The day of Keynote at SAP TechEd Bangalore!
SAP TechEd Bangalore has kicked off today and the day went much planned for me than earlier TechEd's. Before jumping on the details of the day, the change this time was the registration process looked more streamlined and organized compared to the last TechEd I had attended.There was no hard copy of sessions conducted on the three days as it has all moved to online agenda. This is a welcome change. Though the disappointment was the attendees still had to bring the hard copy of the registration to get the badge printed. The day could have saved close to 10,000 or more papers had the mail yesterday not said in red bold letters that hard copy was mandatory for badge printing.
The most important learning to me from earlier experiences was to wear zero heel shoes and dress as comfortably as I could. This would help one attach less importance to self and get through the day as smoothly as one could. I'm actually very pleased that there were not much queues that I had to get in today most importantly for food and registration process. Kudos goes to the organizing team!
The day began with Dilip Kumar Khandelwal addressing the crowd opening his speech with some questions around the pain points the people of Bangalore have. Well, the same could be generalized to the other cities of India like huge traffic, waiting near the toll booths while entering and exiting most of the highways. I'm not sure if he mentioned air pollution or not but this is among the biggest concern that most of the Indians have currently. I had expected him to follow the pain points with one of the recent technologies as to how it's helping to remove the problem but it ended leaving to the user's anticipation.
Bernd Leukert delivered the keynote. This was my first TechEd in which the keynote was accompanied with a live demo on every latest or not-so-latest technology announced. Without an iota of doubt the keynote was brilliantly delivered. Startups, digital transformation, disruption, IOT, developers, big data were among the opening words of his speech.
He started the note with a great news for developer community regarding the free availability of SAP HANA express edition with 32 GB of data. This is great news. The current HCP trial offers 1 GB of data.
The announcement was followed by Ian showing a demo as to how did a concert organizer benefitted his business by using express edition. He had analyzed the data to find the optimal places for organizing a festival in the country.
Acquisition of Altiscale for managing big data systems in cloud was highlighted!
SAP BW/4 HANA was the next among the list of technology announcements. It again comes with three choices of being on premise, cloud and hybrid. It helps in building an immediate comprehensive prototype and not taking much time as in usual cases.
The demo shown for this belonged to a bicycle seller with Hadoop data integrated into the system.
The next interesting news was there are currently 3700 customers on S/4 HANA with 1300 running implementations which are already live or are going to be live shortly. It was actually thrilling to see a live demo on ECC to S/4 HANA migration. Well, things start making sense when words like "helps to check initial upgrade" from ECC to S/4HANA migration.
Fiori 2.0 was announced with added features like now it's completely integrated with transactions like VA01. The added features include adding notes in sales document, much like what we do with GUI controls in the current screen. Well, this is how my mind interpreted it and I could be wrong.
Juergen Mueller joined Bernd on stage with a presentation on Machine Learning. Well, this was the time when my watch and mind had alerted "Stand and walk for a minute".
SAP HCP and IOT were next in the list. I must say IOT was detailed in the best possible way with Tanja Rueckert joining the keynote remotely. Ian showed a demo connecting coffee machine with the system monitoring the temperature of the machine.
Keynote ended with a note of thanks to the SAP Community Network.
Keynote was followed by partner keynote from Lenovo.
After the keynote session I followed my agenda and went straight to the codejam area. The topics I attended were "Build SAP UI5 mobile apps with SAP WebIDE and SAP HCP" and "Getting started on the mobile services of SAP HCP". The sessions were good. When the instructors are well prepared the chances of each attendee finishing their applications are high.
There was a long queue for the hands-on workshop on ABAP Today. The fact that many waited in queue for the session and few left within the first thirty minutes indicates there was something wrong with the session planning. The instructors were good but they would have managed the session of up to 10 people. With a session having approximately 50 attendees a better planning is required. I must say I'm not satisfied with the way the session was conducted.
Well, beyond this the highlights from the session were advancements in ABAP 7.5 like SEAM, Inline declarations, table expressions to name a few. I'm looking forward to read the contents of DEV265 in detail for the same.
Demojam followed towards end of the day. Congratulations to Team Alexa for winning the contest.
The personal highlights from the day was meeting fellow mentors, Vitaliy and Somnath.
Now I'm trying to keep my energy levels high for tomorrow!
Too bad about having to print for the registration — in Vegas we were able to show our confirmation emails on our phones (or print, but at least there was a paperless option). I did that, and it worked brilliantly.
Sounds like a busy first day!
Hm, asking for a printout is very odd indeed, especially at a technical conference. Someone needs to digitize and simplify the heck out of it. In Vegas I actually just showed my ID, no letters required at all. But it could be a perk of having a rather uncommon name.
The most important learning to me from earlier experiences was to wear zero heel shoes and dress as comfortably as I could.
Very true! Enjoy the rest of SAP TechEd.
I enjoyed reading your blog. Thank you for sharing pictures from your keynote and photos with Mentors! I'm sure your feedback on what you think TechEd organizers are doing well and can improve on will be valued by the team. Thanks for sharing your experience on Twitter as well. Have a great TechEd!


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Forward-leaning innovations in SASE and Work From Anywhere solutions benefit companies of all sizes
By Jody Gilliam|Mar 8, 2021|7:30 am CST
DALLAS — March 8, 2021 — Masergy, the software-defined network and cloud platform for the digital enterprise, today announced it has been named a Visionary in Gartner, Inc.'s March 2021 Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global1, report. This is the fifth consecutive year Masergy is positioned in the Visionaries quadrant. The report evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
"We all know how fast company needs can change, and we think the best way to create certainty in today's business environment is to partner with a visionary provider that offers extremely innovative network services," said Chris MacFarland, Chairman and CEO, Masergy. "Pioneering software-defined networking two decades ago, Masergy has always focused on the future. In 2020, our clients were again the beneficiaries of our foresight and innovation with Work From Anywhere solutions and one cloud platform to address all their network, collaboration, and security needs."
Businesses of all sizes trust Masergy to deliver the cloud and network platform that transforms their digital business. In the last year, Masergy released new innovations including SD-WAN at Home and SD-WAN On the Go as well as:
SASE: Masergy solutions adhered to the key tenets of the Secure Access Security Edge (SASE) model long before the term was coined, which gave the company a jump start on delivering SASE capabilities to clients.
100% Service Availability SLAs with Proactive Credits: When cloud application performance is more critical than ever, Masergy is committed to 100% service availability for cloud connections and SD-WAN sites configured for redundancy and high availability. The company is also redefining the industry by proactively and automatically crediting clients after an availability SLA is not met.
The Broadest Choice in SD-WAN: Recognizing that moving to SD-WAN is a journey for companies, Masergy expanded its solution portfolio with more options in network, access, management, and security.
Masergy continues to innovate for the future using AIOps (AI for IT Operations) as a virtual network assistant and to automate network operations in the push toward autonomous networking. SD-WAN clients also enjoy Shadow IT Discovery solutions, machine learning analytics and the transparency they need to optimize their business.
1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global by Neil Rickard, Bjarne Munch, Danellie Young. March 2, 2021.
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Top 14 Best Smartphones of 2019 [Buyer's Guide]
Need a new best smartphone 2019 but don't know which one is the very best for you? Here's a guide comparing the current top-end best smartphones from Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and others to assist you to pick the best phone for you.
There has never been a better time to buy a new flagship smartphone with many quality handsets available at a wider range of prices than ever before. Whether your priority is 2 days battery life, fantastic camera performance or a spectacular screen, there are lots to choose from.
This PopSmartphone buyer's guide to best smartphone 2019 was last updated on 10 March and represents the most effective available models at the time. As new models are released and tested, this guide is updated to help you choose the right flagship smartphone for you.
Top 14 Best Smartphones 2019 on the market for iOS and Android
Best Large Screen: Samsung Galaxy Note 9
Best Camera: LG V40 ThinQ
Best Android: Google Pixel 3
Runner-Up, Best Large Screen: Google Pixel 3 XL
Runner-Up, Best Android: Samsung Galaxy S10
Best Budget: Xiaomi Pocophone F1
Best Apple: iPhone Xs
Runner-Up, Best Apple: iPhone XR
Best Alternative Brand (Android): OnePlus 6T
Best Splurge: iPhone Xs Max
Best 2018 Release: Samsung Galaxy S9
Best Unlocked: Huawei P20 Pro
Best Battery: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
Best Older iOS Model: Apple iPhone 7
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What to look for in a Smartphone
1. Best large Screen: Check Samsung Galaxy Note 9 at Amazon."A high-quality giant screen phone.
2. Best Camera: Check LG V40 ThinQ at Amazon. "LG has been fighting for the title of best smartphone camera for years, and this could finally win the throne."
3. Best Android: Check Google Pixel 3 at the Amazon. "May be able to sway die-hard iPhone fans to the opposing aspect."
4. Runner-Up, Best large Screen: Check Google Pixel 3 XL at Amazon."Operating the 6.3-inch screen might really need both hands."
5. Runner-Up, Best Android: Check Samsung Galaxy S10 at Amazon. "The specs have made nice improvements to past models, that were already reliable phones to start with."
6. Best Budget: Check Xiaomi Pocophone F1 at Amazon. "The performance will simply match those of higher-end models."
7. Best Apple: Check iPhone Xs at Amazon. "You really can't beat it within the premium smartphone range."
8. Runner-Up, Best Apple: Check iPhone XR at Amazon. "Apple's best upgrade for the common consumer."
9. Best Various Brand (Android): Check OnePlus 6T at Amazon. "OnePlus includes a bona fide hit on its hands with the 6T."
10. Best Splurge: Check iPhone Xs Max at Amazon. "This could be the best phone you've ever had."
11. Best 2018 Release: Check Samsung Galaxy S9 at Amazon. "A stunning design, improved camera, and new features."
12. Best Unlocked: Check Huawei P20 Pro at Amazon. "About pretty much as good as smartphones get."
13. Best Battery: Check Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge at Amazon. "At least 2 days of moderate usage."
14. Best Older iOS Model: Check Apple iPhone 7 at Amazon. "Improved battery, a much better camera, water resistance, and no headphone jack."
As one of the first "Phablets," the Galaxy Note 9 has lasted long enough to induce past time once we even use the term "Phablet" anymore.
It's an important factor to remember because as "Plus" phones take over the market, Samsung's Note line has had years to optimize their functionality for the larger screen.
Note 9 is no exception, giving a huge 6.4-inch display whereas remaining only 0.35 inches thick. That display could be a Quad HD+ Super AMOLED with a 2960 x 1440 resolution (516 PPI), so the huge real estate won't lead to pixelation.
The cameras are pretty solid too, with an 8MP AF sensor on the front (f/1.7 aperture) and a dual-lens setup on the back: one wide-angle lens with a super-speed dual pixel 12MP sensor (variable apertures of f/1.5 or f/2.4) and a telephoto lens with a 12MP AF sensor (f/2.4 aperture). In other words, this phone could be a visual masterpiece.
Samsung has also updated the S Pen for this run, keeping the 4096 levels of sketchable sensitivity however adding in new Bluetooth connectivity (with a half-hour of charge time from the phone) that permits you to use the pen as an external expression device instead of just a stylus.
Note 9 also includes a 4,000 mAh battery to run all its taxing components. Roll that up with wonderful video functionality, a host of expected Samsung features.
Up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, and a 64-bit Octa-Core Processor, and you have a high-quality large screen phone (if your pocket will accommodate it).
LG has been fighting for the title of best smartphone 2019 camera for years. With the V40 ThinQ, it should finally win the throne. The camera is well the most significant aspect of this device. It does not just have a camera: it has five of them.
Photos and video are best viewed on the gorgeous 6.4-inch, 3120 x 1440 display. The Snapdragon 845 processor with 6GB of RAM keeps everything moving, and there is 64GB of storage for photos, videos, and apps.
On the rear of the V40 ThinQ is a 12MP camera for standard shots typical of what we tend to see on today's smartphones.
It also includes a 16MP wide-angle camera to capture a wide field of view and a 12MP telephoto camera for close-up shots. The front on the V40 ThinQ adds an 8MP standard camera and a 5MP wide-angle lens excellent for selfies with multiple friends. Altogether, these cameras add a full new level of smartphone camera versatility.
The 3300mAh battery is enough to keep you going all day, but you will probably recharge every night.
We perceive that there's a serious divide between the iPhone and Android users of the world, but the Google Pixel 3 may be able to sway die-hard fans to the opposing aspect.
The phone features a 5.5-inch screen with the same crisp 2160 x 1080 resolution because of the previous model. It additionally comes pre-installed with Google Assistant.
Just say, "Hey Google," then provides a command. you'll play music, screen phone calls, or maybe take a group selfie without touching the device.
And we would be remiss if we did not take a moment to discuss the image quality. The Pixel 3 delivers professional-grade photos with an 8MP front-facing camera and 2 rear-facing cameras. One wide-angle 12.2MP rear lens with f/2.2 aperture, and a second with f/1.8 aperture. In addition, the Pixel captures videos in good 4K resolution and offers unlimited Cloud storage with Google Photos.
Overall, the Pixel 3 promises reliable performance and durability, that includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor along with either 64GB or 128GB of storage space.
The device itself additionally boasts an IP68 waterproof rating and contains a custom-designed Titan M security chip to make sure that your phone and the data stored within it are equally protected.
With a 6.3-inch screen, operating the Pixel 3 XL may actually need both hands. But the design is sleek and weighs only 6.5 ounces, and the OLED display boasts rich, true-to-life colors with 2960 x 1440 pixels.
The XL has also increased its aspect ratio to 18:9, that makes for an even better video viewing expertise.
The XL is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, upgrading from the 2 XL's 835 models. It also offers 4GB of RAM and therefore the option for 64 or 128GB of storage.
The battery features 18 watts of power and is compatible with Qi wireless chargers. The XL additionally sports most of the same special features because of the Pixel 3 including Google Assistant, Playground, and Google Lens.
Additionally, the phone's camera boasts the same HD lenses on Pixel 3, promising 4K videos and professional-grade photos.
Samsung's new flagship smartphone has made quite the splash since its release. The S10's specs have made nice improvements to past Galaxy models (which were already reliable phones to start with).
The starting model holds a hyper-fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, that reaches record-breaking speeds among android phones. It holds 8GB of RAM, that is double the amount from its predecessor and offers 128GB or 512GB of internal storage.
The 3,400 mAH battery also comes equipped with an intelligent cooling system that protects your phone from heating whereas running energy-draining apps and games.
In addition, the S10 is compatible with wireless charging and even offers a new PowerShares feature, that lets you recharge alternative Galaxy devices from your phone.
The Galaxy S10 comes with a 10MP selfie cam, along with a set of 3 wide-angle lenses. The ultra-wide lens utilizes a 123-degree panoramic scope, creating gorgeous landscape shots with 16MP of resolution.
Further features, just like the Galaxy's dual-aperture setting and 2x optical zoom, guarantee sharp, professional-looking photos with every click.
As technology improves, it's no longer uncommon to search out budget phones that perform method above their price tag and the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 is not an exception.
Running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile platform and utilizing LiquidCool Technology, it's a rapid response speed, whether you are browsing the web, streaming video, or playing games that may usually are reserved for gaming-specific smartphones.
With thick bezels and a notch, the 18.7:9 edge-to-edge display won't boast the most elegant look, but the performance will simply match those of higher-end models, and the 4,000mAh battery will last for up to 2 days depending on how you are using the phone.
The 12MP and 5MP AI dual cameras allow for dual pixel autofocus, helpful in low-light conditions. The 20MP front camera can make for strong selfies in a sort of situations. This flexibility is similarly extended to the infrared-based face unlock sensor, which may perform well even at night.
A proper successor to the iPhone X, the iPhone XS is a lot of an incremental update than an outright new smartphone. But once you consider how wonderful the iPhone X actually was, an incremental update provides you lots to look forward to.
I have chosen the Xs as opposed to the Xs Max as a result of for the value, you really cannot beat it in the premium smartphone range.
Available in silver, space gray, or the new attention-getting gold color, and with a configuration of 64GB, 256GB or 512GB, this can be a phone you can still customize to meet your desires.
Apple has taken the time to step up the visuals with a 2436 x 1125 resolution (458 PPI) screen around that signature notch. That is pretty impressive considering its compact footprint. Another major update here is that the processor.
Apple has updated its chipset to a Bionic A12 with an incredible new neural engine. that provides you faster raw speeds and steps up the AI functionality of the phone, that is nice for features like FaceID and also the camera software.
The dual 12MP camera setup on the back provides you a wide-angle and telephoto lens. It is not exactly breaking any MP records, but it offers you some great resolution to play with.
The front-facing 7MP camera is really only a improve in software. however with image stabilization on both sides of the phone, cool new software features like HDR composite layering. Also the ability to adjust the portrait mode's bokeh blur (after the picture is taken, no less), the iPhone is now in direct competition with the award-winning image software in the Google Pixel 2.
The Xs battery looks to have shrunk a bit here, but they have optimized the software to compensate. All of this, working in tandem with the updated iOS 12, makes the Xs a clear winner for our high spot.
Striking a perfect balance between worth and features, the iPhone XR is Apple's best upgrade for the average consumer. Available in a sort of colors, the iPhone XR stands out against the muted palette of its more expensive counterparts.
However, the device is where the magic really happens. Running Apple's A12 Bionic processor, the XR is an incredibly fast smartphone. Apps open and close instantaneously with 3GB of RAM that ensures there's lots of memory for multitasking.
Featuring "Liquid Retina" technology, the display on the XR now takes up the whole face of the phone. Gone is the vaunted home button. now you'll unlock your phone with Face ID, tech that created its debut with the iPhone X.
It too runs flawlessly because of the combination of hardware and software. the same is often said for the 12MP single lens camera on the rear. Smart HDR takes fantastic photos and portraits show a surprising depth of field. If you aren't already sold, the 25 hours of talk time and 15 hours of internet use should seal the deal.
When it comes to choosing the most effective non-marquee brand for your next Android device, the choice is not even close. Hovering around the fringes of the android marketplace for years, OnePlus contains a bona fide hit on its hands with the 6T.
Billed as a mid-range device, this upgrade from the prior 6 model includes a bevy of latest features. One such feature, an on-screen fingerprint scanner located just below the 6.4 inch AMOLED display, will unlock your device in 0.34 seconds.
Unique features aside, the device excels all over else. A Snapdragon 845 processor pairs with either 6GB or 8GB of RAM for performance that is best-in-class.
Available with storage up to 256GB, the phone has lots of room for photos, games and more. All that space can are available handy once you begin taking photos and 4K video with the dual 16- and 20MP rear cameras.
There is an extra 16MP camera on the front. And with a 3700mAh battery, you'll get a full day of use while not having to recharge.
The XS Max, whereas occupying the same-sized footprint because the iPhone 8, manages to seriously amp up the screen size thanks to the edge-to-edge design.
So, as long as you don't mind a little notch cutting in, you'll get a whopping 6.5-inch display (technically 0.1 inches larger than the Galaxy Note).
It's a bright, lovely OLED display with 2688 x 1242 resolution, a PPI of 458. Plus, Apple's True Tone tech adjusts your screen color spectrum and brightness depending on the ambient lighting of the room you're in.
The new chipset is pretty impressive, too: the A12 Bionic chip provides you requisite speed will increase but also millions of additional connections within the Neural engine to noticeably boost AI performance.
The camera system has additionally been stepped up, giving you two 12MP sensors on the back for a wide-angle and telephoto lens. The front-facing system may be a 7MP single lens setup, and both systems have image stabilization.
The software is that the real hero here though, as they have taken that raw power and harnessed it for an amazing layered HDR experience (excellent for low-light pictures without blown out highs) and an updated portrait mode that each effectively introduces background blur, however also lets you modify it after the fact.
The phones are available in silver, space gray, or new gold color with 64GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage, and also the new iOS 12 means you'll get all the most recent multitasking features and a brand new optimization for the A12 chip and battery. If you have got the space in your pocket (and your budget), this might be the best phone you've ever had.
Equipped with a 5.8-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED display, the screen of the Galaxy S9 pops with bright and spirited colors.
With support for HDR content, observation content is best than ever, thanks in part to the dual stereo speakers that are 40 % louder than the previous Galaxy S model.
Powered by a brand-new Snapdragon 845 processor that's paired with 4GB of RAM, the S9 zips through opening applications or running multiple tasks within the background.
A 3,000mAh battery permits all-day battery life, whereas an IP68 rating adds water-resistance in up to five feet of water for up to half-hour.
The rear 12MP camera produces outstanding shots, and with Super Slo-Mo built into the camera, you'll slow down video capture to 960fps for incredible results.
Chinese-based Huawei is the largest telecommunications manufacturer within the world. However, buying Huawei devices is not easy for us customers. The company has been caught up in a variety of international conflicts, causing us carriers and retailers to prevent selling Huawei products altogether.
So if you are in the market for a Huawei smartphone nowadays, you'll have to buy an unlocked version on a 3rd party site like Amazon. But there is a reason you might need to go through so much trouble. The P20 pro is about pretty much as good as smartphones get.
The 6.1-inch OLED screen with 2240×1080 resolution is obvious and crisp. There is a notch on top, leaving room for the phone's camera. Like most phones these days, it does not come with a headphone jack. And it's IP67 rated, which means it's both water- and dust-resistant.
But the real star of the P20 Pro is its camera. The phone's triple camera system is one of the most effective smartphone cameras on the market, rivaling the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and therefore the iPhone X.
It will take clear photos in low-light environments and zoom up to 3x without losing image quality. The phone additionally comes with an AI-powered engine that edits photos to look crisper.
Hands-down, the best smartphone for battery life is that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Its 3,600 mAh battery is larger than most phones an ensures a minimum of 2 days of moderate usage, and perhaps a full day of intensive, video-heavy power consumption.
Of course, the S7 Edge's sizable screen hogs a decent deal of all that power, therefore you can expect the slightly smaller Galaxy S7 to operate with similar efficiency, whether or not its 3000 mAh battery is less powerful. Once it involves sheer specs, though, the S7 Edge wins out a minimum of when it comes to the flagship, mainstream phones.
In addition to having nice battery life (and turning heads left and right), the Galaxy S7 Edge is perhaps the best gaming smartphone within the market right now.
So, what sort of features must you expect from it? how about a high-quality display with sharp resolution? Check.
The Galaxy S7 Edge includes a 5.5-inch, Quad HD (2560 x 1440) Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 534 PPI. And what about a quick processor? Check. The S7 Edge includes a quad-core, 64-bit processor running Snapdragon 820 with a 4 GB RAM.
With Apple's iPhone 7, you'll find an improved battery, a much better camera, water resistance and, for better or worse depending on who you ask, no headphone jack. On high of that, the introduction of the A10 Fusion chipset offers a nice performance bump. It's available in four colors, as well as jet black (which looks fantastic but is prone to fingerprint marks and scratches).
The iPhone is that the same size as its predecessors, but it's IP67 water-resistance standards. You can keep your iPhone up to a meter of water for a half-hour without worrying about it getting fried.
The Taptic-home button can take some getting used to, but it's a welcome change because the physical button had to go to make way for water resistance protection.
The 4.7-inch retina HD screen remains top-notch and is more vivid than the 6S, especially once it involves viewing in direct sunlight.
The inclusion of an f/1.8 sensor on the rear 12MP TrueTone camera, as well because the addition of optical image stabilization are definite upgrades as well. Low-light photography has improved, too, because of four smart LEDs built into the camera that 50 % more light than the previous iPhones.
The quad-core A10 chip is fantastic and permits for faster launching of apps and multitasking. Battery life on the iPhone 7 is way improved over the 6S, adding an additional 2 hours of talk time, because of the new processor and 14 percent larger battery. the lack of a headphone jack has caused quite a little bit of negative chatter, but this can be easily remedied with an adapter.
Overall, the iPhone 7 as well the best smartphone on the market these days.
We bought four top-rated smartphones that our reviewers tested by using them daily for weeks on end. We tend to ask our testers to consider the most necessary features once using these smartphones, from their operating system to their size. I have outlined the key takeaways here in order that you, too, know what to look for once shopping.
iOS versus Android – One of the most necessary decisions you'll have to make once choosing a brand new smartphone is whether you want an iOS device (an iPhone) or one that runs Android. Each OS has its own advantages; high-end Android phones are often more advanced, but iPhones are additional popular domestically, so apps often arrive on iOS first.
Brand – If you have got opted for an automaton phone, you are going to have quite a few options once it involves the handset maker. Companies like Google, Samsung, HTC and a lot of all make Android-based phones. Many of the top phones from these brands have similar features, but you'll have a powerful preference for or against certain companies.
Size – Phones are getting bigger and greater these days. Most iPhones and many Android devices are available in two sizes: standard and XL/Max. If you have got large hands and/or want to get lots of work done on your phone, you'll want to consider getting a larger choice.
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Improving School Attendance finds '100 solutions' to get homeless students to class
More than 20 nonprofits have partnered to figure out why exactly a child skips school. Their work is making a big difference.
by Mallory Gruben
Monday, December 12, 2022 11:58am
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EVERETT — As a child and family advocate, Lynn Barashkoff gets a special peek into the complexities of why kids miss class.
It's not always for the reasons you might expect, she said.
Barashkoff, who works with the Interfaith Family Shelter, recounted one family with a first-grader who was chronically absent, meaning he missed at least 10% of the school year. In Washington, that's at least 18 days, or about two absences per month.
Instead of attending class, he was staying home with bug bites that had become infected, Barashkoff said.
To solve the problem and get him to school, Barashkoff suggested a dust mite cover for his mattress. Soon after that, the child was back in class.
"They put it on, and (his) mom texted me the next day and was like, 'Lynn, he had the best sleep, and he has no new bites,'" Barashkoff said. "It was a $25 fix. When parents are in the heat of the problem, sometimes they don't see (the answer)."
Barashkoff is one of about 10 social workers involved with Improving School Attendance, a collaboration of local nonprofits focused on removing the root causes for a child's chronic absences from school. ISA works specifically with families who are homeless or live in transitional shelters within the Everett Public Schools district boundaries, and have children age 8 or younger.
Homeless students are chronically absent from school at a rate at least twice that of the overall student population, according to SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit focused on improving early care and education for homeless youth. And students who miss a lot of school are significantly more likely to drop out, make less money and experience homelessness as young adults.
"Educational success is integral to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and homelessness," said Monica Wilson, collaborative coordinator for ISA.
An advocate works with up to six families. They meet with each family for at least four hours a week for two to three years, so they can offer valuable insight about why they're missing class.
That's a huge help for public schools, which are required to work with families to improve students' attendance when they are frequently truant but don't always have a clear picture of a child's home life, said Denise Hollenbeck, a child family specialist with Housing Hope.
"We ask so much of our schools. One of the services (ISA) provides is that we can singularly pick out what's going on with our families and make some strategic moves for each family that might help them," Hollenbeck said.
Many of the reasons a child misses school depends on a family's unique situation. Do they have a car? Are they close to a public bus station? Do they have consistent access to a phone and Wi-Fi? Are there medical appointments or work shifts a parent must attend that could prevent them from taking their child to school?
And sometimes, the problem is rather specific. Hollenbeck shared an example of a child whose feet grew over the summer. Before he could start school, his family needed to find affordable shoes in size 13.
"Everything has 100 solutions, and one solution works for one person and another solution works for someone else," she said.
ISA's work connects case managers and family advocates to one another, so they can share their experiences. They trade ideas for handling tricky barriers, and they offer their expertise to each other.
They have begun to identify trends or systemic challenges, said Wilson, the collaborative coordinator. For example, it "came up over and over and over again" that lack of transportation is a big reason students miss school. That indicates that community classes about public transit could help a lot of families and improve the system as a whole, Wilson said.
"I think it's taken us this long to really understand our families and their needs, and now we are noticing similar trajectories," she said. "I feel like now we can start working on bigger changes because we have so many examples in learning from the families we have worked with over the past four years."
ISA started in 2018 with a grant from United Way of Snohomish County. Since then, it has grown to include more than 20 partner organizations across multiple sectors.
The work is making a difference for families, Wilson said. A 2022 health and well-being report from Providence found that overall well-being of ISA participants rose an average of 18% during a six month period. That was on par or better than other groups surveyed in the county.
The report also found that families who participated in ISA for about 2 years saw a 44% drop in food insecurity and a significant improvement to transportation access. The report notes that about 50% of the ISA families faced a transportation barrier when they enrolled, but that dropped to less than 10% after two years.
State attendance data also reflects an improvement since ISA started. In the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years, about half of the homeless students enrolled in Everett Public Schools missed two or more days of school per month. By 2019-20, that total dropped to about 30%.
"I think the relationships we are building in the community are creating a difference, are cutting down some the barriers that existed before," Wilson said.
Mallory Gruben is a Report for America corps member who writes about education for The Daily Herald.
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We discovered Bittersweet's on accident two years ago in Kent. There is a store downtown (Empire) which sells Bittersweet's truffles. We only purchased two, but we were in love. The flavors were complex and they were decorated gorgeously. Since then we have relied on Bittersweet's to brighten up celebrations and holidays. We also spent quite a bit of time here fueling our sweet tooth while studying for the bar exam.
Of course, everything pumpkin has arrived.
We left with one cupcake, two macarons and three truffles to sample and rate.
We chose the Salted Caramel Cupcake. Bittersweet's adds a disclaimer to their cupcake boxes, because they use real butter in the frosting, you really need to let your cupcake sit at room temperature prior to enjoying it, otherwise the frosting will be too hard.
I love the look of their cupcakes, they're not too busy, but decorated with just enough frosting and toppings to make them special.
This is the inside of the cupcake, it was also filled with caramel as well. Since we were splitting the cupcake in half to eat anyway, I thought I'd show you the view.
You can really tell that they are using real butter in their buttercream frosting, the frosting itself is incredibly rich. It's something that I only indulge in once in a while -- that's how rich this frosting is. The filling in the cupcake was a nice surprise and all around it had good flavor.
Next up were our two macarons.
I liked the German Chocolate the best out of the two we ordered, the chocolate and toasted coconut both came through nicely.
Dave preferred the Pumpkin Macaron. I'm not a fan of "pumpkin spice" flavored everything in the fall, you could even say that I hate it. It's rare for me to enjoy something that is "pumpkin" flavored, but I thought the macaron was palatable.
Maple Whiskey (white chocolate maple syrup ganache and dark chocolate maple whiskey ganache).
Dulcey Shortbread (shortbread cookie, Valrhona Dulcey ganache, dark chocolate and dulcey pearls).
Hoku (white chocolate studded with vanilla bean topped with Hawaiian black sea salt).
Dave liked the Hoku truffle the best, I think the Dulcey Shortbread truffle was the best, because the crunchy shortbread helped to give it some different texture.
Bittersweet's has an incredibly wide array of sweet treats available for purchase and everything we have ever tried has been decadent and well worth the purchase. Bittersweet's also takes custom orders for party cakes and for wedding cakes.


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Disney Wish Cruise Ship – When Will it Launch?
The launch of the Disney Wish Cruise Ship is one of the most eagerly awaited events amongst Disney Cruise fans. As soon as they release the Disney Wish itinerary I am going to be booking!
However, will Disney Cruise Lines still launch the Disney Wish on time? Will it be delayed?
The latest news is that the Disney Wish will not launch in January 2022 as was originally expected.
During the Bank of America Virtual 2020, Walt Disney Company CFO Christine McCarthy said during the Bank of America Virtual 2020:
"The shipyard we utilize for our cruise ships, Meyer Werft, was impacted and we encountered a delay. We are in negotiations and discussions with the shipyard to finalize dates. But, as soon as we have those, we'll make an announcement when we expect the fifth ship, which is the first of the three, to be delivered. But, it is delayed from what we had originally anticipated."
Not the news that any of us wanted to hear, but not unexpected either.
We will publish all news about when the Disney Wish will sail as soon as we hear it. This post is updated for October 2021 when Disney made an announcement that the launch is being delayed.
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When Will Disney Wish Launch?
Disney Wish Building Progress?
Disney Wish Float In
Disney Wish Construction Latest Pictures
Disney Wish Float Out
When Will the Disney Wish Launch in 2022?
The last time (before October 2021) we had any news from Disney as to when the Disney Wish will launch was back on August 25, 2019. The Official Disney Site says
The Disney Wish is scheduled for delivery in late 2021 and will set sail in January 2022. The vessel will join Disney Cruise Line's award-winning fleet where guests experience the magic of Disney entertainment combined with the relaxation of tropical, sun-drenched beaches and the adventure of ocean cruising.
Now, unfortunately, we have heard officially that it will be delayed – but we still don't know when the Disney Wish will be launched. The latest statement is that the launch will be Summer 2022 – but this covers a wide range of dates probably from May until September 2022.
Even though the cruise industry is experiencing unprecedented challenges, Disney is still in huge demand.
Right now the demand for Disney cruises seems to remain as high as ever. With a huge and very loyal Disney Cruise fan base, it is highly likely that the Disney Wish would have no problems booking out many of the dates as soon as they are released.
So, in some ways, Disney may not want to delay. The Disney Wish needs to be launched to produce significant revenue – so maybe the early 2022 launch date will be perfect.
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There is a lot of speculation, and we can all do that for as long as we want, but what are facts that we actually know?
Is there any evidence that the building of the Disney Wish actually has been slowed down? On this time scale, there is only around a year and a half building time.
Surely construction would need to have started?
Yes, it would. And the good news is? There is very clear evidence that construction on the Disney Wish new ship has already started.
Earlier, in March 2020 video was posted which shows the some blocks for the consturction of the Disney Wish being brought to Neptun Werft.
Therefore, this would seem to show that the building of the Disney Wish is going ahead as planned and on schedule.
However, we still have some unknowns.
Meyer Werft was understood to be trying to renegotiating deals on existing orders. They know that it is highly unlikely any cruise line is going to be signing on the dotted line for a new build any time soon,
Therefore it may be that Disney renegotiated if not the timeline for the Disney Wish, it seems likely that they would have got some leeway on the delivery times of the next two Disney Triton Class Ships.
The second and third Disney Triton Class ships were supposed to be launched in 2023 and 2024. Maybe Disney negotiated that they would be delayed. Pure speculation, but Disney does have a lot of negotiating expertise!
It is difficult to see that the current timeline for building the as yet to be named new Disney Ships being stuck to unless the cruise industry gets back to anything like full capacity very soon. Therefore it might be a while longer than we thought until we see the whole Triton Class trio of ships sailing the oceans.
Disney is in a much better position than many other cruise lines as it has very high demand, a loyal following, and only 4 ships, but it has been severely impacted.
It has the almost unique advantage of knowing that there is a huge demand for the Disney Wish and that if they announced the dates tomorrow there would be a huge demand for booking. This will be the first new Disney ship for a decade – since the Disney Fantasy was launched in 2012.
Disney Wish Concierge – What Will It Be Like?
Here we can see the engine room float in of the Disney Wish. Things are really taking shape with the construction of the Disney Wish.
This is the latest pictures from the Meyer Werft Webcam. Unfortunately, but understandably, the webcam only shows stills pictures and these aren't updated very often.
This was taken on 18th January 2021
The picture below was taken a week before – it's amazing how the building of the Disney Wish is now progressing.
Disney Wish Picture Taken on 11th January 2021
However, it is amazing to see the progress being made on the construction of the Disney Wish.
When will the Disney Wish Float Out be? All we know now is that the launch of the Disney Wish is expected some time in Summer 2022.
What even is a float out? It's the first time the ship actually goes in the water. Obviously this will be a major milestone in the construction of the Disney Wish.
It's when the ship builders can properly assess it is going to float!
It will also be the first time we get a complete look of the exterior of the Disney Wish.
The float out happens before the interior of the Disney Wish will be started. When the exterior is finished, they flood the construction bay and the cruise ship floats out.
After a successful float out they will start on the construction of the Disney Wish interiors.
Here is a video which shows the Disney Fantasy float out in 2012.
All the factors right now seem to show that they Disney Wish construction is not too far off target. However, we still waiting for the official word from Disney as to exactly when the launch date will be.
Only time will tell. There is no official word from Disney Cruise Lines about the actual date, but we will keep you updated!
When do you think that the Disney Wish will sail in Summer 2022?
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Q: OptaPlanner - No beans of SolverManager and SolverManager types found in Spring Boot application I've added optaplanner-spring-boot-starter dependency on a Spring Boot application but injected SolverManager and ScoreManager beans were not found on Intellij.
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Description:

Parameter 0 of method myBusinessBeanAPI in
mypackage.MyRestResource required a bean
of type 'org.optaplanner.core.api.solver.SolverManager' that could not be found.

Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.optaplanner.core.api.solver.SolverManager' in your
configuration.

How can I solve this problem ?

A: In the documentation, it says In Quarkus and Spring Boot, the SolverManager instance is automatically injected in your code. Otherwise, build a SolverManager instance with the create(…) method:
SolverConfig solverConfig = SolverConfig.createFromXmlResource(".../cloudBalancingSolverConfig.xml");
SolverManager<CloudBalance, UUID> solverManager = SolverManager.create(solverConfig, new SolverManagerConfig());

So probably you didnt import the dependency correctly.
If you are using maven and using dependency management config:
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
            <groupId>org.optaplanner</groupId>
            <artifactId>optaplanner-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.optaplanner</groupId>
                <artifactId>optaplanner-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
                <version>7.38.0.Final</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

If you are using gradle:
compile 'org.optaplanner:optaplanner-spring-boot-starter:7.38.0.Final'

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The Courage of Hopelessness: A Year of Acting Dangerously
by Slavoj ZizekSlavoj Zizek
In THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS, maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train - that fundamental change can be brought about.
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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Event, Trouble In Paradise, and Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors, all published by Melville House.
The Courage of Hopelessness
V for Vendetta, Part 2
In a wonderful comment on Italo Svevo's novel Zeno's Conscience, Alenka Zupančič deploys a systematic matrix of the relations between repetition and ending.1 The basic version is the false reference to the freedom of choice where (if we take the case of smoking) my awareness that I can stop smoking any time I want guarantees that I will never actually do it – the possibility of stopping smoking is what blocks the actual change; it allows me to accept our continuous smoking without bad conscience, so that the end of smoking is constantly present as the very source of its continuation. (As Zupančič perspicaciously notes, we should just imagine a situation in which the subject is under the sway of the following order: you can smoke or not, but once you start to smoke you have no choice, you are not allowed to end. Far fewer people would choose to smoke under this condition.) When I can no longer tolerate the hypocrisy of this endless excuse, the next step consists in an immanent reversal of this stance: I decide to smoke and I proclaim this to be the last cigarette in my life, so I enjoy smoking it with a special surplus provided by the awareness that this is my last cigarette…and I do this again and again, endlessly repeating the end, the last cigarette. The problem with this solution is that it only works (i.e., the surplus-enjoyment is only generated) if, each time that I proclaim this to be my last cigarette, I sincerely believe it is my last cigarette, so this strategy also breaks down. In Svevo's novel, the next step is that the subject's analyst (who, till now, has tried to convince Zeno that smoking is dangerous for his physical and mental health) changes his strategy and claims that Zeno should smoke as much as he wants since health is not really a problem – the only pathological feature is Zeno's obsession with smoking, his passion to stop doing it.
So what should be brought to an end is not smoking but the very attempt to smoke. Predictably (for anyone with analytic experience), the effect of this change is catastrophic: instead of finally feeling relieved and able to smoke (or not) without guilt, Zeno is totally perturbed and desperate. He smokes like crazy and nonetheless feels totally guilty, without getting any narcissistic satisfaction from this guilt. In despair, he breaks down. Whatever he does turns out to be wrong: neither prohibitions nor permissiveness work, there is no way out, no pleasurable compromise; and, since smoking has been the focus of his life, even smoking loses its sense, there is no point in it. So, in total despair – not as a great decision – he stops smoking…The way out thus emerges unexpectedly when Zeno accepts the total hopelessness of his predicament. And this same matrix should also be applied to the prospect of radical change. The predominant attitude among academic 'radical Leftists' is still the one that, back in 1937, George Orwell described apropos class difference:
We all rail against class-distinctions, but very few people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed.2
Orwell's point is that radicals invoke the need for revolutionary change as a kind of superstitious token that should achieve the opposite, i.e. prevent the change from really occurring – like today's academic Leftist who criticizes capitalist cultural imperialism but is in reality horrified at the idea that his field of study might really become redundant. The stance is here the same as that of the smoker convinced that he can stop smoking if he chooses to do so: the possibility of change is evoked to guarantee that it will not be acted upon. Then we get an entire panoply of strategies that amount to the same thing, up to 'accelerationism' (capitalism will collapse through its overdevelopment, so let's engage in it to the end…).It is only when we despair and don't know any more what to do that change can be enacted – we have to go through this zero point of hopelessness. In short, we have to enact in politics a reversal similar to the one enacted in 'Der Leiermann', the song that concludes Schubert's Winterreise. It appears to describe the utter despair of the abandoned lover who finally loses all hope, even the very ability to mourn and to despair, and conjures the man on the street playing his hurdy-gurdy. However, as many commentators have noticed, this last song can also be read as a sign of forthcoming redemption: while all the other songs in the cycle present the hero's inward brooding, here, for the first time, the hero turns outwards and establishes a minimal contact, an emphatic identification, with another human being, although this identification is with another desperate loser who has lost even his ability to mourn and is reduced to performing blind mechanical gestures. Two years before his death, when it became clear that there would be no all-European revolution, and knowing that the idea of building socialism in one country was nonsense, Lenin reached this point when he wrote:
What if the complete hopelessness of the situation, by stimulating the efforts of the workers and peasants tenfold, offered us the opportunity to create the fundamental requisites of civilization in a different way from that of the West European countries?3
The basic ideological operation of Stalin was precisely to turn around Lenin's reading of the situation: he presented the Soviet Union's isolation as a unique chance to build socialism in one country. In that historical situation, Stalin's formula was one of hope. However, the next decade made evident the price paid for the attempt to live up to this hope: purges, mass starvation, etc. The lesson of twentieth-century communism is that we have to gather the strength to fully assume the hopelessness. Giorgio Agamben said in an interview that 'thought is the courage of hopelessness' – an insight which is especially pertinent for our historical moment, when even the most pessimistic diagnosis as a rule finishes with an uplifting hint at some version of the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. The true courage is not to imagine an alternative, but to accept the consequences of the fact that there is no clearly discernible alternative: the dream of an alternative is a sign of theoretical cowardice, functioning as a fetish that prevents us from thinking through to the end the deadlock of our predicament. In short, the true courage is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is probably the headlight of another train approaching us from the opposite direction.
This approaching train has lately assumed many forms. In the last few years, troubles in our global-capitalist paradise have exploded at four levels, with four figures of the enemy: the renewed fundamentalist-terrorist threat (the declaration of war against ISIS, Boko Haram…); geo-political tensions with and between non-European new powers (China and especially Russia); the rise of new radical emancipatory movements in Europe (Greece and Spain, for the time being); the flow of refugees crossing the Wall that separates 'Us' from 'Them', thereby 'posing a threat to our way of life'. It is crucial to see these threats in their interconnection – not in the sense that they are the four faces of the same enemy, but in the sense that they express aspects of the same immanent 'contradiction' of global capitalism. Although fundamentalism and the flow of refugees appear as the most threatening of the four (is ISIS not a brutal denial of our civilized values?), the tensions with Russia pose a much more serious danger to peace in Europe, while movements like Syriza prior to its capitulation undermine from within global capitalism in its neo-liberal version. But there should be no misunderstanding here: Western powers can easily co-exist with fundamentalist regimes; while in the case of Putin, the problem is how to contain Russia in geo-political terms (recall that his rise is the result of the catastrophic Yeltsin years marked by corruption, the years when Western economic advisors helped to humiliate Russia and to bring it to ruin). So although the US formally declared war on ISIS, and although there is constant talk about the threat of a war with Russia, the true danger are the moderate and 'gentle' new emancipatory movements from Syriza in Greece to the followers of Bernie Sanders in the US, and their putative radicalization. Because of this misperception of radical politics, we live in times of pseudo-conflicts: in the UK, Brexit 'yes' or 'no', in Turkey the military or Erdogan, in Eastern Europe, new Baltic-Polish-Ukrainian fundamentalists or Putin, in France, burkini or bared breasts, in Syria, Assad or Daesh…In all these cases, although one might slightly prefer one side to the other, the ultimate stance should be one of indifference, best rendered by Stalin who, when asked in the late 1920s which deviation is worse, the Right one or the Leftist one, snapped back: 'They are both worse!' Is there still the potential for true change beneath these pseudo-struggles? There is, since the function of these pseudo-struggles is precisely to block the explosion of the true ones.
Rage, rebellion and a new power offer a kind of dialectical triad of the revolutionary process. First, there is chaotic rage: people are dissatisfied and show it in a more or less violent way, but without any clear goal or organization. When this rage gets organized, we get a rebellion with minimal organization and a more-or-less clear awareness of who the enemy is and what is to be changed. Finally, if rebellion succeeds, the new power confronts the immense task of organizing the new society. (Remember the anecdote about the exchange between Lenin and Trotsky just prior to the October Revolution. Lenin said: 'What will happen with us if we fail?' Trotsky replied: 'And what will happen if we succeed?') The problem is that we almost never get this triad in its logical progression: chaotic rage gets diluted or turns into a Rightist populism; rebellion succeeds but loses steam and gets compromised in multiple ways. This is why rage occurs not only at the beginning but also at the end, the outcome of failed emancipatory projects. Recall, in the US, protests like those in Ferguson in August 2014, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. Were they not today's exemplary cases of what Walter Benjamin called 'divine violence'? They are not part of a long-term strategy – as Benjamin put it, they are means without ends. Does not the same hold not only for other protests that followed Ferguson, like the Baltimore riots in April 2015, but also for the French suburban riots of autumn 2005, when we saw thousands of cars burning and a major outburst of public violence? In these protests, what strikes the eye is the total absence of any positive utopian prospect among the protesters: if May '68 was a revolt led primarily by students and workers with a utopian vision, the 2005 revolts in suburban Paris were outbursts among ghettoized immigrant communities with no pretence to a collective vision. If the oft-repeated commonplace that we live in a post-ideological era has any sense, it is here. The fact that there was no programme in the burning Paris suburbs is thus itself a fact to be interpreted. It tells us a great deal about our ideologico-political predicament. What kind of universe is it that we inhabit, which celebrates itself as a society of choice but in which the only option available to the enforced democratic consensus is a blind acting out?
Here is how Goran Therborn succinctly characterizes our predicament: 'Never before have the possibilities of a good world for the human species as a whole been greater. At the same time, the gap between human potential and the existing conditions of humankind in its totality has probably never been wider.'4 Why this gap? In his Idea of Socialism,5 Axel Honneth begins with the great paradox of today's situation: there is a growing dissatisfaction with global capitalism that often explodes in rage, but it is less and less possible to articulate this rage into a new Leftist political project. If the growing rage gets articulated into a programme, it is predominantly in the guise of a Rightist populism. When we wonder about the enigmatic rise of Muslim fundamentalism, should we not also wonder about the no less enigmatic rise of religious-nationalist fundamentalism in countries like Poland, Hungary and Croatia? In the last decades, Poland was one of the few definitive European success stories: after the fall of socialism, the per capita product more than doubled, and for the last couple of years, the moderate liberal-centrist government of Donald Tusk ruled – and then, almost out of nowhere, without any great corruption scandals as in Hungary, the extreme Right took over, and there is now a widespread movement to prohibit abortion even in the limit-cases of the mortal danger to the mother's health, rape, and deformity of the foetus. What is going on here?
The case of Poland is also important for another reason: it provides a strong empirical rebuttal to the predominant Left-liberal dismissal of authoritarian populism as a contradictory politics that is doomed to fail. While this is in principle true – in the long term, we are all dead, as J. M. Keynes put it – there can be many surprises in the (not so) short term:
The conventional view of what awaits the US (and possibly France and the Netherlands) in 2017 is an erratic ruler who enacts contradictory policies that primarily benefit the rich. The poor will lose, because populists have no hope of restoring manufacturing jobs, despite their promises. And massive inflows of migrants and refugees will continue, because populists have no plan to address the problem's root causes. In the end, populist governments, incapable of effective rule, will crumble and their leaders will either face impeachment or fail to win re-election. But the liberals were wrong. PiS (Law and Justice, the ruling Rightist-populist party) has transformed itself from an ideological nullity into a party that has managed to introduce shocking changes with record speed and efficiency[…]it has enacted the largest social transfers in Poland's contemporary history. Parents receive a 500 zloty ($120) monthly benefit for every child after their first, or for all children in poorer families (the average net monthly income is about 2,900 zloty, though more than two-thirds of Poles earn less). As a result, the poverty rate has declined by 20–40%, and by 70–90% among children. The list goes on: in 2016, the government introduced free medication for people over the age of 75. The minimum wage now exceeds what trade unions had sought. The retirement age has been reduced from 67 for both men and women to 60 for women and 65 for men. The government also plans tax relief for low-income taxpayers.6
PiS does what Marine le Pen also promises to do in France: a combination of anti-austerity measures – social transfers that no Leftist party dares to consider – plus the promise of order and security that asserts national identity and promises to deal with the immigrant threat. Who can beat this combination, which directly addresses the two big worries of ordinary people? We can discern at the horizon a weirdly perverted situation in which the official 'Left' is enforcing the austerity politics (while advocating multicultural rights and so on), while the populist Right is pursuing anti-austerity measures to help the poor (while pursuing the xenophobic nationalist agenda) – the latest figure of what Hegel described as die verkehrte Welt, 'the topsy-turvy world'.
And what if Trump moves in the same direction? What if his project of moderate protectionism and large public works, combined with anti-immigrant security measures and a new perverted peace with Russia, somehow works? The French language uses the so-called ne explétif after certain verbs and conjunctions; it is also called 'nonnegative ne' because it has no negative value in itself – 'it is used in situations where the main clause has a negative (either negative-bad or negative-negated) meaning, such as expressions of fear, warning, doubt, and negation.'7 For example: Elle a peur qu'il ne soit malade ('She's afraid that he is sick'). Lacan noted how this superfluous negation renders perfectly the gap that separates our true unconscious desire from our conscious wish: when a wife ids afraid that her husband is sick, she may well worry that he is not sick (desiring him to be sick). And could we not say exactly the same about the Left liberals horrified by Trump? Ils ont peur qu'il ne soit une catastrophe. What they really fear is that he will not be a catastrophe.
So let's jump to the other extreme, the construction of a new power. When, a day after winning the referendum against EU pressure and saying 'no' to austerity politics, the Syriza government fully surrendered to that pressure, this breathtaking reversal stands for the ultimate 'infinite judgement' (coincidence of the opposites) of contemporary Leftist politics in power: there was no gradual mediation between the two extremes, no slow sliding into a compromise, but a direct and brutal reversal – immediately after a resolute 'no' to the politics of austerity, Syriza became its faithful executor. We have to accept this paradox at its purest, not downplay it through references to particular circumstances (fear, or even outright corruption of the Syriza leadership, etc.). We are dealing with a properly Hegelian dialectical reversal, where the highest ethical stance becomes a no less principled subservience.
In the final scene of the film V for Vendetta (2006), thousands of unarmed Londoners wearing Guy Fawkes masks march towards Parliament; without orders, the military allows the crowd to pass into Parliament, and the people take over. As Finch asks Evey for V's identity, she replies: 'He was all of us.' OK, a nice ecstatic moment, but I am ready to sell my mother into slavery in order to see V for Vendetta, Part 2: what would have happened the day after the victory of the people; how would they (re)organize daily life?
Echoing the rise of big popular protests in the last years, with hundreds of thousands assembling in public places (from New York, Paris and Madrid to Athens, Istanbul and Cairo), 'assemblage' (not in the sense of the assemblage theory deployed by Latour and Delanda but in the sense of analysing the phenomenon of assembling in public spaces), its performative effects, its power to challenge the existing power relations, became a popular topic of theory. One should retain a sceptical distance towards this topic: whatever its merits, it leaves untouched the key problem of how to pass from assembling protest to the imposition of a new power, of how this new power will function in contrast to the old one. Jean-Claude Milner reports that Althusser once improvised a typology of revolutionary leaders worthy of Kierkegaard's classification of humans into officers, housemaids and chimney sweepers: those who quote proverbs, those who do not quote proverbs, those who invent (new) proverbs. The first are scoundrels (Althusser thought of Stalin), the second are great revolutionaries who are doomed to fail (Robespierre); only the third understand the true nature of a revolution and succeed (Lenin, Mao). If we leave aside Milner's reading of this triad (the successful authentic leaders imported the revolutionary idea from abroad, and to make it appear rooted in their country they have to dress it up in the popular form of proverbs8), its importance resides in the fact that it registers three different ways of relating to the big Other (the symbolic substance, the domain of unwritten customs and wisdoms best expressed in the stupidity of proverbs). Scoundrels simply re-inscribe the revolution into the ideological tradition of their nation (for Stalin, the Soviet Union was the last stage of the progressive development of Russia). Radical revolutionaries like Robespierre fail because they just enact a break with the past without succeeding in their effort to enforce a new set of customs (recall the utter failure of Robespierre's idea of replacing religion with a new cult of a Supreme Being). Leaders like Lenin and Mao succeeded (for some time, at least) because they invented new proverbs, which means that they imposed new customs that regulated daily life. One of the best Goldwynisms tells how, after being informed that critics sometimes complained that there were too many old clichés in his films, Sam Goldwyn wrote a memo to his scenario department: 'We need more new clichés!' He was right, and this is a revolution's most difficult task – to create 'new clichés' for ordinary daily life.
There is an idea circulating in the underground among many disappointed radical Leftists, a softer repetition of the decision for terror in the aftermath of the 1968 movement (Action Directe in France, the Baader-Meinhof in Germany, for example): only a radical catastrophe (preferably an ecological one) can awaken the large crowds and thus give a new impetus to radical emancipation. The latest version of this idea relates to the refugees: an influx of a really large number of refugees could revitalize the European radical Left. I find this line of thought obscene: notwithstanding the fact that such a development would for sure give an immense boost to anti-immigrant brutality, the truly crazy aspect of this idea is that it attempts to fill the gap created by the absence of proletarians by importing them from abroad, so that we get the revolution by a surrogate revolutionary agent…
One can, of course, claim that the repeated defeats of the Left are just steps in a long educational process that may end in victory – say, Occupy Wall Street created the conditions for the Bernie Sanders movement, which in its turn may act as the first step in the rise of a large, organized Leftist movement. However, the least one can say is that, from 1968 onwards, the power edifice demonstrated an extraordinary ability to use movements of contestation as a source of its own renovation. But if the picture is so bleak, why then not call it a day and resign ourselves to modest reformism? The problem is, very simply, that global capitalism confronts us with a series of antagonisms that cannot be controlled or even contained within the frame of global capitalist democracy. None other than Elon Musk, the iconic Silicon Valley figure, the founder of SolarCity and Tesla, proposed the formula 'Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage':
Computers, intelligent machines, and robots seem like the workforce of the future. And as more and more jobs are replaced by technology, people will have less work to do and ultimately will be sustained by payments from the government, predicts Elon Musk. According to Musk, there really won't be any other options: 'There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation.9
If this prospect is not the end of capitalism, then what is? One should also note that Musk's formula implies a strong government, not just some network of local cooperatives. So the only true question today is this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as a fact of (human) nature, or does today's global capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its indefinite reproduction? There are four such antagonisms. They concern (1) the commons of culture in the broadest sense, of 'immaterial' capital: the immediately socialized forms of 'cognitive' capital, primarily language, our means of communication and education, not to mention the financial sphere with the absurd consequences of uncontrolled virtual money circulation; (2) the commons of external nature, threatened by human pollution: all particular dangers – global warming, dying of the oceans, etc. – are aspects of a derailment of the entire life reproduction system on earth; (3) the commons of internal nature (the biogenetic inheritance of humanity): with new biogenetic technology, the creation of a New Man in the literal sense of changing human nature becomes a realistic prospect; and, last but not least, (4) the commons of humanity itself, of the shared social and political space: the more capitalism gets global, the more new walls and apartheids are emerging, separating those who are IN from those who are OUT. This global division is accompanied by the rise of tensions between new geopolitical blocks (the 'clash of civilizations'). It is this reference to 'commons' that justifies the resuscitation of the notion of communism: it enables us to see the progressive 'enclosure' of the commons as a process of proletarianization of those who are thereby excluded from the very substance of their lives.
Only the fourth antagonism, the reference to the excluded, justifies the term communism: the first three effectively concern questions of humanity's economic, anthropological, even physical, survival, while the fourth one is ultimately a question of justice. But here we stumble upon the old boring question of the relationship between socialism and communism: why call the goal of a radical emancipatory movement communism? In the Marxist tradition, socialism was conceptualized as the (in)famous lower stage of communism, so that the 'progress' was supposed to run from socialism to communism. (No wonder that, with regard to the sad reality of life under 'really existing socialism', jokes abounded like the well-known one from the Soviet Union where a group of people in Moscow are reading a big propaganda poster which says: 'In twenty years, we will live in full communism!' One of the people starts to laugh and jump with pleasure and joy, and when others ask him why, he replies: 'I have cancer, I will be dead for sure in twenty years!') But the reality was different; most socialist countries, rather, began with some version of primitive but radical communism (the Soviet Union in 1918–20, etc.), and then, in order to survive, they had to 'regress' and make compromises with the old society – so the line of development ran from communism to socialism (which combined the old and the new). The worst thing we can do today is to drop the name 'communism' and advocate a watered-down version of 'democratic socialism'. The task confronting us today is precisely the reinvention of communism, a radical change that moves well beyond some vague notion of social solidarity. Insofar as, in the course of the historical process of change, its goal itself should be redefined, we can say that 'communism' is to be reinvented as the name for what emerges as the goal after the failure of socialism.
The establishment reacts to today's 'radical' theory in the same way as the one described by Hegel in the Preface to the Philosophy of Right, where he mentions 'a letter of Joh. v. Müller who, speaking of the condition of Rome in the year 1803, when the city was under French rule, writes, "A professor, asked how the public academies were doing, answered, 'On les tolère comme les bordels! ['They are tolerated, like brothels!']' " '10 Is not most of what goes on today in 'radical' academia tolerated in the same way – it is considered that 'though not of much good, [they] can be of no great harm. Hence the recommendation, so it is thought, if useless, can do no injury.'11 It is my contention that only a reinvented communism can return to theory its emancipatory force.
This approach to communism (expounded in many recent books of mine) has lately been submitted to a series of criticisms – basically, my critics identify five principal sins: my (openly admitted) eurocentrism, i.e., my insistence on the European roots of the project of universal emancipation; my rejection of the Greek Left Platform proposal to risk a more radical measure (Grexit, etc.) after the victory of the Syriza government at the referendum; my critique of the elevation of refugees and migrants into a new form of global proletariat and my insistence on the problems of cultural identity; my doubts about some ideological components of the LGBT+ movement; and, last but not least, my 'support' for the 'fascist' Donald Trump. As expected, all these reproaches are combined into the thesis that I am effectively a homophobic eurocentrist racist who opposes any authentic radical measure…The present book addresses systematically all these critical points.
The Courage of Hopelessness is indeed a dark book, but I prefer to be a pessimist: not expecting anything, I am here and there nicely surprised (since things are usually not as bad as they could be), while optimists see their hopes dashed and end up depressed all the time. The two parts of the book deploy the dark diagnosis at two levels: that of the economico-political mess we are in – 'The Ups and Downs of Global Capitalism' – and that of the ideological theatre where political and economic battles are fought – 'The Ideological Theatre of Shadows'. (This theatre is in no way just a secondary reflection of the 'true' economic struggle, but the very stage where 'true' battles are fought.) Part One first provides a quick overview of the impasses of global capitalism; it then describes the fate of Syriza as the attempt to break out of the global capitalist imbroglio; and it concludes with an overview of the return of religion as a political factor from China to Israel. Part Two begins with an analysis of the so-called 'terrorist threat' of religious fundamentalism; it then deals with the worldwide battle for sexuality raging between conservatives and the forces of political correctness; it concludes with the populist rage as the predominant reaction to these impasses. A short finale paints an even darker picture of how the ongoing geo-political tensions may lead to the Third World War.
Philosopher and cultural critic iek (Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors) continues to offer provocative thoughts on how people should deal with a myriad of daunting challenges, but if his goal is to connect with a wide readership, he will be unsuccessful here. He assumes a greater familiarity with subjects such as the Greek economic crisis than many American readers will possess, and frequently employs academic jargon (e.g., "the Hegelian 'infinite judgment' "). Some of his counterintuitive comments are just asserted, without convincing supportive argumentation, such as his peremptory dismissal of concerns that automation will threaten more and more jobs. These negatives are disappointing, as they overshadow the more cogent contrarian positions in the book, as when iek denounces too much activity by progressives as unproductive, and advocates thoughtful self-reflection as a prerequisite for an effective response to the Trump presidency. iek also cautions against the erosion of ideological differences on the left in the name of creating a unified front against Trump. Such clear-cut points, however, are accompanied by tendentious ones, such as suggesting that the murderous Khmer Rouge had the positive goal "to effectively change human nature." This inconsistent book will not help iek's often valid insights reach a larger readership beyond the already-devoted following he enjoys. (Feb.)
From the provocative to the outrageous to the impenetrable, the latest from the Slovenian gadfly finds a curious sort of hope in a hopeless situation.Ever since the Chronicle of Higher Education tagged him "the Elvis of cultural theory," iek (Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, 2015, etc.) has extended his reach well beyond academic circles. He remains even tougher on neoliberalism than he is on authoritarianism, and he takes great delight in counterintuitiveness—and linguistic density. "What I am advocating is not the process of democratic self-purification by means of which we get rid of the dirty water (abuses of democracy) without losing the healthy baby (authentic democracy)," he writes. "The task is rather to trans-value the (democratic) values themselves, to throw out the baby (the democratic form) while keeping in the dirty water (of 'chaotic' popular participation, of large-scale 'authoritarian' decisions)." Got that? When the author writes that "the 2016 elections were the final defeat of liberal democracy," he doesn't seem despondent, because the possibility of great change seems like the healthier response than the return to political business as usual that might have resulted from a Hillary Clinton victory. America lost its big chance, one senses from his writing, when it didn't embrace the real choices that an election race between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders would have represented, with both benefitting from populist rage. He thinks the danger of Trump has been exaggerated, particularly if the alternative is a retreat from radical change. Here he returns with a twist to the baby-bathwater analogy: "Trump is not the dirty water one should throw out to keep safe the healthy baby of US democracy; he is himself the dirty baby who should be thrown out in order to reveal the true dirty water of social relations that sustain the Clinton consensus." The author rejects conventional wisdom at every turn, occasionally risking nonsense for a higher sense."Resolutely atheist" and a "skeptical pessimist," iek does his best to leave no sacred cow ungored.
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