Photos: Fireworks are seen exploding from the Sky Tower with the Auckland Harbour Bridge in the foreground during the Auckland New Year's Eve celebrations on January 01, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand. Photos by Phil Walter/Getty Images for ATEED. Copyright © 2018 Getty Images. Images provided by Auckland Tourism, Events, and Economic Development.
Auckland, New Zealand, the first major city in the world to greet the new day, saw the light in 2019 with a New Year's Eve visual and entertainment extravaganza that lit up Auckland's cityscape. For the first time, the stunning Vector Lights on Auckland Harbour Bridge joined in the celebrations. At the stroke of midnight, Vector Lights exploded into life with a five-minute light show designed in sync with SkyCity's fireworks spectacular.
Photo: The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, presenting degrees & certificates to the students and researchers, at the 9th Convocation of Lovely Professional University, at Phagwara, Jalandhar, Punjab on October 22, 2018.
One of the world's largest science meets, Indian Science Congress (ISC)-2019, is going to be held from 3rd to 7th January 2019, at Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate it on 3rd January. PM Modi will also address about 30,000 delegates including many Nobel Laureates, Union Cabinet Ministers of India, science policymakers, administrators, eminent scientists, young men-women researchers and school children from across India & abroad.
During the five days long congress, around 100 plus conferences and events of scientific and technology origin will be held, where eminent personalities from India government organizations like DRDO, ISRO, DST, AIIMS, UGC, AICTE, and many elite universities of the USA, UK, India, and other countries will participate. Union Cabinet ministers including Science and Technology Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, and Textile Minister, Smriti Irani, will also attend the event.
The event will play a pivotal role in stimulating scientific research effort and raising the scientific temperament in the country and the world. The Nobel Laureates who will be participating include German-American biochemist, Prof. Thomas Sudoph, who has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine; Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Prof. Avram Hershko; and British born physicist, Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane, who has been awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
To be inaugurated on the 2nd day of ISC, 4th January 2019, Children's Science Congress will target 10-17 year children for carrying forward innovation and research in science to a next level. Near 150 science projects are to be showcased, and children will also have the opportunity to listen and interact with eminent scientists and Nobel Laureates.
On the third day of ISC, two-day Science Communicators' Meet- 2019 will be inaugurated, where the main aim will be to brainstorm ways of dissemination of scientific information and inculcation of scientific attitude among masses. Various Journalists from top media-houses would also be a part of the communicators' meet.
With its inauguration on 5th January, 'Women's Science Congress' will showcase the contribution of women in Science, Technology and the Society. Here, renowned women scientists and leaders from Government, academia, and industry will deliver lectures and participate in panel discussions on promoting talent among women.
Also, there would be 14 Plenary Sessions. Science and technology stalwarts would chair them.
Photo: The Minister of State for Culture and Environment, Dr. Mahesh Sharma addressing at the International Seminar to Commemorate 200th Birth Anniversary of Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji, in New Delhi on December 28, 2018.
Photo: Lighting of the lamp at the International Seminar to Commemorate 200th Birth Anniversary of Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji, in New Delhi on December 28, 2018. Panjab University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Raj Kumar, is on the right.
New Delhi, December 28, 2018 — To commemorate the 200th Birth Anniversary of the Sikh philosopher, reformer, and freedom fighter, Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji, Panjab University, Chandigarh, organized an International Seminar in New Delhi in collaboration with Kuka Martyrs Memorial Trust and the Indian Ministry of Culture. The Minister of State for Culture and Environment, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, inaugurated the seminar.
His Holiness Sri Satguru Uday Singh Ji; Sardar Prem Singh Chandumajra, MP Lok Sabha; Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University Chandigarh; Sardar Tarlochan Singh, Ex-MP Rajya Sabha; Sardar H. S. Hanspal, Ex-MP Rajya Sabha; and Sardar S. S. Namdhari, Vice Chairman Kuka Martyrs Memorial Trust & President Vishav Namdhari Sangat; were present at the function.
Inaugurating the seminar, the Minister of State for Culture and Environment, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, said that Sri Satguru Ram Singh was a great spiritual guru, a thinker, a seer, philosopher, social reformer, and a freedom fighter. Around 150 years ago, he organized his followers for the noble cause of the freedom of the country. The Culture Minister said that whatever he was preaching or practicing in the 19th Century, is equally good in the 21st century as well.
Praising the ideology of the Satguru, Dr. Mahesh Sharma said that he advocated reverence for the cow, simple wedding ceremonies, widow remarriage and mass marriages with minimal expenditure.
The Satguru was a great social reformer. He started a new mass marriage system wherein his followers performed the marriages by spending a Rupee and Twenty Five Paisa only. Satguru Ram Singh banned the dowry and inculcated religious awareness among his followers, the Minister said.
Photos: Tissot Heritage Visodate Quartz watch. Images provided by and copyright © TISSOT.
Tissot Heritage Visodate Quartz is the watch that every young man dreams of wearing on his wrist: a piece that is passed on from generation to generation. Inspired by the 1950s collection, the Tissot Heritage Visodate Quartz symbolises a smooth combination of sentimental classicism and youthful passion which is expressed in its design: a nostalgic dial with a modern twist, the Tissot logo in the original font, delicate facetted hour markers, the essential date counter at 3 o'clock and - a new feature - a quartz movement.
The 1950s heralded the Tissot Heritage Visodate with its avant-garde design: a streamlined dial; crisp, angular lines; finesse in wear; an original style; and the essential date function at 3 o'clock. The Tissot Heritage Visodate Quartz takes inspiration from its predecessor while adding elegant touches from its own time.
Photos: TISSOT LOVELY SQUARE watches. Images provided by and copyright © TISSOT.
"With its suggestions of romance and rock-and-roll, the Tissot Lovely Square is designed for the woman in search of new adventures, experiences, and encounters," the company announced.
Photo: The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, with the Students from Stanford Graduate School of Business, in New Delhi on December 18, 2018.
Photo: Filmmaker Geeta Malik, recipient of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, at the Los Angeles Women's Lunch hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. October 30, 2018. Photographer: Valerie Macon. Image provided by and copyright © A.M.P.A.S.
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in consideration for the 91st Oscars in nine categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards.
Ten films will advance in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 91st Academy Awards.
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards. Eighty-seven countries had initially submitted their entries in this class.
Los Angeles-based Academy members from all branches screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 10. The group's top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.
Seven films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 91st Academy Awards. All members of the Academy's Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Saturday, January 5, 2019. Members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration.
Fifteen scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 91st Academy Awards. One hundred fifty-six scores were eligible in the group. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 91st Academy Awards. Ninety songs were eligible in the division. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
Ten films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 91st Academy Awards. Eighty-one films had initially qualified in the group. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
Ten films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 91st Academy Awards. One hundred forty films had initially qualified in the class. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 91st Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist.
Nominations voting begins on Monday, January 7, 2019, and concludes on Monday, January 14, 2019.
The Academy will announce the Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
Meanwhile, India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category, "Village Rockstars" directed by Rima Das, is out of the Oscars race.
No Indian film has ever won an Oscar. The last Indian film that made it to the final five in the Best Foreign Film category list was Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan in 2001.
Photo: Catriona Gray, Miss Universe Philippines 2018, is crowned Miss Universe at the conclusion of the three-hour special programming event on FOX on Sunday, December 16, 2018, at the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand. The new winner will move to New York City where she will live during her reign and become a spokesperson for various causes alongside The Miss Universe Organization. Photographer: Amorn Pitayanant. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Catriona Gray, Miss Universe Philippines 2018, during a photoshoot in fashion by Sherri Hill at the Dusit Thani Bangkok on December 2, 2018. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Mohali (Near Chandigarh), India, December 9, 2018 — An International Conference under the aegis of National Hydrology Project, Union Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation is being organized by Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) during 10-11 December 2018 at Indian School of Business (ISB), Mohali, on the theme 'Sustainable Water Management'. The objective of the Conference is to promote integrated and sustainable development and management of Water Resources.
The Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Acharya Devvrat, would be the Chief Guest and U.P. Singh, Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, would be the Guest of Honour at the inaugural session of the Conference on December 10, 2018.
Many Experts & Delegates from reputed organizations from both within India and other countries, such as Australia, United Kingdom, USA, Spain, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Canada, Germany, and Sri Lanka would be taking part in the event. They would present their experience and expertise in the use of state of the art technology for sustainable development of water resources. About 20 companies and organizations will be putting up stalls in the exhibition to showcase their activities in the area of sustainable water resources management.
The Conference aims to foster the participation of and dialogue between various stakeholders, including governments and the scientific and academic communities, promote sustainable policies for water management, and encourage better management of water resources at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Photo: Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, the new President of the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 8, 2018 — Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, a correspondent for NPR (National Public Radio), was elected the next President of the National Press Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists, on Friday, December 7, 2018.
A three-time George Polk Award-winner during her lengthy career in both print and broadcast journalism, Kodjak will officially assume the duties of the presidency on January 11, 2019.
Kodjak, in her acceptance speech before her fellow members in the Club's Truman Lounge, pledged to uphold the work of her predecessors in advocating for press freedom worldwide.
"My goal as president is to see the club become a central player in the fight for the future of quality, fact-based journalism here in the US and fight for the freedom of our colleagues around the world.
"Journalists today are under a huge amount of pressure. There are economic challenges - but even more difficult are the attacks on our credibility and character. Also, by habit, we tend to stay in our lanes - we work for the Post, AP or CNN and we compete. We belong to our groups - WHCA, IRE or NABJ. However, the National Press Club is a place where we break those walls down and gather to enjoy each other's company," Kodjak said.
Kodjak, who has enjoyed a successful career covering a wide array of subjects in a variety of platforms, is considered well-suited to foster that sense of camaraderie amongst her journalism colleagues. Before joining NPR in 2015, Kodjak spent two years at the Center for Public Integrity, leading projects in financial, telecom, and political reporting. Before joining the Center, she spent more than a decade at Bloomberg News, where she wrote about the convergence of politics, government, and economics, and as part of Bloomberg's investigative team, reported on the bankruptcy of General Motors Corp. and the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. A graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Kodjak is also the co-author of the book "In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race that Took It Down," published in 2011 by John Wiley & Sons.
Also elected in Friday's Club elections were: Michael Freedman (UMUC, GW, The Kalb Report) as vice president; Peter Urban (Freelance) as treasurer; and Fouad Arif (Morocco News Agency) as secretary. Elected to the Board of Governors were: Lisa Matthews of the Associated Press, Ferdous Al-Faruque of MedTech Insight, Emily Wilkins of Bloomberg BNA, Del Quentin Wilber of the Los Angeles Times, freelance journalist Antonella Ciancio, and Danny Selnick of Business Wire.
The inaugural gala for the new president of the club, which was founded in 1908 and has 3,100 members worldwide, would be held on January 12, 2019.
Photo: Enikő Kecskés, Miss Universe Hungary 2018, participates during a demonstration of Batik Painting at Dahla Batik in Krabi Island on December 7. Photographer: Max Louis Miller. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Eva Colas, Miss Universe France 2018, during a demonstration of Batik Painting at Dahla Batik in Krabi Island on December 7. Photographer: Max Louis Miller. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Miss Universe Contestants during a visit to the Grand Palace in Bangkok on December 4. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Zahra Khanum, Miss Universe Singapore 2018; Francesca Mifsud, Miss Universe Malta 2018; Tamaryn Green, Miss Universe South Africa 2018; and H'Hen Nie, Miss Universe Vietnam 2018; during a visit to Chinatown in Bangkok on December 3. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Yulia Polyachikhina, Miss Universe Russia 2018, gets hair done by a stylist from Farouk Systems, the Makers of CHI & Biosilk upon arriving at the Dusit Thani Bangkok on November 30. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Andrea Toscano, Miss Universe Mexico 2018, gets makeup done upon arriving at the Dusit Thani Bangkok on November 30. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Nehal Chudasama, Miss Universe India 2018, gets hair done by a stylist from Farouk Systems, the Makers of CHI & Biosilk upon arriving at the Dusit Thani Bangkok on November 30. Photographer: Benjamin Askinas. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
Photo: Francesca Mifsud, Miss Universe Malta 2018, during a visit to Chinatown in Bangkok on December 3. Photographer: Patrick Prather. Image provided by & Copyright © The Miss Universe Organization.
The Miss Universe contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss Universe crown in Bangkok, Thailand. Tune in to the FOX telecast at 7:00 PM ET live on Sunday, December 16, 2018, from the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand to see who will become the next Miss Universe.


In the classic *NSYNC vs. Backstreet Boys battle, I've always fallen on the *NSYNC side despite being a fan of both groups. Though this preference has always been a gut-check instinct, *NSYNC had one specific skill lightyears beyond similar boy bands of the time, and really ahead of most pop groups in the history of recorded music: melting the heart with slow-dance ballads.
This conclusion, that their ballads are their enduring legacy, might seem odd if you haven't spun the records recently: *NSYNC has always been more famous for their upbeat numbers than their slow jams. Mistake, in my mind: these fellows recorded two or three ballad stunners per album. So despite an abbreviated career (only three albums), there is an impressive catalog of *NSYNC heart-obliterators.
My all-time favorite *NSYNC song is probably "This I Promise You." Not exactly a surprise: According to Spotify, it's the band's third most-popular track, and second most-popular non-holiday track.
I want to give a special shout out to "I Thought She Knew" among that pack. It has a lot of sentimental value for me: the discovery of a great a a cappella track when I didn't have much of the genre made it an instant favorite. From the track's outset, the band's typical expressive harmonies and charisma are exceedingly obvious.
I also love the songs role in the bands story. This was one of the songs *NSYNC auditioned with… and it's basically an avalanche of the band's strengths: charm, chemistry, and raw vocal talent.


Today's food can be a source of artificial growth hormones and pesticides, causing health risks to everyone, especially children who are most vulnerable because of their still developing immune systems. One of the best ways to limit children's exposure to harmful chemicals is to introduce them to organic food at an early stage.
Parents are advised to introduce kids to healthy living at an early age.
Food and organic product organizations confirm that organic products have become more mainstream in recent years as the demand for healthier and more natural products have risen.
Nowadays, organic products are not just found in specialty stores or drug stores but are made available at groceries, supermarkets, and online.
Nourishing kids with the healthiest food to ensure their growth and development is always a priority among moms. By establishing an organic lifestyle for the family, they are ensuring their kids get the best of nature and the best of health.
Produce such as potatoes and apples can be consumed without removing its skin, but these have the highest amounts of pesticide residue. To avoid intake of harmful chemicals and ensure to get the good minerals and vitamins, switch to organic. In addition, it is best to buy food items that have the lowest chemical residue like eggplant, cabbage, mango, and onion.
When making meals, use organic meat, eggs, and dairy. One of the few organic milk brands available in the market today is Promil Organic, which is made from 100 percent organic dairy milk from certified European farms.
Through a quick search online, anyone can review and choose among different farm-to-table concept restaurants that offer organic meals that fit their budget.
It will only require little time and space to grow one's own organic produce. The most important element in organic gardening is good and healthy soil. Home testing kits, available at gardening stores and online, can check the soil's pH level and breakdown of nutrients to ensure that it is free of harmful chemicals.


Bio: Once upon a time, in the far away land of Connecticut, the young Adrienne La Forte graduated from high school and promptly migrated to Tufts University. Despite seeming perpetually confused, she does everything in her life with purpose. Whether eating straight whipped cream from a bowl in one of Tufts' illustrious dining halls or rolling around on the Academic Quad, every one of her actions has both rhyme and reason. The excessive whipped cream consumption, for example, trains her for the National Whipped Cream Eating Competition held on February 29th. A veteran competitor, Adrienne has 18 medals under her belt. One may ask, "How does she cope with copious amounts of sugar flooding her system?" The answer is simple: she downs it all with a nice, cold glass of soy sauce.
Aside from her training, Adrienne enjoys a variety of other activities. She can often be found speaking in a made-up language and wondering why no one else can understand her. When she does break free of this dialect, however, she enjoys lecturing loved ones on the environmental impact of their favorite products and pastimes, and forcing strangers to look at pictures of her cat. She also takes great pleasure in gracing her friends and acquaintances with loud renditions of her favorite show tunes––of which there are roughly 100,000,000. Obviously, Adrie is a joy to be around!
Most importantly, Adrienne is overjoyed to be making music with the 'Mates! She feels extremely lucky to be part of such a talented and welcoming community. Plus, she already makes strange noises with her mouth, and being in the 'Mates makes it slightly more acceptable. She knows that over the next few years, she'll make lifelong memories and discover answers to life's most important questions (like: Why do we exist? Or: Can I knit myself a clone?). The end.
Originally drafted by Joelle P. Bosia. Translated, edited, and heavily revised by Adrienne B. La Forte.


text:
Don't you cut your lunch up when you're ready to eat it?Linda Nochlin
Vol. 24 No. 7 · 4 April 2002
Don't you cut your lunch up when you're ready to eat it?
Louise Bourgeois's 'Spider': The Architecture of Art-Writing
by Mieke Bal.
Chicago, 134 pp., £19, November 2001, 0 226 03575 1Show More
Louise Bourgeois is one of the two pre-eminent sculptors working today; the other is Richard Serra, whose sculpture – single-minded, monolithic, public – offers the most striking contrast to hers in both form and content. Serra is Isaiah Berlin's hedgehog exemplified in heavy metal: Louise Bourgeois is the fox, an artist of many devices, to borrow a Homeric epithet which suits her perfectly. Bourgeois's career is marked by an almost infinite variety, ranging from direct carving, primitivism and elegant surfaces in the work of the late 1940s and early 1950s – 'Brancusi meets Giacometti meets Arp meets a ghostly family in a Dogon village,' as Anne Wagner has put it – to the deliberately regressive work of the 1960s: muddy twists of plaster or latex, reminiscent of entrails, faeces or other bodily excrescences. These in turn led to the production of such icons of the informe as Fillette of about 1968, a 'two-foot-long latex phallus hung from a hook', in the words of Mignon Nixon writing in October, and the exemplary rough-surfaced, double-headed (or double-buttocked or breasted) Janus fleuri, Surrealist in its metamorphic perversity but classical in its reference and its bronze symmetry.
In the 1990s, Bourgeois turned to work as large-scale as Serra's: for example, the enormous, double-cylindered, overtly phallic Twosome of 1991, which kept pumping away suggestively in the company of Courbet's L'Origine du monde at the entrance to the Beaubourg Féminin/Masculin show ten years ago, promising a sexual excess which failed to materialise in the exhibition as a whole. In addition, Bourgeois has participated in performance pieces and created installations, like the complex, massive yet fragile architectonic series Cells, which proliferated in the 1990s. In her most recent show in New York, stuffed dolls hang mid-air in sexually explicit positions, and her own early work is parodied with marvellous wit in the form of beautifully executed mattress-ticking and other stuffed cloth totems, abject re-creations of primitivist pieces from the beginning of her career.
There don't seem to be enough categories or words to account for the entirety of the artist's oeuvre, and, in my case, scarcely enough breath to account for the variety of readings this provocative and suggestive work has engendered (Bourgeois herself is unusually generous in providing biographical if enigmatic clues to their meaning), especially the rich variety of feminist, or at least psychosexual, interpretations, ranging from the pioneering texts of Lucy Lippard in the 1970s, Rosalind Krauss's brilliant Kleinian reading in Bachelors, and continuing with Griselda Pollock, Briony Fer, Mignon Nixon, Anne Wagner and Alex Potts in a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal (22 February 1999) devoted to the artist.
At the same time, Bourgeois has provided herself with a textual persona as tantalising and contradictory as her sculptural work: indeed, the artist's writing constitutes an important part of her creative production. 'I am my work. I am not what I am as a person,' she declares near the beginning of Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father, a collection of her writings and interviews from 1923 to 1997. She repeats this assertion in various forms, revealing herself as both hostile to any form of intrusion on her privacy yet anxious to disclose elements of her personal history. Indeed, some details of her family story appear and reappear with obsessive repetition in the numerous interviews she has given: the oppressive macho father; the supportive, hardworking mother; the nanny who became her father's mistress; the 'superfluous' role of the girl child within the French family structure; the importance of the tapestry-restoration studio run by her parents in the suburbs of Paris where she grew up; the liberating effects of emigration to the United States.
One theme in particular rings out with a special resonance: the role of rage in female artistic creation. It is a subject that has been little examined and not often admitted, but Louise Bourgeois never forgets the productive power of anger. 'I use anger and it is a raw emotion,' she declares. 'It is my way of defending myself.' Indeed, she credits her childhood hatred of her nanny (her father's mistress) with being a source of her later creative powers: 'The motivation for the work is a negative reaction against her . . . It shows that it is really the anger that makes me work.' Even more important to Bourgeois – or, more accurately, the persona Bourgeois has created through her text – is the transformation of this primal rage in the work of art. 'The motivation may be murderous,' she asserts, 'but the form must be absolutely strict and pure.'
Nowhere is this paradoxical combination of uncontrolled rage and self-conscious formal absorption better captured than in the 1993 documentary film about Bourgeois directed by Nigel Finch for Arena Films. It is in fact a collaborative performance piece staged by Bourgeois and the director which successfully enacts the antagonism between interviewer and interviewee characteristic of Bourgeois's encounters with the investigative Other. Finch has staged this as a sort of visual and intellectual bullfight. In one sequence, Bourgeois destroys a ceramic vase on camera and stamps on the fragments to demonstrate her frustration, the rage her father's devastating arguments produced in her. Certainly, this is a destructive act. Yet it might also be considered a symbolic reference to an important aspect of her work, in which the fragment has a positive significance: it is not just the by-product of frustration. Individual human parts – an arm, a leg, an ear quite realistically carved, emerging, with Rodinesque specificity from the rough matière of the sculptured form – play an important expressive role in many of her works. 'Cutting – it means being in total control. Accepting the total control of whatever happens and it is quite aggressive.' When, in the film, she is challenged to justify the violent implications of cutting in Cell (Arch of Hysteria) – a male body is bent back like a bow, with arms and head amputated – she ripostes with an example from the most mundane reality: 'Don't you cut your lunch up when you're ready to eat it? Is that a crime?'
Self-contradiction looms large in Bourgeois's vision of herself. In the well-known photograph of the artist by Robert Mapplethorpe, best understood as a collaborative effort, she is portrayed wearing a favourite monkey-skin coat and carrying what appears to be a large sculptured phallus under her arm. 'I counted on what I brought: namely, the coat and the phallus,' she told an interviewer. Yet when the same interviewer asked why she had chosen to be depicted holding a large phallus, Bourgeois replied: 'It is not a phallus. This is what people say and what it is is completely different . . . The piece is called Fillette. Fillette means une petite fille. If you want to indulge in interpretation you could say that I brought a little Louise . . . it gave me security.' Bourgeois has a big grin on her face in this photograph: 'because I knew what people were going to say.' Obviously, the meaning of a given piece may change as its context changes: what might (with difficulty) be read in one situation as a little girl may in another be read as a very big penis. And both interpretations are valid: the little girl grows up to be the famous artist who possesses that illusory but confrontational symbol of male power, the phallus. But she can also laugh at herself for possessing it. Bourgeois warns against taking what she says literally. 'I never talk literally. Never, never, never. You do not get anywhere by being literal, except to be puny. You have to use analogy and interpretation and leaps of all kinds.'
Analogy, interpretation, 'leaps of all kinds'. These words might be said to set the stage for Mieke Bal's Louise Bourgeois's 'Spider': The Architecture of Art-Writing, which first saw the light as an article in the special issue of the Oxford Art Journal focused on Bourgeois. It is devoted to a single work, but an extraordinarily complex and many-sided one, an installation which cross-references both the Cell series, consisting of about forty highly evocative, semi-architectural installations, and the series of works in a variety of media, large and small, dedicated to the theme of the spider. Like the spider, Bal draws us into her web right from the start: 'Are they sculptures?' she asks. 'Installations? Buildings? All and none. Triggers of fantasy and strong statements on art, time, and individual and communal life, Louise Bourgeois's series Cells folds such categorical denominations of media and genre into one another.' Bal takes Spider, a work of 1997, as a case in point, for as architecture, sculpture and a kind of narrative, it 'overcomes the boundaries that usually delimit and confine the different arts'. But Bal's project is even more complicated than this first statement of it would suggest. For she is going to make her essay on Spider not merely a story about a work of art, however complex, but at the same time an examination of the work as both an object and subject of art-writing – of art history and art criticism. Bal is not just looking at Spider, but watching herself look at, think and write about it – and criticising other critics for not seeing in it what she does.
She is particularly hostile to other writers' reliance on narrative: 'The culture within which art functions today is suffering from an overdose of narrativity.' She finds a solution of sorts to the problem in Bourgeois's work, a realm in which 'sculpture becomes architecture and architecture sculpture,' in which 'narrative becomes a tool, not a meaning; a mediator, not a solution; a participant, not an outsider.' Do you understand what she means? Well, I don't, at least not exactly, but I am willing to go on, to pursue the issue further. And it is worth going on, because the next chapter, 'Description Shipwrecked', is a marvellous, if relentless, description of the piece, a description that, in its very excessiveness, reveals the limits of description itself. It is, in Bal's terms, provisional and accompanied by excellent photographic details of the piece, details absolutely necessary to Bal's argument/description: 'pieces of bone' inserted in the wire mesh of the cage-like structure, or 'three glass jars', or 'eggs in a basket' provide visual data to support Bal's increasingly difficult and theoretical reading, and her analysis of this reading. I found myself building up resistance as I went along. There is something authoritarian about a writer who purports to leave herself open to new, more accurate readings of a work and then refuses to allow her fellow critics, much less the reader, to participate. The snares of simple-minded narrative are everywhere, in Bal's view, and certainly, Bourgeois lays them out for the unsuspecting viewer, at the same time as depriving her of the pleasures of narrative closure. Yet surely, in the case of a work as inscrutable and suggestive as Spider, there are many paths to the meaning of the piece, which is deliberately unstable in any event.
What are we confronted with? A large steel-mesh cylindrical structure with an open door and a large armchair in the centre, hung in its interior with a variety of small objects – empty perfume bottles, a watch – decorated with old tapestry fragments, and overarched by an enormous, long-legged spider, whose eggs are encased in a basket in the centre of the ceiling of the structure. Obviously, as Bal and others have pointed out, this 'cell' cannot be assimilated either to the realm of sculpture or to that of architecture – quite apart from the fact that two-dimensional, painting-like work, in the form of tapestry, is essential to it. It's hard, if not impossible, to avoid making 'sense' (in the most fluid and partial sense of the term) out of the work without resorting to biography (Bourgeois has, after all, told us about her childhood), psychoanalysis, reference to past art and to the artist's own previous work, and to our own imaginative insights. Yet Bal, intent on her inscrutable theoretical project, will have little or none of these more conventional strategies. She goes to considerable lengths, for instance, to prevent us from reading the hole cut into the body of one of the male figures in a tapestry fragment as a reference to castration (detail: putto with genitals cut out); she produces a long-winded, obscurantist disquisition on rhetorical strategies, metonymy and synecdoche, and the way the hole lets us see through rather than look at the representational figure. The language becomes so prolix, the thought processes so tangled that the suggestive power of the revelation is lost in the meshes of her rhetoric. This happens time and again in Louise Bourgeois's 'Spider'. The serious reader would be well advised to take a look at the shorter and more easily understood version which appeared in the Oxford Art Journal before taking on the book, although the illustrations here are much better: in colour and more of them.
Bal is perhaps most successful when she confronts the potent references to the past, particularly the Baroque past, in this work and many others in Bourgeois's oeuvre, although here, too, the language seems unnecessarily convoluted and, well, baroque. Bernini is seen as the key figure in the artist's engagement with past art. For Bal, this is an ahistorical gesture which she calls 'beckoning Bernini' rather than, in more conventional terms, Bernini's influence. She correctly points to the frequent references to the Baroque throughout Bourgeois's career, in the 'humorously antiphallic' Cumul I of 1969, which 'invokes both male and female bodily productivity in such a way that all are invited to participate, according to one's desires and possibilities', or Blind Man's Buff, a work in marble of 1984, with its vertical clutch of penis or breast-like protrusions, which Bal characterises as 'luscious, deeply baroque sculpture' and which 'also carries a friendly androgyny that plays with the cultural veneration for the icon of the phallus, winking and smiling almost tenderly at the icon's rigid need to show itself upright'. Bourgeois herself was aware of this Baroque, Bernini-esque connection. She created a sculpture called Baroque in 1970, and an explicit Homage to Bernini, in bronze, in 1967, which Bal sees as a prototype of the later Cells, and of Spider specifically. Bal considers Spider a critical commentary on three of Bernini's most overtly narrative sculptures: Apollo and Daphne, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, and in the case of the latter, the impact of the dynamic folds of marble on Bourgeois's most Bernini-esque work, the Femme-Maison of 1983, in which the 'house' itself 'voluptuously sinks into a royal robe of folds'. Yet it's indicative of Bal's inability (or refusal) to see the obvious that she neglects what to me seems the most overt reference to Bernini and the Baroque in Spider, which is its deliberate evocation of the baldaquin, part architecture, part sculpture, over the high altar of St Peter's – in both there is the same protective arching of dynamic legs over a significant central space.
In a way, Bal is the ideal writer about Bourgeois: in both, excess is the name of the game. Bal's stylistic exuberance may at times be maddening and self-indulgent, but at others it is invigorating and revelatory. In the same way that much of Bourgeois's work can be read as a not so subtle attack on the verities of sculptural Modernism, so Bal's discourse can be understood as a continuous and often salutary thrust against establishment art history, even though she occasionally has to construct straw men (and women) to justify her position.
Linda Nochlin teaches art history at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
I, too, am an artist: Dora Maar
Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge: The Surprising Boldness of Mary Cassatt
More by Linda Nochlin

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Tag Archives: religious zionism
Rabbi Ronen Lubitz as potential Chief Rabbi of Haifa
Posted on June 8, 2010 by Alan Brill | 6 comments
According to Maariv, Ronen Lubitz, the Rabbi of Kibbutz Nir Etzion potentially could be the new Chief Rabbi of Haifa, to replace Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen. Lubitz was part of the wave of the New Religious Zionists, that includes Rabbis Cherlow, Bigman, Gilad, Benny Lau, who wrote programmatic essays a decade ago in Deot, Amudim and Akdamot about the future of Religious Zionism and who formed Tzohar, as a more progressive rabbinical organization.
Lubitz, who is less well known in America than the others, has already stated to Maariv that he seeks for greater tolerance of gays in synagogue and that he accepts the compromise of accepting that entertainment remains open on Shabbat.
A decade ago he wrote a programmatic article on what is "modern religious orthodoxy" called in Hebrew AD"M (Orthodoxy ha-Dati haModerni. For my American readers I must point out that he is referring to an Israeli phenomena and not an American phenomena. With the rise of the aforementioned New Religious Zionists in the early 1990's due to the breakdown of the older state-building and collective vision of the older religious Zionists, these younger rabbis turned to individualism and started calling themselves "modern." (Note: Religious Zionism and Modern Orthodoxy are not co-extensive and have different origins and trajectories. Too big a topic for here). This group of Religious Zionists have no connection or sympathy with Haredim since they attend separate schools and form identity through army service. Rav Cherlow even advocates not learning Haredi seforim. The article seeks to distance AD"M from the Religious Nationalism of Merkaz Harav such as the followers of Rav Aviner.
Man Searches for Meaning (Again) in Deot 7 April 2000
Lubitz offers chapters toward a Orthodox Dati ha-Moderni AD"M
We need to seeks our way. We used to have a clear path but not anymore. AD"M is between the national religious camp and the religious liberals, the former-associated with Rav Aviner-are connected to Religious Zionism but lack modernity and the latter embrace modernity but are sociologically separate from Religious Zionism.
How do we relate to modernity? Confrontation, combination, synthesis, or even intergrafted?
Now we have the new issues raised by Postmodernity where ideas are contingent. In the National Religious group many run away back to certainty and Haredi life. If modernity does not work the default is to reject it and seek certainty.
Ronen Lubitz defined the struggles of the New Religious Zionists as consisting of five elements.
Five characteristic of modern Orthodoxy (he mean Israeli Datiim Hadashim or AD"M, don't confuse with America)
(1)	One needs to choose life- nothing in the fullness of the secular world should be foreign to Judaism.
We need to identify with Western culture and still keep mizvot in their fullness. Correct action is required but we allow many opinions so we are more orthoprax than orthodox. (I am not sure if he means these terms in the American usage.-read the Hebrew) We embrace doubt pluralism, contingency, there is no one opinion or theology. Sometimes a moment of holiness in the secular and sometimes a moment of secular in the holiness- "there is nothing as whole as a broken awareness"
(2) Doubt is serious; misgivings about observing mizvot, skepticism about belief, and questioning of Torah are all to be taken seriously.
(3) Observant Jews can lead a normal life, and not conform to an ideal life. It is OK to relax with normal entertainment or to enter any profession. Legitimacy for modernity to permeate your life the way Israeli nationalism used to permeate lives. Torah Study does not override tasting and being part of the world.
(4) There is a pluralism of truth, without a reconciliation of halakhah, mahshavah, and secular studies. AD"M does not see a contradiction of Torah and the pluralism of scattered and fragmented truth. In this we differ from the National Religious who treat western culture as fact and try to keep out its values. Every month they have a new worry, reaction, and restriction. We openly accept human rights, autonomy, freedom, equality. We recognize that Western culture contributed to the advancement of humanity, therefore we seek to ground these values in Torah. In time, we will succeed in integrating post-modernism as well.
(5) We need to live in a religious language but we need a new religious language since the old language does not serve us anymore.
Interesting other piece about Lubitz protesting for human rights in China from 2008
In a small town in northern Israel Rabbi Ronen Lubitz is very happy to welcome his congregation's leavened bread. It's a token of solidarity to remember the days when the Jews had to cross the desert without it after they were freed from Egypt.But this year Rabbi Lubitz is adding something more to this ancient tradition. He's asking everyone in his congregation to sign a petition against human rights abuses in China. His hope… to have his community know about the persecution of Falun Gong in mainland China.
[Ronen Lubitz, Rabbi of Nir Ezion]:
"I decided this year to use this opportunity to let people know about what's going on in China. The persecution and torturing of the Falun Gong, and the prohibition of very basic civil rights to the people of China. I think it's very much connected to the basic ideas of Pesach (Passover). Because during Pesach we celebrate our freedom. Our freedom as people, as a nation. Our freedom as individuals."
"I go in the way of Rabbi Kook. He talked a lot about our duty to love all human beings and he spoke about our Passover, our Pesach as a sign of freedom to all humanity…I would like to wish the people in China and in other places in the world that this spring of our nation will be a sign for spring for them as well."
Posted in rabbis, religious zionism, Uncategorized
Tagged deot, modern orthodoxy, religious zionism, Ronan Lubetz, ronen lubetz, ronen lubitz, shaar yashuv COhen, Yuval cherlow
Rabbi Hirschenson's Malki Bakodesh
I was given a copy of the 2006 reprint of Rabbi Hayyim Hirschenson's Malki baKodesh on my last journey. I have read the older Hebrew edition. But as I pack for the next journey, I took it out to read for Shabbat.and looked at the new edition, He writes as 1929 Zionist. who attended the early Zionist congresses and wants to deal with the political problems that will arrive. He wants to assure that Religious Jews would not require a king and would not require the institution of sacrifices. He wants to allow people on to the Temple mount but as house of prayer for all people. It is permitted to join the Jewish legion even if it is a non-obligatory war- yet was are not in a messianic age. Finally, he accepts the concept of a high court of appeals- something that Rav Kook vehemently objected to its institution.Along the way and unlike most Rabbinic works are discussions of Horace Kalen, Louis Brandeis, and Jabotinsky. He supports the creation of legal boards and mishpat ivri to avoid Rabbinic courts. And finds the Balfour declaration a major event that should reorient Judaism. No law of the Torah can be against true civilization
In the original 1929 edition there was already an English preface which encouraged the role of the populous, and the need to make sure the halakhah does not perish. " They deal with considerations of primary importance for every Jew who is interested in the organic continuation of Jewish life in the line of historical development of Jewish teaching on the basis of Halacha." The editor of the new edition notes the influence of Abraham Lincoln's "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.".
He is anti Kingship based on the Abrabanel. And his approach seems to solve problems by making things problematic. The Bavli says this but the midreshei halakhah say other things and our questions cannot be answered so we can have a removal of a Rabbinic category. So unlike Maimonides who creates an ideal messianic halakhah- Hirschenson shows there is no ideal and there the laws are inoperative. He also used the technical questions of the Vilna Gaon, R. Akiva Eier and the Torah Temimah, to remove closure. As a said in my YUTorah class on Hirschenson- he is not just creating liberal position but works through Horayot and Sanhedrin and undoing them. Unlike others who try and make him Maimonidean, philosophic, or intellectual modernist. He is more historic oriented, a strong defense of popularism, and is more about removal of law than the construction of new law. (cf, the volume's introduction that compares him to David Hartman).
A few theological points:
He writes that he was witness to WWI and the slaughter of the Armenians and decides that there is a need to write a new Zohar style apocalypse, like the Nistarot of Rabbi Shimon or Zohar Shemot 6-7, which he wrote and called "Tikkune Hamalkhut"
He wrote and analysis of Spinoza's ethics and what we can learn from it in Spinoza's work, contained in his Musagei Shav veha-Emet. He can use Spinoza because he is not trying to create rationality, rather he is seeking to create opening for a broader life, like Rabbi Reines.
Coincidently, I had Hirschenson's hagadah at hand, literally, someone recently sent me a copy.
Here are a few ideas from it:
"Maimonides did not intend that there would be only 13 principles of faith; there are many other principles in the Torah. Maimonides needed to explain only those principles that the masses would not understand because of their philosophic depth… There are many halakhot that are also principles such as those of "kill and do not violate." And in the case of the Hagadah, the wicked son writes himself out of Judaism.
He translates "pereshut- zu derekh eretz" as one of the class system, perishut means class and the Jews who were originally upper class were treated as lower class and that is a major afflication.
The hagadah states that Jews are free in many countries due to minority rights but they are not spiritually free yet because are feeling the oppression of the majority culture and therefore do not have love of Torah and fear of heaven. He also notes that until he cme to the US, he never knew why both phrases are needed and now he sees that one can have a sense of heaven and be totally removed from [the laws of] Shabbat and Torah.
Posted in holidays, israel, jewish thought, religious zionism
Tagged abarbanel, abraham lincoln, hagadah, hayyim Hirschenson, malci bakodesh, malki bakodesh, Mishpat ivri, rabbi reines, religious zionism, SPinoza
This is How Redemption Looks- Chayuta Deutsch
Posted on October 26, 2009 by Alan Brill | Leave a comment
Chayuta (also spelled Hayuta) Deutsch is the editor of the Akdamot Journal, published by Beit Morasha of Jerusalem, and the author of Nechama: The Biography of Nechama Leibovitz, published by Yedioth Ahronot Press. She was the literay editor for Ha-Zofeh during its sensationalist decade.
She has a new book out "ככה נראית גאולה" This is how Redemption Looks. Something for me to get next trip to Israel.
"ככה נראית גאולה", מאת חיותה דויטש, הוצאת "ידיעות ספרים". 239 עמודים. The book is short stories about the Relgious Zionist world–Think "Serugim"
Here is an excerpt.
Facebook for book
Posted in israel, religious zionism
Tagged chayuta deutsch, religious zionism, ככה נראית גאולה


text:
Parent's day 2020: 7 family friendly movies on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, ZEE5 to watch with your parents
Sit back and enjoy!
rimi chakraborty
Published: Jul 26, 2020 | 14:00:37 IST
BADHAAI HO ON DISNEY+ HOTSTAR
Although you don't need any particular day to make your parents feel special, this Sunday ie July 26, 2020, happens to be Parents' Day. And if you don't have anything planned for them, here's the simplest thing you can do. Make them sit back, relax and watch together these family friendly movies that will instantly lighten up the mood and bring a smile on their faces. Don't look too far, you can watch these family friendly movies on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+Hotstar and ZEE5.
1. BADHAAI HO – DISNEY+HOTSTAR
The story revolves around a 25-year-old man who struggles to come to terms with accepting the newest family member, when he learns that his mother is pregnant. From a disappointed son who feels embarrassed of his parents to becoming their strongest support system, Ayushmann Khurrana's character transformation make this comedy film worth watching. Directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, the film also features Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao and Surekha Sikri among others. Badhaai Ho became one of the highest-grossing movies of 2018 and also won two National Film Awards – Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Best Supporting Actress.
2. 102 NOT OUT – AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
Directed by Umesh Shukla, the film narrates a hilarious and heart-warming tale of a 102-year-old man who wants to make the most of his life break the record of the oldest man alive. Contrary to his cheerful attitude is his 76-year-old son who is grumpy and feels too old to enjoy his life. As the story unfolds, the son slowly warms up to his father and starts appreciating his positive attitude towards life. The film features Amitabh Bachchan as father and late actor Rishi Kapoor as his son.
3. DO DOONI CHAAR – NETFLIX
The story revolves around a maths teacher and his family based in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar. Although barely making enough to make ends meet, the family dreams of buying a car and the responsibility of fulfilling it falls on the shoulders of the maths teacher, who almost always falls short on their expectations. How the Duggal family beats all odds to make their dreams come true, weaves the rest of the story. Starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Aditi Vasudev and Archit Krishna, the film won the National Award for the Best Feature Film in Hindi.
4. KHICHDI: THE MOVIE – DISNEY+HOTSTAR
The eccentric Parekh family is back with their hilarious misadventures, only this time in the form of a two-hour movie. The story revolves around Himanshu, Hansa's brother who has had just one dream since childhood – to have a memorable love story. He meets and falls in love with his neighbour Parminder. However, there's a problem, his love story does not match with the he dreams of – there's no angry father who is against the wedding, there's no conflict, no drama, nothing. So, to fulfil his dream, the Parekh family sets out to break Himanshu's marriage just so he can make his legendary love story.
5. PATIALA HOUSE – NETFLIX
Directed by Nikkhil Advani, this sports drama revolves around a Gattu, who aspires to become a cricketer. However, he's scared of going against his father, who despises the idea of him playing for England. How the son musters courage to follow his dreams and how his father comes to accept his son's ambitions and talents, weaves the rest of the story. The film features Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Dimple Kapadia, Soni Razdan and Hard Kaur among others.
6. ANGREZI MEDIUM – DISNEY+HOTSTAR
Directed by Homi Adajania, the story revolves around a sweet-shop owner and his daughter who is hell-bent on studying in London's Truford University. Although, he manages to send his daughter to London, they get separated at the airport which soon turns their otherwise normal trip into an adventurous journey with hilarious ups and downs. The film features late actor Irrfan Khan, Radhika Madan, Deepak Dobriyal, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Pankaj Tripathi.
7. ENGLISH VINGLISH – ZEE5
Shashi Godbole is a housewife whose husband thinks she's only made to do household chores and is often mocked by him and their daughter for her struggles with the English language. When she gets invited to her niece's wedding in New York City, she decides to face one of her biggest fears – learn to speak in fluent English. Directed by Gauri Shinde, the movie features Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Priya Anand, Sujatha Kumar and Mehdi Nebbou among others.
Featuring: Ayushmann Khurrana, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao
Platform: Hotstar
Featuring: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Do Dooni Chaar
Featuring: Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Aditi Vasudev
Featuring: Supriya Pathak, Vandana Pathak, Rajeev Mehta
Release Date: September 2002
Platform: Disney + Hotstar
Featuring: Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Dimple Kapadia
Featuring: Irrfan Khan, Radhika Madan, Kareena Kapoor
Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Featuring: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou
What to watch today: 5 best shows and movies on Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime VideoTiger King, Masterchef Australia and other…
Weekend marathon: 10 gritty crime documentaries on Netflix & Youtube you can finish in 16 hoursWe've picked some of the best documentaries for…
8 new shows & movies to watch on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, ZEE5 & Lionsgate Play this weekend to unwindPop some kernels, it's going to be a long and…


text:
// This test concerns the identity of dependent types within the
// canonical type system. This corresponds to C++ [temp.type], which
// specifies type equivalence within a template.
//
// FIXME: template template parameters

namespace N {
  template<typename T>
  struct X2 {
    template<typename U>
    struct apply {
      typedef U* type;
    };
  };
}

namespace Nalias = N;

template<typename T>
struct X0 { };

using namespace N;

template<typename T, typename U>
struct X1 {
  typedef T type;
  typedef U U_type;

  void f0(T); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f0(U);
  void f0(type); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f1(T*); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f1(U*);
  void f1(type*); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f2(X0<T>*); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f2(X0<U>*);
  void f2(X0<type>*); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f3(X0<T>*); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f3(X0<U>*);
  void f3(::X0<type>*); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f4(typename T::template apply<U>*); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f4(typename U::template apply<U>*);
  void f4(typename type::template apply<T>*);
  void f4(typename type::template apply<U_type>*); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f5(typename T::template apply<U>::type*); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f5(typename U::template apply<U>::type*);
  void f5(typename U::template apply<T>::type*);
  void f5(typename type::template apply<T>::type*);
  void f5(typename type::template apply<U_type>::type*); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f6(typename N::X2<T>::template apply<U> *); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f6(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<U> *);
  void f6(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<T> *);
  void f6(typename ::N::X2<type>::template apply<U_type> *); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f7(typename N::X2<T>::template apply<U> *); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f7(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<U> *);
  void f7(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<T> *);
  void f7(typename X2<type>::template apply<U_type> *); // expected-error{{redeclar}}

  void f8(typename N::X2<T>::template apply<U> *); // expected-note{{previous}}
  void f8(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<U> *);
  void f8(typename N::X2<U>::template apply<T> *);
  void f8(typename ::Nalias::X2<type>::template apply<U_type> *); // expected-error{{redeclar}}
};

namespace PR6851 {
  template <bool v>
  struct S;

  struct N {
    template <bool w>
    S< S<w>::cond && 1 > foo();
  };

  struct Alien;
  bool operator&&(const Alien&, const Alien&);

  template <bool w>
  S< S<w>::cond && 1 > N::foo() { }
}

namespace PR7460 {
  template <typename T>
  struct TemplateClass2
  {
    enum { SIZE = 100 };
    static T member[SIZE];
  };

  template <typename T>
  T TemplateClass2<T>::member[TemplateClass2<T>::SIZE];
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Judge not or you will be judged!
Love that saying I was with a friend one day and I mentioned that the bible is very literal and not practical in it's approach to life. She stopped me and said the bible is one of the most practical books in our today's society and that made me think… Of course it's practical but we are too involved in the literal interpretation and normally forget the essence of the stories. I belong to a school of thought that shouts from the rooftop "have an open mind!!!!!!" our society heavily resists this and definitely not tolerant of other people's views, cultures, idiosyncrasies, etc. Yet they are the ones that go to church regularly and pass judgement with so much ease. Even Jesus told us not to ever judge anyone and that is an authority of having an open mind.
Everyone has a story we are all coming from somewhere. Before labelling, judging or pigeon holing we should try walking in their shoes, possess their DNA, have their characteristics, educational background and culture… we might act or behave the way they do… so please hold your tongue and your thoughts before passing any comment as we all have different views of the world.
A man with jaundice will see the world yellow. Who are we to say he is wrong and we are right… like the bible says "JUDGE NOT". Just have an open mind and see the world in different colours not black and white, listen to other people's point of view you never know you might learn a thing or two.


text:
Q: Easiest way to see that $\mathcal{C}$ is cocomplete? Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category that has all coproducts and coequalizers. My question is, what is the easiest way to see that $\mathcal{C}$ is cocomplete?

A: As the initial comments on the question make clear, the first response to the question is "It's a one-line proof by duality!".
For the result that a category that has all coproducts and coequalizers is cocomplete is of course an immediate corollary by duality of the standard result that a category that has all products and  equalizers is complete.
So is the question really about is what is the easiest way to prove either the standard result or its dual? Again, as the comments make clear,  essentially the same line of proof of the standard result crops up in many texts.
But if you are finding presentations of it in standard texts too quick, you could try the slow-motion, three-stage, version in Ch. 14 of these online notes.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
You are here: Home / ... / Bahamas Red Cross Responds to Hurricane Joaquin
Bahamas Red Cross Responds to Hurricane Joaquin
Published: 21 October 2015 17:23 CET
On Wednesday September 30th, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin became the tenth named hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Hurricane warnings were issued for several islands in Bahamas, including Abacos, Berry Islands, Eleuthra, Grand Bahama Island, New Providence, Acklins, Crooked Island, Mayaguana, Bimini, and Andros Island. Tropical storm warnings were issued in the remainder of the Bahamas, as well as Turks and Caicos, and the Camaguey, Las Tunas, Holguin and Guantanamo provinces in Cuba.
Anticipating the impact, the Bahama Red Cross Society proceeded to activate their National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) and emergency shelters on September 30th. One of the first actions taken by the Bahamas Red Cross was to hold food, water and clothing drives to help with the immediate relief distribution that would take place. Joaquin's impact on Bahamas lasted over the next four days until October 3rd, with an all-clear being issued on October 4th.
Given the extent of the damage and relief and recovery measures that are required in the Bahamas, the National Society requested the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) use of the Disaster Relief Reserve Fund (DREF) for a 3 months relief operation.
The funds granted by the IFRC will be used to meet the needs identified by the Bahamas Red Cross, such as:
Food and Water – The flooding on several islands severely impacted access to safe water and food. The National Society launched a food, water, and clothing drive and will undertake to provide food, water and clothing packages for affected families for one month. Distribution will using ODK and Mega V systems
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion – Potable water has been restored in many islands but CDEMA indicates contaminated water on at least one of the affected islands. The Bahamas Red Cross will deliver jerry cans and hygiene kits to affected families, and continue to promote safe hygiene and water practices.
Health and Care - The flooding in some areas provide the necessary conditions for breeding vector-borne and water-borne diseases. The Bahamas Red Cross will promote the prevention of these diseases, both to beneficiaries and volunteers, as well as distribute mosquito nets.
Reports also indicate concern for the mental and emotional well-being of those affected by Hurricane Joaquin. The Bahamas Red Cross has requested assistance in evaluating the need for psychosocial support (PSP) from the Jamaica Red Cross, which will be facilitated through the Regional Intervention Team (RIT) deployment mechanism. Training in PSP and Community Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) will be coordinated with the Ministry of Health and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Shelter and relief distribution – Several houses have been destroyed or severely damaged. Cleaning kits and kitchen sets will be needed, as well as other non-food items to complement relief distribution by other partners. The Jamaica Red Cross will assist with procuring these items, which will be replenished through the emergency operation.
The Director General of the Bahamas Red Cross Society will have overall oversight for the emergency operation. At least 50 volunteers from the National Society Headquarters and groups from the Family Islands will be included in the coordination. A RIT specializing in PSP will be deployed to assess and support provision of services and training.
Most relief items will need to be sourced regionally or internationally. Due to the geographic proximity, the Jamaica Red Cross' predisposed stock will account for the coverage of 600 jerry cans, 300 cleaning kits, 300 kitchen sets, and 300 hygiene kits to be delivered. The Regional Logistics Services Unit in Panama will replenish these kits, as well as source 1,200 mosquito nets.
Please visit the Bahamas Red Cross Facebook page for more information on their activities https://www.facebook.com/Bahamas-Red-Cross-Society-287498687576/timeline/
Initial reports indicated widespread power outages, disruption to telecommunications and water distribution systems, and flood and debris damage to road networks. Several Bahamas Red Cross groups formed on affected islands, taking on relief responsibilities ranging from shelter management to distributing relief supplies.
The most recent damage and needs assessments indicate significant impact over several islands, with an estimated 6,710 people affected.
Acklins Island (pop. 560):
No deaths have been reported. Road networks remain flooded, and communications are limited to satellite phone due to damage to communications towers. No shelter has been activated, and approximately 90% of the houses in Lovely Bay, Chester, and Snug Corner have been severely damaged or destroyed. There are 4 clinics are on the island, each with varying degrees of water and electricity supply.
The drinking water treatment plant in Salina Point is not currently operational due to lack of electricity. Stored water is being distributed to 60 households for drinking water, and one bottled water plant in Spring Point is providing water for entire island.
Crooked Island and Long Cay (Pop. 323)
The main port is inoperable, all houses on the Eastern side have suffered severe roof damage and road access between the East and West of the Island is currently passable only by large trucks. The local school is severely damaged. A satellite clinic has been destroyed, though the main clinic served as temporary shelter for at least 20 persons. Utilities and telecommunications infrastructure remains down.
Breeding sites for vector borne diseases are a concern given the open water cisterns and water storage tanks in marsh areas.
Exuma (Pop. 7,314)
Power lines are down and there is extreme flooding.
Long Island (Pop. 3,024)
The impact has been most significant in Sand Pond and Clarence Town, with several buildings sustaining heavy damage from high winds. In flooded low lying areas, several houses suffered damage from high water levels. Power lines are down in some areas. Clinics in the south of the island are either damaged or not in use.
Minor injuries, Non Communicable Diseases (NCD), and mental health concerns are being addressed at a temporary clinic. Pyschosocial support has been identified as a need. Relief is being sent from Nassau for resident clinic staff.
Drinking water supply and conditions are stable, and though waste collection services have been disrupted, they should improve shortly as roads re-open.
Mayaguana (Pop. 271)
Efforts are currently underway to restore communications. There has been minor damage to home structures, including loss of roofing shingles.
Rum Cay (Pop. 99)
There are reports of flooding, downed trees, blocked roads, and a full power outage due to downed power lines. The airport is flooded, but the airstrip remains accessible. The shipping dock has been destroyed.
San Salvador (Pop. 930)
There has been widespread flooding, and power lines and poles are down. Cell sites remain functional, though there has been damage to power station roof. Generators will need repair. The airport building has been destroyed, but the airstrip remains accessible.
There has also been significant damage to homes. Reports indicate that there are 84 persons at the Odell Center and 104 persons at the Research Center.


Few places are still secluded, left untouched and completely exotic, letting the holiday maker truly get far away, disconnect, relax and unwind.
Let our video take you to a somewhat private place where soft sand caresses your feet, where hidden turquoise lagoons are home to breath taking reefs, and where elegant yet simplistic beach or over water villas have been created for you to rest and sleep.
Amari Havodda Maldives Resort is a jewel waiting to be found. Let the video tell the story and virtually take you there.


text:
Workhuman introduces a 'Charter of Workplace Rights'
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working culture
Workhuman, social recognition and continuous performance management platform, has unveiled the Workhuman Charter of Workplace Rights and accompanying Workhuman Certified programme during the Workhuman Live Online broadcast.
This new programme provides a clear path of action for progressive companies and leaders who are pioneering effective ways to create more human workplaces. Baystate Health, Cisco, and Schneider Electric are among the first Enterprises to be recognized for their commitment.
"We are in unprecedented times. The work environment has changed significantly, and today's employees are demanding more. In fact, 88 percent would prefer to work for a company that has a clear policy on employee rights," said Eric Mosley, Workhuman co-founder and CEO. "This is a wake-up call and a call-to-action for both organisations and professionals; an opportunity to put a stake in the ground and be celebrated as a positive disruptor. While today's leaders and employees want to be forward thinking and are eager to help drive change, knowing where to start often plagues progress. Workhuman Certified gives HR leaders and practitioners a distinct next step."
New research from Workhuman claims that employees are passionate about these issues. Yet, fair pay remains an issue that organisations will need to rectify, with nearly one in three employees reporting they don't believe they are paid fairly, only 46 percent of UK women surveyed reporting they believe they are paid the same as male counterparts, and only 24.8 percent of BAME employees stating they believe they are paid the same as non-BAME employees.
At the Workhuman Live Online event, thousands of HR leaders and professionals heard how Workhuman Certified Enterprises Baystate Health, Cisco, and Schneider Electric approach certain Workplace Rights:
"The stronger we are as a team, the more capable we are of caring for this diverse community."
Francine Katsoudas, EVP and Chief People Officer at Cisco, discussed pay equity: "We've been incredibly focused on pay parity for the last five years. What that means for us is that we really focus on ensuring that every employee, regardless of where they are in the world, is paid fairly. We look at their role. We look at location. We look at the amount of experience and ensure that no one has fallen behind. And I will tell you that as quickly as pay is changing, it requires a tremendous amount of work to really stay on top of that. And one of the things that we'll always balance, as a company, is how do you pay for performance and ensure that no one is falling behind as well."
Tina Kao Mylon, SVP of Talent and Diversity at Schneider Electric, discussed sustainability: "Our purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability. Right now, sustainability and efficiency are top of mind for our customers, so whether we can help them reduce their CO2 footprint or help them think about how they manage energy in a more sustainable way while also bringing down cost, those are huge areas where we've seen demand. We have also committed by 2030 to have net zero CO2 emissions and we want to operate in a net-zero CO2 supply chain by 2050. We know it's an ambitious objective, but it's clear we want to do this."
Kristin Morales-Lemieux, SVP and CHRO at Baystate Health, discussed diversity and a sense of belonging: "In recent months, and largely in response to the protest over racial injustice, we've developed a series that we call the Dignity Series. It's really teaching and training the Dignity Model that every human being is deserving of recognition and respect and should be treated with and have their dignity honoured. That has opened up the ability for us to have exceptionally open conversations about really scary topics and has really served to make us an organisation where people can feel like they belong, are more sensitive to each other's differences, and more appreciative of how the more diverse we are, the greater our differences, the stronger we are as a team and the more capable we are of caring for this diverse community."
Carers consider giving up work due to lack of employer support
Communicating employee rewards boosts engagement
Fit notes for stress-related disorders rise by 8 percent
Daylight levels affect our perceptions of temperature	Office design should embrace the new digital workplace


text:
Ken Griffin gives $20 million to Florida's Norton Museum of Art
on May20
by admin | Comments Off on Ken Griffin gives $20 million to Florida's Norton Museum of Art |
Ken Griffin, the philanthropist, art collector and hedge-fund billionaire, has donated $16 million to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. The donation, announced July 31, places Griffin's name on the museum's new 59,000-square-foot wing. The wing, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster, is part of an extensive museum-wide renovation and is expected to open in February 2019.
"The new Norton is the realization of an ambitious, transformative vision for the museum," said Griffin, founder and CEO of Chicago-based Citadel, in the press release announcing the gift. "It will create a wonderful opportunity for generations of Palm Beach families, students and visitors to learn about and enjoy art." Griffin has also pledged an additional $4 million to endow the museum's directorship.
It is the museum's biggest single philanthropic gift in its 77-year history, according to the release. "It is impossible to overstate the importance of this gift to the Norton," said Hope Alswang, executive director and CEO, in the release. The expansion, underwritten by a $100 million capital campaign, will have 37 percent more exhibit space and 50 percent more space for education programs, and it will also include new public gardens, the first to be designed by Foster. Griffin's gift, given via his Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund, brings the campaign total to $107 million.
The donation to the Norton continues Griffin's pattern of supporting art museums around the country, including several with architecturally significant expansions and buildings. In 2006, Griffin and his former wife, Anne Dias Griffin, donated $19 million to the Art Institute of Chicago toward the museum's Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing, whose airy interior lobby is named Griffin Court. In 2015, Griffin gave $40 million to New York's Museum of Modern Art, a gift that put Griffin's name on the museum's Philip Johnson-designed, circa-1964 East Wing. His philanthropic gifts over the years have totaled at least $600 million, according to the release. Forbes pegs his net worth at $9 billion.
Griffin, a Florida native, owns about 15 acres of land, including 871 feet of beachfront, in Palm Beach. Earlier this year, he temporarily called off plans to build a single-story mansion on Ocean Boulevard.
Ken Griffin is Illinois' richest resident
Ken Griffin showcases $500 million purchases at Art Institute
This is the most expensive home sale ever
Previous postNorthern Trust looks to get into cryptocerrency custody Next postOpioid laws hit physicians, patients in unintended ways


Eye Color: green, but i swear they turn turquoise in the sun!?
Screen Name: jessie, can't really get creative with my name!
Favorite Movie: i can't pick one, but Harry Potter, Dirty Dancing, Love Actually...the list goes on!
Your Car: A navy blue Ford KA.
Your Crush's First Name: i can't remember tbh!
Have You Ever... Sat on your rooftop: nooo, would love to though!
Laughed so hard you cried: too many times!
Sang to someone for no reason: no, if you hear my singing you'll see why!
Been in love: yes and still am!
Write with both hands: just about, writing with my left hand is barely readable though!
Cross your eyes: kind of?
Touch your tongue to your nose: no, my tongue is tiny!
Dance: i'm not bad with a couple of drinks down me!
Speak a different language: well i did french GCSE and that was about it..
Cook anything: nope, definitely need to become more domesticated!
I am ...excited for the future!
hi jessie, i'm so glad you followed me.. i don't think i would've found your amazing blog otherwise!


Hey guys, I was fooling around in my kitchen last night and discovered I had an unopened bag of matcha green tea. I was planning on eating just some greek yogurt but I decided to try an experiment.
Long story short.... I mixed two spoonfulls of matcha with my Greek God Honey yogurt.
OMG! Freaking awesome!! Especially since I just found out that matcha has more anti-oxidants than brewed green tea.
Give it a try and comment on what you think.
Bigger is never big enough.
It's very strange combination. I will try it and I will comment soon.


It's interesting that there's a movie named "Smallfoot" in theaters.
It looks like that I missed a chance to capitalize on the name "Smallfoot" and the marketing revenue that would have accompanied it.
For years, I've told stories about the 'real' Bigfoot: Smallfoot. The main story I've told: that Bigfoot is real, except that he's exceptionally tiny and evades detection through his diminutive status. Everyone's running around in the dark, desperately seeking a large creature when, in fact, Bigfoot is a tiny animal hiding in plain sight.
About 5 years ago, I created a Facebook page for the "Smallfoot" community. I filled it with the legends and sightings of a really small Bigfoot.
I even created a website (which I never took live) and made t-shirts. I had a REALLY large size t-shirt made for my co-worker Joe Buss. I made fake publicity stills and even wrote studios such as A&E to generate either buzz or confusion in their minds. For a while, I had a lot of fun with it.
I let it go and never went live with the website. Joe still has his t-shirt, though.
There's no point to this post other than to say that I misjudged how much I could have taken advantage of my really dumb idea. Whether the studio saw my original nonsense or came up with it independently, I was first. Some of my friends and social media friends probably recall my flirtation with notoriety.
It turns out that my dumb take on the old legend wasn't dumb at all.


With careful planning, this could be a fun and a money making challenge for any group, cautious planning is the key and hopefully this can be a fun and a productive and worthwhile mission on your group and one which might be repeated in the future.
FAQs on Deciding on the Proper Product Planning and coordination Soccer fundraising that includes a radar-equipped taking pictures cage is actually an affordable event to host. Gather Your Help Having a pizza card fundraiser will be a strong increase to the exercise of your club, group of organization. It is going to get you the money you should provide all the things it wants, and the time invested in it pays off penny by penny.
If you end up making an commercial via Fb and posters, then there are extra possibilities of people inviting your volunteers! Try to use the free notice boards in colonies, you simply need to pin up few posters with the identify of the NGO, cost, how the funds with be used and make contact with details. After you wash their autos, don't forget to thank them for supporting your NGO!
A enterprise authorities grant is available at three levels that's federal, state and native. One ought to knock on the each government division for help. Take assist from and discover free cash that you just use to additional your corporation curiosity. Whether or not it is staff coaching, shopping for new technology or bettering a producing plant, you will get dollars for each project. Borrowing load is kind of simple for an entrepreneur however it is no intelligence to borrow loans when you may get free cash. A little effort in looking for various grants can relive your stress. Loan is quick money but it brings responsibility and extra stress.
Deciding that you just need a novel fundraising concept is one factor, coming up with the concept is a distinct factor altogether. In this article we'll try to get you began. Collect info and record impressions while every little thing is still fresh. Make notes about provider relationships, any course of issues, and what features want advantageous-tuning for the subsequent time round.
Assume by way of potential customers, i.e. families with college college students, distant relations, those that travel regularly, or individuals who make international calls. You should also take into accounts that the place one wonderful church fund elevating idea can do a world of fine, just a few good ideas strapped collectively cannot only change your world, but also your universe.
Sweet is a favourite of kids, and candy makes an important fundraiser for elementary faculties. Connoisseur, Hershey, Maredy Candy are a couple of companies that present wonderful fundraising packages. Yow will discover out extra concerning the firms and the applications on the Web or by calling the company. Find out what different tree tons cost for numerous sized trees and wreaths.
36 year-old Internal Auditor Jarvis Murry from Drumheller, has numerous hobbies and interests which include croquet, . and smoking pipes. Finds the charm in planing a trip to destinations around the globe, of late only returning from Historic Area of Willemstad.


– Where Bears Roam Free: What is Phony Tony Tan yammering about?
– THINK HAPPINESS: Where is the money, TOC & TRE?
– Javert's World: Singaporean First? Yes! First to Pay And Pay.
– guanyinmiao's musings: Has "Project Work" In Junior Colleges Outlived Its Usefulness?
– Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Revisiting the decision to privatise our power stations.


text:
Home/1. Free Content/In Blow to Online Privacy EU Seizes on Vienna Attack to Enact Long-Desired Ban on Encryption
In Blow to Online Privacy EU Seizes on Vienna Attack to Enact Long-Desired Ban on Encryption
November 23, 2020 1. Free Content, Censorship, Conspiracies, Technology
By Alan Mcleod
The European Union is rushing through new legislation to get rid of end-to-end digital encryption. This would mean the end of privacy for users of popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
A European Council draft resolution on encryption quietly published on Friday afternoon lays out the EU's Orwellian position in detail. "The European Union fully supports the development, implementation and use of strong encryption," it states, "Encryption is a necessary means of protecting fundamental rights and the digital security of governments, industry and society." Yet in the very next sentence it insists that "At the same time, the European Union needs to ensure the ability of competent authorities" to "exercise their lawful powers, both online and offline." These "competent authorities" (a phrase occurring throughout the document) refer to law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities.
"Protecting the privacy and security of communications through encryption and at the same time upholding the possibility for competent authorities in the area of security and criminal justice to lawfully access relevant data for legitimate, clearly defined purposes infighting serious and/or organized crimes and terrorism, including in the digital world, are extremely important," it concludes. Thus, the EU's position is that its citizens should be able to hide their data from criminals, but not from the government or its various spying agencies.
The official justification for these new laws, Austrian public service broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk reports, is the Vienna terrorist attack of November 2, which left five people dead and 23 injured. However, it notes, the EU has long dreamed of pushing through legislation which lets it surveil its population. In June, for instance, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johannson gave a speech outlining what must be done to win the fight against child trafficking and abuse. "We must also deal with encryption. Military grade encryption that's easy to use but impossible to break makes paedophiles invisible and hides evidence of their crimes from police," she insisted. "It's our obligation to protect children. We must do what is necessary," she added.
Civil rights group the Electronic Freedom Foundation is not impressed by the various arguments put forward by the EU in order to justify the end of end to end encryption, calling it a "drastically invasive step."
We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the EU, headed directly toward Europeans' digital front-doors. It's the same direction as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States have been moving for some time. If Europe wants to keep its status as a jurisdiction that treasures privacy, it will need to fight for it," they wrote last month.
WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Facebook, has over 2 billion users around the world and is particularly popular with Europeans. In terms of user penetration, the top five countries for WhatsApp are all in Europe, with over 85 percent of Dutch smartphone owners using the service. Commonly thought to be the most secure messaging app, Signal is also extremely popular. While it does not reveal how many users it has, its app has been downloaded more than 10 million times by Android users alone. Launched in 2014, Signal is an open source app specifically created with journalists, NGO workers, and other professions who share sensitive data in mind. And while Facebook and WhatsApp have a history of cooperating with governments around the world, Signal has so far resisted attempts to co-opt or neutralize its software, notably rejecting the Australian government's demands to install a spying "backdoor" for it.
Österreichischer Rundfunk alleges that the campaign against encryption is being led by France and President Emmanuel Macron in particular; "The ground for this has been prepared since 2015 in a whole series of campaigns," emanating from Paris, it writes. This week, Macron will discuss "further steps against terrorism" with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
While the EU represents just 27 nations and around 450 million people, decisions the body makes have a profound effect on the rest of the world. Indeed, Friday's European Council document makes this clear, claiming that, "the EU will leverage its tools and regulatory powers to help shape global rules and standards." Thus, regulations enforced on tech companies will likely become the standard in many other parts of the world, if not globally.
Last Monday, a lone gunman wearing a fake explosive belt opened fire in the historic center of Vienna, killing four others before police shot him dead. Authorities stated that the perpetrator, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzullai, was an ISIS sympathizer. This is not the first time that terrorist incidents have been used to justify increasing surveillance laws. Just six weeks after the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government rushed through the PATRIOT Act, a piece of legislation that drastically increased the state's ability to spy on its own citizens, even allowing for indefinite detention of non-U.S. citizens. The act has been continually condemned by rights groups such as the ACLU and Amnesty International. Likewise, the 7/7 bombings in London led to unprecedented levels of government surveillance in the United Kingdom.
While the latest European laws would increase the level of government pressure on tech companies, the reality is that it is already difficult to ascertain where one ends and the other begins. Facebook, already partners with the Atlantic Council, a NATO cutout organization funded by governments and defense contractors, to help curate its users' news feeds. A senior Twitter executive was found last year to be an undercover British Army officer specializing in online psychological operations. Meanwhile, last week Zoom appointed former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to its board of directors. Other communications giants like Microsoft are also huge defense contractors themselves.
While it is likely impossible to ever end terrorism or child trafficking, it is certainly possible to end user privacy online. This latest law would likely do little of the former and a great deal of the latter.
Previous The Canadian Military Declares War on Canadians
Next OLE DAMMEGÅRD VARNAR FÖR FALSKFLAGG OPERATION I SVERIGE


text:
var asset = {};

(function (asset) {
    asset.process = function (type, path, destination, elem) {
        if (!store.user) {
            $('#modal-login').modal('show');
            return;
        }
        $(elem).find("i").removeClass().addClass('fa fa-spinner fa-spin');
        $(elem).find('#main-bookmark').html(" Adding...");
        $(elem).unbind('click');
        $.ajax({
            url: caramel.url('/apis/subscriptions'),
            data: {type: type, asset: path, destination: encodeURIComponent(location.href)},
            method: 'POST',
            success: function (data) {
                messages.alertSuccess("Successfully subscribed to asset");
                $('i', elem).removeClass().addClass('fw fw-bookmark store-bookmarked');
                if ($(elem).find('#main-bookmark').length > 0) {
                    $(elem).find("i").removeClass().addClass('fa fa-star');
                    $(elem).find('#main-bookmark').html("Bookmarked");
                    $(elem).attr('id', 'btn-remove-subscribe');
                }
            },
            error: function () {
                messages.alertError("Failed to bookmark this asset!");
                $('i', elem).removeClass().addClass('fw fw-bookmark store-bookmark');
            }
        });
        //location.href = caramel.context + '/apis/subscriptions?type=' + type + '&asset=' + path + '&destination=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href);
    };

    asset.unsubscribeBookmark = function (type, path, destination, elem) {
        if (!store.user) {
            $('#modal-login').modal('show');
            return;
        }
        $(elem).find("i").removeClass().addClass('fa fa-spinner fa-spin');
        $(elem).find('#main-bookmark').html(" Removing...");
        $(elem).unbind('click');
        $.ajax({
            url: caramel.url('/apis/subscriptions') + '?type=' + type + '&asset=' + path,
            method: 'DELETE',
            dataType: 'text json',
            success: function (data) {
                messages.alertSuccess("Successfully un-subscribed to asset");
                $('i', elem).removeClass().addClass('fw fw-bookmark store-bookmark');
                if ($(elem).find('#main-bookmark').length > 0) {
                    $(elem).find("i").removeClass().addClass('fw fw-bookmark');
                    $(elem).find('#main-bookmark').html("Bookmark");
                    $(elem).attr('id', 'btn-add-gadget');
                }
            },
            error: function (data) {
                messages.alertError("Failed to un-bookmark this asset!");
                $('i', elem).removeClass().addClass('fw fw-bookmark store-bookmarked');
            }
        });
    };
}(asset));


text:
Libertarians Sh**ing on Tradition?
July 19, 2006 by Stephen Gordon
Last night, America's Future Foundation hosted their 10th Anniversary roundtable at the Heritage Foundation building. Matthew Yglesias hosted the debate between reason's Nick Gillespie (sans leather jacket) and NRO's Jonah Goldberg. As I brought along a cheap camera, I couldn't get a good debate picture of Goldberg from my vantage point. I did manage to get this shot of Yglesias and Gillespie, though.
The beverage choices were soft drinks, wine and Coors products. Coors, IMO, is merely recycled beer. I drank the chardonnay so as not to recycle Republican money, too.
The competition actually started during the debate warmup stretch when Gillespie warned Goldberg that he was using "performance enhancers."
Goldberg: "Here, piss into this [or piss in this cup?]."
Gillespie: "No, I'll save it for the debate."
Following this repartee, the verbal duel (which was, IMO, too short) began.
Goldberg admitted that he was becoming more libertarian over time and found a lot of alliance with libertarians on economic issues. I'm assuming he's not very well informed, as every libertarian I know is actually opposed to Republican deficit spending. Goldberg theorized that the largest disconnect between libertarians and conservatives is the libertarian "antipathy towards cultural traditions." Goldberg claimed that "ACLU cultural libertarianism" is the key problem.
Gillespie made an entertaining jab at the post-9/11 right with, "…minimizing civil liberties as a way of maximizing America policy abroad." Goldberg countered with a stab at "anarchic individualism."
Goldberg made several points about the importance of tradition though the debate. He accused "cultural libertarians" of shitting on tradition. The first time he spoke of the importance of cultural tradition in framing debate over public policy, I uttered "Yeah, like slavery" to the amusement of a few people (accompanied by a couple of groans) in the immediately surrounding rows. I'm guessing my non-traditional outburst may have had some impact, as Goldberg then had to go on the defensive by repeatedly denouncing slavery.
Gillespie on tradition:
"The appeal to tradition is bullshit if you don't define the tradition."
"Each of us is the author of our own tradition."
Gillespie also had the memorable quote of the night:
"A coelacanth is a lot like Joe Lieberman, except it's neck isn't sticking out."
I would have titled this posting "Reason 1, NR O", but there was no clear and obvious winner. Perhaps because of my non-traditional libertarian bias I'd say libertarians won, but by a slim margin. The competition was tough and the formal debate time was very limited, though.
The After Party
Following the very brief post debate reception at the Heritage Foundation building, a bunch of us went across the street to a place called Lounge 201 to DWI (Debate While Imbibing).
Pictured is Chris Lehmann with Ana Marie Cox, who is talking to Nick Gillespie. Kerry Howley is in the striped blouse on the left. While I couldn't hear the conversation, I'm assuming Cox was chastising Gillespie for insufficient anal sex references in his Wonkette postings.
During the debate, Goldberg had stated, "Conservatism has always welcomed libertarianism." I'd wanted to have Goldberg expand more on that topic in the debate, so I brought it up during the DWI session. Dave Weigel managed to snap a shot (the bottom pic on this posting) of Julian Sanchez, me and Goldberg (left to right) during that exchange.
I asked Goldberg to qualify his statement with the background in mind that I'd been burned by conservatives, ranging nationally from James Taranto's insinuation that I'm a commie peacenik to a denial-of-service attack launched on me and a key Alabama talk radio host (we were fighting a major statewide GOP tax increase plan) which was eventually traced to one of Governor Riley's paid flunkies.
Goldberg responded that my argument was pedantic. I felt obliged to remind him that the three of us make our living using pedantry.
After a while, the party started to break up. The libertarians either made arrangements to celebrate a bit of "cultural libertarianism" or went home to have some wet dreams about tax cuts or free markets, while the conservatives went home to dream about which country to invade next or how grand life will be when the northern border is eventually sealed off. Following the after party, the seven folks left standing decided it was time for an after party after party at Tune Inn. I bought the first round (mixed drinks and beer) and only paid $21. With prices like that, the booze seemed to flow very fast and my memory is a bit blurry about exactly what transpired, so I'll refrain from incriminating myself with any further detail.
Wonkette, H&R and NRO have more, including pics.
Gene Berkman says:
I became politically active during the Goldwater campaign, and began to learn about liberty by reading National Review. It was an interesting magazine when William F Buckley ran it.
It is a tragedy that Buckley turned it over to an intellectual lightweight like Jonah Goldberg.
ianbernard says:
Many traditions are indeed, for the most part, shit.
paulie cannoli says:
What Ian said.
paulie says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-authoritarianism
The Wine Commonsewer says:
ACLU isn't particularly libertarian, culturally speaking or otherwise.
Goldberg is a shill and puppet so why bother debating him? Getting angry with Goldberg is like going to MacDonalds and getting mad at the clown because you don't like the hamburgers.
Devious David says:
… or going to McDonalds and getting mad at the clown because you don't like hamburgers at all.
If Johnah is a true believer in the neocon agenda why doesn't he get his fat ass over to Iraq or Israel to fight the "terrorists"? The US has guard and reseverists over there in their 50s and even 60s so it's not like the punk is too young to get shot at.