.
Instead, we talk to each other (crazy, I know). At first, it wasn't easy, and the struggle to not get back to people right away and be productive at all hours is real. But, having this curfew has helped me sleep better and given me a point of distinction between my working day, my commute, and my personal time. At 8 PM, my working life ends, and my personal time commences.
Try it. And if you want to take it to a whole new level? Try a nightly technology curfew, too.
How much unpaid overtime are you doing? And I don't just mean getting to work early and leaving late, but mental overtime?
How much time do you spend thinking and talking and worrying about your day job? Because—real talk—you're not being paid a cent for that time. Not a single cent.
My rule is simple: I don't talk about my day job on the weekends. If my mind goes there, fine, but I don't bring it up in conversations. Instead, I talk about ideas, articles I've read, things that're inspiring me, things I'm excited about.
Not only does banning work talk allow you to take back some control from your work life, but it leaves you motivated and refreshed come Monday morning.
Start by paying attention to what you pay attention to—you know, outside of work. Think about what you loved doing when you were a kid, and work back from there.
For example, being Brazilian, I'm a huge samba lover—and I love singing and dancing (badly) to it. It may sound simple, but my time spent enjoying samba is mine and mine alone. It's so far removed from my work, and it reminds me that there's a whole world out there—a world away from the constraints of my desk.
I know you're probably freaking out about that comment you said to your co-worker, or that slipup you made in your presentation at the last company meeting, or that deadline you missed.
But if you want to make it in your career (without burning out), you need to let it go.
Why? Because nobody (and I mean nobody) is watching anywhere near as closely as you think. They're just not. They're way too busy worrying about themselves.
A healthy career requires self-kindness—lots of it. And if you want to reach success in the future, these habits will get you there the right way.
This article was originally published on Biancabass.com. It has been republished here with permission.
Photo of person relaxing courtesy of Hero Images/Getty Images.
Based in London, Bianca Bass writes about Millennial careers, creativity, and more. Check out her website, or join her newsletter list for interesting content and insightful interviews.


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Pieter Adrianus (Piet) Verburg (Amsterdam, 27 juli 1905 – Baarn, 8 februari 1989) was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder en hoogleraar in de algemene taalwetenschap en de wijsbegeerte der taal. Opererend onder de verzetsnaam Piet van Wijngaarden, stond hij aan de basis van de Stichting 1940-1945 en Het Nationaal Instituut, dat onder meer verantwoordelijk was voor de oprichting van de Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal.

Personalia
Verburg was een zoon van Jan Verburg (Mijdrecht, 1878 – Soestdijk, 1961) en Dirkje Verburg-Samsom (Koudekerk aan den Rijn, 1878 – Amsterdam, 1957).

Hij trouwde op 23 december 1936 te Amsterdam met Cornelia (Cora) de Boer (13 juli 1912 – 24 mei 1996). Ze kregen drie zonen en twee dochters. De echtelieden zijn beide drager van het Verzetsherdenkingskruis. Ze delen een graf op de Nieuwe Begraafplaats in Baarn.

Studiejaren
Na de lagere- en middelbareschooltijd in zijn geboorteplaats Amsterdam, ging Verburg in 1920 werken als kantoorbediende bij de Amsterdamse vestiging van een Rotterdams bedrijf in tropische goederen. Na drie jaar was hij opgeklommen tot schrijver van de buitenlandse correspondentie, maar mede onder invloed van de predikant en latere hoogleraar A.H. de Hartog besloot hij zijn studie voort te zetten. Hij haalde het benodigde Staatsexamen Alpha in augustus 1925 en de volgende maand begon hij zijn studie klassieke letteren aan de VU.

Aan de VU volgt Verburg de colleges van R.H. Woltjer over de klassieke grammatica en de interpretatie van klassieke auteurs, en die van H.J. Pos aangaande de geschiedenis en de encyclopedie van de algemene taalwetenschap. Wijsgerig onderwijs ontvangt hij van D.H.Th. Vollenhoven. Aan de UvA volgt hij de colleges van D. Cohen.

Geest en woord
Verburg werd in zijn eerste studiejaar secretaris van de nieuwe Jongelingsvereniging op Gereformeerde Grondslag 'Geest en Woord'. De inschrijving van 'Geest en Woord' bij de Nederlandsche Bond van Jongelingsvereenigingen op Gereformeerde Grondslag leidde tot een afkeurend artikel van dominee C. Lindeboom in het Noord-Hollands Kerkblad. Lindeboom betoogt dat de naam van God niet anders dan met 'vreeze en eerbied' mag worden gebruikt, en dat de naam van de Heilige Geest niet zonder godvruchtige schroom op de lippen mag worden genomen, zoals zou gebeuren wanneer men met 'Geest en Woord' de jongelingsvereniging zou aanduiden. De redactie van het Jongelingsblad stemt hiermee in en weet te melden: "Onze vrienden willen wel luisteren. En het geweten geeft getuigenis aan zulk een vermaning. Wij twijfelen niet, of ze zal ook thans vrucht dragen. Er zijn andere namen genoeg." Een maand later blijkt dat de kwestie "enkele pennen in beweging heeft gebracht". De leden van 'Geest en Woord' hebben aangegeven dat de naam bedoeld was als aanhaling uit Antwoord 54 van de Heidelbergse Catechismus, waar het gaat over de gemeente van Christus, die door zijn 'Geest en Woord' tot het eeuwige leven wordt uitverkoren: de leden "hopen en vertrouwen, dat, wat daar van de kerk gezegd wordt, mutatis mutandis ook van onze vereeniging moge gelden". De jongeren wordt aangeraden met Lindeboom te gaan spreken, waarbij zij er wellicht achter zouden komen dat 'kerk' en 'vereniging' in deze niet vergelijkbaar waren.

In Duitsland
In juli 1931 behaalt hij het kandidaatsexamen. Dat geldt ook voor Douwe Jan Buwalda (Dokkum, 3 maart 1907 – Bilthoven, 14 april 1987), die later lector in Kampen zal worden en wiens studietijd overeenkwam met die van Verburg. Pos heeft voor beiden twee semesters studie in Duitsland geregeld. Verburg studeert het wintersemester 1932/1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau bij Immisch, Fränkel en Schadewaldt, en later in Berlijn (hoogstwaarschijnlijk wintersemester 1934/1935) onder Norden en Lietzman. Mogelijk heeft Pos hiervoor gelden van de Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung kunnen aanwenden, in elk geval heeft de directeur van de stichting, Kurt Goepel, weet van het verblijf van de studenten. Goepel schrijft in het studiejaar 1934/1935 over Verburg, dat deze onder de invloed van Heidegger "nach anfänglichem Schwanken" uiteindelijk toch tot een nadrukkelijke en diepgewortelde bevestiging van de nationale revolutie bereid is gevonden.

De Von Humboldt-stichting was formeel onafhankelijk, maar feitelijk een propaganda-apparaat om buitenlandse studenten voor de Nazi-politiek en -cultuur te winnen; de rapportage van Goepel lijkt een sociaal wenselijke conclusie te geven. In een brief aan Pos schrijft Verburg dat hij niet veel moet hebben van "zulk pathetisch gedoe" als de heilgroet en het klappen van de hakken.

Verburg slaagde in maart 1934 voor het doctoraalexamen klassieke letteren.

Naar Wageningen
In de zomer van 1936 wordt Verburg voor het ingaande schooljaar door de gemeenteraad van Wageningen benoemd tot tijdelijk leraar klassieke talen bij de afdeling gymnasium van het plaatselijke Lyceum. Hij gaat begin september wonen aan de Hoogstraat 97. Na hun huwelijk aan het eind van dat jaar, komt zijn vrouw, de pedagoge Cora de Boer, ook naar Wageningen en ze gaan dan wonen aan de Diedenweg 25 (later op Nassauweg 13). In 1937 krijgt Verburg een vaste aanstelling.

Verzet
Verburg kwam via het plaatselijke verzet in Wageningen, dat al sinds het voorjaar van 1941 actief was, in contact met Frits Slomp, (verzetsnaam Frits de Zwerver). Ze troffen elkaar vooral op de zogenaamde 'beurzen': door Slomp – op aandringen van Helena Kuipers-Rietberg (verzetsnaam Tante Riek) – in de oude steden langs de IJssel georganiseerde bijeenkomsten om onderduikadressen uit te wisselen voor mensen die om uiteenlopende redenen uit hun woonplaats moesten verdwijnen. Daar werden spoedig ook de buitgemaakte distributiebescheiden ingebracht en verdeeld. In augustus 1943 werd in Den Bosch de samenwerking met de zuidelijke, rooms-katholieke onderduikorganisaties tot stand gebracht. Een week later werd op een beurs in Amersfoort besloten tot de oprichting van de Landelijke Knokploegen. De organisatiegraad van het verzet neemt snel toe, en zo krijgt ook "die Organisation Fritz" haar beslag, onder de definitieve naam Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers (LO).

Piet van Wijngaarden (Verburgs verzetsnaam) stichtte en onderhield vele contacten – hij gold in het verzet als 'commis-voyageur' (handelsreiziger). Zo correspondeerde hij in het Latijn met zijn oude studiegenoot Buwalda, die inmiddels in Zwolle zat, maar vooral ook legde hij nieuwe verbindingen: met Wolvega, Amersfoort, de Dordtse LO, met de Zeemanspot en niet in het laatst in de naaste omgeving, Veluwe en Betuwe. Na een bijeenkomst in de stationsrestauratie in Zutphen gaat het bijna mis. Buwalda, die ook aanwezig was, was op de terugweg staande gehouden en hij had als alibi een collegiaal gesprek met Verburg opgevoerd. Verburg, hiervan onwetende, werd gelijk gezocht door de Wageningse NSB-commissaris, maar deze trof alleen Cora thuis. Nadat de volgende ochtend via verzetskanalen bericht van Buwalda doorkomt, besluit Verburg zich – met rugdekking – te melden bij de commissaris. Een scherp verhoor volgt, maar Verburg weet de man met veel Latijn en schijngeleerdheid te overtuigen dat het treffen met Buwalda een bijeenkomst betrof aangaande hun werk voor de Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte.

Van Wijngaarden behoort op enig moment tot de 'Top' van de LO. Met financiële steun van het Nationaal Steun Fonds nam hij in het voorjaar van 1944 het initiatief tot de oprichting van het tijdschrift De nieuwe wijnzak. Leidraad tot verdieping van het staatsburgerlijk denken - door en voor werkers en verzetters, dat een "bovenpartijdig-nationaal" kaderblad voor het verzet moest vormen. Het was het eerste tijdschrift dat zich uitsluitend tot het verzet richtte.

De nieuwe wijnzak
Feitelijk was De nieuwe wijnzak vooral een vehikel voor de bevordering van 'Plan F'. Plan F was tot stand gekomen in de Top-overleggen van de LO, en behelsde onder meer het na de oorlog in een organisatie onderbrengen van de "illegale werkers". Zo zou bijvoorbeeld de zorg voor de nabestaanden van verzetslieden moeten worden gewaarborgd. Ander onderdelen van Plan F betroffen de verdieping van het nationaal besef, de verzetsgedachtenis (bijvoorbeeld door gedenkdagen en monumenten) en de documentatie en geschiedschrijving van het verzet (een taak die het NIOD heeft opgepakt). De nieuwe wijnzak was geen orgaan van de LO, maar vele LO-afdelingen droegen wel zorg voor de verspreiding van het tijdschrift en het erin bevatte ideeëngoed.

Met mr. A. Blom, G. Niemeijer en het latere Eerste Kamerlid Henrick Mulder vormde Verburg de redactie. Tussen februari 1944 en maart 1945 verschenen vijf edities, telkens in een oplage van acht- tot tienduizend exemplaren.

Stichting 1940-1945
In 1944 werd een voorloper van de stichting opgericht: de Stichting 1940–1944. Voor het bestuur daarvan werd de kandidaat Verburg afgewezen, "daar hij geen grote groep achter zich heeft". De Stichting was in de jaren direct na de oorlog met name belast met de uitvoering van de Wet buitengewoon pensioen 1940-1945.

Verburg heeft in een bijdrage aan Het Grote Gebod de geschiedenis van de Stichting 1940-1945 opgetekend – zie hieronder de verwijzing in de bibliografie.

Het Nationaal Instituut

Verburg en Henrick Mulder waren de grondleggers van Het Nationaal Instituut. Verburg had gemerkt dat het in het verzet niet ontbrak aan besef waartegen men vocht, maar dat het veel minder duidelijk was waarvoor men vocht. De nieuwe wijnzak van augustus 1944 pleitte er voor, in wat waarschijnlijk een stuk van Verburg is, om "direct na de bevrijding de verdieping van het nationale besef van de brede massa van ons volk krachtdadig ter hand te (...) nemen".

Het Nationaal Instituut was, met Mulder en Verburg als directeuren, verantwoordelijk voor de oprichting van de Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal; Verburg was voorzitter van het Comité tot Stichting van een Eeregrafhof. Na de opening van de begraafplaats verklaarde Prins Bernhard zich bereid het voorzitterschap van Het Nationaal Instituut van Joris in 't Veld over te nemen.

Het Instituut gaf voor de hoogste klassen van de lagere en de laagste klassen van de middelbare scholen een schoolkrant uit, getiteld Vlag en Wimpel, waaraan tientallen auteurs bijdroegen, onder wie Bertus Aafjes, Godfried Bomans, C. Buddingh', Antoon Coolen en Aar van de Werfhorst.

Als directeur organiseerde Verburg de eerste naoorlogse culturele conferentie. Het congres De toekomst der Nederlandse beschaving vond 28, 29 en 30 augustus 1946 plaats te Nijmegen. Enkele weken voor het congres werd Verburg getroffen door gezondheidsproblemen. Voor behandeling en herstel reisde hij naar Zwitserland, waar hij tot eind 1947 verbleef. Zijn afwezigheid betekende praktisch het einde van de activiteiten van Het Nationaal Instituut, dat in 1947 opging in het Prins Bernhardfonds.

Promotie
Tussen zijn afstuderen en het docentschap in Wageningen richtte Verburg zich in Londen, waar hij een jaar als privédocent werkzaam was, tevens op zijn promotiestudie. In de grote bibliotheek van het British Museum bleek de theorie van de antieke en patristische allegoresis geen geschikt onderwerp. Daarna volgde een voorstudie, inclusief studieplan, van de metafoor als wezenstrek van de taal. Toen hij dit laatste bij terugkeer in Nederland aan Pos voorlegde, bleek C.F.P. Stutterheim het thema in de volle breedte reeds te behandelen in zijn onderzoek.

Het werk van de latere hoogleraar A.J.B.N. Reichling, wiens proefschrift Het woord. Een studie omtrent de grondslag van taal en taalgebruik verscheen in 1938, had intussen op Verburg diepe indruk gemaakt. In overleg met Reichling besloot hij zich te wijden aan een studie van 'het wortelbegrip in de taalkunde'. Het onderzoek daaromtrent naderde voltooiing, toen de uitgebroken oorlog hem noopte de studie te staken. Om het gevaar dat Verburg wegens verzetsactiviteiten liep, had hij het manuscript, zijn notities en zijn bibliotheek bij vrienden ondergebracht. Op 17 september 1944, de eerste dag van de Slag om Arnhem, ging al dat promotiemateriaal door brand verloren.

Pas in 1948, onder aanmoediging van Reichling, kon Verburg zijn taalwetenschappelijk werk weer oppakken. Hij voelde er niet voor het oude onderwerp te hernemen, en zette zich aldus wederom aan een nieuw object van onderzoek. Op 30 november 1951 promoveerde Verburg bij Jacobus Wille (1881–1964) aan de VU te Amsterdam cum laude op het omvangrijke proefschrift Taal en functionaliteit. Een historisch-critische studie over de opvattingen aangaande de functies der taal vanaf de prae-humanistische philologie van Orleans tot de rationalistische linguistiek van Bopp.

Dissertatie Taal en functionaliteit
Verburgs proefschrift is een onderzoek "naar de beschouwingen omtrent de wetmatigheid der taalfunctie in vroegere tijden". Anders gezegd: het betreft een historisch onderzoek naar de verschillende antwoorden die zijn gegeven op de vraag wat taal 'doet', en wat daarvan de uitwerkingen waren op het onderzoek naar taal. De 'functiegedachte', d.w.z. de mogelijkheid taal te beschouwen als een functie (bijvoorbeeld als een functie van de menselijke geest), was in het interbellum gangbaar gemaakt door met name Karl Bühler.<ref>Ant. de Witte, bespreking in Tijdschrift voor Philosophie, 16de jaargang, nr. 3 (september 1954), p. 513-514.</ref> In een historisch-criteriologisch beschrijving van de westerse taalbeschouwing geeft Taal en functionaliteit een overzicht van de geschiedenis van de taalwetenschap, dat in zo'n breedte sinds de standaardwerken van Theodor Benfey (1809-1881) en Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) bijna een eeuw niet meer was verschenen. Daarbij markeerde het de vooruitgang in de kennis van de positie van taaltheorieën in de ideeëngeschiedenis.

Zoals Verburg onder meer in zijn afscheidsrede aangaf, gaat de "tweebanige benadering van de algemeen linguistische problematiek" in Taal en functionaliteit methodisch terug op Pos: "Enerzijds ontwikkelde hij [Pos] thetisch eigen theoretisch inzicht in het wezen - of, zoals dat toen heette: de idee der taal -, anderzijds behandelde hij critisch-historisch concepten van anderen in verleden en heden. De twee methoden stonden in nauwe correlatie tot elkaar. Opzet en uitbouw van eigen theorie wonnen aan diepte en perspectief door de gelijktijdige confrontatie met andere grondmodellen en, omgekeerd, ontleende dit historische onderzoek, om critisch te kunnen wezen, de nodige criteria weer aan eigen theoretische, wil men: taalfilosofische principiën."

Meer nog dan Pos hadden echter Vollenhoven en diens zwager, tevens hoogleraar aan de VU, Herman Dooyeweerd Verburg beïnvloed. In de door Dooyeweerd ontwikkelde Wijsbegeerte der wetsidee zag Verburg een 'creatief realisme', dat minder vrijblijvend was dan Pos' beschrijvingen. De Wijsbegeerte der wetsidee bepaalde in belangrijke mate de normerende toon van Taal en functionaliteit en lag ten grondslag aan Verburgs idee van de autonome status van taal.

Evert Beth concludeerde dat Verburg er niet overal in was geslaagd een zeker (calvinistisch) dogmatisme te vermijden, maar volgens Stutterheim maakte dat de historiografie voor andersgezinden niet minder acceptabel. Dell Hymes noemde het een "pioneering, unique work". In 1975 schrijft Herbert E. Brekle dat Noam Chomsky beter eerst Verburg had kunnen lezen, alvorens het podium van de taalgeschiedenis te betreden.

 Hoogleraar
In 1948 had Verburg, na een onderbreking van zes jaar, zijn onderwijstaken in Wageningen weer opgepakt. Hij was er inmiddels conrector, toen hij in 1955 werd benoemd tot rector van het Gemeentelijk Gymnasium te Hilversum. In 1957 werd hij benoemd op de nieuwe leerstoel voor algemene taalwetenschap aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Verburg leidde tussen 1958 en 1961 te Utrecht de drieweekse Franstalige zomercursus Nederlandse taal en cultuur voor buitenlanders, georganiseerd door het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Kunsten en Wetenschappen. In 1959 werd hij benoemd tot lid van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.

Als hoogleraar vond Verburg zich – zoals hij in zijn inaugurele rede Algemene taalwetenschap en encyclopaedie op 26 november 1957 stelde "met enige verbluftheid" – op gelijk niveau verheven met "zulke eminente geleerden" als Reichling, Stutterheim, en A.W. de Groot. Met de genoemden, en met o.m. E.M. Uhlenbeck, maakte Verburg deel uit van de informele Leidse linguïstenkring. De deelnemers aan de maandelijkse bijeenkomsten waren deels de eerste hoogleraren op de leerstoelen in de algemene taalwetenschap in Nederland. In meer of mindere mate betrof het representanten van het structuralisme, en Herman Parret en Roger van de Velde lijken in 1980 ook Taal en functionaliteit in die traditie te plaatsen. Noordegraaf (2000) merkt daarbij evenwel op, dat de verhouding van Verburgs latere theoretische positie tot het structuralisme nog niet is onderzocht.

 Delotiek
In de jaren '60 en '70 ontwikkelt Verburg namelijk een theorie die hij de naam 'delotiek' (van Grieks dèloun: duidelijk maken, clarificeren) geeft. De delotiek betreft, aldus Abrahams (1975), een "highly integrated 'personalist – functionalist' theory". Aan de hand van Plato's Kratylos geeft Verburg in 1971 in De Gids een voorbeeld van zijn gebruik van het reeds door Plato gehanteerde begrip 'dèloun'. Hij vergelijkt het 'lege woord', een woord dat is geïsoleerd van een taaldaad, met het karkasje van een lieveheersbeestje: van buiten lijkt het intact, maar van binnen blijkt het hol. Uit Plato's beschouwingen deduceert Verburg een delotisch model, dat volgens hem echter tekortschiet, omdat het geen rekening houdt met "de Situatie in tijd en ruimte". Verburg behandelt voorts het al dan niet slagen van "talige identificatie", waarmee een tipje van de sluier van zijn delotiek wordt gelicht. Het linguïstisch perspectief van de delotische theorie onderzoekt spraak, locutiefeiten en het gedrag van homo loquens.

In een vergelijking tussen de taalkundige theorieën van Michail Bachtin en Verburg, geeft David I. Smith in 2007 een antwoord op de opmerking van Noordegraaf. Smith wil aantonen dat theorieën die schijnbaar losstaan van religie, toch hun mensbeeld ontlenen aan religieuze of morele overtuigingen, of aan beide. Hij concludeert dat Verburg reageert tegen het determinisme van (post-)structuralistische taaltheorieën, waarin ervaringskennis wordt beschouwd als bemiddeld en derhalve bepaald door taal. Verburg brengt daar de vrije spreker tegen in, die weliswaar worstelt met omgeving en historie, maar uiteindelijk als mens autonoom is; volgens Smith komt die 'radicale autonomie' voort uit Verburgs geloof in Christus als het Woord van God en in mensen als "verantwoordelijke beelddragers van God".

 Wijsbegeerte der taal
Bij de oprichting van de Centrale Interfaculteit, in 1965, werd Verburg voor de leerstoel namens de Faculteit der letteren aangewezen, waartoe zijn leeropdracht werd uitgebreid met de wijsbegeerte der taal. In hetzelfde jaar was Verburg medeoprichter – met Peter Hartmann, Frits Staal en John W.M. Verhaar – van het tijdschrift Foundations of Language (en de bijbehorende Supplementary Series), dat werd uitgegeven van 1965 tot 1976, waarna het is voortgezet als twee tijdschriften, respectievelijk Studies in Language en Linguistics and Philosophy.Foundations of Language was een spreekbuis voor de eerste generatie generatieve taalkundigen. Verburg was geïnteresseerd in de generatieve grammatica, was zelfs bij Noam Chomsky op spreekuur geweest, maar hem ontbrak deskundigheid op dat vlak.

In het begin van de jaren zeventig ontwikkelde Verburg grote belangstelling voor de computationele taalkunde, maar binnen de Faculteit der Letteren stond hij alleen in de roep om meer gelden vrij te maken voor de aansluiting op het computernetwerk van de universiteit.

 Boycot
In maart 1972 dreigden studenten met een veertiendaagse boycot van de colleges van Verburg. De onvrede betrof zowel het ondemocratische bestuur van de subfaculteit algemene taalwetenschappen, waar Verburg in zijn eentje de scepter zwaaide, als de verplichte colleges die draaiden om Verburgs door de studenten verfoeide delotiek.

 Emeritaat
In 1975 volgde het emeritaat, ingeleid met zijn afscheidsrede op 28 oktober 1975: Stand en zin van de historie der taaltheorieën. Hij was daarna nog extern lid van de Sectie Algemene taalwetenschap van de Academische Raad. Verburg bleef tot aan zijn dood met enige regelmaat artikelen schrijven.

Gedurende zijn loopbaan verschenen artikelen van zijn hand in tijdschriften als Lingua, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte en Psychologie, Philosophia Reformata, Wijsgerig Perspectief, Bijdragen (Tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie) en De Gids. Verburg droeg ook bij aan de Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte, onder meer door publicaties in de Correspondentiebladen van de vereniging. Eveneens was hij lid van de International Christian Fellowship.

In 1985 verscheen in NRC Handelsblad een brief van Verburg, waarin hij zich beklaagt over een juist uitgezonden tv-portret van Gerard Wiarda. Wiarda, aan het eind van zijn carrière president van het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens, was in de oorlogsjaren rechter in Amsterdam, waartoe hij de Ariërverklaring had ondertekend. Volgens Verburg wekte het programma de indruk dat Wiarda in de oorlog als een "brave schuilkelderpatriot" aan 'zijn indrukwekkende staat van dienst' had gewerkt en bleven oorlog en verzet in het interview een blinde vlek: "[I]n het levensportret van een jurist en patriciër die, op de presidentszetel van het Europese Hof, over inbreuken op de rechten van de mens heeft te oordelen, verwacht men enige profilering van concreet gedrag, waardoor hij, zelf toen al rechter zijnde in het Amsterdam van 1940-'45, waar tienduizenden joodse medemensen tot rechteloosheid en vernietiging verdoemd waren, waar de februari-staking en het verzet de ontrechting te keer gingen - van kortom enig gedrag, waardoor hij als mens tegen deze bestiale ontwaarding van het mensenrecht van zijn verontwaardiging blijk heeft gegeven."

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 De nieuwe wijnzak. Leidraad tot verdieping van het staatsburgerlijk denken - door en voor werkers en verzetters (vijf nummers, 1944-1945).
 'De Stichting 1940-1945' (pdf), in: Het Grote Gebod. Gedenkboek van het verzet in LO en LKP tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Deel 2, hoofdstuk 5: De afwikkeling en de na-oorlogse taak, pp. 546–555

 Wetenschappelijk werk
Zie Noordegraaf (1998) voor een nagenoeg volledig overzicht van Verburgs publicaties.
 Taal en functionaliteit. Een historisch-critische studie over de opvattingen aangaande de functies der taal vanaf de prae-humanistische philologie van Orleans tot de rationalistische linguistiek van Bopp, proefschrift 1951. Handelseditie bij H. Veenman & Zonen, Wageningen, 1952. Abrahams (1975) meldt reeds een Engelse vertaling (en een Italiaanse editie in voorbereiding), maar niet eerder dan in 1998 verscheen bij John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, de vertaling van Paul B. Salmon: Language and its Functions. A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the prehumanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp.
 Algemene taalwetenschap en encyclopaedie, inaugurele rede 26 november 1957.
 'Het optimum der taal bij Wittgenstein', Philosophia Reformata Vol. 26, No. 1/3 (1961), pp. 161–172.
 'Bacon als vernieuwer van de encyclopaedische idee', Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte en Psychologie 53 (1961/4), p. 169-180.
 'Delosis and Clarity', in: Philosophy and Christianity. Essays dedicated to Prof. Dr. Herman Dooyeweerd, Kok, Kampen, 1965, pp. 78–99.
 'Ennoësis of Language in 17th Century Philosophy', Lingua, Vol. 21, No. OCT [volume in honor of Anton Reichling] (1968), p. 558-572.
 'Hobbes' Calculus of Words', Statistical Methods in Linguistics, Vol. 6 (1970), p. 60-65 (uitwerking van de gelijknamige lezing van Verburg in Sanga-Saby (Stockholm) tijdens de derde International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), gehouden 1 t/m 4 september 1969).
 'Het 'lege woord'', De Gids, jaargang 134 (1971), pp. 156–158.
 Stand en zin van de historie der taaltheorieën, afscheidsrede, 28 oktober 1975.
 'The Idea of Linguistic System in Leibniz', in: Herman Parret (ed.), History of Linguistic Thought and Contemporary Linguistics, De Gruyter, Berlijn/New York, 1976, p. 593-615.
 'Het Waarheidsbegrip bij Leibniz', Wijsgerig Perspectief op Maatschappij en Wetenschap 19 (1978-1979), p. 124-129.
 'Discipline versus Philosophy', in: Dick J. van Alkemade et al. (red.), Linguistic Studies offered to Berthe Siertsema, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1980, pp. 137–154.
 'Soph. Oid. Kol. 939: λέγω oder λέγων?', in: Jörn Albrecht (redactie), Energeia und Ergon: Sprachliche Variation—Sprachgeschichte—Sprachtypologie. Studia in honorem Eugenio Coseriu (3 vols.) Band III (redactie en inleiding Jens Lüdtke): Das sprachtheoretische Denken Eugenio Coserius in der Diskussion (2)'', Narr, Tübingen, 1988, pp. 287–291.

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Latest teen suicide forces social site to address bullying
By Sam Rolens on August 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM
Ask.fm's popularity raises concerns of cyber bullying. (Danny E. Martindale / Getty Images)
On Aug. 10, Hanna Anderson was rescued from the Idaho wilderness after being kidnapped and held captive for six days. Less than two days later, she logged onto Ask.fm under the username Hannahbanana722 to share her story and answer questions from the site's millions of anonymous users. There, she candidly and directly responded to the curiosity of her peers: Why hadn't she tried to escape? Why didn't she call out for help? How did she feel about the death of her kidnapper at the hands of FBI agents?
It might be a newer venue for a tell-all interview, but teens worldwide are flocking to the anonymous, unmonitored format—no camera, no rehearsed questions and no supervision. The LA Times reported that U.S. traffic for the site jumped from 3.7 million visitors in June to 6.3 million in July, according to research group ComScore Inc. The site itself estimates growth of 200,000 new users per day—and half of its users are under 18.
And keeping pace with the swell of young users, of course, is cyber bullying. At least five teen suicides have been linked to harassment on Ask.fm since the site's launch in 2010. And following the recent death of 14-year-old Hannah Smith linked to abuse suffered on the site, parents aren't the only ones clambering for site changes.
Since Smith's Aug. 6 suicide, British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for a boycott of the Latvian-based Ask.fm and other sites that expose teens to unrestricted bullying. Vodaphone, EDF Energy, Specsavers and the charity Save the Children have pulled their advertising from the site.
In July, Ask.fm CEO Ilja Terebin admitted in a TechCrunch interview that the site had grown too fast for the staff to "control everything." On Monday, Ask.fm responded to public pressure and released a statement outlining changes planned in the coming months to deal with the bullying problem. (The full statement is available via TechCrunch.)
The new measures are based on the results of a safety policy audit commissioned by Ask.fm and conducted by an external consultant. By the Spring of 2014, Ask.fm plans to:
Appoint a safety officer to lead a newly expanded moderation team in monitoring user behavior.
Limit access to site features for unregistered users to entice users to register and thereby be monitored more easily.
Launch a separate site displaying company news, updates and other info to increase corporate visibility.
Make the button that allows users to report each other for harassment or bullying more prominent.
Make the button that allows users to opt out of receiving anonymous questions more prominent.
Address all reports of inappropriate behavior within 24 hours.
But since the anonymity is part of the site's appeal, the problem is not easy to deal with. Compounding parents' concern is the fact that the site is more or less unable to enforce its age restriction of 13 and over. There's no effective way to stop younger kids from lying about their age and gaining access. And while it's not the first site to raise these concerns, it's explosive popularity has put Ask.fm at the forefront of the online bullying debate.
Former teacher Sandy Cowles told the LA times she witnessed the ferocity of the site's anonymous users via her teenage daughter. "People hide behind a computer screen, and there is no accountability whatsoever," Cowles told the Times. "You think using Facebook is bad? For teens, this is a feeding frenzy in shark-infested waters without a cage. You have chum all over the place and you are dropped right in the middle."
Sam Rolens


Monsters fascinate. There's something in the shadows that you don't understand, can't quite make out the shape of—something that can eat you. Something that can steal your children, spoil your crops, or worst of all turn you into a monster yourself, so that you'll no longer be welcome in the warm places where we tell stories about monsters.
That warm place started as a small campfire in the dark night, surrounded by very real predators. Beside that fire, you could lay down your spear and basket and feel almost safe for the night. We keep fearing monsters even as the shadows retreat and the campfires grow, even now when light pollution banishes them to the few remaining dark corners, where they must surely shiver and tell stories about our advance.
It's become increasingly obvious that humans are terrifying. Not only in the "we have met the enemy and he is us" sense, but in the sense that we can eat everything, steal offspring, spoil crops, and reshape the world into our image. I had this in mind as I wrote Winter Tide—the most sympathetic species can be terrifying if you catch their attention, and the people who terrify you may huddle around their own campfire.
Sometimes I want to hide in the shadows near that campfire, and listen to the stories.
Shelley's masterpiece is as famous as a book can get, and as misunderstood as its non-titular main character. Thinkpieces invoke it as a warning against scientific hubris. In fact, it's a fable about the importance of good parenting: Dr. Frankenstein brings his revenant into the world, and promptly abandons him in a fit of revulsion. That leaves the unnamed monster to wax philosophical, teach himself to read, and make tentative forays into joining human society. Unfortunately for him, humans tend to run screaming at the sight of sewn-together corpse quilts. Or sometimes they just attack. Eventually, he decides we're not worth having around.
If at any point in the book, Dr. Frankenstein could have gotten his act together enough to love his kid, this would be one of those stories about an ugly duckling finding his place. Instead it's a perfect tragedy about how monsters are born not out of the inherent hubris of their creation, but out of our own fears.
Tooth and Claw is a Victorian novel of manners. It starts with a fight over inheritance, and concerns itself with forbidden romance and ambitious merchants and social welfare movements. Oh, yes, and all the characters are cannibalistic dragons. The inheritance fight is over who gets to eat which parts of the family's deceased patriarch, thereby gaining the magical power and strength of his flesh. The social welfare movement may be radical, but would certainly never forbid the rich feeding their offspring a nutritious diet of "excess" poor children.
It's a wicked and witty commentary on the ostensibly bloodless conflicts of Trollope and Austen. The monsters, even as they cheerfully consume their own kind, make for remarkably good company. I'd happily join them for afternoon tea—as long as I was very sure of the menu in advance.
Klingons have gotten pretty sympathetic in the past couple of decades. In the original series, though, they were the most two-dimensional of goateed villains. The Final Reflection was the first story to give them a rich and detailed culture, to give them nuance while still letting them be worthy antagonists to the Federation. Ford's Klingons keep slaves, merge chess with the Hunger Games for their national sport, and see conquest as a moral imperative. (That which does not grow dies, after all.) They also love their kids, and draw real and deep philosophy from their games of klin zha kinta.
Reflection reveals the truth behind the mustache-twirling not only to 20th and 21st century readers, but to the 24th century as well. In the framing story Kirk is alarmed to come back from leave and find his crew passing around surreptitious copies, swearing in klingonaase. Krenn's story is banned by the Federation, of course. Letting people see the monster's side of the story is dangerous.
I'm a hard sell on vampires, and an almost impossible sell on amnesia stories. But I adore beyond words Butler's final novel, the tale of a young woman who wakes up with no memory—and turns out not to be as young as she looks. Like most of Butler's work, it dives deep into questions of power and consent. Shori has to drink blood to live, and can't help forming an intimate and unequal bond with those she feeds from. In between trying to learn who stole her memory and why, she has to figure out how to have an ethical relationship with people inherently weaker than her—and whether it's even possible.
There were supposed to be more of these, damn it.
I mmigrants come to the US and try to fit in—learn the language, get a job, find friends. Wecker's protagonists are no different, except that they happen to be a fire elemental locked in human form by unknown magic, and a golem whose master died shortly after awakening her in the middle of the Atlantic. Ahmad is arrogant and impetuous, a monster because of his confident lack of concern with others' needs. Chava is made to put others' needs first, but still a monster because—as everyone knows—all golems eventually run mad and use their inhuman strength to rend and kill until they're stopped.
Together, they don't fight crime (mostly), but they do help each other resolve the mysteries behind their respective creations. They compliment each others' strengths and monstrous natures. Chava teaches Ahmad how to take care of people beyond himself, and Ahmad helps Chava learn to value herself. They give each other the thing Frankenstein's monster never had, and together find a place in the world and a community where they can survive.
This article was originally published in March 2017.
Ruthanna Emrys's neo-Lovecraftian stories "The Litany of Earth" and "Those Who Watch" are available on Tor.com, along with the distinctly non-Lovecraftian "Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land" and "The Deepest Rift." Winter Tide, a novel continuing Aphra Marsh's story from "Litany," is available from Tor.com Publishing on April 4th. Ruthanna can frequently be found online on Twitter and her blog, and offline in a mysterious manor house with her large, chaotic household—mostly mammalian—outside Washington DC.


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A new technique is set to strengthen 3D printed stainless steel parts, such as this previously printed rocket engine component.
3D printing has taken the world by storm, but it currently works best with plastic and porous steel—materials too weak for hard-core applications. Now, researchers have come up with a way to 3D print tough and flexible stainless steel, an advance that could lead to faster and cheaper ways to make everything from rocket engines to parts for nuclear reactors and oil rigs.
3D printing researchers have long tried to reproduce this structure. Their setup starts with a powdery layer of metal alloy particles laid on a flat surface. A computer-controlled, high-powered laser beam then advances back and forth across the surface. Particles hit by the laser melt and fuse together. The surface then drops down a step, another layer of powder is added, and the laser heating process repeats, binding the newly melted material to the layer below. By repeating this tier-by-tier addition, engineers can build complex shapes, such as rocket engines.
The problem has been that, on a microscopic level, printed stainless steels are usually highly porous, making them weak and prone to fracture. "The performance has been awful," says Yinmin "Morris" Wang, a materials scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Several years ago, Wang and his colleagues came up with an approach for using lasers and a rapid cooling process to fuse metal alloy particles together in a dense, tightly packed structure.
Now, they've extended that work by designing a computer-controlled process to not only create dense stainless steel layers, but to more tightly control the structure of their material from the nanoscale to micron scale. That allows the printer to build in tiny cell wall–like structures on each scale that prevent fractures and other common problems. Tests showed that under certain conditions the final 3D printed stainless steels were up to three times stronger than steels made by conventional techniques and yet still ductile, the scientists report today in Nature Materials .
"What they have done is really exciting," says Rahul Panat, a mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What's more, Panat says, is that Wang and his colleagues used a commercially available 3D printer and laser to do the work. That makes it likely that other groups will be able to quickly follow their lead to make a wide array of high-strength stainless steel parts for everything from fuel tanks in airplanes to pressure tubes in nuclear power plants. And that, in turn, will likely only increase the growing fervor over 3D printing.


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Ubisoft sees blockbusters shaped by fans and stars
Agence France-Presse / 06:13 PM June 13, 2018
French video game giant Ubisoft is teaming up with a firm founded by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to crowd source material for a forthcoming title, the companies announced Monday on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Image: LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP
French video game giant Ubisoft is teaming up with a firm founded by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to crowdsource material for a forthcoming title, the companies announced Monday on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
Ubisoft has long tapped into feedback from players while designing games, but the latest step will allow some to make content woven into scenes.
An invitation to collaborate went live Monday on the website of Gordon-Levitt's Hit Record, with the first project being to make music that one might hear on a space pirate radio station in Ubisoft's "Beyond Good and Evil 2," a science fiction shooter crafted to be a space opera.
"The point of Hit Record is for people to make things together," he said. "This is the first time we are going to make assets going into a video game; which I think is really cool."
"This is not just submitting songs," he added. "We will be making the music together."
Someone in one country may come up with a baseline, and another elsewhere the drum beat or various instrumentals, according to Gordon-Levitt.
Anyone whose work is featured in the game will get paid, although he didn't specify how much.
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Among other coming games shown off by Ubisoft was psychological thriller "Transference," a collaboration with another Hollywood star Elijah Wood, which will see players grapple with twists and mysteries in a deranged mind.
Wood, who described himself as an avid gamer, promised during the event that the game "will leave you with haunting memories long after you put down the controller."
Ubisoft also provided glimpses of an eagerly-awaited sequel to its history-based adventure franchise "Assassin's Creed" set in Greece during the time of Socrates and roused the crowd with a marching band and colorfully garbed performers introducing a new entry to the hit "Just Dance" dancing game franchise. NVG
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Empoli – Genoa Tip 28.01.2019
Betting Tips Serie-A Tips and Odds
Both of team to score: No
Profit:-5
The next event that we really like and choose to predict is going to be this time from Italy, Serie A. Also, there is the last game of the 21st Round between Empoli and the Genoa team. The game will be held in Carlo Castellani, Empoli, Italy. Actually, the main referee who will be involved in this amazing contest is Federico La Penna.
The home team has seen under 2.5 goals in the previous eleven games at home against their rivals of Genoa in all competitions. Also, there have been over 2.5 goals scored in eleven of Empoli's last 12 encounters in the most popular championship in Italy. Moreover, the guests have failed to score in their last three clashes in Serie A. Interestingly, there have been under 2.5 goals scored in Genoa's last three clashes in Serie A. While the visiting team has lost with a one-goal margin in the previous three visits so far this season. Furthermore, Empoli has failed to win their last five clashes in Serie A.
Only one victory in the previous 15 visits by Genoa in Serie A, seasons 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 combined. They are on a 5-game losing streak away in the La Liga. While Empoli stays on one draw against Cagliari with an astonishing 2:2. Empoli has three wins in their last 5 events in Serie A. Genoa had painfully won the first leg at home with a 2:1.
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To commemorate the Day of International Criminal Justice, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, the President of the Assembly of States Parties, ("the President") convened, on 16 July 2016, a high- level conference in Dakar, Senegal, on "International Criminal Justice against Sexual and Gender- Based Crimes". The event was organized with the financial sponsorship of the governments of Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
Panellists included Ministers of Justice of the Central African Republic, Guinea and Italy, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "the Court"), the Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the President and Chief Prosecutor of the Extraordinary African Chambers, a member of the ICC Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims. Lawyers, judges, religious leaders, and representatives of regional organizations, academia, civil society and the private sector across the African continent and beyond attended the conference.
At the opening ceremony, the Prime Minister of Senegal, H.E. Mr. Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne, underlined the importance of addressing impunity for sexual and gender-based crimes, adding that the stigmatization of the victims of these crimes contributed to widespread impunity.
The Minister of Justice of Italy, H.E. Mr. Andrea Orlando, highlighted the importance of creating a culture in which societies have the capacity to identify, bring to light, repress and punish, with the national and international instruments available, the most heinous crimes that call into question the very essence of our humanity. H.E. Mr. Cheick Sako, Minister of Justice of Guinea, informed participants about progress in his country's prosecution of the perpetrators of the 28 September 2009 crimes, including sexual and gender-based crimes, and thanked the Prosecutor of the ICC for her Office's vital support and cooperation in this regard.
The Minister of Justice of the Central African Republic, H.E. Mr. Flavien Mbata, spoke about working closely with the Court, recalling his country's self-referrals in 2004 and 2014 and presented recent developments regarding the establishment of a Special Criminal Court with national and international judges, to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes, including sexual and gender-based violence. The Prosecutor of the ICC, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, underscored the particular strategic focus her Office is placing on the investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes given their severity and frequency in conflict, highlighting the comprehensive Policy paper her Office issued in 2014 in this regard, and the significance of the recent Court decision convicting and sentencing Mr. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo for, amongst others, sexual and gender-based crimes committed by troops under his command and control.
Participants also discussed the contribution of civil society organizations working with and for the victims of wartime sexual violence and the historic role that international criminal justice institutions have played in the investigation and prosecution of such crimes. Reference was made to regional initiatives, such as the Extraordinary African Chambers established by the African Union and Senegal which had resulted in an exemplary and expeditious trial of the former President of Chad, Mr. Hissène Habré. The major role that national criminal justice systems play to confront the scourge of sexual and gender-based crimes, in accordance with the principle of complementarity, was also highlighted. In this context, the challenges of investigating and prosecuting sexual and gender-based violence and national lessons learned in this regard were discussed.
In closing the conference, President Kaba noted the discussions held in Dakar further strengthened dialogue and exchange of expertise between the ICC and Africa, thereby advancing the fight against impunity for sexual and gender-based crimes. He further highlighted the link between peace, democracy, stability, human dignity and justice. "Justice, whether at the national or the international level, while an individual desire, is a collective imperative for social cohesion and happiness. Every time peace is chosen over justice a further injustice has been created," he concluded.


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Q: Easy infinite scroll jQuery with Ajax I am trying to do a really simple infinite scroll that checks in a .html file whenever the scroll is at the bottom, then loads the content of another .html file (which is more text).
The second HTML file (the one that will be loaded whenever you scroll to the "limit" and make the "infinite scroll", is this one "Ej7.1.html":
<html>
    <body>
        <p> lorem ipsum etc etc etc </p>
    </body>
</html>

There are more <p> lorem ipsumwith more text, but to make it shorter to read in here, I'm taking that out.
And the first HTML file which I am trying to implement the jQuery version for is this one:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script> src= "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" </script>
    </head>

    <script>
        $(window).scroll(function () {
            if ($(window).scrollTop() == $(document).height() –    $(window).height()) {
            // Here goes the Ajax
                 $("body").load("Ej7.1");
            }
        });
    </script>

    <body>
        <h1> Pagina ej 7</h1>

        <p> lorem ipsum and a lot of text </p>
    </body>
</html>

So the error it gives me opening the html and pressing F12 is a syntax error in –    $(window).height()) { as an unexpected identifiererror.
I think I am having a syntax error, but I cannot seem to find what I am missing out nor doing wrong.

A: Your script tag is mis-formatted. Put the src attribute in the tag itself:
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>

A: You're using the wrong character for minus.
You're using – (char code: 8211). You should use - (char code: 45). There could be something wrong with your keyboard or you copy pasted it from some non-properly formatted source.
Also, your jQuery inclusion tag won't work as spotted by @agmcleod.
That line is basically doing this:
<script>
    src= "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"
</script>

If you console.log(src) on your page you'll see this:

"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js".

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