Brett Moffitt claimed his fourth win of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season Saturday at Michigan International Speedway when he took the checkered flag 0.025 seconds ahead of Johnny Sauter. Moffitt's latest win also tied him with Sauter for most wins so far this season. It also was Moffitt's second Truck Series win at MIS, as he previously won at the track in 2016.
Br4ett Moffitt inches ahead of Johnny Sauter for the win in the Corrigan Oil 200 at Michigan International Speedway on Aug. 11, 2018.
Sauter took the lead with about 13 laps remaining in the 100-lap race and Moffitt moved into second. The two frontrunners pulled away from the field, and Moffitt closed on Sauter in the final laps before getting beside him on the final lap.
Stewart Friesen and Grant Enfinger won the two 20-lap stages that made up the first 40 laps of the race. After pole sitter Noah Gragson, Todd Gilliland, and John Hunter Nemechek jockeyed the lead back and forth in the opening laps, Friesen took his first lead on Lap 14 and ran up front the remainder of the opening stage.
Friesen, though, was assessed a pit-road penalty for improper fueling as a result of his gas man pushing his truck out of his pit box during the final caution of the race with just over 20 laps remaining. He was able to get back up to eighth by the finish.
After the first stage ran caution-free, 13 of the laps that made up the second stage ran under the yellow flag. Pit strategies varied throughout the remainder of the race, with Moffitt waiting until the end of the second stage before making his first pit stop. His strategy put him up front early in the second stage, but on Lap 27, Grant Enfinger took the lead and ran up front the remainder of stage two.
Matt Crafton led 18 laps in the final stage, tying Gragson for most laps led throughout the race. Gragson finished fourth while Crafton was 10th after the checkered flag.
UP NEXT: The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series goes short-track night racing Thursday at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. The Bristol event will be the final race of the 2018 Truck Series regular season. Joining Brett Moffitt and Johnny Sauter in already having playoff spots secured heading into the Bristol race are fellow-race winners Noah Gragson, Justin Haley, and Ben Rhodes. Also, Grant Enfinger has secured a playoff position by virtue of his points standing.


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The Ban on Triclosan
Mandated changes to hand hygiene products may impact your workforce, budget, and building occupants
by David Lanzafame
On September 2, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its final ruling on triclosan, an active ingredient used in consumer antiseptic and antibacterial wash products. In this ruling, the FDA banned triclosan and 18 other ingredients from being marketed in commercial and consumer wash products.
The FDA says manufacturers have until September 6, 2017, to reformulate their production lines and remove existing triclosan products from the market. However, these changes will not only impact product manufacturers; the onus to remove triclosan products used in facilities and replace them with FDA-compliant products will fall on custodial managers and their teams.
Why Ban Triclosan?
Initially proposed in 2013, the FDA ruling called into question the safe use of triclosan and its inclusion in consumer washes with antibacterial properties. The proposal required manufacturers to provide data to the agency supporting the safe use and effectiveness of triclosan; however, due to a lack of new data supporting its safety along with insufficient existing data, triclosan was included among 19 ingredients no longer "recognized as safe and effective" by the agency.
"After studying the issue, including reviewing available literature and hosting public meetings, in 2013 the FDA issued a proposed rule requiring safety and efficacy data from manufacturers, consumers, and others if they wanted to continue marketing antibacterial products containing those ingredients, but very little information has been provided," said FDA Spokesperson Tralisa Colby. "That's why the FDA issued a final rule under which over-the-counter consumer antiseptic wash products (including liquid, foam, gel hand soaps, bar soaps, and body washes) containing the majority of antibacterial active ingredients, including triclosan, will no longer be able to be marketed."
According to Colby, the FDA ran a short-term study using animals exposed to high doses of triclosan and the result was a decrease in thyroid hormone levels. While the results have yet to be shown in humans, the overuse of triclosan still carries a risk in the form of bacterial resistance.
"The significance of these findings to human health has not been shown," Colby said. "However, existing data raise potential concerns about the effects of repeated daily human exposure to antibacterial ingredients, such as triclosan. Other studies in bacteria have raised the possibility that exposure to triclosan contributes to making bacteria resistant to antibiotics."
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria reduces the effectiveness of drugs and other agents designed to prevent, halt, or cure the spread of infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Bacteria highly resistant to antibiotics can quickly become a Staph infection or Methicillin-resistantStaphlococcus aureus(MRSA), causing problems such as skin infection, sepsis, pneumonia, and infections in the bloodstream.
Phasing Out Triclosan
For those working in custodial services, a time of using triclosan-free products may be coming sooner rather than later.
Since the initial proposal was made, manufacturers have already begun phasing out the use of triclosan in their consumer products. One particular hand hygiene manufacturer has not introduced a triclosan product since 2011, and has removed the ingredient from its public washroom soap products. Another company is making changes to its products beyond the United States and Canada, and has begun removing triclosan from all products in its worldwide markets to cut down on confusion for custodial services.
According to Dr. Steve Dalton, vice president in health care and infection prevention with Sealed Air Diversey Care, the full removal of triclosan frees custodians from making unnecessary decisions. For example, removing triclosan from all products will prevent janitorial businesses and staff from having to decide what product should be used where based on rulings that may apply to different service areas.
According to Dalton, full disposal of triclosan products will take time due to the current supply custodial businesses and facilities already have in their supply closets. "You could see people [continuing] to use the products because of how much was already manufactured," Dalton said. "It can still go through the supply chain, but they'll use it up. They can [also] start to look for alternatives; there's still time."
Currently, the FDA has no objection to retailers, suppliers, or custodial services continuing to sell or use products covered under the rulingbeforeSeptember 6, 2017. However, after this date, such products remaining on the market or in use could be subject to regulatory action, according to the agency. This means building service contractors and in-house facility managers may eventually be responsible for discontinuing use of particular hand-hygiene products in the facilities they service.
Exempt Industry Markets
Custodial workers in the medical care and food service settings will most likely continue to use triclosan products in the near future. According to the FDA, different proposals based on the categories of setting, target population, and infection risk require separate evaluations, meaning some custodial services will be using triclosan products longer than others—or until a ruling can be made for their removal.
According to the FDA, the recent ban on triclosan will not apply to antibacterial products and antiseptics—such as sanitizing wipes, antibacterial hand sanitizers, surgical hand scrubs and rubs, and patient preoperative skin preparations—used by health care cleaning professionals. The FDA is required to issue a final ruling on the use of triclosan in antiseptic health care products by January 15, 2018.
Food Service Facilities
Similar to antiseptics used in health care, the FDA is currently evaluating the safety and effectiveness of triclosan products used in the food service industry, specifically kitchen sanitation. According to the FDA, antiseptic products used in food service will be subject to a separate future ruling decision.
Potential Health and Budget Benefits
According to Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), manufacturers provided little evidence on the effectiveness of products with triclosan compared to traditional handwashing methods. Once new products become available to them, custodians who regularly refill restroom or other hand hygiene dispensers—in addition to other building occupants who may use antibacterial hand hygiene products—will no longer have exposure to high concentrations of triclosan.
Financially, the FDA's ruling provides building service contractors and facilities an opportunity to save a little money. For example, one company sells its bulk antibacterial soap for 5 to 10 cents more than its bulk plain soap, depending on the bulk size.
Through health regulation, company foresight, and a wide timeframe, some custodians may find themselves disposing and replacing wash products that contain triclosan. However, the long-term benefits should translate to financial savings for organizations and a safer, healthier environment for custodians and building occupants alike.
David Lanzafame
David Lanzafame is a freelance journalist with more than 10 years of experience.
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Q: Crashlytics Android Studio plugin fails to initialize I'm running Android Studio 0.5.1. I've downloaded the Crashlytics Android Studio plugin and installed it from the disc. When I restart Android Studio, I get the following exception
Plugin 'com.crashlytics.tools.androidstudio' failed to initialize and will be disabled.  Please restart Android Studio.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/osgi/framework/BundleActivator
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:471)
    at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader._defineClass(UrlClassLoader.java:189)
    at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader.defineClass(UrlClassLoader.java:185)
    at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader._findClass(UrlClassLoader.java:161)
    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClassInsideSelf(PluginClassLoader.java:124)
    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.tryLoadingClass(PluginClassLoader.java:77)
    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:66)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    at com.crashlytics.tools.intellij.OSGiPluginServices.createOSGi(OSGiPluginServices.java:62)
    at com.crashlytics.tools.intellij.CrashlyticsPlugin.initComponent(CrashlyticsPlugin.java:89)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl$ComponentConfigComponentAdapter$1.getComponentInstance(ComponentManagerImpl.java:548)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl$ComponentConfigComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ComponentManagerImpl.java:590)
    at com.intellij.util.pico.DefaultPicoContainer.getLocalInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:225)
    at com.intellij.util.pico.DefaultPicoContainer.getInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:212)
    at com.intellij.util.pico.DefaultPicoContainer.getComponentInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:199)
    at org.picocontainer.alternatives.AbstractDelegatingMutablePicoContainer.getComponentInstance(AbstractDelegatingMutablePicoContainer.java:75)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.createComponent(ComponentManagerImpl.java:121)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.createComponent(ApplicationImpl.java:371)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.createComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:112)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:89)
    at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.stores.ApplicationStoreImpl.load(ApplicationStoreImpl.java:87)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.load(ApplicationImpl.java:508)
    at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:150)
    at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl$1$1$1.run(MainImpl.java:46)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:715)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:82)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:676)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:674)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:86)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:685)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:697)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:524)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:335)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator PluginClassLoader[com.crashlytics.tools.androidstudio, 1.5.0]
    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:68)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    ... 44 more

A: Hemal from Crashlytics here! Can you go ahead and try to install the plugin.zip file instead of the jar and let me know if that works?

A: I had this error "NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/SwingUtilities"
I had to download and use jdk1.7.0_65 instead of jdk1.8.0_05 and change the path in my environment variables.
Hope this helps someone!

A: Oh gods, i thought it's not work, but it does! It now show icon in toolbar, but i assign hotkey on crashlytics and it pop up below(!) IDEA CE 13.1.4 screen.

A: For you guys using safari to download the plugin. Use some other browser that won automatically unzip the container.
Android studio requires you to install the zipped file, not the individual .jar:s
Edit:
Another option is to go to Safari -> Preferences and untick the auto-open option.
Thanks @m vai

A: Use Fabric Tool.You don't need to write any code.Check out the below steps to install Crashlytics in your application.

*

*Get in to this Fabric link .Then sign
up and login to your account.

*In Android Studio, Click File -> settings->plugin-> In top search bar, search this Fabric for Android then click browse, you see the fabric android studio file.

*Then download a Fabric Android Studio
Plugin.Zip file.finally, restart Android Studio

*Then you can see the Fabric icon in your eclipse tool.Check the
below screenshot:

*Login fabric -> Enter Organization -> click install the crashlytics tool.It will add the Codes
automatically.You don't need to write a single line of code.It will
add codes in manifest file and build.gradle.

*After it successfully installed,Run your application.If your
application getting crash,it will be notified in your fabric
dashboard.

*Output:
Below I am posted the crash report in dashboard:

For further Reference: Crashlytics

A: Select "Plugins" on the right of the Settings Dialog. Click "Install plugin from disk…" and choose the downloaded zip file.
Do not unzip file. Choose downloaded zip file.

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'The Irishman' predicted to win Best Picture Oscar Award
Hannah Gonzalez
"The Irishman" portrays a "remarkably tight and laser-focused" plot, considering the duration of the movie.
Riley O'Donnell, Staff Writer
Ever since Iron Man hit theaters in April 2008 and launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, popular movie culture has been largely dominated by comic book movies, with five out of the 10 highest earning films of the 2010s being Marvel movies.
Movies like The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy have already developed cult-like followings on social media, and Avengers: Endgame, the final culmination of the decade-long MCU, had fans in tears and box office records in tatters.
While many movie-goers saw the wild success of the MCU as the fun and compelling arc of movies, legendary director Martin Scorsese saw the situation quite differently. In Sep. 2019, a New York Times op-ed from Scorsese set movie Twitter on fire, claiming that Marvel movies, "seem to me to be closer to theme parks than they are to movies as I've known and loved them throughout my life."
Scorsese's comments on the beloved film franchise did not go over well with a large number fans across the internet, and they sparked discussions on whether old-school mafia films like Scorsese's Goodfellas and Gangs of New York have any place in today's fast paced and superhero-driven popular movie culture.
Whether or not you agree with Scorsese's take on comic book movies, his 2019 Academy Award nominated film The Irishman puts any doubt towards the director's style of filmmaking to rest.
The Irishman is nothing short of a modern movie masterpiece, a three-and-a-half hour gangster epic with impeccable pacing, an immersive atmosphere, and possibly Scorsese's tightest narrative to date. It is the most artistically impressive film of 2019, and deserves to take home the Best Picture Award at the Oscars this Sunday.
The Irishman tells the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a labor union official and high-ranking Teamster in the mid-1900s, with strong ties to the Bufalino crime family of northeastern Pennsylvania. It details Sheeran's many confessed murders and crimes carried out as a hitman for the Bufalino mob, as well as his close relationship with Jimmy Hoffa, the infamous Teamsters President of the 1960s.
De Niro's performance as the emotionally distant Frank Sheeran is his most impressive since 1976's Taxi Driver. He perfectly displays the combination of the ruthlessness, guilt, and anxiety of a mafia hitman. In one scene he might assassinate a man in the middle of a crowded restaurant and drive back home without hardly breaking a sweat or showing emotion, while in the next he struggles to hold any sort of meaningful conversation with his young daughter and wife.
By the end of the movie, when Sheeran is at least 70 years old and in a nursing home after serving a lengthy prison sentence, De Niro portrays a lonely, regretful, slowly dying man who has been cut off completely by his daughters and has no more friends from the crime syndicate or the Teamsters, as they have all either been killed or sent to prison.
This leads into the next exceptional aspect of The Irishman, which is the movie's portrayal of the mob life. Unlike some famous mafia movies which might romanticize the life of organized crime with gentlemen's codes and loyalty among thieves, The Irishman portrays organized crime for what it really is – a ruthless, vengeful class of men who prey on the disadvantaged and would much sooner put a hit out on their closest friends and allies than lose out on a few thousand dollars.
In his work for the Bufalino crime family, Frank Sheeran is never happy or satisfied with his life. He comes off as a man with hardly any principles or values, and seems to be driven by pure greed and fear of his higher-ups in the mafia. His daughters learn to fear him and what he is capable of, and his wife hardly speaks to him at all.
The narrative development of The Irishman is remarkably tight and laser-focused for an over 3 hour long movie. No matter what tangent or side story the plot goes off on, it always comes back to the theme of the negative impact of organized crime. This becomes fully clear to the viewer at the end of the movie, when Frank is hobbling around by himself, picking out his casket, and reminiscing over long gone friends like Russell Bufalino, Jimmy Hoffa, and Bill Bufalino, who all were either killed or imprisoned as a result of their involvement with the mafia.
Some respect should be given to the other Best Picture nominees of 2019. Quentin Tarantino's whimsical 60s throw back in Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood is a very fun movie with great performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. 1917 tells a captivating war story with impressively innovative cinematography. Little Women puts a timeless and important story in a beautiful modern setting. The other five nominated films are also great in some capacity.
However, what sets The Irishman apart is that it is not just a normal movie with a conventional beginning, middle, and end. It's a three-hour engrossing examination of not only an individual man's life story, but the story of the savagery of organized crime, the benefits and corruption of labor unions, and the larger contradictions of 1960s America itself.
The Irishman is a Netflix Original movie, and after showing for a short time in theaters, it became exclusively available on Netflix. It's really quite fitting for the last Best Picture winner of the streaming service dominated 2010s to be a such stark combination of old school, Scorcese/De Niro style filmmaking and modern day Netflix Original marketing.
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NavIt is a car navigation system with routing engine. Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to use multiple maps at a time. The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you using speech dispatcher.
OpenStreetMap maps can be converted to NavIt format using maptool.
Only two days after launching the RC3 version, Mozilla has just released the final 1.0 version of Firefox Mobile for the N900. If you have the Mozilla repository configured, you'll be informed about the update with the usual notification. Otherwise, go to http://firefox.com/m on your N900 to download it. After you download and install this release, open the Add-ons page and search for "YouTube Enabler" extension, which enables Flash video support on YouTube.
FullRecall by David Calinski is an advanced flashcard-like software. It can help you memorize the knowledge for lifelong periods with the minimum time investment. Underlying artificial neural network gradually grasps your forgetting curve to schedule optimal days for the reviews, i.e. days when you will be close to forgetting an information.
Freecell4Maemo is an implementation of the classic Freecell card game for the Maemo platform.
Extended Call Log from Thom Troy lets you view the complete and detailed calling history of your device.
Call-Locker from Matan Ziv-Av is a small hack that automatically locks the screen when it gets unlocked by an incoming voice call.
BeRoXM Player by Benjamin Rosseaux is a small freeware MOD/WOW/XM player letting you play all those Amiga modules on your N900.
Orrery from Ken Young displays the night (and day) sky on the Nokia N900. It shows constellations and other astronomical information including moon phase calendars, sunrise and sunset times, meteor showers dates, planet compass, solar system planet positions, etc.
FM Radio Player has been updated to automatically scan for radio stations by pressing the Next and Previous buttons.
Mozilla has released Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate 3. This release fixes several usability bugs that were found, as well as addresses a number of performance issues. To improve page load times and responsiveness, a number of preferences and algorithms has been improved, resulting in faster zooming and panning.
Plugin support has been disabled for this release because the Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites was degrading the performance of the browser. If you wish to enable experimental plugin support, you can do it manually via about:config. Mozilla is working on an add-on that will allow the user to have control of which sites to enable plugins for.
Firefox can be downloaded from here.
AppDownloader by Daniel Wilms is a download client for Extras applications in the Maemo.org repository aimed to ease the discovery and installation of Maemo.org applications.
Action Manager Daemon by Joost Kop runs in the background and lets the user select an action to a system trigger. For instance, a trigger like the headphone plugin/pullout or battery fully charged can be assigned to an action like MediaPlayer pause/play, selecting a system profile, etc.
bti from Bruno Gomes is a command line based micro-blogging tool supporting twitter, identi.ca, etc. It provides an easy way to send tweet messages directly from the command line or a script and see timelines, replies to messages, etc.
Salling Software updated its application for syncing media from iTunes and compatible photo applications to mobile devices. The new version is compatible with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Windows version only) and some of the hottest new phones, including the Nokia N900.
Once the phone is connected to a USB port, the users simply select the playlists, podcasts and photo albums they want on the device. Salling Media Sync not only uploads the music tracks and podcast episodes, but also replicates each actual playlist on the device and—on devices that support it—transfers play count metadata for each item to the device, reinforcing the sense of having a piece of iTunes in your pocket.
Salling Media Sync 1.1.5 is available now through Salling Software's web site at no cost for basic use. At a price of $22/€15 per user license, the application intelligently updates your phone, resulting in faster syncs. Windows and Mac licenses are sold separately, and the bundle can be bought at a 25% discount.
Salling Media Sync for Windows is compatible with Windows XP SP2 (with Windows Media Player 11) or better, iTunes 7.6.x - 9.0.2 (for music and podcasts), and Adobe Photoshop Album SE 3.2 or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.x - 8.x (for photos). Salling Media Sync for Mac is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or better, iTunes 7.6.x - 9.0.2 (for music and podcasts), and iPhoto '08 - '09 or Aperture 2.x (for photos).
Please see http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/ for details.
Nokia invites US tweekers and modders to submit their ideas for morphing the Nokia N900 into something entirely new. Whether it's turning the Nokia N900 into a TV remote control or the brain of a fully functioning robot, the only limit is the contestants' imagination.
The top three ideas will be chosen from the ideas submitted by a panel of judges, after which the finalist teams will be provided with a Nokia N900 and some support to actually build their mod. In March, Nokia will bring a representative (and guest) from each of the three PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA finalists to CTIA in Las Vegas, where each representative will have the chance to demonstrate their creativity for final judging and the chance to win cash prizes ranging from USD 3,000 to USD 10,000.
A global PUSH N900 competition held in October 2009 drew hundreds of entries and resulted in the construction of five widely varying mods, including a skateboard that tracks your tricks and lets you compete against friends with their own Nokia N900s, an N900-equipped kite that lets you control the camera from the ground, a spray can that brings light graffiti to the N900, a Nokia N900-outfitted belt that vibrates to navigate you in the right direction, and a Nokia N900 with arms that will draw what you photograph on an Etch-a-Sketch.
For more information or to submit an entry for the PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA challenge, please visit http://www.blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/usa.
Shutter by Tom Waelti is an "IR button" home screen widget to issue an IR (infrared) command. It comes preconfigured for Nikon D70 (and compatible) dSLR remote shutter control.
Sleeper from Tom Waelti is a simple "Sleep" widget to automatically stop the music player after 15 or 30 minutes. Good for falling asleep while listening to music on the N900.
Speedy by Arjan Scherpenisse is a little program that measures your internet download speed.
Subtitle Support by Roman Moravcik adds subtitle support to the Media Player. Subtitle font and encoding can be changed via "Settings: Subtitles" control panel applet.
Timers of various kinds are probably the most popular Maemo applications. Three more have just appeared in Extras-Devel: Tickstill, TimerJinni and TimeOut.
The Mana World (TMW) is a serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG. TMW uses 2D graphics and aims to create a large and diverse interactive world. The project includes the development of both a client and a server, as well as the development of an online world.
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor Status Area Applet lets you configure the current proxy settings to route traffic through the Tor network.
Travelapp is a simple application to display transport status, a map and routing between stations for the London Tube.
Luca Donaggio has released MMagnetic, a Maemo GUI for Magnetic, an interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls adventure games.
Simple Note Widget by Jan Bergmann is a desktop widget for taking short notes visible directly on the home screen.
Ask-Ziggy by Martin Borho performs simple searches against several web APIs, including Ask Yahoo and Google, for news websites, weather or translations.
Recaller by Tom Waelti is a dektop widget that makes it possible to record phone conversations with just one tap. It works in both the loudspeaker and earpiece mode and can also be used as a normal voice recorder. Recordings are stored in AAC, 1 MB/min.
Map Buddy from Pierre-Luc Beaudoin is a lightweight OpenStreetMap based map viewer application to find your position and way and search for local businesses.
Faheem Pervez has just uploaded to Extras-Devel a port of Evince, a PS / EPS / PDF document viewer. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
FreOffice is an Office file viewer based on KOffice. This version supports text files, spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format (ODF) and Microsoft Office formats. The viewer requires the latest update (PR1.1) to the N900 firmware. With the viewer, you can open multiple files at once, open office documents from your e-mail, search in office files and copy and paste from your documents. You can also run presentations.
Battery by Tuomas Siipola is another (nice looking) desktop widget providing percentage view of the remaining battery level.
4x4 Inclinometer is an inclinometer for use in your offroad, with two independent meters showing both pitch and roll respectively.
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection contains a large number of popular puzzle games for one player.
With MyMenu from Manfred Weisz you can change the structure of the Maemo 5 "Applications" menu and enhance it with category folders. Includes an "Update" function to show new applications.
mNotes by Khertan is a small note taking application for Maemo with synchronisation with a web service.
PySafe by Jorge Aguilar is a small Python program to keep your passwords and personal/confidential information safe and password protected.
Headphone daemon by Thomas Perl silently sits in the background and monitors the connection state of headphones. Whenever the headphones are unplugged, it automatically pauses the built-in Media Player, Panucci or MPlayer.
Due to a problem with the server that hosts Maemo.org repositories, all repos are down and aren't expected to be available before Monday. If you can't wait and you need to access some applications contained in those repositories now, there is a mirror through which all the repos can be reached. Detailed instructions and configuration details can be found here.
Gnuplot is a graph drawing software for making 2D and 3D graphs from data and functions. Supports lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, Postscript, and so on.
With glogarchive by Kurt Fleisch you can archive SMS/IM messages and call log and store it in a separate database. The archive can be grouped by phone numbers or by event types (call in/out, SMS message in/out, IM message in/out, etc). There is also a counter for each event type.
Sascha Makela has released a simple Currency Converter with tax and tip buttons and exchange rates automatically obtained from the Internet.
One of the most important features missing so far on the N900 has been ability to edit and save Word documents. Not anymore. AbiWord has just been ported to Maemo 5 and it brings a wide variety of word processing taks, ability to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more, support for tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks, as well as extensible plugin support and dictionaries for over 30 languages.
mfeFolders lets you select which Mail for Exchange folders to synchronize and rename locally synched folders.
PR1.1 web browser DOES support portrait mode!
Major firmware update, 2.2009.51-1, has just been made available and you should now see the update notification on your device (if you don't, launch the App Manager and refresh it). The update download is 89.5 MB and it temporarily requires 45 MB free space in rootfs - if you don't have that much you'll need to check which installed packages are not optified and occupy rootfs and unistall them. You can also free some additional space for the update by temporarily removing some configured repositories in the App Manager, especially Extras-Devel which usually contains the most packages and therefore has the largest local cache/database file. Even though the N900 supports User Data Preservation (which means that OTA firmware updates do not wipe user data) you are advised to make a backup prior to launching the update, just in case.
Please check this thread on our forums for more information and first impressions, and post yours after you update your device.
System Event Scheduler by Andrew-Stanley Jones is a simple application to schedule when the phone will automatically change profiles, online status, etc.
Tweakr by Salvatore Iovene is a Control panel applet for tweaking various settings otherwise hardly accessible. These include editing desktop bookmarks, functions assigned to long press / short press / double press of the Power button, unlocking (or not) the device when opening the camera lens cover, creating new profiles.
[New] Catorise - categories/folders for the Applications menu!
London Tube Status App is a simple QT-based application for the N900 to display the status and any special messages related to the London tubes.
Red Pill Mode gone - whose crazy idea was it?
Today's firmware update removes the Red Pill Mode support from N900's Application Manager. And I am asking: whose crazy idea was it? And what was the purpose of removing it?
Was it for security reasons? Unlikely. Those who were using the Red Pill mode will certainly also be brave enough to use dpkg in the X Terminal (which - thanks God - still works). But to do it, they will have to enable root access and key in command line arguments, both actually MUCH LESS SECURE and subject to making MORE MISTAKES than using the quite elegant and safe GUI-based (R.I.P) Red Pill Mode.
If not for security, then what for? To make it more difficult to have alternate software distribution/sales channels competing with the just launched Ovi store? Correct me if I am wrong, but that's the only valid reason that comes to my mind, and I don't like such a purpose at all. It's like making one step towards the iPhone, but towards its RESTRICTIONS and not its advantages.
A beta version of Nokia's OVI store for the N900 is now open. While the "Ovi Store" icon in the menu still only shows a "Coming soon" page, you can now type http://store.ovi.mobi in N900's built-in web browser to access the beta (but fully functional) version of the store. At the moment it contains about 40 free apps and games, as well as some videos, ringtones and themes.
Nokia has just released its first firmware update for the N900. It is available Over The Air through the Application Manager and should be reported to you automatically. If the notification (orange exclamation mark in the status area) hasn't shown yet on your device, connect to the Internet, launch the App Manager and select the "Refresh" option from its menu.
fAPN by Frals is a GUI making it possible to add a new GPRS (cellular packet data) access point (APN), which is a function currently missing from Maemo 5. After you create the new APN using fAPN, all its detailed settings can be edited using the standard Control Panel applet.
Evil Plumber is a small puzzle game where the objective is to build a long and complicated pipe connecting a source to the sink.
fMMS by Frals is the first application to send and receive MMS messages on the N900. Its basic Python GUI lets you enter the recipient's phone number, message text and select the image to be sent.
3G/2G Mode Selection Applet from Faheem Pervez allows quickly switching between two network modes (3G and 2G) from the status menu.
FMTX Faker by Faheem Pervez is a daemon allowing the FM Transmitter to be enabled on devices that have it disabled, by faking the state sent to fmtxd.
FM-Boost by Alan Bruce is a script increasing the signal strength of N900's FM Transmitter to 118.
Stopwatches and timers seem to be the most popular N900 applications and here comes another one, Countdown Timer by Sascha Makela. It provides one second precision and customizable buttons and alert sound.
Qt Badge is a software to record the times of exit, entry and rests on the working day. Based on the data entered, you can use the Search function from menu to calculate total hours spent at work in the period of your interest.
FreeMap-IL is a GPS-based car navigation system for Israel integrated with freemap.co.il.
MGutenberg by Pauli Virtanen is an e-book organizer and reader that can search and download books directly from Project Gutenberg. Supported e-book formats include TXT, Plucker, FB2 and HTML (all plain text only).
Storage Usage shows storage memory usage as a graphical tree map. It can also show disk usage for each individual installed package.
Powatool from Jakub Pavelek allows tweaking the status area of the N900 and turning on or off the Nokia hands boot animation.
FeedingIt from Yves is a small and simple RSS viewer for Maemo 5 based on feedparser.py.
While MMS is probably the LEAST important thing I expect to see in upcoming firmware updates for the N900 (I'd easily exchange it - with extra charge! - for e.g. voice dialing), it's apparently much more important for other people. Some initial (and successful) attempts to make it possible to send and receive MMS on the N900 have been made by at least two developers - see here and here.
Jamaendo by Kristoffer Grönlund is a media player for the Nokia N900 / Maemo 5 that plays music from the music catalog of Jamendo. Jamendo is an online platform that distributes musical works under Creative Commons licenses.
Gweled from Flandry is basically the same game as Battle Gweled, i.e. a Bejeweled clone. This version, however, is much more enjoyable than Battle Gweled thanks to background music, special effects, and somehow better timing.
Daniel Martín Yerga has released Unzip add-on for the File Manager which makes it possible to unzip files by clicking on them. Creates a directory based on archive name and unpacks the contents of the archive into that directory.
Tower Toppler from Janne Mäkinen is an almost complete reimplementation of the old game from 8-bit computers known as Nebulus.
Shortcutd by Heikki Holstila is an enhanced version of Camkeyd. It lets you use the Camera button (half-pressed) and Proximity sensor (short and long touch) to quickly access the task manager and Phone application.
ImPuzzle from Timo Harkonen is a simple image puzzle game. It comes with two difficulty levels, a set of default pictures and possibility to use your own images.
Evopedia by Christian Reitwiessner is an offline Wikipedia reader working with any web browser. The downloadable package contains the main software. Recent Wikipedia dumps (compressed images for offline use) in various languages can be downloaded from the Evopedia home site.
Are you still looking for a place to download Nintendo emulators removed from Maemo repositories? It seems that they've found a new home. On this list of N900 repositories you can find a repository called "Maemo Nintendo Emulators" - just add it to your App Manager and have fun!
The package now also registers corresponding MIME types so that files can be played back from File Manager.
CorsixTH is an open source clone of Theme Hospital. Theme Hospital is a simulation computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997, in which the player designs and operates a hospital.
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Bakunin and the Creative Passion to Destroy
Posted on December 8, 2016 October 12, 2022 by anarchopac
In 1842 Mikhail Bakunin famously remarked "Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!"
For the purposes of this short article, I'm not particularly interested in what exactly Bakunin meant by this. Rather I am interested in the ideas that emerge from trying to interpret his words in different ways. I've come up with four main ideas.
Firstly, there's the idea that the desire to destroy the society in which we live emerges not merely from a negative hatred of existing society, but also from a positive aspiration for a better society. In, for example, the desire to destroy a homophobic society we aren't merely hating the homophobic society, but also longing for a society without homophobia. In the desire to destroy what is, there is thus also the desire to create something new. Indeed, we reject society as it precisely because we want and aim for an entirely different society.
Secondly, there's the idea that in order to create we must also destroy. This comes from the fact that we cannot go to an imaginary land and create a new society out of thin air. Instead, we find ourselves in a society which is structured in a particular way and is full of people with particular beliefs who engage in particular kinds of actions. Changing society thus requires that we change how society is currently structured and how people currently think and act. Doing so in turn requires us to destroy those dominant institutions which reproduce existing society. If we do not do so, then we cannot create a new society as the dominant institutions will simply continue to maintain the status quo. For example, the state uses violence to enforce private property. As a result, any movement which attempts to create a society without private property must overthrow the state. If they do not do so, then the state will continue to enforce private property and crush any serious attempt at abolishing private property. Destruction is thus a necessary precondition for creation. We must destroy to create the space in which we can create.
As Bakunin remarks in 'Statism and Anarchy', the "passion for destruction" is "far from sufficient for achieving the ultimate aims of the revolutionary cause. Without it, however, that cause would be inconceivable, impossible, for there can be no revolution without widespread and passionate destruction, a destruction salutary and fruitful precisely because out of it, and by means of it alone, new worlds are born and arise." (Bakunin 1990, 28)
Thirdly, when people struggle against oppressive structures they simultaneously both destroy and create at the same time. So, for example, when someone smashes a bank window during a protest they are both destroying the bank window and creating a situation in which banks and private property are not being respected and treated according to the norms of capitalist society. Or to take a different example, when feminists won women the vote they simultaneously destroyed the social relations in which women did not have the vote and created a new set of social relations, namely one in which women did have the vote. Destruction and creation can then be viewed not as opposed entities, but rather as two elements of a single overarching process of changing society.
Fourthly, the act of destruction is itself a creative act. Destroying oppressive social relations takes a certain skill and finesse which is developed through struggle. People experiment and try out new ways of fighting the police. Or they reflect on what went well and what went badly the last time they fought the police. They refine their Molotov cocktail making skills. They come up with new ways of building barricades, or making decisions, or changing discourse.
Bakunin, Michael. 1990. Statism and Anarchy. Edited by Marshall Shatz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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René April 26, 20222:53 pm Reply
Concerning "Bakunin and the Creative Passion to Destroy"
"Let us therefore trust in the eternal Spirit, who destroys and annihilates only because he is the unfathomable and eternally creating source of all life. – The pleasure of destruction is at the same time a creating pleasure!
The four explanations you give to Bakunin's famous sentence are interesting and pertinent I would say, they propose interpretations that do not present Bakunin's thought in a negative way, which is appreciable.
But in my opinion you miss one important point.
First of all, in the German text it is "pleasure of destruction" and not "passion for…". This is not a detail.
Then you say: "I'm not particularly interested in what exactly Bakunin meant by this."
In my opinion you are wrong: not being interested in what an author means does not seem to me a good approach.
You add: "I am interested in the ideas that emerge from trying to interpret his words in different ways." This means, I think, that you are only interested in what can be said about this sentence today, and that you are not interested in the context in which it was written, whereas in my opinion this sentence is only interesting when placed in its context.
To put this sentence in context means that we must remember that it was written at a time when Bakunin was not anarchist, and that it is therefore not appropriate to explain it as if Bakunin had been an anarchist at the time it was written.
This famous sentence of Bakunin's, which has been used by generations of ignorant people to label the Russian revolutionary as a pan-destroyer, becomes distressingly banal when one takes the trouble to consider it in its Hegelian context. It is, in fact, clearly nothing more than an imitation of the master, as is the case with the entire production of the Hegelian left.
The young Bakunin, until 1842, was a passionate student of Hegelian philosophy. He was in Berlin and frequented all the personalities of the Hegelian left at the time. All these young people wrote articles in obscure language and signed with pseudonyms because of the censorship, to the extent that a text by Bakunin was attributed to Engels, and vice versa.
"The Reaction in Germany", signed Jules Elysard to make it "French", is one of these exercises in obscure language that must be deciphered. In it, Bakunin analyses the political and social context of Germany in 1842, he describes the heavy atmosphere that hangs over the country and predicts that the storm will soon explode — this will be the case six years later with the revolution of 1848.
This text is an imitation of the master, as is the case with the entire production of the Hegelian left. Hegel's philosophy of history is a vast panorama full of civilisations that arise and collapse: thus we read in Hegel that "the existing order is destroyed because it has exhausted and completely realised its potentialities" and that progress "is intimately linked to the destruction and dissolution of the previous form of reality, which has completely realised its concept".
Such quotations could be multiplied. We find the same thing in Feuerbach himself: "Only he who has the courage to be absolutely negative has the power to create the new."
This "pleasure in destruction" is therefore extremely commonplace in the philosophical thinking of the time and merely reflects the expectation that people are wanting global change.
It is hard to imagine today the extent taken by the enthusiasm for Hegel's philosophy in the 1830s and 1840s; Intellectual fashion produced a host of popularisers and imitators. Kieyevsky, quoted by Benoît Hepner, recounts that "there is hardly a man who does not reason in philosophical terms, not a teenager who does not talk about Hegel, not a book, not a magazine article that is not influenced by German thought; ten-year-olds throw concrete objectivity at your head." Now, in 1842, when he wrote The Reaction in Germany, Bakunin was still completely impregnated with this Hegelian philosophy. The idea that history is a continuous succession of destruction and construction is one of the foundations of the Hegelian philosophy of history, and only ignorance or bad faith can explain why many authors have reduced all of Bakunin's thought to this sentence from an early writing, a sentence that was issued, moreover, at a time when he was not anarchist!
If you read French, I suggest you refer to a book I wrote,
Bakounine avant l'anarchiste. – Première partie 1836-1847
Du conservatisme à la révolution démocratique
http://monde-nouveau.net/spip.php?article79
(Bakunin before the anarchist, Part One 1836-1847, From conservatism to the democratic Revolution)
anarchopac April 27, 20229:51 am Reply
I wrote this a very long time ago as a writing exercise. When I said "I'm not particularly interested in what exactly Bakunin meant by this", I meant for the purposes of this video and not in general.
I agree with you that its important to locate ideas in their historical context and I'm familiar with Bakunin's Hegelian phase prior to becoming an anarchist. I am also annoyed when authors refer to Bakunin as "destructive" in the negative sense based on a single quote taken out of context and written before he became an anarchist.
I read your book on the International and liked it. Unfortunately I cannot read French (but I want to learn). I am currently proof reading my book on the strategy of historical anarchism, which is based on my PhD. Would you be interested in reading it and providing feedback?
I would be very happy to read your work and give you my opinion, especially as the subject you are dealing with interests me a lot.
Being able to understand several languages is an important asset when doing research. There is a remarkable tool (that you may know) for translating texts: https://www.deepl.com/translator
It is a very reliable tool. And after all, 40% of the words in the English language are of French origin, thanks to the Normans!
Maybe you know the site of the Cercle d'études libertaires: monde-nouveau.net: there is a section with texts in English: http://monde-nouveau.net/?lang=en
I read two of your texts, the one on the "passion to destroy" and the one on Bakunin as a racist.
Concerning the second one, I appreciated your concern for objectivity, your preoccupation not to "demolish" Bakunin.
Anarchists are generally very disturbed by Bakunin's anti-Semitic excesses, and feel a real uneasiness, which is also reflected in your text, I think.
A long time ago I wrote a book, which I never tried to have published, and which I entitled: "Panslavism, Pangermanism and the Jewish Question: Bakunin and Marx".
My starting point is that Bakunin cannot be dissociated from Marx, that the anti-Slavic racism of Marx and Engels is as reprehensible as Bakunin's anti-Semitism, and that, once again, all of this is not explainable without putting things into context.
In particular, I would like to point out that no anti-Semitic allusion can be found in Bakunin's work before 1869, more precisely before the Basle Congress when Marx was outvoted by the Bakuninists and Moses Hess wrote an outrageous article against Bakunin, calling him a "panslave". Such an accusation, apart from being false, was particularly insulting to Bakunin, but maybe is it difficult to understand today to what point he was affected.
This was the trigger for Bakunin's anti-Semitism. There is no other way to explain why a guy suddenly becomes an anti-Semite at the age of 54.
Bakunin's anti-semitism is distressingly commonplace, and he uses all the most hackneyed clichés, especially the idea that the Jews are a "power". Bakunin's solution to the "Jewish question" is rather unusual and seems to have escaped his detractors: he says somewhere (in "Writings against Marx", if I remember correctly but I'm not sure) that it can only be done "in the most complete freedom", which is rather surprising for an anti-semite.
The Jewish activists of the libertarian movement knew about Bakunin's anti-semitism, but they were probably less stupid than the Marxist detractors of the Russian revolutionary: they simply didn't take it seriously and understood that it was totally in contradiction with everything Bakunin said, a point you underlined in your text. There is a remarkable letter of a Spanish militant (Pellicer, maybe?) blaming Bakunin for his antisemitism.
The bad relations between Marx and Bakunin do not date from the period of the IWA. During the 1848 revolution Marx had insinuated in the press that Bakunin was a spy for the tsar. Then when Bakunin served his 8 years in prison in appalling conditions, someone close to Marx had spread the rumour that Bakunin spent his time drinking champagne in gallant company. Marx was never directly the cause of the slanders Bakunin suffered, but it was always someone close to him. Bakunin obviously protested against these slanders, but never, until 1869, accused the Jews of them. So it actually was an event in 1869 that triggered Bakunin's anti-semitism.
It has also been said that Bakunin was anti-Semitic because it was a dominant feeling in Russian society. I dispute this because he was brought up in an atmosphere dominated by the Enlightenment culture. His father had lived in Italy for a very long time and only returned to Russia with reluctance.
There is one point you could have raised if you had wanted to accuse Bakunin of "racism", and that is his alleged "Germanophobia". An absolutely unfounded accusation because Bakunin specifies that what he never attacks the German people or the German proletariat, but German bourgeois civilisation. On the other hand, the anti-Slavic racism of Marx and Engels is indisputable. (James Guillaume wrote a book, "Karl Marx Pan-German" that seems to have shocked a lot of present-day anarchists. See: James Guillaume: "Karl Marx Pan-German and the International Workers' Association" (1915), http://monde-nouveau.net/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=659)
I considered in my manuscript that it was necessary to draw a parallel between Bakunin's anti-Semitism and that of Marx, which is, it is true, limited to his correspondence, but which manifests itself there with great abundance. See for example:
July 30, 1862:
"The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I'm glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a 'friend,' even though his interest and capital were guaranteed. … It is now quite plain to me—as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify—that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses' flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow's importunity is also niggerlike." (Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41, p. 388)
One last point: there are many pages where Bakunin makes a historical and geopolitical approach: he examines for instance the different nationalities in Central Europe and gives population statistics. Concerning the population of Austria, for example, he says how many Moravians, Poles, Ruthenes, Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Romanians, etc., there are, and concludes that there are "9,000,000 Germans and Jews".
This assimilation between Germans and Jews is explained because what he retains of the latter is their historical function as propagators of the Germanisation of the Slavic territories conquered by the Germans. For Bakunin, this is a simple observation, there is nothing antisemitic about it.
Well, I'll stop here, I hope I haven't annoyed you with my digressions.
As I said, I'd be glad to have a look at your book.
Clarification:
1. The exact quotation from Bakunin is as follows, and is indeed found in "Ecrit contre Marx" (Editions Champ libre, vol. III, p. 7):
"this power has been created by more than twenty-five centuries of persecution. Only the broadest freedom will be able to dissolve it; but to achieve this goal, many more centuries will be needed."
2. It is not Pellicer but Anselmo Lorenzo who expresses his disagreement:
Bakunin's anti-Semitic remarks had bothered some internationals close to Bakunin. Anselmo Lorenzo recounts that the mention of Marx's Jewishness produced "a disastrous effect" on him, as "this was opposed to our principles of fraternity without difference of race or creed. (quoted by Arthur Lehning, Champ libre editions, vol. II, introduction, p. XIV)
Glad you liked the essay on Bakunin's antisemitism. I used deepl when researching it to double check the various English translations I was using were correct.
I'm unsure about what led to Bakunin's antisemitism. He could have been antisemitic prior to his negative experiences in the 1st international but not expressed it in writing. Or he could have been slightly antisemitic before and then become much more antisemitic in his 50s. Given the limited nature of the evidence I didn't want to make strong claims about how x event made him an antisemite.
I knew about the very offensive things Marx and Engels wrote about slavs and the Lasselle letter. I wanted to avoid arguing like a Marxist and so decided not to respond to Bakunin's antisemitism by discussing Marx's and Engels views.
I cite the Lorenzo quote in my essay but due to only being able to speak English I got it via Eckhart quoting it.
What is your email address? I can send you my book. I'm especially interested in what you think about the chapters on syndicalism.


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Rorry Daniels is the Deputy Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security (FAPS). In her role with FAPS, she organizes Track I 1⁄2 and Track II conferences and meetings focused on security issues in Northeast Asia, oversees Asia-related publications and public events, and manages the project's grant and donation funding. From 2015 - 2016 she was concurrently Deputy Director of the NCAFP.
She regularly writes and provides analysis for major media outlets and newsletters on security issues in the Asia Pacific. She is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the National Committee on North Korea, a Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leader, as well as a Korea Society Kim Koo Foundation Fellow (2015 cohort). She earned her M.S. in International Relations at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, where she focused her studies on East and South Asia. She speaks Mandarin and holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College.
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Juliet Lee is the Project Manager at the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the NCAFP, where she organizes Track 1 1⁄2 and Track II conferences and meetings on Northeast Asian security issues. She is also a Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leader, 2018 cohort. Her research interests include U.S.-China relations and cross-Taiwan Strait security. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from New York University, where she completed a Master's thesis on the roles of economic interdependence and Taiwan's electoral politics on cross-Strait security. Juliet also graduated from the University of Richmond with a B.A. in International Studies: World Politics & Diplomacy and minors in French and Chinese, and she speaks Mandarin.
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Erin O'Donnell is the National Committee's Program Development Officer. She oversees the organization's fundraising initiatives, including grant writing and the coordination of public events, programs, conferences and Track II meetings. Erin also contributes to the National Committee's program on the Middle East. Before joining the National Committee, she worked for an international NGO in Israel and Palestine, and studied at the American University of Beirut's Center for Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. She received her B.A. from New York University in Global Liberal Studies, with minors in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies and Hebrew & Judaic Studies.
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Stephen Whittaker is the Program Manager at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. In this capacity, he is responsible for a broad range of tasks pertaining to the National Committee's public programming, membership engagement, outreach and the organization of Track I 1⁄2 and Track II conferences. He also leads or substantively participates in various special projects at the National Committee, including task forces examining U.S.-Russia relations, policy in the Western Balkans, the fallout of Brexit in Northern Ireland, and the future of global interdependence. From 2015-2016 Stephen also served, concurrently, as the Associate Editor of the NCAFP's retired academic journal American Foreign Policy Interests.
Stephen completed his M.A. in European and Mediterranean Studies from New York University, focusing on European and transnational public policy. He also received a B.A. from Dickinson College in history with a minor in political science, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He speaks Italian, reads Spanish and French, and has studied and lived in both Bologna, Italy and Prague, Czech Republic.
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Sampson Oppedisano is the Program Assistant at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, where he supports daily operations and administrative logistics for Track 1.5 and Track II dialogues and public programs. He also manages and creates content for The National Committee's social media platforms.
Prior to joining the National Committee, Sampson worked as a Legislative Coordinator for the New York State Assembly, where he actively worked on advancing a diverse and progressive portfolio of state policies and regulations. Sampson has also worked with several NGOS as a United Nation Youth Representative within the international security and nuclear disarmament arena, regularly speaking and advocating on the issues. Sampson is also a freelance foreign affairs writer where he offers commentary on issues of diplomacy, regional security, and policy, specifically within the Asia-Pacific region.
Sampson currently holds a BA in International Relations and Asian Studies from SUNY New Paltz and has studied in Nagasaki, Japan. He is also a graduate of the SUNY Global Engagement Program, a highly-selective and rigorous state-wide internship and colloquium program housed in New York City.
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Highland Township man injured in motorcycle crash on M-59; crash under investigation
Highland Township man listed in critical condition after motorcycle crash; alcohol may have been a factor, according to police.
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LeAnne Rogers, Hometownlife.com Published 5:01 p.m. ET June 25, 2018 | Updated 5:15 p.m. ET June 25, 2018
A Highland Township man was hospitalized in critical condition following a motorcycle/vehicle crash June 23.
The accident happened just before 3:30 p.m. on eastbound M-59, east of LIvingston Road. According to police, a 2014 GMC Sierra pickup truck was in the median crossing waiting to turn left onto eastbound M-59 as a 2013 Suzuki 750 cc motorcycle was traveling eastbound on M-59. As the pickup pulled into the left lane from the median crossing, the motorcycle struck the rear of the truck.
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Several witnesses told deputies that the motorcycle was speeding and driving in a reckless manner just prior to striking the truck.
The motorcyclist, 31, was transported to McLaren-Oakland Hospital for treatment of his injuries and stabilized before being transferred to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He was listed in critical condition June 25.
The sheriff's office Crash Reconstruction Unit is assisting deputies from the Highland substation with the investigation of the crash.
The driver of the GMC Sierra was not injured in the crash. Police reported there was no airbag deployment in the GMC. The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet at the time of the collision.
Alcohol is believed to be a factor on behalf of the motorcycle operator, according to police. The crash remains under investigation.
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Historian Tom Holland's film goes to the Islamic roots of ISIS
15th August 2017 By Jenny James Taylor
This article was first published by Providence Magazine.
LONDON, UK – On Wednesday night, historian Tom Holland – leading writer on the ancient world and author of no less than five award-winning civilizational epics – sticks his neck on the line.
He has made a film for Channel4 TV in Britain – sadly not available yet in the US – about the Islamic State, called ISIS: the Origins of Violence that even he admits was 'brave'.1
In it, he goes back to Sinjar in northern Iraq, scene of genocide against the Yazidi people, escorted by a former SAS security advisor, and gets to within one mile of where ISIS are based.
Fearful of abduction, and standing by a mass grave of women considered too old to enslave, he evacuates the contents of his stomach. You don't see that bit. Too gross.
But later he retches again in the stinking rubble and the camera deliberately lingers on his misery.
Tormented by the unreality of a genocide sanctioned by a holy text but ignored by the West's liberal intelligentsia, he believes only a changed sensibility will result in a desperately needed and more effective foreign policy.
And he believes that message is so urgent, only a graphic film can do justice to it.
When the BBC's Muslim Head of Religion, Aaqil Ahmed said on a Huddersfield University platform last year that 'of course ISIS are Islamic: they're not preaching Judaism', the story went viral, coming right after President Obama's disavowal of the same notion.
But Holland who is 49 is after more than a good soundbite in the media. He wants to change our whole approach to what's at stake.
He tackles head on what is perhaps the last great taboo – the proscription against linking the Qur'an, the sacred text of a billion Muslims, with violence.
He does two things in the film, one as a historian, the other as a citizen. As a historian he examines the influence of Christian martyrdom on the tradition of Islamic martyrdom. And he goes to Paris to investigate the impact of the Enlightenment on the Islamic world in the age of Napoleon.
But as a person, he deliberately puts his own character into the story so that 'you're seeing what I actually think; what I actually feel.
'However much a historian may try to abstract him or herself from his/her individual feelings, and emotions and contexts, he is always a creature of them. That's what a film can do. A book can't do that', he tells me.
Crucified
Holland travels to Jordan to speak to a leading Salafi who directly cites, to camera, the Qur'anic justification for the actions of ISIS.
'It had never crossed my mind that I would witness in the lands occupied by the Assyrians and the Romans, a campaign in which men were being crucified and women enslaved', says Holland.
Yet the sanction for such behaviour are in the Quran and being actualised as we live.
Ideology and terror combined to make other empires great, says the author of Persian Fire and Rubicon. And it also made the Islamic State great.
To defeat the group, you must defeat the ideology – as the new religion of Christianity eventually defeated the brute imperialism of Rome.
'Anyone who writes about ancient history and who revisits the primordial scenes of Mesopotamian civilization, who stares terror and violence directly in the face as directly as I did, cannot help but inform how one's understanding of ancient imperialism worked.
'It was coercive, ideologically coercive. It was not just enough to commit atrocities, but those atrocities had to be justified with reference to God or to a ruler. And that terror is an essential part of conquest.'
That cannot remotely be countered by the evasive nostrums of liberalism, he believes.
'I am hoping we will be slightly less naïve in accepting that very very powerful and potent ideas are not all necessarily liberal!' he laughs.
'It is a liberal Protestant conceit that we have secularized, and it is grotesquely ill-suited to a religion that is as different to Western Protestantism as Islam.'
Unless that violence is stopped, it will spread, Holland wrote in an article last weekend for the Sunday Times, in which he likens it to the spread of cancer.
Unless Muslims construct what he calls 'a clear and impregnable firewall between the Islam of those who find in it an affirmation of human dignity and the Islam of killers such as [the British medical student who exulted in the approval of God for the slaughter of Yazidis] Muthana,' 'there is a risk the defeat of Isis will prove to be only an episode in an ever-darkening cycle.'
A grim but real enough prospect.
For in one small home counties market town, nestled in the Chiltern Hills west of London, there is right now a Muslim in fear of his life for blowing the whistle on three imams who preached that the killer of the Governor of the Punjab in Pakistan who defended Aasia Bibi on a contested charge of blasphemy, was a shaheed – a martyr.
None has been charged with incitement.
Instead the matter has been referred by the police to the local interfaith group.
Interrogation
Holland insists the West must be more robust 'at every level' in its interrogation of what's really at stake, in the same way people in Europe were obliged to interrogate nationalism and Darwinianism after Nazism, and in the way that Christianity interrogated how the Gospels had fostered anti-Semitism.
'What's needed is acknowledging the problem, at every level. I am just astonished there's not more of an interrogation of that by Muslims predominantly. It's their faith that is spattered with blood.'
Holland's articulacy has won him a huge following and many awards, and in 2015 he was included among the Sunday Times' 100 Most Influential People. Does he not fear he will be branded in some way for so negative a portrayal of Islam?
'Well it's not illiberal to object to ideological genocide,' he says.
He received death threats after his first film Islam: the Untold Story, also screened by Channel4. Is he worried about that?
'Isis is Islamic which doesn't mean they embody Islam. Islam is just a name we give to the vast agglomeration of perspectives that go by that name.
'You are morally obliged to ask, well, what's within that tradition that has encouraged this rather than just burying your head in the sand and saying it has nothing to do with it whatsoever.'
It is something Europeans should be peculiarly sensitive to. European civilization after all gave us Michaelangelo, Shakespeare and Locke, as well as imperialism and the Holocaust.
'It's part of the continuum, but a measure of self-criticism is incumbent on a people whose culture has resulted in such crimes.'
Ironically, Holland who is married with two children, believes that the kind of Muslims who issue death threats would not mind the film, as they are always being told they are not Muslims, whereas Holland is saying they are.
As for being called racist, 'The irony is that in our anxiety not to repeat the sin [of racism] we are sanctioning a licence to commit genocide.
'That even to criticize that licence is somehow racist is a peculiarly grotesque paradox.'
Holland is unwilling to see himself as a prophet – historians no longer, unlike Gibbon, do civilizational failure, he says. But, on a more personal level, he is gloomy about the moral supremacism inherent in the rise of violent Islam.
'I don't think there is anything inherent in human nature that implies we accept one another as equals.'
He tells of a Muslim journalist in Cairo who described a 'civil war' within Islam between those who believe they are superior to the rest of humanity by virtue of being Muslim, and those who do not.
'There is no law that says that the supremacists won't ultimately emerge triumphant. In which case, it's bad news for everybody else. And we know as Europeans what the consequences of that will be.'
Isis: The Origins of Violence will air on Channel 4 on 17th May at 9pm. It has been made by Blakeway Productions, directed by Kevin Sim and produced by Kevin Sim and Alex Niakaris. The Executive Producer is Denys Blakeway.
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Laura Capon Fermi ( à Rome -  à Chicago) est une femme de lettres et une militante pour la paix américaine d'origine italienne. Elle est également l'épouse du physicien Enrico Fermi.

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Laura Capon naquit à Rome en 1907. Elle rencontra Enrico Fermi alors qu'elle étudiait à l'université La Sapienza de Rome. Les deux se marièrent en 1928. Ils eurent deux enfants : Nella, une fille (1931-1995), et Giulio, un garçon (1936-1997).

Elle est la fille de l'amiral Augusto Capon, déporté en 1943 et mort à Auschwitz.

En 1938, la famille Fermi décida de fuir l'Italie fasciste de Benito Mussolini, car Laura était juive. Ils se rendirent en Suède, où Enrico Fermi reçut son prix Nobel de physique, et quittèrent Stockholm pour se rendre directement aux États-Unis. Ils furent naturalisés américains en 1944.

Après la mort d'Enrico en 1954, Laura devint femme de lettres et militante pour la paix. Elle publia un ouvrage sur sa vie avec Enrico, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi. D'autres ouvrages suivirent.

Elle meurt en 1977.

Publications

  Atoms for the World: United States participation in the Conference on the Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy, University of Chicago Press, 1957.
  Mussolini, University of Chicago Press, 1961
  The Story of Atomic Energy, Random House, 1961
  (avec Gilberto Bernardini), Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Basic Books, 1961.
  Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-41, University of Chicago Press, 1968.

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Liens externes

  Richard Rhodes, Atomic Physicist: Enrico Fermi, Time 100,

Naissance en juin 1907
Naissance à Rome
Essayiste américaine du XXe siècle
Boursier Guggenheim
Décès à Chicago
Décès à 70 ans
Décès en décembre 1977

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When you got out from the forest this was the view. I met some other people on the way down. They always look so suspicious at me when I´m going up when everyone else is going down. One lady was worried with me just having a thin base layer top but I told her I had two jackets in my backpack so I would be fine. She said it was very windy at the top.
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Harmony between musical mates
November 6, 2003 12:00 am by Nick MargiassoEntertainment Editor
It's the same thing for all married couples. One minute you're walking down the aisle, exchanging rings. The next it's on the road for seven months — or about 120 shows, whichever comes first — in a rusted van, eating meals in random truck stops. Er, maybe not.
But for Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner, better known to the indie-rock world as Mates of State, that's the equivalent of marital bliss.
"Being on the road is very difficult," Hammel said. "It takes a lot out of you physically and mentally. So, OK, when we're not on the road, which is fairly rare, we bought a house where we can go home to and get some peace and quiet."
These Mates (literally and figuratively) have managed to make quite a name for themselves by not only perpetually touring, but also with various record releases, each one better than its predecessor. Since forming in '97, the Mates have released three full-length albums, including this fall's Team Boo. The albums have garnered the band favorable write-ups in The New York Times, Spin and Magnet out of the several periodicals warming to the Mates exuberant sounds.
And, unlike musical couples reveling in the White Stripes' wake, this two-piece's tuneage is rampant with child-like musical wonders and lyrical lollipops. Whereas the Stripes' music is a knife fight on a dark winter's night, the Mates' tunes are the finger-paint station on a kindergarten morning.
"Some people still say 'you're just like The White Stripes,'" Hammel said. "C'mon, have you heard those bands? Just because there's two of us doesn't mean we're like them. We're both optimistic people, and that translates to hopeful (music). We just try to have a good outlook on our lives and music."
Watch out, though, you just might get the optimism that oozes from Team Boo all over yourself. The record is adorned with open-ended, wild-eyed lyrical couplets and sugary, bubble gum organ work. While it may sound like shallow trash on the surface, Team Boo is actually a well-crafted piece of pop that will have listeners singing along with fever.
"We're really proud of this (record)," Hammel said. "We accomplished what we wanted to and were stubborn about making all the pieces fit together."
Songs like "Ha Ha" and "Whiner's Bio" showcase the Mates' double helix, sing-along vocals sewn together by swirling organ endeavors. The "Ha Ha" chorus also exemplifies the band's excitable lyrics like, "This is the blood that we're made of/ Go tell it like a chronicle/ Who's dancing all around?/ Let's give it to me, give it to me now."
"Gotta Get a Problem" and "An Experiment" find the Mates mixing merry-go-round happy verses with delicately emotional chorus orchestration. Gardner croons: "I sat around tonight/ With the rocks and the ghosts in the yard/ And out of the thinking air/ One of us doesn't care."
Team Boo is a record seemingly sweet as Hammel and Gardner's marriage. The pair, who quit their jobs as a cancer researcher and teacher, respectively, always makes time for a vacation while on tour.
Awww, romance and rock 'n' roll.
"We're going to Hawaii in January," Hammel said. "We decided to only play two shows. I mean, hell, we'll be in Hawaii so we're making a vacation out of it. And whenever possible we try to do things like that."


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