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Quine Atal	in Philosophy	 July 26, 2017 July 29, 2017 4,025 Words
Graham Harman is a popular guy in philosophy circles these days. Sometimes associated with Maruzio Ferraris, Manuel DeLanda, and Quentin Meillassoux as one of the "New Realists", he is also, with DeLanda and Meillassoux, known as a "speculative realist". Although this essay is mostly about Harman (I have written about Meillassoux and Ferraris elsewhere on the blog) I first try to provide some perspective on them as a group.
All four emerged (in their fundamental epistemology and ontology) from late 19th and early 20th century continental anti-realism with its own roots going back to Kant. All four accept that from our inescapable subjective viewpoint we cannot in the end simply assume that, as concerns the appearance of an external world, what we see is what we get, a view called "naive realism". Even non-continental realist schools recognize this in theory. Some analytic realists agree there is a "representation problem" but discount that it blocks-out as much of the mind-independent world as anti-realists claim. This partly explains their drift in a scientistic direction. John Searle ("Seeing Things As They Are" 2015) by contrast defends naive realism (he calls it "direct realism") by distinguishing between presentation (what the senses, especially vision and touch, deliver) and representation. Among other things presentations cannot be manipulated at will (connecting up with Ferraris' concept of "unamendability") while representations can be manipulated. I will have a review of Searle's book soon, but for now back to the continentals.
Of the four philosophers named above, only Ferraris has shaken fully loose of the anti-realist cloud (see my article on anti-realism). Ferraris takes a position that what you see is close to what you get. The mind independent world is self-structured (stars, galaxies, primitive life) is all real and already jointed long before mind comes along to recognize and react to the joints. That mind does recognize and react to the joints is a phenomenon fully within the process of world-self-structuring. Mind is a means (not necessarily the only means) of mediating between sensory input (evolved) and behavioral response which partly directs the future of that organism and its community. Ferraris does not think that fish-mind, lion-mind, bird-mind, and human-mind, all mediate the joints in the same way. But the structure of all these forms of consciousness do reflect mind-independent joints, those the animal's survival depends upon. The evidence for this is the way those world-structures push back at us as well as the manipulative potentials their regularity affords to mind. Ferraris' ontology is fully real then.
Epistemologically speaking, mind is not merely guessing at what might be "out there", but knows it at a graining suitable to its daily navigation about the world. Human mind knows the natural world from a far more sophisticated viewpoint yet remains analogous to the viewpoints of higher animals. But humans are in addition able to frame their own abstractions, additional joints, on top of the natural world making recursive use of the affordances (Ferraris' term) given to us by the regularity of the resistance (we cannot change the past, running into a wall hurts, we cannot fly merely by wishing it), of the world. For Ferraris both the resistance and affordance are epistemological evidence that ontology is "more or less" what epistemology represents.
Meillassoux and Harman are different. I think DeLanda belongs in this group but I have read but little of DeLanda and must limit myself to points he makes in his jointly authored book ("The Rise of Realism" 2017) with Harman. Harman and Meillassoux have not shaken themselves free of the anti-realist fog. In the end, neither can accept that what seems real and jointed about the mind-independent world to consciousness very much likely is real and that the independent joints are close to where we perceive them to be! This is the reason this group are "speculative", a fitting moniker. If we do not have a good reason to believe the mind-independent world approximates what it appears to be, then in the end the best that can be done by ontology is to speculate about it and hope the speculation serves to enhance insights in some other arena of philosophy or science.
Of the two Meillassoux (from his major work "After Finitude" [2010]) is the more careful analyst. He begins in essence with a traditional anti-realist assumption; the Principle of Sufficient Reason is not necessarily true of the mind-independent world. He concedes that it appears to hold and that it must indeed hold for long periods (essentially an anthropic argument) but in the end he concludes that it need not necessarily hold out beyond what we can perceive in space or in time. That's fair enough. He starts with an assumption and traces it to a logical conclusion. I think he is wrong because his fundamental assumption is wrong (I'm a realist theologian after all) but I do not fault the quality and professionalism of his reasoning from assumption to conclusion. He reminds me, in style not content, of some modern analytic philosophers like Lowe (recently deceased), Chalmers, Searle, and Deacon among many others.
Harman does not seem (anywhere that I can find) to build his ontology he rather asks us to accept a purely speculative proposal in the hope that it will be useful. Like Ferraris, Harman believes the mind-independent world is already structured as concerns particulars, that is there are particulars along with various relations between them. But Harman asks us to accept for the sake of argument) that "the real" is made up of nothing but individual objects. Further, 'object' includes everything from atoms to asteroids, stars, events of all kinds, and thoughts. The last includes both subjective relations (that tree over there as I experience it) and fantasies (the pink elephant I see floating in front of me).
Objects must exist before they can have properties through which they have relations with other objects. Thus Harman introduces an essence or haecceity but it seems to do nothing except stand in for "that which has properties" and grounds its causal potential. The object's properties, even the complete history and future of its properties (and relations into which they enter) down to the finest detail, does not exhaust the being of the object. This is one place where DeLanda diverges, but for Harman, something is deeper than the object's complete history and it comes down to the object's being or essence. Being in his context seems to be a placeholder for "that which must exist but cannot be known"!
From the moment an object exists it has properties that enter relations with other objects through their properties. These relations too are objects as real as their relata, and further, the properties are also objects with their own haecceity, further properties, and so relations. If this looks like the beginning of an infinite regress it is and Harman has no real answer for it. What he offers is the observation that objects do not persist indefinitely. Objects and relations can come and go, sometimes transform into new objects or cause there to become objects that until that time did not exist. But none of this avoids the regress problem. Even considered syncronically (at a point in time), every property and relation in the universe is itself an object related to every other relation and object in multiple ways. This is already a well-neigh infinite number of objects. Physicists estimate there are 10^80 protons in the universe. That makes the number of relations (all objects) between protons alone 10^80^80! But nowhere (in the four books I've read) does Harman make a case for the object-hood of properties. The sun is hot and my hallucinated elephant is pink, but hotness and pinkness are not objects in any normal uses of that word. Anything that can be bounded, anything whose joints can be delineated, is an object. But while my pink elephant can be bounded, its pinkness cannot in any way that Harman makes comprehensible. Harman has a problem with universals.
Harman sets this problem aside and moves on however. While all of these objects are equally real (ontology) they are not all "equally important". Harman knows that importance can be importance to human mind or animal mind but he also suggests a possible mind-independent measure of importance in the form of a "symbiotic object". Objects of all kinds come and go. Some never persist long enough to express causal relations but most have at least some small effect on their environment. The encounters between properties in their multiple relations, have causal implications for Harman that he calls a species of non-theistic "occasional cause".
Some few of these object-relations have widespread and long-perduring outcomes. For example (mine, not Harman's) the iron asteroid that struck Earth 5 billion years ago forming Earth's core, producing a magnetic field, fueling future tectonic processes, and perhaps even creating our moon with all of its knock-on (hence symbiotic) effects, would be an "important object" that uncontroversially predates mind (on Earth at least). But where to place symbiosis? Start with the asteroid, but then it also has to be the asteroid-Earth-relation, the event (another object) of the impact, and so on. One symbiotic object produces many following object-event-relations. Does the symbiosis apply to all of them? I don't think Harman would have a problem spreading out the symbiotic credit as it were, but the flatness of his ontology prevents him from drawing any hard lines. Any event, no matter how trivial (like the gravity of any mass) must have some effect on the world-line of any larger event with which it has now, or had in the past a relation. Harman is explicit about all of these objects (not only records in the present) being equally real even if only at some past time.
Here's where it gets tricky. Even that subset of events with enough world-line effect merely to be recorded such that they appear as present records (physical evidence of their reality, not only formal documents) of past events may or may not be symbiotic in Harman's view. Surely some recorded events (and by extension their records) were, and perhaps continue to be, more significant than others. There is a continuum of importance. Further, the effect of an event, any event, on a larger world-line spreads out towards the future resulting in an infinitely fine continuum of importance. Ontologically then there is nothing to divide the important from the unimportant (a classic sorites problem). The only relations in which mind-independent objects exhibit a property of importance are mind-dependent objects (see 'sensual-objects' below). I do not see how Harman can defend a line between unimportant and important without eventual reference to mind? The asteroid impact predated mind, but its importance stems from its causal impact on the evolution of mind, and in particular human mind, becoming aware of it.
Harman also introduces us to "dormant objects" which are more problematic than symbiotic objects. A "dormant object" emerges from its constituent relations but does not participate in any relations of which it is a constituent. A dormant object "has no effects". Is such a thing even possible? An object must exist to have properties, but once it exists it immediately has properties and these enter into relations. There are no objects (mental or otherwise as we shall see) that do not immediately have properties and just as immediately (or at least at the speed of light) enter into relations. Perhaps such relations are trivial (analogous to the gravity of a proton) by our lights but they cannot be nonexistent.
In the end there is a top-of-the-chain relation between every particular and every other particular in the universe. This is not an "all is one" view like that of Heidegger or Whitehead because the relation of everything to everything else is no more or less real than the relation between any two atoms or thoughts anywhere in the universe. It is possible, given all the spatially or temporally extended relations, even the most trivial of events will turn out to be symbiotic when viewed over wide enough scales. Again Harman has no way to draw a line other than by "significance to mind".
Harman also distinguishes between "real objects" and "sensual objects" where 'real' here means "mind independent". The pink elephant floating in front of me is a sensual object as is the relation (resulting in a cognitive acquisition) between my mind and a mind independent tree. Both of these objects are (or might be) causally efficacious; having an influence on a subsequent world-line. If I see the pink elephant while driving I might swerve and cause an accident. If I am driving down a dirt road and see a tree in the middle of it I had better swerve to avoid an accident. I have no problem with this distinction, but it risks un-flattening Harman's ontology. It at least takes a small step towards an ontological dualism (mind vs everything else) he wants very much to avoid. The move adds epistemology to ontology. The "objects of our minds" are like any other object except that they are ours, belong to an individual subjectivity, while all the other objects are not ours, not a property of a subjectivity! If this is, for Harman, an epistemological distinction without ontological weight, then we cannot possibly know, but only claim by speculative fiat, that all objects, sensual or otherwise, are "equally real". I do not see how he can have it both ways.
Also problematic is Harman's claim that "matter doesn't exist". I cannot find a way to make sense of this claim in the context of his "Object Oriented Ontology" (OOO). At first I thought perhaps he was suggesting the quantum wave function is the "real real" (some physicists believe this) and matter is merely a second-order by-product. But he doesn't much talk about the wave function and he cites an example of two tectonic plates opposing each other "rock to rock" which seems material enough to me.
Another possibility is that Harman makes no room for universals. Red doesn't exist only individual red objects. 'Animals' are not an object, only particular animals. But Harman considers sets to be good sensual objects and "classes" or "kinds" are merely another way to refer to sets. Red perhaps doesn't work here because it is purely sensual, but 'animals' does. 'Animals' is a concept and so a sensual object. But it is not like the pink elephant because there are mind-independent individual animals tieing the sensual object to the mind-independent realm. Why can't matter be a property common to some non-sensual objects?
Maybe this claim is about relations? Being (objects existing) entails relation and perhaps in the end relations (mental or entirely mind-independent) are the only objects we can talk about. But that wouldn't imply that matter didn't exist only that it might not exist. Relations are not made of matter but some of their relata might be. If existence is logically prior to properties and relations but we cannot grasp all of that in which this existence consists, who is to say that matter is not a part of the essense of some objects? From inside the phenomenal, direct access only to sensual objects, nothing entails or even implies that some non-sensual objects are not matter. OOO must remain ambivilant about this and this is not the end of the problem. Relata, for example non-sensual rocks, are also relations (between atoms) and they in turn are relations (between particles) and so on (infinitely alas) and so in the end there are no relata only relations and Harman is, in effect, defining matter away.
Haecceity seems to be something of a substitute for matter at least as concerns traditionally material objects. OOO here comes down to "there is a mind independent real but in the end we can never experience or embrace the core of it only its effects; manifestations in properties and relations." But even granting this, the immateriality of properties and relations then cannot stand as evidence for or against the ontological genuineness of matter! If we cannot know "the core of being" then we cannot know that some of it is or is not matter.
I return to the question of what Harman gets out of this? The point of ontology is to be useful at least to other philosophical arenas (epistemology, ethics, aesthetics) and perhaps human endeavor in general whether in the hard or soft sciences, arts, politics, and so on. One thing he might get is univocality of cause. Harman says that cause is fundamentally "agent cause" because an object's causal potential is some part of its withdrawn essence. But an object's causal potential expresses through its properties and their relations with other objects. The agent (essence) is the secret of an object's causality, but what objects manifest to one another are their properties and what mind recognizes of cause is revealed in object-relations.
Physical cause and mental cause are both "occasional" outcomes of relations derived ultimately from properties manifest by being. If this is so then "causal agency" is, ontologically speaking, an assertion of faith, a speculation. All that we know of cause is more suitably described in event or process terms. The ontological (object) status of events or discrete process has no epistemological bearing. Proposing a universal causal manifestation in relations (however grounded in a haecceity we cannot know) tells us nothing new. If everything is a relation, how could cause not express itself in or thru relation? Individual essences, events, and relations are all objects of equal ontological status. Cause therefore belongs to everything equally.
Like the continental tradition generally, Harman takes an interest in the social sciences. In "Immaterialism" (2016) he offers us an example of applied OOO in the form of a corporate history. A corporation is, after all, an object like everything else. It has a historical duration. It has relations to people, events, recordings (documents), and such; the stuff of its daily doings (all objects). Corporations also have relations to later historical events (more objects). The corporation he chooses is the Dutch East India Trading Company, known in Harman's book by its Dutch initials VOC.
The VOC is an interesting choice because it has a clearly bounded history (1605 to 1795). It illustrates an object's coming into existence and going from it. At the same time, undergoing many transformations and a participant (not to mention instigator) in many historical events, it shows the ability of objects to transform without thereby ceasing to exist and become new objects at every turn. He also explains here symbiotic objects and dormant objects using the same object, a document (policy statement) introduced by the corporation's most notorious Governor-General in 1619.
What makes this document symbiotic? It had a far reaching effect on the actions (decisions taken by directors, employees, and so on) of the VOC for the next hundred years as compared (I suppose) to most of the thousands of other documents (minutes of board meetings, policy statements, and so forth) generated during that time; a clear "disproportionate effect". How then could it also be dormant, an object with "no upward relation"? Harman tries to throw a little too much in here I think. The document was first dormant because it had no particular effect on the actions of the corporation until a few years after its introduction.
But how could Harman possibly know this? He does not know of any immediate effects precipitated by that document, but he cannot claim that there weren't any. Sitting in the room, when the document was introduced were a pair of investors. One ran home immediately to his wife and said: "The governor general is a monster. We must sell everything we have and divest ourselves of VOC stock now!" The other investor likeways ran home to his wife and said: "that man is brilliant. We must divest of everything elsewhere and double down on VOC!" Now Harman might reply that yes after all there is no absolute but only relative dormancy. That my example is hypothetical and does not come down to us in the historical record (another object) is evidence that relations can be more or less fecund. But such a reply makes importance "importance to human mind". Only humans care about documents or for that matter "the historical record". What makes this document important is that it had disproportionate effect, over time, on the decisions of human beings and those, in turn, effected the lives of other humans. Our judgments of relative importance or unimportance are always judgments (themselves always sensual objects) with respect to their effects, ultimately, on other humans.
Immaterialism is given over to much detail on the doings of the VOC and in particular its doings after the introduction of that document. I can only imagine the idea is to show how relations can play themselves out. But in giving us this admittedly interesting history and connecting it up to a particular document Harman does no more than give us a description of decisions (on the part of people) and events (naval battles, enslavement, genocide) that read like a history told by any other historian. Harman neatly divides up traditional objects (cannon, ships, documents), people (decision makers and their decisions), and events (naval battles, invasions) that stand out primarily because they have come down to us in the historical record. Of course Harman ignores many records so he can thread these particulars together in a cohesive story and not write a thousand page book. The problematic part is that in describing all of this, Harman uses the conventional language of objects, relations, and events. Whether all of these are ontologically objects, makes not the slightest difference to the story. Whether or not a particular naval battle or act of genocide had a withdrawn essence that we cannot know simply has no bearing. "Everything is an object and all objects are equally real" doesn't add anything to our grasp of this history.
Like Meillassoux, Harman is stuck behind the anti-realist wall. There is no hole in the wall for Meillassoux. His conclusions are purely inferences based on an epistemological assumption (the Principle of Sufficient Reason is true only for epistemology and not for ontology) about ontology. This restricts him to a very limited and tentative set of speculative conclusions about the nature of the mind-independent world. Mind independent contingency (for example) entails time and space apart from our mental categories. Beyond this, he cannot say anything about the structure of the extra-mental other than that it appears stable (for now) and is of necessity entirely contingent.
Harman also is not able to say very much about what is mind independent beyond that it is real and divided up into objects having infinite relations. Of course he can distinguish between rocks, rock concerts, and pink elephants because their properties vary, but these distinctions, these joints, are picked out by mind. Harman insists that they are real independent of mind, but his ontology supports this assertion only because every possible object-relation is real. Harman can go a bit further than Meillassoux because, while the mental arena cannot contact the core of any object, it does contact relations, and we are able to explain much using a language of relations as Harman does with the VOC. There is, in effect, a hole in Harman's wall that lets [some] relations through to mind. The external relation between the tree and me invokes a sensual-object, my perception of the tree, in my mind. This is what allows Harman to say anything at all about the mind-independent world.
Harman's mind-independent world is therefore a little richer than Meillassoux's but on the other hand Meillassoux reasons himself to what he concludes about the world from a few assumptions. Harman simply intuits a solution and hopes that other work (like history, political science, art) will demonstrate its usefulness. Only Ferraris manages to get past the wall altogether by connecting up unamendability (a fixed past and the constraints of natural law) and affordance (opportunities, realizable potentials) the world presents to us and so realizes that there is no wall, only a screen, and the screen lets much through to mind which evolved in response to its transparency.
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I want to do a short recap of my favourite moments before 2018 ends. But first - who really would have thought that time does fly once you are truly enjoying what you are doing?
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and still can not believe that I actually left my day-job to make create a new one for myself, in helping you and others making your home personal and all yours, whilst adding some colour to the world of Instagram.
Oh yes good old Instagram, I could write a book about it by now. Some love it, others hate it and I adore it. It's such a fun tool to share what you are up to, whilst connecting to other like minded people.
I am so truly grateful for the friendships I made and projects supported by all of you that I thought I am going to share my TOP 9 of 2018!
The Pink Kitchen! Well this most certainly was a favorite project of mine. Originally we wanted to do a full renovation, you know new floor, appliances and all that, but since starting a business and big expensses do not go well together, I opted for a full blown DIY make over.
Read more here about the pink kitchen projects, it's different steps and products used.
Emma's room was another major undergoing during the last part of the year! I did a complete overhaul in terms of wall colours & prints, accessories and storage solutions, as well as built a house headbord (which you can soo by the way see up on the blog, so stay tuned). It's so fun to create unique spaces that mirror the personality of a child. In Emma's case, I believe her room is just as wild and unpredictable as she is. You simply got to love it!
The Fabrikör IKEA cabinet was on my wishlist for about two years until I finally took the plunge and bought it. It really shouldn't have been that hard, considering IKEA is a mere of 15minutes away. But even than it stayed in its boxes in the garage until I finally found a minute (ok two hours) to set it up. I love it so much! Best IKEA purchase in a long time for sure! And hey, is the colour not simply stunning? I am pretty sure they discontinued this exact model, so I am over the moon I got it in time. And since it's in my TOP 9, you obvsiouly agree with me.
My aunts farmhouse was definitely a hit as well among you my lovely followers. The house is roughly 150years old and has housed my great-great-grandparents, as well as my great-grandparents before being completely restaurated by my aunt and uncle in 2003. I am not sure if I would have had the patience and perseverance but I sure love what they did. Favourite part of it? The tiles in the entryway! And you know what, they are even original!
Sharing is caring I was once told, and doesn't it ring true? This image belongs to my gal pal Ari over @quirkt_n_thrifted - she's such a fun person, with an amazing sense of colour and styling. If you aren't already, you should go and give her some love.
I for my part can not wait to share more of my favourites with you next year!
Other things that happened this year?
Other things I take from this year?
My takings sound clichee but I don't even care, because I do truly believe in them, and they do work for me. So more of this next year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE & I can not wait to continue with everything & better in 2019!


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Q: Как скопировать таблицу из одной базы данных в другую в SQLite на Python Хочу создать бота замен занятий для студентов.
Есть сайт замен, где через специальную программу создаются замены, таблицы которые нужно копировать с сайта (базы данных): 1 (первая) таблица преподавателей, 2 (вторая) таблица групп, 3 (третья) таблица замен. 1 и 2 таблицы будут копироваться в том случаи когда том что-то добавится. 3 таблица должна обновляется (копироваться) каждый день.
Есть данные для входа IP адрес (порт), логин и пароль.
Нужна функция как обновить (скопировать) 3 (третью) таблицу из базы данных сайта в базу данных бота с помощью SQLite3?
Бот будет на python

A: Вы можете посмотреть как реализовано это здесь
И в целом для решения вашей задачи нужно выполнить эти команды с помощью python
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Argument: Meet Sandy, the Game Changer Meet Sandy, the Game Changer...
An expert's point of view on a current event.
Meet Sandy, the Game Changer
This storm could upend American politics -- if we're lucky.
By David Rothkopf
One reason U.S. politics is almost as popular as NASCAR among American sports is that it gives the little guy someone to root for. Of course, that's almost never the candidates of the major parties, most of whom are odious concoctions of their own egos and the corrupting forces of money and ideology. But dependably, in campaign after campaign, a character sneaks on to the stage who captivates and highlights issues that otherwise would go unnoticed or under-examined.
Whether this candidate is a big-name iconoclast like New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg or a provocative outsider like Ron Paul -- who, although wrong on plenty of issues, was dependably willing to challenge conventional wisdom -- these folks liven up the debate. This year it took until the very end of the campaign to introduce 2012's biggest truth-teller. Like Beyoncé and Cher, she is known by only one name. But few if any players in the current campaign are likely to have the same impact.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Sandy.
One reason U.S. politics is almost as popular as NASCAR among American sports is that it gives the little guy someone to root for. Of course, that's almost never the candidates of the major parties, most of whom are odious concoctions of their own egos and the corrupting forces of money and ideology. But dependably, in campaign after campaign, a character sneaks on to the stage who captivates and highlights issues that otherwise would go unnoticed or under-examined.
Whether this candidate is a big-name iconoclast like New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg or a provocative outsider like Ron Paul — who, although wrong on plenty of issues, was dependably willing to challenge conventional wisdom — these folks liven up the debate. This year it took until the very end of the campaign to introduce 2012's biggest truth-teller. Like Beyoncé and Cher, she is known by only one name. But few if any players in the current campaign are likely to have the same impact.
Sandy, like many in an America with changing demographics, has overseas roots, hailing from the tropics. She rose to our attention in the south but ultimately, like so many others, she hit the big time in the northeast, and her political impact will extend well into the heartland of America, where this election will be decided. Like Joe Biden and Chris Christie, Sandy is an uncontrollable, wind-powered force of nature. Like many politicians, the first impression she may give the average voter is that she is all wet. But there is more to Sandy than meets her eye.
Sandy is a game-changer. For those of you who live far from the eastern shores of the United States, it is also worth noting that she is also a hurricane, a big one, currently cutting an 800-mile swath across one of the most heavily populated areas of the richest and most powerful nation on Earth. And in so doing, she is speaking volumes about subjects many U.S. politicians have avoided and, at the same time, she is having a major impact on America's process of electing a president.
To begin with, Sandy will do more to draw attention to issues of climate change than all the candidates running for every office in the United States during this election cycle have done. While it's impossible to attribute her size or impact to man-made origins, it is also impossible not to wonder whether the recent frequency of large storms is related to the growing oceans of data about the reality of global warming. Sandy looks like what climate scientists have been warning about for years.
Remember Hurricane Katrina? She may or may not have been triggered by man-made climate change. But she certainly forced climate back into the national discussion for an extended period. Sandy will do likewise. Certainly, given the sad virtual silence about the issue from our presidential contenders — which amounts to nothing less than a planet-wide risk of the first order — Sandy's intervention in this regard is welcome, if hugely and tragically costly.
Next, Sandy will also remind Americans and the world of the foolishness of some recent U.S. fetishes. I live in Washington, D.C., ostensibly the nerve center of the U.S. national security apparatus and target No. 1 for anyone interested in attacking America. The city is surrounded by military facilities and is home to a Department of Homeland Security that spends billions of dollars seeking to protect America against disruption. Yet this storm, like virtually all others of any size, will almost certainly knock out power to many of our nation's leaders and the infrastructure on which our government depends for days. The city has already been brought to a standstill. Could burying power lines and strengthening critical infrastructure prevent all that? Of course. But is it as sexy as buying more drones, water boards, and stealth helicopters? Nope.
So says Sandy, "Go ahead and protect yourself against low-risk threats. I want to remind you how vulnerable you are to the more predictable, commonplace variety."
Sandy also will batter the other elements of the region's infrastructure, in which America has failed to invest for the past half century or so. She will destroy weakened roadways and bridges and breakwaters. She will lash ancient port facilities. She will paralyze an air-traffic control system and railway systems that lag behind the world in their use of modern technologies. She will say, "Why aren't you spending your precious resources to protect your people and your economy? Why are you frittering away money building roads and airfields on the other side of the world when you should be taking care of business at home?"
She will also, of course, be the first figure on the national stage to do something about the scourge of obscenely over-financed campaigns. Instead of merely complaining about them, she will pull the plug on them by turning off power to millions. While sitting in darkness may be a hardship, enjoying a break from campaign ads (and Twitter and Internet snark and faux-analysis and political hyperventilation) will be seen by many as a welcome break.
Admittedly, this service comes at the high cost of making columns like this one unavailable to readers. But that seems small price to pay.
Finally, of course, Sandy really will have a political impact. We are not sure what it will be. There seems to be a kind of strangely otherworldly dimension to a giant storm that batters primarily blue states and involves the rare combination of circumstances that can send the impact of a hurricane into battleground territory like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Not only will ads be off the air, but early voting is being cancelled and some of the lingering impacts of power losses and infrastructure damage will certainly take a toll on voter turnout. Indeed, as it happens, Sandy may be that rarest of political actors — one who reveals big truths and quite possibly has a lasting impact on world affairs. Because if, as seems likely, the U.S. presidential election is so close that any one big thing might shift the delicate balance, Sandy just might be the one to do it.
David Rothkopf is visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His latest book is The Great Questions of Tomorrow. He has been a longtime contributor to Foreign Policy and was CEO and editor of the FP Group from 2012 to May 2017. Twitter: @djrothkopf
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So, I may have mentioned this one or twenty times, but the people I have met through this glorious blogging adventure are one of the big reasons why I continually log in and keep banging out these posts. Depending on how you feel about me, this may be a good thing or a bad thing. If you are a fan, then you have yourself to thank for keeping me motivated and continually challenged. If you're not, then today I'd like to introduce you to one of the people you can blame for the continual harpings of The Waiting.
When C was just a lump of newborn, I had a *tad* bit of extra time on my hands to scroll through the different tags on WordPress to find some new blogs to read. One rainy afternoon not unlike today, I found one of Tamara's blogs and quickly fell in love with the person behind it. She's the kind of person who gives away her wedding dress to a couple in need (yep) and who writes passionate posts to companies with misogynistic practices and actually gets attention. Gal is fearless and vulnerable all at once, and I am proud to call her my friend. The coffee I shared with her in Memphis over the summer was one of the most delicious cups I've had in awhile.
T always has her hands in about a million pots at once. She writes a humor blog which you can find here, she homeschools her daughter, she helps with publicity and art for the folk group Yancy & Yancy And The Good'uns, she rehabs her new-to-her-family historic bungalow, and at any given time, you can find her exploring any number of new interests in passions. The world is her oyster, and knowing her, she probably slurps it right from the shell seaside. I honestly do not know how she does all she does, and just writing this paragraph makes me tired.
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ID: SAL_CTY / Elaine Barker
Title Salcott Wigborough Chantry
What we now generally know as Salcott was formerly a hamlet of Great Wigborough, and, separated by a creek, a chapel-of-ease was built at Salcott Wigborough for the people there, but served by the rector of Great Wigborough Tom Millatt The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin: Salcott
Although St Mary's Church, Salcott Wigborough was appendant to St. Stephen's Church in Great Wigborough and did not have its own rector, it did, however, have a chantry priest in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, expressly to pray for the souls of those who had left endowments for that purpose.
In 1480, a chantry was founded at St Mary's with an endowment from wealthy landowner, John Baron (also spelt Bajon where it appears in Latin). He owned The Hyde in Great Wigborough and may even have been responsible for having the house built in the mid 1400s. He died in 1480 and willed that the profits from some of his lands be used to fund a chantry priest to sing Mass and administer the sacraments in perpetuity, to commend his soul to God and ensure salvation.
Baron's endowment, however, was only to last until the Reformation.
Having started with the monasteries, Henry VIII began the dissolution of chantries.
In 1545, an Act was passed to rule that chantries were, in fact, misapplied funds and misappropriated lands. Henry's purpose was to confiscate chantry lands and possessions to fund the war with France. It wasn't until his son, Edward VI, came to the throne and passed an act in 1547, suppressing the 2,374 chantries and guild chapels, that what Henry had begun was completed.
Many chantries had been set up between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sometimes it was a dedicated building but, in the case of Salcott Wigborough, the Masses were sung in the parish church, St Mary's. Often the chantry priests were older men and they would assist the parish priest serving as curates and sometimes as local schoolmasters. By 1535 there were 65 chantries in Essex including Salcott Wigborough.
From Easter 1548, chantries were dissolved and possessions, along with the endowments, became Crown property. The chantry priests were pensioned off and it is recorded that the priest at Salcott Wigborough was awarded a pension of £6 per annum.
According to the mid-seventeenth century antiquarian, Symonds, it would seem that there was a brass memorial to John Bajon and his wife, Margaret, in St Stephens, Great Wigborough or in the appendant church of Salcott Wigborough's church, it is not quite clear.
Upon a flat stone inlaid with brass the picture of a man and woman in brass. At their feet a plate of brass in old letters with this inscription
HIC JACET JOHES BAJON ET MARGARETA UXOR EJUS QUI QUIDEM JOHES OB.10 SEPT 1480 QUORUM & ...
Here lies John Bajon and Margaret his wife which same John died 10th September 1480. On whose souls God have mercy.
From the Certificate of Chantry Lands, temp Edward VI 1547 quoted in Holman's History of Essex we learn a wealth of detail about the chantry
Lands and tenements then put in feoffment [grant of ownership] by John Baron and John Marchant*, clerke, to find a priest to sing in the said Towne of Salcott Wigborow and to minister sacraments and sacramentalls within the said towne. And one, Sir William Tewys, clerke, of the age of fifty years and more having none other promotion and of good usage and conversation and learning is now the incumbent thereof. The said towne of Salcote is very great having in it about the number of 140 houseling people [communicants]. And have no other priest but him the said incumbent celebrateth in the said church of Salcott. The yerely value of the same doth amount to the sum of £8 12s 8d.
* John Marchant (spelt Marchaunt in his will) was the rector of Salcott Virley in the mid 15th century and it is from his will written in Latin in 1483, during the reign of Richard III, that we discover not only was John Baron's endowment of a chantry in place but there was also a local guild.
Endowing a private chantry was generally much too expensive for most people but there was a strong desire in most people to have mass said for their souls after death. This was a time when Purgatory, half-way between heaven and hell, was a fearful prospect and people 'clubbed' together in guilds to pay for prayer or lights for the souls of the deceased. Not to be confused with the trade and craft guilds these religious guilds have been described as a cross between a social club and a friendly society. Members paid a fee and often gave gifts of property to the guild which would then pay a chantry to have masses said for its members. Guilds also supported the burning of a light perpetually or on special saints' days. This 'intercession' would ensure the soul's stay in purgatory was as brief as possible.
John Marchaunt's will is worth reproducing in its entirety for the fascinating information it gives. It also reveals his obligation to John Baron who had only endowed the Chantry some three years before.
REF: Essex Record Office D/ABW 25/2 Will of John Marchaunt
In the name of God amen, Friday after the feast of saint Michael
the Archangel in the year of the Lord one thousand[th] four hundred[th] and third*and in the year
of the reign of king Richard after the conquest of England first I John
Marchaunt of Salcot Wigborough, chaplain, of sound mind and
good memory though sick in body now make my Will in
this manner. First, I leave to the chapel of Salcot 20s to provide
two candles thus, one before the image of the Holy Trinity
and the other before the image of the blessed Mary in the nave at the altar of the same
chapel, there to burn in perpetuity in future years following the custom
of other lights in the same chapel. Item, I bequeath to the chapel aforesaid
20s in respect of two cows so that the anniversary of my death each year there
be observed with land/rent for the same. Concerning which land/rent I wish that a curate there
shall order, on the anniversary day of death aforesaid, a dirge and mass to be celebrated for the souls
of my parents and of all their dead friends 4d. The guild priest
if he shall be present 2d. The sacristan for his labour and bellringing 4d. Item
to the poor 5d for light 2d for bread and ale 2d. The residue of the rent
before said to be disposed following the directions of the wardens. Item I wish that the aforesaid
guild priest and his successors, in whatever week, on which day is convenient
and agreeable he will wish to say a placebo and dirge, praises and commendations
with a requiem mass spoken for the soul of my master John Baron, on the above dates
of the services of the guild priest aforesaid ,and for the souls of Margery his wife, parents,
their friends and also for my soul and for the souls of Robert and Alice parents
of me, John Marchaunt my grandfather, Joan his wife, Isabelle
Clarke my sister, Robert Smyth of Mersea, Agnes his wife
and all my dead relatives by blood and friends and for the souls
of brothers and sisters of the guild aforesaid. Item I wish that it shall have for its work
a certain piece of land lying in Little Badowe containing four
acres of land by estimation bought by my executors for the intention aforesaid .
* the date is not clear but Richard III came to the throne in 1483 and reigned for two years.
Sixty four years later, the Certificate of Chantry Lands in 1547 reveals those lands which were held then.
John Corell holdeth a piece of land called Paris given to find a light for ever; by the yere 12d
One piece of land conteyning 3 roodes in the tenure of the Churchwardens there to find an obit [church service for the deceased] for ever; by the year 3s 4d. Whereof to the poore 20d; remaining cleere 20d
One tenement with a piece of land called Songar given to find a obit for over 11s. In the tenure of John Sugeworth yerely ...whereof to the poore 6/8; for the reparations of the Church 3/8; remaining cleere 8d
The Chantry of Salcote Wigborough is lately dissolved and all messuages, lands, and tenements, meadows and pastures, marshes and hereditaments whatsoever with the appurtenances in the tenure of William Pore lying in Langenhoe, belonging to the said Chantry; and also a croft of land called Bardfields conteyning 5 acres with the appurtenances lying in Salcot Wigborough, Peldon and Mersey, belonging to the said Chantry; and also that piece of land in the tenure of John Bossewell lying in little Badewe [Baddow]belonging to the said chantry was granted by Edward VI 2 Sept 4 reg [1551]to John Raynforth
As we discover from the survey done at the time, the chantry lands, previously used for the endowment, went to the Crown and were then in 1551 granted by King Edward VI to John Raynforth (sometimes spelt Raynsford), Sheriff of Essex. The silver plate was confiscated and Raynforth also took the church bells.
In the unpublished notes from the late Tom Millatt, he traces John Baron's descendants to Layer Breton and Layer Marney where they were wealthy landowners (one marrying into the Tuke family of Layer Marney Tower).
With the Reformation, John Bajon's endowment came to an end after about 68 years - sadly not as intended in perpetuity.
Thanks to Wendy Smedley for the translation of John Marchaunt's will
A History of the Parish Church of St Mary Salcott
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No Ordinary Day
Tractor Pulls and Demolition Derbies: "Off the Radar" Arenas for Innovation and Creative Confidence
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At the Sullivan County Fair in Pennsylvania, a high school boy wore a sleeveless sweatshirt showing off arms developed through farm labor rather than workouts at the gym. His billed hat featured the logo of a chain saw company. His hand held a Pepsi. He was standing beside a several ton sculpture with the exposed metal bones of a tractor.
In a museum, this construction could be placed near the work of Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain and Lee Bontecou. However, in rural Pennsylvania, machines are designed to work. With a turn of this key and a pull on the choke, there was black smoke and a sound of a roar as the engine tuned to a steady and powerful CHUG CHUG chug chug chug chug.
The story of this tractor began with the boy's father. After competing in tractor pulls when he was a teenager, his father parked his machine in a meadow behind a barn where it sat there for 30 years. Three weeks before my encounter, this boy and a friend decided they would haul the old tractor out of the field and fix it up to enter the tractor pull at the Sullivan County Fair. He described how the bolts on the old tractor were so rusty that he had to use a blowtorch to make new holes in the metal to stabilize the frame. With his friend, he rebuilt the engine, mounted 'newer' old tires, and, generally, re-crafted the entire machine. The result was a post-apocalyptic sculptural wonder.
He didn't expect to win the tractor pull. He just wanted to see if he could make the tractor run strong enough to enter. He and his friend were just having fun.
This tractor was a stunning demonstration of a rare breed of hands-on mechanical skill, innovation and creative confidence.
Where does a kid like this appear on the radar of high stakes academic testing? Nowhere. Did his high school even know about his ability to set an ambitious goal, work collaboratively, demonstrate mechanical skills, overcome engineering challenges, meet his deadline within budget and, ultimately, sit on the ragged tractor seat, turn the key and ignite the engine without blowing up?
Rural county fairs also feature demolition derbies. In this arena of carnage, I encountered more princes of innovation and "can do" confidence.
I am an environmentalist, so attending a demolition derby wasn't high or, for that matter, anywhere on my wish list. I am the mother of sons, however, and the wife of a Pennsylvania motor head who bought his first car at age 14 for $20. Too young to drive, he took the car totally apart and rebuilt it, teaching himself mechanics. So, we all set off to the 'demo derby,' but "once, just once!"
Every car in a demolition derby is a unique construction. The make and age of the car provide a blank canvas for its true personality shaped by wrecks and the car team's adept employment of cannibalized auto parts, chrome pipes, wire, electrical-tape, foam, and auto and spray paints. The result is a vehicle that is battle ready.
Demolition derby cars are graphic wonders, decorated with symbols and messages. Cars are paraded as testimonials to love and memorials to loved ones, freedom and passion for competition. While the names of sponsors might be crudely painted, there are no NASCAR or Indy 500-style decals. Special effects are revealed when the engines ignite. Flames charge from custom exhaust pipes that protrude above the hood directly from the engine. There are no mufflers, so the sound….the sound!
With pageantry, girlfriends often drive the cars to the arena gate for the start of each heat. The demolition derby is medieval jousting, just with significantly more horsepower.
Chug, chug, chug as cars pull into the dirt and sand arena to park front forward. There is a count down, a roar of revved engines and then the battle begins. On the signal, cars accelerate backwards into each other. The crunch and scraping of metal announce the first of many impacts. During the carnage that follows, mud is sprayed into the stands, engines roar, flames leap, and the screaming crowd takes to its feet. Emergency vehicles are standing by, ready to contribute their own lights and sirens to the party when engines catch fire. The volume of the crowd rises with every direct, cathartic impact. Transported by the energy around me to ancient Coliseums, I survey the crowd to see if thumbs are up or down. Why does this destruction excite rather than appall me? Why was I screaming, too?
The cars that are too wrecked to move remain like bodies on the field while other cars, in various stages of wreckage, continue to spin and crash, pushing ahead with flat, smoking tires and metal pieces dragging. The winner of the heat is the last car running. The driver hauls himself out of the car window (Car doors are wired shut.) to stand on the car hood, victory fists held high. Aided by tow trucks and bulldozers, the carcasses of the defeated cars limp out of the arena.
For the winning car, the final heat is still ahead and the support team leaps into action to repair the damage. Silhouetted by arc lights, they pound metal away from the tires, fortify the engine, and reconnect stray parts with wire.
The demolition derby is a culture of country kids, mostly guys, who share a passion for fixing 'junk' cars and competition.
They are so confident in their ability to make and to fix that destroying their work, even when they are sitting in the driver's seat, is just part of the process. There is nothing precious in their creative process. Theirs is a high risk, high stakes competition backed by mechanical skill and hands-on creative confidence.
Why aren't we pegging these kids as future stars of innovation and invention? Why aren't they on the radar of engineering and design schools?
As long as tests rather than teachers and experiential learning are in the driver's seat of our educational system, we will fail to value the hands-on intelligence and creative confidence that is demonstrated in county fair arenas where smart and capable kids are just having fun.


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Milton and Rose Friedman: An uncommon couple
Steven N. S. Cheung
On the occasion of what would have been Milton Friedman's one hundredth birthday (July 31, 2012), the Hoover Institution launched a website dedicated to the lifework of the Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow and his partner in life and in public policy research, Rose Friedman.
Visitors to the site (http://uncommoncouple.org) will find complete lists of all their writings, spanning seventy-five years; links to their groundbreaking PBS series Free to Choose; finding aids to Milton's personal papers and correspondence, which are held in the Hoover Institution Archives; and lists of and links to a variety of other audio, video, and written material. The last bibliography that Milton compiled is included on the site.
Milton, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1976, is recognized as one of the twentieth-century's leading economists. An educator at heart, Milton was a leader of the Chicago School of economics at the University of Chicago, where he served as an economics professor for thirty-five years. He revived and championed the theory that monetary policy—not fiscal policy—was the engine of economic stability and growth and the best vehicle with which to control inflation.
Later in life, Milton and Rose turned their attention to public policy. Always teaching, they advocated school choice as the answer to America's education woes and insisted that free markets were imperative for the success of the emerging democracies of East and Central Europe.
Milton attained a cultural status that few academics have achieved. In development is a section dedicated to the Friedman legacy that focuses on the personal lives of Milton and Rose, with personal photos and correspondence; on Milton's public stature, including his being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, appearances on The Phil Donahue Show and The Dinah Shore Program and a Playboy magazine interview; and on the numerous tributes and awards they both received from around the world.


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River Ridge High School
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Advanced Placement Classes
School Board Celebrates Successful Year of Service by Students
Posted On: Friday, June 7, 2019
From left to right: School Board Vice Chair Kelly Poole, Chair Kyla Cromer, member Clark Menard, Blake Adkins of Woodstock HS, Natasha Ambriz of Sequoyah HS, Angelica Millen of River Ridge HS, member Mike Chapman, Morgan Feltham of Cherokee HS, member John Harmon, Ann Blakey of Creekview HS, Chase Thomas of Etowah HS, members Patsy Jordan and Rick Steiner, and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower.
The Cherokee County School Board celebrated its Student Advisor and Student Delegates with a special send-off at the student representatives' last meeting of the year.
The School Board has included a Student Advisor position on its board since 1999, and for the past eight years, a Student Delegate from each high school as well. Seniors are selected by the Principal to serve in the role for their last school year.
The students complete one year of service which, for the Class of 2019, included: attending all School Board meetings; giving input and feedback to the School Board; participating in meetings to assist the: Divisions of Curriculum & Instruction, School Operations, Support Services, and Technology & Information Services; CCSD School Nutrition department; Superintendent's Ad Hoc Technology Committee and Strategic Planning Team; and Comprehensive LEA (Local Educational Agency) Improvement Plan (CLIP) Review process; as well as sharing other suggestions and input.
The Class of 2019 members recognized for the service and commitment are: Student Advisor Chase Thomas of Etowah HS, and Student Delegates: Jessica Rios of ACE Academy; Morgan Feltham of Cherokee HS; Ann Blakey of Creekview HS; Angelica Millen of River Ridge HS; Natasha Ambriz-Villela of Sequoyah HS and Blake Adkins of Woodstock HS.
They each received special honor cords to wear at their graduation ceremony and, as they walked across the auditorium to be recognized, their college and career plans and an observation about their year of service were shared with the audience.
Student Advisor Chase Thomas of Etowah High School
Chase is headed to the University of South Florida in Tampa where he will be majoring in Exercise Health and minoring in Spanish.
His current career plans are to open his own physical therapy practice.
Chase said: "The student delegate experience opened my eyes to how large plans are crafted and tested before entering the county. It also provided me with my first experience in giving speeches... an invaluable gift. Thank you to the Cherokee County School District for this amazing opportunity!"
Student Delegate Morgan Feltham of Cherokee High School
Morgan will be attending Berry College to study Animal Science.
Her current career plans are to work as a Large Animal Veterinarian.
Morgan said: "I am so thankful to have been chosen as my school's delegate. It has truly been one of the best opportunities I have ever received. Not only have I learned so much about myself and the school district throughout this experience, but I also have had the chance to meet some incredible people who want to make a difference in the world as much as I do."
Student Delegate Ann Blakey of Creekview High School
Ann is headed to Wheaton College in Illinois to double major in Economics and International Relations with a minor in Spanish or Political Science.
Her current career plans are to work with the United Nations or the State Department as an Ambassador.
Ann said: "I believe that the Student Delegate Program has truly opened my eyes to the innerworkings of the school system and has provided me with great friends and great opportunities. I am extremely grateful for this program."
Student Delegate Angelica Millen of River Ridge High School
Angelica will be attending the University of Georgia to major in Interdisciplinary Arts.
Her current career plans are to work as a Graphic Designer.
Angelica said: "After participating in the student delegate program, I understand how professional meetings are run. I also found comfort in knowing that my county's school board cares and listens to the student's voice."
Student Delegate Natasha Ambriz of Sequoyah High School
Natasha is headed to Yale University to major in political science and possibly double major in environmental studies with a focus on environmental policy.
She currently plans on attending law school, pursuing a career as a criminal defense lawyer and also hopes to run for elected office one day.
Natasha said: "The student delegate program helped me learn that I potentially want to pursue a career in public service, and I got to meet a super cool group of people from other schools that I wouldn't have met otherwise."
Student Delegate Blake Adkins of Woodstock High School
Blake will be attending Auburn University as a student in its Professional Flight Program.
His current career plans are to become a pilot for Delta Air Lines.
Blake said: "The Student Delegate Program allowed me to become close and make connections with students from all parts of Cherokee County, and it allowed me to see all of the hard work and planning that goes on outside of the classroom to make CCSD one of the best school districts in Georgia!"
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By Jodi Harris published August 8, 2018 Est Read Time: 7 min
High-Level Strategy / Audience and personas / Content strategy for marketers
Why You May Want to Rethink Data, Privacy, and Content
Did you follow the #PlaneBae saga as it jumped from social media channels to national news item? If so, you saw the turn it took from lighthearted love story to a much darker reminder of the unexpected ways our digital footprints affect our (and others') lives.
Unwanted social media exposure is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to digital privacy concerns. With health insurers peeking at our online activities and AI algorithms analyzing online behaviors to assign everything from article preferences to loan or job suitability to prison sentences, protecting personal data is something everyone should be concerned with.
This concern should also extend to the work we do as content marketers. Changing privacy laws in Europe and, now, the U.S. have given us compliance-driven motivation to be more vigilant and transparent in our handling of consumer data. (See the privacy law recently passed in California.) But it's the trusted relationships we hope to build with our audiences that give us even more compelling reasons to care about those who willingly share their personal lives with our brands.
Here's a look at some recent articles that have the CMI team (and, likely, other content marketers) pondering big questions about what data we can collect and what practices and processes we should follow to create trustworthy content experiences for our audiences.
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Should digital privacy encompass more than just data?
Read: The Woman in the #PlaneBae Saga Breaks Her Silence
Social media fans may recall the recent viral story in which an airline passenger claimed a simple act of switching seats led to a love connection between strangers. All indications seem to be that @roseybeeme (who reportedly gained 60,000 followers as a result of her posts) tweeted ongoing observations of the new seatmates with the best of intentions. (It has since been deleted.) But the woman being watched, dubbed #PrettyPlaneGirl by social media and who didn't know about the tweets until after the fact, didn't see the posts as a positive. She released a statement that referred to the incident as "a digital-age cautionary tale about privacy, identity, ethics, and consent."
Consider: That seemingly innocuous public post you uploaded could be someone else's private nightmare. The #PlaneBae saga played out without a brand's intervention. But it's not hard to imagine how easy it would be for an employee to post something similar on your brand's behalf without considering the possible consequences. Before you (or your extended team) share someone else's story in your brand's content, exercise simple common sense – and common courtesy. Make sure your brand follows sound ethical practices by securing the appropriate permission. And don't forget to verify that your take on the story is accurate.
You don't want a brand employee to tweet a saga like #PlaneBae, says @joderama. Click To Tweet
What constitutes a valuable data exchange?
Read: Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You
Your brand may be upfront about its intentions for using the audience data it collects through content, but that doesn't mean situations can't or won't change. It also doesn't guarantee that third-party partners or others with the power to mine that data will be equally transparent, responsible, or altruistic.
The possible uses of lifestyle data outlined in the article by ProPublica author Marshall Allen should raise some eyebrows. These examples show how health insurance companies, which partner with data brokers, can use tools to create predictive models based in part on an audience's interactions with content (click on an ad for women's plus-size clothing, for example, and you could be considered at risk for depression). And those lifestyle data models could be used, the piece suggests, to base the cost of someone's health insurance policy on potentially incorrect or incomplete data collected without their knowledge.
Consider: Some things will always remain outside of your business's control and the evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology is chief among them. But it's a good time to start asking: At what point does the digital industry's increasing reliance on aggregated consumer data cross the line between delivering personalized value and exerting undue influence over their personal lives? And, following on that, are you adequately equipped to walk that line responsibly, interpret it accurately, and assure your audiences you won't exploit the information they entrust to you?
When does aggregated consumer data cross line b/n personalized value & undue influence @joderama Click To Tweet
It's a question that Robert Rose touches on in his recent discussion on whether GDPR is a gift in disguise for marketers. In his post, he raises the critical distinction between data scraped unwittingly for generating, nurturing, and converting leads, and the more valuable "emotional" data voluntarily supplied by customers and content consumers. But regardless of where your data comes from – or your ultimate intentions for it – his assertion that marketers need to become a "trusted source of interesting things" and his advice on instituting the role of "audience data shepherd" into your content teams still ring true.
Ethical ideas vs. ethical practices
Read: Doing Good Data Science
Speaking of ethical considerations, this thought-provoking discussion (the first in an ongoing series on the subject) reminds us that marketers aren't the only players with a stake in the consumer data debate. Data scientists are tasked not only with developing the algorithms marketers use to gather and analyze customer insights, but also with determining the most effective and ethical ways to apply and evaluate their impact on performance.
Though focused on data science, the article explores data usage from several angles directly relevant to content strategy, including:
How to approach user experience design so that the need to preserve consumer privacy doesn't render AI applications useless
How the concept of "informed consent" can take on a different meaning at points in a user's journey
What kinds of organizational changes it might take to balance our industry's drive to "move fast" and "break things" with the ability to minimize the impact on those things we are likely to break
Consider: As the article's authors wisely suggest, if you put ethical practices in place, you need to empower your teams to figure out what that really means – for your brands, your audiences, and for the content you create to serve them both. Critical components include cultivating an organizational culture that can support experimentation and implementing strategic processes built for agility and iteration. By systematically creating boundaries around your content efforts and committing to continual (if incremental) improvement, you make it easier for your teams to adapt when confronted by big changes like algorithm shifts, legislative trends, or emerging technologies.
Empower your team to figure out what your brand ethics mean for your audience and content, says @joderama. Click To Tweet
The content conclusion
Let's face facts: Data breaches will likely continue; people will make ill-informed decisions about what to share online; the collective definition of "private information" may evolve; and corporate leadership or those in political power can't be counted on to prioritize the interests of the average digital denizen over the potential to turn a profit.
Though content marketers may not have much control over many of the changes looming on the digital data horizon, you can do your part to engage with your audiences in thoughtful, responsible, and conscientious ways; own up when mistakes are made; and build trust consistently by keeping their needs top of mind.
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The Mercedes-Benz driver line-up for the 2014 DTM season is complete: Apart from former DTM champions Gary Paffett and Paul Di Resta, ex-formula 1 driver Vitaly Petrov will line up in this season's DTM for the brand with the three-pointed star, along with last year's Mercedes-Benz DTM drivers – Daniel Juncadella, Christian Vietoris, Pascal Wehrlein and Robert Wickens.
All seven DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé drivers prepared for the start of the season on May 4th in Hockenheim by working out in the Austrian town of Seefeld. The team made final preparations for the upcoming tests and the season opener at Hockenheim at the fitness camp in Seefeld.
Last year's DTM driver Roberto Merhi completes the DTM squad at Mercedes-Benz for the 2014 season. The Spaniard will support the seven regulars as a test driver in development work with the DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé.
Preparations for the DTM anniversary year – 30 years after the inauguration of the touring car series – will end with two four-day ITR test sessions in Budapest (March 31st-April 3rd) and Hockenheim (April 14th-17th). The first race of the season will take place about two weeks later and at the same venue, namely, the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg (May 3rd-4th).


Last year, you swore you would get a jump on all the holiday madness and not put the preparations off until the last minute. We know we won't be seeing you in the mile-long line around the Honey Baked Ham store or at Michael's fighting off middle-aged housewives for that last festive holiday garland for your tree or glued to the computer trying to snag a great cyberdeal on a Flipcam (even though we all know better….wink, wink).
Instead, you're out on the town, taking in the festivities at South Florida's numerous nightspots and reveling in the Christmas spirit. Wait, you didn't get all those last minute errands done, you say? Well, don't let that stop you because there's plenty to do out there that's lots more fun.
Porsche is no ordinary drag queen (not that many of South Florida's most popular performers are) and she brings her talents to Bill's Filling Station, 2209 Wilton Dr., tonight for two special holiday performances at 9 and 10:30 p.m. Enjoy $3 Finlandia cocktails after 9 p.m.
Miami favorite Adora celebrates her birthday tonight with a special holiday show at Twist, 1057 Washington Ave. This outrageous gal will have your Christmas balls dancing on the tree with her take on the holidays. There's never a cover at Twist.
Let's be honest, you're really not planning on attending midnight mass this Christmas Eve, but we're betting Santa has a package for you tonight at Edison Farrow's Hype Friday at Bar 721, 721 Lincoln Ln. in Miami Beach. DJ Smeejay will be in the booth and vodka drinks are free from 10 to 11 p.m. Looks like you're going to get your stocking stuffed after all!
After a day with the family, you're either going to need a nap or a serious cocktail. Show off your presents to the boys and girls at MOVA Lounge, 1625 Michigan Ave. in Miami Beach, while sipping on some of the swanky bar's sophisticated martinis. VJ Barry Browder will provide plenty of sights and sounds if you can peel your envious eyes off those fabulous gifts.
In British countries, Dec. 26 is a holiday known as "Boxing Day" (Look it up, guys). On Sundays at Johnny's the boys unleash their wild sides and duke it out in the biggest amateur strip contest in South Florida with $1000 in prizes at stake. Afterwards, hand around for karaoke. If you're not too sick of Christmas songs, why not belt out one more hearty chorus of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" while you're there.
Australia is not exactly a winter wonderland at Christmas time, being strategically located in the southern hemisphere and all, but that doesn't stop Florida's own Dame Edna from spreading a little Aussie holiday cheer. She performs three shows tonight at Georgie's Alibi in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors.
As we eagerly await the new year this weekend, turn back the clock a year or two—or thirty—and head over to Dudes for Retro Backtrack. DJ Jay will be playing the best music and videos of the '70s, '80s and '90s. Dudes is located at 3270 NE 33rd St. in Ft. Lauderdale, near the intersection of Oakland Park Blvd. and A1A.


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 Кайсин Шувайович Кулієв (1917—1985) — балкарський поет.
 Теймур Кулієв (1888—1965) — радянський азербайджанський діяч.
 Кулієв Радік Небійович (1992) — білоруський борець греко-римського стилю.
 Кулієв Рафік Ісраїлогли (1950) — колишній радянський футболіст та футбольний арбітр.
 Кулієв Ельдар Гуламович (1939) — азербайджанський дипломат. Постійний представник в ООН.
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Q: .htaccess rewrite rule for trailing slash after .com for backlinks Backlinks, so links from other pages to my wordpress page, are missing a slash after the .com part. So https://mypage.com/subpage results in https://mypage.comsubpage
This happened after I've changed the domain of a page from .de to .com
Everything else seems to work fine, only those external backlinks to my page are missing the slash.
Tried all different rewrite rules but none worked or even got me a 404.
This is my code:
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https://mypage.comsubpage should result in https://mypage.com/subpage for links from other pages/backlinks. Thanks!

A: Everything ok with the rewrite rules. Obviously the mistake was in my cache of my browser (Chrome). Firefox and Safari worked ok (only found that out after I posted this question, sorry).
After I deleted the cache Chrome went ok and added the slash.
Thanks anyways
Xandru


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A Novel Purpose for Campaign Funds
April 9, 2021 •3 Comments•in Longer Twitter, Political Theory, Politics •By Justin Katz
Regulating candidacies shrinks the pool of candidates and ensures that the successful politician will often be the one with the greatest talent for corruption.
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Shot in the Arm or Permanent IV?
April 6, 2021 •2 Comments•in Governor, Longer Twitter, Media, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
Does anybody else see headlines like the following, from WPRI, and think it sounds kind of like our state is on life support?
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The Working Day of RI's Aristocracy
April 6, 2021 •2 Comments•in Local Government, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
The most direct evidence that something is very, very wrong in RI government is that a mayor can be so out of touch that he'd think working a standard workday justifies double pay.
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Civics Bill Misfire
April 6, 2021 •0 Comments•in Education, General Assembly, Legislation, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
Stanley Kurtz has written on National Review Online about the Republican-led bill currently in Rhode Island's General Assembly to require a pernicious form of civics education in Ocean State public schools.
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Racist Journalism in Rhode Island
April 5, 2021 •2 Comments•in Culture and Family, Education, Legislation, Longer Twitter, Media •By Justin Katz
Perhaps it's evidence of a sea change in journalism schools over the last decade, but it seems as if local news media outlets are taking the final steps into pure propaganda for the racist left-wing ideology.
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How the Ocean State Should Spend Its Federal COVID Relief Funds
April 2, 2021 •0 Comments•in Economy, Governor, Infrastructure, Local Government, Longer Twitter •By Mike Stenhouse
The old saying goes, "there's no such thing as a free lunch," but advocates of the left-wing's modern monetary theory (MMT) want you to think there is. Read about the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity's suggestions for use of federal COVID-19 aid.
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RI in Crisis While Our Progressive Leaders Self-Gratify
March 26, 2021 •1 Comment•in Economy, Energy and Environment, General Assembly, Government, Governor, Legislation, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
If we are going to revive our economy, we have to revive our sense of responsibility and become more engaged in what's happening around us.
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Vestis Virum Facit Versus Verba Virum Facere
March 25, 2021 •11 Comments•in Civil Rights, Culture and Family, General Assembly, Legislation, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
Progressive Democrat State Senator Jonathan Acosta may be correct on the policy of a State House dress code, but for a reason that illustrates why he's devastatingly wrong as a teacher.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BenMasora-YoungManInSuit-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-25 10:18:112021-11-08 12:12:23Vestis Virum Facit Versus Verba Virum Facere
COVID Compliance and Killing Kids
March 18, 2021 •3 Comments•in Covid & Mandates, Culture and Family, Economy, Government, Healthcare, Longer Twitter, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
Although the bureaucratic experts who continue to suppress our lives (and the journalists who enable them) might believe differently, numbers showing that compliance rules had little, if any, effect on the pandemic aren't some interesting abstract datapoints on a page.
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Lockdowns and the Health of the Polity
March 17, 2021 •2 Comments•in Economy, Government, Longer Twitter, Political Theory, Politics •By Justin Katz
If the United States had a properly functioning representative democracy, a lot of lockdown-state politicians would be feeling massive heat and near certainty of defeat for themselves and their parties.
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A Key Chart on Economic Climate Change
March 12, 2021 •2 Comments•in Economy, Energy and Environment, Longer Twitter, Money •By Justin Katz
Our state and federal governments are using their regulatory and policing power to shut down an industry sector to make themselves and their fashionably green friends rich and powerful at the expense of our rights, our prosperity, and increasingly our lives.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/USEIA-AnnualEnergyOutlook2021-EnergySources-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-12 09:50:342021-12-06 08:30:04A Key Chart on Economic Climate Change
Why Is RI Failing? Don't Ask the Media; Blame Them.
March 10, 2021 •3 Comments•in Economy, Education, Government, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Longer Twitter, Media, Regulation •By Justin Katz
Rhode Island's government is failing on every level. You'd think a news media that's serving the public would be behaving as if that were the case.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DAvideRagusa-ImtechArenaStadium-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-10 10:40:542021-11-08 12:12:23Why Is RI Failing? Don't Ask the Media; Blame Them.
The Left's True Seed of Collapse
March 5, 2021 •4 Comments•in Civil Rights, Culture and Family, Education, Longer Twitter, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
Think about how bizarre a world it must be for a law school not to want somebody involved in a history-book-level case as a professor, even for a single course.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Tengyart-EggsWithDifferentEmotions-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-05 09:39:232021-11-08 12:12:23The Left's True Seed of Collapse
The Republicans' Sexist Progressive: Fenton-Fung
March 4, 2021 •2 Comments•in Civil Rights, Culture and Family, General Assembly, Legislation, Longer Twitter, Science •By Justin Katz
An identity-politics bill submitted by Fenton-Fung is so shockingly in-your-face in its progressivism that it's difficult to see how conservatives could possibly consider supporting her if it isn't a mistake or an aberration.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BarbaraAnnFentonFung-featured.jpg 301 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-04 13:00:562021-11-08 12:12:22The Republicans' Sexist Progressive: Fenton-Fung
When Once Credibility Has Been Squandered
March 4, 2021 •3 Comments•in Healthcare, Longer Twitter, Media •By Justin Katz
After a year of hearing that any death of somebody who tested positive for COVID counted as a COVID-related death, some Americans may be reluctant to set a high bar for evidence of harm from cutting-edge vaccines.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/StevenCornfield-AnchorageCOVIDVaccine-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-03-04 08:00:422021-11-08 12:12:22When Once Credibility Has Been Squandered
When the Government Doesn't Care
March 3, 2021 •1 Comment•in Economy, Longer Twitter, Politics, Regulation •By Justin Katz
Perhaps this isn't the time to be throwing roadblocks in front of the U.S. economy? Nah. It isn't the progressive puppeteers who'll suffer.
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Two Non-Tax Reasons to Vote Against the Bonds on March 2
March 1, 2021 •0 Comments•in Economy, Longer Twitter, Taxation •By Justin Katz
The bonds on the ballot this week are the sort of thing that government officials do when the people paying the bills are last in the line of their concerns.
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RI Education Insiders Lack Incentive to Succeed
February 26, 2021 •0 Comments•in Education, Longer Twitter, Policy, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
Having Rhode Island so thoroughly under their command, insider special interests have little incentive to perform. No matter how central their role in some failure, they can be assured that they will gain by the supposed solution.
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The Cost of Pandemic Field Hospitals
February 24, 2021 •1 Comment•in Government, Healthcare, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
In an environment where fear has arguably been promoted beyond what the pandemic justified, the costs of preparation for the worst have to be added to the tally.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tonic-DontPanic-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-02-24 10:37:412021-11-08 12:12:22The Cost of Pandemic Field Hospitals
Putting a Smiley Face on Desperation
February 23, 2021 •0 Comments•in Economy, Longer Twitter, Regulation •By Justin Katz
If the Public's Radiiiiio wants to serve the public, its reporters should begin digging into the actual story of small business in RI, although it's one where the Secretary of State and the political establishment will have to be challenged rather than simply cited as if they're experts by virtue of their political success.
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Can the COVID Education Wasteland Change the Political Dynamic?
February 19, 2021 •0 Comments•in Covid & Mandates, Education, Longer Twitter, Media, Politics, Unions •By Justin Katz
Will the narrative vulnerability of the education-reform cause still hold in the face of the COVID response's educational wasteland? It would be nice if somebody would take some sort of action to help us find out.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/schoolbuses-featured.jpg 313 845 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-02-19 12:07:582021-12-16 14:08:10Can the COVID Education Wasteland Change the Political Dynamic?
The Lopsided Value of Voter Data
February 12, 2021 •2 Comments•in Civil Rights, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
As citizens call for increased transparency from government, we have to be vigilant about what is transparent and what is not.
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Smiley Out the Ethical Door
February 11, 2021 •0 Comments•in Government, Longer Twitter, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
Brett Smiley's exit from the executive branch in Rhode Island exposes one of the central conceits of ethics laws.
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The Fraud Begins Where the Fraud Ends
February 10, 2021 •8 Comments•in Longer Twitter, Media, Political Theory, Politics •By Justin Katz
Of course, the left-wing cabal would have massive incentive to cheat so as not to be out on that limb of blatant disregard for fair play and still lose.
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McKee's RI-Same-Old COVID Task Force
February 5, 2021 •0 Comments•in Covid & Mandates, Governor, Healthcare, Longer Twitter, Unions •By Justin Katz
With this panel, McKee seems to be sending a signal about who really matters in the state. That may not be his intent, but it's something upon which he'll have to improve quickly now that he's achieved the big chair.
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Congressional Democrats' Exception to the Law
February 3, 2021 •39 Comments•in Congress, Longer Twitter, Politics •By Justin Katz
Some politicians (perhaps an entire political party) think they are the exception when it comes to adhering to laws, standards, and basic good governance.
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The Cost of the Pause: 6,300 RI Jobs
January 21, 2021 •3 Comments•in Economy, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
We can hope most of these jobs are coming back as we speak, but it's unlikely that all of them are. The effects of the state's COVID response is going to be massive and long-term.
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Day One of the Unity Regime: Suppression of Speech
January 20, 2021 •5 Comments•in Civil Rights, Longer Twitter, Media •By Justin Katz
The Rhode Island National Guard and State Police are complicit in a partisan attempt to suppress free speech from a particular point of view, and neither our politicians nor the news media nor the self-proclaimed civil rights advocates care one bit.
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Providence Government's Fight Against Residents
January 18, 2021 •8 Comments•in Energy and Environment, Local Government, Longer Twitter, Political Theory •By Justin Katz
At a press conference of the city government to announce new policies, what could it mean for a speaker to pledge to "fight" and "take back our city"?
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COVID Coming to an End in RI Despite the Queen?
January 6, 2021 •4 Comments•in Covid & Mandates, Healthcare, Longer Twitter •By Justin Katz
With scary news that RI has one of the worst COVID-19 infection rates in the world, it's worth revisiting a concept about which we've heard absolutely nothing in the Rhode Island media: active cases.
https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RI-COVID19-ActiveCases-031220-010421-featured.jpg 300 800 Justin Katz https://oceanstatecurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/logo_white_300x56.png Justin Katz2021-01-06 10:31:012021-12-16 14:08:11COVID Coming to an End in RI Despite the Queen?


Prepare for This Year's Brightest Full Moon!
A rare Bloody Moon is over, but on February 19, we can look forward to a not-so-exceptional but equally influential Full Moon called Supermoon. People gave it this name because it reaches the point in its orbit when it comes closest to Earth, looking much bigger and brighter than usual - abssolutely the largest of this year's full Moons.
Naturally, it will have an effect on us as well, especially our sense of security, which we will try to compensate for through cleanliness and order. This means that you will probably want to establish perfect order wherever you see confusion and chaos. However, keep in mind that loss of control and unfulfilled expectations will usually end in great disappointment. Therefore, try to accept the fact that imperfections simply are a part of life.


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Q: Escalar sitio en Azure Esta pregunta esta basada en esta pregunta: https://es.stackoverflow.com/questions/5069/como-balancear-tr%C3%A1fico?answertab=active#tab-top
Básicamente me gustaría saber como escalar mi sitio web cuando tenga muchas peticiones, puesto que esta teniendo mucho éxito.

A: Cuando configuras un web app puede definir los criterios con los cuales debe escalar
Dentro del Portal de Azure usarias la opcion All settings y luego Scale Up
Aqui deberias tener en cuenta segun el plan que tengas si seleccionar un modo Shared o Basic
Recuerda que el precio por el servicio se incrementara si escalas el sitio.

En este artículo
Scale a web app in Azure App Service
se explica con mayor detalle

A: creo que esta publicación te puede servir:
http://www.slideshare.net/zemoreno1/como-crear-un-balanceador-de-carga-58947336
Revisala :)
Cuando tienes un sitio web publicado en Microsoft Azure puedes hacer uso del servicio Traffic Manager. Que te permite balancear cargar de tráfico desde distintos regiones del mundo. De tal manera que cierto tráfico puede apuntar a "America" y otro hacia "Europa" por así decirlo. Entonces tu tráfico se segmenta y existe menos carga a tu sitio web, por lo que tiene una probailidad inferior a caerse. El ejemplo práctico viene en el documento de SlideShare.