teacher Laura Arís Alvarez. The emphasis of the workshop was placed on the use of the body centre. The class was built progressively from stretching and technical parts to very physical and dynamic phrases.
Participation in the workshop of Laura Arís Alvarez 12th-16th of July.
I would like to start my evaluation with a thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in the Ultima Vez workshop given by Laura Aris Alvarez within the program of Wild Cards 2010. I think it is a great opportunity for professional dancers to get to know more about the work of the company and to experience it in a physical way. It is a big advantage and very convenient to get a slot in the workshop and all the things very well arranged as travel, accommodation and per-diem.
I applied through the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm and was first selected for the workshop with Eduardo Torroja in May 24th-28th. Since I already had singed up for the workshop with Eduardo Torroja that was given in April I got the opportunity to choose another workshop of the ones that were coming up.
Regarding the arrangements, I got reimbursed for my flight tickets that I booked myself. There was only a little problem with the per-diem and accommodation since the information that was stated on the website ofCullberg Ballet didn't correspond with the information from Ultima Vez. I was informed that per-diem was going to be paid for 6 days, €35 a day (€210). I was also given the information that I had accommodation paid for 6 nights. But through the organizers (Ultima Vez) I was asked to move out of the accommodation after 5 nights and if I wanted to stay another night I had to pay it myself. Regarding the per-diem I received just €180 in per-diem, referring to a mistake in the information on the website of Cullberg Ballet. Of course these are very small misunderstandings which made no big harms for my stay in Brussels and participation in the workshop. But I just want to point it out for coming up Wild Cards 2011, so that all applicants will be given the same information. It's not so nice to be distrusted in the matter of money. Except from these things everything was a big pleasure for me.
concepts that supports the vocabulary and that clearly demonstrates the importance of the technique in the movement material. The work of understanding the structure of the body, alignment and how to profit from the force of momentum, using less muscular work, is very much useful for all contemporary dancers. Just as the understanding and analyse of different concepts and tools which one are a big help to be able to move with precision and fluidity in and out of the floor. I find it very interesting to integrate the technique with different concepts and images of the action and reaction in the body using the ideas of risk, trust, weakness, strength, speed, presence and so on. The work challenges me as a dancer to push the limits and se how far I can go with my body within the physicality of moving in space. The understanding of risk and working with "fear" pushing the body to the boarder of physicality is something that I find big pleasure in. Nowadays, especially in Sweden, a lot of "conceptual works" gives less importance to the physicality and virtuosity of the performers, which can be a very frustrating situation for many young dancers. I can only speak for my own actions, but this is why I cross the boarders of my country to get what I want. The work with Laura Aris Alvarez also brought up the thought of human nature. How we move and act within different patterns and how we can use it, and work against the instincts more efficient. The tools for partnering work are also very useful and interesting for me as a contemporary dancer. To work in relation to another body makes me also understand and analyse the strengths and weakness in my own body structure. Laura has great energy and she is very clear in her way of teaching. She leads the workshop very professional and gives a lot of time and space for the dancers to practice the tools within different movement material. She gives the vocabulary a fluidity and softness which one is both challenging and a big pleasure to move and experience in the space.
I find the work of Ultima Vez very much accessible and applicable in the dance scene today. I think it is great that such a famous company takes the responsibility to spread their knowledge to dancers in such a generous way. The amount of workshops given a year and the intensive training with high quality is a benefit for dancers who wants to get to know the company.
I will bring the inspiration and energy I got from this work in to my daily practice and put the useful tools in my pockets, hoping for the future to bring me more great experiences like this one.
Nathalie Walhberg studied at the Contemporary Dance department of the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm (SE). She travelled all over Europe to follow workshops of different renowned contemporary dance teachers. Currently she works on freelance base as a contemporary dancer and teaches preparation classes for professional dance education in contemporary technique and classical ballet. Recently she started to organise dance workshops in Stockholm with the support of the Swedish Art Grants Committee and the Carina Ari foundations.


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Opinion Dan O'Brien
Calls to make employment great again? That's Trumpian nonsense
Workers' rights are being eroded and jobs are more precarious - widespread beliefs but wrong ones, writes Dan O'Brien
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There have been bigger gains in employment over the past 18 months than in the first 75 years of this State's existence. That stark fact says more about Ireland's worst-in-Europe record on jobs in the 20th Century than it does about the (very good) recent record on employment creation.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-obrien/calls-to-make-employment-great-again-thats-trumpian-nonsense-36830657.html
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Ireland's appalling record on employment growth over most of that century is one reason why there is less fuzzy-headed nostalgia about the past in this country than in some others, of the Make-America-Great-Again variety so beloved of Donald Trump. In many peer countries, and despite the drudgery of assembly-line work, the decline of employment in heavy industry is lamented because jobs for life in manufacturing have come to be seen as better than less long-lasting service sector jobs.
In spite of the facts that the Republic never industrialised and its 20th-century employment record was so grim, suggestions of a past in which jobs and employment conditions were much better are often made. Even more common are claims of an unstoppable proliferation of zero-hour contracts, bogus self-employment and other forms of awfulness in the world of work.
A section on the Sean O'Rourke radio show last week was a classic example of the things-are-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket genre. Last Thursday a panel of three all told a tale of woe about working life. One of the most commonly made claims, that employment is becoming more precarious, was predictably trotted out within minutes.
Along with claims about another supposed socio-economic phenomena - the death of rural Ireland - claims about workplace precariousness are made with little supporting evidence. Most of the claims made on the show were presented as facts despite being fact-free. Most of them are, in fact, wrong.
For decades, the State's statisticians have visited thousands of homes every three months to ask people very detailed questions about their employment situation. One of the many questions they ask is whether PAYE workers have permanent or temporary contracts with their employers.
Over those two decades, there has been no marked change, with around 90pc of employees on permanent contracts and only 10pc on temporary ones. If there has been a trend it has been towards permanency.
In recent years, as the recovery has picked up pace and skill shortages have emerged in some sectors, employees have been in a stronger bargaining position. That is to be seen in the most recent jobs figures which show 93pc of employees were on permanent contracts, the highest share on record. In other words, there has never been such a small proportion of employees on temporary contracts since records began in the late 1990s.
Ah, but doom-mongers will say, only looking at PAYE employees misses a supposed scourge of the age: bogus self-employment. That happens when an unscrupulous employer refuses to give somebody an employment contract: permanent or temporary.
In order to save money by, for instance, not paying social insurance and holiday pay, the employer insists that the worker sign a contract as an independent services provider.
With the rise of the smartphone-enabled gig economy, there is certainly reason to think that bogus self-employment could be a problem.
It is for this very reason the Department of Social Protection recently did a major study on the subject. It found no evidence to support the contention (just as another investigation a few years ago showed there to be no zero-hour contracts in Ireland).
Again, the hard facts show why. If bogus self-employment was becoming more widespread, the total number of people registered as self-employed would be on the up. That is not happening.
The statisticians register two types of self-employment. The first type of self-employed worker employs other people. Anyone who is working on their own account and paying others to work for them is unlikely to be bogus. Indeed, this group is part of the employment solution, as they are creating jobs. They are not part of any problem.
The second group of self-employed people are those who don't employ anyone else. These solo workers include those in the gig economy, such as bicyclers delivering takeaways, and about whom there is considerable and justifiable concern.
Again, let's look at the figures, which are collected at some considerable expense to the taxpayer in order to allow for an informed debate.
As of the end of last year, just over one in 10 people at work in the Irish economy was self-employed and employing nobody else.
That was fractionally lower than a decade ago and marginally higher than two decades ago. Such stability in the share of solo self-employed workers over 20 years would not be happening if any significant surge in bogus self-employment was taking place.
Nor is it the case, incidentally, that solo self-employed workers are all struggling with too few hours, even if some certainly are. If anything, it is more common to hear of self-employed people complaining of too much work rather than too little.
Again, this is borne out by the available data. Solo self-employed people put in 43 hours a week on average, far more than people with employee status, who work an average of 35 hours.
Part-time working is the one area where there may be some evidence to support claims that the workplace environment has deteriorated. OECD figures show that in 2016, 6.6pc of those at work in Ireland were part-timers who wanted to be full-timers. That is down on peak of 2013, but is more than twice pre-crisis levels.
But even this shred of evidence that could support the negative view may be less supportive than it first appears.
The fact that involuntary part-time working was low and stable as a share of total employment for decades before the crash suggests that there may not be an underlying trend at work. Rather, it is more likely that the still high number of involuntary part-timers reflects the huge scale of labour market shock from 2008 from which full recovery has not been completed.
None of this is to say that Nirvana has been arrived at in the jobs market, or that younger people are not still having a considerably worse time of it than their pre-crash counterparts - the under-25s are always the first to suffer jobs losses when economies slump and the last to benefit when they recover.
But the employment story since the economy turned around in 2012 has been almost all about positive developments. Since the Celtic Tiger took legs in the mid-1990s, with the exception of the 2008-2012 period, that has also been the case. Before that time, things really were grim in Ireland, with decade after decade of stagnating employment.
There are lots of real problems that need attention and discussion, from global warming, to the chronic housing shortage, to the high level of jobless households, which is Ireland's real labour market issue.
Giving unchallenged prominence to those who make claims without evidence not only distracts from real problems, it adds to the inchoate anger that is a feature of modern politics across the western world.
Dan O'Brien has tweeted further detail and graphics on this subject at @danobrien20
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  class FileCameraDevice < Device #__as__ :file_camera

    attr_accessor :mode
    attr_reader :current_file_name, :camera_element

    def initialize(args = {})
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    def current_link
      "#{@camera_element.room.name}/#{@camera_element.name}/file/#{Time.now.to_i}#{@file_ext}"
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    def current_file
      IO.read @current_file_name if @current_file_name
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Red Bull To Leave F1 And Buy MotoGP Series - Dorna Ousted As Bridgepoint Cashes Out
As many of you will have spotted, this was in fact an April Fool's story. Though Red Bull owner Dieter Mateschitz has made vague threats to pull out of F1 over the new rules, as quoted in the Kurier story, there are no signs that Red Bull is looking to expand its presence inside MotoGP, beyond expanding the number of riders it backs. Red Bull's strategy continues to be to back individual athletes in motorcycle racing, as fans tend to follow riders rather than teams. However, that Bridgepoint will at some point sell its remaining stake in Dorna is a certainty. The question is, who they will sell it to, and at what price. Private equity firms are always seeking large returns on medium-term investments. Bridgepoint have owned Dorna now for 7 years, and so a sale is likely in the next two or three years. In the meantime, both the MotoGP and World Superbike series must be made as profitable as possible, which means cutting costs and raising revenues. The shift to pay-per-view broadcasting deals is possibly one strand of that strategy. Arguably, if Red Bull were to produce content and stream it free over the internet, it could help to grow the sport enormously, especially outside of the established markets. That is one area where Dorna's twin strategies - striking deals with PPV broadcasters, and expanding its online video offering - collide and conflict. Free, and freely shareable online content will remain a difficult subject for Dorna, unfortunately.
Now that April Fool's Day is over, we will once again focus on trying to ensure that all of the stories on the website are as accurate as possible. Normal service has now been resumed...
Red Bull are poised to make two dramatic announcements over the next two weekends, MotoMatters.com can exclusively reveal. At next weekend's Bahrain F1 race, the Austrian energy drink firm will announce its withdrawal from the premier four-wheeled racing series at the end of 2014. A week later, at the Austin MotoGP round for which it is the title sponsor, Red Bull is to announce that it is to purchase Bridgepoint Capital's remaining stake in MotoGP, and take over the running of the series.
Sources in the private finance industry with knowledge of the situation say that Bridgepoint has been looking to rid itself of its motorcycle racing business for some time. The private equity firm had acquired 71% of Dorna in 2006, at the peak of MotoGP's popularity, reputedly for GBP400 million. Since then, they have seen the value of their investment drop, and have been looking to get their money back from the deal ever since. The sale of a 39% stake in Dorna to the Canadian Pension Plan Investment board was the first step in recouping their investment. That deal was rumored to be worth 400 million euros, or just over 70% of their initial outlay. Sources with knowledge of the situation say that Red Bull is to acquire the remaining 32% of Dorna for around 300 million euros, but with full control over the series.
That was a condition for Dieter Mateschitz, the Austrian billionaire owner of the energy drink giant, to pull his investment from F1 and take over control of world championship motorcycle racing. Mateschitz had been unhappy with the direction F1 had been taking for some time now, and the debacle at the opening race of the year had prompted the Austrian to drop the first hints that he would withdraw from the series entirely. Speaking to the Austrian newspaper Kurier, Mateschitz had said 'The point of F1 is neither to set new records for fuel economy, nor to allow people to have whispered conversations during a race.' He suggested that there were better ways to get a return on investment. 'GP2 partially provides more racing and fighting and almost equal lap times as F1 with a small fraction of the budget.'
But mention of the open wheel support series to F1 was merely subterfuge, MotoMatters.com has exclusively learned. For a sum equivalent to a little more than the annual budget of the Red Bull F1 team, Mateschitz is able to obtain not just a team, but an entire race series. What is more, MotoGP is a better fit for Red Bull's target audience than F1, fans being generally younger and more open to new experiences than the older, more staid F1 audience. Though Red Bull had refrained from sponsoring a team directly, the energy firm had been slowly extending its reach in motorcycle racing, backing more and more riders, as well as three MotoGP rounds.
Mateschitz had reportedly been displeased at the way in which rival Monster had been expanding in to MotoGP more and more aggressively, snatching top riders away from under their noses. By buying both the MotoGP and World Superbike series outright, Red Bull controls the series completely. Though existing energy drink sponsorship deals will be allowed to stand, all bikes and riders will be obliged to carry the Red Bull logo on both leathers and fairings. The deal hits Yamaha most heavily, with Monster sponsoring both the factory team and Tech 3 satellite squad. Tech 3 is to be renamed 'Red Bull Tech 3 Monster', a further blow to the US-based energy drink firm.
The Red Bull takeover will also have far-reaching consequences inside of Dorna. With the F1 team to be disbanded, senior personnel are to be given key positions overseeing both the MotoGP and World Superbike series. The biggest change is the most controversial: Carmelo Ezpeleta, who has run MotoGP since 1992, when Dorna first acquired the sport through the former Banesto bank, is to be removed from MotoGP and sent to run the World Superbike series. In Ezpeleta's place, Mateschitz is to put F1 team principal Christian Horner, MotoMatters.com has learned. Though Horner has no experience of running a race series, the young Englishman is known to be a great organizational talent and extremely ambitious.
There will be major technical changes as well. Red Bull designer Adrian Newey is to take charge of the technical side of the series. The manufacturers are to be encouraged to focus on World Superbikes, one of the reasons Ezpeleta is to be placed in charge there, as Ezpeleta has long experience of managing the relationship with the factories. Newey is to focus on managing a new set of technical regulations, based around a tightly-controlled engine specification. MotoMatters.com understands that the bikes are to be powered by normally aspirated 1400cc four-stroke triples, to be housed in prototype chassis using spec electronics. Newey's long experience in F1 and with the engineering firms based in the UK's 'F1 corridor' is hoped to bring fresh blood into the series, managing costs while still presenting significant engineering challenges to frame builders wishing to get involved.
The sale could be good news for MotoGP fans around the world who currently have no access to the sport. MotoGP would be a keystone of Red Bull's promotional platform, featuring heavily on the Red Bull TV channel. Vast amounts of content would be released online, making it freely available to everyone with an internet connection. With fears that the many TV deals done with pay-per-view broadcasters could see the popularity of the sport take a nosedive, having a large amount of content freely available - and in easily sharable format, with strong Red Bull branding - should increase the profile of the sport.
Red Bull's acquisition of Dorna is the logical extension of the ever-greater reliance of motorcycle racing on energy drink sponsorship. Mateschitz is believed to see owning and running the race series as the best way to circumvent any attempts to regulate promotion of the highly caffeinated sugary drinks. By creating an overwhelming association between motorcycle racing and Red Bull, the Austrian billionaire is hoping that if the advertising of energy drinks is limited, the promotion of MotoGP will trigger subconscious associations with Red Bull, and maintain sales among the key younger demographic. The fear for MotoGP fans must be that if Red Bull decides to sell its share in Dorna once again, there will be no more sponsors left to invest in the sport. Motorcycle racing never really learned the lesson of the years of tobacco sponsorship; the takeover of the sport by energy drinks puts it right back where it started.
http://kurier.at/sport/motorsport/mateschitz-im-interview-oeffentliche-p...
What a brilliant idea.
motomann replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 09:26
Almost....... I did read the whole headline before I checked......
edwardhill1995 replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 09:39
500cc stroker 2-Cycle(two-stroke) engine mandate in effect from this point on, till the end of this season. :)
nlastovi replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 09:40
Nicely done for April 1. Of course, if this wasn't a prank article, I'm not sure what to think :-)
Most of this
is good news. I do think that we should be seeing smaller engines in the bikes though, perhaps with turbos or superchargers. 650 twins should do it.
Prefacing every team with RB is a bit OTT too.
I also think tyre changes should be brought in. A new quick-release system with ring pulls should be developed.
Roofusruffcut replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 09:53
April fool anyone
You had me
timbo replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 09:54
Until the 1400 cc naturally aspirated triples paragraph. :)
agreed. I got here: "the
yokel84 replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 13:02
agreed. I got here: "the bikes are to be powered by normally aspirated 1400cc four-stroke triples" before I double checked what the date was..
Really should've stopped here: "Tech 3 is to be renamed 'Red Bull Tech 3 Monster'"
Good Effort :)
Doca replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 10:07
Need a transfusion?
poleposition replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 10:12
So close to the edge I am bleeding... :-)
leprechaun replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 12:14
yet another reason for stoner to return.. would be a dream scenario for us fans, and really this is what moto gp needs.
gutted if this is a wind up.
some would say you have to much time on your hands mr emmett.
Nice one David I've been
nettic replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 10:45
Nice one David
I've been checking the site all day (Australia) waiting for this. Never fail to deliver on 1 April.
Should've sneaked in the return "two strokes" in there somewhere thou. Maybe something about the smell of two stroke GP bikes mixed with taste of redbull gives you a similar hangover to 8 Vodka Redbulls before lunch?
Very good...
ShortShift replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 11:40
If only it was true!!!!
Good to know April 1 is a global holiday we all can share.
scottwiebe replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 12:01
I really like the bit about races airing free on Red Bull TV. I mean a guy can dream, right?
Worth the effort of writing it?
Machine replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 12:27
I'm not sure I'd bother but good on you for putting in the time!
How big can they punch out a 498cc, 499cc, 497cc, etc..??? I know for a fact on four strokes you can increase displacement with non stock ratio'd internals and sich.
Adrien Newey
Whamp replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 13:49
I would have thought Adrien Newey's biggest technical regulation would have been to introduce new aerodynamics packages that are so extremely close fitting to the body that the car overheats and has no reliability! 4/1
I was stunned at first. I thought, "How long has David been keeping this rumors a secret?". "What's the date?" Haha :D
Believable information, until (wink wink) Christian Horner will be taking over the series and Adrian Newey will be the new technical director.
Jesus, that was good :)
PacienT replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 14:38
I woke up only when I started to read that there would be 1400 ccm engines.
Well done David :)
Got me
Averagerider replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 15:17
Until I read the comments. I was sitting here reading this with my jaw dropping through the floor. Just wrong.... so wrong. ;)
There are some good ideas in this
terryfiero replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 17:09
This could work! Happy April!
Especially loved this line...
RichDesmond replied on Tue, 2014-04-01 17:31
"The manufacturers are to be encouraged to focus on World Superbikes, one of the reasons Ezpeleta is to be placed in charge there, as Ezpeleta has long experience of managing the relationship with the factories."
Beautiful... :)
I thought...
... you were going to go with something along the lines of, "Dorna decides to add Factory 3 option to MotoGP" for 4/1.
That I think people would've taken hook, line & sinker!
I was dying laughing at the
I was dying laughing at the "Tech 3 is to be renamed 'Red Bull Tech 3 Monster', a further blow to the US-based energy drink firm."
What an article!!!!
avsatishchandra replied on Wed, 2014-04-02 03:43
I knew it was All Fools Day, but I really enjoyed reading David Emmett's fiction as thoroughly as I enjoy reading his serious reporting and analysis. It takes a great mind to think up something like this. Way to go Mr. Emmett.
duffyg replied on Sun, 2014-04-06 21:24
I knew right out of the gate that this was an April 1 prank because I happen to know from an reliable inside source at F1 that Christian Horner is leaving Red Bull F1 to head the CGOE (Crochet Guild of England) and spend more time at home on his Lama ranch and that Adrian Newey has decided to pursue his other passion of green living to take his UK based Yurt design company, NewClarkYurt, cofounded with school mate Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear) public.
It has been numerous years
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Once the juvenile court severs a parent's parental rights and neither no appeal is taken or the appellate court affirms, the parent(s) rights are terminated, no longer can there be visitation or parenting time. Further, the grandparents' rights would also be extinguished for that parent's parents.
We recently undertook representation of the biological mother who sought to re-establish herself in her children's lives. The paternal grandmother adopted the children following both parents' rights being severed. Our client, the biological mother, filed for temporary guardianship that was consented to by adoptive mother/paternal grandmother. A permanent guardianship was established as the probate court found biological mother had both gotten her life back together and put prior issues behind her.
The two children are living with the biological mother and we anticipate filing for legal adoption in the next ninety (90) days with the adoptive mother's consent.


Save Your Appetite for Chincoteague Blueberry Festival 2018!
If you like delicious food, great live music, arts & crafts, and FRESH blueberries, you will definitely want to attend Chincoteague Blueberry Festival 2018 – July 20th through the 22nd!
Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival is an annual celebration and extravaganza center4ed around what may be the world's most perfect fruit: the blueberry!
You'll see (and smell and -oh, my- taste!) both fresh and prepared blueberries. Blueberry treats and dishes will be everywhere and run the gamut from the familiar to the unusual. There will be blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins, blueberry syrups, salads, and even sandwiches. Best of all – and of course – there will also be Sugarbakers' Ultimate Blueberry Pies!
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Chapati (Roti) is a staple in most indian meals. This simple recipe can be eaten alongside subji or dal to complete a traditional indian meal.
2. Gradually add ¼ cup warm water to mixture and knead with hands.
3. Moisten the palms of your hand with a small amount of canola oil and work with dough to make it soft. Shape into 6 small balls.
4. Dust each of the balls with flour. Roll out each ball into a thin, flat, circular shape, 4-5 inches in diameter.
5. Heat a nonstick skillet or iron skillet over medium heat. Add a roti and cook both sides until slightly brown. Press the edge of the rotis lightly with a spatula until it puffs up. Remove and repeat for the remaining rotis.


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« Whistleblowing on Western Culture
A Blunt Assessment of our Western Culture Dysfunction »
Sense-Experience reality vis a vis Western culture intellectual INVENTED REALITY
There are no 'people', peopling is an appearance within the holodynamic (the Tao).
-1- The world of our sensory experience is an energy flow-field; it is a transforming relational continuum that has been termed the Tao (Lao Tzu) and/or the Logos (Heraclitus).
"The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao" – Lao Tzu
The world is an ineffable flow-continuum; i.e. a holodynamic. As Wittgenstein observes,
"Of that which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence" ("Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen"), — Wittgenstein
-2- The world as a flow-continuum (holodynamic) cannot be captured by language since language consists of names or nouns and names signify persisting existence and there are no things with persisting existence in the Tao. Since the flow continuum cannot be captured DIRECTLY by language since everything is in flux, the work-around is to use the names and animating verbs as 'Wittgenstein ladders' to conjure up an impression of the transforming flow-continuum (holodynamic)
6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.
He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.
"7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
— Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
-3- Western culture reality is unique in its use of sorcery IN AN EXPLICIT SENSE. In the transforming relational continuum; i.e. in reality understood as the transforming relational continuum, there are IN THE REALITY OF OUR SENSORY EXPERIENCE no name-instantiated 'things-in-themselves' with powers of sourcing actions and developments; i.e. this is the 'double error' of language and grammar as pointed out by Nietzsche. This language and grammar based double error conjures up a psychological impression of a 'thing-in-itself' that 'eclipses' and 'occludes' the understanding of our natural experience wherein there are only relational forms without persisting being' (as expressed by 'mitakuye oyasin').
In modern physics, the forms in nature are resonance features within the purely relational energy holodynamic and it is only the intellectual abstracting power of 'naming' the imputes 'persisting thing-in-itself existence' to relational forms. For example, there is only 'duning', there is no such thing as 'a dune' that gets larger and longer and shifts its shape and positioning. 'Duning is a resonance feature within the transforming relational continuum.
This habit of objectifying resonance features by naming them is characteristic of Western culture use of language and grammar. THERE ARE NO 'PEOPLE', THERE IS ONLY 'PEOPLING'. This is the only possible understanding within the realm of our real-life sensory experience within the transforming relational continuum. THE TERM 'PEOPLE' IS PART OF AN INVENTED REALITY THAT WE CONSTRUCT WITH LANGUAGE BY WAY OF THE DOUBLE ERROR (first error is to use naming to impute thing-in-itself existence to a flow-form while the second error (which conflates the first error) imputes the power of sourcing actions and developments to the name-instantiated thing-in-itself).
AS WITH DUNING, SO ALSO WITH PEOPLING. THAT WHICH IN OUR ACTUAL RELATIONAL EXPERIENCE IS A RESONANCE BASED (PURELY RELATIONAL) FLOW-FORM WITHIN THE HOLODYNAMIC (AKA THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM), WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS EMPLOY THE DOUBLE ERROR REDUCTION TECHNIQUE TO RE-PRESENT RESONANCE-BASED FORMS IN THE HOLODYNAMIC AS NOTIONAL (NAMING-INSTANTIATED) THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES NOTIONALLY WITH THEIR OWN POWERS OF SOURCING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS (aka 'sorcerers').
In our actual sensory experience of inclusion in the holodynamic, reality is our experiencing of the Tao, the all-including flow wherein 'duning' and 'peopling' are relational dynamics within the Tao. There are no 'dunes' and there are no 'people' other than as the synthetic (abstract) artifacts of the intellect, as we try to capture a visual perspective NOT of our experience of inclusion in the holodynamic/Tao, … but to capture in words and language 'what we see going on out there in front of us', REDUCING IN THE PROCESS, the experience of inclusion in the Tao (holodynamic) to a visual (crows-eye voyeur view, rather than sensory experience) of an INVENTED REALITY 'out there in front of us'.
NOW THAT 'REALITY' IS OUT THERE IN FRONT OF US, WE CAN VOYEURIZE IT AND TALK ABOUT IT AND DISSECT AND ANALYZE IT, FORGETTING, IN THE PROCESS THAT;
'The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao' – Lao Tzu.
In other words, what we see (VOYEURIZE) that is 'out there in front of us' that we can talk about (the visual picture that we are interrogating with our invasive crows-eye scrutiny and dissecting and homing in onto capture the fine detail, like a voyeur male in a motel with a one-way mirror who studies females in their naked, private moments, using such voyeur observations to construct, with language and grammar, an INVENTED REALITY. This voyeur viewing based INVENTED REALITY IS NOT THE TRUE REALITY. It is, in fact, a double error based pseudo-reality that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are employing as our 'operative reality'.
WHAT ARE THE SHORTFALLS AND PITFALLS OF EMPLOYING THE DOUBLE ERROR BASED PSEUDO-REALITY AS OUR 'OPERATIVE REALITY'?
For example, while modern physics and indigenous aboriginal and Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta understanding is in terms of 'DUNING' AND 'PEOPLING' WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, Western culture adherents experiencing such phenomena see 'DUNES' AND 'PEOPLE' AS LOCAL 'THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES' INHABITANTS WITH 'their own powers of sourcing actions and developments WITHIN A SEPARATE HABITAT-COME-HOLDING-TANK-FOR-INHABITANTS.
That is, Western culture adherents use the double error of language and grammar to reduce 'duning' and 'peopling' (appearances within the holodynamic) to notional 'things-in-themselves' ('dunes' and 'people'), notionally with 'their own powers of sourcing actions and developments'. This abstract reduction comes with what philosophers have termed 'the burden of concreteness' since the natural resonance-based relational transformation dynamics that are innate in nature are 'stripped out' ('out of mind and thus out of the 'mind's eye') by the abstract language and grammar based 'double error' reduction of flow-forms to name-instantiated things-in-themselves with powers of sourcing actions and developments.
The abstract intellectual splitting of one's 'self' as 'inhabitant' out of the 'habitat' is experienced as 'self-consciousness', and the burden of concreteness comes with it; i.e. no more 'being one with the flow' as is natural for intuitively animated resonance features (dunings, peoplings), but, now under control of the intellect that language and grammar have put into an unnatural primacy over the resonance-informed intuition, the 'burden of concreteness' now demands instructions for 'how to move' in a logical and mechanistic manner. This usurping, by the intellect, of one's natural, intuitive, resonance-informed inclusion in the holodynamic, gives rise to the burden of concreteness that includes having to locally manage one's own actions, 'double error' style, as if out of the centre of one's own 'independent thing-in-itself (name-instantiated) pseudo-'being' (first error), by way of one's notional 'powers of sourcing actions and developments.
This shift into analytical double-error based self-sourced actions and developments (which, in Western culture adherents, is hijacking (pre-emptng) our natural gift of resonance-induced participation in the holodynamic, is alluded to, for example, in 'The Marionette Theatre' by Henrich von Kleist' This hijacking, by mechanistic logic, of the intuitive sensing of inclusion in the relational holodynamic has also been referred to as 'the fall from grace'. We have all experienced this as an 'attack of self-consciousness' that takes us 'out of the natural relational flow' so that we are then lumbered with 'the burden of concreteness' where we lose our spontaneity and find ourselves forced to jumpstart the formulating of instructions by ourselves to ourselves for our own actions.
Obviously, for the bear in Von Kleist's essay, in engaging with the fencer in this story, it is a 'no-brainer'; i.e. the bear's intuition is more effective than the fencer's intellectualizing of the interaction. In fact, the bear, unlike the fencer, does not have all this 'intellectualizing talk' going on in his mind, calculating his every next move and even calculating a sequence of moves (as if he can anticipate the bear's responses through several 'bear-strategy' directed steps). The bear is meanwhile in his natural 'in-the-Tao' mode; i.e. he is himself a resonating within the flow, an appearance or apparition within the Tao. Without language and grammar, he is not exposed to his own self-hijacking wherein his intellectual aspect 'takes over the helm' and puts time-and space based analytical strategizing into precedence over sensory experience of holodynamical inclusion.
SOME CONCLUSIONS:
-1- Physical reality is our experience of inclusion within the holodynamic. This is affirmed by modern physics.
-2- Western culture 'operative reality' is double-error based intellectual abstraction coming from (first error) a naming-instantiated independently-existing thing-in-itself, conflated by (second error) imputing to the thing-in-itself the notional powers of sourcing actions and developments; i.e.
-3- The 'double error' based belief in 'sorcery' gives rise to Western culture adherents' 'ego' which 'inflates' in proportion to one's notional sense of having 'sourced' popularly received actions and developments and which 'deflates' in proportion to one's notional sense of having 'sourced' unpopularly received actions and developments. WESTERN CULTURE REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS ARE PERVASIVELY DOUBLE ERROR BASED.
-4- Western culture social hierarchy is based on Western culture adherents belief in 'sorcery', elevating in social status and rewards those deemed to be superior 'sorcerers' of beneficial actions and developments, and conversely, lowering in social status and imposing punishments on those deemed to be sorcerers of inferior and/or negative actions and developments.
-5- Innate ambiguity in Western culture double-error based thinking. Because Western culture adherents orient rewards and punishments to 'sorcery' (which is pure fiction born of the double error of language and grammar), a basic ambiguity arises of the 'boil and flow' type. The 'boil in the flow' is 'appearance' that Western culture adherents 'concretize' by naming both 'boil' and 'flow' and thus imputing to each (both) aspects of the double error; i.e. (first error) the name-instantiated imputing of an 'independently existing thing-in-itself', and conflating this first error by (second error) imputing the power of sourcing actions and developments to the the name-instantiated thing-in-itself (first error). The boil and flow ontology is purely appearance-based abstraction can be thus the artificiality of the dispute between 'conservatives' who maintain that the boil sources the flow (the individual sources the collective dynamic or "the rotten apple spoils the barrel") and 'liberals' who maintain that the flow sources the boil (the collective behaviour sources the individual behaviour or "it takes a whole community to raise of [good/bad] child"). Meanwhile, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SORCERY. The basis of the conservative – liberal polarizing of whether sorcery is 'inside-outward' (individual to collective) or 'outside-inward' (collective to individual) has been compared, in the Gulliver's Travels satire, to social polarizing based on whether it is best to open a boiled egg from the pointy or roundy end.
-6- Sorcery (a total fiction), since it is an abstraction created by the double error of language and grammar, can be invoked by any double error combination. All it takes is a 'name' to trigger the first error of imputing thing-in-itselfness to a named flow-form and the use of grammar to impute the power of sorcery to the name-instantiated thing-in-itself. One can make use of this double error invoked 'sorcery' by using naming to instantiate a human as a 'human being', and/or a social collective as a 'nation', and/or a social grouping of people such as a 'corporation'. Once these have been given names, the names can be used in grammatical structures that impute the power of sorcery to the name-instantiated things-in-themselves,
SUMMARY AND OBSERVATIONS:
Physical reality (inclusion within the holodynamic) is the reality of our sensual experience, and it is nothing like the intellectual abstraction of double error based INVENTED REALITY (double error based INVENTED REALITY is sorcery-based).
We Western culture adherents have 'locked ourselves in' to a social system based on INVENTED REALITY which features notional 'name-instantiated things-in-themselves with notional powers of sourcing actions and developments (the 'double error). The 'lock-in' is by way of 'high switching costs' which, in our case (Western culture adherent's case), arise from giving those seen as 'superior sorcerers' (exceptional producers of product) disproportionate influence over changes to the existing system.
The primary change needed to dispel the whole matrix of psychological dysfunction arising from the abstract double error based belief in 'sorcery' is to 'drop' the preposterous claim that 'naming' endows the 'named entity' with the power of 'sorcery'. This is Western culture medieval superstition as in the magic sword Excalibur said to bring great power to those who were ceremoniously 'tapped' on the shoulder while anointed with a priestly incantation culminating in … "arise, Sir Lancelot" etc. etc. While this procedure has been 'secularized' in modern Western culture, the tradition persists with modernized ritual.
Western culture adherence continues to require belief, or at least support, for ritual endowing of powers to people through 'naming' ceremonies presided over by influential figures in the Western culture social hierarchy. Clearly, such power as deemed to come from names and titles has taken on a reality, among Western culture adherents, that is far beyond anything that our sensory experience can inform us of. Western culture adherents either bow and scrape or abuse and demean others on the basis of the 'names' or 'titles' that Western society has imposed on them, without any circling or sniffing or retrospection. She/he who is named a Queen or a King, whether a reproductive issue brings her/him forth at birth as a squat wart covered toad, will be given the special treatment that their 'name/title' designates. As Western culture folklore such as 'The Pauper and the Prince' give testimony, 'naming' has more influence in establishing Western culture 'reality' than our sensory experience. The flag on one's backpack and/or the licence plate on one's car, when one is on unfamiliar ground, may pre-empt sensory experience of social interaction in influencing the unfolding social relational dynamic that the Western culture adherent finds himself included in.
Western culture approach to 'naming' assumes a double error based understanding. For example 'John Dunbar' is an abstract 'thing-in-itself name that can be used as a 'simple stub' for double error based (sorcery-based) identification whereas 'Dances with Wolves' (the name given to John Dunbar in the film 'Dances with Wolves") is the beginning of a relational matrix based 'naming' as in 'the surprise version of the game of Twenty Questions' of modern physics.
James Wilkes Booth was NOT the local 'jumpstart source' of Lincoln's death, but he was a lightning rod through which the killer thunderbolt channeled.
These above observations illustrate cultural differences in the manner in which 'naming' is used; i.e. in Western culture, naming is used to identify thing-in-itself being, the first part of the 'double error' that imputes the power of sorcery to a notional name-instantiated 'thing-in-itself'. In other words, the name (John Dunbar) is a lexical 'stub' for ascribing powers of sorcery. In indigenous aboriginal cultures, the name serves to point to a peopling in the the transforming relational 'web-of-life' continuum. The peopling is purely relational and NOT a 'thing-in-itself' and NOT the 'source' of an action or development, the latter two entities being intellectual abstractions.
While sorcery is an abstract, intellectual falsehood, it is bound up with 'naming' and with the 'truths' that are established in conjunction with naming. But what is truth?
As Giordano Bruno observed before being burned at the stake for heresy in 1600; 'A majority has no monopoly on the truth', … however, as he experienced, a majority invents something they employ as if it were rock-solid truth, and the concept of truth as something that exists regardless of people's personal assessment, is a nonsensical hypothesis where one is experiencing inclusion in a holodynamic (flow-continuum).
"What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms — in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors – in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all…" – Nietzsche (On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense')
A Western culture double-error based INVENTED REALTY can serve as 'the truth' for the Western culture adhering social collective in the sense that Western culture social collectives ascribe to the moral obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all.
The 'lock-in' due to the double error based INVENTED REALITY; i.e. where we Western culture adherents 'lie herd-like in a style obligatory to all', … remains locked in place by the 'high switching costs' of our having evolved a social hierarchy of respect and influence based on the abstract double error based imputing of powers of sorcery (of good or bad actions and developments).
Although the investigators of the nature and origins of Western culture function and dysfunction have, over the past 2+ millennia (since the era of Heraclitus and Lao Tzu in 500 B.C.) shed light on why Western culture can be such a 'crazy-maker', Western culture adherents leave it up to 'the authorities' to determine if and where changes to common cultural understandings and practices are warranted. Since the 'authorities' are both guardians and primary beneficiaries of the 'double error' (belief in sorcery), this is akin to leaving the chickens in care of the fox.
That is, Western culture adherents appoint 'authorities', anointing them with notional powers of sorcery ('their' power to 'make things happen'). Of course, while Western culture adherents see such 'powers' as originating in the 'authority', the same individual 'out of uniform' (while not wearing his 'robes of office') will have as much impact issuing orders to the 'upper class' as a clown that is mocking the social structure; i.e. he is more likely to attract laughter than obedient following. What this underscores is the pivotal role of 'naming' in Western culture double error based sorcery. Western culture adherents will 'listen' and respond to the call to source actions and developments coming from the 'big name'; e.g. the prince though not the pauper.
The needed development of abolishing the Western culture 'gold standard' of 'sorcery' therefore lies in the hands of administrators whose administrative authority has been given to them by the social collective on the basis of 'their powers of sorcery' (i.e. on the basis of 'the double error of language and grammar'. This is a 'Catch 22' ('locked-in') situation, pointed out by philosopher/writer Henri Laborit;
We' who explore such topics, cannot easily share them because (a) they do not fit into the typical dinner conversation format of our present culture, since to express them takes a lot of relational connections that can't fit into a rapid-fire repartee, and (b) because the humanism implicit in trying to share them is not seen as "a humanism of real worth" since it undermines, besmirches or topples the esteemed icons, pillars of society, founding fathers, and celebrities of the culture-in-place. – Henri Laborit, 'La Nouvelle Grille' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Laborit
My own experience of participating in an authoritarian hierarchy has informed me of how 'lock-in-with-high-switching-costs' serves to entrap us within this perverting schema. One is pressured through one's active participation within the Western culture social dynamic to 'wear one's Emperor's new clothes' with pride and authority, or else besmirch and diminish one's colleagues and sponsors and the entire sorcery-based 'system'; i.e. as Ronald Laing captures this in 'Knots';
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game." – R.D. Laing
Going along with the concept of 'sorcery' as if it is a real and authentic power of originating actions and developments that is 'owned' by a 'name-instantiated thing-in-itself' such as a 'human being' (or 'national social collective' or 'corporate social collective') when it is a blatant falsehood is a game that we Western culture adherents grow up learning how to play. It is a phony game, however, it has become the basis of Western culture social structure wherein those who benefit most by its disproportionate allocations of 'sorcery' based rewards and respect (to those credited with excelling at sorcery) are also given most influence over changes to such arrangements. Thus, those entrusted with authority over the workers on the basis of their more than average sorcery contributions (managers, presidents etc.) have adjusted the estimated ratio of sorcery contributions of industrial 'managers' relative to 'workers' upwards from 7:1 in 1950 to over 1000: in 2019. This is in spite of the concept of 'sorcery' being a null concept based on a 'double error'. This is part of the 'game' that has become part of Western culture adherence; i.e. the game of not seeing we see the game that 'sorcery' is a 'crock' and continuing to tug our forelock in deference to the big-name sorcerers of Western society.
To come right out in the open and declare the sorcery-based Western culture social dynamic to be 'a crock', while it may resonate with those suffering from its perversity, will be resented by those who feel 'besmirched' by such assessment; i.e. those who have been given, on the basis of their superior sourcing accreditation, authority over what changes, if any, are made to the present system (i.e. the present 'game-playing').
Currently, editorship of comments (flattery and critique) of the 'system as it is' are governed by those who support the belief in sorcery and put the focus of change only on the distracting issue of whether sorcery is individual-instantiated or collective instantiated. This debate is in turn given public attention through the public 'loudspeaker' systems, which as Ivan Illich has pointed out in 'Silence is a Commons', … captures public attention through the technological 'loudspeaker systems' which are continually barking out and amplifying this trendy (double-error based) view or another.
If ever there was a time when Western culture adherents sat together in a 'sharing circle' and 'passed the talking stick' so that the social constituency could 'share their sentient experiences and govern themselves on the basis of sustaining relational balance harmony, it seems to be no longer accessible. Instead, the internet serves more as an arena for intellectual-political debate grounded in the 'double error (sorcery) assumption, and thus to an INVENTED REALITY that is explicit, logical and ungrounded in sensory experience, … a 'reality' that is far from the ineffable, relational reality of inclusion the transforming relational continuum aka 'the Tao' or 'the Logos'.
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99-153 Doc Overprotection articles
'Stranger danger' warning to young - draws criticism
CHILDREN as young as two should be taught the rudiments of personal safety and advised never to talk to strangers, a children's charity will say today.
In a campaign aimed at highlighting "stranger danger", the NSPCC alsos advise parents never to leave young children alone in a car - even for just a few minutes - and never to allow children aged under eight to go out on their own.
The initiative has been timed to coincide with the school summer holidays. The charity is also appealing for everyone to keep an eye on children playing outside and to call police or social workers if they see anything suspicious.
Paranoid parents 'denying children freedom to play
CHILDREN are being denied the opportunities for play enjoyed by previous generations because of their parents' paranoia, research will confirm this week. An exaggerated fear of harm from strangers, worries about traffic and unwillingness to let a child do anything with risk attached are blamed for unprecedented over-protectiveness.
Concern that children are growing up less independent and without the social skills that come from interactive play was heightened yesterday by child safety advice from the NSPCC. Under the heading "NSPCC warns of risks to children this summer", the charity mounted a campaign that was criticised by other organisations for compounding parents' fears.
Jim Harding, NSPCC chief executive, said: "The greatest fear of parents is that their child will be abducted and murdered by a stranger. It is important for us all to alert children to the possible dangers they may face outdoors this summer, without causing fear or panic."
[ Translate: 'we need to keep the momentum on our alarmist fundraising drive going, what better way to grab the headlines and keep the funds rolling in during August than this ?' ]
Other societies were concerned that the NSPCC campaign would fuel parental fears about molestation by strangers that already border on the irrational. The risk of a child being murdered by a stranger is no greater today than it was in the late Sixties, when children had much greater freedom to play. A child is in much greater danger of being harmed by a member of its family than a stranger. About six or seven children each year are murdered by strangers but more than 80 are killed by parents, carers or someone known to the family. The chances of a child aged one to four being killed by a stranger are less than one in a million, and have fallen by a third since 1988, while the risk to a child aged five to 15 is lower still.
Tiffany Jenkins, a founder member of the Families for Freedom group, which campaigns against the over-protection of children, said the NSPCC would worsen people's already distorted impression of the dangers. "They are deliberately scaremongering parents with these fairytale fears when their fears are already way too high."
June McKerrow, director of Mental Health Foundation, a charity that has commissioned research on children's well-being, said: "We don't need any more of these messages. If anything, the whole thing has already been taken too far."
Tim Gill, director of the Children's Play Council, said there were practical steps that could be taken to improve safety and reassure parents that their children could venture out to play. "The biggest thing that has changed has not been the threat from strangers but the risk from traffic - not merely to playing in the street but to getting around on your own.
Death rates for child pedestrians are among the highest in western Europe. The latest figures show that in 1997, 17,000 children under 15 were seriously injured by cars while playing on the street. Of these 133 died and thousands were left scarred with head and leg injuries. More boys than girls, 65 per cent, were run over.
What our children really need is a regime of benign neglect
The message in the new policy is: don't trust anybody because nobody trusts you
_Picture this. A man in his mid-thirties, bearded, wearing slightly scruffy jeans, is following two children of about eight and six down a suburban street. They are oblivious to their pursuer - if they seem on the point of turning round to look, he ducks out of sight into a garden. The little convoy turns around the corner. What do you see? A potential child molester tracking his next victims?
Actually, it was my neighbour following his children the first time they were allowed to the corner shop by themselves, making sure they were safe crossing the road.
We parents labour under a huge burden of worry about our kids in the modern world of car accidents, child abductions and murders, and careless or even violent childminders. No wonder concerned dads follow their offspring around the corner. No wonder mums ferry the kids to school in their four-wheel drive, all but armour-plated vehicles, accounting for two-thirds of the rush hour congestion in our towns and cities.
Reports like yesterday's warning on "stranger danger" from the NSPCC can only fuel such parental fears. The charity's checklist of advice is actually completely sensible. But to link basic steps for safeguarding children to the annual toll of six children murdered by strangers each year, as it did, is to move from common sense to hysteria. And we are edging towards a state of mind out of proportion to the - very real - dangers.
The typical British response to a photograph of a smiling bare-chested man with a small child, recently shown to people in different countries in a survey, was that it must be a paedophile. Italians were far more likely to see it as father and son.
This is the climate which has led to an entirely serious proposal to tag small children in supermarket creches, employing an extension of the scanning technology used to keep track of goods on the shelves. The supermarket concerned clearly believes parents will welcome it, and will be more likely to shop at its stores.
In fact, everywhere you look there are new plans to monitor and control children ever more closely. Every hour of our children's time must be observed and must be known. When does this obsession with monitoring childcare spill over from an entirely understandable and commendable concern for children's safety into molly-coddling that undermines their ability to learn how to fend for themselves, or, worse, exercise control of their behaviour?
After all, Jeremy Bentham's vision of the perfect utilitarian prison was one where the warder could spy at any time on the activities of any prisoner, like a malign spider at the centre of a web.
Our increasingly controlling and utilitarian vision of childhood explains the urge to educate at an earlier and earlier age. Nurseries and schools are in danger of being turned into knowledge factories in which our toddlers are the means of production, transforming gobbets of knowledge into increased national output. The people who care for them, chosen by parents on the basis of trust, will become subject to an authoritarian official inspection regime. The figure of the government inspector is not, in general, a loved or even respected one. The bureaucrat with powers over other people's jobs is all too often a petty tyrant.
This is taking the idea of the nanny state all too literally. Obviously a balance has to be struck. We must take care to keep our children safe, to educate them well, even ensure they are happy. The Government has to set minimum standards for childcare. Parents have to take all sensible precautions. And we must accept that there are bad carers and bad parents and bad people out there.
But there are costs to micro-managing every detail of children's lives. All those of us who are adults today will have experienced a much freer childhood than our own kids do now. We wandered around alone, caught buses and were sent to the shops at a younger age. We got into scrapes, or even danger. We learnt to cope. Now we are trying to teach our own children to cope at the same time as trying to preserve them from taking any of the risks they are meant to learn to handle. I don't believe it is possible. Experience can not be taught. They will have to cope later, and they will do so less well. This is not to argue sentimentally in favour of the school of hard knocks, but rather to point out that disappointment lies in store in any attempt to escape this trade-off between providing children with perfect safety and giving them the experiences that will teach them to protect themselves. It is an inescapable pain of parenthood that you can not do everything for your children. In fact, the best principle to apply in steering them safely towards adulthood is probably one of benign neglect.
As a teenager I kept a notebook in which I listed all the draconian laws I would pass to make the country a better place when I was running it. Luckily for the country, I gave up my youthful ambition to pursue a career in politics. But you get the impression many members of the present government were equally obnoxious as adolescents and, worse, have kept their notebooks.
The message in the new policy, like the message in warnings of stranger danger, is the same for parents and children alike. It is don't trust anybody because nobody trusts you.
What a sad and dangerous country Britain has become.
Comment in the Sunday Times...
Only last week, it happened that I was walking back from the post office when I heard someone screaming for help. I crossed the road, wondering if it was just a game, and found a young boy hanging by one arm from the balcony where he had been playing. Beneath him was a 12ft drop onto concrete. I caught him but the mother who eventually came out to investigate his howls released a torrent of abuse. Had I been a man, she'd have called the police. Nowadays, the only unpaid adult interested in our children is expected to be a paedophile.


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Erdan submits UN resolution opposing Holocaust denial and distortion
"The resolution is of great importance in the international arena," said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
Gilad Erdan, then Israeli Minister of Interior Security and now Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the "Besheva" group, on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
(January 7, 2022 / JNS) Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has submitted a resolution to the U.N. General Assembly to combat Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion.
The resolution defines Holocaust denial; calls on countries and social-media companies to take steps to fight anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial; and calls on U.N. countries to develop Holocaust-education programs.
According to the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, the language also "provides guidance for the U.N.'s Outreach Programme on the Holocaust and other relevant U.N. bodies to develop programs to combat Holocaust denial and promote cooperation with civil society organizations on Holocaust remembrance."
"The passing of this resolution is of great importance so that the shocking phenomenon of Holocaust denial becomes a red line in the international arena," he said. "The U.N. resolution will set a new international standard for combating this terrible trend and will hold everyone, including countries and Internet companies, responsible for fighting Holocaust denial and teaching the younger generation about what really happened to the Jewish people and what the background to these heinous acts was."
Talks with U.N. countries about the resolution have been "ongoing for several months" and will "go public this week," said the Israeli Mission to the United Nations. The resolution is being supported by Israel's Foreign Ministry, which is also working to promote it around the world.
The world body is scheduled to vote on the resolution on Jan. 20, which also marks the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where Nazi officials gathered to discuss their plan for a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe.
"With every year that passes, the number of Holocaust survivors diminishes," said Erdan. "These conditions, alongside the increasing way social media has come to dominate the conversation, have created a vile breeding ground for denial, lies and historical distortion regarding the Holocaust. These are critically dangerous trends, which this resolution aims to combat."
If the resolution passes the U.N. General Assembly, it will be only the second time since Israel's founding in 1948 that the body adopts an Israeli resolution.
Gilad Erdan


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Actor: Ferec Bandi Józsefné Rácz Ági Margitai
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Actor: Geoffrey Keen Virginia McKenna Bill Travers Peter Lukoye Omar Chambati Bill Godden
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Gener: Foreign, Horror
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Actor: Hwang Seung-Eon Song Min-jung Kang Byul Son Eun-seo Kyeong-ah Jang Yu Shin-ae
Love and Distrust
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Gener: Drama, Romance, Foreign
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Fight Back to School
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver. The undercover operation is made complicated when Star is partnered with Tat - an aging, incompetent police detective (Ng Man-Tat). However, Star still manages to fall in love with Ms Ho (Cheung Man), the school's guidance counselor, as well as disrupting a gang involved in arms-dealing.
Gener: Comedy, Action, Foreign
Director: Gordon Chan
Actor: Dennis Chan Stephen Chow Sharla Cheung Man Paul Chun Pui Chang Gan-Wing Ng Man-Tat
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Actor: Norma Argentina Norma Aleandro Marcos Mundstock Claudia Lapacó Elsa Berenguer
Unlock Your Mind This summer Awards: 5 nominations. Production: UTV Communications A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress. A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress.
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Actor: Nick Van Suyt
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Gener: Action, Romance, Foreign
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Actor: Randeep Hooda Emraan Hashmi Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub Esha Gupta Manish Chaudhary Imran Zahid
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Actor: Peter Vaughan Lorcan Cranitch Lindsay Duncan Natasha Little Helena Bergström Rolf Lassgård
One God. Two priests. Six people and a cause... Awards: 1 win. The IRA, when executing an informer, calls on certain 'tame priests' to secretly provide last rites. The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha a change of heart, deciding to fight for the life of the captive. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Director: Marion Comer
Actor: Tom Murphy Darragh Kelly Jim Norton Gerard Jordan Eanna MacLiam Brendan Mackey
The Big Racket
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Gener: Action, Thriller, Foreign
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actor: Vincent Gardenia Joshua Sinclair Salvatore Borghese Franco Borelli Anna Zinnemann Fabio Testi
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Gener: Comedy, Foreign
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The Woodlanders
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Actor: Rufus Sewell Polly Walker Jodhi May Tony Haygarth Emily Woof Cal Macaninch
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Gener: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Foreign
Director: Danish Aslam
Actor: Sharmila Tagore Deepika Padukone Imran Khan Shahana Goswami
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Arizona impeachment trial judge Frank Gordon Jr. dies at 90
In this March 29, 1988, file photo, Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank X. Gordon Jr., right, waves his gavel at the defense's expert witness, attorney Robert L'Ecuyer, as Gordon threatened him with contempt of court during the impeachment trial of Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham in Phoenix. (Jeff Robbins/AP)
PHOENIX — Frank X. Gordon Jr., a former Arizona Supreme Court chief justice who drew high marks for how he presided over the 1988 impeachment trial that resulted in the removal of Gov. Evan Mecham, has died.
Gordon died Monday, three days before his 91st birthday, the state high court said in an statement Thursday. It did not specify cause of death.
Mecham's impeachment trial resulted in the first-term conservative Republican's removal from office for misuse of public money and obstruction of justice.
In presiding over the impeachment trial, Gordon earned the respect of senators who "understood that he was a leader," said Robert Glennon, a University of Arizona law professor who has written about the case.
"He did great,"" Glennon said. "He was a consummate gentleman and he conducted himself in a way that reflected well on himself, on the bench and the entire legal profession."
Paul Esckstein, one of the impeachment prosecutors, said Arizona was lucky to have Gordon as chief justice to preside over the trial.
He was courteous and fair but also firm, Eckstein said.
"It wasn't easy to hold everyone in check but he did," Eckstein said. "Just a great man for the position who served with incredible class and judgment."
Daniel Adelman, a Phoenix lawyer who in 1988 was one of the judge's two law clerks, said Gordon did a masterful job of educating legislators on how trials are conducted and avoiding the impression that he was encroaching on their duty to judge the facts.
"He made such an effort to let them know he was going to be fair and impartial and they all believed it on both sides of the aisle," Adelman said.
Adelman and fellow co-clerk Frederick Petti wrote in a 2005 article about the impeachment case that the Gordon each night during the trial had his clerks research likely legal issues that might come up the next day. Gordon was provided a state Department of Public Safety driver during the trial because of death threats.
Gordon was a Mohave County Superior Court judge when Gov. Raul Castro appointed him as a justice in 1975. He was the first appellate judge appointed under a new merit selection process approved by voters.
Gordon joined a Phoenix law firm after he retired from the bench in 1992.
Survivors include his wife of nearly 70 years, Joan, children Trey and Candy, three grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Son Scott Gordon died previously.
Memorial services will be held Monday after visitation at 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Phoenix, followed by graveside services at noon Jan. 17 at Mountain View Cemetery in Kingman.
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