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Q: db:migrate error during rake on Rails 4.0.0 Working on project in Rails 4.0.0, ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0], with Rake 10.1.1
I was working on an app for a class in Rails, I made an error and deleted the changes made while in Git. When I went to redo the project, and ran the rake DB migration, I was given the following error message:
Joses-MacBook-Air:crumblr JRV$ rails generate migration CreateHearts Post_id:integer
  invoke  active_record
  create    db/migrate/20140120235500_create_hearts.rb
Joses-MacBook-Air:crumblr JRV$ bundle exec rake db:migrate
==  CreateHearts: migrating ===================================================
-- create_table(:hearts)
rake aborted!
An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

SQLite3::SQLException: table "hearts" already exists: CREATE TABLE "hearts" ("id" INTEGER        PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "Post_id" integer) /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-  p392/gems/sqlite3-1.3.8/lib/sqlite3/database.rb:91:in `initialize'
4.0.0/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:42:in `block (2 levels) in <top    (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

How do I get rid of the old table reference?

A: There are a couple of commands you can use:
rake db:rollback will rollback the latest migration
rake db:rollback STEP=3 allows you to rollback by more than 1 migration (3 in this example)
rake db:reset will drop the database, recreate it and load the current schema into it.
and if you want to rollback then migrate back up again you can use
rake db:migrate:redo STEP=3 rollback 3 migrations and redo the migration
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html


"We have so few options with children in kindergarten, preschool, first and second grade," said Manchester Education Association President Kate Dias, who joined Kaplan-Cho on the program. "If you have a preschool student who's a biter, there's no place to send them. The solution becomes, 'Well, I guess we'll give teachers arm guards to protect their arms so the bites wont be as painful.' For teachers, it then becomes about, how can we get through today. And that's not the educational environment we want for our teachers or children. It's just not the climate we hope for."


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Q: VB.Net - how can i get the type of the object contained in an List If I have a list...
dim l as List(of MyClass) = new List(of MyClass)

and I want to get the type of the objects contained in the list, how do I do that?
The obvious answer, that doesn't seem to be possible from my actual implementation, would be to do something like this...
public function GetType(byval AList as IList(of GenericType)) as System.Type
  dim lResult as system.type = nothing
  if AList.Count > 0 then lResult = AList(0).GetType
  return lResult
end function

But what if the list is empty and I still want to know the type it contains?

A: There's a good article on this at MSDN, here
Basically you can use GetGenericArguments() to get an array of the types provided as arguments to your generic type. In the case of a List, there's only one argument so you will get what you need using eg
dim l as List(of MyClass) = new List(of MyClass)
dim t as Type = (l.GetGenericArguments())(0)

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Icahn slams Oxy's 'fundamentally misguided' buy of Anadarko
Activist investor Carl Icahn is suing oil company Occidental over what he feels is a 'fundamentally misguided' deal to buy Anadarko Petroleum. He has slammed the management for "bet-the-company" acquisition for a 'sky-high' price and feels Oxy should've put itself up for sale instead.
As previously reported, Oxy in May reached a deal to buy rival Anadarko Petroleum in a deal worth $38 billion, squeezing out Chevron from the race. Chevron did get a consolation prize in the form of $1 billion breakoff fee from Anadarko, under the terms sealed before Oxy has announced its offer.
Icahn, 83, a billionaire whose net worth has been estimated at around $20 billion, is suing Oxy in a push to get access to certain books and records of the company, "relating to its fundamentally misguided and hugely overpriced acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation after a bidding contest between the Company and Chevron."
"Unfortunately for the stockholders of Occidental, [OXY] won that contest even though Chevron is approximately six time's Occidental's size (with Anadarko being only slightly smaller than Occidental), with its financial strength Chevron could have matched Occidental's winning bid and won the contest for Anadarko (it held matching rights) but refused to do so" the text of the suit reads.
As reported on May 9, Chevron said it wouldn't be raising its initial bid for Anadarko, with Chevron CEO Michael Wirth saying: "Winning in any environment doesn't mean winning at any cost. Cost and capital discipline always matter, and we will not dilute our returns or erode value for our shareholders for the sake of doing a deal,"
'Oxy ballooning debt burden instead of shareholder value'
Citing Wirth's statement on value erosion and Chevron's reasoning behind dropping the Anadarko pursuit, Icahn-led plaintiffs said in the suit: "The same was true for Occidental—but the Occidental board and management took the diametrically opposed approach. They decided to go for growth-at-all-costs at the price of ballooning the company's debt burden, rather than trying to maximize stockholder value prudently."
Plaintiffs further said: "A board of directors giving priority to stockholder value would not have approved the Company's very high topping bid for Anadarko because most of that price will be paid for with debt (and debt-like preferred stock), thus putting the Company at risk in case oil prices fall in the near to intermediate future. Oil prices, of course, are constantly rising and falling—no board or management team can confidently predict where prices will go in the future."
Icahn has slammed the 'sky-high' price for Anadarko, it has also criticized the board for striking a deal with Total to sell Anadarko's assets in Africa, and for agreeing to $10B stock sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Furthermore, Icahn has accused the company of seeking to avoid the shareholder vote on the deal "at almost all costs," out of fear the deal might be voted down.
The Plaintiffs said:"… not only was the purchase price sky high, and not only did the intrinsic value of Anadarko decrease during the bidding contest (among other things, Anadarko was forced to pay a $1 billion termination fee to Chevron) but Occidental's financing costs were astronomical as well."
Icahn slams deal with Buffett, lack of stockholder vote
The Icahn group said that the Occidental board and management team agreed "to extraordinarily and unnecessarily expensive financing while trying to raise the cash necessary to top Chevron's (mainly stock) bid."
"The financing, which included at least the sale of $10 billion of preferred stock to Berkshire Hathaway on extremely disadvantageous terms, and the pre-sale of Anadarko's African assets to Total, in what appears to have been a one-bidder auction that is now in doubt, raises very real questions about the competence, and fidelity to the stockholders, of Occidental's management and the board.
Related: Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to invest $10B in Oxy subject to Anadarko takeover
"This is particularly true because the $10 billion preferred stock sale was expressly accomplished in a manner in which the New York Stock Exchange rules would not—at least according to the Company if not the text of the rules— require a vote by the Company's stockholders, and management wanted to avoid a vote at almost all costs," the plaintiffs said.
"The truth about the Berkshire deal was that Occidental agreed to it because it was..desperate for the money because it desperately wanted to show that its bid for Anadarko was credible. A bit of research would have shown that Berkshire has long been known for opportunistically profiting off desperate companies," the Icahn plaintiffs said.
"The truth about the Berkshire deal was that Occidental agreed to it because it was..desperate for the money because it desperately wanted to show that its bid for Anadarko was credible."
"Going out and selling preferred stock at an extremely low price in order to avoid a stockholder vote that would be required if common stock were to be issued instead, raises serious questions of the board's fidelity to the stockholders."
Plaintiffs, who own $1.6 billion worth of Oxy stock, said: "Management appears to find the idea of a stockholder vote objectionable. Yet, the Anadarko deal is a classic "transformative" (a word that should send shudders through stockholders everywhere) bet-the-company deal, which is exactly the type of deal that management should present to the stockholders for approval.
"The oil industry is notoriously volatile. Oil and gas prices go up and down suddenly and no oil company can successfully predict where they will go, or when they will go, next. Indeed, for precisely that reason, Occidental management had been saying as recently as the company's February 2019 earnings call that it did not need to pursue any large M&A deals and that capital discipline was extremely important."
'Firesale' to Total, and 'epic blunder' in Algeria
As previously reported, Oxy had agreed to sell all of Anadarko's Africa assets for $8.8 billion even prior to striking the final deal with Anadarko.
Icahn feels the deal was done hastily in a sort of 'firesale' to Total and should've been done in an "asset by asset" auction process to maximize the value.
"Some potential bidders might have been interested in the Mozambique gas fields, but not Ghana or Algerian oil, while others might have been interested in the Algerian assets but not in Mozambique. An asset-by-asset auction process can be designed to maximize total proceeds by nimbly placing individual assets with the highest bidders. Instead, by selling all Anadarko's varied African assets in a single sale to a single buyer, it is inconceivable to believe that Occidental maximized value," the Icahn group said.
Icahn also stressed that the Total deal has recently hit a stumbling block, as apparently, nobody asked the Algerian government on Anadarko's sale of assets there to total, and the government said it would block the sale.
"Occidental's management had to know that it could not sell, or presell or whatever it believes it has done, Algerian oil assets (much less someone else's Algerian oil assets) without Algerian assent."
The Icahn group added: "…Had Occidental done the least bit of due diligence, it would have known that Anadarko (and other western oil companies) have always had to tread very carefully with the Algerian authorities. Anadarko's current agreement with Algeria came only after years of very difficult negotiations.
"Occidental's management had to know that it could not sell, or presell or whatever it believes it has done, Algerian oil assets (much less someone else's Algerian oil assets) without Algerian assent. Yet apparently Occidental did not even give a nod to the Algerian government. It was an epic blunder, and it will likely cost the stockholders a fair penny to fix."
Icahn: Deal might still work but.. it is an enormous bet
Plaintiffs have said that the deal was "little more than an enormous bet on the price of oil." Icahn feels that if oil prices increase from current levels, and stay there for a number of years, "then management's deal might work (if the actual combination of the two businesses is competently and prudently accomplished— something that appears to be far from guaranteed under the present stewardship)."
"If oil prices go down to $45 a barrel or lower, however, the Plaintiffs believe that there is a substantial risk that Occidental may have to cut the dividend on its common stock, and Occidental's current $3.12 annual dividend is one of the prime reason stockholders buy the stock," the plaintiffs said.
'Oxy should have put itself up for sale'
Icahn said Oxy should've put itself up for sale instead of buying, as it is apparently Anadarko's Permian assets in the U.S. that had attracted Chevron.
"Occidental's biggest mistake, however, has to be the board's and management's failure to understand (or willful rejection of the fact) that at present market prices Occidental should have been a seller — not a buyer," the Icahn group said.
"Occidental has an even stronger Permian position [compared to Anadarko's] and there is little doubt that it could have attracted strong and competitive bids at a premium to its stock price. That would have been the stockholder friendly thing to do," the Icahn plaintiffs said.
Push to oust directors
Now, the plaintiffs might also seek consents from other shareholders to convene a special shareholders meeting and potentially elect new directors "to ensure that Occidental is being run in the interests of its stockholders going forward, and not in the interests of directors and officers who appear to be interested in growth for growth's sake."
Describing the purpose behind the wish to review Oxy's documents – for which it is seeking the court approval – the plaintiffs said they wanted to learn more on which other parties were contacted other than Berkshire Hathaway for the financing, if there was any bidding process for the African assets sale to Total, and how many other proposals were there if any, and to learn whether the company had received expression of interest from any third party over a potential said.
"The Icahn Parties intend to use this information to (1) decide how they should proceed (including whether to bring litigation on behalf of themselves or the Company); (2) decide whether to seek to call a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of removing and replacing incumbent directors; and (3) in the context of seeking to call a special meeting of stockholders, to potentially share some or all of the information they receive with their fellow stockholders," the Icahn plaintiffs said.
Responding to Icahn's statement, Oxy issued the following statement:" Occidental is committed to maximizing long-term value for all shareholders, and our Board and management team continually evaluate opportunities to that end. Our acquisition of Anadarko will create a global energy leader with a highly complementary asset portfolio and a unique opportunity to deliver compelling value and returns to the shareholders of both companies, including significant cost and capital allocation synergies and near-term cash flow accretion. We look forward to completing the transaction in the coming months. With respect to the suit seeking access to certain "books and records" of Occidental, we will respond in due course.
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42: the answer to life, the universe and everything — at least according to science fiction author Douglas Adams.
He created a fictional super-computer to end all super-computers that had the sole purpose of working out the answer to life. Unfortunately, knowing the answer contributed nothing because people didn't understand why 42 was the answer (Adams, 1979).
Sometimes things are just like that. Take great service, for example.
Good-enough service can be specified; it's attentiveness, responsiveness, politeness — and numerous other factors that can be pinned down into a training manual. But outstanding service has something extra, an indefinable spark that some people just have.
Psychologists have found that the simple act of smiling at a customer can set off a beneficial chain reaction (Jarrett, 2012); the staff member's smile triggers a warm reaction in the customer that, in turn, reinforces and amplifies the good vibes the staff member is feeling and sending out. It creates a situation where both parties leave the transaction feeling good. Could that be the secret of great service?
Unfortunately it's probably just one small aspect of the conundrum.
Providing service that's perceived as great is a challenge we relish. We believe awareness is key to getting to grips with what customers want from a workplace restaurant — and then providing it. So we ask for feedback and we listen. We approach things on a site-by-site basis. We work hard at choosing the right people to work front-of-house, people who will keep their finger on the pulse of what customers are looking for and will incorporate what they learn into the service experience they provide. People with that indefinable something.
In a more serious frame of mind, Douglas Adams said, "to give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity". Maybe not the ultimate answer, but a good steer for success (Adams, quoted by Brainyquote.com).
Adams, D, (1979) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, New York, Ballantine Books. Brainy Quote, Douglas Adams quotes [online], Brainyquote.com http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/douglas_adams.html (Accessed 13 November 2012). Jarrett, C, (2012) 'When sales staff smile everyone wins', The British Psychological Society Research Digest, 6 September [online] http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/when-sales-staff-smile-everyone-wins.html (Accessed 13 November 2012).


In framing this Code, the working party has taken account of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and the Practice Directions as they exist on 1 January 2000 and any case law on their interpretation. The Code of Guidance is designed to help those who instruct experts (and those instructed) in all cases where CPR applies. It is intended to facilitate better communication and dealings both between the expert and the instructing party and between the parties and as such is drawn in general terms so as to provide guidance for every court and every type of civil litigation.
Assistance from an expert may be needed at various stages of a dispute and for different purposes, the expert performing a different role in each of these respects. The duty to the court and the duty to act in the best interests of the party instructing the expert (including the expert's advisory role) will differ depending upon the context. When preparing a report for use in evidence at court or when giving oral evidence, however, the expert has an overriding duty to the court. The expert remains under a duty to comply with any relevant professional code of ethics. The court is likely to take into account adherence to the Code of Guidance in exercising its discretion as to costs.
asked to give or prepare evidence for the purpose of court proceedings (report).
"Advice" in the context of this Code of Guidance refers exclusively to things said and done (including any draft report) by the expert with out the litigation process i.e. before Part 35 comes into play, on the grounds that the "advice" attracts legal professional privilege/litigation privilege; the "advice" would not be disclosable.
Experts who are instructed by solicitors on behalf of their client to provide advice owe a duty to the client; in the event that the matter proceeds to litigation the expert's overriding duty is to the court. If the expert becomes a Part 35 expert, to the extent that the expert continues to act also in an advisory capacity, the overriding duty to the court renders any relevant "advice" including that given pre litigation disclosable.
within a reasonable time and at a cost proportionate to the matters in issue.
the arrangements for dealing with questions for experts and discussions between experts and for providing for the cost.
Payments contingent upon the nature of the expert evidence given in legal proceedings, or upon the outcome of a case, must not be offered or accepted. To do otherwise would contravene the expert's overriding duty to the court and would contravene the Law Society's "Guide to the Professional Conduct of Solicitors."
Agreement to delay payment of an expert's fee until after the conclusion of the case is permissible as long as the amount of the fee does not depend on the outcome of the case.
Experts should be kept informed regularly about any deadlines for the preparation of their advice or reports, and about any timetable for proceedings or any changes there to.
where proceedings have been started, the date of any hearing and in which court and to which track they have been allocated.
Experts who do not receive clear instructions should request clarification and indicate that they are not prepared to act unless and until such clear instructions are received.
Those instructing experts should consider whether their expertise is relevant to the issue on which their opinion is sought.
Experts must neither express an opinion outside the scope of their field of expertise, nor accept any instructions to do so.
to supply references in respect of relevant literature or any other material which might assist the court in deciding the case.
Before disclosure of any report, the expert should be given the opportunity to review, and if necessary, revise the contents of the report.
may be invited to amend, or expand a report to ensure accuracy and internal consistency, completeness and clarity.
a statement of truth, as required by Part 35, Practice Direction 1.4.
In addressing questions of fact and opinion in any advice or report experts should keep the two separate and discrete.
should express separate opinions on every set of facts in dispute.
be kept informed of the progress of the action, including any amendments to the statements of case relevant to the expert's opinion.
where the expert has sought directions from the court under Rule 35.14.
Any such questions should be answered within 28 days.
any issues not raised in the agenda for discussion and the extent to which these issues may be agreed.
consist of questions which to enable the experts to state their agreement or the reasons for their disagreement.
The discussion may take place face to face or by any other appropriate means proportionate to the circumstances of the case and the Court track. Lawyers for the parties will not usually be present at such discussions unless the experts so request.
If there has been a discussion, a statement of the areas of agreement and disagreement should be prepared and agreed promptly between the experts, usually before the discussion is concluded. This statement may have to be produced to the court, but shall not be binding on the parties.
Those instructing experts must not give, and experts must not accept instructions not to reach agreement at such discussions on areas within the competence of experts.
The use of available audio-visual facilities should be relied upon to avoid unnecessary attendance at court.
Those instructing experts should inform them whether attendance at trial will be required, and if so inform them of the date and venue fixed for hearing of the case. In applying to fix dates for the trial, those instructing experts should, as far as possible, take account of the convenience of experts.
Experts must take all steps to ensure availability to attend court, if and when required, but should be alerted to the fact that a solicitor may need to serve a witness summons in the event of difficulties.
the provisions of paragraphs 8 to 13 shall apply.
the conduct of the single joint expert should be determined by the principles of fairness and transparency.
the spirit as well as the letter of Part 35.7 and 35.8 call upon the parties to contemplate from the outset of their dispute the appointment of a single joint expert. It is an insufficient answer to the agreement upon a single joint expert or the appointment by the court of a single joint expert that the parties have already appointed their own experts.
the appointment of a single joint expert does not prevent a party from instructing its own expert to advise. The costs of such an adviser will not ordinarily be recoverable.
if it is intended to propose the appointment of an expert as a single joint expert, such expert should not ordinarily have given advice in the case.
on appointment a single joint expert should obtain in writing a clear undertaking from either or both parties for the payment of the single joint expert's fees.
may be questioned and shall provide answers in accordance with paragraph 20 above.
The following guidance is subject to section 70(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 and section 63 of the County Courts Act 1984 respectively, and Article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights, as it appears in schedule 1 to the Human Rights Act 1998.
A party may at the outset of the proceedings, if it thinks it would be useful for the court to do so, apply to the court for the appointment of a person of skill and experience to provide an expert opinion on any matter to which the proceedings relate, either in lieu of the parties' experts or in addition to the parties' experts.
Where the parties' experts engage in discussions pursuant to Rule 35.12 or paragraphs 21 (b) and 22 above, the parties may request the court to appoint an assessor to preside over the discussions.
the precise area(s) of expertise to be covered by the assessor(s).
Any party requesting the court to appoint an assessor(s), for the purpose of assisting the court to decide any matter which involves expert opinion, shall notify other parties in writing of such request. Other parties so notified may submit to the court within 14 days their views on the proposed appointment.
circulate it to the parties.
Parties may question the assessor(s) in like fashion to CPR Part 35.6; the assessor(s) to file answers with the court and the parties within 28 days.
Where there remains a conflict of expert opinion between the assessor(s) and any party's experts, any party may apply to the court for permission to call experts to give oral evidence.


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Sweet Chunky Pickles
I know this will seem really strange, but this recipe isn't crazy. It's just using a bit of shorthand, which I'll expand in the method notes below.
Apparently this method of processing sweet pickles ensures the pickles come out crisp. But I can't find any source that agrees on the mechanism as to why the pickles come out crisp. Some people think it has something to do with enzymes that need to be killed off or they'll squeeze water out of the pickle and shrivel it; others say it has something to do with the formation of lactic acid on the surface of the pickle that gives it a crispy texture.
I'll keep looking into it. But what I do know is that this method actually… will work.
From a box sold in Canby, Oregon.
1 flat cucumbers — pour boiling water over them for 4 days. Cut in chunks. Pour boiling water over them for 4 days more. Heat to boiling point 1 qt. vinegar — 8 cups sugar — 1 T. salt. Cinnamon, cloves, allspice to taste. Pour hot mixture over pickles for 4 days more. Seal hot.
Sweet Chunky Pickles method (provided by Yesterdish)
What the recipe is trying to tell you to do is this:
Wash the cucumbers and trim off the blossom end. Get a container (or containers) big enough to submerge the cucumbers in boiling water, and something to weigh them down with, like a temperature-safe plate or a bowl that fits into the container to make sure the entire cucumber is submerged.
Day 1: Cover the cucumbers in boiling water. Weigh them and submerge.
Days 2-4: Each day, pour off the water. Rinse the cucumbers, the container, and the weight. Add fresh boiling water and re-submerge the cucumbers, weighing them down again.
Day 5: Pour off the water. Rinse the cucumbers, the container, and the weight. Cut the cucumbers into chunks. Pour boiling water over them and weigh them again.
Days 6-8: Each day, pour off the water. Rinse the cucumber chunks, the container, and the weight. Add fresh boiling water and re-submerge the cucumber chunks, weighing them down again.
On day eight, them you submerge them in the brine and process them.
Frankly, you may be better served investigating the famous Linda Lou's Sweet Pickle Chunk recipe from the GardenWeb forums. It's pretty much The Beatles of sweet pickle chunk recipes. Take a look at it, anyhow, since it uses the "boiling water for days" method.
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Bristol Palin's perversion of tolerance
August 9, 2012 Zinnia JonesChristian behavior, LGBT, social justice
When people feel the need to state explicitly how "tolerant" they are, it's usually a sign that something is amiss. Such is the case with Bristol Palin's recent blog post, where she declares that she would have no problem with a gay dance partner, but laments that others are unwilling to extend the same tolerance to certain Christian beliefs:
In their simplistic minds, the fact that I'm a Christian, that I believe in God's plan for marriage, means that I must hate gays and must hate to even be in their presence. Well, they were right about one thing: there was hate in that media room, but the hate was theirs, not mine. …
Look, my responsibility is pretty darn clear: to treat people as I would like to be treated, to be gracious, and – yes – to uphold and advance my Christian principles in all that I do. Would I want a gay dancer to refuse to dance with me because of my beliefs? Why would I refuse to dance with a gay man because of his?
To the Left, "tolerance" means agreeing with them on, well, everything. To me, tolerance means learning to live and work with each other when we don't agree – and won't ever agree.
At first glance, this seems like a pretty straightforward example of tolerance: I accept you, can't you accept me? The problem is that, in this case, the ideal of tolerance is being used to call for inaction in the face of intolerance. Palin implicitly parallels two instances of tolerance – the first is simply tolerating the existence and presence of gay people; the second is tolerating the belief that the defining feature of gay people, as embodied in their relationships, is immoral and should be legally treated as unequal.
These are clearly quite different things. Under a meaningful understanding of what tolerance is, there are indeed some beliefs that are simply unacceptable – indeed, they are intolerable. Think about it: Is there any belief that you would consider so unreasonable and inhumane that passively tolerating it, and remaining silent in the face of it, would be more unacceptable to you than speaking out and letting it be known that you're not okay with that? For instance, do you see no difference between women voting and those who would act to prevent them from voting, or gay people holding a parade and those who would seek to suppress them by violence, or women wearing the clothes of their choice and those who demand they be cloaked in veils, or gay people merely existing and others who want to execute them? At what point do you recognize that such things are not just two sides of one coin, not just an innocuous difference of opinion, and plainly not the same?
If you can acknowledge that it is possible for certain beliefs to be so troubling that you cannot accept them, then you can understand that this is only a matter of where we draw that line. And many of us draw the line at the belief that gay people's love is immoral and should be legally unrecognized. If our commitment to tolerance has any teeth to it, then advocating tolerance of gay people necessarily precludes being okay with such anti-gay beliefs. After all, if someone claimed to tolerate your own beliefs, how much would that really mean to you if they never spoke out in protest when others called for such homophobic Christian speech to be criminalized? Such an obligation to object should at least be familiar on a conceptual level to Christians, who have often claimed that "loving" someone demands that we tell them the unvarnished "truth" about the supposed sinfulness of their sexuality.
Calling for tolerance, at the most basic level and regardless of the specifics of what we believe ought to be tolerated, means advocating one approach to beliefs and expressions over another. A kind of universal "tolerance" that says literally anything is okay negates that, and as a result, it's barely even coherent or distinct as a position. At most, it has all the force of "I think this might be a good idea, but, you know… whatever." If you think that tolerance of you or your beliefs is at all important, then realize that tolerance needs to be more compelling than that. Tolerance doesn't mean agreeing with "the Left" – it means, at a minimum, agreeing that tolerance should actually stand for something. And if you expect to be admired for your tolerance, then espousing a position that amounts to "I'm so tolerant, I'll never let anyone know I disapprove of prejudice against minorities!" isn't the best way to make that happen.
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21 thoughts on "Bristol Palin's perversion of tolerance"
gshelley
Look, my responsibility is pretty darn clear: to treat people as I would like to be treated
I wonder if that includes letting them marry the person they choose to marry?
I haven't looked, but let me guess….she doesn't allow comments on her blog?
She does allow comments, but I'm sure they're heavily edited, just like her mom's Facebook page and the Conservatives4Palin site. Hate is allowed so long as it's directed at progressives.
The thing I wish people would make sure to mention is that BRISTOL DOES NOT WRITE HER BLOG.
The girl can barely order drive-thru, but we're supposed to believe she's written these blog posts and not Nancy French, her ghostwriter?
The Palins are so phony and undeserving of praise that it just hurts to watch.
smrnda
Bristol Palin takes the most empty, meaningless gestures of 'tolerance' and then asks for points for that, while openly agreeing that these people she allegedly 'tolerates' should have less rights than she does.
Some viewpoints are inherently intolerant, while others are tolerant. Wanting diminished rights for others cannot be 'tolerant' and so should not be tolerated.
The message is essentially that the victims of bullying should shut the hell up and accept it.
Meanwhile, the Palins make big bank of playing the victim and whining constantly about how put upon they are by the mean ole progressives of the world.
aleph squared
Exactly. You want to be treated as a human being with the right to love who you want and marry who you want, so you should treat homosexual people the same fucking way.
Universal tolerance is a logical impossibility at the outset. For then we must be tolerant of intolerance. But if we tolerate intolerance, then we tolerate that which contradicts what we aim for, which is universal tolerance. QED
Arancaytar
the fact that I'm a Christian, that I believe in God's plan for marriage, means that I must hate gays and must hate to even be in their presence.
No, it just means that even if you don't hate them enough to be physically revolted, you want to deny them basic human rights.
It's not so much a perversion, as truly tolerance in the classic sense: Tolerating the presence of people you think are fundamentally less worthy.
Coragyps
It's pretty bizarre that anyone could care what Bristol says about anything. Even more so because, had her mother been any species of celebrity other than Rightwinga religiosus, she would have been universally condemned by others of that species as a slutty nasty unwed mother. Exactly how the hell does she get to say "I believe in God's plan for marriage" anyway? She would have been stoned to death under God's Plan for Marriage v.1.0, nu?
eggbert
Replace instanes of the word "gay" with "black" and we see why this is dangerous thought. Seems a lot like argunents againts integration. Pretty big of her to be ok touching a gay person *eye roll*
Sorry for the typos!
Karl Popper is always the best response to those "why won't you tolerate my intolerance" types:
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
Damien Otis
Bristol, it isn't about whether or not you would dance with a gay man, it's about gay men being free to dance with each other.
And if you think both of these are OK, then no one is going to have a problem with your beliefs which don't negatively impact others. "The Left" gives you shit for that? Really?
Of course, anyone is free to agree or disagree with your beliefs, and vocal disagreement isn't intolerance.
Aliasalpha
Interesting that she (or at least her writer) states that she has no problem dancing with a strictly hypothetical gay man rather than a gay woman…
StevoR
Highlighting the major difference between 'tolerance' and 'acceptence' conceptions.
Also wondering what Bristol Palin would do if a lesbian (or trans) lass approached her as a dance partner now..
Wonders too if that experiment has been / should be tried ..
had3
"I had a choice to have an abortion or not, and I respect the choice any woman would make regarding that matter." ….and other examples of Bristol's tolerance.
jenny6833a
Karl Popper is alleged above to have written:
It seems to me that Popper is going around in circles, as is everyone here who agrees with Popper, which appears to be Zinnia and everyone else here. After all, criminal acts imply criminal sanctions, and such sanctions amount to persecution of the person who performs an act that has been declared criminal.
So Popper is really saying, "… we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as deserving intolerance and persecution."
Does he really mean, for example, that advocates of penalties for murder should be declared intolerant and immediately penalized?
So who decides, or on what basis does a society decide, which types of intolerance and persecution are justified? Most of us, I suspect, would agree with Popper that that it's OK to persecute those who engage in "incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade."
The usual answer revolves around the concept of tangible harm. I agree that refusing equal rights to gays tangibly harms them. But does allowing equal rights for gays tangibly harm those who believe, on whatever basis, that homosexual activity is wrong?
Jefferson regarded 'harmless' as that which neither picked his pocket nor broke his leg; that is, harm had to be physical or financial. Yet American society has never accepted that idea. We have had, and still have, a huge number of laws that criminalize and thus persecute those who offend others' cultural or moral opinions without doing any degree of Jeffersonian 'harm.'
Until Zinnia and the rest of you convince me that you have a reliable way of deciding when it is and when it isn't OK to persecute others, I find myself unable to follow Popper's argument or any of the others in this thread.
logicpriest
Look, it is very, very simple. Intolerance of harmful beliefs is ok. Intolerance based on the denial of rights and privileges for a CLASS of people, that is any identity based group of human beings is not to be tolerated. Just like crimes, you can only be penalized for actions (theoretically) and not for your type of existence.
Hopefully you really meant it when you said you could be persuaded, but I find that most people who say that don't really mean it.
NB: beliefs that an identity based group are not deserving of rights is, in and of itself, not an identity.
Look, it is very, very simple. Intolerance of harmful beliefs is ok.
What about non-harmful beliefs? Who decides which is which? Perhaps you meant to say, "Intolerance of beliefs is ok."
Intolerance based on the denial of rights and privileges for a CLASS of people, that is any identity based group of human beings is not to be tolerated. Just like crimes, you can only be penalized for actions (theoretically) and not for your type of existence.
I suggest that you need to 1) clean up the logic of that presentation, and 2) provide a careful definition of "a CLASS of people, that is any identity based group of human beings."
It sounds to me like you're saying that being gay defines a class of people, a "type of of existence," but that gay sex is an action that can legitimately be penalized. Similarly, if I understand what you wrote, it would be OK to believe in some god, but that going to church and/or praying is an action that it's OK to penalize.
Maybe I misunderstand. Clarification might help.
M Groesbeck
You're totally right — Bristol Palin is being completely tolerant when she pushes to restrict my rights, criminalize my love life, etc. It would be intolerant for me to expect equal treatment under the law. My eyes are opened!
…or maybe, just maybe, making ethical distinctions requires some grounding in reality instead of solipsistic reactionary ideology.
Could you please explain how a person who does not believe in gay marriage would be harmed by a same sex couple being married? You seem to be trying to make a case that there is no clear way to determine whether or not an action is harmful and that therefore there is no standard by which some should be restricted and others shouldn't.
It seems like, with your invocation of Jefferson, you've already found someone who had a pretty reliable standard for when something is 'harmful' and when it's not. American society hasn't accepted this idea since it's been full of bigoted shits who like to piss on people just for not being in line with their own narrow beliefs on how to behave.
The idea that Popper is going around in circles is just a standard tactic used to argue that there's no meaningful way to distinguish a tolerant belief from an intolerant one. Popper would argue that murder is an actual action which harms someone, and should be illegal. Harm is pretty easy to sort out, and pretending it isn't is just a diversionary tactic.
Allowing equal rights for gays 'harms' people who oppose them the same way that ending Jim Crow 'harmed' prejudiced white people – it forced them to stop using their power to be shits to another group of people. Having to co-exist with people you don't like or have biases against isn't an imposition, but people who oppose gay marriage seem to think it is, yet at the same time they don't feel like the rest of us having to put up with their religions getting tax-exempt status is somehow not an imposition on us.
Any action that would deny full citizenship to any group of people is intolerant and shouldn't be tolerated. Is the belief that women should not have the right to vote and that women should both equally tolerant beliefs? If you can figure that out, then you can pretty much figure out what's tolerant and what's not.


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Flynn finishes 8th, Therrien 16th at Western meetSep 20, 08 Cross Country (M)
LONDON, Ont. - McGill's Sébastien Flynn finished eighth of 94 runners at the 34th annual Western International cross-country running meet in London, Saturday.
It was the team's second straight top performance from Flynn, a 5-foot-7, 158-pound arts sophomore from Dartmouth, N.S., who also led the Redmen at the McGill Open, where he placed third overall.
Flynn completed the men's 10-kilometre circuit at the Thames Valley Golf Club in 33 minutes, 32 seconds. Windsor's Dave Weston finished first overall in 32:48. he was followed on the medal podium by Matt Hulse of Queen's (32:59) and Kyle O'Neil of the Western Mustangs (33:01).
Guelph won the team scoring title with 44 points, based on runners that finished fourth, sixth, seventh, 13th and 14th, respectively. McGill ended up sixth of nine teams with 171 points, placing runners in 8th, 36th, 37th, 42nd and 48th.
On the women's side, the top McGill performer, for the second straight competition, was Brittany Therrien, an arts freshman from Victoria, B.C., who placed 16th of 115 runners and was clocked at 19:09 in the 5k race. Guelph's Lindsay Carson won the event in 17:19, followed by Tamara Jewett from U of T (17:48) and he teammate Erin McClure (18:12).
The Martlets were seventh of 12 teams with 160 points, placing 16th, 21st, 35th, 42nd and 46th overall. Guelph won the team scoring with 31 points.
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On the other hand, the notion that we meet to "perform Five Acts of Worship" misses the point of the assembly and points everything in entirely the wrong direction. It's not a semi-pagan effort to appease an angry god by carefully following the rules hidden in the silences. It's about so loving, so adoring God that we become like him.
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It should be said of born-again Christians, furthermore, that many do not wish to be known by their sexual desire. Sam Allberry, a pastor and author of the important book Is God Anti-Gay?, said just this at the 2014 Together for the Gospel. Here's what I recorded Sam as saying: "The culture says you are your sexuality. That is an appalling sense of identity to give people." I could not agree with this more. Christians of any background can appreciate this incisive comment. We are not the sum of our lusts, our perversity, our fallenness, whatever shape such sin takes.
Yet, not once did my philosophy professors attack my faith or treat me unfairly. In fact, I found all of them to be extremely kind, patient, and generous. Several of them, including the Nietzsche expert, wrote me glowing letters of recommendation for grad school that, I'm certain, included compliments I didn't fully deserve. I felt respected, even mentored, by them. And all of this despite the fact that they passionately disagreed with my beliefs.
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Church-sponsored events are almost always designed to serve some sort of religious agenda: evangelism, missions, discipleship, marriage enrichment, serving the poor, and worship (along with many others).
But moments of divine interaction, clarity, vulnerability, holiness, and meaningful, deep, and real conversations and experiences often happen unexpectedly in our homes, at our work, at school, and while we're at restaurants, bars, coffee shops, sporting events, and within the routine environments of our lives—the ordinary places of our existence.
For these, the oldest populations, the aging problem will only get worse in the next few decades, according to the U.N. data. In Japan, Italy, and Germany, the 65-plus population will account for a third of the total population by 2050, and Spain will join their ranks. Fortunately, the U.S. population will age more slowly than many others due to a high rate of immigration.
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Lucía Etxebarria de Asteinza (* 7. prosince 1966, Valencie, Katalánsko) je španělská spisovatelka, baskického původu. V roce 1998 obdržela za svoji literární prvotinu, Beatriz, Nadalovu cenu (Premio Nadal).

Biografie
Studovala anglickou filologii a žurnalistiku na univerzitě v Madridu. Následně pracovala jako novinářka, překladatelka a také knihkupkyně.

Napsala biografii o Courtney Love (Aguanta esto, 1996).

Bibliografie

České překlady ze španělštiny
 Beatriz a nebeská těl(es)a (orig. 'Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes'). 1. vyd. Praha : Garamond, 2011. 282 S. Překlad: Hana Kloubová
 Láska, zvědavost, prozac a pochybnosti (orig. 'Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas'). 1. vyd. Praha : Garamond, 2007. 282 S. Překlad: Hana Kloubová

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V rozhovoru s českou hispanistkou Annou Tkáčovou prohlásila o Španělsku roku 2006 následující:

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Související články
 Seznam literárních překladů ze španělštiny
 Seznam španělských spisovatelů
 Transatlantika

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  Biografie autorky

Žijící lidé
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Narození 7. prosince
Narození v roce 1966
Narození ve Valencii
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How is investment & wealth management adapting with technological advancements?
wayne 10 months ago
Thanks to digital innovation and the rise of fintech, the financial marketplace continues to evolve at a rapid rate.
Make no mistake; this evolution is gradually changing the way in which investment and wealth management firms operate and the services that they offer to clients.
In the case of service providers such as WH Ireland, there's also a drive to change the way in which city bonuses are paid and the perception of the industry as a whole. This company is committing to paying bonuses out of earned profits, rather than total revenues generated within a specific period of time.
With this in mind, there's no doubt that firms are striving hard to remain accessible and relevant in the modern age. But how exactly are investment and wealth management companies adapting to change in the digital age?
What Technologies are Prominent in the Financial Industry?
According to figures, an estimated 68 per cent of financial services respondents have claimed that learning about new technologies and implementing these represents their biggest challenge.
Not only this, but 69 per cent are concerned about their ability to stay relevant in the eyes of younger investors and Millennials, which is why the successful implementation of technology remains such a key factor in the current climate.
One of the most impactful technologies in the space is artificial intelligence (AI), which has already have a significant influence in the world of online trading. This type of smart and intuitive technology underpins automated trading, which enables investors in the pursuit of short-term gains to complete a high volume of orders while also minimises the impact of emotion and human error.
From the perspective of wealth management firms and corporate brokers, were also seeing an increased reliance on analytics and cognitive technologies. Once again, these technologies are being integrated into the modern wealth management service, in order to provide clients with real-time and comprehensive analytical tools that inform their decisions.
The rise of advanced cognitive technology also enables clients to manage to the portfolios seamlessly and more efficiently without compromising on their eventual returns, with machine learning capabilities increasingly capable or replicating the tasks historically completed by human account managers.
The Last Word – Why Mobile Tech Remains Pivotal
The figures also suggest that mobile platforms and apps in the financial services space offer the most value to clients, but there remains a significant gap in terms of adoption.
More specifically, only 27 per cent have and are happy with their dedicated mobile platform, with companies struggling to leverage this technology to its full potential.
This must be a key focus of investment and wealth management firms in the digital age, as they look to optimise their most valuable channel for the benefit of all parties involved.
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A sashimi breakfast at Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market sounded like a good idea. I'd get up early, wander the stands, take some pictures, generally work up an appetite, and then sit down to eat what may arguably be some of the very freshest sashimi on earth. But, as it turns out, a morning of looking at fish, breathing-in a miasma of fish, even being splashed unexpectedly with flying bits of fish, does not an appetite to eat that very same fish make!
In stark contrast to the gleaming clean of Tokyo's streets, buildings, parks, and trains, Tsukiji is mayhem. A mayhem organised by its own principles perhaps, but to the uninitiated, remaining outside the path of a speeding fork lift, or free from flying fish juice is a full-time concern. Smack in the middle of the most sanitised and corporate part of Tokyo, the market offers a reminder of how it's the cogs that turn largely out of sight that ensure the otherwise well-oiled city may run smoothly.
Processing over 2,000 tonnes of seafood every day, Tsukiji is the largest wholesale fish market in the world. Under threat of relocation for years, it seems that these threats are about to become a reality. Next year the market is reportedly moving from its historical central Tokyo position to the distant outskirts of the city.
To say that things get 'lost in translation' in Japan is an understatement. And, more to the point, implies that there is an attempt at translation being made in the first place. Travelling in some of the lesser-touristed parts of Southern Japan for instance, where an English menu is just not on offer, and an English speaking restaurateur nowhere to be found, means sitting down to eat without any of the usual choices, expectations, descriptions, or explanations. Which, as it turns out, was actually quite enlightening. (Though I am not telling the entire truth here concerning translations, they were to be found very occasionally. One 'English' menu included, for instance, 'Hail clothes deep frying of the Japanese icefish.' Intriguing, but not necessarily helpful!).
Topping the list of things that this strange experience taught me, is that there may be some truth to idea that if you eat something you dislike repeatedly, you might actually come to like it. So far, I've only ever heard of this technique proving successful with fussy children, (fussy adults being a little bit more difficult to trick into repeatedly harassing their taste buds, although I have tried). But, after seven days of non-stop and unavoidable tofu, when it dawned on me that I was actually happily anticipating being presented with another primarily tofu-based meal, I realised there may be something to whole idea. Although it's likely the effect is only a temporary one, as I can't say I've touched tofu since. Let alone the bright pink 'Sakura' tofu ubiquitously trotted out in celebration of the cherry blossom season.
Which brings me onto a concept, that, while quintessentially Japanese, has a wider appeal perhaps, than pink tofu. The term 'mono no aware' refers to the particular beauty the Japanese identify in transience, in fleeting, impermanent things, exemplified by the delicate blossoming of the cherry trees that occurs in a south-north sweep, and heralds the beginning of spring. A slightly stiff breeze, or sudden rain shower is enough to send the petals fleeing from their branches, which, while resulting in a very momentarily beautiful snow of pink, can leave the trees sullenly bare again in a matter of moments.
The noise is audible from inside the train carriage as we glide across the Ponte della Libertà and into Santa Lucia station. Whistles, horns, drums, occasional shouts, festive choruses, and bursts of laughter. With too much luggage in tow, I disembark the train. From the top of the station steps the scene below is arresting – a full-swing masquerade party is in motion on the streets. Women in curled white wigs and enormous bustles, men in every manner of decorative mask, and children decorously dressed as little barons and baronesses (or less decorously, and more frequently, as little superheroes!).
On Christmas morning the valley was white and the sky thick with low cloud. The snow continued to pater down, gently at first, and then, just as we decided to venture up the slopes, a little more enthusiastically. There was nothing for it but to eat, and drink, and so first there was tuna carpaccio, and foie gras with brioche, and Valais meats, and cheeses, and white wine, and then red, with roast lamb, and pastas, and rösti and some more cheese (because it's only polite), and then apfelstrudel and custard, and sachertorte and whipped cream, all finished off with a round of strong fruity Grog served in a circular vessel made from wood with four drinking spouts and the strict instruction that it be passed from person to person until finished without being put down if the coming year is to bring good luck.
But evidently the luck was to be some time away, as on Boxing Day the snow was heavier again. Great drifts had fallen overnight, blanketing the roofs and the trees like freshly whipped meringue, the air a zillion-flaked blur of white driven gently downwards by the wind. We Google-image search 'the Matterhorn,' click to enlarge, and prop the result up in what we think is the representative position in the window, ('to the left? No, to the right!')… 'Maybe tomorrow,' we repeat again, before bundling up in clothing and trundling up the mountain for another very long lunch of cheese and wine, but very little in the way of skiing.
That evening though, twinkling through a hole in the heightening cloud, a tiny first star, and then finally, the next morning, through the ice-tinged windows, the rosily sun-lit face of the Matterhorn – rising up to the right, (where I thought it was all along!).
My Mum lives in a place called Coomboona – though very little evidence exists to confirm that this is even a 'place'. You can't get there following road signs, for Coomboona has no signage to indicate its existence; there is no township; no post office (though legend has it that there was one, once); and Google Maps is in the unfriendly habit of ignoring us altogether in favour of adding the prefix 'North' to the name of the nearest town (a substantial distance away) and lumping us in with them. For all of this though, Coomboona is what the place has always been called, and despite its apparent obscurity, it's not all that difficult to get to from Melbourne … or not until the very last minute at least. Heading north for about 2hrs or 200 kilometres on the huge corridor of the Hume Highway, Coomboona is just one exit away. Well, one exit, and one barely marked little right hand turn.
First, there are the Alpacas to the right. Though normally found on chilly Peruvian hillsides, they seem, to me at least, equally happy munching down the dry summer grass that grows high along the fence-lines of the flat river plain, (though what might constitute an unhappy alpaca face, I don't know). Next, and to the left, are some pomegranate plantations, flowers red and large like hibiscus on lush green shrubs lending an incongruous tropical feel. Further, and to the other side of the road, are acres of vineyard and a little winery bottling up classic French varieties grown half a world away from their original home. A small distance further again, across from some orchards of apple and pear, a hundred or so little brown and white dairy goats wander curiously at the feet of the lofty knock-kneed camels who are their strange new field-mates, (this recent and particularly unlikely addition to the roadside menagerie a surprise even to me).
But past all of this, when you seem to be almost at the bush line itself, and when black and white dairy cows are beginning to appear to both sides, you are finally almost there. Look up for the glimpse of white roof above the trees, and turn in through the black iron gates – a final rabbit hole through the rabbit hole – Coomboona Homestead, the green garden oasis amidst an Australian bush backdrop of eucalypt and sun-burnt yellow that my Mum calls home.
The movement of the tides may dictate daily life on Zanzibar, but the island's historical life owes more to another natural phenomenon – the winds. The first colonisers to blow in on the breeze were Arabs and Persians in the 9th century. Their dhows brought previously unknown spices, citrus, and tropical fruit, but by the 15th and 16th century, with Portuguese colonisation sweeping East Africa, dhows were replaced by galleons, and recently acquired South American staple foods such as maize and manioc were added to the mix. Next to arrive were the Omanis whom, courtesy of established trade routes with India, introduced new East Asian spices, and established Zanzibar as in important port in the global spice trade. Along with the spices came the recipes to utilise them, and, by the end of the 17th century, samosas, curry, masala, and biryani were being made in kitchens all over the island, adapted to suit the local ingredients, and influenced by the Arabian and Portuguese inflected cuisines that had come before.
The menu below attempts to make the most of this unique and extraordinarily rich culinary heritage, by starting each recipe with a similar set of ingredients and spices readily found on Zanzibar. The trick then, has to been to try and take each recipe in its own direction by featuring a particular spice or ingredient more predominately amongst the others, such that this ingredient is 'showcased,' so to speak. The beef is all about cloves (Zanizbar's most important spice both historically and at present in terms of trade); the octopus about star anise and woody cinnamon; and the chicken influenced by Indian cuisine and defined by its strong use of cardamom. The other thing that I have varied in order to make each dish unique is cooking time. A long cooking time gives the beef a melting texture, the octopus is grilled to add flavour before cooking in spices and coconut milk, while the chicken is marinated for a long time before being cooked only for the time necessary.
If you want to make these dishes all together, as part of a big feast, they've been designed to each offer something a little different and work together well. Otherwise, pick and choose, and serve with the vanilla pumpkin or pilau rice, or both, on the side!
Or, Banana-Chocolate-Marble-Spice Cake, or (my favourite name of all for it), Ballistically-Excited-Holiday-Food-Pre-Emption Cake. You see, at the time that this post is set to auto-publish, I will be about to touch down on the tropical island of Zanzibar! But, going back in time to (the present?), I'm still just sat at home in Qatar getting ridiculously excited about the whole trip. (Though not, of course, funnelling any of this excitement into the useful activity of packing. Because the only thing worse than packing is unpacking. But not to worry too much about unpacking just yet as that really is getting too far ahead). Instead of packing, and not entirely unpredictably, what I am doing is reading about Zanzibari food, and, in particular, how the rule of different colonising powers, as well as Zanizbar's role in the spice trade, has resulted in a unique kind of island-fusion cuisine.


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Racism and the lesson that is never learnt
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It might be possible to laugh off some of sport's byplay, but not this. Why? Because it seeks not to diminish what his target does, but who he is. This is what I heard in Eddie Betts' defeated lament on AFL 360. Whatever I say or do now, he seemed to be saying, I'm going to wake up black again tomorrow, and I'm going to cop it.
If you see Indigenous Australians as fellow humans, you just know not to speak to anyone in that way. If you don't, no crash course is going to redeem you.
England's Marcus Rashford after missing a penalty the Euro 202 shoot-out. Credit:Getty Images.
To be clear, education is the answer to great social ills. It works. Think about drink-driving and seat belts and the AIDS crisis long ago, obesity and smoking more recently. Education will get us there on vaccines, and hopefully violence against women, and maybe even climate change. Education is the way we evolve and progress.
But it has to be education, not rote learning, not box-ticking. Each time the racism bogey raises its head in sport, everybody starts to bang on about education. To that extent, you can't blame Walker.
It's an industry-wide reflex. The AFL and the Players Associations have been running education programs for years. At the release of the Do Better report at Collingwood earlier this year and its momentous fall-out, Federal Indigenous Affairs minister Ken Wyatt said that what Eddie McGuire needed was education. The report itself recommended an education program.
Even Betts spoke this week of the need for more education. So did Andrew Krakouer. But the word must echo dully in their own ears. Certainly you could hear it in Betts' cri de coeur. He's tired of having to be the teacher.
Eddie Betts and Taylor Walker as teammates. Credit:AFL Media
Education works only if it is sincerely delivered and received. Too often, when sports talk about education, it's as if the word itself is the panacea. Education, done. Too often, it seems to fall on players' ears that way. Walker was the one made answerable this week because he was caught, but you'd be naive to think he was a one-off.
It would be wrong to conclude that education hasn't worked at all. The fact that Walker was reported from within his own club was a big step, a leap. It suggests a growing realisation that this is much bigger than a footy issue. But it is also inescapable that Walker clearly thought he was on safe ground.
So it's hard not to dwell on the fact that it's more than a quarter of a century since Winmar and Long and Monkhorst, and think about all the instances of racism in sport that have come to light since, and consider the way society's attitude to them has shifted, and reflect on all the resources that have been devoted to education along the way, and be depressed by the thought that there still can be a Taylor Walker moment.
Oh yes, we're educated. But what have we learnt?
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Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined "liquid biopsy" identified the markers in the blood of 221 patients with the early-stage disease. Their results, published online the week of Sept. 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that detection of markers from both DNA and protein products of DNA was twice as accurate at identifying the disease as detection of DNA alone.
Such liquid biopsies aim to fish out DNA molecules specific for cancer amid a wide sea of normal DNA circulating in the blood. Tumors tend to shed their mutated DNA into the bloodstream, making it possible for scientists to use genomic sequencing tools to sift through the blood and find such cancer-linked DNA.
While their test is not ready to be used outside of a research setting, they say, mutated DNA of the type that is shed from tumors and found in blood is "exquisitely specific" for cancer. "If cancer-linked DNA can be found in the blood of an individual, it is very likely that person has cancer," says Bert Vogelstein, M.D., co-director of the Ludwig Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Studies by Vogelstein's team and others have shown that DNA can be identified in the blood of more than 85 percent of patients with advanced cancers. However, the sensitivity of detecting such small bits of DNA in the blood of patients with early cancers, without prior knowledge of the genetic status of the cancers, was unknown prior to this study, say the scientists.
In their new study, blood and tumor tissue samples were collected from 221 men and women, mostly Caucasians, with stage I and II pancreatic cancers who underwent surgery to remove their pancreas at hospitals in Australia, Korea, Indiana, Pittsburgh, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Another 182 people with no known history of cancer, autoimmune disease or chronic kidney disease donated their blood for the study.
The scientists were able to identify 66 of the 221 patients, or 30 percent, with early-stage pancreatic cancer by using their blood screening tool to sift for mutations in the DNA of the KRAS gene alone, an early marker of pancreatic cancer development.
Their goal, however, was to improve the 30 percent detection rate, find more early cancers and avoid false positives in people without the disease, says Joshua Cohen, an M.D.-Ph.D. postgraduate student in Vogelstein's lab who worked on the study.
So, they turned to protein biomarkers circulating in the blood. Such circulation protein markers already are used clinically to detect and monitor diseases like diabetes and heart muscle damage from heart attacks as well as to monitor patients with a prior history of cancers.
Of special interest to the researchers was the protein biomarker CA19-9. It's used to monitor patients with pancreatic cancer for recurrence. But the level of CA19-9 used for recurrence monitoring is low (37 units/mL), because physicians want to pinpoint regrowing cancers quickly.
Some people without cancer may also have low levels of the protein, such as those with gallstones. For screening purposes, the level of CA19-9 needed to be much higher (100 units/mL).
"A screening test needs to be highly reliable to spare people the worry and side effects of procedures following a positive test for cancer," says Kenneth W. Kinzler, Co-Director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins.
When the scientists looked only for CA19-9 in the blood of their study participants, they found it in 109 of the 221 patients (49 percent). However, when they combined detection of KRAS mutations, CA19-9 and three other protein biomarkers, the scientists correctly identified pancreatic cancer in 141 of the 221 patients (64 percent). In contrast, only one individual among their control group of 182 people without cancer had elevation of one of the five biomarkers.
Vogelstein's team used a system of molecular barcoding that they developed to ensure that each KRAS mutation they detected was real and not an artifact. For example, they showed that there was complete agreement between the mutations detected in the blood and the mutations detected in the tumors. They say the mutations they detected are also common in lung and colon cancers, and they're planning on using a similar approach, combining protein and DNA biomarkers, to identify early cancers of several types.
Nick Papadopoulos, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, estimates that the cost of a screening test based on the approach described in this study would be between that of mammography and colonoscopy, which are widely used tests for breast and colorectal cancers, respectively. Papadopoulos notes that "both DNA and protein markers can be analyzed from the same blood draw in each patient. The technologies required to implement such tests, involving protein biomarker tests and DNA sequencing, are already widely used in hospital and commercial laboratories.
Other scientists who contributed to research include Ammar A. Javed, Christopher Thoburn, Fay Wong, Matthew J. Weiss, Nita Ahuja, Martin A. Makary, Marco Dal Molin, Yuxuan Wang, Lu Li, Janine Ptak, Lisa Dobbyn, Joy Schaefer, Natalie Silliman, Maria Popoli, Michael G. Goggins, Ralph H. Hruban, Christopher L. Wolfgang, Alison P. Klein and Cristian Tomasetti of Johns Hopkins; Jeanne Tie and Peter Gibbs of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia, C. Max Schmidt and Michele Yip-Schneider of the Indiana University School of Medicine; Peter J. Allen and Mark Schattner of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Randall E. Brand and Aatur D. Singhi of the University of Pittsburgh; Gloria M. Petersen of the Mayo Clinic, Seung-Mo Hong and Song Cheol Kim of the Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; Massimo Falconi and Claudio Doglioni of the IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; and Anirban Maitra and Samir M. Hanash of the The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The study was funded by the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Sol Goldman Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Research Foundation, the Joseph L. Rabinowitz Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Susan Wojcicki and Dennis Troper, the Benjamin Baker Scholarship, The Commonwealth Foundation, NHMRC grant APP1060804, The John Templeton Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (P30-CA006973, CA062924, CA102701, CA06973, CA152753, GM-07309, and CA152753).
Under license agreements between PapGene, Sysmex Corporation, Life Technologies Corporation (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and the Johns Hopkins University, Papadopoulos, Kinzler and Vogelstein are entitled to royalties on technology in this publication. Furthermore Papadopoulos, Kinzler and Vogelstein are founders of, hold equity in, and serve as consultants to PapGene. Additionally, Vogelstein and Kinzler are paid advisory board members of Sysmex Corporation and Papadopoulos serves as a paid consultant to this company. These arrangements have been reviewed and approved by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.


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Family presence helps immigrants
Ghassan ElHelou can attest to the difficulties of immigrating to Halifax.
He's from Lebanon, one of the larger ethnic groups to have settled in the city, but he says, it's not easy.
"You need someone in Halifax to get in immigration," the 19-year-old said.
By By Robyn Young
"My aunt is here, so it's easier for me to get in immigration from someone else who's got no one here."
While shaving chicken off a rotisserie spit where he works at Venus Pizza on Barrington Street, he admitted also that he probably wouldn't have a job in Halifax if it hadn't been for his relatives in the city.
ElHelou said immigrants tend to go to bigger city centres like Toronto and Montreal because they have family there and there are more jobs.
The 2006 census states that almost 7,000 people in Halifax are of Lebanese descent.
They're attracted to the city because a Lebanese community already exists.
Halifax is home to about 180 different ethnic groups.
Of visible minorities, blacks are the largest group in the city, while Arabs are second.
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