People tuning into news coverage of the Dallas Ebola cases have come to recognize David Lakey, the Texas state health officer. Every state has a similar position and those officials are charged with improving population health—from holding immunization clinics to responding to potentially fatal illnesses. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) is the professional association of the 50 state health officers. Jim Blumenstock is the chief program officer of ASTHO's public health practice division. NewPublicHealth spoke to Blumenstock this week about state and federal coordination on Ebola detection and case treatment.
NewPublicHealth: What is ASTHO's role in dealing with preparedness for Ebola in the United States and with the current cases?
Jim Blumenstock: In a crisis or a public health emergency like we're experiencing with Ebola, ASTHO's role principally is to do two things. Number one is to sort of be the glue or the hub that helps pull together the 50 states, the nine territories and the District of Columbia as an integrated, harmonious component of our public health infrastructure. The second feature is to provide a solid interface between federal efforts and state efforts. So, that's our role with any significant public health issue.
During the H1N1 outbreak several years ago, both ASTHO and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) had key staff embedded in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Emergency Operation Center because it was recognized that the value of the insight of a national organization that represents all the states and locals was so critical to the federal planning and response process. That was the first time it was done.
We're on standby to do it and we're sort of functioning in that capacity right now, but sort of in a virtual or remote area. For example, I'm not today embedded in CDC's Emergency Operation Center. However, I would say I'm on the phone with them at least six to eight times a day—including last evening—and have had email exchanges already this morning, not only to get information, but also to be part of some planning and problem solving efforts they've requested our help on, or a request for our help on state consensus around a strategy or a tactic or an approach on a particular matter.
And our other critical roles are to help our members; to talk to federal public health officials; and to educate and inform the public.
NPH: Was it possible to be 100 percent prepared for Ebola cases in the United States?
Blumenstock: I don't think it would be appropriate to sort of peg it to a percentage of completion or accomplishment because preparedness is a process. Granted, Ebola is a new disease for the United States, but that doesn't mean that we're totally in the dark or clueless as far as what the core basic public health elements are and must be in place to protect the public's health. When you look at disease surveillance, laboratory testing, diagnosis of illness and risk communications, public health knows what control practices and principles are needed. and that has been part of the education and training program. We were not caught off guard or surprised by Ebola. The United States' health care system, led by CDC and HHS, has been closely monitoring the events in West Africa for months. We have begun to prepare for the possibility, and now the real-world circumstances of cases of Ebola being imported into the United States, so every day, since the first case appeared, we've been assessing, learning, adapting and improving our state of readiness to protect the health of the public.
NPH: How frequently are you speaking with state health officers to both be able to share what's happening in their state and also to give them information?
Blumenstock: Speaking for ASTHO—but I think I also speak for all the other national public health organizations that are involved in this, as well as the federal government—there is a constant exchange of information. And by constant I'm saying that "24/7, seven days a week" is not an overstatement with regard to providing an opportunity for peer-to-peer exchange of information or ideas or learnings through the process. States are developing plans, policies, procedures and educational materials following federal guidance, and national organizations are providing a platform for states to share the work that they're creating. We don't want to reinvent the wheel if we don't have to, so states are developing talking points, good procedures and protocols.
We are doing our very best to provide an opportunity for the states to talk about that among themselves, share the work of others and also collaborate in the development of plans and procedures. In the last three days alone, ASTHO has convened three conference calls among either our members as a whole or a subset to talk with federal partners on developing certain protocols and procedures that everyone would feel comfortable in implementing and believe that they would be effective. So there is a constant high-intensity effort to provide a strong bond between the public health organizations, agencies and jurisdictions to really ensure that they learn from each other, and they each contribute to the collective success of this public health response.
NPH: What's the readiness level at the state health departments?
Blumenstock: As Tom Frieden has often said, our domestic shores will not be protected against Ebola until the outbreak in West Africa is under control and eliminated. How long that will be, I don't think anybody has an answer, but I think that the one thing that we do know is that it's not going to happen overnight. So, I think the rhythm that the nation's public health system is now working under is that this is a long-haul response measured certainly in months—maybe even to a window of a year or more—where we'll have to maintain this high level of vigilance and activity to ensure that if we do get additional imported cases coming in from West Africa or domestic person-to-person, that they are identified immediately and properly responded to so that additional exposures and infections do not take place.
This is not the same as other types of public health diseases or threats that could last only a couple of days or maybe a couple of weeks until interventions are effective. This is a long-haul planning effort for state public health, and at the same time it's not the only thing that they're focused on or concerned about. They have a whole portfolio of traditional services that they still have to maintain and provide to their community, not to mention other threats of significance. Diseases or outbreaks or disasters don't come one at a time or in sequence. You look at where we are right now. The public health system is combatting the Enterovirus D68 outbreak. We're beginning the flu season. We're in the heart of hurricane season, not to mention whooping cough outbreaks, measles outbreaks and foodborne outbreaks that happen at a high degree of frequency. They're doing effective jobs, but clearly there are continuing demands on resources that must also be recognized and addressed in the long term.
NPH: How does ASTHO monitor what's both going on in West Africa and what's going on in the states?
Blumenstock: As far as how we learn what's happening in West Africa—and also, by extension, how that could influence or impact our actions going forward—clearly we have high reliance on our federal partners : the CDC, HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs. Those agencies are sharing with us, and by extension the state health departments, a lot of the information with regard to situation awareness over in West Africa. We get regular updates, situation reports and briefings.
On the domestic side, CDC, ASTHO and other partners host a national conference call about once a week where updates are presented and discussed in an open national conference line forum. CDC, almost on a daily basis, pushes out revised guidance documents, key messages, talking points and situation reports to the practice community. ASTHO hosts calls every other Friday with our members, and as of last week Ebola will now be a standing agenda item until further notice, and that provides an opportunity for health state officials themselves to discuss key issues. The frequency of all of these calls depends on need, and in the last two or three days we've had three very important conference calls with state health officials and our federal partners around some of the plans and procedures on the passenger screening that's going to be taking place at five airports.
Having the states report back to ASTHO, to each other and to the federal agency is critically important and there's a personal feature here, as well. Leaders such as Frieden and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Nicole Lurie have relationships with state health officials across the country. It would not be out of character for either one of them to pick up the phone and call a state health officer or state health commissioner or secretary, to jump in a car or jump on a plane and go visit them and see them in action or to meet with staff and discuss it. That's a critical added value to the relationships that they've cultivated with the state health officials across the country.
>>Bonus Link: ASTHO recently launched a new blog, StatePublicHealth.org. Read their recent entry on tracking and treating Ebola.


Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, I took to all things French at an early age; I learned the language, I analyzed the literature, I admired the culture. Later on, through the University of Minnesota, I studied abroad in southern France, acquiring a taste for life in French.
Real life intervened however, and I returned – we returned – to Minnesota. I got married. I had a daughter. I built and remodeled houses with my dad.
Life would bring me back toward my passion for Frenchness, when my wife's job brought us to the University of Kansas. There, I studied and taught early modern French history. I specialized in the rural politics of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. I loved my time there, and was sad to leave.


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Cuban Cigars Store | What the ash can tell about.
There's a lot that Cigar ash can tell you about the cigar's origin, much more than you could ever expect! That's why it is of a high importance for professional tasters and experienced smokers, as well as cigar taste and aroma. Actually ash is just a mineral, an inorganic compound that remains as a result of tobacco leaves burning. All tobacco leaf contents able to give off taste and flavor while burning are turned into volatile compounds, which we can sense through our olfactory receptors and taste buds. All other compounds that do not have these astonishing qualities turn into ash.
I decided to carry out an experiment on my own. I lit a cigar and spent half an hour enjoying its amazing taste and aroma. Thirty wonderful minutes have passed; I drank some of cognac, put on my glasses and proceeded to studying the ash, that had become an impressive length over the half hour.
Sooner or later the ash should fall off. It is considered that this should happen only after the ash reaches at least an inch length - an absolute minimum length for ash on the cigar. The ash shouldn't fall earlier, of course if provided that smoker doesn�t make jerky hand movements. If it falls before reaching the minimal length, there is just one conclusion: this is not a good quality cigar.
The the tobacco leaves quality and the degree of care the cigar was rolled with influence the 'solidity' of the ash length. The ash on mechanically rolled cigars is very unstable, whereas hand-rolled cigars have rather stable and firm ash. Besides that, leaves and roller's attitude are very important also. You'll hardly be able to enjoy a fine, neat length of ash if cigar was rolled from too short or torn leaves, or if the roller didn't make the cigar firm enough and left gaps between the leaves. If your cigar ash edges and surface are uneven and it gradually crumbles round the edges, it means that unfortunately this is the case!
Thus, if your cigar was made of long, quality leaves, it should have stable column of ash that can reach one-inch length on condition that you make only easy hand movements.
Provided that the roller has been working scrupulously and doing his job duly, the ash on a cigar should be firm, its edges should be even and neat, it should not scatter from an easy movement or a gentle breeze, and should not crumble throughout the period of the smoke.
After a careful study of the ash length I took another sip of cognac, took off my glasses, tasted the flavored smoke, and put the cigar in the ashtray in order to wait till the ash fell off in itself. It fell off rather quickly, revealing the hot point of the cigar with a thin layer of ash. It was time to return to studying its mysterious characteristics.
Besides the ash texture, it is also important that shape of the burning end of the cigar is exposed after the ash has fallen off. If you are smoking for a long period, the burning end can take the most various forms from a small hollow in the middle with harshly bevelled edges to an absolutely level burning surface. But it is considered that the perfect shape of the burning end is a cone.
Why a cone? It is connected with the structure of the cigar. The roller starts making a cigar with a leaf known as ligero. This leaf lying in the very center of the cigar gives all the taste. The ligero leaf is gathered from the very top of the tobacco plant, and it contains the greatest amount of nicotine, sugar and complex gustatory compounds. Therefore no wonder that it burns longer than the other tobacco leaves used to make up a cigar. And the burning end of the cigar has a conical form exactly because this leaf takes the longest time to burn.
The percentage of ligero leaves varies depending on the tobacco blend for every cigar. As a result, the cones can have either sharp or blunt shape. But no matter what they are, conical shape for the burning end of a cigar with a thin layer of ash is the ideal one.
Of course, this shape depends not only on cigar quality, but also on the way it is smoked. You need to smoke lightly and inhale evenly and smoothly.
Thus a conical form of the cigar's burning end with a thin ash layer on it means that it was rolled in accordance with all the requirements, and moreover, it was smoked with as much mastery as the roller put into making it.
The most important test for a cigar is the ash color. It isn't related with the leaves quality or the roller's skill. The main factor that influences the color of the ash is the land on which the tobacco was grown.
Soil is rich with chemical compounds and a variety of mineral deposits, which are carried into plants by moisture. The soil in different regions is distinguished by its own characteristics: different minerals predominate in different places. Hence the same plant will have essentially different chemical and mineral contents in different areas. For instance, cigars rolled from tobacco grown in the central regions of Cuba (Remedios) produce almost white ash; cigars made of tobacco from the Vuelta Abajo produce gray ash with white veins. Take into consideration that the two areas are adjacent to each other. The difference takes place because the soil in the Vuelta Abajo is full of various minerals in roughly equal amounts, while the soil in the Remedios Region is characterized by potassium predomination.
The connection between the chemical contents of the soil and the quality of the cigar made of tobacco grown in it has been scientifically proved. Moreover, in early 2001 one of the scientists from a Canadian consumer organization proposed to make tests on the chemical components in order to protect genuine Cuban cigars from fakes. His idea was that cigars labeled as Cuban, but whose chemical contents proved to be different from the chemical contents of the appropriate region of Cuba, should be removed from the shops right away.
Thus the predominance of gray and white in the cigar ash testifies that it is of good quality. Pure white ash may be considered as a mark of quality, proving that the cigar is from certain places like Cuba or the Dominican Republic, where there are plantations that are particularly full of potassium. Black ash is a bad sign. Leaves that after burning produce black ash are poor in minerals and produce a very unpleasant taste and smell.
When the ash falls off, there remains a evident change in the cigar taste. The matter is that the ash is very important in the actual process of smoking. While it gradually appears on the cigar, the ash cools the smoke and makes the process of smoking much milder. That's why when the ash falls off a cigar, the smoker feels that it has become stronger and hotter. Therefore the ash can be not only nice in appearance and useful in finding out more information about the cigar, it also has a use from the practical standpoint.
Actually it is not just a pleasant event when cigar ash falls suddenly on clothes, on the table or on the floor. As a result, cigar ash had a significant influence on European fashion previously - it was cigar ash that peculiarly led to the creation of the smoking jacket. Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister (1804-1881), loved cigars. He smoked them everywhere: in the street, at home, at important meetings and even in the library after dinner. Thus it wasn't surprising that every day his clothes were sheeted with cigar ash. In order to save his clothes from being ruined, Mr. Disraeli got his tailor to sew him a jacket with satin lapels. It was easy to brush the ash off this smooth material, and moreover ash leaves no traces on satin. Disraeli's tailor did the job so skillfully that jackets with satin lapels (smoking jackets) became soon the height of fashion.


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Discovering the Temples & Shrines of Metoba – Part Three: Daianraku-ji
History / Culture / Sightseeing
I'd left Chosho-ji via the south entrance. Not because I had any clear – or even vague – idea of which direction my tour of Metoba should go. I was just trying to soak up the sounds of those children singing somewhere within the walls of the kindergarten just south of the temple grounds. Their words were eager and angelic and entirely unintelligible. In a word, they were beautiful.
I drifted slowly away, down the narrow side street leading east. Their singing faded and disappeared as I turned the corner and pedaled north toward the massive Shinto torii gate a quarter mile up.
The Shinto torii is one of the most distinctive and visible differences between temples and shrines. Another is the presence of trees. Buddhist temples are at home in the middle of the concrete jungle. Shinto shrines require some semblance of Nature as an integral part of their surroundings. Their existence, then, is always marked by at least a few saplings if not a full-blown grove of cedars – and sometimes an entire forest. For this, I find myself drawn to shrines.
And for this, I almost missed Daianraku-ji.
Daianraku-ji isn't your typical Japanese Buddhist temple. With its colorful four-sided rooftop turret, further adorned with a tall golden spire, this temple looks like it belongs in Kathmandu.
And while this multi-colored affair towering above its residential surroundings may be the first thing that catches the attention of the passerby, there are a great many things to notice and appreciate here on the grounds of the third temple on our Tour de Metoba.
The gate fronting Daianraku-ji looks like the entrance to a barnyard as much as an invitation to enlightenment. In the dark its blank silhouette would catch nary a curious eye. But the details of this blocky wooden structure are enough by themselves to make the side trip to this temple worthwhile.
The characters above the gateway read right to left, and may look more like Sanskrit than Japanese-Chinese to the casual observer. They spell out, in the Japanese pronunciation, En-tsu-mon. Or Sono-dori-mon. Depends on your translation app. Either way, they mean 'Garden Gate'. Considering the temple grounds resemble a converted parking lot more than a garden this name seems rather contrived. Maybe that was the impetus behind all the potted flowers.
Hanging from the slats of this gate, a few on the front but most along the sides of the actual central passageway, are a dozen or two pairs of straw sandals – 'waraji' in Japanese. Tradition holds that these waraji would be woven by local people who would offer them to the temple for its continued protection, as well as to ward off the evil spirits lurking among the community, to bring happiness to the people, and to ensure that those passing this way will have healthy legs and feet.
The ideas about protection and safety and happiness make clear sense. But healthy hands and feet? And why hang them there in the throughway? Good questions, alert reader!
In the large chambers on either side of the gate are huge wooden demon creatures. Known in tandem as Nio, they are the twin deity protectors of Buddha, seen in temples all over Japan. Noticeably muscular and impressively pissed, they are considered to have particularly strong legs and feet. Thus it is no coincidence that all those sandals have been hung in front of the Nio twins. People will pray to them so that they will have not have any leg or feet problems (I guess this is some kind of ongoing national malady), and leaving a pair of sandals as an offering lends extra credence to their intentions.
Interestingly, some of the sandals offered to Nio are old and worn and, when they were presented, presumably quite smelly. Travelers and pilgrims will sometimes leave their used waraji at the temple of their destination as a sign of thanks after a successful journey, or for extra help and protection as they continue on their way. As waraji are made of straw, they can easily and quickly wear out, and when those pilgrims and travelers have more miles to go and need some new kicks they will trade in their old sandals for some new ones, right there at the temple. (So goes the story anyway.)
Around the back side of this Garden Gate more curiosities await. Behind the disintegrating chicken wire on one side is a wooden statue of a guy looking every bit as pissed off as the Nio boys. He has six arms, three eyes, two extra faces and flaming hair, and glares eternally angrily from atop a horse that has seen much better days.
This is the Horse-Headed Kannon, one physical manifestation of the Goddess of Mercy who, in this form, is seen in Japan as the protector of animals. The Kannon goddess takes on many forms, but only in this form does this deity show rage – perhaps because this 'Bato Kannon' is also one of Esoteric Buddhism's warlike and wrathful deities. Likely also related to the horse theme, this form of the Kannon was at one time significant to both samurai and farmers. Considering the samurai have gone extinct and the days of the Japanese farmer appear sadly numbered, refurbishing this Bato Kannon seems unlikely.
Hanging from the banisters bolted to the wall below the chicken wire on this and on the other side of the rear of this gate are rows of 'ema' – the wooden plaques seen at Shinto shrines all over Japan. Traditionally, most people in Japan purchase an ema as part of their first shrine visit of each new year. Wishes are written on the back, and the ema are then tied to a rack specifically designated for the purpose of assisting the realization of said wishes.
Inside the back of the other half of this Garden Gate a small gathering of wooden men sit meditating. Their peeling faces and the creepy grin worn by the guy in the middle reminds one, perhaps, of a cheesy Japanese horror movie.
The main temple building, sitting off-center behind the gate, bears an ornate gold-plated – or maybe gold-painted – carving of a Phoenix above the central entrance. This Phoenix is the female counterpart to the ubiquitous Japanese dragon, seen in all its natural-wood glory closer toward the temple doors. Dragons, like the Nio twins, are considered guardians of the Buddha. They symbolize enlightenment and clarity, and are believed to have the power to control water and rain. For this reason they are the focus of prayers and thanks related to the yearly harvest.
For an extra bit of dragon-related trivia, notice that this one has no wings. In Japan, dragons are represented as more like serpents with legs rather than the winged version common in other parts of the Buddhist world not to mention European lore and Disney-Pixar movies.
While Buddhism and Shintoism are both widely prevalent in Japan, they are for the most part kept manifestly separate. Occasionally, though, they will be placed directly alongside each other. We saw this at the first stop of our tour of Metoba, where Rinsho-ji Temple and Rinsho-jinja Shrine share a plot of land divided only partially by a cinder block wall. Here too at Daianraku-ji are there elements of Shinto. In this case they are right on the temple grounds, with no demarcating wall of any kind.
The Shinto torii almost seems out of place there in front of the left side of the temple's façade. True to Shinto tradition, there are a couple of trees nearby to satisfy the requirement of Nature. In the shade of these trees are three stone 'Jizo' statues.
Jizo are actually Buddhist deities, sent to protect the souls of infant and unborn children. These poor tiny souls are granted entry to the afterlife by virtue of their pure innocence but cannot get there on their own. The jizo, then, are tasked with assisting them, sometimes hiding them under their cloaks and smuggling them past the demons who would wish to keep them in purgatory.
Jizo are also known as protectors of travelers, which could reasonably tie into the sandals offered to the Nio demons. But at least one of the jizo here at Daianraku seems tied only to the souls of those unfortunate children; at the feet of this particular jizo, seated in the small wooden shelter under the trees, is a bevy of sweet drinks, candy and stuffed animals.
In Japan, at both temples and shrines, lucky charms can be had for a few hundred yen. Small, colorful, and exquisitely-woven, the 'o-mamori' normally available serve a variety of purposes, from well-being in the home to safety on the road to good luck to prosperity to protection from fire. In the window of the long, low building along the south side of the temple grounds was a neat and bright display of such o-mamori.
Alas, there was no one on hand here at Dai-an to assist me should I want to leave with one. There was also no one wandering the temple grounds. I was alone.
The sky was blue, the air was warm, and I had no pressing fatherly duties, so I opted to head back toward that big stone torii, visible against the trees on the far side of the sprawling cemetery to the north of Daianraku-ji. Maybe there would be a few people there…
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They're succeeding at discrediting our past and demolishing our future
By Joel Kotkin City Journal
Published Oct. 7, 2019
The intellectual class across the West — encompassing its universities, media, and arts — is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now faces a campaign, in academia and elite media, to replace its cultural and religious traditions with what one author describes as a "multicultural and post-racial republic" supportive of separate identities. "The European 'we' does not exist," writes French philosopher Pierre Manent, assessing the damage. "European culture is in hiding, disappearing, without a soul."
The increasingly "woke" values of the educated upper classes reflect, as Alvin Toffler predicted almost half a century ago, the inevitable consequence of mass affluence, corporate concentration, and the shift to a service economy. The new elite, Toffler foresaw, would abandon traditional bourgeois values of hard work and family for "more aesthetic goals, self-fulfillment as well as unbridled hedonism." Affluence, he observed, "serves as a base from which men begin to strive for post economic goals."
The driving force for these changes has been the ascendant clerisy, which, reprising the role that the Church played in medieval times, sees itself as anointed to direct human society, a modern version of the "oligarchy of priests and monks whose task it was to propitiate heaven," in the words of the great French historian of the Middle Ages, Marc Bloch. Traditional clerics remained part of this class but were joined by others — university professors, scientists, public intellectuals, and heads of charitable foundations. This secular portion of society has now essentially replaced the clergy, serving as what German sociologist Max Weber once called society's "new legitimizers." The clerisy spans an ever-growing section of the workforce that largely works outside the market economy — teachers, consultants, lawyers, government workers, and medical professionals. Meantime, positions common among the traditional middle class — small-business owners, workers in basic industries and construction — have dwindled as a share of the job market.
The educated, affluent class detests President Trump, whom many in the Third Estate support, and has rallied to its preferred candidate, Elizabeth Warren, who emerges from the legal and university communities and voices the progressive rhetoric common to this class. (Warren's less brainy left-wing rival, Bernie Sanders, fares better among struggling, often younger workers.) Warren's clerisy supporters represent what French Marxist author Christophe Guilluy calls the "privileged stratum," which operates from an assumption of moral superiority that justifies its right to rule. They are the apotheosis of H. G. Wells's notion of an "emergent class of capable men" that could "take upon itself the task of "controlling and restricting . . . the non-functional masses." This new elite, Wells predicted, would replace democracy with a "higher organism" of what he called "the New Republic."
For generations, the media embraced an ideal of impartiality and the validity of diverse viewpoints. Now, as Andrew Sullivan recently noted, it's almost impossible to consider the mainstream news as anything other than a partisan tool. Perhaps nothing illustrates this more than the media role in the resistance to Trump; however awful he may seem, no president, even Richard Nixon, has suffered such total opposition from powerful media, with an estimated 92 percent negative coverage from the networks, even before he assumed office.
The media's anti-Trump lockstep reflects broader changes in the industry. Reporters rarely come, as in the past, from the working class but instead from elite universities. They tilt overwhelmingly to the progressive side. By 2018, barely 7 percent of U.S. reporters identified themselves as Republicans; some 97 percent of journalist political donations go to Democrats. The ongoing media takeover by tech leaders is certain to accelerate this trend. Nearly two-thirds of readers now get their news through Facebook and Google, platforms that often "curate," or eliminate, conservative views, according to former employees. It's not just conservatives who think so: over 70 percent of Americans, notes a recent Pew study, believe social media platforms "censor political views."
Similar patterns can be seen in Hollywood, once divided between conservatives and liberals but now heavily slanted to the left. Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait, reviewing the offerings of major studios and networks, described what he called "a pervasive, if not total, liberalism." Virtually all mass-media cultural production follows a progressive script, from the music industry to theater — and now including sports, too.
Perhaps nothing has so enhanced the power of the clerisy as the expansion of universities. Overall, the percentage of college graduates in the labor force soared from under 11 percent in 1970 to over 30 percent four decades later. The number of people enrolled in college in the United States has grown from 5 million in 1964 to some 20 million today. Universities, particularly elite institutions, have emerged as the primary gatekeepers and ideological shapers for the upper classes. A National Journal survey of 250 top American public-sector decision-makers found that 40 percent were Ivy League graduates. Only a quarter had earned graduate degrees from a public university.
Orthodoxy of viewpoints in contemporary higher education is increasingly rigid. In 1990, according to survey data by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 42 percent of professors identified as "liberal" or "far-left." By 2014, that number had jumped to 60 percent. Another study of 51 top colleges found the proportion of liberals to conservatives ranging from at least 8 to 1 to as much as 70 to 1. At elite liberal arts schools like Wellesley, Swarthmore, and Williams, the proportion reaches 120 to 1.
These trends are particularly acute in fields that affect public policy and opinion. Well short of 10 percent of faculty at leading law schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and Berkeley — schools that graduate many of the nation's leaders — describe themselves as conservative. Leading journalism schools, including Columbia, have moved away from teaching the fundamentals of reporting and adopted an openly left social-justice agenda.
Once largely a college phenomenon, progressive ideology is now being pressed upon elementary school students, a development that could transform our politics permanently. As authoritarians from Stalin and Hitler to Mao all recognized, youth are the most susceptible to propaganda and most easily shaped by the worldview of their instructors. This process has been most apparent in the environmental movement, which has elevated as its ideological battering ram the unlikely figure of Greta Thunberg, a seemingly troubled Swedish teenager. With her harsh millenarian rhetoric about the end of the world, she reprises the role played by youthful religious fanatics during the "children's crusade" of the thirteenth century or, more recently, the Red Guards, whom Mao mobilized to silence his critics.
The politicization of basic education, particularly concerning American history, is notable throughout the country but most entrenched in liberal regions such as New York City and Minneapolis. In California, schools are scrapping measures such as exit exams for more ideologically correct policies. Once a leader in educational innovation and performance, California now toils near the bottom of the pack, ranked 40th on Education Week's composite score of school performance. These poor results mean little to progressives in places like the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has banned "willful defiance" removals and suspensions in the name of racial equity. A bill that would do the same statewide is moving through the legislature, along with a massive campaign to weaken the state's charter schools. Nothing has been more illustrative of our educational establishment's far-left, racialist agenda — tinged with a strong dose of anti-capitalist indoctrination — than the draft proposal for an "ethnic studies" curriculum for the state's schools. The program has provoked fierce opposition and is unlikely to be adopted in its present form, but activists will surely keep trying.
Ethnic-studies programs are aimed at high schoolers who often lack even the most basic understanding of American history. Incapable of meeting national standards for basic grade-level English language arts and mathematics, many of these students would instead learn academic jargon like misogynoir, cisheteropatriarchy, and hxrstory — which ethnic-studies advocates, such as R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, a member of the advisory committee that worked on the draft, defend in the name of legitimating the discipline. "AP Chemistry, for example, has some very complex academic terms, difficult to pronounce, but it's expected because it's AP Chemistry," Cuauhtin explains.
The clerisy is working to undermine basic liberal democracy. In the years ahead, technology will help shape attitudes on everything from the environment to the existence of "unconscious bias" against racial and sexual minorities. China's efforts to control and monitor thought, sometimes assisted by U.S. tech firms, are likely a hint of things to come in Europe, Australia, and North America. Already we see the rise of a new political generation with little use for the Western political tradition or the cultural values that shaped it. American millennials — despite, or perhaps because of, their high educational attainment — are increasingly inculcated with the idea that America is hopelessly racist and oppressive. Their worldview includes embracing limits on free speech. Some 40 percent of millennials, notes Pew, favor limiting speech deemed offensive to minorities — well above the already-depressing 27 percent among Gen-Xers and 24 percent among baby boomers. Among the oldest cohorts, though — those who likely remember fascist and Communist regimes — only 12 percent support such restrictions. European millennials also display far less faith in democracy and fewer objections to autocratic control than Americans or previous generations. Young Europeans are almost three times as likely to see democracy as failing than their elders, and many in countries as diverse in Sweden, Hungary, Spain, Poland, and Slovakia embrace the far Right, while others, notably in Great Britain and France, favor the far Left.
With lower levels of cultural literacy and reduced interest in history, the new generation could reprise the intellectual deterioration of the Middle Ages, when, according to Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, "the very mind of man was going through degeneration." Just as the feudal prelates disdained classical culture, today's clerisy seeks to unmoor liberal culture and the Western political tradition; nearly 40 percent of young Americans, for example, think that the country lacks "a history to be proud of." Far smaller numbers than previous generations prize family, religion, or patriotism.
If one does not even know about the complex legacy underpinning democracy, including the drive for individual freedom and open discussion, one is not likely to understand when it is in peril. If we are to save our uniquely open civilization, we must counter the clerisy's efforts to discredit our past and demolish our future.
Joel Kotkin serves as Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism (COU). He wrote this for City Journal.
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• 08/26/19: America's Identity Crisis: The road to sanity
• 02/19/19: Still capitalists at heart, tech titans cozied up to the progressive Left --- until the contradictions became too obvious
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Why was the ending of "And Then There Were None" changed for the stage version?
Agatha Christie's famous crime story And Then There Were None was written both as a book and later as a play by Christie herself. However, when adapting her own story for the stage, she made a significant change to the ending, namely ...
Warning: major spoilers follow!
... in the book, every single one of the ten people on the island ends up being killed, even the true mastermind behind it all; while the play has a happier ending, in which Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard are innocent and manage to escape the island together.
The Wikipedia page for the play (cited to Christie's autobiography, which I didn't find online) says:
She knew the ending would have to be changed as all of the characters die in the book and therefore "I must make two of the characters innocent, to be reunited at the end and come safe out of the ordeal."
In contrast, other stage versions of the story (including one from 1944, only a year after Christie's own play) have preserved the book's dismal ending.
Why did Christie change her play's ending from the novel's? Was she afraid that nobody would like a story in which all the main characters die - and if so, why did such qualms apply to the play more than to the original novel?
agatha-christie and-then-there-were-none adaptation-comparison
You may find it informative to read about George Bernard Shaw and the ending of Pygmalion (not an adaptation but also a famously changed ending to a play). I am no expert on Christie, nor do I think an answer by analogy is necessarily appropriate, but it might shed light on why authors do this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play) – Peter Jul 4 '17 at 9:08
And Then There Were None was originally published in 1939 at the outbreak of World War 2. The author adapted for the stage in 1943 when the war was at its apex.
According to Hilary Strong, CEO of "Agatha Christie Ltd" who manage the rights to the author's work, theatre producers at the time felt that in an atmosphere of such bleakness, there was no appetite for a play with such a bleak ending.
"The play was written just after the war and the theatre came back to her and said we can't cope with the ending," says Strong. "People had just had enough of brutality."
It is interesting to note that she appears to have based the new ending on the fact that the rhyme which inspires the play has two alternative versions. The original uses the ending:
"He went and hanged himself and then there were none."
Whereas the stage version is based on the concluding line:
"He got married and then there were none."
This is mentioned by the author in her autobiography. Here, she gives another reason for the change of ending (emphasis mine).
I thought to myself it would be exciting to see if I could make it into a play. At first sight that seemed impossible, because no one would be left to tell the tale, so I would have to alter it to a certain extent. It seemed to me that I could make a perfectly good play of it by one modification of the original story. I must make two of the characters innocent, to be reunited at the end and come safe out of the ordeal.
This suggests that she was concerned that the "real life" sense of watching people on a stage would feel different to the omniscient, third-person narration of a novel and that audiences would demand a believable scenario for recounting the narrative.
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"written just after the war"? It came out two years before the war ended. – Rand al'Thor Jul 4 '17 at 14:14
@Randal'Thor I presume he meant "just after the war started". But who knows. The same story is referenced elsewhere if you would like additional evidence. I'm just going through her autobiography to see if that's the original source. – Matt Thrower Jul 4 '17 at 14:18
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A number forty bus took me from Aldgate to the House of Dreams and it only took half an hour to arrive at the front door. Once across the threshold, an alternative cosmos of colour and eye-popping surreal fantasy awaits, transporting you far from the London rain.
Perhaps one of the happiest people I have met, Stephen Wright delights to share the strange but joyous world of his personal subconscious, peopled with a universe of outlandish celestial beings – all made tangible within the interior of a modest Victorian terrace.
For this ever-growing endeavour is no random installation, but an endearingly intimate diary of Stephen's emotional and spiritual life in sculptural form – as he was eager to explain when I dropped by last week.
It began as a response to a series of programmes by Jarvis Cocker about 'Outsider Art.' When I saw those, I thought, 'I've found my family, I've found where I fit in.' So I visited a lot of Outsider Artists in France, they were mostly elderly, and then I began work on my House of Dreams in 1999/2000.
At first it was purely decorative, but then it became a response to the death of my partner Donald, and when – two years into it – both my parents died, I found that difficult to deal with. So my work changed and it became a way of grieving and dealing with loss – because I didn't have a family this became my way of life. I want to leave something behind. Since then I met Michael, ten years ago, and he's been very supportive. It's important to have someone on your side.
I'm from the North and I found it difficult to put down roots in London, so I live in this safe house behind a high wall with a gate where I feel free to be me. All the objects in my house carry a meaning or memory for me and many are from places I consider sacred, like Cornwall, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid & Amsterdam.
The design has a South American style because I'm in touch with spirits from a former life when I was a grave digger in Oaxaca. I've been to Mexico to visit the place where I was born.
Amazing! But where does he live? There's isn't an inch of space…!
A labour of love, reminds me of Gaudi's wall and work in Barcelona.
beautiful, expressive and impressive. Long may it continue to exist and expand.
Wow! Incredible. There's a lot of work in the House of Dreams. Mexican touch, definitely, but there's a lot more than that. You definitely know how to find interesting people. Please keep on doing it.
We visited the House of Dreams the last time we were in London (in 9/15) and I highly recommend it. Not only is it quite a fascinating place, but we also really enjoyed talking to Stephen.
This post reminded me of the power of each individual soul.
Thank you Stephen for expressing yourself so fully.
Thanks, GA, for taking us along.
Fascinating, and like he says, unforgettable.
GA….you find us the most interesting and wonderful people. Thank you.
The older I become, the more I admire people who live as they feel called to live. It is as if they are saying, "this is what I like, this is what brings me joy and satisfaction, and I am going to live accordingly." What a feast for the eyes! My thanks to both the artist and the Gentle Author for sharing this with us.


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Ok but why aren't we talking about this???
Ma solo io li ho collegati a Vernon e Petunia di Harry Potter??
But just have I connected them to Vernon and Petunia of Harry Potter ??


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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.records.impl.pb;

import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.CallerContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.protobuf.RpcHeaderProtos;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationSubmissionContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.impl.pb.ApplicationSubmissionContextPBImpl;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnServerResourceManagerRecoveryProtos.ApplicationStateDataProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnServerResourceManagerRecoveryProtos.ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnServerResourceManagerRecoveryProtos.RMAppStateProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.records.ApplicationStateData;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppState;

import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.protobuf.TextFormat;

public class ApplicationStateDataPBImpl extends ApplicationStateData {
  ApplicationStateDataProto proto =
            ApplicationStateDataProto.getDefaultInstance();
  ApplicationStateDataProto.Builder builder = null;
  boolean viaProto = false;

  private ApplicationSubmissionContext applicationSubmissionContext = null;
  private byte[] keyStore;
  private byte[] trustStore;

  public ApplicationStateDataPBImpl() {
    builder = ApplicationStateDataProto.newBuilder();
  }

  public ApplicationStateDataPBImpl(
      ApplicationStateDataProto proto) {
    this.proto = proto;
    viaProto = true;
  }

  @Override
  public ApplicationStateDataProto getProto() {
    mergeLocalToProto();
    proto = viaProto ? proto : builder.build();
    viaProto = true;
    return proto;
  }

  private void mergeLocalToBuilder() {
    if (this.applicationSubmissionContext != null) {
      builder.setApplicationSubmissionContext(
          ((ApplicationSubmissionContextPBImpl)applicationSubmissionContext)
          .getProto());
    }
    if (this.keyStore != null) {
      builder.setKeyStore(ByteString.copyFrom(this.keyStore));
    }
    if (this.trustStore != null) {
      builder.setTrustStore(ByteString.copyFrom(this.trustStore));
    }
  }

  private void mergeLocalToProto() {
    if (viaProto)
      maybeInitBuilder();
    mergeLocalToBuilder();
    proto = builder.build();
    viaProto = true;
  }

  private void maybeInitBuilder() {
    if (viaProto || builder == null) {
      builder = ApplicationStateDataProto.newBuilder(proto);
    }
    viaProto = false;
  }

  @Override
  public long getSubmitTime() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasSubmitTime()) {
      return -1;
    }
    return (p.getSubmitTime());
  }

  @Override
  public void setSubmitTime(long submitTime) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setSubmitTime(submitTime);
  }

  @Override
  public long getStartTime() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    return p.getStartTime();
  }

  @Override
  public void setStartTime(long startTime) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setStartTime(startTime);
  }

  @Override
  public String getUser() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasUser()) {
      return null;
    }
    return (p.getUser());

  }

  @Override
  public void setUser(String user) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setUser(user);
  }

  @Override
  public ApplicationSubmissionContext getApplicationSubmissionContext() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if(applicationSubmissionContext != null) {
      return applicationSubmissionContext;
    }
    if (!p.hasApplicationSubmissionContext()) {
      return null;
    }
    applicationSubmissionContext =
        new ApplicationSubmissionContextPBImpl(
            p.getApplicationSubmissionContext());
    return applicationSubmissionContext;
  }

  @Override
  public void setApplicationSubmissionContext(
      ApplicationSubmissionContext context) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (context == null) {
      builder.clearApplicationSubmissionContext();
    }
    this.applicationSubmissionContext = context;
  }

  @Override
  public RMAppState getState() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasApplicationState()) {
      return null;
    }
    return convertFromProtoFormat(p.getApplicationState());
  }

  @Override
  public void setState(RMAppState finalState) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (finalState == null) {
      builder.clearApplicationState();
      return;
    }
    builder.setApplicationState(convertToProtoFormat(finalState));
  }

  @Override
  public String getDiagnostics() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasDiagnostics()) {
      return null;
    }
    return p.getDiagnostics();
  }

  @Override
  public void setDiagnostics(String diagnostics) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (diagnostics == null) {
      builder.clearDiagnostics();
      return;
    }
    builder.setDiagnostics(diagnostics);
  }

  @Override
  public long getFinishTime() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    return p.getFinishTime();
  }

  @Override
  public void setFinishTime(long finishTime) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setFinishTime(finishTime);
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return getProto().hashCode();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object other) {
    if (other == null)
      return false;
    if (other.getClass().isAssignableFrom(this.getClass())) {
      return this.getProto().equals(this.getClass().cast(other).getProto());
    }
    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public CallerContext getCallerContext() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    RpcHeaderProtos.RPCCallerContextProto pbContext = p.getCallerContext();
    if (pbContext != null) {
      CallerContext context = new CallerContext.Builder(pbContext.getContext())
          .setSignature(pbContext.getSignature().toByteArray()).build();
      return context;
    }

    return null;
  }

  @Override
  public void setCallerContext(CallerContext callerContext) {
    if (callerContext != null) {
      maybeInitBuilder();

      RpcHeaderProtos.RPCCallerContextProto.Builder b = RpcHeaderProtos.RPCCallerContextProto
          .newBuilder();
      if (callerContext.getContext() != null) {
        b.setContext(callerContext.getContext());
      }
      if (callerContext.getSignature() != null) {
        b.setSignature(ByteString.copyFrom(callerContext.getSignature()));
      }

      builder.setCallerContext(b);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return TextFormat.shortDebugString(getProto());
  }

  @Override
  public byte[] getKeyStore() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (this.keyStore != null) {
      return this.keyStore;
    }
    if (!p.hasKeyStore()) {
      return null;
    }
    this.keyStore = p.getKeyStore().toByteArray();
    return this.keyStore;
  }

  @Override
  public void setKeyStore(byte[] keyStore) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (keyStore == null) {
      builder.clearKeyStore();
      return;
    }
    this.keyStore = keyStore;
  }

  @Override
  public char[] getKeyStorePassword() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasKeyStorePassword()) {
      return null;
    }

    return p.getKeyStorePassword().toCharArray();
  }

  @Override
  public void setKeyStorePassword(char[] keyStorePassword) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (keyStorePassword == null) {
      builder.clearKeyStorePassword();
      return;
    }
    builder.setKeyStorePassword(String.valueOf(keyStorePassword));
  }

  @Override
  public byte[] getTrustStore() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (this.trustStore != null) {
      return this.trustStore;
    }
    if (!p.hasTrustStore()) {
      return null;
    }
    this.trustStore = p.getTrustStore().toByteArray();
    return this.trustStore;
  }

  @Override
  public void setTrustStore(byte[] trustStore) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (trustStore == null) {
      builder.clearTrustStore();
      return;
    }
    this.trustStore = trustStore;
  }

  @Override
  public char[] getTrustStorePassword() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasTrustStorePassword()) {
      return null;
    }
    return p.getTrustStorePassword().toCharArray();
  }

  @Override
  public void setTrustStorePassword(char[] trustStorePassword) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (trustStorePassword == null) {
      builder.clearTrustStorePassword();
      return;
    }
    builder.setTrustStorePassword(String.valueOf(trustStorePassword));
  }

  @Override
  public Integer getCryptoMaterialVersion() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    return p.getCryptoMaterialVersion();
  }

  @Override
  public void setCryptoMaterialVersion(Integer cryptoMaterialVersion) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setCryptoMaterialVersion(cryptoMaterialVersion);
  }

  @Override
  public long getCertificateExpiration() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    return p.getCertificateExpiration();
  }

  @Override
  public void setCertificateExpiration(long certificateExpiration) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setCertificateExpiration(certificateExpiration);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isDuringMaterialRotation() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    return p.getIsDuringMaterialRotation();
  }

  @Override
  public void setIsDuringMaterialRotation(boolean isDuringMaterialRotation) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setIsDuringMaterialRotation(isDuringMaterialRotation);
  }

  @Override
  public long getMaterialRotationStartTime() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasMaterialRotationStart()) {
      return -1L;
    }
    return p.getMaterialRotationStart();
  }

  @Override
  public void setMaterialRotationStartTime(long materialRotationStartTime) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setMaterialRotationStart(materialRotationStartTime);
  }

  @Override
  public String getJWT() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasJwt()) {
      return null;
    }
    return p.getJwt();
  }

  @Override
  public void setJWT(String jwt) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (jwt == null) {
      builder.clearJwt();
      return;
    }
    builder.setJwt(jwt);
  }

  @Override
  public long getJWTExpiration() {
    ApplicationStateDataProtoOrBuilder p = viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (!p.hasJwtExpiration()) {
      return -1L;
    }
    return p.getJwtExpiration();
  }

  @Override
  public void setJWTExpiration(long jwtExpiration) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    builder.setJwtExpiration(jwtExpiration);
  }

  private static String RM_APP_PREFIX = "RMAPP_";
  public static RMAppStateProto convertToProtoFormat(RMAppState e) {
    return RMAppStateProto.valueOf(RM_APP_PREFIX + e.name());
  }
  public static RMAppState convertFromProtoFormat(RMAppStateProto e) {
    return RMAppState.valueOf(e.name().replace(RM_APP_PREFIX, ""));
  }
}

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The training of gilts (and initial training of sows) is one aspect of ESF systems that can be overlooked. The sow herd and gilt replacements must be initially trained before being put into to ESF systems. Training should not be ignored; if it is farms will re- quire increased labour to push animals through the feeder, there will be a higher incidence of returns to estrus and the ESF will not function as designed.
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Alternative training pen using just the gates from the ESF.
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ParaPivot (sempiternal clouds) consists of interlocking frames supporting large blocks of white marble that appear as ice calved from a distant glacier. The array of steel and stone draws viewers into the frame of this massive, yet fragile, universe where simple forms yield complex meanings. As you approach and move in and out of its frames, you become aware of the experiential equivalent of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, an effect whereby observer interaction changes the form of the thing being interacted with. The result is an illusion of instability. This wobbling perception of size and relationship lies at the heart of the work, as with every step, the sculpture and its components reform into new combinations. Time and space become distorted as rocks pulled from 200 million years ago levitate into the clear blue sky. Like the experience of desert itself, ParaPivot, even as it is made up largely of emptiness, is dense with meaning.
Alicja Kwade (Katowice, Poland, 1979), who lives and works in Berlin, investigates and questions the structures of reality and society and reflects on the perception of time in our everyday life. She grounds her practice around concepts of space, time, science, and philosophy and her work takes shape in sculptural objects, video, and photography.
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The artist and Desert X would like to thank the following for their generous support in making this project possible: Richard Mille, 303 Gallery and König Galerie.


(2) the application need not set forth that it is the intention of the applicant to reside permanently within the United States.
Such person, or any person who was naturalized in accordance with the provisions of section 317(a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, shall have, from and after her naturalization, the status of a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States, whichever status existed in the case of such person prior to the loss of citizenship: Provided, That nothing contained herein or in any other provision of law shall be construed as conferring United States citizenship retroactively upon such person, or upon any person who was naturalized in accordance with the provisions of section 317(a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, during any period in which such person was not a citizen.
No person who is otherwise eligible for naturalization in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be naturalized unless such person shall establish to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that she has been a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States for a period of not less than five years immediately preceding the date of filing an application for naturalization and up to the time of admission to citizenship, and, unless she has resided continuously in the United States since the date of her marriage, has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence prior to filing her application for naturalization.
(1) A woman who was a citizen of the United States at birth and (A) who has or is believed to have lost her United States citizenship solely by reason of her marriage prior to September 22, 1922, to an alien, or by her marriage on or after such date to an alien ineligible to citizenship, (B) whose marriage to such alien shall have terminated subsequent to January 12, 1941, and (C) who has not acquired by an affirmative act other than by marriage any other nationality, shall, from and after taking the oath of allegiance required by section 1448 of this title, be a citizen of the United States and have the status of a citizen of the United States by birth, without filing an application for naturalization, and notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this subchapter except the provisions of section 1424 of this title: Provided, That nothing contained herein or in any other provision of law shall be construed as conferring United States citizenship retroactively upon such person, or upon any person who was naturalized in accordance with the provisions of section 317(b) of the Nationality Act of 1940, during any period in which such person was not a citizen.
(2) Such oath of allegiance may be taken abroad before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, or in the United States before the Attorney General or the judge or clerk of a court described in section 1421(b) of this title.
(3) Such oath of allegiance shall be entered in the records of the appropriate embassy, legation, consulate, court, or the Attorney General, and, upon demand, a certified copy of the proceedings, including a copy of the oath administered, under the seal of the embassy, legation, consulate, court, or the Attorney General, shall be delivered to such woman at a cost not exceeding $5, which certified copy shall be evidence of the facts stated therein before any court of record or judicial tribunal and in any department or agency of the Government of the United States.
(1) A person who was a citizen of the United States at birth and lost such citizenship for failure to meet the physical presence retention requirements under section 1401(b) of this title (as in effect before October 10, 1978), shall, from and after taking the oath of allegiance required by section 1448 of this title be a citizen of the United States and have the status of a citizen of the United States by birth, without filing an application for naturalization, and notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this subchapter except the provisions of section 1424 of this title. Nothing in this subsection or any other provision of law shall be construed as conferring United States citizenship retroactively upon such person during any period in which such person was not a citizen.
(2) The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (c) shall apply to a person regaining citizenship under paragraph (1) in the same manner as they apply under subsection (c)(1).
Section 317(a) and (b) of the Nationality Act of 1940, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c)(1), which was classified to section 717(a) and (b) of this title, was repealed by section 403(a)(42) of act June 27, 1952. See subsecs. (a) and (c) of this section.
1994-Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–416 added subsec. (d).
1990-Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(b)(3), (c)(7), (d)(6)(A)(i), substituted "State or district of the Service in the United States" for "State" and "application" for "petition" and inserted "and" at end.
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(c)(7), (d)(6)(A)(ii), substituted references to applicant and application for references to petitioner and petition, and substituted period for semicolon at end.
Subsec. (a)(3), (4). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(d)(6)(A)(iii), struck out pars. (3) and (4) which related to filing of petition and hearing on petition.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(c)(7), (d)(6)(B), substituted references to application for references to petition wherever appearing, and "Attorney General" for "naturalization court".
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(c)(7), substituted "an application" for "a petition".
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(d)(6)(C)(i), substituted "the Attorney General or the judge or clerk of a court described in section 1421(b) of this title" for "the judge or clerk of a naturalization court".
Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 101–649, §407(d)(6)(C)(ii), substituted "court, or the Attorney General" for "or naturalization court" in two places.
1988-Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 100–525 substituted "has" for "and the witnesses have".
Pub. L. 103–416, title I, §103(b), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4308 , provided that: "The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on the first day of the first month beginning more than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 25, 1994]."
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.
Act Aug. 16, 1951, ch. 321, §1, 65 Stat. 191 , as amended by section 402(j) of act June 27, 1952, provided: "That a person who, while a citizen of the United States, has lost citizenship of the United States solely by reason of having voted in a political election or plebiscite held in Italy between January 1, 1946, and April 18, 1948, inclusive, and who has not subsequent to such voting committed any act which, had he remained a citizen, would have operated to expatriate him, may be naturalized by taking, prior to two years from the enactment of this Act [June 27, 1952], before any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1421(a) of this title], or before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States abroad, the oath required by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1448 of this title]. Certified copies of such oath shall be sent by such diplomatic or consular officer or such court to the Department of State and to the Department of Justice. Such person shall have, from and after naturalization under this section, the same citizenship status as that which existed immediately prior to its loss: Provided, That no such person shall be eligible to take the oath required by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1448 of this title] unless he shall first take an oath before any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1421(a) of this title], or before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States abroad, that he has done nothing to promote the cause of communism. The illegal or fraudulent procurement of naturalization under this amendment shall be subject to cancellation in the same manner as provided in section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1451 of this title]."
Act July 20, 1954, ch. 553, 68 Stat. 495 , provided: "That a person who has lost United States citizenship solely by reason of having voted in any political election or plebiscite held in Japan between September 2, 1945, and April 27, 1952, inclusive, and who has not, subsequent to such voting, committed any act which, had he remained a citizen, would have operated to expatriate him, and is not otherwise disqualified from becoming a citizen by reason of sections 313 or 314, or the third sentence of section 318 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [sections 1424, 1425, 1429 of this title], may be naturalized by taking, prior to two years after the date of the enactment of this Act [July 20, 1954], before any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1421(a) of this title] or before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States abroad, the applicable oath prescribed by section 337 of such Act [section 1448 of this title]. Certified copies of such oath shall be sent by such court or such diplomatic or consular officer to the Department of State and to the Department of Justice. Such oath of allegiance shall be entered in the records of the appropriate naturalization court, embassy, legation, or consulate, and upon demand, a certified copy of the proceedings, including a copy of the oath administered, under the seal of the naturalization court, embassy, legation or consulate, shall be delivered to such person at a cost not exceeding $5, which certified copy shall be evidence of the facts stated therein before any court of record or judicial tribunal and in any department or agency of the Government of the United States. Any such person shall have, from and after naturalization under this Act, the same citizenship status as that which existed immediately prior to its loss: Provided, That no such person shall be eligible to take the oath prescribed by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1448 of this title] unless he shall first take an oath before any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1421(a) of this title], or before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States abroad, that he has done nothing to promote the cause of communism. Naturalization procured under this Act shall be subject to revocation as provided in section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act [section 1451 of this title], and subsection (f) of that section [section 1451(f) of this title] shall apply to any person claiming United States citizenship through the naturalization of an individual under this Act."


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264: Being The Banker Of Your Own Life
We'd like to bring you the final episode of this session in the talks that we were doing about being an actor and actress and directing your own movie of your life. This has been a series that I felt I needed to get off my chest because it was to do with the death of my own son and how his death had an impact on me as a person in my whole soul searching that followed and the many realizations that followed. It portrays the story of being the actor, the actress in our lives and then moving on to be the director of your life and then moving on to be the financier of your life. But now, we want to take a look into the deep aspect of being the banker, of having the money to finance these kinds of things and what it means not only to direct your life, but if you own your life and the kind of shots that you can call when you own your own life and what you can do. And it's quite an amazing journey. What is really interesting about this is, if you've been following along and if you had listened to the origin of this discourse, as it were, you would remember that I mentioned that what spawned a lot of this spiritual searching for me was the death of my first son, Ryan. He died at four months old, on my birthday. And it caused me to ask all kinds of questions about, who am I and why am I here, why was he born, why did he die, where is he now, and could I have prevented us? And what was it all about? What's the bigger picture that's going on here? Well, to place that into the analogy now that we're speaking of, to place it into the picture that we're painting of this being one classic drama that's going on, this being one fantastic illusion that's been created, and that everybody contributes to that illusion. Our children and force and enhanced and confirm the illusion for us. We confirm the illusion for our children. We confirm the illusion for our brothers and our sisters and our friends and our co-workers. We confirm everything for everybody else. Everybody confirms everything for everybody. That's how fantastic this drama is. It's how fantastic this illusion is. It's how amazing this dream scape is. It is how expert we are at making movies. We are the best, because we make it so believable that even we ourselves believe it, and we forgot where the stage door is. So, we spoke about being the financier and how being the financier of the studio has power over the director and his power over the actors and actresses and all of that. In this hierarchy, we become more and more distanced from what actually goes on in the actual script itself. So, to personalize this for myself (and everybody will have their own personal understanding of this), but for me, when my son Ryan died on my birthday, the financier didn't know (or care) about that. At the level of the financier they did not concern themselves with pain or suffering or drama, or adventure and excitement, or loss that was going on inside the movie theater they were financing. Now this might seem callous and distant, but when you think about it, if it's all cellophane and illusion in the first place, they know that, so why be concerned over something that's just an illusion, that they know is an illusion. The fact that you and I believe that at the level of the reality in the theater is our issue, not that of the financier. But you can see how as we go through these layers of hierarchy, now the director of course is concerned with the drama - who lives who dies, where the action is, where the high points are, where the tension is. The studio owner, of course, is concerned with that also, but not to the same degree. In other words, they want to know that there is excitement in this, that there is something worth selling, that there is something believable in this, that there is action, that there is reality in it, but they're not concerned at the level of who said what to whom, when. And then when we go to financial year, not at all concerned. So now we want to now step up another level. And what we're doing here so you understand, is we're creating new layers, or levels, or planes of existence. Now, you do this all the time. I do this all the time. Everybody does this all the time, but we just don't know it. This is a plane of existence right here, right now - you listening to me, the person in the house next door or the office next door is not listening to me, and they're not in the same plane of existence as we are. So you can see how we're continuing to manufacture our own planes of existence. How do we know this to be true? Well, that person may have cancer and may have been given six months to live. Who knows? That person may have three children, you've none. Their lives, their whole structure is completely different to you. They may believe in God A, and you believe in God B. They may follow this actor or actress, you follow somebody else. They may be immersed in this political party. You may be immersed... in other words, everybody's life is their own plane of existence, So we step out one more level and we create the plane of existence where we are the bank. So now we give money to the financier. So we have the money to give out to the financier so the financier can invest in the studio, and invest into director, invest in the movie, invest in the actors and actresses. As the bank, we own the money, so we called the shots. We can say to that financier, I don't want to finance you anymore. What would that feel like at that level of creation where you are saying, I want to finance this instead. Let's create this instead. Let's put our money, (which is energy) let's put our energy, let's put our resources, let's put our creativity, let's put our potential into this reality instead. Now, folks we are getting excited about the possibilities. We're getting excited about the potential. We're getting excited about who we really are, and what we're capable of doing. As the bank, we're really beginning to cream it now. We feel the power. We feel the power it gives us. I hope you enjoyed that. You will find it is quite life-changing when you enter into that possibility where you look at yourself, your life, and realize that you are indeed not only the banker, but you are the owner. You are the owner of your life. Twin Flame Productions LLC Website | Newsletter | Consultations


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Guilty but Insane: J. C. Bowen-Colthurst – Villain or Victim?
Guilty but Insane: J. C. Bowen-Colthurst – Villain or Victim? Taylor, James W.
Captain J.C. Bowen-Colthurst, originally from Cork, served with the British Army in the Boer War, in Tibet and in the Great War. Having been wounded, he returned to Ireland and was caught up in the 1916 rebellion when he was responsible for the deaths of six unarmed civilians, including the pacifist Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The resulting outrage was one of the key factors in turning the tide of Irish public opinion towards independence. Having been tried for murder, he was deemed 'guilty but insane' and spent eighteen months in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum before being released under medical supervision for another year. He was then allowed travel to Canada on condition that he not return to Ireland. This has been portrayed as a perversion of justice perpetrated by the British authorities but Taylor's unprecedented access to both army and Bowen-Colthurst's personal papers have revealed that he was probably suffering from what we now know as PTSD. This book corrects many published errors, debunks some myths and reveals the personal side to a much-maligned historical character.He has also worked with the family of both Bowen-Colthurst and Sheehy-Skeffington who have praised his unbiased research.
Truce: Murder Myth and the last days of the Irish War of Independence On 8 July 1921 a Truce between the IRA and British forces in Ireland was announced, to begin three days later. However, in those three days at least sixty people from both sides of the conflict were killed. In 'Truce', Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened in those three bloody days, and why. •	What sparked Belfast's 'Bloody Sunday' in 1921, the worst bout of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's troubled history? • Why were four unarmed British soldiers kidnapped and killed by the IRA in Cork just hours before the ceasefire began? •	Who murdered Margaret Keogh, a young Dublin rebel, in cold blood on her own doorstep? •	Were the last spies shot by the IRA really working for British intelligence or just the victims of anti-Protestant bigotry? This book answers these questions for the first time and separates fact from fiction to find out what really happened in the final battles between the IRA and the British forces. €19.99


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