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Wave Propagation in a Random Medium
Lev A. Chernov — 2017-05-17 in Science
Author : Lev A. Chernov
Ground-breaking contribution to the literature, widely used by scientists, engineers, and students. Topics include theory of wave propagation in randomly inhomogeneous media, ray and wave theories of scattering at random inhomogeneities, more. 1960 edition.
Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media
Akira Ishimaru — 1999-02-04 in Science
Author : Akira Ishimaru
Electrical Engineering Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media A volume in the IEEE/OUP Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory Donald G. Dudley, Series Editor This IEEE Classic Reissue presents a unified introduction to the fundamental theories and applications of wave propagation and scattering in random media. Now for the first time, the two volumes of Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media previously published by Academic Press in 1978 are combined into one comprehensive volume. This book presents a clear picture of how waves interact with the atmosphere, terrain, ocean, turbulence, aerosols, rain, snow, biological tissues, composite material, and other media. The theories presented will enable you to solve a variety of problems relating to clutter, interference, imaging, object detection, and communication theory for various media. This book is expressly designed for engineers and scientists who have an interest in optical, microwave, or acoustic wave propagation and scattering. Topics covered include: Wave characteristics in aerosols and hydrometeors Optical and acoustic scattering in sea water Scattering from biological materials Pulse scattering and beam wave propagation in such media Optical diffusion in tissues and blood Transport and radiative transfer theory Kubelka—Munk flux theory and plane-parallel problem Multiple scattering theory Wave fluctuations in turbulence Strong fluctuation theory Rough surface scattering Remote sensing and inversion techniques Imaging through various media About the IEEE/OUP Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory Formerly the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Waves, this joint series between IEEE Press and Oxford University Press offers outstanding coverage of the field with new titles as well as reprintings and revisions of recognized classics that maintain long-term archival significance in electromagnetic waves and applications. Designed specifically for graduate students, practicing engineers, and researchers, this series provides affordable volumes that explore electromagnetic waves and applications beyond the undergraduate level. See page il of the front matter for a listing of books in this series.
Wave Propagation in Random Media
Joseph Bishop Keller — 1960 in Random dynamical systems
Author : Joseph Bishop Keller
Wave Propagation and Time Reversal in Randomly Layered Media
Jean-Pierre Fouque — 2007-06-30 in Science
Author : Jean-Pierre Fouque
The content of this book is multidisciplinary by nature. It uses mathematical tools from the theories of probability and stochastic processes, partial differential equations, and asymptotic analysis, combined with the physics of wave propagation and modeling of time reversal experiments. It is addressed to a wide audience of graduate students and researchers interested in the intriguing phenomena related to waves propagating in random media. At the end of each chapter there is a section of notes where the authors give references and additional comments on the various results presented in the chapter.
Stanford University. Stanford Electronics Laboratories. Systems Techniques Laboratory — 1968 in
Author : Stanford University. Stanford Electronics Laboratories. Systems Techniques Laboratory
A simple technique has been used to derive statistical characterizations of the perturbations imposed upon a wave (plane, spherical or beamed) propagating through a random medium. The method is essentially physical rather than mathematical, and is probably equivalent to the Rytov method. The limitations of the method are discussed in some detail; in general they are restrictive only for optical paths longer than a few hundred meters, and for paths at the lower microwave frequencies. Situations treated include arbitrary path geometries, finite transmitting and receiving apertures, and anisotropic media. Results include, in addition to the usual statistical quantities, time-lagged functions, mixed functions involving amplitude and phase fluctuations, angle-of-arrival covariances, frequency covariances, and other higher-order quantities. (Author).
Mathematics of Random Media
Werner E. Kohler — in Mathematics
Author : Werner E. Kohler
In recent years, there has been remarkable growth in the mathematics of random media. The field has deep scientific and technological roots, as well as purely mathematical ones in the theory of stochastic processes. This collection of papers by leading researchers provides an overview of this rapidly developing field. The papers were presented at the 1989 AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. In addition to new results on stochastic differential equations and Markov processes, fields whose elegant mathematical techniques are of continuing value in application areas, the conference was organized around four themes: Systems of interacting particles are normally viewed in connection with the fundamental problems of statistical mechanics, but have also been used to model diverse phenomena such as computer architectures and the spread of biological populations. Powerful mathematical techniques have been developed for their analysis, and a number of important systems are now well understood. Random perturbations of dynamical systems have also been used extensively as models in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Among the recent unifying mathematical developments is the theory of large deviations, which enables the accurate calculation of the probabilities of rare events. For these problems, approaches based on effective but formal perturbation techniques parallel rigorous mathematical approaches from probability theory and partial differential equations. The book includes representative papers from forefront research of both types. Effective medium theory, otherwise known as the mathematical theory of homogenization, consists of techniques for predicting the macroscopic properties of materials from an understanding of their microstructures. For example, this theory is fundamental in the science of composites, where it is used for theoretical determination of electrical and mechanical properties. Furthermore, the inverse problem is potentially of great technological importance in the design of composite materials which have been optimized for some specific use. Mathematical theories of the propagation of waves in random media have been used to understand phenomena as diverse as the twinkling of stars, the corruption of data in geophysical exploration, and the quantum mechanics of disordered solids. Especially effective methods now exist for waves in randomly stratified, one-dimensional media. A unifying theme is the mathematical phenomenon of localization, which occurs when a wave propogating into a random medium is attenuated exponentially with propagation distance, with the attenuation caused solely by the mechanism of random multiple scattering. Because of the wide applicability of this field of research, this book would appeal to mathematicians, scientists, and engineers in a wide variety of areas, including probabilistic methods, the theory of disordered materials, systems of interacting particles, the design of materials, and dynamical systems driven by noise. In addition, graduate students and others will find this book useful as an overview of current research in random media.
Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Random Media
Johanan L. Codona — in
Author : Johanan L. Codona
Laser Beam Scintillation with Applications
Larry C. Andrews — 2001 in Science
Author : Larry C. Andrews
Renewed interest in laser communication systems has sparked development of useful new analytic models. This book discusses optical scintillation and its impact on system performance in free-space optical communication and laser radar applications, with a detailed look at propagation phenomena and the role of scintillation on system behavior. Intended for practicing engineers, scientists, and students.
Stochastic Wave Propagation
Kazimierz Sobczyk — 1985 in Engineering models
Author : Kazimierz Sobczyk
Propagation of Spherical Waves in a Weak Random Medium
K. C. Yeh — 1961 in Ionospheric radio wave propagation
Author : K. C. Yeh
Introduction to Wave Scattering Localization and Mesoscopic Phenomena
Ping Sheng — 2006-08-25 in Science
Author : Ping Sheng
Waves represent an important topic of study in physics, mathematics, and engineering. This volume is a resource book for those interested in understanding the physics underlying nanotechnology and mesoscopic phenomena. It aims to bridge the gap between the textbooks and research frontiers in wave related topics.
Wave Propagation in Complex Media
George Papanicolaou — 1998 in Science
Author : George Papanicolaou
This is both promo text and back cover copy: This volume combines the discussions of two workshops: one devoted to wavelets, multigrid and other fast algorithms (multipole, FFT) and their use in wave propagation, and another devoted to waves in random and other complex media. The majority of the chapters deal with the effects of inhomogeneities of wave propagation both theoretically and computationally. They include topics such as waves in random media, coherent effects in scattering for random systems with discrete spectrum, interaction of microwaves with sea ice, scattering in magnetic field, surface waves, seismogram envelopes, backscattering, polarization mode dispersions, and spatio-temporal distribution of seismic power. Several chapters describes numerical methods, such as fast algorithms for solving electromagnetic scattering problems, and the panel clustering methods in 3-d BEM.
Stochastic Processes in Mathematical Physics and Engineering
Richard Ernest Bellman — 1964-12-31 in Stochastic processes
Author : Richard Ernest Bellman
Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth Second Edition
Haruo Sato — 2012-01-28 in Science
Author : Haruo Sato
Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel times and dispersion of seismic waves. The Earth, however, is not made of horizontally uniform layers, and classic seismic methods can take large-scale inhomogeneities into account. Smaller-scale irregularities, on the other hand, require other methods. Observations of continuous wave trains that follow classic direct S waves, known as coda waves, have shown that there are heterogeneities of random size scattered randomly throughout the layers of the classic seismic model. This book focuses on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering through the randomly heterogeneous structure of the Earth, with emphasis on the lithosphere. The presentation combines information from many sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials and includes analyses of observations using the theoretical methods developed. The second edition especially includes new observational facts such as the spatial variation of medium inhomogeneities and the temporal change in scattering characteristics and recent theoretical developments in the envelope synthesis in random media for the last ten years. Mathematics is thoroughly rewritten for improving the readability. Written for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students of geophysics or planetary sciences, this book should also be of interest to civil engineers, seismologists, acoustical engineers, and others interested in wave propagation through inhomogeneous elastic media.
Wave Scattering in Complex Media From Theory to Applications
Bart A. van Tiggelen — 2003-07-31 in Technology & Engineering
Author : Bart A. van Tiggelen
A collection of lectures on a variety of modern subjects in wave scattering, including fundamental issues in mesoscopic physics and radiative transfer, recent hot topics such as random lasers, liquid crystals, lefthanded materials and time-reversal, as well as modern applications in imaging and communication. There is a strong emphasis on the interdisciplinary aspects of wave propagation, including light and microwaves, acoustic and elastic waves, propagating in a variety of "complex" materials (liquid crystals, media with gain, natural media, magneto-optical media, photonic and phononic materials, etc.). It addresses many different items in contemporary research: mesoscopic fluctuations, localization, radiative transfer, symmetry aspects, and time-reversal. It also discusses new (potential) applications in telecommunication, soft matter and imaging.
Vladimir E. Ostashev — 1997-12-04 in Architecture
Author : Vladimir E. Ostashev
This is the first book to offer a complete and rigorous study of sound propagation and scattering in moving media that have regular and random inhomogeneities in adiabatic sound speed, density and medium velocity. The book is an invaluable resource for engineers and scientists who work on outdoor noise control, on acoustical detection and ranging in the atmosphere, and on acoustal remote sensing of the atmosphere and ocean, whether they are based in the industry, or government and military laboritories and institutions. It will be required reading for researchers who use numerical methods in these fields and in its step by step approach makes it an important reference for teachers and graduate students.
Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer
Alexander Kukushkin — 2006-03-06 in Technology & Engineering
Author : Alexander Kukushkin
Based on his many years of professional experience at leading companies in communications technology, the author describes an analytical solution for wave propagation over the sea surface in an atmospheric boundary layer. His approach allows the detailed analysis of combined effects of diffraction, refraction and scattering in random media. While specific applications covered are targeted at radio wave propagation over the sea surface, a similar approach is applicable to many problems in underwater acoustics, seismology, solid matter physics and astrophysics.
Stochastic Equations through the Eye of the Physicist
Valery I. Klyatskin — 2005-05-20 in Science
Author : Valery I. Klyatskin
Fluctuating parameters appear in a variety of physical systems and phenomena. They typically come either as random forces/sources, or advecting velocities, or media (material) parameters, like refraction index, conductivity, diffusivity, etc. The well known example of Brownian particle suspended in fluid and subjected to random molecular bombardment laid the foundation for modern stochastic calculus and statistical physics. Other important examples include turbulent transport and diffusion of particle-tracers (pollutants), or continuous densities (''oil slicks''), wave propagation and scattering in randomly inhomogeneous media, for instance light or sound propagating in the turbulent atmosphere. Such models naturally render to statistical description, where the input parameters and solutions are expressed by random processes and fields. The fundamental problem of stochastic dynamics is to identify the essential characteristics of system (its state and evolution), and relate those to the input parameters of the system and initial data. This raises a host of challenging mathematical issues. One could rarely solve such systems exactly (or approximately) in a closed analytic form, and their solutions depend in a complicated implicit manner on the initial-boundary data, forcing and system's (media) parameters . In mathematical terms such solution becomes a complicated "nonlinear functional" of random fields and processes. Part I gives mathematical formulation for the basic physical models of transport, diffusion, propagation and develops some analytic tools. Part II and III sets up and applies the techniques of variational calculus and stochastic analysis, like Fokker-Plank equation to those models, to produce exact or approximate solutions, or in worst case numeric procedures. The exposition is motivated and demonstrated with numerous examples. Part IV takes up issues for the coherent phenomena in stochastic dynamical systems, described by ordinary and partial differential equations, like wave propagation in randomly layered media (localization), turbulent advection of passive tracers (clustering), wave propagation in disordered 2D and 3D media. For the sake of reader I provide several appendixes (Part V) that give many technical mathematical details needed in the book. For scientists dealing with stochastic dynamic systems in different areas, such as hydrodynamics, acoustics, radio wave physics, theoretical and mathematical physics, and applied mathematics The theory of stochastic in terms of the functional analysis Referencing those papers, which are used or discussed in this book and also recent review papers with extensive bibliography on the subject
Nonlinear Random Waves
Vladimir V. Konotop — 1994 in Science
Author : Vladimir V. Konotop
This book is mainly devoted to the dynamics of the one-dimensional nonlinear stochastic waves. It contains a description of the basic mathematical tools as well as the latest results in the following fields: exactly integrable nonlinear stochastic equations, dynamics of the nonlinear waves in random media, evolution of the random waves in nonlinear media and the basic concepts of the numerical simulations in nonlinear random wave dynamics. A brief outline of the localization phenomenon in the nonlinear medium is also given. The approach is interdisciplinary describing the general methods with application to specific examples. The results presented may be useful for those who work in the areas of solid state physics, hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics, plasma physics, mathematical models of micromolecules and biological structures, ?etc. Since many results are based on the inverse scattering technique, perturbation theory for solitons and the methods of the statistical radiophysics, the terminology of the respective fields is used.
The Elements of Wave Propagation in Random Media
B. J. Uscinski — 1977 in Wave-motion, Theory of
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Marion Maréchal speaking in Rome. Image courtesy of the Edmund Burke Foundation.
The Faces of National Conservatism
Marion Maréchal27 February 2020 Feature
I would like to thank Yoram Hazony for bringing us together today under the flag of 'national conservatism.' Our great idea is that conservatism is not a standard. It is not a fixed doctrine. It is, above all, a disposition of mind.
That's why there are so many national expressions of conservatism. The genius of each people has translated, in its own way, the universal need for the self-preservation of society.
The particularities of the conservative movements present today is that they don't just want to slow down the march of progressivism. They are not just saying, "yes, but …" They propose a radically different path.
We have beautiful examples of these different national paths here today and around the world: The 'national conservatism' of Donald Trump, the 'illiberalism' of Victor Orbán, the 'sovereignism' of Boris Johnson, the Austrian and Czech 'liberal-conservatism.'
Why we are all conservatives
Behind our differences, we can all assume the term 'conservative' because we are all defending a common vision of mankind and its natural extensions—specifically, the national community. We are the new humanists of this century.
Why? Because we know and defend all the needs of the human soul: order, freedom, obedience, responsibility, hierarchy, honour, security (according the list of philosopher Simone Weil). All these needs are essential to the human being; but they are all ones that progressivism is refusing to satisfy. Without meeting these needs, there can be no civilization, no emancipation, no happiness.
We refuse relativism. We believe in natural law, in universal ethics. We think that the individual will cannot be the only compass of society.
We conservatives know that neither mankind nor nations can be reduced to intellectual constructions. They are real, sensitive, linguistic, cultural, spiritual realities.
We are trying to connect the past to the future, the nation to the world, the family to society, economy to politics, trade to borders, the person to the common good.
We represent realism, while our opponents represent ideology. We embody memory while they embody amnesia. We belong to a historical continuity while they are only focused on the next IPO—or the next election.
What about French conservatism?
What is the face of French conservatism? What a difficult question for a country that is both the country of great conservative figures—such as Bonald, Maistre, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Tocqueville, and Le Bon—and the original laboratory of progressive ideas!
Bonald
Maistre
Edmund Burke had already detected, in the French Revolution, the root of the evil that gnaws at us: the abstract 'Citizen' of the French Revolution—detached from his land, his parish, his profession—who is nothing less than a matrix of the 'World Citizen.'
In France, there hasn't been a conservative movement since the Third Republic. But there have been conservative moments since the Revolution: legitimism, social Catholicism, and Gaullism. There isn't a linear history of French conservatism but rather a style. The late Roger Scruton spoke about it as romantic, poetic, literary but abstract thought—quite unlike British conservatism.
It's logical: in reaction to the metaphysical event that was the Revolution of 1789, the French responded with a metaphysical conservatism. Yet we can still identify some of the characteristics of the French conservative tradition. It likes social commitment but dislikes socialism. It is in favour of state intervention without being centralistic. It adheres to Catholicism but may be hostile to the Church.
French conservatives long for a 'direct democracy' that relies on the strong connection between a "Man of Providence" and the political community. They enjoy order and freedom together. As de Gaulle said, "There is a pact twenty centuries old between France and the freedom of the world."
We have the impression that revolutionary thought has won. Today, 'conservatism' is often synonymous with immobility, the bourgeois spirit, even liberalism.
So, is France doomed to be a progressive nation? Absolutely not.
But you are beginning to know us. We don't know how to play politics without creating a little chaos.
The 'yellow vests' are the spectacular version of an electoral revolt that has been contained, morally blamed, and physically repressed. They are the French version of Brexiteers. The difference is, the 'yellow vests' haven't been listened to.
Image courtesy of Olivier Ortelpa / CCA 2.0 Generic.
The French have the feeling that a conservative approach has become a vital necessity to protect their material and cultural heritage. They fear that they could lose what is precious to them, what is familiar to them, what sets them apart, what defines them—simply said, their soul.
I'm sure you can see what the French soul is: Rabelais' popular humour, Descartes' philosophy, Voltaire's irony, Baudelaire's poetry. There is a specific French spirit of freedom, of reason. But what remains of this French spirit in an era of ideological delusions like 'postcolonial studies'? What remains of it in a time of restrictions on free speech, of intellectual terrorism?
France was considered for centuries "the eldest daughter of the Church." But what is left of it—when my country turns into the backroom of Salafism, when 150 French districts are in the hands of Islamists? Every day in France, Christian churches and cemeteries are ransacked to the indifference of the media.
France is the nation of women's emancipation and of galanterie. What is left of it in an age of gender theory, inclusive writing, and neo-feminism?
France is also known as the nation-state par excellence. What is left of it when European technocrats and judges ignore the will of the people?
France is, finally, a motto: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Of these three values, 'fraternity' is the only one that cannot be decreed, the only one that politics cannot impose, because brotherhood is a feeling. I feel loyalty for the one to whom I feel connected. This solidarity is the condition of democracy. But what remains of this brotherhood when so many French territories are in a state of cultural secession? What is left of it when minority lobbies take the law into their own hands?
Is the country of Emmanuel Macron a greater civilisation—more harmonious, more ingenious—than the one we have built until now? I doubt it—and reality is my best argument every day.
The French vision on the challenges of the 21st century
I am convinced that it is conservatives who are best equipped to meet the main challenges of the twenty-first century—that is, population explosion, the social divide, ecological exhaustion, the anthropological revolution, and the future of our European continent. Let us consider each.
1) The future of the European continent
About the future of our continent, I'll first ask a question: what are we going to do with the European Union? I will not waste time on criticisms of the EU. I think we are all in agreement. There is no reform to be expected from the European Commission or Parliament. The solution and the commitment will only come from the national governments.
To reform, we need a new European balance of power. Only new coalitions of governments can engage in an effective power struggle with the European institutions.
This is what I imagine: a Latin alliance between France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal—a coalition that would represent 167 million inhabitants and more than one billion speakers. I imagine a Latin alliance which would walk with the Visegrád countries—an alliance that maintains links with Britain and Russia, a country we must not leave in its tête-à-tête with China.
The European Union is a process of 'forced standardisation.' What we should really be is an organisation for cooperation around common interests: our technological and food autonomy, our digital sovereignty, our investments (such as research, space exploration, or sustainable energies).
We must not seek to speak with one voice but to sing the same song. That is why only a Europe of conservative nations can carry a power strategy forward—because, unlike progressivism, we want to defend a civilization (not a market).
An 1855 edition of J.H. Colton's map of Europe.
2) The population explosion
That is why only we can respond to the huge challenge of the population explosion—because we don't see men as interchangeable beings, because we know the danger of having massive imports of foreign workers to make up for the European birth deficit.
Just one fact to bear in mind: in just 30 years, the world's population will increase by 2 billion people. In 2050, India will have 1.66 billion inhabitants, China 1.36 billion, Africa 2.5 billion, 5 billion total—and Europe will stagnate at 500 million.
What does that mean? That the major population movements we are witnessing are only just beginning, and that the resource crisis—including the food and energy crises—will become increasingly acute.
Conservatives have a duty to take drastic measures to deal with this phenomenon. We have no choice but to rebuild our borders. There is no other choice than to protect our agriculture as a strategic sector. There is no other choice than to base our power not on numbers but on ingenuity.
Let us reconnect with the European spirit as illustrated by the figure of Ulysses!
A 2nd century mosaic of Ulysses, located in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia.
3) The social divide
France's identity crisis is coupled with a social crisis. In recent years, we have seen a new territorial fracturing (a situation that does not concern only France). Today, my country is divided in two: on one side, globalised and dynamic big cities where careers, investments, and wealth are concentrated; and on the other side, the "peripheral France"—composed of small and medium-sized towns, un-chic suburbs, post-industrial wastelands, and forgotten countrysides—now representing roughly 60% of the population.
This territorial divide is accompanied by a political divide: the famous "anywheres" against the "somewheres" of David Goodhart—the winners against the losers of globalization.
Recently, we had an incredible example of this phenomenon: four European capitals—Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, and Bratislava—adopted a pact against their own governments. This situation is the result of an absurd territorial policy based on false beliefs.
The progressives think that in a global economy, in order to increase the creation of wealth and employment, we cannot support all territories. They think that it's necessary to support, above all, the metropolis—which is considered to be the only territory capable of generating start-ups, excellence, and innovative people, the only model able to compete in the global market.
All of that is mythology. It is the mythology of "critical mass." It is the same reasoning for territories as for international companies or for supranational structures.
As Boris Johnson said recently, all territories can make innovation and create employments. But we must have other ambitions for these territories than just having a residential economy or a trickle-down economy. We must rely on our rural and middle cities to have a diverse economy, to have strong social structures, to offer a future to all our people.
"The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus" (1625) by Hendrick ter Brugghen, located in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
4) The great ecological depletion
It is obvious to me that ecology is a conservative cause. (Sorry, Greta!)
Even in the word "ecology," we find the root "eco", which means "the home" in Greek. Preserving our territories, our biodiversity, our landscapes, should be the natural fight of conservatives.
Let us not cede the defence of nature to the cynics of the extreme left or the crazy people who make love to the trees. I don't want to choose between Greta's followers—hysteric 'collapsologists'—and the climate sceptics—equally ideological—who deny the damage caused by an ultra-productivist model and planned obsolescence.
Don't believe the mantra, "global problems, global solutions." Global problems seldom have global solutions. On the contrary, for the environment, I believe in local and particular answers. Waiting for a global consensus is the best way to disempower nations and citizens and give them an excuse not to act.
Furthermore, ecology should not be reduced to the climate. We also have to act on the disappearance of biodiversity, land artificialisation, the hyper-consumption model, waste, chemicals, soil pollution. On these topics, only nations have the means to act effectively.
I know the granite of Brittany and the hills of Vaucluse. I know the sweetness of the Loire Valley and the plains of the North. We do not protect what we do not know.
The free market should not be a religion. There is no logic in promoting a model in which products are manufactured—and then consumed thousands of kilometres away.
Finally, there can be no ecology without peasantry. Farmers are our link to nature. A nation of urbanites cannot understand—and, therefore, respect—nature.
If we are to preserve our landscape and defend our food traditions, we cannot continue with the present system: a system that drives farmers to suicide (one every two days in France), that makes them living dependents on financial markets, and that drives them to monoculture and intensive production out of necessity.
Let us not be pessimistic. Many opportunities are available to us. Recently, scientists have found a way to make almost eternal batteries from nuclear waste! Conservatism must encourage the innovation of companies and science to realize its ecological ambition. It must carry this fight far from the lobbies, far from the effects of bargains, media outbursts, and international mass events. We must act locally and think nationally in order to preserve the home of our fathers.
"The Coast of Brittany" (1870) by Eugène Boudin.
5) The anthropological revolution
It is surprising that progressives defend the ecology of nature but not human ecology. Today, man and the human body are becoming objects of consumption: bellies are for rent, gametes can be bought or sold, embryos are guinea pigs.
Today's world presents man as a simple social construction. Gender and filiation are merely the result of individual desire. Father and mother are becoming interchangeable options. This anthropological revolution has only just begun. Already eugenics is reappearing and transhumanism is taking shape.
Confronting this revolution, we face a choice between being 'fashionable' and championing the new humanism of the twenty-first century—a humanism that respects human dignity, that refuses the commodification of man and his products, that preserves and develops the human brain in the face of machine expertise, that responds to the human soul, and that refuses to shape it for ideological purposes.
We have all the resources—intellectual, historical, civilizational, medical, and technical—for a project of an 'integral ecology' that combines the preservation of nature with the defence of human dignity.
Close-up of "The Fall of Icarus" (1635-37) by Jacob Peter Gowy, located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Conclusion: Notre-Dame de Paris
Everyone here still has in mind those terrible images of Notre-Dame de Paris devoured by flames. Eight centuries of civilization almost disappeared before our eyes.
Some people who watched cried—a lot. Some could not take their eyes off the screens, refusing to believe it. Still others, in groups, spontaneously prayed on their knees in the streets of Paris. In front of the flames, the French felt an intense need to preserve.
And the emotions didn't stop there. Because even if the roof went up in smoke, the foundations and the walls held. And by a miracle, everything that was essential was saved: relics, statues of saints, stained glass windows. Even the proud Gallic cockerel—the symbol of our nation—was found almost intact after the collapse of the spire.
The spires of Notre-Dame de Paris. Image courtesy of Piqsels / CC0.
Some saw this event as a symbol: that of our dying society. Others saw it as wake-up call to the vulnerability of our heritage. I prefer to see it as a promise of hope—that of the still-standing foundations of our civilization in spite of the perils of the times—and a call: to rebuild this roof that protects us and this spire that connects us to Heaven.
Marion Maréchal is the director of the Institute of Social, Political, and Economical Sciences (ISSEP), a private French university that she founded in 2018. She served in the French National Assembly as a member of the National Front party from 2012 to 2017.
This speech was originally delivered on 4 February 2020 at the 'National Conservatism' conference in Rome. It appears here by kind permission. It has been edited for clarity.

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Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group
Chauhan, P. and Bridgland, D. and Moncel, M.-H. and Antoine, P. and Bahain, J.-J. and Briant, Rebecca M. and Cunha, P. and Locht, J.-L. and Martins, A. and Schreve, D. and Shaw, A. and Voinchet, P. and Westaway, R. and White, M. and White, T. and Limondin-Lozouet, N. and Despriée, J. (2017) Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group. Quaternary Science Reviews 166 , pp. 114-149. ISSN 0277-3791.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.016
Fluvial sedimentary archives are important repositories for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts throughout the 'Old World', especially in Europe, where the beginning of their study coincided with the realisation that early humans were of great antiquity. Now that many river terrace sequences can be reliably dated and correlated with the globally valid marine isotope record, potentially useful patterns can be recognized in the distribution of the find-spots of the artefacts that constitute the large collections that were assembled during the years of manual gravel extraction. This paper reviews the advances during the past two decades in knowledge of hominin occupation based on artefact occurrences in fluvial contexts, in Europe, Asia and Africa. As such it is an update of a comparable review in 2007, at the end of IGCP Project no. 449, which had instigated the compilation of fluvial records from around the world during 2000-2004, under the auspices of the Fluvial Archives Group. An overarching finding is the confirmation of the well established view that in Europe there is a demarcation between handaxe making in the west and flake-core industries in the east, although on a wider scale that pattern is undermined by the increased numbers of Lower Palaeolithic bifaces now recognized in East Asia. It is also apparent that, although it seems to have appeared at different places and at different times in the later Lower Palaeolithic, the arrival of Levallois technology as a global phenomenon was similarly timed across the area occupied by Middle Pleistocene hominins, at around 0.3 Ma.
Fluvial archives, Hominin occupation, River terraces, Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic, Acheulian, Levallois
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If I cry, do I look like a victim? Probably. Do I care about looking like a victim? Probably not. I am old and, for that matter, mean enough not to care how I look. I certainly wanted to cry this morning when a friend who was in school last week, said he had noticed that my son was unusually quiet and anonymous in class. My friend described him as "a different boy". Another person described my son's face, normally responsive, as "set" in the last recent while. Sheesh! This afternoon I went up to school to see for myself what was going on. I was informed that the child who had bitten him yesterday, today managed to "accidentally" sit on my son's head. The boy apologised - as you do when you accidentally sit on someone's head. OK, I will buy the fact you can accidentally sit on someone's head. It is possible; a shove, a fall-over, a stumble. Not quite sure about the follow-through kick to the hip. School is a jungle. As an adult, you know deep down that school is a dangerous place, you just choose to forget the dank hurt and slavering darkness. Until the day bleeds out into a tropical sky and you watch your own child disappear into the leaf-heavy gloom, whistling as he goes.
I am assured the school is taking it seriously. The committed and professional teachers seem as concerned as I am. There have been conversations and meetings; next week we go back for an official update with the head who is a woman in whom I have every confidence. You trust teachers with your children's lives, quite literally. I have no idea what happens when you do not trust the teaching staff. Panic horribly and home educate? God. The thought of home schooling brings me out in shingles. My children would get bullied then, by me.
In the meantime, like nice middle-class parents, we are checking with a nice middle-class doctor in case there are "spatial awareness" problems with our son. I am not quite sure how spatially aware you have to be to avoid having your head sat on. In any event, I have issued my son with the first few pages of his jungle survival guide: "Do not sit next to him. Do not stand near him. Do not talk to him. Do not play with him. Do not have anything to do with him. Do not pull a tiger's tail." He looked at me blankly: "What tiger?"
pSorry your holiday ended this way, it certainly is not what one expects after being away. However, maybe the being away helped you to see better what is going on.
As you know - I am childless - and the two cats will fight no matter what I say to them.
What I want to say to you is you are great for bringing this horrible and progressing problem to the public's eye - everyone needs to be aware of these things but unfortunately most of us will turn our backs and be glad it's happening to someone else.
Whatever action you take - it is obvious that you have a huge supporting cast behind you and we are willing to be your shoulder to cry on.
Well, it sounds slightly better than yesterday but WHY is it that no one today dares to call something by it's name nowadays? Your son is being bullied, this spatial awareness thing is just crap. He is being picked on by someone and that someone needs to be punished. But oh no, in today's PC world it's never anyone's fault. SO WHAT if you're the outsider? You live there too and have as much right as anyone else to have your child educated without fear.
I am relieved to hear that you decided to go to the school and have a word with the staff. Bullying is not a case of "boys will be boys". As a former teacher myself, I know how to must look to outsiders ("How could she have missed that?") when bullying appears to be "overlooked" - you've done the teacher(s) a great service by bringing your concerns directly to them. Bullying is insidious by nature and can be missed - even when it may seem egregious to others.
On a slightly different note, I can't believe that this is the world of a six year old... I didn't encounter bullying like this until I was almost 13 (and the new kid at the school).
Hey Wifey, glad you are back, sorry for your trouble.
My easygoing, sensitive, aubern haired boy of 11 was getting viciously taunted on the bus to school for three months last autumn.
This bullying was over his hair colour !
He was punched, kicked and sworn at every journey.
Despite this he didn't tell us because he thought it was to be expected, starting High School and so forth.
It got so bad he was faking illness most mornings.
I couldn't believe my rage when I found out, I felt physically sick that my child was being abused.
Despite the fact that my wife works at the school, and I'm a governor there, we were completely powerless.
"Sam leathered them two bullies on the way home today Mr Robbins".
I'm so sorry to hear about your son and very glad you have been into school.Do the locals know who you are -they might be reluctant to get too friendly if they think they will end up as part of your blog!
For goodness sake - they are all only six - give em all a slap and tell them to get on with it!
It's so awful when something like this happens to your child. My four-year-old son was pushed off a playground bench by an older boy during his first week at school, hit his head and ended up in casualty. You feel so livid - but powerless at the same time. You're definitely doing the right thing talking to the school - and if things don't get any better I'd just move him somewhere else.
anon of 8.38 - yes the locals know who she is and where she lives.
Wifey, You just need to get your priorities straight. Forget all this tosh about trying to be 'middle-class'. Who gives a toss ??
Forget the book, forget the blog.
Your son is the most important thing in your life right now. If he isn't, pass him over to some who will put his needs as their number one priority.
When our son got bullied, we told him to thump the bully next time he tried anything. He did. After that they were friends. Not PC I know, but it did the trick.
How awful for you, Wife in the North.
Your poor little boy being bullied like that.
Do you think it might be something to do with you being southern and moving up to the north?
WITN - you have the support of thousands. Keep on.
wifey, I fear it is not a tiger's tail-- it is one of those bears your son said he feared -- life is full of bears in the mist -- and while you don't pull their tails, when one of them habitually pulls YOUR tail, perhaps one needs to set him straight. I favor the karate classes suggested by the "grocer". He would become comfortable with his body, increase his coordination, and be able to kick their asses off, if necessary. However, when aware of his own power, he might choose not to use it -- real maturity!
Bullying is everwhere. My 8 year old son was bullied by a local boy, but it was resolved when we spoke to the school AND the parents. Bring it out in the open, fear not what they say about you, your son comes first.
BTW, anon of 10:09 - does that mean all the locals don't like witn because she blogs?!
Does your little boy talk to you about the bullying, himself? Children can clam up, I know, but it's sometimes possible to get them to open up in unguarded moments. When reading a story together perhaps? A story tailored to the problem itself would be good, of course - if you don't have one, make it up as you go along (Yes I know! Mothers of several young children seldom have time or energy to sit down and make up stories - that luxury belongs mostly to grannies).
The playdate idea might work. Though on the other hand, your son might be uncomfortable with it - and in any case the other child would probably behave impeccably! They always do, when no-one's looking.
Do you know the child's mother well enough to approach her about the problem? Perhaps she could come along to the playdate too.....?
The last remark is quite astute- clearly the bully waits for you to sit down at your computer and then attacks your son and so if you never sat down to type, none of this would be going on. Or maybe the two things are completely unrelated? I think I am leaning toward option two.
I honestly think that you are doing everything right and most definitely need to keep going up to school every single time something happens and insisting on a proper explanation and reaction. As you pointed out, if your son was getting battered like this at home, social services would have removed him. Can schools really just absolve themselves of all responsibility by saying "oops" every single time? It doesn't seem right. Good luck. Hopefully your involvement now will make them get serious about putting a stop to it all.
I've been following your blog for a while and felt I needed to say my bit today. I have had exactly the same problem at school with my children. The bumps and scrapes were written off by the teachers as 'playgound exuberance'. In the end I told my younger child to just hit them back harder.. not the thing to be telling them but it's better than me doing it! As for the older one, he has always been maturer than his years and is a lot different than his peers in terms of both maturity and intellegence... singles him out. I have had words with the schools who have taken it seriously and spoken to the children involved but bullying doesn't really stop does it? Having been through episodes of bullying at school, I know looking back, that things like this does happen and it either stops, or the bullys divert attention to someone else, but how can you tell that to a child who can only see his present suffering. I've therefore made a conscious decision to enroll my children into karate and cross the consequences bridge when that happens. At least my children can give as good as they get then. Rant over. Anon.
That's an outrageous comment. How does writing a blog interfere with caring for your child?
I can't believe these negative comments! Don't let them get to you - ignore them. People are so quick to leap to judgement.
I don't see any nonsense about 'trying to be middle class' - there's no trying, you're being what you are, seems to me.
Bullying takes different forms and does not end when you leave the playground as a couple of unpleasant anonymous messages on this blog have demonstrated.
People have different ways of resolving this sort of problem and you have to give your son the confidence to find his own way. For some it is physical - the 'leather them' approach and for others it is words; some choose to step forward and take on the bullies and some prefer to walk away. Whatever your son learns now will be a foundation for the way he approaches problems later as a teenager and as an adult. If the lesson is that it can only be resolved by his parents and a lawyer he will become a very powerless adult. If he learns that he can take steps to help himself it will be a positive experience - however horrible.
My own son started mini rugby when he was six and it helped him in all sorts of ways. He became more confident physically, learned how to work in a team environment, moved into a more male world than he had been until then and gave him something special to do with his father. It has been an enormous benefit throughout his teenage life. This may not be the right thing for your son but I am sure that there will be something that will help him find his feet in the community that you live in.
yes the locals know who she is and where she lives.
Some unpleasant neighbours you have there wifey.
Perhaps bullying (whether playground- or cyber-) is simply part of the culture at all levels in the grim north.
I hope it works out. With determination it IS posssible for bullying problems to be sorted out at that age level.
Are there any martial arts classes nearby? They are good for self-defense, but also self-control and physical coordination.
There is nothing more gut-wrenching than having your lovely, sensitive child ill treated by others and there is no justification for the number and severity of the incidents you have described. The school must take effective action. Now.
Much as we want our children to learn to become independent and to integrate, as a parent you sometimes have to intervene and systematic bullying such as this is a case in point.
All the suggestions I have seen in the comments - be persistent with the school, go along as a volunteer - you can offer to hear children read to see for yourself what is going on, joining the Board of Governors, asking any particular child he likes to come and play - friends, even just one friend, provide the best protection. Children always pick on an isolated child. If the worst comes to the worst, you should consider taking him out. Sometimes a change of school can work wonders - if you get it right. Tolerate this, you cannot.
When it happened to my son, I tried everything, but finally a change of school was the only answer. I wish you the best of luck. You will resolve this.
I am not publishing comments I consider offensive to other contributors. They are always anonymous and usually very boring to read. Foul language published on this blog is, by and large, going to be mine.
I may well publish abusive comments aimed at me. I may not. It entirely depends on whether I have a headache.
You are welcome to read this blog. If you keep reading this blog even though you know it makes you really cross, it may well lead to dyspepsia, possibly a fit and certainly chilblains.
I was the one advocating going nuclear and still feeling sorry sorry sorry for your little boy.
Here's a happy thought though - school's out for the weekend!
With these bullying problem[s], been there, done that. I have four adult children who have kids of their own. All have been through it. I think you're doing the right things about it. Just remember, ITS NOT YOUR FAULT in any way shape or form. There are plenty bits of practical advice drifting about. The best I can do is spare you a thought every time I log on to your site. It WILL all resolve, - eventually. Having said that, you could do without it.
Listen up WITN (Mummy), this is not a spatial awareness problem this is bullying. Do NOT try and comfort yourself with believing this is anything else - take it as old fashioned bullying.
Sorry to sound stroppy but as one who was badly bullied at school, I recognise what your son is experiencing and it is horrible for him and for you as his parents.
Please do not tiptoe or tread carefully around this issue or hope it will improve with him ignoring the boy that sat on his head (God I am so angry that I want to sit on that kid's head myself!), it needs proactive intervention from both staff at the school and you.
I am not suggesting that you are treating this lightly (the two latest posts show how disturbed and preoccupied you are with this- who wouldn't be?) but please have a definite 'plan of action' with the school.
The bullying that I experienced as a child has affected me all my life and, coincidentally my husband, who was stupidly taught 'turn the other cheek' feels the same about his experiences of being bullied.
Give your lovely son a huge hug from us, I am SO upset for him, and be tough with the school (I am not suggesting they are lax but your son has to come first in all this) - er, welcome back from your hols, I have missed you!
I don't have advice in this regard, but I do have a couple of observations. In our local playground I have felt the need to intervene twice in the last couple of weeks in cases of bad behaviour. Once when a boy was throwing stones at other children and then when another boy was threatening children with a stick. I don't know where or who the parents were but why they didn't step in before me I have no idea. Bullying children need their parents to read them the riot act, unfortunately I guess the reason they act like that in the first place is just that lack of guidance.
Given the efforts you are making I'm sure things will work out.
find another school if they don't listen to you and stop the bullying.
I have never posted a comment on a blog before, but I feel compelled to write. Because I have been there. Village school, small child (daughter), parents who wont do anything about it because they are relieved it's not their child, hints that it may be because something is wrong with your child (leading to...they are 'asking' for it, meaning that it is their fault they are being bullied).
When it happened to us I found myself ostracised for protesting,'making a fuss' and naively thinking that the bullies would be 'talked to'.
Many of the mothers 'closed ranks'. I can still hardly believe that they knowingly let a small child suffer.
To my lasting regret,my daughter was further traumatised by my 'suggestions' of how she could cope. It is no good saying 'just thump them back' to a gentle child who has been 'cowed' for a long time by thumps, kickes and verbal taunting. It just re-enforces how powerless they feel.
If I were you, I would find out where the nearest martial arts classes are held and enrol you son there. In my experience, both of life and playing Rugby in the front row for 35 years, there is nothing bullies like less than than effective retaliation. It will teach hime discpline and fitness and will stand him in good stead all his life.
Maybe not PC, but BALLS TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, this is real life, says I!!!!!
On thinking about this further, and, reading some of the comments from the locals 'up north', have you asked yourself why you are not packing up and going 'home'? These rural communities never accept outsiders (although some pretend to)and, whilst you are able to rationalise, children can only be themselves and, God knows, why should they learn to be anyone else just to fit in? And why would anyone want to fit in just to avoid being bullied?
Pack up and get the wagons rolling - head for where you can be middle-class without apology; and before your children adopt the accent!
If you want to fit into a small rural community, make friends and fit in, this is not the way to do it.
You are making our lives into a soap opera and people are afraid to talk to you for fear of being the next topic.
How many people sought your company last night ?
As a former head, if a parent brought such a matter up, it was investigated to the nth degree and if clearly guilty, the culprit was suspended while the parents of said culprit looked for another school.
My best friend's duaughter had similar bullying problems at the first Northumberland village primary school she attended. If it's any consolation, since deciding to move her she is a different little girl. Private school I'm afraid - who said a child's happiness is cheap?
Hope things resolve themselves soon.
It's a bit tough in the playground. I gave my boy some training in how to have a fight, because the teachers, dinner staff etc...weren't listening to him. I didn't want him to be a victim. He's too 'nice' to ever give it back. There were, and still are, constant issues: he came home with footprints on his back, jacket torn, T-shirt torn etc...fighting back wasn't the way to go; girls were the main culprits, and he'd never hit a girl. He 'told', but no one would listen to him. I talked to the teachers and they were unreceptive. There are still incidents now. One particular boy, who was his friend, has now turned on him: on the last school trip he was put in the boy's group, much to my son's annoyance. Why should he spend a day with someone who is mean to him, says he hates him and tells the class my son in gay? (Not that he cares too much we have gay friends) It's difficult, the school does take some responsibility but ultimately, whatever your stretch of life, there are bullies along the way. Even mums bully other mums with their cutting looks and glances, as do work colleagues etc...If it's any consolation I went through grammar school with two girls who sat on my head. One went on to be an RE teacher, the other a shop assistant.
Yes folks, that's right, it's all the fault of Northumberland and the close-to-savages that live here and speak with such an oiky accent. It's not as if bullying in an international phenomenon, is it? Unlike some place, though, the little bullies here don't tend to take guns and knives with them to school in the morning.
And of course the locals know who the Wife is - she has a column, complete with photo, in the local paper.
Well said eminem ! I wonder what Rilly Super has to say on the topic?
Dear me, wifey - what a lot of hostility there is on this comment section, and they are all locals. Why are the locals being so hostile, I just don't understand?
This is about the bullying of your son, not about whether you blog.
People are just odd, I wonder why they can't see through the words to your pain?
'Bullying'? 'Agression'? Where? Not in this teeny tiny village school. Us 'up North' are proud to live 'up North' and would prefer not to have to defend our school(s) from the outsiders who think it's their job to move up here, take over and do nothing but rip the locals apart. Our community is proud to be just that. Maybe you should find somewhere that bullying really does take place and then feel you have reason to complain.
Don't let your middle class manners dilute your anger though; I did - once - when my own son - then 9 - was being bullied. I thought polite letters and civil conversations meant the right people would listen to me. They didn't - not until I started banging my fist on desks which made my husband look at his feet apologetically (rather than look at shrieking banshee wife). But my yelling came too late: darling boy too bruised by bullies to carry on.
We pulled him out and put him into a new school. Six years later and he's a strapping 15 year old who nobody would dare bully as he's so big.
Mother's instinct always right. Just wish I'd listened to mine a little earlier and trusted that more than the experts.
I learned that the most important thing - when a child is bullied - is that their mum believes in them: that's what counts the most.
Who are you, the village idiot? No bullying in your teeny tiny school? What, you think she makes this stuff up? If she did, you wouldn't have your knickers in such a twist at having your lives displayed like a 'soap opera' would you? So you can't have it both ways. Either this is all fiction, so quit your moaning about having your tiny, insignificant lives on display or it's truth and her son is suffering. And I am betting dollars to doughnuts that it is YOUR son who is the bully. Because it seems to me he has quite the example on how to be plain nasty in you.
Wife, there has been a lot of good advice on here as to how to deal with this. I am writing this a year after you posted so I am hoping it has been dealt with. Soundly. As someone who was bullied in British schools - and there is a particular savagery to bullying there that I did not experience when I moved to Canada - I have heaps of sympathy for your son. As a mother who saw my daughter being bullied in school here in Canada, I jumped on it right away and made sure a stop was put to it. No child should have to put up with that and as parents we are their first line of defense.


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Stu's First Day
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It's around 7am when Stu approaches the back of the building, which has a large dumpster next to a raised loading bay and a couple smaller bins close by. He stands next to one of the bins as he knocks on the door and waits. About 8 seconds pass, when he raises his hand to knock again, only for the door to open, revealing a young, attractive brunette in her mid 20's. She looks Stu up and down and says "Can I help you?"
"Oh, yeah... Hi, sorry... I'm Stu," he replies, "I was supposed to start today. I spoke with Sharon last week and was told to come here for my first shift."
It takes the woman a second to register what he said, she seems a little confused at first, but eventually she turns and heads inside, gesturing for Stu to follow.
"I apologise, I had forgotten you were supposed to start today," she says to him, "let me introduce you to the rest of the team and i will show you around."
The woman guides Stu down a corridor into a back office, where two other women, around the same age, are sitting chatting to each other. They stop mid conversation to pay attention to the new face.
"This is Louise and Sarah, they work the tills and deal with customers, my name is Claire, I'm the floor manager, you will be working under me most days, as Sharon is barely here, but don't worry, I'm a fair boss." She smiles at Stu as he gives a shy smile back.
"Is she fuck!" chimes Louise, jokingly, "I'd watch my back if i were you."
"Very funny, Louise..." says Claire as she pulls out her phone to look at the time, "don't you two have tills to open? Come on girls, let's get moving!"
Stu watches the two girls reluctantly and defiantly stand up and leave, taking in the curves of their bodies as they exit the room. He feels lucky to find a job alongside such beautiful women but would have to learn to try and not stare; to be a bit more professional.
"Like what you see?" Claire asks.
"Sorry, what?" replies Stu, pretending he didn't hear her.
"Nothing, let me give you the tour and show you where you will be working."
Claire then shows Stu around the building, an intimate little stationery shop that has been around for many years. She takes him all over, in the offices at the back, the storage room and then finally to the back bay area. She lays out all the tasks he will have throughout the day, cleaning the general area, sorting the warehouse, taking in deliveries and taking out the rubbish at the end of the day. The very last stop of the tour was a tiny little cupboard in the small warehouse that was used to keep all the cleaning supplies, like brushes, mops, cleaning products and a box full of several rolls of large strong bin bags.
With the orientation finished and a few last bits of paperwork complete, Stu is ready to start his first shift. He tries to impress them on his first day, making as much of an effort as he can; by the end of the day he has the place spotless, the stock up to date, and all the rubbish of the day bagged up and stored at the back of the warehouse waiting to be taken to the dumpster.
"Good job on your first day by the way, keep it up!" Claire gives Stu a smile and a wink as they both head towards the back door. The other two had left about 10 minutes before, as Claire had been showing Stu where to turn off the lights and lock up. Stu grabs the bags of rubbish, five in total; he grabs two in each hand as Claire grabs the other. "Let me help you."
They walk outside onto the loading bay, looking down at the dumpster, which has the door already propped open. Claire instantly throws her bag into the dumpster, watching it bounce slightly, as it rustles into a resting spot. Stu swings both arms at the same time, launching all four bags in at once.
"Nice shot!" Claire says to Stu in a playful manner, and then locks the door with her keys. She wishes him a good night as she walks towards her car, closing the dumpster lid as she passes, before getting in her vehicle and driving off.
Stu watches her drive away as he slowly walks away from the building, but once she is out of sight he stops and walks back over to the dumpster. He opens the lid and peers inside but it's too dark, so he pulls out his phone and turns the light on, shining it onto the black plastic bags inside, as they reflect the light with their glossy presence. Stu feels himself rise down below, he hasn't told anyone, but he has always had a love for black plastic bin bags and being treated like trash. He longed to be thrown out by some beautiful woman, but knew this was never gonna happen, so resigned himself to self-bagging. It was as close as he was ever gonna get.
After a quick look around, making sure the coast is clear, Stu then hops up and into the dumpster, closing the lid behind him. He sinks into the bags as they settle around him, pulling out one of the large black bags that he had stashed in his pocket from the cleaning cupboard, now HIS cleaning cupboard. He sets his phone down on a bag so that the light fills the inside of the dumpster, letting him see what he's doing, as he opens the bag up, before whipping his clothes off, laying them flat on a bag in the corner, then climbing into his own bag.
Stu then fantasises about being thrown out by one or all of the beautiful new co-workers he now has, and once he's exhausted himself he eventually climbs out of the bag, sweaty and sticky. He puts his clothes back on, grabs his phone and then climbs out of the dumpster before heading home, satisfied with his first day.
The next day Stu turns up for work the same as he did the day before, and continues to work just as hard. He also makes an effort to try and get to know the girls a little, even tries flirting with them.
Eventually lunch rolls around and Stu starts thinking about the dumpster and how much fun he had last night. He then wonders how much more of a thrill it would be, to do it again, but this time while the girls were still in the building. His heart starts racing as he contemplates the idea before eventually thinking "Fuck it, i'm the only one who takes the trash out... it should be safe. I'm gonna do it!"
He then grabs a couple more bags from the storage and hides him in his pockets before popping his head into Claire's office to let her know he will be taking his half hour lunch break outside.
Walking outside to the dumpster he takes another look around, then lifts the lid and climbs inside, quickly taking off his clothes and getting his bag ready.
Claire is sitting in her office, which has a small monitor in the corner, she is facing the monitor with a puzzled look on her face. She calls the other two girls into her office as she fumbles around, looking for the remote.
"Look at this, girls. I'm pretty certain i just witnessed Stu climb into the dumpster, but he closed the lid and hasn't come back out yet." Claire points at the monitor as her co-workers turn to look.
"Seriously?" asks Sarah.
"See for yourself," Claire replies as she rewinds the tape and plays it back.
"That's him alright, but what's he doing?"
Claire puts down the remote and stands up, "Not sure, but i'm gonna go check, stay here."
She heads outside as the girls return ther gaze to the monitor, staring at an empty bay and a lonely dumpster until Claire comes into view on the screen. She approaches the dumpster slowly and hears rustling coming from inside, holding her ear up against the side to have a listen.
What the hell? she thinks to herself.
Clair slowly places her fingers on the lid and lifts it gently, the noise getting louder. After a few seconds, she decides to just lift the lid up fully, she needs to know what he is doing in there and she needs to know now! To her horror she sees what is clearly the bottom half of a naked man sticking out of a trash bag, with his hand wrapped around his cock, tugging away like he's ready to tear the thing off. While she observes, the man continues to pleasure himself, totally unaware he is being watched. That's when she notices the phone sitting on a bag, it is unlocked and an image is on the screen, it's an image of herself! She is repulsed by the notion that photos of her are being taken without her consent, and probably the other girls too. That's when a hand comes out from under the bag, pawing for the phone until it's found, and then dragged into the bag, most likely used to fuel the fire so to speak.
Back in the office, Sarah and Louise are staring at the monitor in disbelief. Now the lid is open, though it is a little hard to make out, they are almost certain that they are witnessing someone play with themselves in the dumpster. They watch Claire slowly close the lid and head back inside, joining them again.
"Was he doing what I think he was doing?!" Louise asked Claire in a repulsed manner.
"Yup. Dirty fucking bastard. He also had photos of us on his phone!"
"Oh my God, eeew. That's so fucking creepy!" Sarah shivered slightly and looked visibly disturbed.
"Do we go to the police with this?" Louise asked, as she looked at Claire then back to the monitor.
"Oh, he's getting out!" said Claire as she panics a little, "Don't say a word or do anything. I will decide what to do later and get back to you, just get back to work as normal right now."
The girls give each other a concerned look and go back to their work.
Stu returns from his lunch break feeling great, the release of endorphins had done him a world of good, but now it was time to work again.
The next couple of hours feels awkward to him, he can't place what it is, but it feels like everyone hates him all of a sudden. The girls are cold to him, never once striking up conversation and seem to kill every conversation dead almost immediately; it was even hard to get eye contact sometimes.
He decides to just concentrate on cleaning, Claire comes to him and asks to make sure he collects all the rubbish, and to bag up some of the damaged stock and all the packaging. It feels like every other minute she was giving him more things to clean and bag up. By 2:30pm he has around nine black trash bags, filled to the brim waiting to go out.
Stu is tying the last bag closed when he is approached by the girls.
"Oh, hey guys... what's up?" he asks, trying to act casual.
Claire slowly approaches Stu and places her hand on his shoulder as she looks him in the eyes, giving a cheeky smile.
"We've noticed the way you have been looking at us," she rubs his arm gently, then slowly brings her other hand down his chest and teases it close to his crotch.
Stu starts to get visibly hard, but clearly embarrassed. "I... eh..."
Claire puts her finger over his mouth. "Shhhh! You don't have to say anything, we like you too, and we wanna have a little fun with you!"
Stu can't believe what was happening, how could this be real? Things like this don't happen, not to him anyway... but it was happening...
Claire walks behind him and grabs his hands, pulling them behind his back. Then she starts to wind tape around his wrists, binding them together. "We like it kinky! Don't worry!" Then she wraps tape around his ankles too.
Stu watches as the two other girls approach him. "Oh, we're doing it right here then? I won't be able to go anywhere with my legs bound."
"That's the point," says Louise, as she grabs the roll of tape from Claire and puts a piece over his mouth, "you fucking perv!" Stu's face changes from one of pleasure to confusion as he is then shoved backwards, falling back, not able to use his limbs to control the fall. He lands hard and has the wind knocked out of him, as the girls start to cut off his clothes. "You prefer to be naked don't you?"
His vision fades slightly and he is a little disoriented, but still able to take in what she said, adding to his confusion. "What are you talking about?"
Sarah pulls out a roll of trash bags from behind her back and lets it unroll to the ground as she rips one off, wafting it open and then setting it on the ground. "You know what we are talking about," she says to him in an aggressive tone, "pervert."
"You sure we should do this, Claire?" Louise asks, "There's no going back!"
Claire grabs one of the full bags of trash and opens it. "Yup. This dick will just get a warning or something, just get a job somewhere else, god knows what else he's into... We are doing the world a favour. Plus, he apparently likes this kind of shit, so maybe we are doing him a favour?" She laughs to herself as she then starts to empty some of the contents of the bag into the one on the ground, before setting it back down. "Okay, in he goes."
All three of the girls surround the still groggy, confused man and pick him up, carrying him over the bag. They rest him down so his ass is in the middle of the bag, sitting on the rubbish just added. They then bend his legs up to his chest and tape it in place. Stu is starting to regain full consciousness and starts to struggle, but it's too late, he's fairly secure. He looks up at Claire as she stands over him and lifts up the sides of the bag, engulfing him.
"Ok, now the rest, I want it full to the brim!"
The two girls pick up the trash bag and empty the rest of the contents around him. The bag contained a lot of paper goods, office supplies, a little kitchen waste and some packaging. Louise pushes down into the back, compressing all the contents around him, making a lot more room. "I think we can get another bag in there," she says.
"I think you're right." Claire moves the bag around a little to let the contents settle more. "Keep it coming, this trash needs more trash! Actually... hold on..." Claire picks up Stu's cut off clothes and dumps them in his bag. "Ok... now you can go!"
Another bag is opened and slowly dumped on top of Stu, filling the rest of the bag to the top, the contents completely surrounding him on all sides, the pressure building up each time they compact it down to add more.
Eventually the contents are almost spilling out and the contents are squished down one last time before the bag is tied shut, sealing Stu into a world of darkness. All he can hear is the rustling of the contents settling around him, until he feels himself rolling around and hears a loud plastic noise from bottom to top... they were double bagging him... no... triple bagging him, as he hears and feels the final bag envelop him.
Claire enters her office and walks over to the monitor, staring at it. She watches as the back door opens and Sarah and Louise appear, dragging a bag of rubbish behind them, which they then proceed to push over the edge, dropping it onto the other bags inside. They then briefly go inside and return with several bags each, which they then throw into the dumpster, burying the first bag, before closing the lid and returning inside.
Claire then ejects the tape for that day's security and takes it outside. She opens the lid to the dumpster, which is now full, awaiting collection the next day, and throws the tape inside, right at the back, before closing the lid and heading back in to finish the rest of her shift.
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Q: OpenCV: Reading video sequences Is there a way of randomly reading video frames in OpenCV....just like arrays are accessed using indexes? Otherwise, if I want to load complete video in CPU or GPU how can I do it?

A: You can use the set(int propId, double value) method on your video capture (also check out the documentation), where propId can either be one of the following:

*

*CV_CAP_PROP_POS_MSEC: Current position of the video file in milliseconds.

*CV_CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES: 0-based index of the frame to be decoded/captured next.

*CV_CAP_PROP_POS_AVI_RATIO: Relative position of the video file: 0 - start of the film, 1 - end of the film.

A small example that plays a video 50 seconds in:
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
    namedWindow("Frame", CV_WINDOW_NORMAL);
    Mat frame;

    VideoCapture capture(argv[1]);
    if (!capture.isOpened())
    {
        //error in opening the video input
        cerr << "Unable to open video file: " << argv[1] << endl;
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_POS_MSEC, 50000);
    for (;;)
    {
        //read the current frame
        if (!capture.read(frame))
        {
            cerr << "Unable to read next frame." << endl;
            cerr << "Exiting program!" << endl;
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
        imshow("Frame", frame);
        waitKey(20);
    }
}

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<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Services\Access\Traits\ChangePasswords;
use App\Services\Access\Traits\ResetsPasswords;
use App\Repositories\Frontend\User\UserContract;

/**
 * Class PasswordController
 * @package App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\Auth
 */
class PasswordController extends Controller
{

    use ChangePasswords, ResetsPasswords;

    /**
     * Where to redirect the user after their password has been successfully reset
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $redirectTo = '/dashboard';

    /**
     * @param UserContract $user
     */
    public function __construct(UserContract $user)
    {
        $this->user = $user;
    }
}

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Q: SSRS report not being deployed onto the report server I am having a problem with deploying the SSRS report onto the report server. When I try to deploy the report from visual studio, I get the following error:

The permissions granted to user 'krishna' are insufficient for performing this operation.

I am not sure where to give the permissions so that the report gets deployed and I can see my reports on the reports folder.

A: According to the article How to fix Reporting Services permissions are insufficient for performing operation (rsAccessDenied):

*

*Make sure you have access configured to the URL http://localhost/reports using the SQL Reporting Services Configuration. To do this:

*

*Open Reporting Services Configuration Manager -> then connect to the report server instance  -> then click on Report Manager URL.

*In the Report Manager URL page, click the Advanced button -> then in the Multiple Identities for Report Manager, click Add.

*In the Add a Report Manager HTTP URL popup box, select Host Header and type in: localhost

*Click OK to save your changes.

*Now start/ run Internet Explorer using Run as Administrator.

*

*NOTE: If you don't see the 'Site Settings' link in the top left corner while at http://localhost/reports it is probably because you aren't running IE as an Administrator or you haven't assigned your computer's 'domain\username' to the reporting services roles, see how to do this in the next few steps.

*Then go to: http://localhost/reports   (you may have to login with your Computer's username and password)

*You should now be directed to the Home page of SQL Server Reporting Services here: http://localhost/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx

*From the Home page, click the Properties tab, then click New Role Assignment

*In the Group or user name textbox, add the 'domain\username' which was in the error message

*

**(in my case, I added: DOUGDELL3-PC\DOUGDELL3 for the 'domain\username', in your case you can find the domain\username for your computer in the rsAccessDenied error message).

*Now check all the checkboxes; Browser, Content Manager, My Reports, Publisher, Report Builder, and then click OK.

*Your domain\username should now be assigned to the Roles that will give you access to deploy your reports to the Report Server.  If you're using Visual Studio or SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio to deploy your reports to your local reports server, you should now be able to.

A: I encountered this same issue, but the resolution was different.
looking at http://localhost/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx and I had to 'edit item security' to get the parent permissions to apply to the child folders and items (reports).
When I manually tried to upload using the "Upload File" function, it became clear.
(! Replacing an item with another one that has the same name, but is a different type, is not allowed.)
It seems the folders where the report is stored did not allow overwriting. I applied the parent folder permissions over the reports folder and we were able to deploy using Visual Studio again.  Not sure how it got into this state.


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package com.ddsnowboard.fantasystocksandroid.AsyncTasks;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;

import com.ddsnowboard.fantasystocksandroid.Utilities;
import com.jameswk2.FantasyStocksAPI.Floor;
import com.jameswk2.FantasyStocksAPI.Player;
import com.jameswk2.FantasyStocksAPI.Stock;
import com.jameswk2.FantasyStocksAPI.User;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.function.Consumer;
import java.util.function.IntSupplier;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

/**
 * This, given the id of a floor, gets an array of all the stocks on that floor. If an id of -1
 * is given, it looks at the context and gets the stocks of the first floor that the logged in player
 * belongs to.
 */

public class GetStocksTask extends GetterTask<Stock[]> {
    public static final String TAG = "GetStocksTask";

    public GetStocksTask(Context ctx, Consumer<Stock[]> cb) {
        super(ctx, cb);
    }

    @Override
    protected Stock[] doInBackground(IntSupplier... floorIdGenerators) {
        int floorId = floorIdGenerators[0].getAsInt();
        if (floorId == -1) {
            // We should get the first floor that this guy owns
            User u = Utilities.login(ctx);
            Player p = u.getPlayers()[0];
            floorId = p.getFloor().getId();

            // The first (and probably only) time we have to do this,
            // we have to tell the floating action button the floor we found
            Intent intent = new Intent(Utilities.FOUND_STARTING_FLOOR);
            intent.putExtra(Utilities.FLOOR_ID, floorId);
            ctx.sendBroadcast(intent);
        }
        Stock[] stocks = Floor.get(floorId).getStocks();
        Stream<Stock> st = Arrays.stream(stocks);
        st = st.map(s -> Stock.get(s.getId()));
        Stock[] retval = st.toArray(i -> new Stock[i]);
        return retval;
    }

}


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Armed intruder arrested on grounds of Windsor Castle where Queen is celebrating Christmas
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Government Civil Litigation Externship - Southern District of New York
Conducted with the cooperation of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
LW.11701 / LW.11895
Professor Stephen Cha-Kim (Fall)
Professor Mónica Folch (Fall)
Professor David Kennedy (Spring)
Professor Rebecca Tinio (Spring)
Open to 3L and 2L students
Maximum of 10 students
Fall and Spring semesters
5 credits*
No prerequisites or co-requisites, but see Note: re security clearance.
The US Attorney's Office will select up to ten students for externships in the Government Civil Litigation Externship - SDNY, in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, recognized nationally as one of the finest law offices, public or private, in the country.
NYU shall select up to ten students to participate in a seminar on Government Civil Litigation in the Southern District of New York. The seminar is separate from, but complementary to, the externship. The seminar meets one evening a week at the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Work of the Civil Division
The work of the Civil Division offers perhaps the most challenging and diverse civil caseload of any law office, public or private, in the United States. An Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Civil Division represents the interests of the United States and its agencies at trial and on appeal in affirmative and defensive civil litigation in the Southern District of New York. On the affirmative side, Civil Division AUSAs not only investigate and prosecute health care fraud, mortgage and other financial fraud, and civil racketeering cases, but also enforce the federal civil rights laws, environmental laws, and tax and bankruptcy laws. On the defensive side, Civil Division AUSAs represent such federal agency clients as the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, State Department and the Department of the Treasury, often in cases that implicate the national security of the United States, raise complex issues of first impression, and involve challenges to the constitutionality of federal statutes and regulations. Civil AUSAs run their cases from investigation through conclusion, handling all court appearances from initial conference, through trial, and on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, performing legal work that rivals that found in the nation's premier law offices. The Civil Division generally does not require AUSAs to specialize in any particular type of case, thus providing a civil practice that is extraordinary in its breadth. AUSAs in the Civil Division are afforded the unique opportunity to represent the United States of America in some of the most important and difficult matters, affirmative and defensive, that our legal system has to offer.
Externship - Civil Division, US Attorney's Office - SDNY
Each student will be assigned to work with two AUSAs. Students are required to work twelve to fifteen hours each week in the United States Attorney's Office. This arrangement permits continuity of assignments and familiarity with the cases of the AUSAs. Diversity of assignments by AUSAs is encouraged, and will include not only traditional legal research, but also legal drafting, participation in pre-trial discovery proceedings and trial preparation. Students will attend depositions, court proceedings, settlement negotiations, trials, and appellate arguments. This externship is separate from, but complementary to, the seminar.
Seminar - Government Civil Litigation in the Southern District of New York
Participants meet for a two-hour evening seminar conducted at the United States Attorney's Office. Through legal drafting assignments, in-class simulations, and class discussion, participants study the substantive, stylistic and tactical considerations in the conduct of litigation as a mechanism for dispute resolution. The seminar will also focus on the unique ethical issues that confront government lawyers in civil cases. This seminar is separate from, but complementary to, the SDNY externship.
Both the fieldwork and the seminar receive letter grades.
Students should fill out and submit the standard application, resume and unofficial transcript using CAMS, the online application system. These materials will then be forwarded to the United States Attorney's Office (i.e., you should not apply separately to the United States Attorney's Office). There will be no interview.
Note to Students Regarding Security Clearance and Conflicts of Interest
Students selected for the program will be required to pass a security background check overseen by the Department of Justice's Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys ("EOUSA"). A favorable determination from EOUSA is required before an extern may begin working in any U.S. Attorney's Office. A student must be a United States citizen to be eligible to work in the U.S. Attorney's Office as an extern. For a complete list of eligibility requirements, visit the SDNY website and scroll down to "Eligibility Requirements and Conditions for All Internship and Externship Programs." In making its determination regarding suitability, EOUSA considers a number of factors, including a candidate's tax filing and payment history, credit history, candor, and history of any usage of controlled substances. It is critical that students accepted for the externship complete the required security paperwork as soon as possible after acceptance into the externship so that the security background check can be timely obtained. A student may not commence externship work unless he or she has cleared the background check.
Student externs cannot work for or be paid by another law firm or similar entity during the period of the externship at the U.S. Attorney's Office. Externs are also prohibited from participating in any law school or other legal clinic involving litigation with or proceedings before the United States or any federal entity during the period of the internship or externship. Nor may you work for any federal judges while participating in this externship. Written consent from the U.S. Attorney's Office is required to participate in any other type of law school or legal clinic, or in any other type of outside employment, during the period of the externship.
Students who have been preliminarily selected for an externship position must thereafter supply information for a background check and be granted a favorable security clearance in order to work in this Office. In the context of the security clearance process, you will be asked to provide information, where applicable, concerning, among other things, your employment history, foreign travel, contacts with foreign nationals, dual citizenship, financial record, police record, and treatment for an emotional or mental health condition that could impair your judgment or reliability. The most common suitability issues that arise during the security clearance process are: past unlawful use of drugs, failure to comply with financial obligations, failure to register for the selective service, and misrepresentations or omissions on the security form. Students must be U.S. citizens and must have spent 3 of the last 5 years in the U.S.
For more information, consult the websites for the EDNY and SDNY. If you hold dual citizenship, have lived abroad for more than two of the past five years, or have any other questions about the security clearance process, contact the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) to consult their Government Handbook, or make an appointment with Gail Zweig.
Students who are interested in learning more about the course may wish to speak with the following students who were in the externship in 2021:
Conor Cardoso
Pauline Cohen
Jeremiah Evans
Jessica Graber
Erin Kim
Michael Lazris
Julia Leff
Evan Ringel
Sarah Winslow
Nick Lussier
Sophia Mietus
Bex Montz
John Murchison
Alejandra Sanchez
Dan Solomon
Carson Whitehurst
Gerti Wilson
Sophie Zhuang
* 5 credits include 3 clinical credits and 2 academic seminar credits.


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