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A Twisted Sense of Moral Outrage
My wife rarely gets angry, but yesterday she was livid, in response to an article on the lunchtime radio news about Raoul Moat.
Moat was a middle aged man with a history of domestic abuse, who was released last week on license from prison after serving time for assault. In the time he was in prison his ex-girlfriend had started seeing someone else. He left prison, procured a shotgun, shot his girlfriend, the new boyfriend, and a random police officer who was sitting in his car at a nearby road junction. He then went on the run for a week before shooting himself when we was finally tracked down by the police.
What made her livid was the reactions. Flowers have been left at the scene of his shooting; a facebook page calling him a 'legend' attracted over 1000 fans in a day. Among interviewees with comments such as "he was a good bloke", one person said "he was a good worker, he'd never claimed benefit [i.e. welfare] in his life". He may have been guilty of murder and attempted murder, but at least he didn't claim benefit. That would be really despicable!
Over at "throw yourself like seed" Andy wrote a brave and difficult post about the children's author K. P. Bath, sentenced for 6 years in prison for viewing child pornography. Now I don't share Andy's particular desire to 'speak up' for this injustice, but I do think the comparison is instructive. Read the comments to the CNN article Andy links to and you'll read feedback such as "they ought to cut his testicles off and shove them down his throat until he chokes", "I hope he gets raped repeatedly in jail", and so on.
So we have Moat, someone who directly and consistently has abused, maimed and killed people, and Bath, who has been a willing consumer of images of other people's (non-lethal) abuse. Moat is a legend, Bath deserves extended torture.
The reason is simple, I think. In our culture we have a deep and subconscious belief in intrinsic evil. An infectious model of demon possession and corruption left over from the time when religion was highly superstitious and almost totally pervasive.
Large swathes of our culture have convinced themselves that sexual abuse of children belongs in that category. So anyone who engages in it is identified with evil in its baldest sense. Conversely spousal abuse, violence against the police and 'crimes of passion' are all in a different cultural category for us. The latter two are crimes that could be portrayed in a movie, for example, with a sympathetic hero (a lone fugitive having to battle the corrupt police, a jilted lover getting their own back). Spousal abuse has come a long way in our society, but those who campaign against it still face a difficult barrier, shared with those fighting physical abuse of children – the patriarchal teachings of Christianity have left a legacy – men are supposed to call their household to discipline, and that is as true of wives as it is of children. None of Moat's crimes were demonic, he is allowed to be a normal guy with issues. Bath isn't allowed that category.
I find Bath's crimes to be worthy of strong condemnation and criminal sanction. But to me they are of a completely different scale to the 'legend' Moat. I think that a casual and facile resort to categories of 'evil' and 'righteous' do nothing for our actual moral sense. And I think this is one further example where generations of indoctrination into a superstitious and irrational religious morality has castrated the ability of many in our society to approach crime in a just way.
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Sabio Lantz
My wife rarely gets angry…
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What? Trying to start some blogger-wife envy? Huh? Wish I could brag like that. 🙂
If one thinks Religion come from God, one can be disappointed at the outcome. But if you assume that religion is just another tool for people to accomplish their ends, I think one is not as surprised.
Hatred of homosexuals is a cross-cultural phenomena. I saw it in China, Japan, India etc.. I don't think religion is the cause. Humans are the cause. And since they make religions … well, there ya go. The problem is that religions are sacred and can't be doubted so it is a great conservative tool to resist change in values.
I find your story disgusting too. I agree with your emotional evaluation. I have seen wife beating excepted in many countries. Hell, primates to it — and they don't have religion.
What I am saying is: The problem is much deeper than just religion.
Yes, I agree. But that wasn't my point, I don't think.
My point is more about the elevation of certain crimes to be in the realm of pure evil. While other crimes are just crimes, to be discussed more rationally. You can have a murderer portrayed as the hero of a book, but not a child rapist.
I perceive in the tabloid press a doctrine of corrupting evil. Evil that permeates a person, that feels to me to chime with Christian doctrine about evil: the existence of a parallel spiritual world in which good and evil are personified forces, and in whose conflict we are pawns. A sense in which the evil possessed must be utterly destroyed or purged with torture, lest it spread and infect. That is a continual thread through Christian history. That sense is reserved for certain crimes and not others.
Of course that may be common to humanity too. It just feels to me to chime in with what I know from historic Christian doctrine (though I'm aware it is not part of sophisticated contemporary Christian doctrine).
So it isn't about *values* or what is considered verboten. In fact the attitude towards child sex abuse has dramatically changed in the last 100 years, hell even in the last 20 – it is just that this crime is the demon du jour.


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La diocesi di Crepedula () è una sede soppressa e sede titolare della Chiesa cattolica.

Storia
Crepedula, nell'odierna Tunisia, è un'antica sede episcopale della provincia romana di Bizacena.

Sono tre i vescovi noti di questa diocesi. Tra i prelati presenti alla conferenza di Cartagine del 411, che vide riuniti assieme i vescovi cattolici e donatisti dell'Africa, partecipò per parte cattolica Barbarianus Creperulensis, che non ebbe competitori donatisti.

Il nome di Felice figura al 40º posto nella lista dei vescovi della Bizacena convocati a Cartagine dal re vandalo Unerico nel 484; Felice, come tutti gli altri vescovi cattolici africani, fu condannato all'esilio.

Infine il vescovo Speranza prese parte al concilio antimonotelita celebrato a Cartagine nel 646.

Dal 1933 Crepedula è annoverata tra le sedi vescovili titolari della Chiesa cattolica; dal 21 novembre 2003 il vescovo titolare è Karl Borsch, vescovo ausiliare di Aquisgrana.

Cronotassi

Vescovi
 Barbariano † (menzionato nel 411)
 Felice † (menzionato nel 484)
 Speranza † (menzionato nel 646)

Vescovi titolari
 Peter Leo Gerety † (4 marzo 1966 - 15 settembre 1969 succeduto vescovo di Portland)
 Dominic Senyemon Fukahori † (15 novembre 1969 - 9 agosto 1976 dimesso)
 Hilario Chávez Joya, M.N.M. † (13 aprile 1977 - 15 febbraio 1978 dimesso)
 Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín (17 marzo 1978 - 30 ottobre 1980 nominato vescovo di Papantla)
 Pedro Shaw, O.M.I. † (22 aprile 1981 - 21 giugno 1984 deceduto)
 Enrique Sarmiento Angulo (3 maggio 1986 - 6 agosto 2003 nominato vescovo di Fontibón)
 Karl Borsch, dal 21 novembre 2003

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Bibliografia
 Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 465
 Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, p. 146
 Jules Ferron, v. ''Crepedula', «Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques», vol. XIII, Paris, 1956, coll. 1021-1022
  Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne. Bizacène et Tripolitaine, Montreuil-sur-mer, 1894, pp. 84-85
  Joseph Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris, 1912, p. 191
  André Mandouze, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire, 1. Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533), Paris, Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982

Collegamenti esterni

 La sede titolare nel sito di www.gcatholic.org

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6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Riches and the love of money can be major distractions to our walk with God. Our human nature is naturally drawn to riches since they offer temporary power and fulfillment of many fleshly desires. Paul wrote that the desire to be rich opens us up to temptation and snares. These can drown us in sin and pierce us with "many sorrows," as they lead us away from God.
The spirit of the world repeatedly tries to lure us away from godliness with contentment. The world promotes faith in wealth and security in the increase of possessions. When we place our faith in those material things, we have turned away from faith in God and the snare is already set. Paul's definition of contentment was having food and clothing. He urged Timothy to flee the desires for riches and pursue "righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience and gentleness." He urged him to have an eternal perspective, settings his eyes on Jesus, who will soon be fully revealed as the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
In doing these things, we will be storing up for ourselves a good foundation in heaven in the age to come when Jesus is fully revealed. The joy we receive in honoring the Lord will help us reap the benefits of eternal life even now in our present life.


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April 5- Wonderful Waterfowl – Some birds have been here all winter and some are just returning, but all are wonderful! Spend some time viewing the Lakeshore's ducks, geese, and swans. Learn their names and habits. If you have binoculars, bring them along but there will also be loaners for you to use.
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April 26- Junior Ranger Day! – Special morning and afternoon activities for everyone to earn their Junior Ranger badge. Details on this and other National Park Week celebration events will be announced separately.
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Sector Vs. Style: A Look At The Data
Jim Wiandt and I have been engaged in a debate over which matters more: style or sector.
Actually, it's not much of a debate. Right now, I think it's fair to say we both agree that sectors are driving market performance much more than style. One need look no further than Financials for proof of that.
With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to look at the way sector and style interact, with a simple look at the sector breakdown in each of the nine sector style boxes.
To make my analysis easier, I'm using exchange-traded funds as proxies for the different style boxes. One of the great things about ETFs is that providers have invested huge amounts of money into their Web sites, and they make loads of data available for free to investors.
I'm using the S&P-based style box ETFs from iShares for my analysis, although any index and ETF family would do.
Total Market
First, to set the stage, let's look at the breakdown in the total U.S. market. The index for that is the S&P 1500, represented by the iShares S&P 1500 Index Fund (NYSEArca: ISI).
Despite the pullback in Financials this year, as of October 2, 2008, they were still the single largest sector of the market, at 16.59% of the index. After that, you have Information Technology (15.41%), Health Care (13.39%) and Energy (12.15%).
Here's the complete table.
S&P 1500
Large-Caps
Next up was large-caps. The funds here are the iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IVV), iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund (NYSEArca: IVW) and iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund (NYSEArca: IVE).
Not surprisingly, the sector breakdown for the broad S&P 500 looks a lot like the S&P 1500; after all, the S&P 500 makes up the majority of the market capitalization in the S&P 1500.
But when you get to the Value and Growth indexes, things get very interesting. These two indexes don't just tweak their exposure to the various sectors; they change it radically. The S&P 500 Value ETF has a 28.37% weight in Financials, nearly 75% greater than the S&P 500 itself. Meanwhile, Financials make up just 5.11% of the S&P 500 Growth ETF.
Conversely, Information Technology and Energy make up 44.75% of the S&P 500 Growth ETF, and just 10.67% of the S&P Value ETF.
If you want to know what's driving the performance of these Growth and Value subsets, that's it.
S&P 500 Growth
S&P 500 Value
Mid-Caps
The differences are even more pronounced in the mid-cap sector. For starters, the iShares S&P MidCap 400 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJH) has much higher allocations to Financials (19.55% vs. 16.59%), Industrials (14.62% vs. 11.13%) and Consumer Discretionary (13.81% vs. 9.07%) than the broad S&P 1500.
But the differences are again severely exaggerated when you move into Growth and Value. The iShares S&P MidCap 400 Growth Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJK) is strongly overweight Health Care (20.30% vs. 12.48%) and Consumer Discretionary (20.06% vs. 13.81%) vs. the S&P 400, and strongly underweight Financials (7.73% vs. 19.55%).
By contrast, the iShares S&P MidCap 400 Value Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJJ) is hugely overweight Financials and Utilities. Fully 30.06% of the fund is allocated to Financials, and 14.26% to Utilities. If you want to know how mid-cap value will perform, there's your clue.
Small-Caps
The story is similar in small-caps. Compared with the broader market, the iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJR) is overweight Financials (19.82% vs. 16.59%), Industrials (17.39% vs. 11.13%) and Consumer Discretionary (14.29% vs. 9.07%), and underweight Energy (5.98% vs. 12.15%) and Consumer Staples (4.29% vs. 9.07%).
On the growth and value segments, the story is familiar. The iShares S&P SmallCap Growth 600 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJR) is overweight Health Care and Consumer Discretionary, and underweight Financials. The iShares S&P SmallCap Value 600 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IJR) is overweight Financials (27.07% of the fund) and Utilities, and underweight Health Care and Energy.
Given how starkly important Financials are at the moment, and how widely exposure varies in the indexes, I thought it'd pay to look at all nine style box exposures to Financials side by side.
From 5.11% to 30.06% ... Gee, do you think that sector exposure might have something to do with returns?
S&P MidCap 400
S&P MidCap 400 Growth
S&P MidCap 400 Value
S&P SmallCap 600
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Although it has sat unnoticed, unloved and rather overgrown for several decades, the famed Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome is getting a much needed facelift. Professional Rome guide Agnes Crawford checks in with new pictures as the burial place of Rome's greatest emperor finally gets its due.
View of the Mausoleum of Augustus, the biggest mausoleum ever built by the Romans, in central Rome on May 2, 2017, within a press access given for the second phase of its archaeological restoration (Photo credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images).
Thanks to the Telecoms company TIM, who donated €6 million for the restoration project, a new and improved Mausoleum of Augustus is slated to reopen to the public in the Spring of 2019. Although it is tough to tell as of now whether that project will meet that reopening date, the restoration work does seem to be progressing quickly into its second phase.
But why exactly is this imperial burial space so special? As Rome expert and licensed guide Agnes Crawford has written about extensively, the gigantic tomb has been largely off-limits to visitors for many years. However, it is a monument to the Julio-Claudian emperors who ruled Rome for its first century as a Principate. The princeps Augustus died on August 19 of the year 14 CE, but the remains of his nephew, Marcellus, had already been placed in the tomb in 23 BCE. As with many things, Augustus always planned ahead.
Reporters take video footage in the Mausoleum of Augustus in central Rome on May 2, 2017 during a press access within the second phase of its archaeological restoration. (Photo credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images).
The complex was begun about 5 years before Marcellus even died. It was a conical tumulus with cypress trees planted outside it in a design highly reminiscent of earlier Etruscan tombs. Many of the Julio-Claudians were buried in the space and epitaphs decorated the outside of it.
View of the Mausoleum of Augustus as it looked in 2015 in a picture taken by Carole Raddato (CC-BY-SA 2.0).
A number of other inscriptions would have also greeted ancient visitors: Bronze plaques with numerous decrees. After 14 CE, the famed Res Gestae Divi Augusti was placed on two bronze pillars in front of the mausoleum. It is important to think of the Mausoleum as not only a solemn burial space, but also as a kind of Julio-Claudian archive that was rich in public documents and commemorations. The complex sat in Rome's Campus Martius, just outside the city center, and thus there was far more popular interaction with the monument than with many modern cemeteries.
Shots from within the largely glass and marble Ara Pacis Museum in the Summer of 2016. The Museum looks out upon the Mausoleum of Augustus, now under restoration.
Today, the stunning Ara Pacis Museum and a modern etching of the Latin version of the Res Gestae still sit just outside the Mausoleum complex. The revamped version of the Ara Pacis Museum opened on Rome's birthday (April 21) of 2006, although Mussolini had also tried his hand at restoring the area. Since 2006, it has always been a rather sad juxtaposition to look out the glass windows of the museum to a brick complex that most people used as a trash bin until recently and rarely know the history of.
Julio-Claudian era Inscription within the Mausoleum of Augustus in 2014, before the restoration began. Photo taken by Agnes Crawford.
The place where many of the members of the first dynasty to rule Rome (and even the later emperor Nerva) were buried deserves a bit more respect. It was originally a topographical epicenter within the ancient topography of the city of Rome. Near to the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) was a towering obelisk (originally built by the Egyptian pharoah Psammetichus II) that even served as the gnomon of a gigantic sundial.
Augustus' tomb was an inspiration to others, a fact which the restoration may very well visually express to tourists and visitors to the site in the future. Later mausolea, such as the Mausoleum of Hadrian--now known as Castel Sant'Angelo--used it as a model. These two imposing mausolea once spoke to each other from across the Tiber, and it is splendid to see that they may very well have an architectural conversation again. As with recent work on the Fontana di Trevi, the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum, Rome is coming back to life again with the help of private corporations like TIM, Tod's and Fendi.


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Hey all, sorry for the short notice post! Tonight is the first Wednesday of the month, so we will be having the monthly meeting this evening, in the same location as last month. It will be held at Children's Hospital, 2nd floor, in the Children's Theater. It will be from 7-9 ish. We will spend a portion of the meeting (maybe 20 minutes) taking a tour of the Children's Hospital, so that we can see the area/place and children we will be directly affecting and helping. Beyond that, we will also discuss upcoming events we would like to take place in, and begin a couple of committees to help keep things running smoothly. We look forward to having as many people on site as we can!!! May the 4th be with you!
So Chris, Thaine and I met tonight (Thursday) to discuss a few things, goals, plans etc. I wanted to pop on here and start a discussion about our monthly meeting. The date we landed on is the first Thursday of the month, which means it will be April 7th. The plan is to have them at 7 p.m. First one will be at Portal. So that leads me to this question: Is everyone cool with first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.? The plan will be even if you can't attend we're going to make every effort to include, especially since there is a couple of us who don't live in the state, but are a huge part of recruiting and money raised. TL;DR - Meeting is April 7th at 7 p.m. at Portal. Regular meetings will be first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. Comments on locations and times are welcome and will be considered.


Deductible Mileage 101 for the U.K.
If you use your car, van, motorcycle or bicycle for business purposes, you should track your miles. Why? Because driving for business or work is a tax deductible expense.
The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) allows you to write off business drives and permits you to use whichever reliable method you prefer to maintain your mileage log. This includes a paper mileage log, a spreadsheet on a computer or using a mileage tracking app like MileIQ. For more information about the HMRC Requirements, please visit our blog here.
The Mileage Allowance Relief provides tax relief for employees who use their personal car, van, motorcycle, or bicycle for business purposes. To calculate your Mileage Allowance Relief, track your business mileage for the tax year and multiply it by the applicable rate.
The current HMRC approved mileage allowance payment rates for 2016 are shown in the Business Mileage Rates table below.
If your employer doesn't pay you a mileage allowance, you can claim the full approved amount of Mileage Allowance Relief.
If your employer pays you a mileage allowance, but it is less than the approved amount, you can claim Mileage Allowance Relief on the difference.
If your employer pays you more than the approved amount, you'll have to pay tax on the difference.
The way you claim mileage expenses on your tax return depends on the amount you're claiming for. You can claim tax relief on the money you've spent on fuel for business trips in your company car.
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New Kid on the Croc: Crocodile French Cuisine's steak and frites, duck breast and octopus.
Crocodiles have crested polo shirts and found themselves the unwitting name of rubber shoes. They're a hearty reptile that have remained relatively unchanged for 200 million years and though there's no crocodile (yet) on the menu of Crocodile French Cuisine, a new Petaluma French restaurant, all one has to do is Google "Crocodile Petaluma" to see the merit of the name.
The search term yields a full-page dedicated to the new brasserie – replete with enthusiastic approbations on Facebook, Yelp and the like. And, for the record, it's pronounced Croc-a-deel.
Crocodile waited for the right moment to Bite into Local Scene
Specializing in farm-to-table French country fare, Crocodile is welcomed addition to a local restaurant scene that's seen the passions of Gallic-minded gourmands relatively underrepresented compared to, say, our bevy of Italian eateries. The restaurant opened last month and is a collaboration of Sebastopol-based husband and wife team Michael Dotson and Moira Beveridge. Their goal? "Capture and express the quality found in favorite small neighborhood bistros found in France," states their website.
Bay Area foodies may recall Dotson's name from such restaurants as the gone-but-not -forgotten Heirloom in Sonoma, Plumpjack in Tahoe and most recently, Martins West, a bustling gastropub in Redwood City, for which owner Beveridge created an extensive beer and wine list – a skill she ported to the duo's new venture.
Dotson first became acquainted with Petaluma 17 year ago while working in Sonoma.
"I came to Petaluma a few times and really liked it," he says, adding that he was attracted to the town "because it was old – they had saved the downtown, whereas so many cities don't. That spoke to me about Petaluma."
The seeds were planted but when exploring early possibilities, his prospective partners didn't feel Petaluma was quite ready yet. However, as "wine country" consciousness has reached over Sonoma Mountain and into Petaluma Valley, resident palates have greeted the concept with open arms – and mouths.
Dotson endeavors to keep his menu balanced between more familiar French fare (the steak and frites – hanger steak, hotel butter, french fries for $23) and dishes that might reach outside of some people's comfort zones such as "escargot." The chef sidesteps any pretension on the menu, however, by simply calling the delicacy "snails."
"They've always had the food thing," reminds Dotson of Petaluma's culinary provenance. "Even when it was, I guess you could say, mom-and-pop restaurants."
This, however, is not your mom and pop's duck breast, for example, which comes served with glazed radishes and turnips, banyuls and caramelized apples. Other favorites include boeuf bourguignon (red wine braised filet mignon, pearl onions, house made egg noodles) and mushroom roasted chicken Breast with parisian gnocchi, crispy brussels sprouts, red wine jus), which can be had for $19.
"This is how I characterize my cooking style more than anything else – no shortcuts. It doesn't matter what it is," says Dotson.
Indeed, a veal stock takes three days to produce, the fries are done the "right way" or they're gone. It's this attention to detail that likely inspired San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer to call Dotson "one of the Bay Area's brightest stars" early in the chef's career.
"I want to say it's perfectionism," he smiles, "But there's something in my moral fiber that I can't serve something that's not right."
"Anything worth doing takes time," he says. "Whether it's one or a hundred dinners – you can put the same amount of time in as long as you organize yourself correctly, and hopefully have the same quality of experience."
Crocodile French Cuisine, 140 2nd St., Ste 100, Petaluma, CA. (707) 981-8159, crocodilepetaluma.com
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Gauge theory (mathematics)
This article discusses the mathematical field of gauge theory. For the physical field of gauge theory, see Gauge theory.
In mathematics, and especially differential geometry and mathematical physics, gauge theory is the general study of connections on vector bundles, principal bundles, and fibre bundles. Gauge theory in mathematics should not be confused with the closely related concept of a gauge theory in physics, which is a field theory which admits gauge symmetry. In mathematics theory means a mathematical theory, encapsulating the general study of a collection of concepts or phenomena, whereas in the physical sense a gauge theory is a physical model of some natural phenomenon.
Gauge theory in mathematics is typically concerned with the study of gauge-theoretic equations. These are differential equations involving connections on vector bundles or principal bundles, or involving sections of vector bundles, and so there are strong links between gauge theory and geometric analysis. These equations are often physically meaningful, corresponding to important concepts in quantum field theory or string theory, but also have important mathematical significance. For example, the Yang–Mills equations are a system of partial differential equations for a connection on a principal bundle, and in physics solutions to these equations correspond to vacuum solutions to the equations of motion for a classical field theory, particles known as instantons.
Gauge theory has found uses in constructing new invariants of smooth manifolds, the construction of exotic geometric structures such as hyperkähler manifolds, as well as giving alternative descriptions of important structures in algebraic geometry such as moduli spaces of vector bundles and coherent sheaves.
Gauge theory has its origins as far back as the formulation of Maxwell's equations describing classical electromagnetism, which may be phrased as a gauge theory with structure group the circle group. Work of Paul Dirac on magnetic monopoles and relativistic quantum mechanics encouraged the idea that bundles and connections were the correct way of phrasing many problems in quantum mechanics. Gauge theory in mathematical physics arose as a significant field of study with the seminal work of Robert Mills and Chen-Ning Yang on so-called Yang–Mills gauge theory, which is now the fundamental model that underpins the standard model of particle physics.[1]
Significant breakthroughs encouraging the development of mathematical gauge theory occurred in the early 1980s. At this time the important work of Atiyah and Raoul Bott about the Yang–Mills equations over Riemann surfaces showed that gauge theoretic problems could give rise to interesting geometric structures, spurring the development of infinite-dimensional moment maps, equivariant Morse theory, and relations between gauge theory and algebraic geometry.[6] Important analytical tools in geometric analysis were developed at this time by Karen Uhlenbeck, who studied the analytical properties of connections and curvature proving important compactness results.[7] The most significant advancements in the field occurred due to the work of Simon Donaldson and Edward Witten.
Witten similarly observed the power of gauge theory to describe topological invariants, by relating quantities arising from Chern–Simons theory in three dimensions to the Jones polynomial, an invariant of knots.[10] This work and the discovery of Donaldson invariants, as well as novel work of Andreas Floer on Floer homology, inspired the study of topological quantum field theory.
After the discovery of the power of gauge theory to define invariants of manifolds, the field of mathematical gauge theory expanded in popularity. Further invariants were discovered, such as Seiberg–Witten invariants and Vafa–Witten invariants.[11][12] Strong links to algebraic geometry were realised by the work of Donaldson, Uhlenbeck, and Shing-Tung Yau on the Kobayashi–Hitchin correspondence relating Yang–Mills connections to stable vector bundles.[13][14] Work of Nigel Hitchin and Carlos Simpson on Higgs bundles demonstrated that moduli spaces arising out of gauge theory could have exotic geometric structures such as that of hyperkähler manifolds, as well as links to integrable systems through the Hitchin system.[15][16] Links to string theory and mirror symmetry were realised, where gauge theory is essential to phrasing the homological mirror symmetry conjecture and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
The fundamental objects of interest in gauge theory are connections on vector bundles and principal bundles. In this section we briefly recall these constructions, and refer to the main articles on them for details. The structures described here are standard within the differential geometry literature, and an introduction to the topic from a gauge-theoretic perspective can be found in the book of Donaldson and Peter Kronheimer.[17]
The central objects of study in gauge theory are principal bundles and vector bundles. The choice of which to study is essentially arbitrary, as one may pass between them, but principal bundles are the natural objects from the physical perspective to describe gauge fields, and mathematically they more elegantly encode the corresponding theory of connections and curvature for vector bundles associated to them.
There are various notational conventions used for connections on vector bundles and principal bundles which will be summarised here.
The mathematical and physical fields of gauge theory involve the study of the same objects, but use different terminology to describe them. Below is a summary of how these terms relate to each other.
As a demonstration of this dictionary, consider an interacting term of an electron-position particle field and the electromagnetic field in the Lagrangian of quantum electrodynamics:[18]
The predominant theory that occurs in mathematical gauge theory is Yang–Mills theory. This theory involves the study of connections which are critical points of the Yang–Mills functional defined by
These critical points are characterised as solutions of the associated Euler–Lagrange equations, the Yang–Mills equations
The moduli space of solutions to the Nahm equations has the structure of a hyperkähler manifold.
Hitchin's work was subsequently vastly generalised by Carlos Simpson, and the correspondence between solutions to Hitchin's equations and Higgs bundles over an arbitrary Kähler manifold is known as the nonabelian Hodge theorem.[25][26][27][28][29]
Chern–Simons theory in 3 dimensions is a topological quantum field theory with an action functional proportional to the integral of the Chern–Simons form, a three-form defined by
In analogy with instanton Floer homology one may define Seiberg–Witten Floer homology where instantons are replaced with solutions of the Seiberg–Witten equations. By work of Clifford Taubes this is known to be isomorphic to embedded contact homology and subsequently Heegaard Floer homology.
Gauge theory has been most intensively studied in four dimensions. Here the mathematical study of gauge theory overlaps significantly with its physical origins, as the standard model of particle physics can be thought of as a quantum field theory on a four-dimensional spacetime. The study of gauge theory problems in four dimensions naturally leads to the study of topological quantum field theory. Such theories are physical gauge theories that are insensitive to changes in the Riemannian metric of the underlying four-manifold, and therefore can be used to define topological (or smooth structure) invariants of the manifold.
Cobordism given by moduli space of anti-self-dual connections in Donaldson's theorem
An extension of these ideas leads to Donaldson theory, which constructs further invariants of smooth four-manifolds out of the moduli spaces of connections over them. These invariants are obtained by evaluating cohomology classes on the moduli space against a fundamental class, which exists due to analytical work showing the orientability and compactness of the moduli space by Karen Uhlenbeck, Taubes, and Donaldson.
The effectiveness of solutions of the Yang–Mills equations in defining invariants of four-manifolds has led to interest that they may help distinguish between exceptional holonomy manifolds such as G2 manifolds in dimension 7 and Spin(7) manifolds in dimension 8, as well as related structures such as Calabi–Yau 6-manifolds and nearly Kähler manifolds.[35][36]
New gauge-theoretic problems arise out of superstring theory models. In such models the universe is 10 dimensional consisting of four dimensions of regular spacetime and a 6-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifold. In such theories the fields which act on strings live on bundles over these higher dimensional spaces, and one is interested in gauge-theoretic problems relating to them. For example, the limit of the natural field theories in superstring theory as the string radius approaches zero (the so-called large volume limit) on a Calabi–Yau 6-fold is given by Hermitian Yang–Mills equations on this manifold. Moving away from the large volume limit one obtains the deformed Hermitian Yang–Mills equation, which describes the equations of motion for a D-brane in the B-model of superstring theory. Mirror symmetry predicts that solutions to these equations should correspond to special Lagrangian submanifolds of the mirror dual Calabi–Yau.[37]


Travel theme: Frozen | Where's my backpack?
Brrr! The temperatures have just plummeted round this way and it is now officially windshield-scraping season (or if you're anything like me, write-on-your-frosty-windshield season).
And so, to keep things frosty, here are a few ice-cold photos from my travels, starting with this snow-decked rose braving the cold in Inwood Hill Park, New York.
Frozen deliciousness in the shape of Umpqua Black Licorice ice cream in Leavenworth.
A snow-capped squirrel holding his nuts (haha, yes I just re-read that) in Central Park.
Drifts of ice on the still waters of Reflection Lakes in front of Mount Rainier.
Amazing pics…, all of them!
Love that little squirrel! I'm really happy that I am in Oaxaca, Mexico until April and not in Alaska!
I thought it was delicious, Sue, but I could have done without the unfortunate side effect of disturbing green lips, teeth and tongue for the next few hours. 🙂 Still, it wouldn't stop me from trying it again.
Haha…I must have had green lips and teeth without realising it!
I love frost – lovely shots as well. That squirrel looks fine in the snow!
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Yes. Finally getting cold. Love it!


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import java.io.*;

public class PoolMember extends Object
{
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Member Variables
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public iControl.Interfaces m_interfaces = new iControl.Interfaces();

	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Constructor
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public PoolMember()
	{
	}

	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// parseArgs
	// [0] bigip
	// [1] port
	// [2] user
	// [3] pass
	// [4] poolname
	// [5] add|remove
	// [6] memberaddr
	// [7] memberport
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public boolean parseArgs(String[] args) throws Exception
	{
		boolean bSuccess = false;
		String bigip = null;
		long port = -1;
		String user = null;
		String pass = null;
		String poolname = null;
		String cmd = null;
		String memberaddr = null;
		long memberport = -1;
		String state = null;

		if ( args.length < 4 )
		{
			usage();
		}
		else
		{
			bigip = args[0];
			port = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
			user = args[2];
			pass = args[3];

			if ( args.length > 4 )
			{
				poolname = args[4];
			}
			if ( args.length > 5 )
			{
				cmd = args[5];
			}
			if ( args.length > 6 )
			{
				memberaddr = args[6];
			}
			if ( args.length > 7 )
			{
				memberport = Integer.parseInt(args[7]);
			}
			if ( args.length > 8 )
			{
				state = args[8];
			}

			// build parameters
			m_interfaces.initialize(bigip, port, user, pass);

			if ( null == poolname )
			{
				displayAllPools();
			}
			else if ( null == cmd )
			{
				displayPoolMembers(poolname);
			}
			else if ( (null != cmd) && (null != memberaddr) && (-1 != memberport) )
			{
				if ( cmd.equals("add") )
				{
					addPoolMember(poolname, memberaddr, memberport);
				}
				else if (cmd.equals("remove") )
				{
					removePoolMember(poolname, memberaddr, memberport);
				}
				else if (cmd.equals("sessstate") )
				{
					setPoolMemberSessionState(poolname, memberaddr, memberport, state);
				}
				else if (cmd.equals("getstate") )
				{
					getPoolMemberEnabledState(poolname, memberaddr, memberport);
				}
				else if (cmd.equals("getgtmrule") )
				{
					getGtmRule(poolname);
				}
				else
				{
					usage();
				}
			}
			else
			{
				usage();
			}

			bSuccess = true;
		}

		return bSuccess;
	}

	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public void usage()
	{
		System.out.println("Usage: PoolMember hostname port username password [pool [add|remove memberaddr memberport]]\n");
	}

	public void displayAllPools() throws Exception
	{
		String [] pool_list = m_interfaces.getLocalLBPool().get_list();
		System.out.println("Pools\n");
		for(int i=0; i<pool_list.length; i++)
		{
			System.out.println(pool_list[i]);
		}
	}

	public void displayPoolMembers(String poolname) throws Exception
	{
		iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] membersAofA = m_interfaces.getLocalLBPool().get_member(new String [] { poolname } );
		System.out.println("Pool " + poolname + " members\n");
		for(int i=0; i<membersAofA[0].length; i++)
		{
			System.out.println(membersAofA[0][i].getAddress() + ":" + membersAofA[0][i].getPort());
		}
	}

	public void addPoolMember(String poolname, String memberaddr, long memberport) throws Exception
	{
		String [] pool_list = new String [] { poolname };
		iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] membersAofA = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[1][];
		membersAofA[0] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[1];
		membersAofA[0][0] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition();
		membersAofA[0][0].setAddress(memberaddr);
		membersAofA[0][0].setPort(memberport);

		try {
			m_interfaces.getLocalLBPool().add_member(pool_list, membersAofA);
		}
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			// Process msg
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			ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
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			BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(msg));
			String exLocation = in.readLine().trim();
			String exType = in.readLine().trim();
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			String exSecondary = in.readLine().trim();
			String exError = in.readLine().trim();
			int idx = -1;

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				String sType = "";
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				String sSecondary = "";
				String sError = "";

				if (-1 != (idx = exLocation.indexOf("Exception caught in ")) )
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					System.out.println("Location  : " + sLocation);
				}

				if ( -1 != (idx = exType.indexOf("Exception: ")) )
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					System.out.println("Type      : " + sType);
				}

				if ( sType.equals("Common::OperationFailed") )
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					if ( -1 != (idx = exPrimary.indexOf(":")) ) {
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					}
					if ( -1 != (idx = exSecondary.indexOf(":")) ) {
						sSecondary = exSecondary.substring(idx+2);
					}
					if ( -1 != (idx = exError.indexOf(":")) ) {
						sError = exError.substring(idx+2);
					}

					System.out.println("Primary   : " + sPrimary);
					System.out.println("Secondary : " + sSecondary);
					System.out.println("Error     : " + sError);
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public void removePoolMember(String poolname, String memberaddr, long memberport) throws Exception
	{
		String [] pool_list = new String [] { poolname };
		iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] membersAofA = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[1][];
		membersAofA[0] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[1];
		membersAofA[0][0] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition();
		membersAofA[0][0].setAddress(memberaddr);
		membersAofA[0][0].setPort(memberport);
		m_interfaces.getLocalLBPool().remove_member(pool_list, membersAofA);
	}

	public void setPoolMemberSessionState(String poolname, String memberaddr, long memberport, String state) throws Exception
	{
		String [] pool_list = new String [] { poolname };
		iControl.LocalLBPoolMemberMemberSessionState [][] statesAofA = new iControl.LocalLBPoolMemberMemberSessionState[1][];
		statesAofA[0] = new iControl.LocalLBPoolMemberMemberSessionState[1];
		statesAofA[0][0] = new iControl.LocalLBPoolMemberMemberSessionState();
		statesAofA[0][0].setMember(new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition());
		statesAofA[0][0].getMember().setAddress(memberaddr);
		statesAofA[0][0].getMember().setPort(memberport);
		if ( state.equals("enable") )
		{
			statesAofA[0][0].setSession_state(iControl.CommonEnabledState.STATE_ENABLED);
		}
		else
		{
			statesAofA[0][0].setSession_state(iControl.CommonEnabledState.STATE_DISABLED);
		}
		m_interfaces.getLocalLBPoolMember().set_session_enabled_state(pool_list, statesAofA);

	}

	public void createPersistenceProfile() throws Exception
	{
		String [] profile_names = new String[1];
		profile_names[0] = "foo";
		iControl.LocalLBPersistenceMode[] modes = new iControl.LocalLBPersistenceMode[1];
		modes[0] = iControl.LocalLBPersistenceMode.PERSISTENCE_MODE_UIE;

		m_interfaces.getLocalLBProfilePersistence().create(profile_names, modes);
	}

	public void getPoolMemberEnabledState(String poolname, String memberaddr, long memberport) throws Exception
	{

	}

	public void getGtmRule(String rulename) throws Exception
	{
		iControl.GlobalLBRuleRuleDefinition [] rule_defs = m_interfaces.getGlobalLBRule().query_rule(new String[] { rulename });
		for(int i=0; i<rule_defs.length; i++)
		{
			System.out.println(rule_defs[i].getRule_name());
			System.out.println(rule_defs[i].getRule_definition());
			System.out.println("-----------------------");
		}
	}

  public void createStatsProfile() throws Exception
  {
    iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticName[][] statsNames = new iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticName[1][];

    // Allocate the 2nd dimension for index 0 to a size of 2 (2 keys for the single profile)
    statsNames[0] = new iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticName[2];
    statsNames[0][0] = new iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticName();
    statsNames[0][0].setStatistic_key(iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticKey.USER_STATISTIC_1);
    statsNames[0][0].setStatistic_name(new iControl.LocalLBProfileString());
    statsNames[0][0].getStatistic_name().setValue("total");
    statsNames[0][0].getStatistic_name().setDefault_flag(false);

    statsNames[0][1] = new iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticName();
    statsNames[0][1].setStatistic_key(iControl.LocalLBProfileUserStatisticUserStatisticKey.USER_STATISTIC_2);
    statsNames[0][1].setStatistic_name(new iControl.LocalLBProfileString());
    statsNames[0][0].getStatistic_name().setValue("winners");
    statsNames[0][0].getStatistic_name().setDefault_flag(false);

    m_interfaces.getLocalLBProfileUserStatistic().set_statistic_name(
      new String[] { "foo" },
      statsNames
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  }

	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Main
	//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		try
		{
			PoolMember poolMember = new PoolMember();
			poolMember.parseArgs(args);
		}
		catch(Exception ex)
		{
			ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
		}
	}
};


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Waters: Trump is 'the Most Corrupt Man in America'
After the White House chief of staff issued a statement Thursday saying there was "absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election," Rep. Maxine Waters called President Trump "the most corrupt man in America."
"There was a quid pro quo. Absolutely," the impeachment-obsessed Waters claimed on CNN's OutFront, "The president is talking about the reason he's into this altogether is simply he's trying to get the president of the Ukraine to investigate corruption.
"He's the most corrupt man in America, the president of the United States who has cheated, you know, contractor, subcontractors, won't show his own tax returns to Americans, who has cheated students who in the fake university so-called up in New York, the Trump University and he's talking about, he's going all of the way to Ukraine so that he can get the president to investigate corruption. Give me a break. They're liars. They're cheaters. These are con men," Waters ranted.
Waters is arguably the most corrupt member of Congress and an inveterate smearer of her political opponents. Click the profile link above to learn more.


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Trump hails 'historic' victory as Republican tax plan passes through Congress
Republican lawmakers were headed to the White House later today to celebrate with the president.
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DONALD TRUMP HAILED a "historic" victory today as the US Congress passed a massive Republican tax cut plan, handing the president his first major legislative achievement since taking office nearly a year ago.
The House of Representatives voted along party lines to greenlight a $1.5 trillion overhaul that will impact every corner of the US economy through dramatic tax cuts for corporations and temporary reductions for individuals.
Opposition Democrats have branded the tax plan a giveaway to the wealthiest that risks blowing a hole in the national debt, but the revamp fulfills a core Trump campaign pledge to redirect money from government coffers into the pockets of working Americans.
"I promised the American people a big, beautiful tax cut for Christmas," Trump said in a statement following the bill's adoption.
With final passage of this legislation, that is exactly what they are getting.
The most sweeping rewrite of the US tax code in decades, the bill represents Trump's most important legislative victory in the 11 months since his inauguration, until now marked by the stinging failure to repeal his predecessor's health care law.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act also takes a major step toward crippling Obamacare, by scrapping the individual mandate that requires nearly all Americans to have health insurance or pay a fine.
"With this bill… we have essentially repealed Obamacare and we will come up with something that's much better," Trump declared.
With the House vote underway, Trump gathered his cabinet members for a celebratory address – that gave way to an extraordinary scene as the president invited those present to join in prayer.
Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development and a fervent member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, proceeded to say grace, thanking God for giving America Trump and his tax cut plan.
"We're thankful for the unity in Congress that has presented an opportunity for our economy to expand so that we can fight corrosive debt that has been destroying our future," Carson added.
Having taken months to get across the finish line, the bill was delayed at the last moment Tuesday after a technical glitch required the Senate to strip three minor provisions from the bill before approving it overnight.
Since the House had already voted – and the versions approved by both chambers must be identical – it was forced to vote again on the changes. The bill passed the House 224 to 201, with 12 Republicans siding with all Democrats in voting no.
The measure tests conservatives' fidelity to the principle of fiscal discipline, as it is projected to add nearly $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the coming decade, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
That figure drops to about $1 trillion when economic growth is accounted for.
Trump had leaned heavily on Republicans to push the contentious package through Congress. The party had been deeply fractured after the Obamacare repeal failure, and the prospects of success on tax reform in 2017 appeared remote.
Now, Republicans hope their success in passing tax cuts plays to the party's advantage in next year's mid-term elections.
But it appears unpopular: a CNN poll shows that 55% of Americans oppose the tax plan, widely criticized as favoring wealthy people over the middle class, while just 33% support it.
Republicans pushed back at that notion, with House Speaker Paul Ryan predicting that Americans would be won over once they start to reap the benefits next year.
"I think minds are going to change and I think people are going to change their view on this," he said.
The tax bill slashes the federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, and the maximum individual income tax rate, for the nation's wealthiest, would drop from 39.6% to 37%.
It also doubles the standard deduction for families, and doubles the child tax credit, while eliminating or limiting several deductions that millions of middle-class families currently claim.
Economic 'rocket fuel'
Ryan stated that a median-income family of four earning $73,000 annually would save $2,059 in taxes next year.
But he could not say whether the plan will generate enough economic growth to match the costs of the deficit increase.
"Nobody knows the answer to that question because that's in the future," Ryan told NBC.
Trump however was bullish.
"By cutting taxes and reforming the broken system, we are now pouring rocket fuel into the engine of our economy," he said.
While Republicans celebrated, Democrats were scathing of the plan's implications for ordinary Americans, and for a national debt that has already surged past $20 trillion.
"It is a victory for billionaires like Donald Trump… but this is a disaster for the American people," independent Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN.
Under the law, the corporate tax cuts are permanent, while those for individuals phase out beginning in 2026. By 2027, the Tax Policy Center warns, 53% of households will see their taxes rise.
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The Somalwar Academy was founded by Shri G.S.Somalwar in 1911, in Mahal, Nagpur with a handful of students. Somalwar family collectively accomplished the task of taking forward the tradition & reputation set by our visionary founder. Today we have about 15 branches in Nagpur located at different parts of the city.
He was a born teacher and was always making experiments in the methods of imparting education. He was described by the Principal of the Spence training college as "An Experimenter And Investigator In Educational Methods. He disapproved the time-old methods taught in training Colleges and followed in Govt. and aided schools. He used to give Model lessons and convince the educationists that his methods were superior to those followed in other ordinary schools. With a view to rendering better service to the people in the field of education, he left Govt. service and started private classes to teach English under the name of "G K. SOMALWAR'S private English Classes". By his methods boys could speak and write English within six months without cramming and doing home work. He called his method as "The listen and learn method" in which more stress was given on conversational direct method of teaching English.
With the help of working models, he used to create interest, he would say, interest was the soul of the lesson, presentation an art, and apt illustrations, the essence of teaching.
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THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Or, Why I'm Thankful for The Invisibles)
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"Have you ever wondered why we talk of 'spelling'? There is a spell word implanted in the brain of every English-speaking child, the root mantra of restriction, the secret name of a mighty hidden demon: 'eybeesee-dee-ee-eff-geeaitcheye-jai-kayell-emenn-ohpeequeue-are-ess-tee-youveedouble-you-ex-wyezed'. That name and all the names it generates were designed to set limits upon humanity's ability to express abstract thought. What you see depends entirely upon the words you have to describe what you see. Nothing exists unless we say it."
I love comic books.
I've published poetry, plays, fiction, essays, but more than anything, I have always loved comic books. I taught myself how to read with comic books; I taught myself math and computers by using the power ratings on my the Marvel trading cards that my dad used to buy me as incentive after tee-ball and basketball games. This was around 1991, and I'd take those numbers and plug them into Excel or FileMaker Pro on our Mac LCIII and compare and contrast the traits of various characters and basically use those statistics to run my own games of pseudo-D&D/Fantasy Marvel Heroes Trading Cards in my head.
But at some point in the mid-90s, it got too difficult to keep up with everything: I was 10 years old, and there was a ginormous speculator boom of comics overdoing everything and driving the series into the ground. Still, I always tried to stay abreast of the latest Major Continuity Changes and whatnot, and when the first big comic book movie boom started in the early aughts, I was the go-to friend for all things related to comic book accuracy.
It wasn't until the spring of 2004 (when I was a senior in high school) that I got back into comics, starting with "Planet X," the penultimate storyline in Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. As I went back and caught up on my early-00s Marvel continuity, I devoured the rest of Morrison's X-Men run, and soon found myself enamored on the mad Scotsman.
Which is what led me as a straight-edge (HA! whoops) college freshman to The Invisibles.
The Invisibles is Grant Morrison's magnum opus. Even if it was created during the first half of his career, and even if the whole thing is, well, kind of an uneven narrative wreck, and even though he's produced many more important and groundbreaking and better comics in the 20 years since The Invisibles launched...yeah, as far as I'm concerned, The Invisibles is still the quintessential counter-culture comic book. It's the genesis of every idea that Grant Morrison has explored throughout his lucrative career, vomited out onto 1536 technicolor of sexy, scintillating, stoner sci-fi superhero action.
It's a fucking mess, and it is fucking perfect.
For those of you unfamiliar with the book, The Invisibles is basically about every single crackpot conspiracy theory ever all being true at the same time, and the time of sexy rock-and-roll freedom fighters who stand between humanity and total consumption by the forces of evil. Your cast includes a potty-mouthed Liverpudlian punk who is the next incarnation of both Christ and Buddha, a Brazilian Transvestite Shaman, a time-traveling telepath in clown makeup, and a souped-up fictionalized(-ish) version of Grant Morrison himself.
If you were blown away by the pseudo-science philosophy of The Matrix, well, The Invisibles will full-on melt your brain. You'll also hate it, because it's frustrating. But that's part of what makes it so incredible.
And when you're 19 years old, pursuing degrees in theatre arts and literature, and you've been reared on comic books and science fiction and years of playing in punk rock bands but also have an affinity for the works of Shakespeare, Joyce, and Coetzee, you'd be hard-pressed (at least in 2005) to find something that reconciles all of your disparate interests into one high-octane, action-packed, philosophical mindfuck-mish-mosh.
That's what The Invisibles did for me.
Because of The Invisibles, I discovered The Prisoner. And re-discovered Phillip K. Dick. And Mary Shelley, and the Marquis de Sade (both of whom are characters in the book). It was one of my first forays into metafiction, and it portrayed queer characters in new and exciting ways that I could relate to. It both re-affirmed and challenged my spiritual beliefs. It helped me express the agnosticism with which my Catholic guilt had struggled and gave me new ways to engage with spiritualism that transcended the limited beliefs of my upbringing. It gave a much-needed counter-cultural twist to the Transcendentalist and Taoist beliefs which I'd begun to follow in my final years of high school.
I know it sounds like I'm just throwing every single word possible in a desperate attempt to come off as someone deep and well-read. But that's what's so amazing about The Invisibles: it's a mess of stuff. To me, that's part of its charm, but it's also a fair critcism of the series.
Grant Morrison was 34 years old when he started writing The Invisibles, and was 40 years old when the series came to an end. I was 19 years old when I first read the series, and I'm 29 years old as of this Thanksgiving. I try to re-read the entire series from front-to-back every few years, because every time I do, I discover something new and relevant to my life. While Morrison was trying too hard to grapple with every single philosophical topic that had occurred to him at that point in his life (and again — he has continued to explore these same themes and ideas, usually in more contained and coherent contexts, in his subsequent work), that over-ambition is actually part of what I love about the series. As you read The Invisibles, you can see Morrison growing as a person; indeed, he wrote the series to grapple with issues his own life (which you can learn more about in the documentary Talking with Gods).
But Morrison's ambition in writing The Invisibles was so large, so inconceivable, that it truly reaches out into your life as you read it. And strangely enough, that idea itself — that this comic book series got so out of hand that it surpassed its own creator, and can infect the life of each individual reader in a unique way — actually resonates thematically with the story itself. The very nature of The Invisibles is to be too much, to be too overwhelming; to challenge your beliefs, and then challenge the fact that it challenged your beliefs, and then challenge you to think about the fact that it challenged you to think about the way it challenged the way it challenged your beliefs.
And that's why I'm grateful for The Invisibles. It's a beautiful wreck, rich and resplendent with so many layers that it always has me coming back for me and never lets me down. More importantly, as a creator — as an artist and a writer myself — The Invisibles taught me to go big. That it's okay to go big, to not fit into a round hole that was meant for a square peg. The Invisibles taught me that there is value in being an octagon, and that, as an artist, all those wild and disparate and seemingly irreconcilable facets of the self should be embraced and celebrated. Because even if the final product is, well, kind of a clusterfuck, that beautiful clusterfuck can still be you, and that your audience can find answers and truths within that beautiful wreck. Because of Grant Morrison's crazy 90s counter-culture experiment, I learned to embrace my own weird, that if it's okay to combine ancient Egyptian scarab rituals with the ghosts of the Beatles, then it's okay for me to love the X-Men and the Velvet Underground as much as I love Samuel Beckett and Weezer, and that those things don't all have to be mutually exclusive.
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Resilient Mr. Teal
In his early teens, Carl Teal was placed into residential foster care. "It wasn't the best predicament" he shares. "It was tough. I wasn't in foster care my whole life, I was in foster care for 3 years. Just a short amount of time. It was different for me - coming from a household, experiencing the foster care thing was just different."
"We had some kids I wasn't used to. I wasn't about being bad and negative but I was around guys that were like that." He recalls knowing in his heart that "I don't belong here". Needless to say, Carl was eager to be released from foster care.
The reality Carl faced once he was released from foster care was not what he had hoped for. He was working two jobs: Target in the morning, Marshall's in the evening. But he no longer had a home, a place to sleep at night, a place to wind down and feel safe. He did his research and found a shelter in Los Angeles where he could take refuge while looking for a way out.
After six months of living in a shelter, Carl was finally able to move into an apartment of his own. That apartment is in the Cedar Springs apartment complex at David & Margaret Youth and Family Services. Cedar Springs offers permanent supportive housing and more to young adults with a history of foster care. Supportive services include mental wellness services, career and college readiness programs, life skills classes and individual mentoring and counseling as needed. These resources are there to ensure all the residents have the tools they need to thrive.
Carl's assiduous personality shines through to everyone who meets him and he soon became an employee at David & Margaret in the maintenance department. "I'm learning a lot of different fields. I learned electrical, I've worked with air-conditioning, some plumbing and gained skills in all around maintenance work - it's very useful." Carl explains. Next week Carl is set to begin school to receive his HVAC certification, something he is very excited about as it will help secure his future.
Complimenting his resilient work ethic, is his creative heart. He started writing music in 8th grade and continued to write through out his experience in foster care. He describe it as an effortless passion that naturally continued through the years. "Then I fell in love with poetry and started writing poems." Carl Shares. "I just like creating. It takes a lot of thought. I feel like that's something that a lot of successful people who are sitting on top of empires do. They put in a lot of thought and time. Especially for people who are in predicaments that they just wanted to get out of. You're pretty much put in a position where all you can do is think about things like that. Dreamin', just dreamin' of a better situation."
We wish Carl the best of luck in his future, and we look forward to sharing the poem he promised us!
If you are or you know of a young adult with a history in foster care that is in need of housing please contact Briana Ascenio at asceniob@davidandmargaret.org or (909) 447-0784


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MA Programs in History 2023 in Groningen in Netherlands
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A master's degree is a postgraduate academic degree. A master's degree prepares students to lead or manage. A master's degree also prepares a person for a range of pursuits through specialized study of a field.History involves a careful examination of the people, cultures, events, societies, and patterns of the past. While it can be connected with almost any other subject, it is closely related to… Read more
A master's degree is a postgraduate academic degree. A master's degree prepares students to lead or manage. A master's degree also prepares a person for a range of pursuits through specialized study of a field.
History involves a careful examination of the people, cultures, events, societies, and patterns of the past. While it can be connected with almost any other subject, it is closely related to politics, economics, psychology, and other social studies.
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of twelve provinces in North-West Europe and three islands in the Caribbean. English speaking students will have no problems finding suitable courses. For international students applying to universities in the Netherlands, several scholarships are available.
Groningen is a beautiful city of Netherlands. This place has various universities that are dedicated to providing good quality international education. Some of the universities are University of Groningen and Jenne Hoekstra Arts.
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MA in Modern History and International Relations (Research)
Groningen, Netherlands
The Research Master in Modern History and International Relations offers a challenging multidisciplinary approach, with Intensive supervision by high-quality researchers in sm ... +
The Research Master in Modern History and International Relations offers a challenging multidisciplinary approach, with Intensive supervision by high-quality researchers in small groups. We also offer research assistantships. -
MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations
The MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations offers a broad approach to Antiquity, with the integration of classical languages and ancient cultural history. Our faculty have ... +
The MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations offers a broad approach to Antiquity, with the integration of classical languages and ancient cultural history. Our faculty have strong expertise in a wide range of subjects, they provide excellent teaching: in fact, two of the staff members were elected Lecturer of the Year. We are a master with an internationally orientated research climate, and a relatively small and friendly community, that is part of a vibrant university city with many international students. -
MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations: Ancient History
In Groningen, we offer the MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations: Ancient History as a one-year Master's track -in English- with a full-time and a part-time tangent. Whil ... +
In Groningen, we offer the MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations: Ancient History as a one-year Master's track -in English- with a full-time and a part-time tangent. While we cover the whole of antiquity, from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire, our focus lies on the political, cultural, and religious connectivities of the Mediterranean world. -
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The MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations: Classical Studies offers a broad approach to Antiquity through the integration of classical languages and ancient cultural hist ... +
The MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations: Classical Studies offers a broad approach to Antiquity through the integration of classical languages and ancient cultural history. We have strong expertise in Hellenistic literature, Greek linguistics, Greek religion, Latin poetry of the early Empire, and Literature in its spatial and socio-cultural context. We also provide excellent teaching: two of the staff members were already elected Lecturers of the Year. You are going to study in a relatively small and friendly community, with an internationally research-oriented climate, at a vibrant university city with many international students. -
MA in History
The MA in History is unique: its emphasis relies on applying historical knowledge and methodology at an academic level, and its specializations prepare for the professional fi ... +
The MA in History is unique: its emphasis relies on applying historical knowledge and methodology at an academic level, and its specializations prepare for the professional field, including placement. We offer diverse teaching methods (research seminar, History Online workshop, placement, special graduation projects) in a tailor-made program, where you can design your own study path. -
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MA in History Today
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The MA in History Today is unique: its emphasis relies on applying historical knowledge and methodology at an academic level, and its specializations prepare for the professional field, including placement. We offer diverse teaching methods (research seminar, History Online workshop, placement, special graduation projects) in a tailor-made program, where you can design your own study path. -
MA in Religion and Pluralism, Ancient & Modern
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The MA in Religion and Pluralism, Ancient & Modern was chosen as the best MA program in Theology and Religious Studies in the Netherlands. It offers an integrated approach of religious pluralism, politics, and their many global interfaces, with a focus on the historical context of modern societies. Our program is taught by internationally recognized experts in the field, with expertise in various religions. You are going to study at a non-denominational university, and receive the opportunity to pursue your own research interests. -
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The Research Master's degree programme in History offers the two-year Master's tracks Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies explores Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modernity in Europe and the Middle East. You will study the similarities and differences between these periods. In addition, you will gain fundamental insights into the cultural changes that preceded the modern period. -
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