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Luciana LoPresto is the Group Spa Director for PRG Hospitality, principal of Spa Casa Hotel + Spa Consulting, where she also served as the spa consultant for the project. Get to know this 28-year spa veteran who is also a professor of kinesiology at California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus, and a yoga instructor, in this American Spa Spa Talk.
American Spa: How many years have you been involved in the spa and hospitality industry? Luciana LoPresto: Twenty-eight years. I was first certified as a California Massage Therapist then licensed as a Florida Massage Therapist (LMT status) in 1990, as at that time Florida was one of only a few states offering licensure for massage therapists. I was also certified to teach yoga that same year. Having owned three yoga/wellness studios and opened 30 hotel spas, I have given more than 8,000 massages and have taught more than 15,000 yoga classes. For my 20-year anniversary of teaching last fall, I rented a Tuscan villa near Montecatini Terme through my company, YogaTrips.com, to celebrate YogaItalia, my all-time favorite event. Ten guests from my yoga classes and database quickly signed up. It was a trip of a lifetime.
AS: What was the path that led you into the spa industry?
LL: In 1989, just out of college, I was living in San Francisco and working for the San Francisco Symphony. The big earthquake that October was a wakeup call. I switched from the performing arts to the healing arts full time and never looked back.
AS: What has surprised you most about working in the spa industry?
LL: I am not surprised how fast the spa industry has grown. The more technology grows, the more we need to unplug and head to a spa.
LL: The spa industry is only going to grow as more people look for alternative ways to reduce stress. Massage and yoga are not going away—these modalities are helping too many people.
AS: What's your favorite skincare ingredient?
LL: I can't live without mineral sunscreen. Creating a physical barrier to protect the skin from the sun, mineral sunscreens typically include ingredients like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. Chemical sunscreens, in contrast, use one or more chemicals including oxybenzone, avobenzone, octisalate, octocrylene, homosalate, and octinoxate. Remember, our skin is the body's largest organ, and that is too many chemicals for my skin.
AS: What positions have you worked in that you feel have been most influential to your career?
LL: Being an LMT and certified yoga teacher for 28 years, coupled with owing my own yoga/wellness studios, led me to spa consulting. Experience counts.
AS: If you could work in any other profession in the world, what would you be?
LL: I consider myself lucky doing what I enjoy. Weekdays, I teach four exhilarating hours of yoga then swap yoga clothes for a linen dress to arrive at a stunning boutique hotel. I am very happy as a college professor and spa consultant. Everything I have done on my path has led me here.
LL: Life is short and precious—make everything count. For me, that means less time on my computer and more time cheering on my daughter as she pirouettes across the living room in her pointe shoes.
AS: How do you like to spend your time away from work?
LL: I am restoring a 1943 farmhouse near Idyllwild, in the mountains above Palm Springs. It's my rural sanctuary of fresh air and allows me to reconnect with nature.
AS: What are your three greatest priorities in life?
LL: Besides my 12-year-old ballerina daughter? Of course, Live, Love, and Decorate. (Thank you Martyn)!
LL: According to many sources, the aging of our skin is composed of three factors: genetics (40 percent), an appropriate skincare regimen (30 percent), and environmental stress (30 percent). Taking these numbers into consideration, it seems possible to keep our skin young and healthy by using a trustworthy, high-performance skincare regimen and by providing our bodies with lots of water, a healthy diet, and protection from harmful environmental stress.


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Amanda K Olson
Bib Number: 11
Hometown: Talkeetna, Alaska
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Musher 2007 Jr. Iditarod
Amanda Olson, 17, will be entering her third Jr. Iditarod. She also ran the Cantwell Classic last year and placed sixth. Amanda is homeschooled and in the 11th grade. She enjoys reading and the outdoors and doesn't know what she'll do after high school but will continue mushing. "I live 14 miles out of Talkeetna. You can only get there by snowmachine, four wheeler or dog team. So I use my dogs for transportation and hauling of groceries and wood."
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Knik Lake (Start) 02/24/2007 10:20:00 10 02/24/2007 10:20:00 10 0h 0m 0
Burma Road (Out) 02/24/2007 11:25:00 10 02/24/2007 11:25:00 10 0h 0m 1h 5m 10.15 11
Big Susitna (Out) 02/24/2007 14:35:00 10 02/24/2007 14:35:00 10 0h 0m 3h 10m 8.21 26
Eagle Song Lodge (Out) 02/24/2007 16:21:00 10 02/24/2007 16:21:00 10 0h 0m 1h 46m 8.49 15
Yentna 02/24/2007 19:05:00 9 02/25/2007 05:39:00 9 10h 34m 2h 44m 9.15 25
Eagle Song Lodge (In) 02/25/2007 08:54:00 8 02/25/2007 08:54:00 8 0h 0m 3h 15m 7.69 25
Scary Tree (In) 02/25/2007 10:54:00 8 02/25/2007 10:54:00 8 0h 0m 2h 0m 2.50 5
Willow (Finish) 02/25/2007 14:49:33 8 3h 55m 8.94 35

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Discussion in 'Introduce Yourself' started by mug, Apr 9, 2009.
I've mapped for source for a couple of years now. Done a CSS map or 2, nothing really worth releasing. Now since I'm severely addicted to tf2, i started up the auld hammer again. I have used quite a few of your tuts to get my head around setting up cps/intel right and learning more about displacements. I've now created 2 tf2 maps(1 failed & 1 W.I.P) Real life tends to slow production .
Just thought I'd sign up here finally and thank all who've helped me climb the steep learning curve that is hammer.
Thanks for the very quick warm welcome djive. Will upload some screenies and description of my W.I.P map cp_coasters(3 cp GP style) once I've cleaned up the major editing/optimizing i've had to do. Had big performance issues with 32 playerswith first release.
As u can see, i started out very big and I'm having a few probs cutting visibilty & improving framerates looking straight up the map.
Getting there now. Will update as soon as is ready for viewing!
your map looks nice but personally, I think those building are odd, the roofs, personally, don't fit the style of tf2.
Thanks for the tips eerieone. :thumbup: Those buildings are still due some details(windows, wooden struts). Just tryin to sort out the performance issues first.


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A Kindle for Dickens
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If Charles Dickens had had a Kindle, what would it have looked like?
That's the question art student Rachel Walsh tried to answer for her design class, which asked her to explain something modern to someone who died before 1900. Walsh's explanation involved creating a visual metaphor:
Since a 19th-century author wouldn't have had any concept of downloads, e-readers, or the Internet, Walsh had to create a metaphor for the device that would resonate with Dickens. Realizing that a Kindle is just a lot of books inside a big book, she created an old-school version consisting of literal little books inside a larger book. She put together 40 tiny versions of classics—a mixture of her childhood favorites and books Dickens supposedly enjoyed—such as Don Quixote and The Catcher in the Rye. Then, she placed them inside a normal-sized hardcover book, and voila: a very portable reader.
Even though we have both a Kindle and an iPad in this household, I kind of wish I had one of these, too!
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Celeste Ng is the author of the novels Everything I Never Told You (2014) and Little Fires Everywhere (2017). She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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U.S. National Soccer Team players association speaks out against U.S. Soccer
By Daniel KarellApr 18, 2019, 7:01 PM EDT
Even though the U.S. Men's National Team doesn't have to play multiple matches per year on artificial turf like the U.S. Women's National Team, the USMNT players are taking a stand against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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In a statement, the U.S. National Soccer Team players association said that it opposes playing on both turf or grass laid on top of turf due to player safety concerns. Since Nippert Stadium is an artificial turf surface, it's expected that U.S. Soccer will pay to fly in and lay down grass on top of the field ahead of the USMNT's friendly match with Venezuela on June 9.
"In the view of the Players Association, this is just one more example of a serious problem that the United States Soccer Federation is not advancing the interests of the sport of soccer or the interests of the players or the fans, but is solely focused on generating ever-increasing revenues and profits for the Federation, its employees, its sponsors, and private businesses associated with the Federation," the the players said in its statement, after corresponding with U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro via e-mail.
The players association highlighted a section of the U.S. Soccer press release in announcing the friendly match in Cincinnati, noting the strong FC Cincinnati fan support. This backed the players association's point that U.S. Soccer is more interested in revenues than player safety.
Even with all of our society's technological advances, it appears that only old-fashioned planting and allowing grass to gain roots deep in the soil is the best way to ensure a strong, stable field, and not one that will come up with a quick change of direction. Issues at Yankee Stadium recently highlighted this problem.
There's a dead raccoon @ Yankee Stadium. #NYCFC #MLS pic.twitter.com/0jKwzdC72A
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New York City FC captain Alex Ring, who played in that match, said he slipped on some of that temporary sod and suffered an injured ankle, but soldiered on to play through the pain for the final hour of the game.
"It hurts, unfortunately," Ring told reporters on April 6, via Front Row Sports. "What can I say? I can't complain about the pitch, but it happens after 30 minutes and you play the whole game with a sore ankle, it's not the best."
While coming to Cincinnati and bringing the USMNT to cities it has never been before – this will be the first USMNT trip to Cincinnati – is an important mission for U.S. Soccer, it's also surprising because the beautiful pitch at Crew Stadium, the heart and soul of U.S. Soccer, is right up the road. Of course, Crew Stadium's capacity is much smaller than Nippert Stadium, which I'm sure had something to do with this decision.
The USMNT hasn't had to play on grass laid on top of turf since the 2017 Gold Cup semifinals against Costa Rica, which was played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which is an indoor facility and thus uses artificial turf.
For U.S. Soccer, that now means all of its senior national team players are against the federation's current position. The USWNT has made its sentiments known about playing on turf, even before Megan Rapinoe tore her ACL in a match on a turf pitch in bad shape, and they've even recently filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging U.S. Soccer is engaging in gender discrimination against the USWNT players.
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Q: Why won't background-image display in css? I have a header to which I'm trying to apply a background texture via image file. The html, css and image files are all in the same directory. This is the html:

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The texture image does not appear. If I use it with the background attribute of the original body tag, that is,

that does work. That tells me it isn't a problem with the url, and all three files are in the same folder so the relative paths are the same in both the html and css files. Why isn't the texture image showing up as the background to the header div?

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Having a strong social presence is just as important as having a solid website presence. In fact, both should compliment each other and be used jointly towards engaging and converting users into customers.
Many businesses today have Twitter accounts precisely for this purpose yet are not engaging their users or increasing their reach as best they can. The fact of the matter is that, as a business house or individual, you can engage and reach more Twitter followers while posting less if you follow the 10 simple expert twitter tips we've outlined below.
These expert tips have been constructed by analyzing the latest Twitter and social media statistics.
Keeping your current followers interested is important, otherwise, they'll just stop following you! One of the best ways to engage your followers is to add an image link to your tweets. Visual elements engage users much more quickly than standard text and when you're trying to get your tweets noticed ahead of others, that's a good thing.
Social Media Marketing is not about just pushing your product, it's more about having conversations with your prospective audience. Hashtags allow us to join conversations so that we can speak to twitter users who are interested in the same topic as us. After all, we all like to talk about things that interest us so it goes without saying that including a hashtag in your tweet will only increase your user engagement.
Sometimes people just want, what they want, when they want it. It's a product of our time. Give it to them in under 120 characters to keep them interested but not so few that you aren't giving them what they want.
Many of us socialize with our family and friends especially when we're not working. The same is true for social media. Many people take to Twitter during their free time and more so during the weekends. As a result, you have a greater likely hood of engaging your users during this time. You can use tools like Hootsuite or Buffer to help you schedule posts during the weekends.
A retweeter can be thought of as an amplifier because they can take your content and increase its reach. They use Twitter to communicate with their family and friends through Twitter Direct Messages and in turn, they are more likely to speak directly to their followers regarding things they like.
As we learned in tip #6, knowing when to engage your users is important. Throughout the week, you can engage your followers (or non-followers using hashtag) during their lengthy morning and afternoon commutes. Your tweet can be that momentary spark of humor or wisdom that will make their tedious commute that much more bearable.
Well, this stats is a gem. First, we know that engaging users on their mobile devices is very important. This holds true not only for Twitter but with all social networks and brand websites. Therefore we need to ensure that all of our social media and web properties are optimized for mobile devices.
Second, since we know users are using mobile devices for tweeting about brands, we would like to ensure that our interactions with followers are mobile-friendly as well. Including links, hashtags and properly formatted user links ensure that users continue using their mobile apps rather than opening a new browser tab or relying on other devices to find information.
No matter what your business is, this age group cannot be ignored in demographic while planning twitter advertisement. Yet, yet most advertisers miss to advertise to this age group. Not to say that, people in this age group and active on twitter are likely to be more financially secure than younger age groups and have more decision taking capabilities, and as a result, they have more money to buy your product or influence to give recommendations.


St Gallen Cricket Club have taken charge of a new Powerplay Instant Cricket System matted pitch from NottsSport, the first of its kind in Switzerland.
Notts Sport®'s Powerplay Instant Cricket System opens up incredible opportunities for coaching and recreational matchplay on almost any existing artificial turf surface.
Exclusive to Notts Sport® the pitch can be rolled out in just five minutes and provides realistic bounce and spin and seam reaction. The pioneering design features stabilising strips so that the mat lies flat. The system also includes a special trolley to ensure the surface retains its shape and performance characteristics between games and makes it easy to move, install and store.
Surface colour to enable the ball to be viewed more easily.
Further information on the Notts Sport®'s Powerplay Instant Cricket System matted pitch and other non-turf cricket pitch solutions is available direct from Notts Sport.
Alternatively you could contact Nasir Mahmood at St Gallen Cricket Club and go along to one of their McGee 40 over league or Pickwick Twenty20 league matches.


I was a vegetarian for years, but there's something really nostalgic to me about corned beef and cabbage. When I set out to make a local, updated version I realized there's not really much I remember about my mother's version but the taste and smell. The appearance totally escapes me. I knew I wanted to try something new but keeping with the classic taste. I found a truly updated version from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques . This recipe braises the meat for a few hours, then poaches the vegetables in the liquid. There's a pinch of crushed red pepper in the braising liquid and clove studded onions. There's little to no work involved and it tastes great. The meat is browned a bit before slicing.
The first thing you might notice from the photo above is that this brisket is not the brilliant prink of typical corned beef. I brined this piece of Autumn's Harvest brisket in a mixture of celery juice, dark beer, and pickling spice – without nitrates. You can find our brining recipe here. If you prefer, buy a pre-brined brisket for this recipe. Autumn's Harvest will have their brisket at the Saturday Ithaca Winter Market or contact autumnsharvestfarm@gmail.com to order. The meat cooks for 3 hours (or a bit more) and the vegetables poach in the liquid while the meat crisps up in the oven. You can dump this in the oven and come back in 2 hours to prep the veggies and get ready to finish the recipe.
One of the things I love about this recipe is the way the vegetables stay bright and the parsley brightens it up even more. The extra step of browning the meat, takes it a little bit further for me. If you prefer, you can just add the vegetables to the meat in the last hour of cooking and skip the browning. Either way I recommend serving this with grainy mustard.
Brown the meat. When the meat is done, remove from liquid and transfer to a baking sheet. Reserve liquid for poaching vegetables. Turn oven up to 375°F. Bake meat for about 15 minutes until it browns and crisps up. Broil for a minute or two if you want it to be browner. Let rest 15 minutes before slicing.
Arrange the poached vegetables on a large platter or individual plates, then top with the sliced meat. Ladle your chosen liquid on top. Serve with grainy mustard and extra broth.


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For a lot of contacts (but not all), the date of birth in DejaOfiice is one day earlier than in Act (where the date is correct). Why ?
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Gloria Lee is a founder and partner at Swift Lee Office and has been practicing architecture for nearly 25 years. Gloria is a native of Seoul, Korea, and received her Master's degree in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Gloria has served on several non-profit organizations, notably as a board member and treasurer for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture Urban Design (2008-2013); as the current president and board director of the Korea Arts Foundation of America (2009 – present), and as past president and current secretary of the Korean American Scholarship Foundation (2003 – present). She was the Oberdick Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Michigan from 2001-2002, and since has taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture, USC, and Harvard University's summer program and has been a guest critic at USC, UCLA, Sci-Arc, Otis, and Woodbury.


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Mezzanine Loses Bid to Extend Its Lease
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As we wrote last November, Mezzanine, the SoMa nightclub that's been around for 17 years, was unable to renew its lease and was informed it would have to close this October. Hot on the heels of the since-destroyed Hemlock Lounge and the closed-then-reopened Elbo Room (now the Valencia Room) it appeared that yet another longtime venue was headed for the chopping block. This one was especially sad, as not only does Mezzanine host parties that spill out into Stevenson Alley, such as Hard French Hearts Los Homos every Pride Sunday, it also gets "underplay" shows. That is to say, bands that play at larger venues such as Bill Graham may stop by for a second show, giving fans the opportunity to see people in a smaller, more intimate setting.
The stated reason for the non-negotiation? Turning the space into offices. However, the Chritton family — owners of Microbiz Security Company and Mezzanine's landlords — appeared open to negotiating a short-term extension with Mezzanine owner Deborah Jackman to cover the club's calendar of events through New Year's Eve and the end of January 2020. Consequently, the management continued booking events as they normally would.
That deal, however, appears to be off.
In a statement, Mezzanine alleges that the Chrittons sent a letter of intent on Jan. 11 that the club would get the requested extension plus the possibility of a long-term lease at the end of it. But in another letter, dated May 1, the three-month extension was withdrawn. They write:
Cancelling these events not only hurts Mezzanine financially, it is deeply heartbreaking for the staff, promoters, artists, corporate clients, and fans that are counting on these events and have supported the venue's livelihood for years. "Numerous studies have shown that San Francisco's economic strength is inherent in its art and music scene. This short-sighted eviction and related course changes create real hardship for the exact people that attract people to our city: artists, and music professionals," said HUSHconcerts CEO Robbie Kowal. "Mezzanine has always been good to its word, its neighbors, its customers, and our community, something we would hope might make its landlords at least fulfill their meager commitment of a bit more time," adds Kowal.
In addition, Mezzanine has been working closely with Allen Scott of Another Planet Entertainment, to form a partnership to keep the venue open for the long term.
The Chritton's company, Microbiz Security, put out a press release stating, "the lease was signed and Microbiz is moving forward with expanding their business" by taking over the space currently occupied by Mezzanine. This statement is a stark departure from their original reasoning for not renewing the venue's lease; a 600% rent increase for the space.
The venue now hopes that community support may bring a change of heart to The Chrittons. "As we at Mezzanine were receiving encouraging support from our fans, the city, and our industry; the building owners, were getting push back about the fact that we were not given an opportunity to come to the table OR, at the very least to get a 3 month lease extension to let us finish out 2019," Jackman recalled about the initial closure announcement. "At this point I feel the only hope we have is a public outcry, even louder than the first. That SF will not take this laying down. Please once again, make it known that you need Mezzanine and Mezzanine needs YOU to help us survive, at least until the end of 2019," stated Jackman.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.
Don't hate the media, become the media.
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.


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The Clausewitzean Continuum
It is often said that there has never been a good war or a bad peace. I disagree with this. There have been many periods of human history that have been called peaceful but which have not constituted peace worthy of the name. We must allow at least the possibility that if a short, decisive war can bring a rapid end to a peace not worthy of the name, and substitute for this something more closely approximating an ideal peace, then such a war would not necessarily be a bad thing. I am not making the claim that such a situation is often exemplified in human history (i.e., "good" wars are not often exemplified, although history has many examples of a bad peace), nor even that when such a condition obtains that it is recognizable by us, but only that it is possible that such a condition obtains.
Yet to focus on war and peace as though they were polar opposites is likely to be counter-productive because misleading. War and peace are related in a way not unlike love and hatred. As we have all heard, it is indifference that is the antithesis of love, not hate. In other words, war and peace lie along a continuum, and a continuum is characterized by a smooth gradation between to opposed states. And so the complexity of history often reveals to us the smooth, imperceptible gradation between war and peace. In escalation, we have the gradual transition from peace to war, and in deescalation we have the gradual transition from war to peace.
The dialectic of war and peace, unfolding as the pendulum of history swings between the poles of war and peace, yields distinct species of war and peace as the development of history forces the realization of each polar concept in turn to take novel forms in the light of unprecedented historical developments. I have elsewhere argued that war is likely an ineradicable feature of civilization (cf. Invariant Properties of Civilization), i.e., the two — war and peace — are locked together in a co-evolutionary spiral so that you cannot have the one without the other.
We would like to think that peace is the equilibrium state to which society returns, and in which equilibrium it remains until this equilibrium is disturbed by war, and that war is a disequilibrium condition which must inevitably give way to the equilibrium condition of peace. This is wishful thinking. Of course, if one is dedicated to this idea one can certainly interpret history in this way, but the fit between the interpretation and the facts is not a good one, and considerable hermeneutical ingenuity must be invested to try to make the interpretation look plausible. In other words, we must tie ourselves in knots in order to try to make this interpretation work; it is not prima facie plausible.
This last point is sufficiently interesting that I would like to pause over it for a moment. I can remember the first time that I came to realize that history is a powerful tool for conveying in interpretation, not a vehicle for the conveyance of facts. History isn't just an account of the past, a chronicle of names, dates, and places, that only becomes distorted when an historian with an agenda twists the material in order to make it serve a moral, social, or political function. All history, one way or another, conveys an interpretation. I came to this conclusion not from the study of war, but from the study of logic. Some many years ago I was trying to write a comprehensive history of logic, and the more deeply I penetrated into the subject matter from the perspective of the historian that I wanted to be, the more I realized that, no matter how I told the story, it would still be my story.
That all history — including contemporary history — involves interpretation does not make it arbitrary or merely idiosyncratic. The best histories robustly embody the temperament of their authors, and one knows when one is reading what the author's point of view is, whether or not one agrees with it. This is true of all the great histories from Herodotus to Braudel.
One certainly could write a history of civilization in which peace is an equilibrium condition, from which war is a pathological departure, and this might well be a powerful interpretation of the human condition. One could just as easily write a history of civilization in which war is the equilibrium condition, from which peace is the pathological departure. We have histories such as the first variety, but very few of the second variety, mostly because people simply do not want to believe that war is the norm and peace a suspension of the norm.
Clausewitz famously held that war and peace are two sides of the same coin:
War is a mere continuation of policy by other means. We see, therefore, that war is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to war relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the art of war in general and the commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, war is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception.
This is the Clausewitzean continuum: war and peace are what philosophers call polar concepts — concepts that anchor two ends of a single continuum — and each derives its meaning from its contrast with the other. Between the two polar concepts is a graduated continuum in which one is either closer to one end or the other of the continuum, but the positions on the intervening continuum do not perfectly exemplify the polar concepts, which are sometimes idealizations never realized in actual fact.
Foucault made the obvious inversion of this Clausewitzean dictum, namely, that politics is the continuation of war by other means (cf. Foucault on Strategy and A Clausewitzean Conception of Philosophy).
In light of Clausewitz's dictum on the convertibility of war and politics, Clausewitz's philosophy of war is at the same time a philosophy of politics, and, by extension, a philosophy of civilization, as I have characterized it in A Clausewitzean Conception of Civilization and Civilization, War, and Industrial Technology.
Whether or not we can transcend this dialectic of polar concepts and attain a realization of civilization that does not derive its meaning from its polar opposite, warfare, will be an inquiry for another time.
Filed in Geopolitics and Geostrategy, Strategy and Tactics ·Tags: Benjamin Franklin, carl von clausewitz, Clausewitz, continuum, equilibrium, peace, polar concepts, war
The Agricultural Apocalypse
The four horsement of the apocalypse -- war, disease, famine, and death -- constituted a traditional litany of the disasters to which humanity was subject, i.e., the familiar terrors of history.
There is more than one list of exactly those evils represented by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Biblical passage from which the image is derived mentions the horses as being white, red, black, and pale. These have been interpreted as representing conquest, war, famine, and death, though in the Dürer etching above the four horsemen are commonly identified as war, famine, plague, and death.
If we take this latter litany of war, famine, plague, and death as the evils of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it immediately becomes clear that these are not four evils of apocalypse, but one evil intrinsic to the human condition (death) and three evils intrinsic to settled agricultural civilization.
It is settled agricultural civilization itself that is the apocalypse; the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution was at the same time the Agricultural Apocalypse. For in so far as anthropologists and archaeologists have been able to determine, prior to the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, there was no war, no famine, and no plague. There was, of course, death, since death is the human condition, but it was the change in the human condition brought about by settled agricultural civilization that added war, famine, and plague to the human condition.
I have mentioned in several posts that the Paleolithic is sometimes called the Paleolithic Golden Age. It is well known that our hunter-gatherer ancestors, before they settled down into agricultural civilization, had a more diverse and therefore a healthier diet. From this healthier diet followed a healthier life. Individuals were taller and lived longer.
It also seems to be the case that settled agricultural civilization made possible war, famine, and death. I have argued many times that civilization and war are born twins. Only the social organization provided by civilization can make organized violence on the scale of war possible. I have even suggested that instead of seeing war and civilization as a facile dichotomy of human experience, we ought to think of large-scale human activity sometimes manifesting itself as civilization and sometimes manifesting itself as war. The two activities are convertible.
With settled civilization and control of the food supply, our ancestors allowed family sizes to grow — both because it was now possible to raise more children than the parents could physically carry, and because more children meant more farm labor. The entire family could be impressed as a labor gang to work on the farm, which produced surplus food when conditions were favorable. However, when conditions turned unfavorable, there were now many mouths to feed, and they could not be readily moved to another location, having surpassed the numbers that can be realistically transformed into a roving band. The obvious result was famine.
Also with settled civilization came the concentration of growing populations in urban centers and in extending trading networks. These concentrations of human population effectively created disease pools in which both viral agents and bacteriological infections could be easily transmitted through a community in close physical proximity. The obvious result was plague.
While the Industrial Revolution allowed us to transcend many of the institutions of agricultural civilization, the pattern of settled life remains, and with it remains the possibilities of war, famine, and death, which now are part of the human condition, and having lived with them for so long they are also become constitutive of human nature.
Filed in Civilization, Human nature ·Tags: agricultural revolution, agriculture, Dürer, death, disease, famine, four horsemen, human condition, human nature, industrial revolution, neolithic agricultural revolution, Neolithic Revolution, plague, prehistory, war
A Shift in Hemispheres
Since I last wrote I have experienced a dramatic change in hemispheres, going from the snow of rural Oregon, pictured above from just a few days ago, to the overcast heat and humidity of Lima, Peru. The contrast would have been even more striking had it been as sunny as I expected the southern hemisphere to be in January, but it is still a dramatic hemispherical shift. There is a scene in Goethe's Faust when Faust requests grapes (or some other fruit — I can't precisely recall), and Mephistopheles disappears only to return momentarily with the grapes. Although the feat is magical, Faust does not ascribe it to magic, but furnishes the explanation to Faust that on the opposite side of the world it is summer even as it is winter in Faust's Europe. This is how the man of the Northern Hemisphere views the exotic climes of the Southern Hemisphere.
Even while taking leave of the Northern Hemisphere I have remained within the Western Hemisphere, and I am very pleased to be back in Peru, since it has been almost twenty years since I was last here. Peru is the fons et origo of civilization in the Western Hemisphere. Like Anatolia and Mesopotamia, the history of civilization runs deep here. The succession of peoples and cultures has left stratified layers in time, and this stratigraphy of history gives a definite shape to the past.
The lights of Lima after midnight as seen from my hotel window.
There has also been a succession of empires through the ages. When I was last in Ecuador, at the Hacienda San Agustin — which in its earlier iterations was an Inca outpost on the periphery of empire — the Ecuadorians spoke of the Peruvians as warlike and given to quarrel. I do not know if this is true, but I do know that when they spoke, they spoke with the knowing look of a neighbor on their faces.
We should not be surprised at this. Civilization and war are born twins. Recently on Twitter I wrote that one could uncharitably say of civilization that is is merely epiphenomenal of war, or one could say more charitably that war is merely epiphenomenal of civilization. Perhaps each is epiphenomenal of the other, and there is no one, single foundation of organized human activity — it is simply that large-scale human activity sometimes manifests itself as civilization and sometimes manifests itself as war.
Filed in Civilization, Travel ·Tags: civilization, Lima, northern hemisphere, Peru, South America, southern hemisphere, travel, war, western hemisphere
The Principle of the Possible War
Yesterday in A Review of Iranian Capabilities I mentioned the current foreign policy debate over the idea of a preventative war against Iran and recounted some of Iran's known capabilities.
Reflecting the these attempts to make a case for or against preventative war with Iran, I was led back in my thoughts to a post I wrote last summer about what I called The Possible War. In this post I tried to emphasize that ex post facto criticisms of conduct in war — like criticisms of the Allies' strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War — presume a parity of capability and opportunity that almost never obtains in fact. Military powers do not engage in ideal wars that meet certain standards; they fight the war that they are able to fight, and this is the possible war.
Moving beyond a description of the possible war, the idea can be formulated as a principle, the principle of possible wars, and the principle is this: in any given conflict, each party to the conflict will fight the war that it is possible for that party to fight. In other words, no party to a conflict is going to fight a war that it is impossible for it to fight. In other words again, no party to a conflict is going to fight a losing war on the basis of peer-to-peer engagement if there is a non-peer strategy that will win the war. This sort of thing makes good poetry, as in The Charge of the Light Brigade, but in so far as it ensures failure in a campaign, it exerts a strong negative selection over military powers that pursue such policies.
The military resources of a given political entity (whether state or non-state entity) will always seek to maximize its advantage by employing its most effective means available against its adversary's most vulnerable target available. This is what makes war brutal and ugly, this is why it has been said since ancient times that inter arma enim silent leges.
There is a sense in which this principle of possible wars is simply an extension of the classic twin principles of mass and economy of forces. Each party to a conflict concentrates as much force as it can at a point it believes the adversary to be most vulnerable, and the enemy is simultaneously trying to do the same thing. If we think of concentration as concentration of effort, rather than mere numbers of battalions, and we think of vulnerability as any way in which an enemy can be defeated, and not merely a point on the line that is insufficiently defended, then we have the principle of possible war.
War is not always and inevitably brutal and ugly, and the principle of possible wars helps us to understand why this is the case. Previously in Civilization and War as Social Technologies I discussed how in particular historical circumstances warfare can become highly ritualized and stylized. There I cited the non-Western examples of Samurai sword fighting, retained in Japan long after the rest of the world was fighting with guns, and the Aztec Flower Battle, which combined religious rituals of sacrifice with the honor and prestige requirements of combat. However, there are Western precedents for ritualized combat as well, as when, in the ancient world, each party to a conflict would choose an individual champion and the issue was decided by single combat.
Another example of semi-ritualized forms of combat in Western history might include early modern Condottieri wars in the Italian peninsula. Before the large scale armies of the French and the Spanish crossed the Alps to pillage and plunder Italy, the peninsula was dominated by wealth city-states who hired mercenary armies under Condottieri captains to wage war against each other. With two mercenary armies facing each other on the battlefield, there was a strong incentive to minimize casualties, and there are some remarkable stories from the era of nearly bloodless battles.
Another example would be the maneuver warfare of small, professional European armies during the Enlightenment, who sometimes managed to fight limited wars with a minimal impact on non-combatants. This may well have been a cultural response to the horrific slaughter of the Thirty Years War.
In these latter two examples, limited wars were the possible war because a sufficient number of social conventions and normative presuppositions were shared by all parties to the conflict, who were willing to abide by the results of the contest even when a more ruthless approach might have secured a Pyrrhic victory. Under these socio-political conditions, limited wars were possible wars because all parties recognized that it was in their enlightened self-interest not to escalate wars beyond a certain threshold. Such social conventions touching even upon the conduct of war can only be effective in a suitably homogenous cultural region.
After the escalating total wars leading up to the middle of the twentieth century, limited wars emerged again out of fear of crossing the nuclear threshold. Parties to the conflicts were willing to abide by the issue of these limited wars because the alternative was mutually assured destruction. Also, all parties to proxy wars knew they would have another chance at achieving their goals in another theater when the proxy war would shift to another region of the world. Thus limited wars because possible wars because the alternative was unthinkable.
Filed in Strategy and Tactics ·Tags: limited war, peer-to-peer, possibility, possible war, principles, ritualized combat, strategy, The Charge of the LIght Brigade, thinking, Thirty Years War, Total War, vulnerability, war, warfare
War and Peace, Again
After thinking through again what I wrote yesterday about the possibility of political, eschatological, and catastrophic philosophies of peace, I am convinced of the methodological value of seeking parallel formulations of conceptual pairs like war and peace, as well as classic philosophical oppositions such as truth and falsehood, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. I find that, though initially unlikely, it is after all a salutary conceptual exercise to force the mind to think unfamiliar thoughts such as philosophies of peace that mirror philosophies of war.
On reflection, it seems obvious that eschatological wars are started and fought with the desire to establish an eschatological peace, and that political wars are started and perpetuated with the end in mind of the establishment of a political peace. For fatalists, who believe that events befall unfortunate man, catastrophic war follows catastrophic peace, and so on iterating the pattern through history, without any regard to human action or desire. These are ways of viewing the world — the political, the eschatological, and the catastrophic — and they are expressed in war and peace alike. (I do not hold that Rapoport's tripartite division of wars is an adequate typology, but it does have something to recommend it: it has proved food for thought, at very least.)
The Principle of Conceptual Parallelism (explicitly formulated yesterday, but only now called by this name) proves itself in this meditation upon war and peace, and suggests its application more generally. It is a dialectical principle: the thesis is the original formulation of a theoretical context for a given concept; the antithesis is the parallel formulation of a theoretical context for the antithesis of the originally given concept; the synthesis is the broader, more comprehensive, and hopefully more coherent perspective that results from systematically expanding our conceptual scope and horizons.
That war, as a human institution, should force this explicit formulation of the Principle of Conceptual Parallelism upon me, ironically proves the conceptual fruitfulness of war. And this is but a start, an initial suggestion. I cannot regard the Principle of Conceptual Parallelism as finished in any sense. There remains the difficult question of defining the initial conceptual pair that enters into the dialectic of the principle, and other problems as well are to be expected. But it is at least a start.
Filed in Civilization, Geopolitics and Geostrategy, Strictly Theoretical ·Tags: dialectic, dialectics, peace, principle of conceptual parallelism, war, warfare
Unintended consequences of Enlightenment universalism
A rare early color photograph of WWI: the machine gun was one of the transformative technologies of the First World War.
The First World War is one of the great catastrophes of Western history. This is insufficiently appreciated today. The Second World War appears to be the pivot of the twentieth century, occurring near the center of the century, a war fought on a larger scale and with more advanced technology and over a greater swath of the world. And while all of this is true, and the Second World War was the pivot of the twentieth century, the First World War was the pivot of something even larger than the twentieth century.
Along with the machine gun, barbed wire shaped the combat of the First World War.
The First World War was contemplated as a brief war, planned as a brief war, and started (or triggered, if you prefer) with the intention of being a brief war. Instead, it lasted years and consumed the lives the millions. Unlike the Second World War, the dead and wounded were overwhelmingly soldiers, and the war was primarily fought in the countryside of Europe, not in its cities. Thus the First World War was, in a particular sense, less destructive than the Second World War. But that particular sense is a material sense; in a moral or social sense, it could be maintained that the Frist World War was the more destructive.
The tank was another transformative technology, but it had to wait for the Second World War for its successful exploitation.
We all know that with the outbreak of the First World War, weapons and technology had changed while tactics had not yet caught up. And we have all heard that these innovations in warfare favored the defense and thus resulted in the static trench warfare for which the First World War is notorious.
Industrialization came late to war as compared to other aspects of life in Western civilization. It transformed the technology of war with machine guns and barbed wire, and it took several decades for the social technology of war to fully exploit the hardware technologies of war. The exploitation of the social technology of modern war was to be felt with the onset of the Second World War and the use of Blitzkrieg. (I have written briefly of this in The Dialectic of Stalemate.)
In my Social Consensus in Industrialized Society I suggested that the Industrial Revolution forced society to change in response, and that the Western world had responded twice with social arrangements attempting to accommodate the changes forced by industrialization and was still groping toward a third paradigm of social organization following the collapse of the earlier attempts. The social technologies of war — what military thinkers call "doctrine," as in "armor doctrine" — exhibit a similar pattern of groping for an effective way to utilize hardware technologies. The trench warfare and mass assaults on fixed positions of the First World War represents the first attempt to incorporate novel military technologies. Blitzkrieg represents the second attempt. The challenge posed by unconventional, asymmetrical, and guerrilla warfare, and the responses to these threats on the part of conventional military forces, represents yet a third attempt to converge upon a military doctrine adequate to contemporary hardware technology.
One aspect of social technology and organization that made the First World War such a catastrophe was an ethos of industrialized society that found its expression in universal conscription and mobilization. In the pre-modern and early modern world, war was a business for professional soldiers. There was a nearly absolute social division between the mass of the population and professional soldiers. This division was effaced by the emergence of popular sovereignty as the sole form of political legitimacy after the American and French revolutions.
With industrialization, urbanization, and democratization, all men were asserted to be equal, and in some rare cases were actually treated as such. If all men were equal before the law, all men were equally obligated to fight for "their" country, for the masses now had a stake in the political outcome that they had never had in the pre-modern era. Thus emerged the idea of every man a soldier.
There is a sense in which this is truly ludicrous: not every man is suitable to be a soldier; not every man is fit for killing. But the newly industrialized armies were like an enormous machine constructed to consume vast numbers of men, as the newly established factory system drew vast numbers of men from the countryside into the city and consumed them in factories and machine works and workshops.
Mass man emerged in a terribly real sense during the First World War. With urbanization and concentration of vast populations rapidly mobilized by industrialized social infrastructure, the generals had literally millions of men at their disposal. Not knowing any better, they launched mass attacks that achieved little except mass casualties.
The idea of every man a soldier is as unrealistic as the idea — once advanced as the inevitable result of industrialization's increasing living standards and decreasing work hours — of every man a man of leisure or every man an artist, or, for that matter, every man a wage earner (the present paradigm of industrial society), every man a yeoman farmer (Jeffersonian democracy), or every man a peasant (the reality of pre-modern, pre-industrialized civilization).
Filed in Civilization, Institutions, Social Technology ·Tags: Enlightenment, intellectual history, unintended consequences, universalism, war
Mass War and Mass Man
This morning on twitter I jotted down a few quick notes that partially reflect the fact that I am presently listening to a couple different books about war: Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden, by Marshall de Bruhl, and A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954 – 1962, by Alistair Horne.
As I was capturing a few thoughts about contemporary warfare, it dawned on me that my thoughts on war can be given an interesting Marxist formulation. If there is anyone who reads this forum on a regular basis you will know that, despite my clear differences with Marx, I often end up citing and quoting him, and I will further develop my quasi-Marxist reflections today.
One of the features of Marx's thought that retains its value despite the problematic nature of so much Marxist theory is that of the distinction between economic base and ideological superstructure. There should be a name for this distinction and the view of society that it implies, but I am not sufficiently up on Marxist studies to know if there is a term that is commonly used within the discipline, so at present I will refer to it as "the economic interpretation of history".
I wrote about this last week in relation to Joseph Campbell's use of the phrase, and there I said that I didn't know exactly what Campbell meant by it. Well, this is as good a meaning as any for the phrase, and indeed I think it sums up the idea Campbell meant to criticize quite nicely. We could even say (with a certain flourish) that the fundamental theorem of the economic interpretation of history is that the ideological superstructure of a society is completely determined by the economic base of the same society.
This uncompromising statement of the fundamental theorem of the economic interpretation of history is a perfect instance of reductionism as well as of constructing a theoretical absolute. Reductionism is mostly out of favor among contemporary thinkers, though it is not without its advocates, and constructing a theoretical absolute can be little different than erecting a straw man. There are obvious re-formulations of this theorem that are far less rigid, and thus far more likely to be true, or, at least, to have some truth in them. For example, we could say that the economic interpretation of history is the principle that ideological superstructure is mostly determined, or somewhat determined, by economic base. Or, hedging even more, that ideological superstructure is determined at least in part by economic base. It would be foolish to deny the latter outright, so we see that between an absolutist and uncompromising statement of a principle, and a thoroughly hedged statement there can be the difference between night and day.
But rather than conditionalize, compromise, or hedge, I would like to go in the direction of greater abstractness and generality. In other words, I would like, for the moment, to pursue an even more thorough-going reductionism, all in the interest of philosophical principle.
When thinking about it this morning, I was struck by the obvious fact that Marx's formulation of the economic interpretation of history can be generalized. Rather than limiting our foundations to economic foundations, any social system whatever can be seen as the social base of a society, while any cultural or intellectual expression of a people is a wider field of ambition than political ideology in the narrow sense. Thus a generalization of Marx's principle would be that social conditions determine the life of the mind. Once again, if we hedge and say, "Social conditions, at least in part, determine the life of the mind," we have a proposition with which few will disagree.
Now, to war. War is one form of social organization. Indeed, it is a pervasive form of social organization throughout human history. There are important respects in which war is an expression of human culture. It is then to be expected that the social conditions of a society at war are expressed in the methods by which that society makes war.
Since the end of the Second World War, there was been much discussion of strategic bombing. An explicitly philosophical treatise has been written to denounce it as immoral (A. C. Grayling's Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?). Caleb Carr denounces it in his The Lessons of Terror. Firestorm, mentioned above, questions the utility and rationale of strategic bombing. But, if I am at least partly right, it is misleading to try to understand strategic bombing in exclusively moral or political terms. Strategic bombing is an expression of our culture.
"What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin." Hannah Arendt
Once we see it in this context, it seems rather obvious. Hannah Arendt is especially remembered for her argument that twentieth century totalitarianism and fascism is a political outcome of the emergence of mass man in history. I would argue that mass warfare is also a nearly inevitable historical outcome of the emergence of mass man. Today we have mass war for mass man. It may be horrific, but it is not to be treated as some kind of anomaly: this style of warfare perfectly matches the structure of society today.
For the record, below are my Twitter posts from this morning, laying the above out with a certain succinctness:
1. Influencing policy through mass terror could have no place before popular opinion was crucial to the formulation of policy.
2. The limited war of earlier ages corresponded to the drastically limited sovereignty of non-democratic institutions.
3. Where vox populi is law, to shift the feeling or perceptions of the people, through terror or other means, is a coherent strategy.
4. Twentieth century campaigns of mass death and strategic bombing are brought into being (not justified) by popular sovereignty.
5. The ideological superstructure of modern war (mass war) supervenes upon the social and economic base of modern human life (mass man).
6. Mass war is a product of the Age of Mass Man.
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The loss of teeth and the lack of replacing them, can cause a number of alterations: loss of balance in the positioning and strength of the masticatory apparatus, temporomandibular joint pain, pain of the cervico-facial muscles, headaches and pathological movements of neighbouring teeth.
These solutions limit the ability to chew due to the instability that they have. In the medium term, they provoke further bone loss, and in the case of partial dentures, lesions in the adjacent teeth. Possibility of partial or complete dentures.
The fixed prosthesis (bridge) is the classic choice. The application of this is achieved thanks to the adjoining teeth, which helps to reduce their size, and two covers are made which anchor the prosthesis. It has the drawback of needing teeth on both sides of the hole and having to work with two healthy teeth.
However, current surgical techniques are available which are not very invasive and allow us to replace the absent teeth through osseointegrated implants, offering traditional benefits to traditional methods.
When the patient arrives for their first consultation, a complete dental history will be taken along with a thorough examination of their current dental status. The study will be completed with a panoramic x-ray (ortopantomografia), and a dental scanner if necessary. This will allow us to assess if the patient is a good candidate or not to have an implant treatment, and what type is best suited for their needs.
The surgery is done following strict aseptic procedures, and in an operating room equipped with the latest technology. Local anaesthesia will be used with or without sedation, depending on the number of implants and the difficulty of each case.
In this first phase of treatment, dental implants are placed in the jawbone or mandible. The use of local anaesthesia associated with sedation, guarantees the absence of pain or discomfort throughout the procedure. The approximate procedure time ranges from between one to two hours, depending on the case. Once surgery is completed, the implants can be recovered with gum for a while, to allow their full integration into the bone. This period usually takes between 3 and 6 months depending on whether the implants are placed in the mandible or maxilla. The postoperative period is not usually painful. During the first few days it is advised to follow a soft diet and oral antibiotics. Anti-inflammatory and analgesics medications will be administered.
Once the implants have integrated, 3 to 6 months after the first intervention, small transepithelial abutments are placed on the implants, to connect them to the future teeth. It is a simple procedure that is always performed under local anaesthetic. From this moment begins the prosthetic phase, i.e. the connection of the implants to porcelain or acrylic teeth as appropriate. This procedure usually lasts a month.
Due to advances in dental implantology, the times between the first and second phases are shortening greatly, making it possible in some cases to have both procedures at once and an immediate function of the implant. In other words, in one single intervention, they place the implants and fix the prosthesis onto them, thereby eliminating the intermediary phase of 3 to 6 months where the patient must have a provisional resin prosthesis, and accelerating the patient's social integration.
The implementation of advanced implant techniques using maxillary sinus elevation, bone grafting or making lateralizations to the dental nerve, allow us to increase the amount of bone in the place where the implants will be placed.
The placement or zygomatic implants shortens the waiting time by avoiding the placement of bone grafts in cases of large maxillary atrophy. They anchor 2 to 4 large implants in the cheek bone, providing a strong and secure support which will enable us to make a predictable dental rehabilitation with fixed teeth.
Once the teeth are in place, it is important to look after them for the treatment to last. Oral hygiene must be rigorous and patients must go to the follow-up reviews to monitor the status of the implants and prostheses. At first this will be every 6 months and then annually.
In Clinica Kranion it is possible to have the implants and dentures in the same session following the TEETH IN AN HOUR® HOUR concept, without having to wait 4 to 6 months for the integration between the first and second phases as seen in the traditional technique. This is possible through introducing our new centre and Nobel GuideTM system that allows a quick and easy implant treatment, with fixed teeth and aesthetics right there and then.
In this system, the radiographic computerised tomography (CT) scan of the patient is processed by a computer program that generates a three-dimensional view of the jawbone, allowing us to see if the patient is eligible for this technique and indicating in advance where the implants will be placed in order to have a prosthesis prepared, whether temporarily or permanently, so that it can placed as soon as the procedure has finished. (More information is available in: www.nobelbiocare.com).


Something utterly spectacular can happen in Yosemite National Park during the latter part of February. There is a small, ephemeral waterfall named Horse Tail Fall that tumbles from the top of El Capitan toward the valley below. During late February, if conditions are just right, the last sunlight of the day can make the waterfall glow appearing as a 'firefall'. The watershed area that supplies the water for Horse Tail Fall is only about 30 acres in size. For the event to occur, there must be adequate snow pack in that area and it must be above freezing for the waterfall to flow. Lastly, the sunlight must be unimpeded by clouds as is strikes the waterfall at sunset.
Last week I set out for Yosemite hoping to witness and photograph this unique spectacle. I had decided earlier in the winter this was the year I would go, since there had been so much snowfall in the Sierras. The forecast, however, did not look promising. Rain or snow was predicted every day for the week that I was prepared to stay in the park. When I arrived Wednesday, I had a brief window of nice weather to get out and photograph some of the park scenes. By lunch the clouds had rolled in and I wondered if the trip would be a bust. As the afternoon wore on, people began to pack in at various viewing spots along the Merced River. It was still quite cloudy, but we hoped for the best. When the time arrived for the potential firefall, there was a slight glow to the waterfall, but nothing of a spectacular nature. Oh well. The weather forecast for the next day was dreadful. Many hoped there would be a timely break between storms such that conditions would be better on Friday.
I awoke Thursday to continued pouring rain. Yosemite Valley was drenched. Standing water was everywhere. The rain continued through the morning but then came to a stop. Of course it was still overcast. After a bit, there was a slight amount of blue sky to the east. Then a little more. I hopped around the valley shooting whatever I could where a nice sky was in the background. Eventually it began to clear in the west. I returned to the viewing spot along the Merced River where I waited the day before about two hours before sunset. I waited with friends I met the day before. Occasionally some clouds obscured the sunlight, but most of the time it was clear to the west.
Finally, most of the sunlight was gone on El Capitan, leaving just the waterfall and the granite cliff to the west brightly sunlit. the area of sunlight continued to recede toward the waterfall until the beautiful scene occurred. It was awesome! The orange glow crept up the waterfall until the entire column of water was glowing, and occasionally the mist adjacent to the fall as well.
I would like to extend special thanks to Norman and Karen from Sacramento, with whom I chatted several hours on both afternoons. They are Yosemite veterans and were kind enough to share their park experience with me helping me to get the most out of my trip.


This week's guest is Dr. Anthony Atala, who oversees the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts, from inkjet-printed hearts to tiny livers, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He gives us an update from the cutting edge of medicine. Also, we get to the bottom line on how to protect your earnings in the coming tax year. And we talk with Dr. Marya Zilberberg about her recent article on The Healthcare Blog on medical testing and an approach toward a "less is more" philosophy of patient care.


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by Ian JacksonApril 26, 2016
Manchester City, unbeaten in five matches, is making its debut in a Champions League semifinal match, while Real Madrid, currently on a five-match win streak, makes its 27th appearance at this stage.
Manchester City play in the last four of the Champions League for the first time on Tuesday but find 10-time winners Real Madrid standing between them and a place in the final.
Manuel Pellegrini's preference would have been to play the first leg of their tie with the Spanish side at the Bernabeu but must make do with a home match instead.
The teams' only previous competitive meetings were in the group stage of the 2012/13 competition, with City leading twice in the first game before losing 3-2 to a stoppage-time winner from Cristiano Ronaldo.
For City to reach the final in Milan, they will have to beat a Spanish side over two games for the first time in nearly 50 years, having last achieved that against Athletic Bilbao in the 1969/70 season.
City's Yaya Toure is out of the match because of a thigh injury suffered during Saturday's 4-0 defeat of Stoke in the Premier League.
The former Barcelona midfielder had only recently overcome a heel problem and while he had not been certain to start against the Spaniards, his absence is a setback.
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Interestingly, out of the 7798 persons tested in this study, most of the folks with a confirmed diagnosis of celiac disease were not previously diagnosed, suggesting that while they had CD, their related symptoms were not severe enough for them to seek medical attention. Perhaps more surprising was that the majority of the group that were on a gluten free diet did not actually have CD.
Today, there is a new condition on the rise called Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS), which refers to folks who are not celiac but feel better when they do not eat gluten.
In a new study, gluten turned out not to be the culprit of much of their perceived gluten-based indigestion. (1) Peter Gibson, a professor of gastroenterology at Monash University in Australia, performed a fairly sophisticated, randomized, controlled trial comparing gluten against other potential digestive irritants.
What was interesting was that the group that ate the no-gluten diet, which was the same as the 2 week irritant-free baseline diet, reported a worsening of digestive symptoms. (1) Researchers suggest that it was due to the nocebo effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect. In other words, the suggestion that they were eating gluten and that it is a "bad food" predisposed them to intestinal reactivity – even though the gluten itself was not present.
All four of these causes are fixable. Gluten intolerance is not a life sentence, unless perhaps you have CD. Resetting digestive strength is our main focus at LifeSpa. We regularly watch folks with NCGS recover and begin to enjoy gluten once again. I invite you to check out over 450 free videos and articles in the education section of lifespa.com that touch on and delve into all aspects of health and resetting digestive strength and function.


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Tough to cope up with Tiger's levels: Disha Patani
February 17, 2018 by neha
Mumbai: Actress Disha Patani, gearing up for the release of her upcoming film "Baaghi 2", says it is tough to cope up with the energy level of her co-star Tiger Shroff.
Tiger is considered as one of the best dancers from the Hindi film industry.
Asked about her experience of dancing along with Tiger in "Baaghi 2", Disha said: "I am very excited for 'Baaghi 2'. The trailer is coming on February 21, so let's see. I can't wait to see the trailer of our film.
"I had to do lot of hard work because he is very hardworking and to cope up with his energy levels, is very hard. It was difficult, but we share a rapport together, and I managed it."
Disha was present at the Nykaa.com Femina Beauty Awards on Thursday in Mumbai.
On her experience working with director Ahmed Khan in "Baaghi 2", she said: "He is amazing and he is such a darling. Whatever I have performed in the film, iS because of him"
Disha is known for her amazing dancing skills and she combines her dancing with her daily routine of exercise, She keeps posting her dance videos on Instagram and these are well-received by netizens.
"I do it as a hobby. I like dancing and I want to learn different forms of dancing."
Asked about a negative thing she feels she has in her personality, Disha said: "I am socially super awkward but I can fake it well."
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We are delighted to announce that Rachael Weaver has joined the Energy Corridor District as Community Outreach & Administrative Coordinator. Rachael will be working with District members on special events and promotions including Member Deals, our annual recycling event, community appreciation events and the 75 Eldridge Crosstown.
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Are you a compassionate and hardworking nurse? Then this could be the role for you! Newcross is currently looking to recruit experienced Registered Nurses with at least 6 month's post qualification experience to provide care and support to our users living in Taunton and the surrounding local area. Benefit from a free DBS check, a free uniform, pay rates up to £25.21 per hour, plus we'll reward you with a £500 bonus with our exclusive Platinum ticket.
Newcross gives you the opportunity to study free office-based and clinical courses so you can improve your skills and grow in your career with us, all provided by Newcross earned through credits as you work.
Some of theses training courses are: Basic Life Support, BSL or Makaton, Medication Administration, Dementia Care and more.
We are looking for a compassionate and talented Registered Nurse who will be able to provide direct nursing care putting our service users at the centre of everything we do.
You will be working across Taunton, Langport, Wellington, Ilminster, Somerton and the surrounds.
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(businesspress24) - Milan, 8 May, 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a significant supply agreement from the US telecom company Verizon Communications (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) to support the company's US network expansion around a next-generation fiber platform that will speed the deployment of 5G services, while improving 4G LTE and other broadband capacity. The three-year contract is worth approximately $300 million and will include the supplying of more than 17 million fiber kilometres of ribbon and loose tube cables.
"As a recognized global leading producer of optical cables, supporting the most advanced infrastructure of many of the world's telecom operators, Prysmian Group is proud to have been chosen by Verizon as partner for the development of such a strategic project," said Hakan Ozmen, CEO of Prysmian Group North America.
Both Prysmian and Verizon feel strongly that demand and supply for the next-generation passive optical network (NGPON2) will last well beyond 2020 as new technologies like 5G and the IoT become reality. Prysmian will make a significant investment through 2018 in its US-based optical cable organization to support this project and the growth of major telecoms carriers in North America. The Group has a strong heritage in manufacturing optical fiber and cable for a broad range of applications, and has three telecom production sites in the United States, two for the production of optical cable and one for optical fiber, thus continuing its tradition as global leader in the development and design of fiber optic cabling solutions.
Prysmian Group's telecom division has qualified as an optical fiber, optical cable and connectivity solutions provider to Verizon for more than a decade.
An aspect of the Prysmian Group and Verizon supply deal involves diversity partnerships, a concept of innovation that goes beyond technology, to include social and sustainability imperatives. A percentage of business will flow through material management services offered by third party handlers that are owned and operated by certified woman business-owned enterprises.