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CS Lewis Made Me Love Gays
When belief slips away, some let it go and move on to other customs and habits, or fountains of inspiration, but some try to dance with the bull of unbelief for as long as they can. Years ago (middle school, when girls and armpit hair were all I thought about) that's where I found myself after reading HL Menken's Treatise on the Gods, which narrates the initial idea of religion to almost where it is now—a vast enterprise built on the backs of religiously dedicated patrons. Because of that little book that I found nearly demolished in the public library in Florence, Texas, I was spiritually ruined, even though I attended church until just two years ago. Sitting in pews, I could imagine how brutally beneficial it was to horde people into rows, and when the faithful spewed prejudices, I knew they knew not what they were doing. (I didn't forgive them, though. You should never forgive anyone who speaks and doesn't know why they're talking, even if we're all guilty of doing just that.)
Still, in the embrace of Hell and all its fallen angels, I did my best. I borrowed books from the First Baptist Church's library, books displayed across from apocalyptic movies produced in the '70s, when rock 'n' roll and anything other than America were villains. All the books contained the same subject matter: church doctrine, vague prophecies made into pop culture, hate, and above all, credulity. Even as an undergraduate I'd buy the books that I would overhear others talking about, which lead to too much Donald Miller as well as mega-church-published three-hundred-page tracts. And Paul, lots of Paul and Calvinism. Now, It's nearly 2014, and I can barely remember anything from a single page of those books, even a single salient sentence that could have held salvation. (One of the preachers at the postmodern church I attended in college mocked my book stacks once, saying that the evangelical books were a waste of a brain. He was one of the four people who gave me Blue Like Jazz. Apparently, at the ripe age of twenty-six, he had it all figured out.) I don't believe it's my own fault, either. Years after I've read them, I still recall Millay's poems as well as Gandalf's spells. Unless you're steeped and hidden in a culture that looks forward to the end of the world, or champions one book above all books, you tend to forget about brimstone, dragons, and prophecies. You can never forget the bigotry, though. It gets in your bones.
Through all of that—between any and all of the Grahams, Hal Lindsay's fiction and fictional non-fiction, the catholic Chesterton I'll always cherish, and the Barthian Bonhoeffer—there was CS Lewis. As of now, I think I love his brain but hate all but one of his books, which people tout to the point where they're more important than the Holy Bible, but that's only because his books are more beautiful and relatable. As theologically unsound as this reads, the people in my youth taught me that the Bible is indebted to Paul and the writings attributed to him, and Christianity can never repay CS Lewis for what he's given the religion: he gave Jesus Christ a human face. And, as Menken said:
"Theologians are well aware, deep down in their hearts, that faith alone is not sufficient to make even half-wits believe in their mumbo-jumbo; they sense a need to sweeten the dose with such testimony as would convince any judge or jury." (Treatsie on the Gods, 264)
The Great Divorce, like all books, isn't for everyone, but it most certainly is for people who believe that characters from reality TV speak for them and their religious faith. Coincidentally, that's what baffles me about this current near-the-end-of-2013 nonsense: when we're at the apex of humanity, people choose to rally behind a millionaire television character and his struggle to keep a job. Past that, it's how unwilling people are to change themselves. They seem to want to keep their world as fictional as possible, to the point where love becomes hate; to the point where rather than delivering messages, they'd rather be hangmen. "We love you but we can't accept you." We won't accept you! That loving misanthropy raised me, but CS Lewis saved me. But Mr. Lewis won't help my cousin, though, who, a few years ago, came out to the people that he loved the most: his family. I can't find him to follow up and see if he's still breathing, mostly because he seems to spend his time living his life and hiding from his family. Numerous of my dearest friends no longer have family because their mothers and fathers refuse to live in what's real. At the heart of all this, that's what The Great Divorce taught me: being real, and the extreme pain that it causes upon yourself. If you're not real, you might as well be a living ghost, never feeling or experiencing the thrilling disappointment and exhilarating bliss of breathing and sharing air with strangers and the challenges they offer.
When you are willing to experience reality, living life becomes painful and beautiful. The most salient sensation I can think of would be coming to terms with hate, and facing that part of yourself that you despise, and falling in love with it. Love, according to Lewis, is a sacred word, and the only way to find yourself in love is by realizing that you live in an imaginary house, and what protection does an imaginary house offer, anyway? (The Best of CS Lewis, Pg. 123) This peculiar enterprise of hate has been built up to be more than just a house, though: It's an entire world, as well as an entire livelihood for some people, most pundits, and a few TV characters. To inhabit a world where what looks real is also reality is to pursue and fall in love with one thing: Truth. Truth, though, after Kierkegaard and postmodern Christians, is as relative as one tangerine to another. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is, (Pg. 173) but it falls fiercely and violently. It's easy to not feel pain living with shiny false truths, pretending a man can't passionately believe the anus of another man is a beautiful rose, or that gay children can spread their sexuality to other kids like chicken pox. But you will learn a new truth, and when it happens, your heels will be cut on real grass as you learn (Pg. 136) that anything of substance hurts when we're not real with ourselves, and we've done nothing but mature deeper into hopelessness, and grow old into ghosts.
Allusions and assumptions, that's what the living ghosts on earth believe in, even as the real world rains beautiful and refreshing drops of reflecting liquid, they're like machinegun bullets that puncture flimsy beliefs and ghostly frames. (Pg. 146) Living ghosts, those who hope other people think for them and allow other people to speak for them, suffer worse than they'll ever know by denying themselves what's real—the lives and loves of others. Denying themselves Truth just a bit longer, even as the tiniest interaction is too much for them to handle, like lifting a leaf that seems to be tethered to the planet's core. (Pg. 126) That's what CS Lewis taught me: to love Truth, or at least to pursue it. He didn't mean to, but he illustrated the perfect religion: the religion of humanity, no matter the sexuality. Television characters and people who rally behind them prove that it's something else: the last refuge for savagery in a dying year.
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I'd Rather Fuck Books
You don't need many fingers or toes to count my sexual partners, and that's for a lot of reasons. Mostly, though, it's because I'd rather fuck books.
That might seem like a damn shame too. (For me, that is. Most people are better off without me having been in their sheets.) It's not. Somewhere along the line, when others wanted to share their dance floor-drenched junk with a stranger's insides, all I wanted was to do was crack open a virginal spine, which is thrilling and exciting, every time.
I have amassed a problem—my home, like stroke victim's sad, lonely face, is going to sag. Plus, there's a home, a house, in my future, and three flights of stairs and around 2,000 volumes—slim poetic publications to buffet-gorged whales—seems like step-by-step suicide. So, for the first time ever, I'm getting rid of books. Each one that I put into a cardboard coffin jabs at something inside me. It's not a break, just a dent. What's worse is the quality of books that leave me feeling this way, like a bank's CEO looking at her picture on the cover of FORBES and only thinking about the redneck that she gave her virginity to in the back of a Chevy truck bed.
An odd book about berry gardening was the first one I damned to the box. The book was as appealing as a girl with a snaggle tooth, but you'd want to keep someone like that because they'd be loyal, helpful, pragmatic. The doubles are bad too. I have a few Lionel Trillings, and keeping them both seems greedy and a bit perverse, like trying to pull off a double date with just you and a set of twins. But I want to keep them both, because nothing else is being written by the critic's dead, unmoving hand. And damn those textbooks on currencies and monetary systems. They're as condescending as an old lady giving you a nickel and telling you to build an empire. But I want to keep those, maybe build a vault out of them, because I might, one day, have a stockpile of nickels and an empire to build.
About three down, but thousands to sort through. That's love to a crazy person.
Point is, other than a little buzzed, I'm feeling sentimental. Soon I'll be carting down lovers like I am burying my prom date, over and over. Not even lovers—books I have fucked and had my way with. My scribbling and DNA is stuck inside them, and soon they'll be with someone else.

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I've named the poem "The Indian Street Dog", as I drew inspiration for it by seeing a loving street dog in Varanasi. With this poem I wish for people to reflect over the greatness in stray animals everywhere. Detested by so many, yet these dogs nourish the hope for love and affection. I've met so many of them, and felt the longing of their souls. My Dagi, who lived as a street dog in Portugal for many years, means everything to me. I don't even remember how days without her were! If only people would open their hearts to the street dogs, then everyone would find themselves forever touched by these misunderstood angels….
As destiny paves my way.
And welcomed me upon returning with my shattered dreams.
Like the birds I watch from the stairs at the temple.
And make every road lead to Home.
Very well written! Loved it.
You are gifted with the power of words and you use it wonderfully!
Thanks Essie! 🙂 Virve deserves the credit for this b'ful poem! Keep reading through other posts as well.
A part of my heart belongs to these beautiful souls who live life on the streets..Most never know a hug, a real warm meal, a bed, a home…but still have so much to give to us humans..
And make every road lead to Home….
It is such a touching poem. My doggie was a street dog. I wish more and more people adopt street dogs and give them a home..
And I hope more people take your cue and bring home, the best friends without home.
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Karish and Tanin Field Development, Mediterranean Sea
Offshore gas field development
Levant Basin, Mediterranean Sea, Israel
Estimated Investment
Between $1.3bn and $1.5bn
2.7tcf of natural gas and 41Mboe of light hydrocarbon liquids
First Gas
Energean Israel
The Karish and Tanin fields will be produced through the Karish & Tanin FPSO. Credit: Energean Israel.
The deepwater project is located in the Levant Basin of the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. Credit: Energean Israel.
The Karish and Tanin fields are estimated to hold 2C contingent gas resources of 531 million barrels of oil equivalent (Mboe). Credit: Energean Israel.
The Stena Forth drillship will drill three development wells in the first quarter of 2019. Credit: Energean Israel.
The Karish and Tanin natural gas fields are located in the Levant Basin of the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. Both fields are owned by Energean Oil & Gas's subsidiary Energean Israel.
The two fields were discovered by Noble Energy and acquired by Energean Oil and Gas in December 2016.
They are being jointly developed under a deepwater gas development project, which is estimated to cost between $1.3bn and $1.5bn.
The field development plan (FDP) for the project was submitted in June 2017 and subsequently approved by the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner in August 2017.
First gas from the deepwater gas development project is expected in 2021.
The fields are expected to jointly supply an estimated 88 billion cubic metres of natural gas and 44 million barrels of liquids to the regional Israeli market, as well as international markets.
Tanin field location and discovery
"The fields are expected to jointly supply an estimated 88 billion cubic metres of natural gas and 44 million barrels of liquids to the regional Israeli market."
The Tanin field lies in the Alon A licence 13 miles (21km) to the north-west of the Tamar field in 5,100ft of water.
It was discovered in February 2012 by the Tanin discovery well, which was drilled at a depth of 18,212ft.
The well encountered 130ft of net gas pay in the high-quality lower Miocene sands.
Karish field location and discovery
The Karish field lies in the Alon C license 20 miles (32km) to the north-east of the Tamar field in 5,700ft of water.
It was discovered in May 2013 by the Karish discovery well, which was drilled to a depth of 15,783ft by the Ensco 5006 rig.
Reserves of the Karish and Tanin fields
The combined reserves of the Karish and Tanin discoveries are approximately 2.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas and 41 million barrels of oil equivalent (Mboe) of light hydrocarbon liquids.
The fields' total 2C contingent gas resources are estimated at 531Mboe.
Field development plan for Karish and Tanin
The Karish area development plan involves the drilling of three wells, while six wells are planned to be drilled at the Tanin field.
All the wells are set to be tied back to a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit that will be installed at the Karish field.
The wells will be drilled using a DP Class 3 ultra-deepwater vessel known as the Stena Forth drillship, which is owned by Stena Drilling.
The drillship is slated to be mobilised to the Karish and Tanin development fields' location in order to drill three wells in the first quarter of 2019.
Karish and Tanin FPSO details
The Karish and Tanin FPSO will be a spread moored vessel and is planned to be installed approximately 90km from shore. It will have a 227m-long and 50m-wide hull.
The total oil storage capacity of the FPSO will be 800,000 barrels and the total gas production capacity will be eight billion cubic metres of gas per annum.
The FPSO is intended to enable the recovery of hydrocarbons with minimal impact on the environment.
The FPSO is also expected to process, store and offload light oil without the need for onshore installations.
It will be dispatched to the field by 2020 and is expected to cost approximately $500m.
The gas produced by the deepwater project will be shipped from the FPSO via a 90km pipeline to a landfall at Dor before being supplied to the Israeli natural gas transmission system.
Contractors involved
TechnipFMC was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Karish and Tanin fields. The company was further awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract for the subsea system, offshore and onshore pipeline system, and valve station of the field. The scope of contract also includes design of a FPSO for tie-back of the Tanin field.
Stena Drilling was contracted by Energean Israel to provide the Stena Forth drillship to conduct the drilling activities.
Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, was sub-contracted by Technip to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction works for the hull and living quarters of the FPSO. The scope of the contract also includes fabrication and integration of the topside modules and installation of owner-furnished equipment.
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Elon Musk shared new details about the durability of the Tesla Model 3 powertrain and batteries, as well as replacement cost of the battery modules.
Everyone should start their day with a good laugh. This new video featuring Tesla's Elon Musk versus the Cult of Haters is almost guaranteed to do the trick.
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A Slippery Slope Indeed
run75441 | February 14, 2016 10:00 pm
Mark Jamison has been a guest columnist of the Smoky Mountain News on several occasions now arguing against the addition of the Koch sponsored Center for Free Enterprise. This is another well written expose of why this addition should not be allowed at Western Carolina University. I would point out the flip-flopping going on as Chancellor Belcher glosses over in his explanation of mistakes being made. In earlier statements by Dr. Robert Lopez, the Provost, and the Trustees, the procedure was followed.
To give this the coverage needed both Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism and Angry Bear have been covering this issue. "UnKoch My Campus" has also picked up on Western Carolina University.
In "Sons of Wichita", his detailed and heavily sourced biography of the Koch family, Daniel Schulman relates a story about Charles Koch's attempt to apply his libertarian management theory known as Market-Based Management to Wichita Collegiate, the private school located across the street from the Koch compound. The school originally cofounded by Bob Love an associate of Charles's father Fred Koch from the John Birch Society became embroiled in an "acrimonious uprising" after Charles Koch in his role as chairman of the school's executive council applied techniques from his Market-Based Management system, a system designed to force everyone in an institution or business into an entrepreneurial role.
Schulman relates how Koch and other trustees meddled in hiring decisions and caused the abrupt resignation of a well-liked headmaster. "Incensed parents threatened to pull their children from the school; faculty members quit; students wore black in protest. Charles stepped down from the board of trustees citing, among other reasons, the school's refusal to integrate his management style. But in a sign of just how much influence he exerted over the school; Richard Fink, one of Charles's key advisors and an architect of Market-Based Management was installed as Collegiate's interim head. The outrage ran so deep that, as Fink tried to tamp down the uproar, he was hung in effigy around campus."
Fink, who received his PHD in economics from Rutgers later moved to George Mason, a public university in Virginia, to start the Koch sponsored Mercatus Institute. Fink figures prominently in Koch efforts to control and dictate to charities and educational facilities receiving Koch support. Another Koch sponsored enterprise, the Institute for Humane Studies, caused similar disruptions when it was relocated to George Mason. Schulman reports,
"The mission of IHS is to groom libertarian intellectuals by doling out scholarships, sponsoring seminars, and placing students in like-minded organizations."
Simply providing funding for the promotion of his libertarian ideology was not enough for Charles Koch though. Roderick Long, a philosophy professor from Auburn and an affiliate of IHS is quoted as saying, "Massive micromanagement ensued." Long went on to say, "the management began to do things like increasing the size of student seminars, packing them in, and then giving the students a political questionnaire at the beginning of the week and another one at the end, to measure how much their political beliefs shifted over the course of the week. (Woe betide any student who needs more than a week to mull new ideas prior to conversion.) They also started running scholarship application essays through a computer to measure how many times the 'right names' (Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand, Bastiat, etc.) were mentioned – regardless of what was said about them!" (The preceding quotes come from pages 250-251 Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty).
It should be noted that Professor Long is no liberal. He edits "The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies" and is a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, an organization that promotes the theories of the dean of Austrian economics.
Both Professor Lopez and Professor Gochenour are products of the George Mason program and Mercatus. In his memo to Andrew Gillen of the Charles Koch Foundation Professor Lopez characterizes the other members of the WCU economics department indicating Professor Gochenour was a student of "Boettke and Caplan". In a YouTube video seminar, Professor Boettke characterizes himself as "a doctrinaire free-marketer." In the same memo, Professor Lopez lists his association with IHS. Presumably then both professors are familiar with the sort of metrics and deliverables that are integral to Koch's Market-Based Management system.
Both Schulman's book and Jane Mayer's new book "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" go into great detail about the various organizations sponsored and funded by Charles and David Koch. From Americans for Prosperity to academic institutions similar to Mercatus, the Kochs have been active in funding organizations that promote specific ideologies. For better or worse that is something endemic in both our politics and apparently our public universities. Lately Charles Koch has been quite vocal in bemoaning the fact that his political contributions have not yielded an appropriate return on investment as demonstrated in a recent interview in the Financial Times where he said,
"You'd think we could have more influence."
What is perhaps more troubling is in academic settings the Kochs have sought to exercise an extraordinary degree of control. Between 2007 and 2011 Charles Koch has pumped $31 million into universities for scholarships and programs (within that number the $2 million to WCU seems significant). At Florida State the contract with the university provide $1.5 million to hire two professors included a clause giving the Koch Foundation over the candidates.
The plan Charles Koch with the aid of Richard Fink has enacted is called a "Structure of Social Change" – a sort of business plan for the marketing of ideas. Fink has said about the plan:
"When we apply this model to the realm of ideas and social change, at the higher stages we have the investment in the intellectual raw materials, that is, the exploration and production of abstract concepts and theories. In the public policy arena, these still come primarily (though not exclusively) from the research done by scholars at our universities." (my emphasis)
As Schulman reports,
" . . . Cato Institute, Mercatus, and the dozens of other free-market, antiregulatory policy shops that Charles, David, and their foundations have supported over the years . . . churned out reports position papers, and op-eds arguing for the privatization of Social Security; fingering public employee unions for causing state budget crises; attempting to debunk climate science; and making the case for slashing the welfare system and Medicaid."
The book that Professor Lopez published for the broad market, "Madmen, Intellectuals and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change" follows closely to the program Fink articulates.
Over the years the gifts from the Koch Foundation to various universities have faced increased scrutiny. The contract with Florida State clearly went against basic academic ethics. There is nothing however to indicate that Charles Koch has retreated in his desire to instill his radical brand of libertarianism into the institutions that create public policy and the universities that provide the research that helps support policy decisions. What has perhaps changed is that Mr. Koch, his foundation, and those he supports have become ever more sophisticated in capturing an outsized amount of influence.
Chancellor Belcher assures us there were mistakes made in the presentation of the current proposal but that the proposal itself meets all the basic criteria for acceptance. The fact that Professor Lopez advertised positions before official acceptance and outside normal channels raises significant questions. The contract may not allow veto power but if the structure of the program and the hiring are filtered through products of Koch programs, we may have a distinction without a difference. Charles Koch and his assistants like Richard Fink have been very clear about their intent and goals. It does not take a great deal of research to uncover statements that clearly speak to intent to indoctrinate. Ad hoc denials aside there is no reason not to take Mr. Koch's word.
Chancellor Belcher suggests the bringing of a stronger level of scrutiny to the Koch proposal pushes us down a slippery slope. The chancellor is no naïf and surely he knows that in a complicated world we are often presented with slippery slopes – that is why judgment, ethics, and scrutiny exist. Dogmatic and doctrinaire disciplines give a skewed and distorted picture of the world as an either or, or black or white scenario. Hayek, Mises, and other doctrinaire believers in the creed of the free-market tell us the choice is either markets or Stalinism, an inexorable "Road to Serfdom." Tennyson tells us,
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
There is a certain irony bordering on outright cognitive dissonance when the economics department of a publicly funded university embraces a set of theories that denies the need for public education and treats such public funding as an affront to the market. If scrutinizing this proposal puts us onto a slippery slope then accepting it simply sends us to the bottom of the slope.
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amateur socialist says:
This is a very good review of their efforts thanks. I was born in Wichita 1960 and escaped to Texas in 1996 so very familiar with their ongoing influence there.
They essentially control the state GOP and thus the state government there. There are many resonances with their academic efforts, including a GOP Loyalty oath. It hasn't gone well.
beene says:
People, see no difference in Koch's efforts and those who promote neoliberalism, or free trade. We have these because too advance in our higher learning schools you must support the above to advance your career.
For even a person with limited educations knows the above only cause debt for the nation and ever limiting opportunities for the majority of the population.
For anyone interest in what actually enriches a nation and the majority of the population I would recommend a scholarly study done by Ha-Joon Chang and another by Ian Fletcher.
Bruce Bartlett says:
I am almost certain that Rich Fink got his Ph.D. in economics at UCLA. He did his undergraduate work at Rutgers-Newark.
Bruce:
First, welcome to Angry Bear. I will talk with Mark and we will check it out. As hard as we try to be accurate, sometimes we miss something or just plain make a mistake. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Perfect timing. I am currently reading "Dark Money", and am, frankly, terrified. Not so much for what the Kochs have been up to, but at how little most of America is interested, or cares to understand the mosaic.
The Kochs, Charles, especially have been masterful at flying beneath the radar of the average American. For instance, to the extent we recognize our public schools have a problem, we've been too quick to buy into the idea that it's because they aren't 'run like a business'. But once you dig just a bit, you can see the tentacles of the "Kochtapus" everywhere.
(Jane Mayer's description of the cold, calculating upbringing of the Koch boys is chilling. One wonders why they didn't end up as serial killers? Again, Charles, especially. He appears to have totally dominated the scene, once he go too big to be beaten by his father.)
There is a counter economic argument gaining traction. As usual, the pendulum always swings. These two essays recently found their way over my virtual transom and will not be news to most of the Bear Den, but I find them hopeful.
http://evonomics.com/how-the-myth-of-self-interest-caused-the-global-crisis/
http://evonomics.com/do-economist-actually-believe-greed-is-good/
Margaret Spellings gave a speech last week where she tried to down-play her history with for-profit education, among other things. It will be interesting to see how the UNC system survives this next phase……
"One wonders why they didn't end up as serial killers? Again, Charles, especially." Sandi
What makes you say that they are not? In their own indirect manner they have managed to kill democracy in America and cooperation within its political system.
Daniel Becker says:
Sandi,
My first introduction to the idea that society needs to remodel its self as business or that business is the better model for society's organization started with Reagan. I believe he/they ran on the idea that government needed to be more like business.
Unfortunately, people believed it as it went along with the "government is the problem" meme.
All of this I believe can be summed up with how I view Milton Friedman's work as simply mind the money and everything else will be taken care of. That is the free market ideology.
Jack: Point taken. You're right, of course.
Daniel: I don't recall my introduction to the 'run government as a business' idea, per se. I well remember Reagan and his 'the government is always the problem, never the solution' BS.
Since both my parents came up in the Depression, I knew how much good had been done by government programs, and, as a boomer, I could see it all around me; from the space race to the Civil Rights movement. I guess I took it for granted that that was the way the world was supposed to work. But I can see how that freaked out a lot of conservatives, both economically and socially.
I can't recall where I read it, but years ago came across a quote by someone esteemed, that pretty much said, "The reason for government is that there will always be services people want and need that, when provided, would never be a profitable venture, so the business world will never provide them. Hence, the government must be that provider."
My apologies to whomever the source was (Ben Franklin?) for the paraphrase. But the idea resonated with me as true, and I still believe it.
Mr. Bartlett: Just a quick note of appreciation – I've enjoyed your writings over the years.
PS Daniel:
In re-reading this about minding the money, I couldn't help but think about the entirely different interpretation we got on this idea from Deep Throat………………….
William Ryan says:
Unfortunately the slippery slope picture is much larger then just the Koch bros. To fix the inequality that is growing like a cancer in our society we must #1 establish the wealth tax. (see Wikipedia). #2 establish the progressive income tax. #3 establish the inheritance tax. #4 establish the transaction tax on trading. We must do all this before the oligarchs establish the robot police force. For more detail please go see todays D-Kos "Another Chart Shows How Bad We' re Screwed" also be sure to read the many fine comments there…
Mark Jamison says:
Mr. Bartlett,
From Schulman's Sons of Wichita: "Fink was a twenty-seven year old doctoral student at New York University, which at the time had the country's lone graduate program focused on Austrian economics. Fink had done his undergrad work at Rutgers….. As he worked towards his Ph.D. Fink taught pert-time at Rutgers, …"
From Doherty's "Radicals for Capitalism" – A Grinder student and economics professor from Rutgers named Richard Fink, with Koch's support, launched an Austrian program that came to be called the Center for Study of Market Processes. It began at Rutgers and in 1980 relocated to George Mason University, where it has evolved into the Mercatus Center."
ilsm says:
The F-35 has been on the "drawing board" since 1980, it is configured like a 1950″s single engine jet…… with SW and one per plane engines created by inepts.
The pentagon has been run like a business since "the producers of humbug" decided the arsenals (run by Reagan described "little old ladies in tennis shoes") were too "slow" to "keep up with the commies".
The business became a monopsony before 1960 it had bought the customer.
The result the pentagon is a huge trough feeding the connected inept.
"Business like" medicine and business like education go to the trough feeding the inept.
Shorter: why the Koch's fund humbug factories that teach con artists and deny critical thinking aka logic.
The F-35 trough is to be sloshed with around $40B a year forever!
I can read parts of this. Where in Germany?


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The Democrat Gambit to Destroy Trump Has Failed. Their Only Hope Now Is to Destroy America
Robert Bridge
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Since 2016, the Democratic Party has been preoccupied with the single-minded goal of ousting Donald Trump, a political outsider who promised to drain the fetid swamp. But now that the Democrat's efforts have failed, the left seems perfectly content embracing a scorched-earth policy rather than face the prospect of defeat, or jail time, in 2020.
"In politics, nothing happens by accident," observed Franklin D. Roosevelt, the four-term Democratic president who certainly knew a thing or two about political predetermination. "If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
FDR's quote perfectly sums up the last four years of Trump's presidency, beleaguered as it has been by every imaginable scandal and scourge under the sun. It is the opinion here that none of those events came about as an accident; just the opposite. The Democrats have been engaged in a very deliberate campaign to destroy Trump even before he entered the Oval Office, and that has been the source of every evil to have befallen the nation and much of the world since then.
Four years of cloak and daggers
Back in 2016, the FBI under Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign in an operation called Crossfire Hurricane. As ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith recently indicated by his guilty plea, the Democrats had conspired to portray Trump as a political pawn who only made it into the White House due to the cunning of his Kremlin handlers. This debunked conspiracy theory, which Stephen F. Cohen has rightly called "the worst and (considering the lack of actual evidence) most fraudulent political scandal in American history," now has all the potential to bring the roof down on some very prominent Democrats. Never mind what it has done to US-Russia relations.
DEVELOPING: Former Comey FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith must cooperate with Durham's investigators and the terms of his plea agreement between now and his sentencing on Dec. 10 in order to get a 2-level reduction in his punishment for falsifying evidence to frame a Trump adviser
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) August 21, 2020
The motive for such underhanded tactics was simply to destroy the political credentials of Donald Trump. The very same thing could be said about the Democrats just one month later filing articles of impeachment against the US leader. Trump was accused by the left of "abuse of power" for purportedly attempting to dig up dirt on his political opponent, Joe Biden, in return for US military aid.
Unbeknown to the average consumer of mainstream media news, however, in both the Russiagate and impeachment affairs the Democrats were struggling to untangle themselves from their own sticky web of crime and deceit. The left began to pursue 'Russian collusion' charges against Trump only after incriminating email messages from the Democratic National Committee were leaked to the public that showed, among other things, that Hillary Clinton had used her home computer to relay sensitive government documents.
In the case with impeachment, meanwhile, Trump had reached out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for information regarding reports that Joe Biden had blackmailed Kiev with one billion dollars in financial aid in return for dropping an investigation into his son.
Incredibly and tellingly, the left-leaning media has never discussed either of those very serious activities as possible motives for the Democrats to harass Trump for four long years. Instead, it has unleashed what could be considered the most coordinated hate campaign against any US leader to date.
Judge calls for Assange testimony in civil suit against Fox News over Seth Rich article https://t.co/yMw27O0vIZ via @JustTheNews
— Mojica Fitzgerald Kennedy (@politicalcomic) August 21, 2020
In fact, a truly free and independent media would have forwarded the question as to whether Biden himself, obviously suffering heavily on the cognitive front, has been hoisted up by the Democrats not because he is the most convincing candidate, but because he is the perfect criminal. In other words, had the Democrats gone with a fresh face against Trump they would have opened up the chess board to a multitude of possibly game-ending moves by the Barr and Durham investigation. However, with Biden confined to his basement like a blocking bishop, so to speak, Trump is greatly hindered from meting out justice to top members of the Obama clan who most likely participated not only in Crossfire Hurricane, and the Ukrainian swindle, but possibly even sordid shenanigans on the late Jeffrey Epstein's forbidden island.
We interrupt this scandal with a pandemic
Following Roosevelt's above mantra, that nothing happens in politics by accident, and especially, it should be added, in the most consequential US presidential election to come around in years, the outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States at this moment in history seems particularly incredible. And even more when it is considered that the first case of coronavirus in the United States was reported on January 20, just days after Nancy Pelosi used a gold pen to sign the articles of impeachment against Trump. It seems that even deadly viruses have a devilish sense of humor.
But let's assume for a moment that Roosevelt was mistaken in this particular case and the outbreak of Covid was truly an unplanned event (Event 201, to be exact); the draconian measures put forward to halt the spread of the disease were anything but. Preventing people from attending church services and mowing their lawn, for example, while giving a medical pass to violent protesters massed together on the street seems more like a deliberate attempt to increase the level of general unhappiness, thereby encouraging people to vote Trump out of office in November.
And is it just mere coincidence that Democrat-run cities and states reported the highest levels of outbreaks and deaths? Considering that the occasional motorcycle fatality was wrongly tallied in the Covid column among the elderly deaths, probably not. At the same time, how to explain the fact that Democratic governors from four major states reportedly ordered Covid-19 patients be admitted to state-run nursing homes, a move that led to a huge spike in the number of Covid deaths nationwide. We already know the Democrats have a predilection for terminating the life of the unborn, but senior citizens as well? An investigation is underway, but the silence that has welcomed this potentially explosive news adequately illustrates the left's death-grip on information, especially if it casts aspersions on the Democratic camp.
When I was watching Event 201, one of their exercises and discussions was actually media and communication. They literally discussed and made a case for censorship, in the name of health and safety. Did you guys watch it? Very interesting 👇https://t.co/CtXdZYhzEH
— Niloufar Sarraf, Ph.D. (@nilosarraf) August 28, 2020
We interrupt this pandemic with race riots
At this critical juncture in the year 2020, FDR must be looking down and shaking his head in total disbelief. That's because no sooner did the coronavirus seem to be subsiding, then America was hit with another scourge from out of the blue – systemic racism. Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, suddenly the entire country was cast by the media, and organizations like Black Lives Matter, as a racist hellhole worthy of destruction. Perhaps at a different time and place, the media would have been far more skeptical and allowed room for the possibility that maybe, just maybe, American police officers just need better training. Whatever the case may be, America, like every country, has its flaws, but I can say for a fact that 'systemic racism' is not one of them. If it were, the United States would not be the 'nation of immigrants' it is today.
"Fiery but mostly peaceful protest" is a real chyron @CNN ran while buildings in Wisconsin burned. If your kid has a birthday party where someone gets stabbed and a fire starts, it isn't a "mostly peaceful birthday" — it's a disaster. Our media is insane. pic.twitter.com/I92X10OOEn
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 28, 2020
But that is clearly not the narrative the Democrats and its lapdog media want Americans to believe. Kamala Harris, the Democrat's nominee for the vice presidency, and quite possibly America's first female president, is just one voice on the left stoking the flames of discontent and violence.
In a recent interview, she said with regards to the violent protesters who have spread mayhem across the nation, "They're not going to stop. This is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not going to stop, and everyone beware because they're not going to stop, they're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day." That sounds more like a direct order than any "warning." Around the same time, Democrat Rep, Ayanna Pressley appealed not for calm or good old fashioned law and order, but "unrest on the streets." These are not the utterances of dispassionate 'statesmen.'
When it is remembered that diplomacy and restraint is one of the highest attributes of any political leader, the United States will find itself in a fatal death spiral – if it is not already – should any of these like-minded lunatics get anywhere near the levers of power. This would also include individuals like George Soros, who, acting on the wrongheaded premise that America is a knuckle-dragging land of xenophobes, is dumping a quarter of a billions of dollars into the war chest of 'racial justice groups' like Black Lives Matter, which have turned their venom not against backwater bigots, but against the Republican Party. If you don't believe me, ask Rand Paul.
Did you see the idiots that attacked @randpaul last night? He was a CHAMPION for the passage of the First Step Act, has authored 20+ criminal justice bills, including one LITERALLY called the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act. Why is Joe Biden silent on these acts of violence?
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 28, 2020
If Roosevelt was correct in his assessment, and nothing ever happens in the world of politics by chance or accident, then the Democratic Party has a lot of explaining to do. From the outbreak of Russiagate, to the outbreak of race riots, to all of the deadly flare-ups in between, the Democrats have been wreaking havoc not only against the Trump administration, but against the American people. That is unacceptable. The voters must ask themselves if it is wise to hand over the keys to the White House to a group of individuals who would sink the very country they are so desirous to rule.
This is no campaign pitch for Donald Trump, a leader with his own specific set of issues, but judging by the egregious behavior of the Democratic Party over the last four years they have utterly forfeited any right to rule judging by their conspicuous lust for power, as opposed to love for country.
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Study permit delays impacting thousands of international students coming to Waterloo region
Thousands of international students hoping to have been in Waterloo region for the start of the fall semester are still back in their home countries, waiting to hear about the status of their Canadian study permits.
Delays, uncertainty cause students to look elsewhere, says Conestoga VP
Carmen Groleau · CBC News · Posted: Sep 14, 2022 7:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 14, 2022
Students study in a nearly empty Condor Cafe at Conestoga College, in this file photo. The college said about 1,000 international students are awaiting the approval of their study permits to come to Canada to attend the school. (Kate Bueckert/CBC)
Thousands of international students hoping to have been in Waterloo region for the start of the fall semester are still back in their home countries waiting to hear about the status of their Canadian study permits.
Backlogs at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has affected international students coming to study at Conestoga College, the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph.
Gary Hallam, vice president of international education at Conestoga College, said the delay has forced 1,000 international students to defer their studies until the January semester, mainly impacting lab-based programs that require students to be on site, like engineering, nursing and IT.
"It's a big set back for them," he told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo, adding the college was anticipating there would be some delay, "but not to this level."
Conestoga College has the second-largest population of international students among colleges in Ontario with many arriving from countries like India.
The IRCC announced on Aug. 25 it would extend the period for distance learning, allowing students to study from their home country and put that time toward their post-graduate work permit.
More than 1,500 students at the college benefited from that extension, Hallam said.
"That only helped a handful of students, but at least it helped some. That announcement came in two weeks before classes," he said.
According to IRCC, as of Aug. 18, the number of study permit applications to be processed for students coming to Canada is 163,600, adding 64 per cent of those applications are currently within its service standard of 60 days.
Hallam said the IRCC has processed more Visa applications for the college now, between 500 to 800 more than ever before, but demand is still high.
"We were hoping for a few thousand more to get going for these students, but there's been a lot of last minute changes for mainly the students, but also for the operations here at the college," he said.
The backlog is hurting Canada's image as a destination for international students to come study. Students and agents are now considering other countries like Australia or the UK because their processing time is much faster, Hallam said.
The University of Guelph says 'several dozen' international students have also been impacted by study permit delays. (Kate Bueckert/CBC)
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The college and local universities say they're doing what they can to support their international students as a result of these delays by allowing late arrivals during the first weeks of the semester and accommodating options for remote study.
"We are still trying to gauge numbers, but it looks like several dozen of our international students are still waiting for their study permits," Stuart McCook, vice-president international at the University of Guelph, said in a statement to CBC News.
"The university is working with students awaiting their study permits to help resolve the issue."
Wilfrid Laurier University says the school is working to ensure students impacted by delays have access to courses.
"For most programs, we have been able to offer students online, remote or hyflex courses (delivery of a course in-person with simultaneous online video sessions) for the fall term so they can continue with their studies despite not being on campus," a spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the University of Waterloo said the school is actively communicating with international students who have been impacted by the delays and has an administrative team responding their questions to ensure students have the information they need.
The university also wrote Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada "to express our desire to work with government and other institutions on collaborative solutions."
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Hallam said the school has accommodated some virtual class schedules at the college to start early morning so that students overseas can attend their classes at night and take part in group work.
"We try and record the sessions as well, so students have lots of flexibility," he said.
Hallam adds they are anticipating more permit delays for the January semester start, but IRCC's extension for distance learning stretched until August 2023 and allows students to complete up to 50 per cent of their program remotely.
"We know we can plan now and tell the students, 'Don't panic if you don't get your Visa for January or May in 2023, you can start your semester out of country,'" he said.
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State starts building wildlife-friendly roads. Sheep overpasses, elk collars: Call it road ecology. By Glen Creno. The Arizona Republic.
There have been quite a few similar stories in recent years. What I'd like to see is a study (other than Banff National Park where there have been a number) showing the magnitude of these improvements overall and the degree of success.
I think it will help, I live in AZ and I go to Payson alot. the area 's where they have the elk warning lights the accidents have went down 60%. The flashing warning light give the drivers a heads up to slow down for the next few miles, drivers in AZ drive very fast, too fast. and I see them driving 70-80 mph in Payson, the mountain roads here are not real winding and dangerous, so folks just drive too fast. At least with the light telling them "hey there are elk on the road" they do become more aware and slow down. The under cross they made also has helped with accidents in that area with elk, deer, coyotes all wildlife. I think we need more of this, more than what they are going to do even. And folks that are speeding when they hit an animal should be fined for it. I will be interested to see how the new stuff they plan on doing will work out. Good I hope!
I grew up in Arizona, my g'ma had a couple restaurants in Payson. There is a small stretch of twisty windy hwy between there and Phoenix, but not much.
You are right April, they do drive like idiots!
I live in this area of Arizona, also. As far as being "wildlife friendly" I guess if you mean cutting down collisions, yes it works. However, most of these things are done with huge fences funneling the elk into very specific areas and creating very specific migration patterns. The end result for disease and forage can't be good for the elk. They shouldn't be called wildlife friendly, but "people friendly" would be a better name since they cut down on collisions. I bet the false migration patterns that are created actually will be more harmful to the elk populations than the few animals killed by autos. It sounds like a case of "finding fault with anything" but I bet those huge funnels around and under highways do deter migration.


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Interview: 'Smallville' Producers Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson On the Series Finale, Booster Gold and More
by Diane Panosian, Oct 1 2010
During our ongoing investigative reporting into the final season of Smallville, we knew it was integral to speak with the brains behind the operation: Executive Producers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson. Over the course of the last decade, Smallville has shifted from its one-off episode style to an ongoing mystery into the world of Krypton's favorite son. This season the mysteries will be resolved.
While the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, in modern times we have our own mythology in the form of superheroes. Like epic poems passed down myths, Smallville illuminates Superman's origins with dramatic flare. After fighting Lex Luthor, Brainiac, and Zod, you'd think Clark Kent would get a nice vacay. Instead, his hero's journey will only really begin after the final episode is over.
Yesterday we spoke with Souders and Peterson about episode 200, Kristen Kruek and more. This time we're talking with the producers about Clark's legendary journey thus far and what they have in store for our Man of Steel. Note: This interview may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.
The Flickcast: Smallville's plot structure has evolved from being a "Freak of the Week" structure to having an ongoing mythology. Can you describe why the choice was made?
Kelly Souders: Well, I think anytime you're on the air for that long, you have to reinvent it. If not for just that we'd all get bored if we kept doing the same thing, but so that the fans have something new to grow with too. I mean ten years, you change a lot. We change a lot, each fan is going to change.
I think it's evolving has a lot to do with it surviving. I think we tried to make the show as organic to real life as possible. If we don't all change, find out new things about ourselves, or try to make changes within ourselves- the same thing would happen (to us) and we'd kind of stall out.
TF: Clark Kent has overcome many obstacles on his journey to becoming Superman. Can you discuss Clark's hero journey and the thematic elements of this season?
Brian Peterson: Well, last year we really had Clark go to some dark places. He was a little rougher, he burned down some buildings; He made some choices that were kind of on the edge and I think fans felt that. But that was on purpose because we really wanted Clark to explore: if I'm a god, where are my boundaries?
So, what's great this year is not only are we exploring physical and actual ghosts of the past, but there's some metaphorical ghosts that we're exploring as far as his inner turmoil. We're phrasing it though, not that it's just the past but that it's all these things that are propelling him into the future. So it's not that we're just looking back, we're really using all this to help him move on.
In episode 2 he puts on a brand new suit that's going to be amazing. And then we have some more iconic moments that touch on things in the comics, in the movies, in the characters that kind of help him along the way. Like Booster Gold, I think you know Geoff Johns is writing Booster Gold, and the Blue Beetle.
TF: Smallville has done a great job of including other actors from previous Superman incarnations. Are there any plans to bring more in this season?
BP: We've always tried that between Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve and Dean Cain, like the TV show, the movies, everything, we try to dovetail in at least a little. So we all weave in, even though we have our own world, we weave in the mythology.
TF: Are there elements or plot pieces you've been steadily heading towards in the series run that will be resolved in the final episode?
KS: I think we've all known images and pieces of the finale for years and year and years. Starting back with Al (Gough) and Miles (Millar). They had ideas that they always talked about being in the final episode. We love those ideas. We want to also honor, obviously, the creators of the show. So there will be some images that really come from Al and Miles, some from us, some from just years of our wish list.
It's in a strange sense kind of easy because you know that final moment he's Superman. This is the journey of Superman, so we started it and we know where he ends. There's pieces that fall into place and when we looked at this season, we sat down to talk about why he isn't Superman today.
We started really looking at his character and we're like, he's a better leader, he's certainly developed his skill set, shall we say, as Superman- but he's not Superman. If you watch that episode right now, he's not that guy that we all think about. So it was about moving him to that final point and figuring out what are the stumbling blocks and what are the obstacles. So that's really what you're going to be seeing this season.
One of the things that we talked about what his past. So this season, you'll see some ghosts from his past coming back so that he can have his final lessons from them. So that he can eventually move on and out of the dark mode and into the light.
TF: Can you talk about what the last shot of the series will be? Will it be Superman flying over Metropolis? How will that decision be made?
BP: There are many, many factors, actually, there's are a lot of different factors that go into that decision. I literally think it will come down to, even though we all have a vision, it will happen mid-season some way, it will come down to that last two weeks of the show when we know what the new movie is doing, when we know this and that.
I hate that I can't answer it any better. There's every intention to get it though. The mandates really change sometimes, depending on what's happening with the movie development or TV development.
So, could it be that the oft-bended rule of "No Tights, No Flights", will once and for all be shattered in blazing glory in the final moments? We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime stay tuned as we talk to more cast members and uncover the final season of Smallville.
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Q: Simulating non-causal time series? I'm looking into the possibility of using a non-causal time series filter for some data. The goal is filtering (for the purpose of anomaly detection). However, this is not particularly relevant.
I'm wondering how simulation of such a time series would work? Say for example your time series model were:
$$y_t = y_{t-1}+y_{t+1}+\eta_t$$
where $\eta$ corresponds to some standard random noise ($N(0,1)$ or something). My initial thoughts are to just simulate the random noise $\eta_t^*$ and then solve a linear system to get the $y_t$. However, this also sounds slow.. and I can't help but feel someone has probably already thought about this problem.
So, what is the standard practice here?

A: Here's an easy way to accomplish this in this particular situation. Rewrite your first equation as:
$\Delta y_t = -y_{t-1}+\epsilon_t$ where $\epsilon_t=-\eta_t$. Simulate $\epsilon_t$ as random $N(0,1)$, and start with an initial $y_0$ and $y_1$. Then create $y_2$ as $y_1-y_0+\epsilon_1$. You'll find it obeys the same relationship. Simulate a bunch and then burn some if you're worried about the starting point. I'm not sure if this helps for a more general version of your problem.

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In 2016, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a report on destitution in the UK (Fitzpatrick et al, 2016), which was a response to trends such as rising homelessness and the proliferation of foodbanks, which were seen as indications that severe poverty in the UK was rising.
While the measurement of poverty has been the subject of debate for a considerable time in the UK, the concept of destitution is more recent. In contrast to poverty, there is no government definition of or statistics on destitution. But according to Fitzpatrick et al (2016), someone is considered destitute if they have gone without two or more of the following essentials for an extended period over the course of a month: food, shelter, heating, lighting, clothing and toiletries. A person may also be considered destitute if they have an extremely low income with insufficient savings to cover the cost of these essentials. JRF has just published an update to the 2016 report (Fitzpatrick et al, 2018), which estimates that, in 2017, 1.55 million people in 785,000 households experienced destitution at some point during the course of the year.
This report makes extensive use of Fitzpatrick et al's (2016, 2018) work, both for context and to operationalise the concept of destitution.
Focus of this report: the 'UK-other' group
The reports by Fitzpatrick et al (2016, 2018) identify three groups of destitute people in the UK:
• those with 'complex needs' – anyone who experiences two or more of the following: homelessness, substance misuse, offending, domestic violence or begging
• 'migrants' – anyone born outside of the UK (who does not have complex needs)
• 'UK-other' – anyone who does not fall into the preceding two categories.
The presence of destitution among the first two groups is established in the research and policy literature (see the discussion in Fitzpatrick et al, 2015), whereas the UK other group has emerged as a concern more recently (Butler, 2017).
The UK-other group is the focus of this report, which attempts to fill the gap in knowledge about people in the group by looking at the policy, practice and other factors leading to their destitution. In Fitzpatrick et al's (2018) report, the group comprised 68% of destitute households. The largest household type within the group was single adult (60%), the group tended to skew more towards older working-age people than other age groups and 23% of households in the group contained children.
As the focus of the research, unless there is a specific need to contrast them with either the complex needs or migrant groups, this report refers to the UK-other group as 'destitute people'. Some have called this group 'the new destitute', as before the programme of welfare reforms first announced in 2010, they did not appear frequently in the literature, in contrast with migrants (Butler, 2017). Many interviewees for this research felt that destitution has increased among the group over the past few years. But as Fitzpatrick et al's (2016) report was the first large-scale attempt to estimate the number in the group, it is difficult to know whether the group has grown since 2010 with any degree of certainty.
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What Did Tilapia Used To Be Called?
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Tilapia, which has its origins in the Nile River, has been raised in farms for many years and is grown in warm waters all over the world. Only carp is more domesticated than this group of fish worldwide. Tilapia are raised domestically in the southern and western states. Colombia and Costa Rica are important sources of fresh food. Tilapia nilotica, an emerald-green tilapia renowned for its high output and quick growth; T. rex, a type of fish that is frequently produced in the United States; and T. a cold-tolerant strain of S. aureus; and T. Mossambica is a popular species for the live market and display aquariums due to its reddish skin tone. According to legend, Jesus of Nazareth multiplied tilapia a thousand times to feed the multitudes. This earned the species its common name, "St. Peter's fish," which the FDA forbids to be used in marketing. Whole tilapia typically weigh between 1 and 2 pounds. Fish over 2 pounds are preferred by some customers.
The flaky, somewhat firm tilapia has a delicate, sweet flavor and lean flesh. Many people contrast the tilapia's mild flavor with that of catfish, another farm-raised success story. Just below the skin side of fillets, there may be a tiny layer of darker muscle tissue that is white to pinkish-white in color. The quality of the water and the feed are essential for raising superior tilapia. The cooked meat is white and lean with soft flakes. Poor quality produces an off-flavor or a taste that is similar to muddy, grassy catfish.
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Although tilapia can be cooked in a variety of ways, it is best to stay with a mild sauce to prevent overpowering the delicate flavor of the fish. The tilapia's appealing skin, which can be gold, red, or black and white, should be highlighted but not always consumed because to its potential bitterness.
A tilapia hieroglyph is located immediately above and to the right of the head of the tall center figure in the 1500 BC tomb of Nakht.
Nile tilapia was first cultivated in Ancient Egypt, where it was identified by the hieroglyph K1 on the Gardiner list:
In Egyptian art, tilapia represented rebirth and was also linked to Hathor. It was also thought to follow and guard the sun god as he traveled through the sky each day. In the Book of the Dead, spell 15 says, "You see the tilapia in its [true] shape at the turquoise pool," and "I witness the tilapia in its [true] nature guiding the fast boat in its waters." Tomb paintings of tilapia are reminiscent of these passages.
One of the three primary fish species taken in the Sea of Galilee during Talmudic times, notably the Galilean comb, was tilapia (Sarotherodon galilaeus). The fish species' modern Hebrew name is amnoon (probably a compound of am, "mother" and noon, "fish"). Although the verse does not identify the fish, it is occasionally referred to in English as "St. Peter's fish." This moniker derives from a narrative in the Gospel of Matthew about the apostle Peter capturing a fish that had a coin in its mouth. A few tilapia species (Sarotherodon galilaeus, Oreochromis aureus, Coptodon zillii, and Tristramella) are present in the Sea of Galilee, where the event is said to have taken place, although the name also refers to Zeus faber, a marine fish that is not local to the region. For thousands of years, these species have been the focus of local small-scale artisanal fishing.
The latinization of the Tswana word for "fish," tlhapi, inspired the common name "tilapia," which was given to the genus of cichlids by Scottish scientist Andrew Smith in 1840.
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The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), which is thought to be the oldest known species of fish, is shown in Egyptian tomb paintings that date back more than 3,000 years. The Nile tilapia is still extensively farmed in Africa, where it is also referred to as St. Peter's fish because of biblical passages that mention feeding the multitudes. This freshwater tilapia may reach lengths of 24 inches and thrives in fresh and brackish waters with temperatures ranging from 47 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Tilapia are mouth breeders; when the yolk sac is swallowed, they continue to keep the fertilized eggs and young fish in their mouths for a number of days.
The collective name for a species of cichlid fish native to Africa is tilapia. The group is made up of the genera Oreochromis, Sarotherodon, and Tilapia, which are all significant in aquaculture. These three genera are distinguished by a number of traits, but reproductive behavior may be the most significant. All tilapia species make nests, and fertilized eggs are watched over by a brood parent inside the nest. Both Sarotherodon and Oreochromis species are mouth brooders; after being fertilized in the nest, the eggs are promptly picked up by the parents and held in their mouths throughout the duration of incubation and for a few days following hatching. Only females of the Oreochromis species engage in mouth brooding, whereas males or both male and female of the Sarotherodon species perform this behavior.
Tilapia cultivation has started in the past 50 years all over the tropical and semi-tropical world. More than 90% of all tilapia raised for commercial purposes outside of Africa are Nile tilapia, and all commercially significant tilapia in existence today are found in the genus Oreochromis. Blue tilapia (O. aureus), Mozambique tilapia (O. Mossambicus), and Zanzibar tilapia are less frequently cultivated species (O. urolepis hornorum). In the past 30 years, numerous revisions to the tilapia species' scientific names have occurred, which has led to considerable ambiguity. Tilapia nilotica, Sarotherodon niloticus, and most recently Oreochromis niloticus have all been used as the scientific names for Nile tilapia.
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A bas-relief portraying tilapias housed in ponds that was discovered in a 4,000-year-old Egyptian tomb is one of the earliest illustrations of tilapia farming. The Ancient Egyptians gave the Nile tilapia its own hieroglyph because they valued it so highly. They called it in.t. The hieroglyph is now listed as number K1 on Sir Alan Gardiner of Britain's Sign List of Common Egyptian Hieroglyphs. This hieroglyph represents a Nile tilapia when used as a logogram. It could denote flathead mullets in addition to Nile tilapia when used as a determinative (ideogram). Flathead mullets were significant food fish in ancient Egypt, just like Nile tilapias. The hieroglyph signified the sound in when it was used as part of a phonogram.
Tilapia was prized by people other than the Ancient Egyptians. For a variety of ethnic groups residing in Africa and the Levant, tilapia has historically been and continues to be a significant source of sustenance. Greeks are recognized for being aficionados of tilapia, and about 300 BC, Aristotle is thought to have given it the scientific name Tilapia niloticus (fish of the Nile).
The tilapia is a component of Christian mythology since it is said that the fish that the apostle Peter caught in Matthew 17:27 was a tilapia. Species of tilapia with a particular pattern of spots are frequently referred to as "St. Peter's fish" in English. The dark stains on the fish were allegedly caused by the apostle's fingerprints, according to folklore. John Dory fish, Zeus faber, also goes by the moniker St. Peter's fish, however this is a marine species, whereas the story in the bible takes place in the Sea of Galilee, an Israeli lake with freshwater. The tilapia Sarotherodon galilaeus galilaeus lives in the Sea of Galilee. Local fisherman have been catching Sarotherodon galilaeus galilaeus in the Sea of Galilee for a very long time.
The temple tax collectors approached Peter when they arrived in Capernaum and said, "Your teacher pays the temple tax, doesn't he?" Yes, he replied. Jesus first addressed Peter after he returned home, saying, "Simon, what do you think? Who do the earthly kings demand tolls or taxes from? either from their own citizens or from outsiders?" When he uttered, "The subjects are immune from foreigners in that situation, Jesus responded to him. However, go to the water and drop a hook in there so that we don't offend them. You can find a coin by picking up the first fish that appears and opening its mouth. For me and you, take it and offer it to them."
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Several, usually freshwater species of fish with the common name "tilapia" are endemic to Africa and are members of the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes). Perhaps because of its potential as a simple to produce and harvest food fish, tilapias are best recognized. Their rapid growth, disease resistance, and diet of easily available algae and zooplankton are all advantages for commerce. Tilapias have been used in warm-water aquaculture systems since the time of ancient Egypt. Since then, they have been introduced to many warm regions of the world with freshwater environments. Oreochromis niloticus is the most extensively cultivated and introduced species.
The genus Tilapia once included all species of tilapia, but it has since been split into genera with mouth-brooding females (Sarotherodon and Oreochromis) and those that lay their eggs on the bottom of ponds and lakes (Tilapia).
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