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from psycopg2.extensions import adapt, register_adapter, AsIs, new_type, register_type
from psycopg2.extras import register_composite
import psycopg2

from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
from django.db import models
from django.db import transaction
from django.db import connection

import re

class ComplexTypeError(Exception):
    pass

# TODO: implement using method

class CompositeField(object):
    """ Composite type base field. """
    _value = None
    _name = None

    def __init__(self, field_repr, coerce=None):
        self.field_repr = field_repr
        self.coerce = coerce

    def __get__(self, instance, owner):
        return self._value or None

    def __set__(self, instance, value):
        self._value = value
        if self.coerce:
            try:
                self._value = self.coerce(self._value)
            except Exception as e:
                raise ComplexTypeError(str(e))

    def _as_sql(self):
        return u"%s %s" % (self._name, self.field_repr)

class CompositeMeta(type):
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        if "order" not in attrs:
            raise Exception("order parameter is mandatory")

        new_class = super(CompositeMeta, cls).__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)
        new_class._registred = False

        new_class.fields = {}
        for key, value in attrs.iteritems():
            if isinstance(value, CompositeField):
                setattr(value, '_name', key)
                new_class.fields[key] = value

        if new_class.fields:
            new_class.assign_dinamic_methods()
        return new_class

    def __init__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        super(CompositeMeta, cls).__init__(name, bases, attrs)

    def __call__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        instance = super(CompositeMeta, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
        if not cls._registred:
            with transaction.commit_manually():
                try:
                    cls.register_type_globaly()
                    transaction.commit()
                except psycopg2.ProgrammingError:
                    transaction.rollback()

                    cursor = connection.cursor()
                    cursor.execute(cls._create_sql_raw)
                    cls.register_type_globaly()
                    transaction.commit()

            cls._registred = True
        return instance

    def add_to_class(cls, name, value):
        if hasattr(value, 'contribute_to_class'):
            value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
        else:
            setattr(cls, name, value)

    def type_name(cls):
        return cls.__name__.lower()

    def assign_dinamic_methods(cls):
        sql_fields_raw = u",\n    ".join([x._as_sql() for x in \
            [cls.fields[oi] for oi in cls.order]])

        template = u"CREATE TYPE %s AS (\n    %s\n);"
        create_sql_raw = template % (cls.type_name(), sql_fields_raw)

        # Assign staticaly generated raw sql unicode string
        cls.add_to_class('_create_sql_raw', create_sql_raw)
        cls.add_to_class('_create_sql', lambda self: self._create_sql_raw)
        cls.add_to_class('_as_sql_template', u"ROW(%s)")

        def _wrapper(self):
            items = []
            for item in [self.fields[oi]._value for oi in self.order]:
                if isinstance(item, (long, int, float)):
                    items.append(unicode(item))
                elif isinstance(item, CompositeType):
                    items.append(item._as_sql())
                else:
                    items.append("'%s'" % (unicode(item)))

            return self._as_sql_template % (u", ".join(items))

        cls.add_to_class('_as_sql', _wrapper)

    @transaction.commit_on_success
    def register_type_globaly(cls):
        cursor = connection.cursor()
        register_composite(cls.type_name(), cursor, globally=True)
        register_adapter(cls, lambda obj: AsIs(obj._as_sql()))
        print "Registering %s type" % (cls.type_name())

class CompositeType(object):
    """ Composite tybe base class. """

    __metaclass__ = CompositeMeta
    order = ()

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if len(args) > 0 and len(args) == len(order):
            try:
                for oitem in self.order:
                    setattr(self, oitem, args.pop())
            except IndexError:
                pass
        elif kwargs:
            for oitem in self.order:
                setattr(self, oitem, kwargs.get(oitem, None))

    def _with_wrapper(self, wrapper):
        for oitem in self.order:
            setattr(self, oitem, getattr(wrapper, oitem, None))

    def __repr__(self):
        return u"<CompositeType %s>" % (
            ", ".join(["%s=%s" % (x._name, x._value) \
                for x in self.fields.itervalues()]))

    def quote_name(self, name):
        if name.startswith('"') and name.endswith('"'):
            return name # Quoting once is enough.
        return '"%s"' % name

class CompositeModelField(models.Field):
    __metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self._type = kwargs.pop('type')
        super(CompositeModelField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_prep_lookup(self, lookup_type, value):
        return value

    def get_db_prep_lookup(self, lookup_type, value, connection, prepared=False):
        return self.get_prep_lookup(lookup_type, value)

    def db_type(self, connection):
        return self._type.__class__.type_name()

    def to_python(self, value):
        if value and isinstance(value, (list,tuple)):
            obj = self._type.__class__()
            obj._with_wrapper(value)
            return obj
        return value

class C(object):
    """
    Posible query string:
        "(boss).person.name == ?"
        "(boss).cualify  >= ?"
        "(boss).account.name LIKE %?%"
    """

    def __init__(self, querystring, *args, **kwargs):
        self.qstr = querystring
        self.qstrl = querystring.lower()
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # unaccent(%s) LIKE unaccent(%%s)
        # ('lower(unaccent(%s)) LIKE lower(unaccent(%%s))'
        qstr = self.qstr

        if "iunaccent" in self.qstrl:
            p1, p2, p3 = self.qstr.split(maxsplit=3)
            qstr = u" ".join([u"lower(unaccent(%s))" % p1, u'LIKE', u"lower(unaccent(%s))" % p3])

        elif "unaccent" in self.qstrl:
            p1, p2, p3 = re.split(r'\s', self.qstr, 3, re.U)
            qstr = u" ".join([u"unaccent(%s)" % p1, u'LIKE', "unaccent(%s)" % p3])

        qstr = qstr.replace("?", "%s") \
            if "like" not in self.qstr.lower() \
            else self.qstr.replace("?", "%s")

        return (qstr, list(self.args))

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Norman Joseph Gagnon Sr.
29 December 1912–2 November 2002 (Age 89)
Frenchville, Aroostook, Maine, United States
The Life Summary of Norman Joseph
When Norman Joseph Gagnon Sr. was born on 29 December 1912, in Frenchville, Aroostook, Maine, United States, his father, Joseph Gagnon, was 42 and his mother, Syphrony Bourgoin, was 40. He married Cecile LeVasseur on 11 January 1933, in Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States for about 10 years and Limestone, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1950. He died on 2 November 2002, in North Berwick, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Berwick, York, Maine, United States.
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Cecile LeVasseur
Marriage: 11 January 1933
Norman Joseph Gagnon Jr.
Female1914–1991 • Female
11 January 1933Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States
Joseph Gagnon
Syphrony Bourgoin
Helen Gagnon
John Gagnon
Alma Gagnon
Louis Philip Gagnon
Leona Gagnon
+7 More Children
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1917 · World War I Contributions
The legislature of Maine dedicated approximately $1 million towards World War I at the time that US involvement began. By the time armistice would be declared in 1918, Maine contributed roughly 35,000 men and $116 million.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Gagnon
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Andre, Marcel, Normand, Emile, Jacques, Pierre, Gilles, Cecile, Fernand, Georges, Laurent.French:occupational name for a farmer or peasant, from a diminutive noun derivative of the Old French verb gaaignier 'to cultivate or work (the land)'; compare Wagnon 1.
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Norman Gagnon in household of James Franck, "United States Census, 1930"
Normand Gagnon, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"

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What's Known So Far About Russian Plane Crash
71 are dead, and investigators are not ruling anything out yet
By Newser Editors, Newser Staff
Posted Feb 11, 2018 11:59 AM CST
In this photo provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, employees work at the scene of a AN-148 plane crash in Stepanovskoye village. (Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP)
(Newser) – The unfortunate big development after Sunday's crash of a passenger jet outside Moscow comes from the country's transportation minister. "Judging by everything, no one has survived this crash," says Maxim Sokolov. Here is what is known:
The victims: Sixty-five passengers and six crew members were aboard the plane, and the BBC reports that most of the passengers were from the Russian region of Orenburg in the Ural mountains.
The cause: Way too early to tell. Investigators are looking into weather conditions (it was about 23 degrees Fahrenheit), human error, and the technical condition of the Antonov An-148 airliner, reports Reuters. But Russia's Investigative Committee wasn't ruling anything out at this point, reports the AP.
After takeoff: The plane went down shortly after takeoff from Domodedovo Airport en route to Orsk, about 1,000 miles southeast of Moscow. Fragments of the plane were scattered about a large, remote region near the village of Argunovo.
Engine explosion? The Guardian cites unconfirmed reports in Russian media that the captain had requested permission for an emergency landing at a nearby airport after reporting a technical malfunction. Witnesses reported seeing the plane in flames as it fell, leading to speculation that an engine had exploded before the crash.
End of streak: This is the first crash of a commercial airliner in more than a year, following a sterling aviation record in 2017, notes the BBC.
Putin: He offered his condolences to the families of victims and delayed a trip to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where he planned to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Monday.
(Read more plane crash stories.)


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Q: How to pass Context into Adapter with Dagger 2? I'm learning DI/MVP/Retrofit/Rx base of this tutorial Dagger 2 Retrofit MVp
.
And everything work perfect but I've got problem with using context in Adapter which if it wasn't just about intent i could use some method to open activity without using context, but i'm using library that named Picasso.
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull final BookViewHolder holder, final int position) {

    holder.txt_price.setText(new StringBuilder(bookList.get(position).Price).append(" تومان").toString());
    holder.txt_drink_name.setText(bookList.get(position).Name);

//        Picasso.with(context)
//                .load(bookList.get(position).Link)
//                .into(holder.img_product);

}

Before DI i was using Context context but now i can't just add this and use it for my Picasso library, which it's not really matter to use it or not, i just wanna know how to pass context
@Inject
public BookAdapter(ClickListener clickListener) {
    this.clickListener = clickListener;
    bookList = new ArrayList<>();
}

Everything I've did was base on above tutorial which the only thing is changed was my Picasso that was using context before.
I'm learning this, and i'm pretty fine with other steps i'm trying to figure out what should i do to make this possible, and should i create another module or whatever that can help.
Thanks.

A: Just because you use Dagger doesn't mean you have to use it for everything. It makes often more sense not to use Dagger for UI / View related things.
In this case the simplest approach would be to use the views context.
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull final BookViewHolder holder, final int position) {
  final Context context = holder.itemView.getContext();

  Picasso.with(context)
    .load(bookList.get(position).Link)
    .into(holder.img_product);
}

Of course you can inject the context as well, if you feel inclined to do so. A context can be injected like any other object once you bind it to a component. One way is to bind it directly in your Component.Builder or Subcomponent.Builder using @BindsInstance.

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Michel Houellebecq's sexual apocalypse
Has our nihilist prophet been tamed by love?
BY Jacob Siegel
. Only a God can rescue the holy power of sex.(Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)
Jacob Siegel is Senior Writer at Tablet Magazine
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Faith & Meaning CultureFamilyFranceLiteraturePhilosophySex
Looking back, the National Public Radio building in midtown Manhattan felt like the centre of a dying world. I was set to appear on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where, two days before my 33rd birthday, I would join the ranks of great artists and former presidents; an occasion, it had occurred to me, that my parents could boast about to their friends. Officially, I was there to promote a new book. The date was 11 November, 2013. Veteran's Day. I'd been home from Afghanistan for a little more than a year.
Play it cool, I thought, as I passed the guards on my way to the elevators. Upstairs, a friendly producer explained that Gross recorded from a different location before leaving me alone in the room. My friend and co-author Roy Scranton sat in a third studio, in a different city. Since getting back from Iraq in 2007, I'd been pursued by the kind of cryptic, persistent mood that can sometimes foreshadow a profound insight or a mental breakdown. I was trying to adjust the headphones, which seemed to be getting tighter, when the interview started.
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Gross asked which books we took with us overseas and I mentioned Dostoevsky, a few detective novelists, and then the French writer Michel Houellebecq and his novel Atomised, published in America under the title, The Elementary Particles. Appearing in France in 1998, the book caused an immediate sensation and generated a second wave of press in 2001 when the English translation came out. Years later, I read it at night inside a corrugated metal shipping container that had been converted into what the US army calls a containerised housing unit, pronounced "choo", where I lived on a forward operating base in Southern Iraq for roughly nine months in 2007. It was, I told Gross, "a deliriously misanthropic, very interesting novel about the dead-end of modern existence".
For Houellebecq, life is made up of a few actual events surrounded by a glacial immensity of mitochondria and other microscopic insects, and the distant spooky action of space. Wherever consciousness and sentiment appear like gnats in the cosmos, they are likely to register in feelings of sadness, desperation, and loss.
A previous generation's French novelist of ideas, Albert Camus, opened his 1942 book The Stranger with a line meant to illustrate the numbness and alienation at the heart of contemporary man's existential condition: "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know." Houellebecq might have followed this with a long paragraph narrated like a nature documentary about mother's corpse undergoing a process of cellular decomposition and how the laws of quantum physics make it impossible to determine the exact moment of her death. At which point, switching back to the protagonist's point of view, he might consider that having never been loved by his mother, he would never feel true love himself. He would then experience a momentary impulse to weep, stifled yet impossible to ignore, before attempting to masturbate.
"I'd like to believe that the self is an illusion," says Bruno, the older of the two half-brothers who are the protagonists of Atomised, "but if it is, it's a pretty painful one." It is an undignified view of life, often funnier than this passage indicates, but still utterly lacking in the qualities that allow critics to honour certain books as "humane" and "empathetic". Yet it captured something essential about the experience of living through the end of the 20th century. The romance of Houellebecq's writing lies in its author's willingness to go past decency into pornographic wretchedness, where, in his character's ultimate disappointments, he captures a convincing sentimentality.
He was already well-known when I mentioned him to Gross: both as a writer and as a provocateur who said terrible things about women, defended the patriarchy, sneered at liberalism, made drunken passes at interviewers, and launched glib insults at Muslims. Yet it was still possible in the long-ago world of the second Obama administration to comment on the literary qualities of Houellebecq's novels without saying anything about their author's political impact. It even seemed reasonable at the time to assume that he did not have a political impact.
That soon changed. In 2015, Houellebecq published a new novel, Submission, that depicted the Muslim Brotherhood taking power in France and remaking the republic as the centre of a new Islamic world civilisation. The book was released on the same day that jihadists murdered 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and became an instant bestseller. Its author was crowned the defining novelist of his time. A triumph, and yet, in the course of his ascension, Houellebecq has ceased to be regarded principally as a writer and come to be seen instead as a prophet. The author whose work anticipated or channelled the Bali bombings, Brexit, the alt-Right, the Gilet Jaunes, and other characteristic developments of the new millennium was assumed to be acting more as a medium than as a crafter of fiction.
The narcissistic fall of France
By Michel Houellebecq
Yet Houellebecq's prophetic streak seems to be a direct result of his disinterest in politics. "The idea that political history could play any part in my own life was still disconcerting, and slightly repellent," says the narrator of Submission. By ignoring politics and focusing instead on the intersection of sex and metaphysics in the seething inner lives of middle-class men, Houellebecq mapped out the ultimate concerns that — precisely because they had been systematically excluded from the politics of modern Western nations — ended up becoming the vectors of violent rebellion and populist revolt. Above all, he saw how despair and sexual resentment would be at the heart of any political challenge to liberal democracy.
Along with politics, Houellebecq has ignored the standard markers of literary seriousness. His books lack subtlety and roundedness. They eschew both social realism and formal inventiveness, while fixedly pursuing the stunted emotional logic of their characters. They are novels of ideas that treat history as a drama in which individuals and civilisations act out the gestalt of their age, at most half-aware of it. The rise and fall of civilisations are driven by what the narrator of Atomised calls "metaphysical mutations". These are "radical, global transformations, such as the shift from antiquity to Christendom and from Christendom to rational materialism". Such shifts manifest in the creation of historically representative people and institutions, such as, for instance, the writer Michel Houellebecq in France or National Public Radio in America.
While other writers have explored nihilism through the prism of violence and death, Houellebecq's unique vision sees it as an infestation of sex and desire. Each of his books — with the exception of his most recent — dramatises a connection between unrestricted sexual freedom, the rationalistic secular worldview, and civilisational suicide.
Facing man's guilt for killing God, Nietzsche asked: "How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves?" Houellebecq's answer is that individuals in the throes of deterministic, rationalist materialism become pleasure-maximising objects by dissolving all human bonds. The most desirable reward themselves with orgies while the rest seek consolation in whatever kinds of sex they can get until those dry up, at which point there's no more reason to live. In the name of freedom and self-realisation, mothers abandon their children (according to legend, this is the very tragedy that spawned the writing career of Houellebecq). Ordinary people who would once have raised families in the state of mild contentment that sustained generations before them instead waste their years pursuing novel sexual techniques that end in the most appalling sterility. The blitzed-out flower child was good marketing material for the generation of 1968, but when the mask is ripped off, the true face of free love is revealed to be the Manson family painting the walls with blood.
The death of God ends up clearing the field for the conquest of the marketplace. Starting with his first novel, 1994's Extension du Domaine de la Lutte ("extension of the domain of the struggle", but translated as Whatever), Houellebecq attacked unfettered capitalism: "In a totally liberal economic system certain people accumulate fortunes; others stagnate in unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude." Once the early promises of globalisation were crushed, he would later write: "Whole social classes fell through the net and joined the ranks of the unemployed. But the savage sexual competition did not abate as a result — quite the reverse."
The combined attack on liberal social values and the subjugation of interpersonal relations to market forces led many to label Houellebecq a reactionary. There are various ways to be a political reactionary but all share the belief that we live in a fallen period caused by some terrible human invention and that there was a better time when people lived by the right laws of God or nature, or both.
The year of the femcel
By Mary Gaitskill
But reactionaries face an unresolvable problem. It is never clear how much of modernity has to be rejected to restore the world to its rightful order. A moderate conservative who starts by wanting to roll back the excesses of sixth-wave gender-ideology feminism finds that, upon inspection, the first wave is equally incompatible with their interpretation of the Bible. The temptation is always to go further in search of the lost innocence — behind the French Revolution lies the invention of fire — and is thus always prone to seeing the world's complete undoing as the only means to its redemption.
Houellebecq often seems to fall into this trap. In one book, he rails against the dehumanising wages of neoliberalism, then in his next the problem seems to go deeper, back into the heart of the Enlightenment, before finally it is Christianity itself, which, the narrator of Submission, echoing Nietzsche, says is, "at the end of the day, a feminine religion". The next step would seem to be to look to nature itself and worship in pagan fashion what the poet Wallace Stevens called that "old chaos of the sun". But Houellebecq is not really a common reactionary, and he despises nature even more intensely than he does hippies. "All in all, nature deserved to be wiped out in a holocaust — and man's mission on earth was probably to do just that," observes Bruno's younger half-brother Michel.
"We could perhaps attack the sun, deprive the universe of it, or use it to set fire to the world — those would be real crimes," wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade in the mid-18th century. For de Sade, according to Camus's study of him in The Rebel, "nature is sex; his logic leads him to a lawless universe where the only master is the inordinate energy of desire." The opposite has been true for Houellebecq, who once wrote that: "The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles… And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles." Unlike de Sade, who exalted in crime as the only true freedom, Houellebecq is too much of a moralist to enjoy being a libertine. If human actions are free, as he once claimed, then he knows this is only because they are meaningless.
Where does that leave Houellebecq? Like the man standing in the back of the line at the brothel who howls about the immorality of it all while waiting for his turn and then weeps when it is over. He comes to see religion as the only workable answer to modernity. But try as he might, he cannot imagine actually believing in the stuff. Religion may be essential to preserving what little grace life is capable of offering, but that is not the same as believing the commandments of God are true. As Micah Meadowcroft noted in an insightful essay on Houellebecq: "The shared preoccupation of author and characters with sex is revealed upon reflection to not be the dreary gratification of a pervert novelist but the heart of the matter. In the absence of a voice speaking loudly to this world of the next in words comprehensible to those who live here, this-world satisfaction re-emerges as the only motive force giving coherence to life." Nearly destroyed by secularism, only a God can rescue the holy power of sex.
More like a God-haunted nihilist than a believer, Houellebecq talks a great deal about religion but sees it only through abstractions. Thus, for instance, there is nothing made in his work of the fact that the Hebrew Bible already covered much of the same ground when God destroyed humanity with the flood, in what the great Medieval rabbinic scholar Rashi judged to be a punishment for rampant sexual immorality.
America has lost its purpose
Rather than worry about the flood, Houellebecq dreams of metaphysical mutations, the only means through which he can imagine the world changing. In the Nineties, when he was writing Atomised, he found Western civilisation so thoroughly exhausted that its salvation could only come through transhumanist genetic technologies. Twenty years later in Submission, still consumed by the sexual apocalypse, he offered the Islamic takeover of France as an ironic solution to Western decadence. In the end, the novel's protagonist, who has lost all pleasure in sex and thus his will to live, submits to Islam because it promises a harem. Polygamy is as close as he can get to the possibility of having a normal loving family life, which is what he really wants in spite of himself.
More recently, Houellebecq has appeared caught between religious and romantic impulses. In Serotonin, published in 2019, the world is as bleak as ever, yet the author is beginning to believe that there may be something more to the universe than atoms and chance. In the book's final chapter, its protagonist reflects on, "those surges of love that flow into our chests and take our breath away — those illuminations, those ecstasies, inexplicable if we consider our biological nature". The 19th-century Romantic movement, which birthed the modern belief in love as an overpowering passion began as a movement of religious reawakening emphasising man's personal relationship to God. In his own unhurried way, Houellebecq is retracing those steps, starting with the personal tragedy of sexual disappointment and finding its ultimate source in the loss of the sacred.
Only a few months before my appearance on the radio, I met my wife. Now that I have children, I hardly think about the end of the world anymore. Houellebecq, who once imagined that love, even familial love, had been so thoroughly desecrated by modernity that the only escape was to reengineer human nature at the molecular level, was reportedly married for the third time in 2018 at the age of 62. It is not too late for him to put down the books and start a family.
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Russell Hamilton
" It is not too late for him to put down the books and start a family."
That struck me as a wonderfully American thing to say … redemption is always possible, there's always time for you to be made whole.
But perhaps that's being a little too self-centred? Would he have the energy to be a good father? He might have children, but his grandchildren would be missing a grandfather. Maybe it's not a good idea for old men to have children to provide 'meaning' to their lives.
Brett H
Reply to Russell Hamilton
And there is, of course, the problem that men don't have children, women do.
Warren Trees
Reply to Brett H
Gasp! You might be the next one de-platformed by uttering such "misinformation".
Mark M Breza
Yea not like a Royal family. Stupid solution.
Doesn't Harry want to save the world from the Heat !o!
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I agree with Russell Hamilton's insightful comment, and especially the final point – though I'd extend its franchise.
It's not a good idea for anyone to have children for any other reason than genuinely wanting to do so and being prepared to sacrifice a good deal of themselves in the process.
It also strikes me that the possibility that said sacrifice might be seen by some as a negative is a good illustration of the atomisation and solipsism which Monsieur Houellebecq illustrates so well in his novels.
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Joe Donovan
Reply to Richard Parker
Just a wonderful essay. It would be nice to see a compare and contrast with Leonard Cohen, also obsessed with the intersection of sex and spirituality.
P Branagan
"How much evidence is required before it is clear that Western Civilization is empty of integrity, judgment, reason, morality, empathy, compassion, self-awareness, truth, empty of everything that Western Civilization once respected?
All that is left of the West is insouciance and unrestrained evil."
~Paul Craig Roberts, former Undersecretary Of Treasury, Reagan Administration
Steve Murray
Reply to P Branagan
I'd suggest that these very pages on Unherd are evidence that Roberts was wrong.
CHARLES STANHOPE
Reply to Steve Murray
Dermot O'Sullivan
'You may not believe in God but he believes in you. '
Toni Morrison (I think)
Fletcher Christian
Reply to Dermot O'Sullivan
Reminds me of a T shirt I once saw that said, "God is dead" – Nietzsche. On the back it said, "Nietzsche is dead" – God.
So what, one might ask? So what of Houellebecq's meanderings? They have no greater agency, or prophetic power, except that which is granted to them by those who believe in that particularly French type of philosophising.
We have to free ourselves from the "religion = morality and without it we're lost" straightjacket and move on. Quoting Nietzsche is becoming a bit like quoting one's younger self after a lifetime of experience.
A good article for all that, if only to evoke the dilemma from which we need to escape. We should start with ourselves, not with abstractions.
"We have to free ourselves from the "religion = morality and without it we're lost" straightjacket and move on."
OK, but move on to what? What is your meta-ethical system and in what precisely is it grounded? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. Without God all we have is emotivism, or some other form of relativism that draws society ever closer to nihilism. We end up with each person as King of their own moral universe saying… "Boo-hoo theft… boo-hoo.. murder… boo-hoo war… because boo-hoo!!" Man cannot be the problem AND the solution. This was worked out thousands of years ago and it is a lesson each generation must learn anew. Houellebecq has at least tried to re-present/re-package this much needed message.
Reply to Fletcher Christian
Agreed. In time, it will all come full circle. Men will think they can have babies, women will think they can impregnate men and murder will become simply an example of freedom of expression. And who can argue if morality is relative?
"Along with politics, Houellebecq has ignored the standard markers of literary seriousness. His books lack subtlety and roundedness. They eschew both social realism and formal inventiveness, while fixedly pursuing the stunted emotional logic of their characters."
I believe the author is giving much too much credit to people who are merely writing stuff in order to sell books and earn drinking money.
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Ian Gribbin
Reply to Warren Trees
Over intellectualizing is the true sin of our age. We've produced far too many soi disant faux intellectuals
is Jacob saying then that the ONLY way to find meaning is via reproduction because meaning per se will always be nihilistic – what a load of tosh !! There are many forms of spirituality that can accommodate all the aspects of human reality without giving up and subsuming one's critical journey with the busy reality of parenting. He does not seem qualified to write this peice !!
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a42039884/alex-murdaugh-murders-family/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_tnc&utm_medium=email&date=121122&utm_campaign=nl29845352&user_email=86e31cb3bb9b4cb2b637435a03d046e8affd34f704029e4749786058369699dc&utm_term=AAA%20–%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers
Tagged Culture, Family, France, Literature, Philosophy, Sex


It was 1965 when I graduated from school in Holland at the age of 17. My father decided that I should grow up before going to the University and arranged a contact with Rotary International. I was accepted as exchange student to the USA for one year.
Before I left I got a good bit of information about my coming stay in West Virginia although I had a hard time finding Union in my school atlas. In July 1965, I sailed on a liner together with a group of students. After a stormy journey of 8 days and a lot of fun on board we reached Montreal. From there we took the train to New York where we were met by Rotary representatives.
The main part of my first week in the States was spent on the grounds of the World's Fair in New York. After one week it was time to continue my journey to West Virginia. Transportation was organized. It was a cattle truck driving south. Nowadays all dutch kids speak good English but in my time you had to learn good grammar and a lot of words but hardly any English was spoken in school. So my trip South with two West Virginians speaking slang and chewing tobacco could have been in any country in the world. I hardly understood anything they were talking about. All I knew was that they were going to the West Virginia State Fair where I was met by my first host family in Monroe county. Edwin and Eloise Sibold lived in Pickaway. Mr. Sibold was both teacher and farmer so early in the morning we – Pat Sibold and me- rode with him to Union High. Brother Don Sibold had left for the University.
A lot of things were new for me. I had never seen corn grow, let alone eat corn. Broccoli did not grow in Europe and meatloaf was not prepared at home. And even though I came from a rural community in the Netherlands, farms and the way they were run were completely different.
Union High school gave me a warm welcome. In the gym the principal, Charles Allen, introduced me and told all students that I would be one of them during the year to come.
Next step was to choose classes in which I would learn something. The school I had finished was college level so in regular learning I was ahead of my fellow students.
I chose to learn typing, followed lessons in American History and of course had classes in English. The typing really saved me a lot of time. After returning to Holland I got myself a typewriter and worked out all my university notes on that machine. English, taught by Florence McClung, was my favorite. She really was a character but also a great teacher. We got along quite well. During regular classes I was allowed to use a dictionary (English-Dutch) to make life a bit easier, but one day we had a test and she forbid me to use my dictionary. I told her I could not do that and she replied: " Cannot is not in my vocabulary." To which I replied with southern drawl: " What do you say?…. Can't?" She burst out laughing together with the class but restored order right away.
It was a time in which chewing tobacco was not allowed but tolerated during classes. So some of my classmates would get a large Coke from the machine in the hall and after emptying it… used it as a spittoon.
The biggest difference between my former school and Union High was the attention that was paid to other things than just brain work. We learned debating, had lessons in cooking and above all there were sports. I was not built to play football so I started to play basketball. Kyle Baker was the sport coach and he taught me quite a lot in a short time.
I was by that time staying with the Allen family where Mike, David and Kristy were my brothers and sister.
One day I told fellow student Keith Barton that I had done some boxing in Holland so he challenged me. The fight never took place, because he gave me a friendly tap on the shoulder that caused such a big hematoma that I had to go to the clinic. He was embarrassed but couldn't help it.
In the meantime I had moved to Second Creek where I lived with the Degges' family. Frank Degges was attending Union High. Betsy Degges and her mother Charlotte Mason Dickson took care of me. One night I went out with some of my buddies and drank pitchers of beer. On my return I remembered there was a service in church where I was supposed to be. So my buddies dropped me off in front of the church. It was freezing but in the church, care was taken of a good temperature. That was too much for me. I had to leave and waited outside. After the service was over people came out and one asked if I was homesick. A quick: "yes" from my side was enough to get massive support.
Later on I moved in with the Shiflets and the Walker family on Willow Bend Road. William and Harriet Walker, together with son Jimmy made me really enjoy working on the farm. Daughter Barbara was in college and visited regularly.
I revisited Union several times, the last time with my wife. Former students of Union High had arranged a reunion and from all over the place people showed up. I told them what a memorable year I had spent with them and memorized the influence on the rest of my life. After the reunion one came up to me and said: "I don't think you realize how special you were to us. Almost anything you talked about was different from what we were used to." That was when I really realized that exchange broadens the mind of all involved.
It was a memorable year and even though I don't wear my High School ring, I still have it.


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Hillary the Inauthentic
She Couldn't Stop Thinking About SEX
Don't Follow Your Passion
Obama Passes the Torch to Putin
How Is Trump Polling?
Sadistic Empaths
The Unhealthy, Hungry Kids Food-Wasting Act
Who Is Responsible for Child Abuse?
What Women Don't Want
The Decline of Men and Boys
Can Embarrassment Be a Private Emotion?
Is Do-Goodism a Vice Disguised As a Virtue?
President Xi Jinping Comes to America
The Decline and Fall of Islam
T. S. Eliot on Psychoanalysis
Donald Trump and Islamophobia
The Virtue of Victimhood
The Obama Recovery
Human Progress: Fact or Fantasy?
Thoughts on the Great Migrant Invasion
Groupthink on Campus
Obama's Actions Speak Louder Than His Words
Is This the Face?
BDS Kills Palestinian Jobs
What Makes Donald Run?
Is the World Rejecting Western Values?
Are You a Fictional Character?
D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T
The Last Word on Rick Perry
The War on Women, Military Style
Obama's Syria Debacle
Caught Cheating? What Now?
The Lying Liars Who Are Lying Now
Should We Blame Feminism?
The 30 Million Word Gap
The Great Migrant Invasion
Who Lost Syria?
Down With Quality Time
A Friendship Turned Bad
Down With Feelings
Peggy Noonan on the Candidates
Donald Trump Unleashed
Income Inequality in the New Gilded Age
Orthorexia: A New Religious Practice
As the World Burns
The Daddy Track
Bret Stephens on Donald Trump
The Obama administration has always wanted to nudge people, that is, to get them to do the right thing by giving them a slight push in the right direction. Nudging sounds a lot better than forcing.
The idea came from behavioral economics, and it has felt, to many, like a new way to manipulate citizens, to get them to do what the government wants them to do, whether they like it or not.
The obvious question about nudging has always been: what makes you think that government bureaucrats and even legislators know what is best for you? Nudging seems to be a new way to give your freedom to the government.
Nothing very new there. Just the method, not the goal.
You recall Michelle Obama's signature achievement, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. One may question whether MO was the best placed to promote healthy dieting, but by now we know that the program, whereby the government dictates what children eat for lunch, has failed abysmally.
One needs to mention, yet again, that nutritional science is, to put it mildly, in constant flux. Many of the beliefs about what we should or should not eat have turned out to be nonsense. And yet people still follow them as though they were holy writ. We have managed to produce the most obese nation on earth, a nation that is obsessed with dieting.
To keep the nutrition side in perspective, I recommend a summary of the food myths that prevail in America today, by Dr. Joy Bliss.
In any event, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids act has produced so many unhealthy, hungry kids that even the New York Times has noticed.
According to Kate Murphy's news analysis the program has caused children to hate lunch and to throw out their food. Think of all the hungry children around the world, our parents used to tell us. Now our government has found a way to induce children to waste food. If it had been trying to nudge them in that direction, it would have been interesting psychologically, but, as it is, the government is doing little more than wasting food, bankrupting school districts and teaching children to hate food.
The children who refuse to eat MO's healthy food are always hungry, so they sneak off to gorge themselves on whatever they want. Those who eat it feel nutritionally deprived and unsatisfied. Thus, they sneak off to gorge themselves on whatever they want.
Murphy writes:
Food and nutrition directors at school districts nationwide say that their trash cans are overflowing while their cash register receipts are diminishing as children either toss out the healthier meals or opt to brown-bag it. While no one argues that the solution is to scrap the law and go back to feeding children junk, there's been a movement to relax a few of the guidelines as Congress considers whether to reauthorize the legislation, particularly mandates for 100 percent whole grains and extremely low sodium levels, so school meals will be a bit more palatable and reflective of culinary traditions.
Of course, the program should be scrapped. If no one is saying so, then that is the problem. School districts should be given the freedom to provide lunches that children will actually eat.
Can't these solons recognize failure when they see it? And, isn't the lesson here that, to these great bureaucratic minds, children's tastes do not matter. Their preferences do not count. What lesson is that teaching our children?
Murphy continues:
And yet, cafeteria operators complain, the new regulations forbid them to serve a classic baguette, semolina pasta or jasmine rice, much less the butter and flavorful sauces that often go with them. Never mind that these are staples of diets in other cultures with far lower rates of childhood and adult obesity than in the United States.
Keep in mind, behavioral economics is supposed to be science. Keep in mind that all of the nutritional information that forms the basis of the program has been shown, by the experience of other countries, to be nonsense. Here we have yet another case where ideals are blinding people to reality.
Murphy explains:
Consider that in France, where the childhood obesity rate is the lowest in the Western world, a typical four-course school lunch (cucumber salad with vinaigrette, salmon lasagna with spinach, fondue with baguette for dipping and fruit compote for dessert) would probably not pass muster under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, because of the refined grains, fat, salt and calories. Nor would the weekly piece of dark chocolate cake.
By comparison, a typical federally approved school lunch in the United States is a "reformulated" Philly cheesesteak sandwich (low-fat, low-salt processed cheese and lean mystery meat on a whole grain bun) with steamed green beans, a potato wedge, canned peaches and an apple. Students often have less than 20 minutes to eat this before returning to class, while French children may have as long as two hours to eat and socialize.
Americans are obsessed with dieting. The French believe in eating a variety of foods and taking the time to have a conversation during a meal. They also have the lowest obesity rates in the Western world. Why is this not relevant?
Why does the track record of the Unhealthy, Hungry Kids Food-Wasting Program not count?
In Murphy's words:
Not surprisingly, American kids, whether pressed for time or just grossed out, leave much of their meals untouched; particularly neglected are the fruits and vegetables, which they are now forced to put on their trays before they can exit the cafeteria line.
The School Nutrition Association said that 70 percent of school meal programs had taken a significant financial hit since the new mandates went into effect. Cafeteria operators from Los Angeles to New York report discouraging amounts of food waste and declining participation. "We lost 15 percent of our revenue when we started putting the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into place," said Chris Burkhardt, director of child nutrition and wellness at the Lakota Local School District in southwestern Ohio. "I talk to P.T.O. and P.T.A. groups and ask how many serve only whole grains and low sodium foods at home and maybe one hand goes up," adding that he's not convinced that person was telling the truth.
Besides, Murphy continues, these efforts to control children's diets are giving them exactly the wrong attitude about food. It is encouraging unhealthy diets and binge eating, along with guilt. It is ruining their relationship with food:
In addition, by forbidding certain foods and coercively promoting others, some worry that the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act may perpetuate Americans' uneasy, binge-prone relationship with food.
Karen Le Billon, visiting professor of environmental studies at Stanford and author of "French Kids Eat Everything," said in France there was "no guilt or blame around food," but rather "it's more about moderation than deprivation." Most French children and adults, she said, have no clue about the caloric content of foods, and the general attitude about fat, such as naturally found in nut butters, avocados or a creamy piece of cheese, is "it's tasty so why not eat it?" — particularly when it promotes feelings of satiety so you won't snack between meals.
"It's not rocket science and it's not only the French," said Ms. Le Billon, who divides her time between Palo Alto, Calif., Vancouver, Canada and Brittany. "These are things that parents in other less obese countries, like Japan and Italy, know and teach their kids but we have somehow forgotten. We are a culture of constant eating and it's not working in terms of keeping us at a healthy weight."
It's so obvious that anyone who is not a behavioral economist can understand it. Moderation in all things. Nothing complicated about that. A piece of cheese or a slice of chocolate cake makes you feel satisfied. Thus, you snack less. An MO lunch makes you feel hungry so you are more likely to binge eat and to feel guilty about it.
Funnily enough, Americans were supposed to be pragmatic. They were supposed to allow reality to determine the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of policy. Thanks to the Obama administration and behavioral economics, such seems no longer to be the case.
Remember, its not what you eat, but who you are eating with, and the quality of the atmosphere. So bringing home McDonald's for supper is fine because you deserve a break today(TM), just make sure to keep up on the table manners with the plastic spoons, don't slurp with your straw and talk nicely.
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-family-dinners-please.html
For family dinners to work their magic, they require adult conversation… not silence, not a television set in the background, and certainly not psychodrama:
Of course, the real power of dinners lies in their interpersonal quality. If family members sit in stony silence, if parents yell at each other, or scold their kids, family dinner won't confer positive benefits. Sharing a roast chicken won't magically transform parent-child relationships. But, dinner may be the one time of the day when a parent and child can share a positive experience – a well-cooked meal, a joke, or a story – and these small moments can gain momentum to create stronger connections away from the table.
p.s. At least "Dr. Joy Bliss" failed to note any myths on soda, or pop as its known in Minnesota.
"Now our government has found a way to induce children to waste food."
Our government has a long-standing program/subsidy that allows all of us to waste food. It's called ethanol. We burn food so we can show off our biofuel chic and give lots of money to Monsanto, ADM, and the mythical "American family farmer." And then we use petroleum byproducts to make agricultural fertilizers so we can raise next year's crop and burn it in our automobiles again.
Meanwhile, the price of corn commodities goes through the roof, and "the poor" we pretend to care about so much can't afford to feed their families. But Barack and Michelle Obama are really, really green people, mindful of our ecosystem. And they really care about "the poor." And they really want our kids to eat square meals. How noble. I cannot imagine why kids hate food and waste it. So does their government. President Obama should look into the teleprompter and scold us to "Stop playing politics" with food. Wanna bet on that?
Let's be honest: parents go to fast food outlets instead of cooking healthy, square meals at home because fast food is cheap, convenient, and readily available. And when you have foodstuffs that have been engineered to maximize olfactory and gustatory pleasure, youngsters don't want to eat anything else. That's what economists and behavioral scientists will tell you. The rest of us know the real reason: most parents are lazy. Think of all the trouble involved. One has to be able to read to follow a recipe. One must to plan ahead to visit grocery store, and perhaps make a list as a tool to simplify the effort. And square meals are more expensive to purchase, and take time to prepare. The Dollar Menu is much easier. McDonald's has been overtly, unashamedly marketing directly to minorities in urban settings for more than two decades. And now Mickey-D's wonders why their wider market has cratered, and profits are down. What kind of lifestyle are you selling?
Sculman said...
I'm trying to remember when the hell anyone elected Michelle Obama to anything, never mind to head up a government food program for America's school kids?
Say What? Supposed to be pragmatic? Well, most Americans are, but politicians and administrators are NOT.
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