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Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy"
Chapter Five - The New School In Athens
Epicureanism and cult-like mentality?
smoothiekiwi
I'm going to ask another question in a separate thread because the subjects substantially differ one from another.
It seems that the Epicurean society was a bit separated from the rest of the world- own classes, an own garden, own hierarchical structures, etc. In contrast to that, the Stoics were right in the centre of the social life, inviting everyone to attend these events.
Thus I get the expression that Epicureanism favours the creation of cult-like mentalities, where Epicureans claim to know "true beliefs" (the same thing any cult leader would proclaim to know). What is your stance on that?
If you're getting this impression from DeWitt, I'll be the first to admit I have problems with DeWitt. You'll notice some of my reviews of specific chapters of Epicurus and His Philosophers in this section. I have major issues with his Ranks and Titles section in chapter 5. I do not necessarily subscribe to a DeWittean interpretation in all things Epicurean.
That being said, I'd like to address a could specifics in your post/question.
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Epicurean society was a bit separated from the rest of the world- own classes, an own garden, own hierarchical structures
There was a school, but I wouldn't call it a society. Epicurus regularly participated in the life of his city, especially in the religious festivals and rites. This comes through loud and clear in Philodemus's On Piety.
The Garden was also not a commune or compound. Students were free to come and go and attend classes and celebratory meals. Property was not held in common. This is explicitly stated in Diogenes Laërtius's writing.
Plus the Garden wasn't secluded or remote. It was right near one of the main gates of Athens on a highly traveled road. It just so happened that Epicurus could afford a place for his school to meet. A refuge from the city life for a time.
All the schools held "classes" and lectures. Most of not all of Aristotle's existing works were compiled by a student from lecture notes they took. I don't think we have extant.
All the schools had leaders and teachers.
All the schools thought they taught the truth.
One of the things that attracted me to explore this philosophy in the first place was because it was the *only* ancient school to welcome every member of society including women and slaves. There are women who were respected members of the school and who wrote philosophical texts (none of which survive - big surprise) arguing against the leading teachers of other schools.
That's all for now, but I appreciate your starting this thread!
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Jan 2nd 2017
I'm less concerned with the "cult" terminology these days because the content of Epicurus's philosophy is based on personal/individual perception of reality based on sensory experience. I'm certain you could classify Epicureans as somewhat cultic. But all that being said against the backdrop of the majority of the world historically being saturated in superstition, religion, false ideologies etc. Epicurus stands in stark contrast to other "cult" leaders, where he is trying to release society from the bondage of these ideologies. Most of those who we consider cult leaders (Sai Baba, Nithyananda, Jim Jones) are charlatans that rely on superstitious ideologies and religions. So Epicurus might be considered a cult leader to some, but given the context of his philosophy which isn't supernatural or based in some form of inaccessible secret gnostic knowledge that only the cult leader knows or has access to, he'd be the most benign in the history of cult leaders. People that venerate him (celebrate his life, his birthday etc.) recognize that in the long history of liars and frauds, Epicurus stood out as one who tried to break the chains of the religionist and supernaturalist frauds and give freedom to the individual to see the world as it is.
Given what you know of Epicurus's philosophy, I'm going to post two examples of modern cult leaders, and then see the context of what the "cult" of Epicurus is against the backdrop of the others….
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Garden Bard
It was totally a cult.
However, like the word "God", the word "cult" has been de-contextualized from its origins. As far as Epicureanism goes, it checks all of the boxes. Veneration of a figure-head who is treated with reverence? Check. Small following of a subversive ideology? Check. Sayings, rituals, and celebrations according to a personality, institution, or system? Check.
Hiding abuse beneath the guise of authority? Non-existent. Punishments for non-compliance? Absolutely not. A membership fee or pyramid-scheme structure? Negative. Requirements to cut ties with family? The opposite is true.
So, just like the counter-intuitive answer this materialist has to the question of divinity (he's a theist ... just a materialist theist, contrary to modern definitions of "theism") the answer to the question of "Is Epicureanism a Cult?" is, as I see it at the moment, a resounding "Yes". However, as a "cult", it is also the total opposite of something like Scientology.
As explored in most of the responses, it depends on one's definition of a cult. That world has lots of bad connotations that would not apply. On the other hand certainly Epicurus was the leader of a group, and the group held its leader in high esteem (without necessarily thinking him perfect) and I think there are all sorts of observations that can be made to the effect that there is nothing wrong whatsoever with that.
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However, like the word "God", the word "cult" has been de-contextualized from its origins.
I wouldn't use Nate's first sentence because I think he's right in the second sentence - you have to be careful to define your terms before you emphatically apply them.
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f you're getting this impression from DeWitt, I'll be the first to admit I have problems with DeWitt. You'll notice some of my reviews of specific chapters of Epicurus and His Philosophers in this section. I have major issues with his Ranks and Titles section in chapter 5. I do not necessarily subscribe to a DeWittean interpretation in all things Epicurean.
Not to take this off on a tangent on DeWitt, but I think DeWitt might occasionally go to far in some areas, but in most areas his ultimate conclusions are pretty fair. You could probably pull some sentences that support calling the Epicureans a "cult" but by the time you finish the whole book and consider the whole philosophy (which I think DeWitt does better than most) then I don't think you reach any of the negative conclusions that we use when using the word "Cult" today. And just the opposite - it would be absurd to argue that the man who more than anyone else taught that authority should be challenged, and that nothing should be accepted that cannot be grounded in the evidence of the senses, was attempting to set up an organization of mind-numbed robots and to intimidate them into unquestioning belief in following his whims (which I think is a fair meaning of the word cult as we use it today).
I am glad to see Don like my last post Some people might read some posts and think that Don and I are on significantly different pages on some important issues, and while we do have differences of perspectives, pretty much all the time all you have to do is get us "on the line talking" and you find out that there is very little difference in our positions. I think both of us like to be cautious in how we are being perceived, so we tend to write explanatory comments on things that give the impression of more difference of opinion than really exists.
But it's good that we are doing our best to be clear and I think as long as people don't get the wrong impression, the attempts to drill down in clarity -- such as on the hypotheticals issue - are very good for the forum.
That's a good point, and one I completely left out. I fear that DeWitt presented it a bit one-dimensional for my personal taste, but you're completely right.
Well yes, but then I might ask why Epicurus didn't liberate the slaves during his lifetime. And yes, I heard the theory that slaves were regarded just as we see money today- as a necessity for a running economy; nevertheless, it still raises question marks in my head.
Glad to hear
Heavy stuff, I must admit. But the outside world would see Epicureanism as exactly such a kind of a cult, preaching strange things- like that happiness is found in the (oh the first glance often sinister) pleasure.
And just the opposite - it would be absurd to argue that the man who more than anyone else taught that authority should be challenged, and that nothing should be accepted that cannot be grounded in the evidence of the senses, was attempting to set up an organization of mind-numbed robots and to intimidate them into unquestioning belief in following his whims (which I think is a fair meaning of the word cult as we use it today).
Cassius, you're completely right, and that's why I was so confused about this- DeWitt describes Epicurus as a rebel, and a person who won't accept certain dogmas just because society says so. And thus it didn't really made sense to me why Epicurus seemed to try and to separate his students from the outside world (which still seems to me like he was at least attempting to do).
And that's where our need to expose this philosophy to the world comes into play. Supernaturalism brought the majority of the world into superstition and pain but the cult of Epicurus, which day by day is more and more validated by scientific and sociological evidence, brings us out of that pain.
And thus it didn't really made sense to me why Epicurus seemed to try and to separate his students from the outside world
Did DeWitt say he did that, or did you pick that up as an artifact of what is generally "out there" on Epicurus? Either way, I don't think he "tried to separate his students from the outside world" at all. I think he taught them to embrace what was good in the world, and fight against what is bad, but in no way did he teach them to pull back into their caves. THAT is the modern or neostoic view that i think is just hogwash -- and says much more about those who say it, than it does about Epicurus, who can't be shown to have said it when the philosophy is viewed in total.
Nope, DeWitt didnt state it clearly, but I got the impression.
This will be an example, in fairness to DeWitt, that there are other contemporary writers who will give you that impression of isolationism in much stronger and unfair terms than does DeWitt.
If I recall correctly, Martha Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire is terrible in that regard (and in other regards as well).
In contrast to that, the Stoics were right in the centre of the social life, inviting everyone to attend these events.
That's easily done, when one is celebrating virtue and proclaiming their attainment of it; when the civil authorities are on your side; when the prevailing culture has been pre-conditioned to accept what you're saying.
By the time Epicurus had emerged in Athens with his garden, he had already been driven out of Mytilene---a city that was once the crown jewel of Greek thought---and had settled for a time in Lampsacus.
By the time he got to Athens he had learned a few hard truths. There could be no question of teaching in the Gymnasia or the Agora, he had learned that by experience. Athens was a city of philosophers, true enough; but it was the city that condemned Socrates to death.
So he opted for an alternative. He would discourse in the relative privacy of the Garden, not in the city square. But how to reach people outside the garden?
He wrote. He wrote scroll after scroll, laying down thoughts so subversive that even his opponents would circulate them.
Diogenes Laertius calls him the most prolific writer of his age. He was, as DeWitt calls him, a pamphleteer; and three hundred years later men were still burning his books. It would not have been safe for him or for his students, to teach in public.
t would not have been safe for him or for his students, to teach in public.
That's a very good point- but was it safe for him to teach it in private? Wouldn't it even be the wisest, from a point of pleasure, to withdraw completely and to stop teaching anyone, because the pleasure you gain from teaching doesn't justify the pain of having fear to be wounded and hated?
(although I also must admit that it's our point of view, and if it would've been truly that difficult, then Epicurus wouldn't have reached- it was probably his decision and his individual valuation of pain/pleasure)
- it was probably his decision and his individual valuation of pain/pleasure)
Right. I think that's the answer right there.
, because the pleasure you gain from teaching doesn't justify the pain of having fear to be wounded and hated
And there's the problem that caused the question - likely some pains so clearly outweigh the pleasures involved that we can be confident in predicting what most everyone would choose, but we generally need to go slow in making that judgement for other people because circumstances can be very complex or just unknown to us, and how people calculate their pleasures and pains varies widely.
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Here's a diagram to clarify the problem.  Restoring the original y-offset does not produce the intended result because more text fits on a line in landscape mode.

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After rotation, document.getElementById(spanId).offsetTop is the new y-offset, where spanId is the result of findClosestLocator() before rotation.

A: Conceptually the problem isn't so hard to think about.  You have scroll events, rotation events, and variables.  I would track the scrollTop position on the document.body DOM node on the scroll event.  Reapply it with the orientation event fires.
Something like this perhaps.
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MFTIV: Ch 34
Posted byyannimtl December 31, 2021 Posted inMFTIVTags:Mother Fan Transmigrates Into Villainess Chapter 34
What kind of question is this?
Yu Tianyang asked quickly and swiftly, and a single sentence without beginning and ending hit Qi An'an inexplicably.
It wasn't like a confession…
Jiang Lu was still aside, his dark eyes staring at Yu Tianyang.
Yu Tianyang was made a little uncomfortable by Jiang Lu's oppressive gaze. He cleared his throat, and then realized that he was awkward when he spoke again: "No… don't think too much, just hurry up. Tell me if you mean anything to me. You know what you mean.
He added: "Just tell the truth. I want an answer, and I'll deal with it when I'm finished. "
What the hell, Qi An'an laughed, and said: "It doesn't mean that. Why are you asking this suddenly?" "
She and Yu Tianyang are too familiar, so there is no need to say it euphemistically. Besides, Yu Tianyang doesn't look like someone expecting her to nod.
Sure enough, Yu Tianyang breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll just say it, great." Yes, I also feel that you don't like me. We are completely pure friendship, OK, I rely on, Ji…"
He didn't finish his words , and suddenly Ji Ruomeng rushed out from behind and kicked his ass: "You What did you do? Didn't I tell you not to ask impulsively? Too annoying! "
Yu Tianyang clutched his butt and refused to accept: "I won't ask?" I'm just thinking about you without asking you. I told you everything, you still don't believe it. You don't need to think about Qi An'an at all, she doesn't mean that to me at all, a little bit, no bit, okay? ! "
Yu Tianyang used his thumb and pinky to compare this a little bit, how little it is.
Jiang Lu turned his head to the side, he understood the farce, and the clenched fist on his side gradually loosened.
He understood. Qi An'an was also thoughtful: "What the hell are you two doing? You two…"
"I'm all friends, let me just say it straight." Yu Tianyang wiped his mouth, and there was no shyness at all. "It's just that I have confessed to Ji Ruomeng several times, and she never promised me. At first I thought She didn't like me. I didn't realize until two days ago that she didn't refuse because she didn't like me at all. She thought you liked me and you would feel sad when we were together. I told her not to think so much…"
" Ah!" Ji Ruomeng roared, his face flushed, "You are two hundred and five! How can you say that? Needless to say, you need to be so detailed?!"
Ji Ruomeng felt that his sweat was flowing from his hair. , Shame broke out, turned around and ran.
Yu Tianyang pulled his legs out and chased: "Hey, don't go! Isn't what I said is the truth? You are not because of this! Now you see…"
Qi An'an was still on the spot, in the huge For a long time, he couldn't get back to
his senses , until Jiang Lu whispered: "Let's go, I'll take you home." He turned his head to look at the back of Yu Tianyang and the others running away, and tightened his lips.
Frank makes people jealous.
Qi An'an reacted from the shock, thinking that she still wanted to laugh a little bit earlier, she looked up at Jiang Lu: "These two people are really, I said Mengmeng has been weird these two days, and I will ask again tomorrow. Let's go."
Jiang Lu said: "Yeah."
They walked out of the school slowly, Jiang Lu was still immersed in the matter just now.
Why can some people say the word like so easily? But he was cautious, and only dared to let out his feelings little by little, for fear that too much exposure would frighten the other party.
I tried my best and only said "I will take you home".
Qi An'an glanced at Jiang Lu, although his emotions were hardly expressed on his face, but after getting along for a long time, Qi An'an had a feeling.
The same expressionless face, but sometimes Jiang Lu is happy, sometimes not. Like now, he was thinking about things, but a little bit depressed.
Qi An'an temporarily put the matter of Yu Tianyang and Ji Ruomeng aside: "Walk, Jiang Lu, are you hungry? Let's go eat."
Jiang Lu nodded, "Okay."
"What do you want to eat? Let's go eat rice noodles in casserole?"
Jiang Lu doesn't matter what he eats, as long as Qi An'an likes it. He can't help but curl his lips when he sees her smiling face: "Then go."
Qi An'an said cheerfully "Then I will give you the prawns in it. Will you give me the fish balls?"
She was coaxing him. Jiang Lu flashed this cognition in his heart.
The tip of his heart seemed to have been twisted, his eyes were soft, and his eyes were stained with a smile and shattered light emerged.
"Good." The voice was extremely soft.
… In
these two days of class, Ji Ruomeng didn't dare to root anything of Qi'an's Yu Tianyang, blushing with extremely strong battery life.
Qi An'an could see that he didn't ask anything, so Ji Ruomeng was relieved to pretend to be an ostrich.
But on Yu Tianyang's side, she must ask carefully.
Qi An'an didn't deliberately go to him when he was in school, and she waited until the weekend was off before calling him.
"Hello? What's the matter?" Yu Tianyang was in good spirits after hearing the voice.
Qi An'an originally wanted to ask straightforwardly, but as soon as the phone was connected, he felt that it would be too straightforward if there was no preparation, and he should first greet him with a few words.
She understood this hesitation in Tianyang, and laughed without waiting for her to say: "Oh, don't you just want to ask me about Ji Ruomeng? Ask, we are all so familiar."
"Why are you? What's the matter? Why did you run to chase Mengmeng suddenly?" He wasn't very shy anyway, Qi An'an asked directly.
"What a sudden, I have some time to recover her good," Yang hum or two in the day, "You're saying
Yes, it seems like I have chased others. "
Qi An'an was silent for a while, and old-fashioned persuaded him: "You are still young, you should focus on learning, now can you guarantee that the promise you made will last a lifetime?" You confessed so early, and when you see the person you like more in the future, what about Mengmeng? "
Wow, Qi An'an, aren't you?" "Yu Tianyang can't believe it," you, you, you, don't talk like this, you talk like this very much like my mother. "
Qian An'an sighed. It's not that she has to be so unreasonable to worry about the world, she is really worried. Yu Tianyang is an affectionate character in the book, he will meet a school girl when the second year of high school starts, and will serve the school girl since then. As the little goddess in his heart, the male girlfriend finally married the goddess after ten years of becoming
a girl. Before he met this school girl, had he ever been with a girl named Ji Ruomeng? Qi An'an didn't know. I didn't mention it, but now that this matter has happened, Qi An's heart is in a mess.
"You…Would you like to wait any longer? Confirm again? "
Yu Tianyang could hear that Qi An'an really didn't seem to be optimistic about him and Ji Ruomeng, and was immediately dissatisfied: "I said you don't need to worry about it. I'm fine. "
But how do you know that I haven't thought about it, do you know how many nights I tossed and turned?" I… I also mustered up the courage to make up my mind before confessing to others. Ji Ruomeng hasn't promised me yet, you are thinking about hitting the mandarin ducks, you old antique! "
They are not mandarin ducks now, and Qi An'an simply broke the pot: "I feel like you are someone who will empathize with others." "
Yu Tianyang almost died of anger: "Me?" ! Will I empathize? ! I look the same! Wholeheartedly! Is it good from one thing to another? ! I'm not a scumbag, I was finally caught up, whoever empathizes, whoever falls in love, is two hundred and five! "
" But …… "
"Oh! Qi An'an! Little aunt! You must be a silly student," Yu Tianyang concluded, "You treat my life as a well-written script, and it happens step by step? You said I will meet other favorites. I will meet people? Okay, even if what you said is true, there is someone who is in my aesthetic point of view. So what?"
"If you like someone, do you think about it? Knowing what's going to happen is troublesome." What
he said…something makes sense.
Qi An'an was stunned for a while. She has some prophets, but the plot has long been completely different. Would you like to be alone and look forward to it? She…
Yu Tianyang shouted again: "Even if God forces me to be with my later sister, I will bravely fight against the sky!" The
second high school, Qi An'an can hear her: "Okay, then Did Mengmeng agree to you?"
Yu Tianyang calmed down: "No, she said she would wait until the college entrance examination to say hey."
That's also good, if Yu Tianyang has not fallen in love with his goddess at first sight after the college entrance examination, then he With Ji Ruomeng, Qi An'an agreed with both hands.
"Don't think about it so much, you like it, and add so many presets." Yu Tianyang is rare and serious, "If you say this, I meet a person I like, and I think I will pay it back in the future. There are people I like more, and I will definitely focus on orphans with this kind of thinking." After
hanging up the phone, Qi An'an thought for a long time by himself. The more he thought about it, the more sorrowful he felt that what Yu Tianyang said was justified.
Yu Tianyang didn't wait for the goddess, but first fell in love with Ji Ruomeng; Qi Zhen's personality is completely different from that in the book, not only has no intersection with Jiang Lu, but with Li Hanyu instead.
Even if she knew that there really was such a script, it would not develop on the established track for a long time.
So… what about her?
Qi An'an carefully thought about the problem that he hadn't dared to think about.
What is it like to like someone? It's not sympathy, it's not appreciation, it's not preconceived distress, it's the kind of feeling that one person has no reservations about another, and can't help quietly rejoicing when thinking of it.
Qi An'an slowly hugged her knees, regardless of the direction of the book, forgetting the original ending, can she?
In my mind, the military training is the voice of the senior sister popping out at the right time.
"You two are really a perfect match."
Really? Hmm…what exactly is it like? Is it physical height? Or inner character? How did the elder sister see it? Alas, she should have asked.
"Really you have a sense of cp."
Ah…hehe, that's what to say, if… if she really likes him, for the sake of cp, this thing is not so fantastical, right? ?
"Your boyfriend."
No, no, no, it's not her boyfriend yet.
Qi An'an hugged the quilt and rubbed his face in the pillow. With a "meow" beside him, Dashun jumped up and looked at her noble and coldly.
Qi An'an turned his head away by this extremely oppressive gaze, but Dashun didn't intend to let her go, so he bowed and squatted in front of her.
Qi An'an turned his head, and it reluctantly passed. If Qi An'an ignored it today, it would be endless.
"Okay…you are the eccentric old master, you are ruthless and unrighteous!"
Dashun squinted relentlessly and leaned close and tilted his head to stare.
"Yes, yes, I… I like him, let's go, walk around, go quickly."
Dashun left with satisfaction.
Qi An'an buried her in the pillow again, for a long while, pursing her lips and slowly laughing. At this moment, her mood was different, and it felt strange and happy.
She thought, at first she cared about her
Jiang Lu, because he felt sorry for the paper man, but it was unfair to him. He was Jiang Lu, a living person, and he was no longer the meaning of a paper man. In the future, she will use the identity of Qi An'an, which is better for Jiang Lu.
weather is getting warmer and the day of the spring unified exam is getting closer.
In the self-study class, Qi Zhen was writing papers, and suddenly the phone on the side turned on. She immediately picked it up. It was a message from Li Hanyu.
——A Zhen, I am outside your classroom. Come out, let's go to the Qiqi Bar to play.
Qi Zhen hesitated. She had missed classes three times with Li Hanyu this month. Although not many, she had never had it in her student life. It turns out that she lives with her mother, and her mother is very strict with her. In order to train her to be a good lady in all aspects, skipping class is absolutely not allowed.
But… Qi Zhen thought of Li Hanyu's heroic face, and the sweet words that he said in his ear when he was holding his arm around him, his face blushed, and he started to pack things quietly.
Li Hanyu didn't come to the Qizhen classroom once or twice. He waited on the wall of the corridor every time. He didn't know how he was interested today. He walked two steps forward and looked in through the glass on the door.
He didn't see Qi Zhen at a glance, and didn't look for it specially. He was surprised by the students who were all doing the questions inside, asking what these two fools were learning here? Every time he looked at
him, he looked like a poor nerd, really… the complaints in his heart were not over yet, and his brain went blank for a moment. Li Hanyu gave a light "hiss" and carefully stared at a girl in the front row.
"Fuck me…" He murmured in a low voice, without looking away, reaching out to touch the phone in his pocket.
"Hey, Liu Guangda, hey, do you know the name of a very beautiful girl in this class? It looks so exciting." Li Hanyu said in a low voice.
"Extremely beautiful, isn't that just the school flowers? Didn't you take it away? What else is so beautiful?"
"Fuck me, or you are really pigs, and the people who selected the school are also blind. I have to pick the most beautiful one. If I know there is such a little beauty in the class, I can still go. Chasing Qi Zhen?"
Liu Guangda was curious by him: "It's actually more beautiful than Qi Zhen? Then why didn't I hear anything, oh, I see, good girl, right? Normal behavior is too low-key, let me let A few brothers missed it."
"No, it looks so good." Li Hanyu said with a smile.
"What's the matter? Are you going to kick the school flower? That's okay. If you really don't want it, can you lend me to play for two days? Man, please hurry up and pick that little flower off and let us open our eyes and see See how beautiful it is."
Li Hanyu laughed vaguely: "I haven't had enough fun with Qi Zhen. I'll talk about it when I'm tired. This little beauty can't run away again. Sooner or later, I won't let it go. Now, Qi Zhen is about to come out and hang up. "


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Q: instantiate class method issue while trying to resize and image I am quite new to iOS development and its my first time trying to resize and image and dealing with class methods.
I am following this post on how to resize an image. I placed the + (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize; in selectExerciseImageViewController.h and copied the relevant code to selectExerciseImageViewController.m.
Then trying to instantiate the class using
    selectExerciseImageViewController * newC = [[selectExerciseImageViewController alloc] init];
  UIImage* newImage = [newC imageWithImage:[info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"]
      scaledToSizeWithSameAspectRatio:CGSizeMake(40.0,40.0)];

but its throwing an error saying that there is not visible interface for that method. i tried putting self instead of newC but still throws the same error.
I would appreciate some guidance on why its behaving like this.

A: Your
+ (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize;

method is a class method and you are trying to invoke it on an instance of selectExerciseImageViewController. Try:
[selectExerciseImageViewController imageWithImage:[info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"]
  scaledToSizeWithSameAspectRatio:CGSizeMake(40.0,40.0)];

or you can declare your method as an instance method, just change the + sign (class method) to a - sign (instance method)
- (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize;


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Home Open Access News Technology News NHS Trusts struggling to implement digital transformation strategies despite Government investment
NHS Trusts struggling to implement digital transformation strategies despite Government investment
Research from SolarWinds reveals two-fifths of NHS trusts either have no digital transformation strategy, or have just begun to work on one
Nearly a fifth (17%) of NHS trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) that responded to the survey have no digital transformation strategy in place, reveals research from SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software.
Additionally, a further 24% of respondents have only just started to develop a strategy. This is despite nine in every 10 (88%) respondents knowing about the NHS's Five Year Forward View, which in 2014 provided NHS trusts with a plan of how the health service needs to adapt over the next five years.
Now, almost four years later these same respondents are still tasked with the same mission, but a much shorter implementation window, to ensure that they can properly address quality of care and the overall health of the U.K. population.
The survey, conducted on behalf of SolarWinds by iGov, received responses from 102 IT managers at NHS trusts and CCGs. In 2016, the government invested £4 billion in a digital transformation programme to help NHS trusts implement their own strategies as part of the Five Year Forward View. This programme included initiatives such as making the NHS paperless and improving cybersecurity. However, the lack of development of digital transformation strategies, as found in this survey, suggests that financial investment in new tech alone is not enough to assist NHS trusts with this transformation.
"The NHS has so far relied on proven technology when it comes to their infrastructure. With the survey revealing that nearly a fifth of trusts haven't begun their digital transformation at all, it is evident that implementing new strategies is not considered a simple, or necessary, process," explained Paul Parker, chief technologist of federal and national government, SolarWinds. "This, however, should be the role of the IT teams within the healthcare industry—to integrate the most efficient technology solutions that then enable the medical staff to do their jobs."
Further key findings from the survey include:
The healthcare industry remains sceptical about the achievability of some initiatives and directives around digital transformation, such as the Paperless Initiative, which nearly half (47%) of respondents thought was unachievable for the wider NHS
A third of NHS trusts (29%) view legacy technology as a significant barrier for their organisation for security, efficiency, and service delivery, with a further third (34%) stating it was an issue, but not an immediate risk
With four-fifths (80%) of respondents finding competing priorities to be a significant roadblock on the journey to digital transformation, it's clear that not enough is being done to make the digital transformation process organically evolutionary rather than uphill and revolutionary
"Public cloud, for example, could—and should—be adopted to improve data storage and accessibility, while allowing for ease of implementing cybersecurity measures, thereby meeting the suggestions of the government's digital transformation programme," continued Parker.
"This transition will also be eased from the use of monitoring and management tools that work across both new technologies, like cloud, and legacy environment infrastructure. Tools like this provide visibility into performance and efficiency, which will ease any anxiety about the transition and the continuation of services."
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court files say Stephen Mardigan ran a gambling operation out of his domestic on Baxter Boulevard, above, and his Portland business, Avenue Auto, from 2003 to 2017. Transactions with two gamblers totaled almost $5 million. team of workers image by using Ben McCanna
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Q: Troubleshooting Azure Service Fabric: "The ServiceType was not registered within the configured timeout." I have deployed a Web API written with .net Core to a local dev Azure Service Fabric cluster on my machine.  I have plenty of disk space, memory, etc, and the app gets deployed there.  However, success is intermittent.  Sometimes it doesn't deploy to all the nodes, and now I have it deployed to all the nodes, but within the Azure Service Fabric Manager page, I see each application in each node has an Error status with the message: "The ServiceType was not registered within the configured timeout."   I don't THINK I should have to remove and redeploy everything.  Is there some way I can force it to 're-register' the installed service type?  Microsoft docs are really really thin on troubleshooting these clusters.

A:
Is there some way I can force it to 're-register' the installed service type?

On your local machine you can set the deployment to always remove the application when you're done debugging. However, if it's not completing in the first place I'm not sure if this workflow would still work.

Since we're on the topic, in the cloud I think you'd just have to use the Powershell scripts to first compare the existing app types and version and remove them before "updating". Since the orchestration of this is complicated I like to use tools to manage it.
In VSTS for instance there is an overwrite SameAppTypeAndVersion option.

And finally, if you're just tired of using the Service Fabric UI to remove the Application over and over while you troubleshoot it might be faster to use the icon in the system tray to reset the cluster to a fresh state.


Lisa Gordon is one of my closest friends and we've worked together now for more than 10 years. This holiday season, I got an unusual gift from her. She sent me a gift certificate to buy a pair of Rothy's shoes. She knows I love shoes and thought this would be the perfect gift for me.
I looked at the gift certificate and went on the website. The company is quite interesting. They take recycled bottles and make them into shoes! Such a cool concept, huh?
These shoes are one of the most comfortable pair of shoes I own. The Rothy's come in a variety of "flats" and sneakers. The one I got from Lisa were the Garnet Sneakers.
They are easy to wear as they slip right over your foot and they go with almost anything. I love wearing them with a pair of jeans.
The sneakers and the flats come in almost every color. However, I find that the Garnet go with a ton of my outfits, so I'm glad I chose them.
I'm really glad that I got these as a gift and know they won't be my only pair! They cost $120 and up.


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At Last, WND Launches Its Daily Caller-Clone Nonprofit Reporting Operation
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Remember the WND News Center, that clone of the Daily Caller News Foundation whose main function is to offload WND's reporting operation (or what was left of it, anyway) to a nonprofit organization that would allow WND to publish its content for free (as long as other people could as well)? It appears that -- after getting announced back in February 2019, it has finally happened. Joseph Farah announced it in his Dec. 22 column -- but not, of course, establishing a sob story behind its creation in which he played victim and served up a little of his health history over the past couple of years:
I've been more or less absent from the scene for a little over 18 months. Some of you know what happened to me. I was working really hard trying to save this journalistic experiment from the plague of the Tech Giants. They destroyed our advertising revenues through underhanded, dishonest and monopolistic means we've been documenting for years, which caused our annual revenues to plunge from $15 million to $1 million. Staff had to be cut to a bare minimum. We had to stop publishing books and producing movies – two of our big successes for years.
Then I had to drop out myself from the race because of a series of massive strokes from November 2018 to March 2019.
Call me a casualty of Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which launched this massive "indecency" by giving the Tech Giants a waiver from the lawsuits that tend to plague journalism sites – even though their brazen "editing" and "censoring" of news and viewpoints they don't like makes them de facto journalists, not simply "neutral platforms" like AT&T and Verizon, as they claim. Their mega-monopoly status has also made Google and Facebook advertising behemoths – landlords to what remains of the press. The Tech Giants promote reporting they like, namely that with a progressive-left slant, while censoring and suppressing independent, honest, hard-hitting reporting like ours.
The carnage started shortly after the arrival of President Trump. My public pleading could not stop it. It was a massacre. Frankly, we're fortunate anything is left of WND. No one was hit harder.
Needless to say, Farah is not going to tell the full truth -- that its business model of publishing falsehoods and conspiracy theories failed and, given that little has changed about WND's editorial operation since then, raises questions about whether WND even deserves to live.
(Also: if the book and movie operations were "big successes," there was no reason to shut them down, since "success" typically equates with generating profits. The fact they were shut down tells us they weren't moneymakers.)
From there, it was time to self-promote (and, of course, beg for money):
Allow me to introduce you to the WND News Center – the reader-supported, tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit that is giving birth to an optimistic, credible, fearless and uncompromisingly truth-oriented news entity in a sea of fake news, propaganda and disinformation.
The original vision and hopes we have long had for WorldNetDaily are still intact at your favorite news site, WND.com. But those ideals are now shared by our sister organization, an intrepid new journalism nonprofit called the WND News Center. Approved by the IRS as a public charity, the WND News Center is committed to making its journalistic output freely available for publication by other news organizations. Many believe the nonprofit route is the wave of the future in American journalism, where the traditional advertising-based business model has been largely destroyed by Big Tech.
Freedom's not going away in America. It's here to stay. Allow me to make a plea that my selfless partner, David Kupelian, has often written in my absence: Please give generously to the WND News Center and help rejuvenate a truly free press in America!
While the WND News Center is finally off the ground, it's not offering too much so far -- as the website shows, the available content is just article rewrites by the few remaining WND writers like Bob Unruh and Art Moore, as well as WND-exclusive columnists. Those articles on the WND website proper now have tags stating that "Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience."
Farah might want to watch himself, though. The Daily Caller model he's clearly following -- ironically, WND publishes a lot of Daily Caller News Foundation content -- has brought complaints that the nonprofit is improperly funding the for-profit operation and have engaged in political activity that clashes with the foundation's nonprofit status. Right-wing financier Charles Koch is a major bankroller of the DCNF.
On the other hand, the fact that the WND News Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit means that it has to file tax reports that reveal how much money it raises and from whom, as well as what it spends on salaries and other expenses -- all of which must be made public. That might be a little much for the secrecy-loving Farah (whose strokes shortly after the announcement of the News Center, if you'll recall, weren't publicly revealed until the Washington Post sought comment on an expose it was working on about WND's financial shenanigans).
Whether or not Farah's health issues caused it, WND has been very slow on the uptake in doing basic things to shore up its fragile finances. It wasn't until November that WND got around to setting up a subscription option, after wasting precious time on things like giving away sketchy cybercurrency. WND's management has not changed in the interim -- meaning that the way WND is run and the policies it follows are not changing in any significant way -- and it's to the point where all of the last-minute fixing being done here may be too little, too late.
But how much money will donors ultimately kick in? This is content by the same people whose work has already been discredited and rejected by the public. Why would anyone outside WND want to pay for the privilege of generating it when there's no return on it?
Posted by Terry K. at 12:19 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:21 AM EST


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Listen to the Fair Housing Radio Commercial (MP3) sponsored by the City of Spokane, Spokane County, and the Spokane Association of Realtors or read the Fair Housing Radio Commercial Transcript (PDF).message and information from HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO):
Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice and Fair Housing Plan
As part of the jurisdiction's obligation to affirmatively further fair housing, the jurisdiction must undertake the completion of an Analysis (PDF) of the Impediments to Fair Housing Choice as well as a Fair Housing Plan. This document summarized both the analysis completed by the County as well as the strategies developed to address the barriers to housing choice.
HUD has included a wide array of potential issues under the umbrella of "impediments to fair housing choice." An impediment restricts housing choice for persons who are part of a federally protected classification.
HUD defines an impediment to fair housing choice as any action, omission or decision in a jurisdiction:
Taken because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin that restricts housing choice or the availability of housing choice;
That constitutes a violation, or potential violation, of the Fair Housing Act;
That is counterproductive to fair housing choice, such as community resistance when minorities, persons with disabilities and /or low-income persons first move into white and/or moderate income areas, or resistance to the siting of housing facilities for persons with disabilities; or
That has the effect of restricting housing opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.
As a recipient of CDBG and HOME Funds, Spokane County is required to develop programs that will "affirmatively further fair housing." HUD, which allocates these and other funds, requires grant recipients to examine the local housing market and identify barriers to fair housing choice, and implement a plan to address any identified housing barriers for protected classes. The Analysis of Impediments (AI) and Fair Housing Plan for Spokane County were updated in September 2018, with Resolution # 18-0680. The AI addresses impediments discovered between 2003 and 2008. Spokane Housing Authority, the City of Spokane, and Spokane County began discussions on a regional AFFH based on the new fair housing rule. HUD rescinded the rule and extended the deadline for AFFH submission. As a result, the current AI was reviewed and renewed while we await further direction from HUD. No new impediments have been identified in Spokane County.
Fair Housing Complaints
An individual who believes they have been discriminated against may file a complaint with HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (OFHEO), Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC) or Northwest Fair Housing Alliance (NWFHA). All of which are located in the city of Spokane's downtown area. These agencies work together to track the status of complaints thereby eliminating duplication in reporting. Identifiers in the complaint data within this report have been removed after comparison of the lists provided by HUD and WSHRC.
Once a complaint is filed with one of these entities, the parties are encouraged to resolve the complaint by participating in negotiations designed to reach resolution and to protect the public's interest. Nationally, and at the state level, a high percentage of complaints are closed by conciliation or predetermination settlement. If conciliation cannot be achieved there is a finding to determine if evidence of reasonable cause exists to support a violation of fair housing law. Some complaints will be closed with a "no cause" determination due to insufficient evidence to support a reasonable cause finding. If reasonable cause exists to support an allegation of housing discrimination, the case may be given an administrative hearing or be heard in superior or federal court.
Fair Housing Complaints Filed in Spokane County
According to the information compiled, 43 fair housing complaints were filed by Spokane County residents during 2003-2008. Of those, 17 were dismissed for no cause, 1 was withdrawn by the complainant; 1 complainant failed to cooperate, 5 were withdrawn for no benefit, 9 ended in conciliation and settlement, 1 was withdrawn with settlement, 4 are pending, and 5 resulted in pre-finding settlement (PFS) agreements.
No complaints were reported related to real estate transactions for home buyers.
Fair Housing Complaints by Protected Class
The highest number of complaints is related to discrimination of disabled individuals in the area of reasonable accommodation. Those who filed complaints and then subsequently withdrew them offer some insight into areas Spokane County may want to focus on with education and outreach. For at least 5 complainants, no remedy would offer a benefit to them, so they dropped the complaint. This doesn't mean the complaint was invalid. For example, if discrimination occurs in advertising and it is reported, the individual reporting the discrimination may not want to live in a home after being discriminated against, but still wants that landlord to follow the law.
Breakdown of complaint types:
Disability related fair housing complaints amounted to 26 with a combination of issues identified for 5 of those complaints; four for retaliation, 1 for family status, 1 for sexual harassment.
7 retaliation complaints.
7 family status complaints.
Race discrimination was identified in 6 complaints which were combined with retaliation (2) and sexual orientation (2).
Sexual harassment was a complaint twice and was combined with color, disability and retaliation.
Discrimination based on creed was reported one time and that complaint was combined with a racial complaint.
There were 6 withdrawn (WD) complaints; 1 WD with a settlement agreement, 5 WD for no benefit to the complainant, 1 WD for failure to cooperate, 1 WD with no resolution.
Public Perception of Fair Housing
Coalition of Responsible Disabled (CORD) and the NWFHA were interviewed to get a sense of the perceived fair housing issues in the Spokane Region.
Disparate impacts presented by the National Fair Housing Alliance are included in the AI for consideration.
internet ads are allowed to discriminate against families with children, unlike printed media and may be causing confusion with the public perceptions of fair housing for all.
Special needs housing; it is important to understand that behavior and illness symptoms themselves can cause difficulty retaining housing; further limiting a person's choice of where they will live.
Not in my back yard (NIMBY) perceptions of existing residents in neighborhoods where affordable housing is proposed.
The challenge will always be to make sure that everyone knows they have choices when determining where to set up a household. Fair housing posters have been produced in multiple languages and are provided to all Spokane County subrecipients to post in their location. Education remains the best tool we have in Spokane County for furthering fair housing and fair housing awareness.
Spokane County Fair Housing Activities
Spokane County and the Community Services, Housing, and Community Development Department endeavors to affirmatively further fair housing; some of the actions taken to affirmatively further fair housing are described below:
On September 18, 2018 the AI was readopted with a resolution 18-0680.
On October 26, 2010 the updated Analysis of Impediments and Fair Housing Choice Plan were adopted by the BOCC with Resolution Number 10-0910. In March 2011 the AI was amended and updated with Resolution Number 11-0165, which struck out impediment number three and indicates the impediment was "remedied". NWFHA clarified their role in fair housing complaints and reporting through meetings with Spokane County.
On March 23, 2010, the Spokane Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) signed a proclamation declaring April 2010, "Fair Housing Month". By doing so, the BOCC were reminded of the National Fair Housing Month and used the proclamation to remind the public of Spokane County's dedication to furthering fair housing.
Annually, all subrecipients of CDBG funds are required to certify that they will affirmatively further fair housing in their agreements with Spokane County.
All CDBG and HOME subrecipients are provided fair housing posters in multiple languages and required to have them posted on site.
The fair housing logo is required on documents, such as advertisements or newsletters, used by CDBG and HOME subrecipients or CSHCD.
All fair housing complaints are referred to Northwest Fair Housing Alliance, HUD's OFHEO, and the WSHRC who coordinate complaints, investigations and tests and assist people who have been discriminated against through mediation or the court system if just cause is found.
Spokane County reviews all marketing plans, advertisements, tenant selection policies, rental applications for consistency with fair housing laws that are funded by HOME dollars.
County Planning Department staff is invited to the annual fair housing spring training to keep them up to date on fair housing issues, disparate impacts of decisions, etc.
Spokane County Partners Assist in Fair Housing Educational Events
Annual Fair Housing Training is provided to the community with a coordinated team of representatives from the Inland Northwest Landlord Association, Spokane Housing Authority (SHA), Spokane County, the city of Spokane, Northwest Fair Housing Alliance, and the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC).
Fair Housing Week includes media advertisements (television and radio) that were created and paid for by Spokane Association of Realtors, city of Spokane and Spokane County. Bus wraps or posters are also used to promote Fair Housing Month.
Spokane Housing Authority (SHA) and the Landlord Association of the Inland Northwest partner to provide monthly and annual workshops about fair housing. Free training is available on a daily basis at SHA as landlords become housing providers for the local housing authority. The Landlord Association of the Inland Northwest also assists members as needed with information and resources related to fair housing as needed.
"The Fig Tree" publishes an Annual Resource Directory which lists fair housing contacts in Spokane County.
The Spokane Association of Realtors (SAR) holds fair housing trainings for its members throughout the year. The SAR Fair Housing Committee meets a minimum of four times per year to work with the community to eliminate any instances of unfair treatment of minorities in real estate transactions. Open houses are visited to be sure fair housing posters are posted in a visible location.
The WSHRC has online trainings that are free. Visit the Washington government website or call 800-233-3247 for more information on free fair housing training.
Additional Fair Housing Education
NWFHA fair housing brochures are available on our website at: http://nwfairhouse.org/library
http://sexdiscriminationinhousing.org
Continuing education has been determined to be the most effective way to keep fair housing in the forefront of the community's awareness. As newly elected officials take office it is important to educate them on Spokane County's responsibility to further fair housing. Similarly, as changes occur in the jurisdictions within the county, new people need to be brought up to speed about fair housing laws and their responsibility to further fair housing along with Spokane County, HUD and our many partners.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – For more than a century, vehicles have been a technological advancement providing independence, accessibility, and efficiency. Yet, these modern-day conveniences can also come at a cost. Vehicles can emit high levels of pollutants like hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides that affect both our air quality and health.
This is why Pollution Prevention Partnership (P3), a program within the Office of Community Outreach at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, provides the long-running AutoCheck program. Thanks to renewed funding from the Port of Corpus Christi, AutoCheck continues to offer free vehicle emission testing in the Coastal Bend along with vouchers for qualifying vehicle repairs and replacement gas caps.
The service is easy and convenient to use. Within minutes, a participant can determine if their vehicle is running clean or is emitting pollutants. In many cases, participants don't even need to get out of their vehicle. A technician uses specialized equipment, like a tailpipe probe, to check the vehicle's status.
Since the City of Corpus Christi is within air attainment status, meaning that criteria pollutants do not exceed a certain threshold, it is not mandatory for auto stations to perform pollution inspections or check gas cap pressure measurements. However, it is still important to voluntarily have your vehicle inspected so air quality doesn't fall within dangerous levels.
In 2018, P3 and AutoCheck tested 363 vehicles, issued 15 free gas cap vouchers, and six vehicle repair vouchers. They also attended 18 environmental and health education outreach events to present information on preventing ozone pollution. This year, they aim to test more than 500 vehicles.
Friday, Feb. 8, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Antonio E. Garcia Arts & Education Center, located at 2021 Agnes St.
More information can be found at the AutoCheck website or on Facebook.