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Friends In Low Places
Summary: Ser Jarod Rivers, bastard son of Lord Terrick, and Ser Kevan Tierney, a lowborn hedge knight, meet and renew acquaintances.
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Terrick's Roost - Smithies
Through the stone archway is a small, dimly lit blacksmith's shop that appears to have two main proprietors; one who deals in dinner wares (whitesmith) and the other in smaller iron items like fasteners, hinges, tools, and nails (blacksmith). The area is not what many would considered clean and the dirt floor is devoid of anything flammable. Each side has a heavily contructed heating element and a large, raised anvil nearby for the final forging. Tools are hung upon the walls in very specific places while the finished products are kept on a set of shelves at the end of the shop past the work area.
Mon Jul 18, 288
The afternoon shadows are lengthening as evening approaches, though there's still a few hours left in the day to attend to business. Jarod Rivers is down at the smithy making some attempt to do that. Sort of. He's waiting as new shoes for his horse are seen to, occasionally trying to make idle conversation with one of the apprentices. They all have jobs to do, however, so they don't pause long to idle with him. The Terrick crest tied onto his sword belt marks him out as one of the castle's men-at-arms, though his clothing is otherwise unremarkable (if, like his sword, of very decent make). Finally devoid of anyone to try and make conversation with he starts idly whistle. It resembles a somewhat zippier version of a common Riverlands drinking sound, though the way he's doing it makes the tune wander close to unrecognizability.
It's still early enough to see a number of Terrick's Roost's smallfolk out and about, trying to conclude their last business for the day, so no one pays much mind to the man who rides into town. Ser Kevan Tierney, still clad in his riding leathers, does get a few odd looks as he passes, mainly directed at the hawk perched on his arm and the distinctive castle-forged greatsword strapped to his charger's saddle. Kevan nudges the horse towards the smithy; it's apparent from the horse's gait that the creature's thrown a shoe. He makes an odd sound towards the hawk; the bird obediently flaps her wings, taking off into flight so Kevan can dismount. Throwing his cloak over his shoulder, the free lance hops down from his saddle, tying the reins to a nearby post and quietly explaining his need to the first apprentice whose attention he's able to grab.
Jarod keeps whistling he notes and watches Kevan's approach, though the tune trails off after the next round of what could charitably be described as the chorus. It's the bird that draws his eye more than anything else, though after a beat his eyes narrow at Kevan himself. Expression curious, and as if the sight of the man tickles something in the back of his mind he can't quite place.
As the apprentice runs off to the smith, Kevan leans against the post his horse is tied to, stifling a yawn as he folds his arms over his chest. It's obvious from his apparent weariness and the mud streaking the hem of his cloak and the bottoms of his boots that he's been on the road for some time. He looks to and fro, taking in the sights of Terrick's Roost, such as they are… and then he stops, as he notices the young man squinting at him. He's about to dismiss the boy as a random gawker, until he feels a twinge of recognition in his own mind. He pushes himself off the post, taking a few steps towards Jarod. "We've met, or I'm a Dornishman," he finally says slowly, his voice a low, raspy baritone.
"Haven't met many Dornishmen proper," Jarod replies. His own barritone is not particularly raspy, for his part. It is friendly enough, if still curious. "But you don't look from so far off as all that. We've gotten a fair few swords through here the last few days, on their way down direction of Stonebridge. Aye, you've a familiar look about you. You one of Lord Mallister's men?"
Kevan chuckles; it's a short, caustic sound. "Hardly. I bend the knee to no man." Not unless he's paid first, but that's not something that a smart hedge knight brags about. His own tone is friendly enough, and matches Jarod's in the curiosity department. "Aye, on the way to Stonebridge myself, I am. Thought I'd rest a day or three at the Roost; I made better time on the road than I thought I might." The mention of Mallister seems to jog something in Kevan's mind. He snaps his fingers, pointing suddenly towards the younger man. "That's what it is. You squired for one of Mallister's bannermen during the Rebellion, didn't you?" He gestures towards Jarod's face. "Ser Vernon. I seem to remember the old goat breaking his pretty boy squire's nose clean off." Kevan snorts. "You still bear the mark, all right."
A boyish grin, which only makes him look younger and simpler to place, breaks across Jarod's face at mention of Ser Vernon. "Just crooked it a notch. I've rather come to like it. Ladies like a few scars so long as they aren't anywhere vital. Lets them know you've got some good stories. Not that I tell the real one that often." He laughs. "Jarod Rivers. Ser Jarod Rivers now." And he can't help but say it with a touch of pride. "But right. That's where your face comes to mind. You were one of the hedge knights with Lord Tully, aye?"
Kevan gives a pained grimace at the term 'hedge knight', but he nods without complaint. "Aye, so I was. Ser Kevan Tierney, at your service," he replies, sketching a perfunctory, and perhaps a bit sarcastic, bow. "Rivers… I'd forgotten you were Terrick's bastard." It's said lightly, not meant to condemn; even a noble's bastard has more noble blood in him than Kevan himself, after all. He might not talk like a commoner, but Kevan's never tried concealing his lowborn origins. "Ser Jarod, eh? Well, I offer my congratulations. But then, everyone who survived the Trident with four limbs intact earned their spurs that day, if they didn't have them already, you ask me." He sobers slightly at that, his memories taking him back to a blood-soaked battlefield. "Done well for yourself since, I see," he finishes, nodding to the younger man's clearly well-made sword and cloak.
"Ser Kevan. That's the name. Well met." The term 'hedge knight' is used with no insult, and Jarod his hand in offer for the other man to clasp it. The bow just gets a chuckle. "Local byblow I am, yes." He seems, on the surface at least, merry enough about his bastardry. It's only mention of the Trident that sobers him some. "That's about the right of it. About all a squire needed to do to get themselves knighted after the Trident was have all their original fighting parts still attached, at least on King Robert's side, the way things went. Ser Vernon himself dubbed me not long after. I was old enough I suppose he figured it'd be best just to have it done with, if I was going to manage it at all." As for the cloak, a shrug. "I serve my Lord Father, which does for me well enough. You look as if you've seen a good bit of the road. That's a fair bird you rode in with, by the by." Eyes turn as if he's trying to track the hawk.
Kevan accepts the offered arm readily, giving it the firm clasp of a comrade-in-arms. "Aye, so it was. So it was." Ser Jarod's mention of the road triggers another yawn. "That I have," he replies with a nod. "And sadly not done on the road yet, either. Spent much of the past week riding down from Flint's Finger." Flint's Finger being as far as it is, the time frame involved suggests a certain haste on Kevan's part, but he doesn't elaborate. "But as I said, I've some time to rest up before the tournament in Stonebridge." His head tilts curiously to the side, as he casts a measuring look at the other man. "And what of you, Ser Jarod? Shall I see your name on the tournament rolls?" He laughs, a much more merry sound than it had been before. "I would be curious to see what you've learned since that sparring match with Ser Vernon." He looks upward at the mention of the bird; Andra is circling overhead, above the smithy. Kevan raises his left arm; after a moment, the bird swoops down with a cry of acknowledgement, coming in for a landing on the offered perch. The blond knight doesn't flinch as the raptor hurtles towards him, her claws latching on and clinging to his gauntlet. "Aye, she's a fair one indeed, she is," Kevan replies with a proud smile. "An excellent traveling companion, even if she has little to say."
Jarod takes a step back as the bird soars in, continuing to admire the creature. "There are certainly worse companions a man could have, I'll grant that. She looks a fine hunter, which must make traveling a bit less light. You spent some time up in the Northlands, then? That's a distance from Riverrun, Ser Kevan, you don't mind my saying so." The observation about the tournament prompts a snorted chuckle. "I'm sure I can find some entertaining ways to break myself. Aye. I'll be on the lists for the Grand Melee at least. Its a chance to cross swords with some of the finest warriors in the Seven Kingdoms, and I'm not about to let it pass."
Kevan nods. "That she is. And a good thing, too, as I was never much with a hunting bow." He snorts at Jarod's mention of the North. "It is at that. And between you, me, and the bird, the Northmen are welcome to it. The Starks say 'Winter is coming', aye, but I say that up there, it never leaves." He utters a sharp chuckle, apparently pleased with his own wit. If Jarod is pressing for more information about Ser Kevan's travels, he'll have to press harder, as the blond man doesn't seem terribly inclined to discuss the particulars. "As will I," Kevan replies when Jarod mentions the melee, and gives a nod in response to his last. "Just so, just so. Might try my hand at the jousting as well. Was never much of a lancer myself, but I think Leviathan here enjoys the tilt." He pats the flank of his horse, a massive black creature that certainly seems to live up to the name. "Perhaps we'll cross blades in the melee, then," Kevan finishes, a sly smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
Jarod seems less pressing for information than eager for a tale, and he can't quite hide his disappointment when an adventure from the cold North isn't forthcoming. "Well, Ser Kevan, it's summer in Terrick's Roost and everywhere else in the land, and far as I'm concerned winter can stay in the North for now. They're welcome to it. For your part, welcome to Terrick's Roost, for as long as you stay. The prices at our inn is reasonable if you've still coin from House Flint in your purse. Food's good, drink's better, beds are soft and the whores are softer and better company than your hawk, if you've a mind to that sort of thing." He cracks another of those boyish grins. "Good luck in the joust. I'll be saving myself for the melee. Besides, my brother's the better horse and it's easier silver betting in his direction. That is a fine animal you've got there, though, I must say."
Kevan nods graciously. "Aye, a good beast is he. I probably work him harder than I should; I move around too much to keep a proper stable, I'm afraid." He pats the horse's side once more. "He's never complained, though." Kevan smirks at that. His eyes flick over towards the inn at Jarod's mention. "And I thank you. A warm bed and warmer company certainly sounds appealing… but then, when you've been on the road this long, anything that isn't the saddle or the bush is a welcome respite." He winks knowingly. "Speaking of which, Ser Jarod, I do believe I'm going to head off in that direction. It doesn't seem the smith will be able to reshoe Leviathan until tomorrow." It does take him a moment to recognize the true nature of the disappointment that passed over Jarod's face a moment before, but recognize it he does, eventually. After all, he too was a young man once. Kevan pauses, turning back towards the younger man. "When next we meet, perhaps I'll let you buy me a drink, and I'll tell you something of my travels in the cold, hard North."
Jarod gets a laugh out of that. "Let me buy you a drink? You're the soul of courtesy, Ser Kevan. Well, I'll take you up on that. I should be down in town again tomorrow. The walls at the castle close in a bit rather often. Enjoy what hospitality you can find."
Kevan utters a booming laugh of his own at Jarod's riposte. "And you, young ser, are kinder than I likely deserve. Until tomorrow, then. You can find me at the Rockcliff, should you be inclined to look." He tosses a casual salute Jarod's way. "Fair eve to you, Ser Jarod." With that, he unties Leviathan from the post; reins in one hand and his hawk resting on the other, the wandering knight sets off towards the nearby inn.
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The "Egoism" of Max Stirner, according to which property is "that over which I can assert my power" (a principle widely accepted in practice), is a theory at least as old as the Callicles and the Thrasymachus of Plato's Dialogues; and the philosophy of Proudhon, of Stirner and Bakunin, in spite of its use of Hegelian formula, is only a survival of the crude individualism of the Cynics and of the more audacious Greek Sophists.
The author, Ernst Viktor Zenker´s purpose with his book is to clear up the widely prevalent ignorance as to the real nature of Anarchism.
Germany in 1830-40 and France — Stirner and Proudhon — Biography of Stirner — The Individual and his Property (Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum) — The Union of Egoists — The Philosophic Con-tradiction of the Einziger— Stirner's Practical Error— Julius Faucher — Moses Hess — Karl Grün — Wilhelm Marr.
In the first half of the forties, almost about the same time, but completely independent one from another, there appeared, on each side of the Rhine, two men who preached a new revolution in a manner totally different from the ordinary revolutionist, and one from which at that time even, the most courageous hearts and firmest minds shrank back. Both were followers of the "royal Prussian Court philosopher" Hegel, and yet took an entirely different direction one from the other : but both met again at the end of their journey in their unanimous renunciation of all political and economic doctrines hitherto held; in their thorough opposition to every existing and imagined organization of society upon whatever compulsion of right it might be founded; and in their desire for free organization upon the simple foundation of rules made by convention or agreement — in their common desire for Anarchy.
The contemporaneous appearance of Proudhon and Stirner is of as much importance as their in many ways, fundamental difference. The first circumstance shows their appearance was symptomatic, and raises it above any supposed or probable out- come of chance; Stirner and Proudhon support each other mutually with all their independence, and with all their difference one from another. As to this, it cannot be denied that it is to be traced, first and foremost, to the totally different environment in which the two authors grew up.
Ludwig Pfau, in a talented essay, has sought to derive the literary peculiarities of Proudhon from the Gallic character and from his French milieu. But even besides the purely literary aspect, Proudhon shows all the gifts and all the weaknesses of his people and of his time; he shares with all Frenchmen their small inclination to real criticism, but also their faculty of never separating themselves from the stream of practical life; and thus, before everything, we perceive in Proudhon's earlier works a strong tendency towards the part of an agitator. L. Pfau asserts that it is a specific peculiarity of the French nation, with all their notorious sentiment for freedom, "to discipline their own reluctant personality, and subject it to the common interest"; and therein lies, perhaps, the reason why Proudhon, although an enthusiastic advocate of personal freedom, never wished this to be driven to the point of the disintegration of collective unity and to the sacrifice of the idea of society.
Stirner is the German thinker who is carried away by the unchecked flow of his thoughts far from the path of the actual life into a misty region of "Cloud-cuckoo-land," where he actually remains as the "only individual," because no one can follow him. There is no trace in Stirner's book of any intention of being an agitator. As far as political parties are mentioned in it, they do appear as such, but merely as corollaries of certain tendencies of philosophic thought. Stirner keeps himself even anxiously apart from politics, and a certain dislike to them is unmistakable in him. All parties have in his eyes only this in common, that they all strive to actualize conceptions and ideas which lie beyond them, whether these be called God, State, or humanity. Stirner stands in the same relation to the philosophic tendencies of his own and earlier times. He sees them all run into the great ocean of generality the absolute, nothingness. The distinction between Saint Augustine and L. Feuerbach is for him purely a superficial and not an essential one; for the "man" of the latter is as foreign to him as the "God" of the former. And so Stirner carries his disinclination to politics, as being inimical to the philosophy of his time, almost to disgust, being herein a genuine son of his country and of his period.
The political attitude of the forties was very much the same. The national enthusiasm, the wars of freedom, and the sanguine hopes which had at- tended the downfall of the Corsican, had, like the expectations aroused by the Revolutionists of the days of July, ended in miserable disaster. The touching confidence which a nation, all too naive in politics, had placed in its princes had been shamefully deceived and abused. All dreams of union and freedom seemed to be extinguished for a long time, and the flunkeyism which was unfortunately only too rampant in the nation, ran riot, while frank souls stood aside in disgust. The more eager the spiritual enthusiasm had been on the threshold of two centuries, the deeper now did apathy weigh upon men's spirits in the period of the forties. The fuller men's souls had been of surging and stormy ideals, and wishings and vague longings of all kinds, the emptier did they now become, and not only Stirner could with justice give to his "only individual" the motto, "I have placed my all on nothing," but it was the motto of all Germany at that time. And yet in one thing Stirner is the type of his people as contrasted with Proudhon. He is the most complete example of the German who lacks that proud self-sacrificing view of the life of the community, that feeling of the inseparability of the individual from the mass of his people — which is the token of the French, — but who at all times has suffered from a separatism that destroys everything. He is the typical representative of that nation to whom its best sons have denied the capacity of being a nation, but which has therefore been able to produce more striking individualities than all other civilized nations of the time.
Caspar Schmidt — for this is Stirner's real name 1)Stirner's chief work, The Individual and his Property (Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum, Leipsic, 1845), has been reprinted by P. Reclam, at Leipsic, with a good introduction by Paul Lauterbach. The literature about Stirner is almost exclusively confined to a few- scattered remarks in larger works, which are not always very appropriate. J. H. Mackay is said to be working at a biography of Stirner. The monograph by Robert Schellwien, Max Stirner und Friedrich Nietzsche (Leipsic, 1892), is quite worthless for our purpose. — was born at Bayreuth on the 25th October, 1806, and, like Strauss, Feuerbach, Bruno Bauer, and other thinkers of the same kind, devoted his time to theological and philosophic studies. After completing these, he took the modest position of a teacher in a high school, and in a girls´ school in Berlin. In 1844 there appeared, under the pseudonym "Max Stirner," a book called The Individual and his Property, with the dedication which, under these circumstances, is touching: "To my Darling, Marie Döhnhardt." The book appeared like a meteor; it caused for a short time a great deal of talk, and then sank into oblivion for ten years, till the growing stream of Anarchist thought again came back to it in more recent times. A History of the Reaction, written after the year 1848, is esteemed as a good piece of historical work; and, besides this, Caspar Schmidt also produced translations of Say, Adam Smith, and other English economists. On the 26th of June, 1856, he ended his life, poor in external circumstances, rich in want and bitterness. That is all that we know of the personality of the man who has raised the idea of personality to a Titanic growth that has oppressed the world.
Stirner proceeds from the fact, the validity of which we have placed in the right light at the be- ginning of this book, that the development of man- kind and of human society has hitherto proceeded in a decidedly individualistic direction, and has consisted predominantly in the gradual emancipation of the individual from his subjection to general ideas and their corresponding correlatives in actual life, in the return of the Ego to itself. Starting from the school of Fichte and Hegel, he pursued this special individualistic tendency till close upon the limits of caricature; he formally founded a cultus of the Ego, all the while being anxious that it should not return again to the region of metaphysical soap-bubbles, and leave its psychological and practical sphere. On the contrary, Stirner appears to be rather inclined to Positivism, and to consider the details of life and of perception as real, and as the only ones whose existence is justified. All that is comprehensible and general is secondary, a product of the individual, the subject turned into an object, a creation that is looked upon and honored by the creator as the only actual reality, the highest end — indeed, as something sacred. In the origin of this generalization, as well as in emancipation from it, Stirner perceives the course of progressive culture.
The ancients only got so far as generalizations of the lower order; they lived in the feeling that the world and worldly relationships (for example, the natural bond of blood) were the only true things before which their powerless self must bow down. Man, in the view of life taken by the ancient world, lived entirely in the region of perception, and therefore all his general ideas, even the highest type of them, not excluding Plato's, retained a strongly sensuous character.
Christianity only went a step higher with its generalizations out of the region of the senses; ideas became more spiritual and less corporeal in proportion as they became more general. Antiquity sought the true pleasure of life, enjoyment of life; Christianity sought the true life; antiquity sought complete sensuousness, Christianity complete morality and spirituality; the first a happy life here, the latter a happy life hereafter; antiquity postulated as the highest moral basis, the State, the laws of the world; Christianity postulated God, imperishable, everlasting Law. The ancient world did not get beyond the rule of formal reason, the Sophists; Christianity put the heart in the place of reason, and cultivation of sentiment in that of one-sided cultivation of the intellect. Nevertheless, this is, according to Stirner (as has already been mentioned), the same process, and the objectification of the Self, which comes out of itself, and considers itself as some foreign body striving upwards unconscious self-deification.
Even in the Reformation Stirner recognizes nothing more than the continuation of the same process. Up to the time of the period preceding the Reformation, reason that was condemned as heathenish lay under the dominion of dogma; shortly before the Reformation, however, it was said, "If only the heart remains Christianly minded, reason may after all have its way." But the Reformation at last places the heart in a more serious position, and since then hearts have become visibly less Christian. When men began with Luther "to take the matter to heart," this step of the Reformation led to the heart being lightened from the heavy burden of Christianity. The heart becomes from day to day less Christian; it loses the contents with which it occupies itself, until at last nothing remains to it but empty "heartiness," general love of man, the love of humanity; the consciousness of freedom. It need hardly be mentioned that this view of history is quite arbitrary and distorted. Who requires to be told that the Reformation was, perhaps, the greatest historical act in favor of the individual, because it freed him from the most powerful of all authorities, from the omnipotence of the Roman dogma? With the Reformation the conscious movement for freedom received its first great impulse.
But Stirner places the reverence of the ancients for the State, the reverence of the Christian for God, and of modern times for humanity and freedom, all upon the same level, — they all seem to him ghosts, spectres, possession by spirits and hauntings, — and he seeks to establish the same conclusion as regards the ideas of truth, right, morality, property, and love, — the so-called sacred foundations of human society. They are all ghost-imaginations of our own mind, creations of our own Ego, before which the creator of them bows in the impotence of ignorance, considering them as something unalterable, eternal, and sacred, to which every activity of the creative idea is placed in contrast as Egoism.
The dominion of the idea, whether it is religious or humanitarian or moral, is for Stirner mere priest craft; philanthropy is merely a heavenly, spiritual, but priest-imagined love. Man must be restored, and in doing so we poor wretches have ruined ourselves. It is the same ecclesiastic principle as that celebrated motto, Fiat Justitia, pereat mundus; humanity and justice are ideas and ghosts to which everything is sacrificed. The enthusiast for humanity leaves out of consideration persons as far as his enthusiasm extends, and walks in a vague ideal of sacred interest. Humanity is not a person but an ideal — an imagination.
From the same point of view he considers the whole of the mental attitude introduced by the Reformation.
Humanity strives for independence, and strives to overcome everything which is not a self, says Stirner; but how does this agree with the above-mentioned spread of the power of the mental conception and of the idea? To-day mankind is less free than before; so-called Liberalism only brings other conceptions forward; that is, instead of the divine, the human; instead of ecclesiastical ideas, those of the State; instead of those of faith, those Of science; or general statements, instead of the rough phrases and dogmas, actual ideas and everlasting laws.
At this point (wherein Stirner by no means recognizes immediate or economic individualism) social Liberalism — that which we to-day call social Democracy or communal Socialism — separates from the political. With a cleverness which we cannot sufficiently admire, Stirner proceeds to show that these directions which are so totally opposed are – essentially the same, and regards the latter merely as the logical outcome from the former.
That which Stirner, finally, under the name of humanitarian Liberalism, places side by side with the two tendencies just mentioned has nothing to do, generally speaking, with the political and material relations of mankind, and is the philosophical Liberalism of Feuerbach, who places freedom of thought in the same position as his predecessors put freedom of the person. 'In the human society which humanitarianism promises," says Stirner," nothing can be recognized which any person has as something 'special,' nothing shall have any value which bears the mark of a 'private ' individual. In this way the circle of Liberalism completes itself, having in humanity its good principle, in the egotist and every 'private' person its evil one; in the former its God, in the latter its devil. If the special or private person lost his value in the State, and if special or private property ceased to be recognized in the community of workers or vagabonds, then in human society everything special or private is left out of consideration, and when pure criticism shall have performed its difficult work, then we shall know what is private, and what one must leave alone in seines Nichts durchbohrendem Gefühle." Political Liberalism regulated the relations of might and right, social Liberalism wishes to regulate those of property and labor, humanitarian Liberalism lays down the ethical principles of modern society.
As may be seen, Stirner does not recognize the efforts and endeavors of all these tendencies to which we ascribe the complete transformation of Europe in the last century, but, on the contrary, is prepared to perceive in them rather an intensification of the servitude in which the free Ego is held. The more spiritual, the more interesting, the more sublime and the more sacred ideas become for men, the greater becomes their respect for them, and the less becomes the freedom of the Ego as regards them. But as these ideas are merely creations of man's own spirit, — fiction and unreal forms, — all the so-called progress made by Liberalism is regarded by Stirner as nothing else than increasing self-delusion and constant retrogression. True progress evidently lies for him only in the complete emancipation of the Ego from this dominion of ideas that is in the triumph of egotism. "For Individualism (egotism) is the creator of everything, just as already genius [a definite egotism] which is always originality, is regarded as the creator of new historical productions. Freedom teaches us: set yourselves free, get rid of everything burdensome; but it does not teach you who you yourselves are. Free! Free! So sounds its cry, and you eagerly follow it; become free from yourselves, and renounce yourselves. But Individualism calls you back to yourselves, and says: ' Come to yourself! ' Under the aegis of freedom you become free from many things, but become subject again to some new thing; you are free from the Evil One, but abstract evil still remains. As individuals you are really free from everything, and what clings to you, you have accepted. That is your choice and your wish. The individual is the one who is born free, the man who is free by birth. The ' free man,' on the other hand, is he who only looks for freedom, the dreamer, the enthusiast." Freedom is only possible together with the power to acquire it and to maintain it; but this power only resides in the individual. "My power is my property; my power gives me property; I am myself my own power, and am thereby my own property." This is, in a nutshell, Stirner's positive doctrine.
All existing right is external to the Ego; no one can give me my right, neither God, nor reason, nor Nature, nor the State; as to whether I am right or not there is only one judge and that is myself; others at most can pass a judgment and decide whether they support my right and whether it also exists as a right for them. Law is the will of the dominating power in a community. Every State is a despotism, whether the dominant power belongs to one, to many, or to all. A despotism would re- main then, if, for example, in the national assembly the national will, that is to say, the individual wills of each person, really had overwhelmingly expressed itself, including also my own will; if then this wish becomes law I am bound to-morrow by what I wished yesterday, and then I thus become a servant, even though it be only the servant of myself. How can this be changed? "Only by my recognizing no duty, neither letting myself bind nor be bound. If I have no duty then I also know no law." Wrong goes side by side with right, crime with legality. The unfettered Ego of Stirner is the never-ceasing criminal in the State; for only he who denies his "self," and who practices self-denial is acceptable to the State. And thus with the disappearance of right comes also the disappearance of crime.
Step by step Stirner departs from Proudhon; the latter demands, in order to create his paradise, a balance, the former lays down the principle of natural selection as the highest and only law in social matters. The fight, the struggle for existence, which Proudhon strove to recognize in economic life, here enters upon its rights in all its brutality. The realization of the self is, for Stirner, the key to the solution of the problems of work, property, and pauperism. He will have no division of goods, no organization of labor. For Proudhon every piece of work is the result of a collective force, for Stirner the most valuable works are those of "individual" artists, savants, and so on, and their value is always to be determined only from the egoist standpoint.
To the question whether money should be maintained or done away with among egoists, he answers: "If you know a better medium of exchange, all right; but it will always be ' money ' it is not money that does you harm, but your lack of power to take it. Let your power be felt, nerve yourselves, and you will not lack money — your money, the money of your own coining. But working I do not call letting your power be felt. Those who only ' seek for work, and are willing to work hard,' prepare for themselves inextinguishable lack of work." What we now-a-days call free competition, Stirner refuses to regard as free, since everyone has not the means for competing. "To abolish competition only means to favor members of some craft. The distinction is this: in a craft, such as baking, baking is the business of the members of the craft; under a system of competition it is the business of anyone who likes to compete; but in societies it is the business of those who use what is baked; thus, my or your business, not the business of the members of the craft, nor of the baker who has a concession given him, but of those in the union or society." Here for the second time we meet with the idea of a union, without Stirner expressing himself exactly about its character. Only in one other place does he happen to speak about the ideas of this union. He says the end of society is agreement or union. A society also certainly arises through union, but only in the same way as a fixed idea arises from a thought, namely, by the fact that the energy of the thought, thinking itself the restless absorption of all rising thoughts, disappears from thought. When a union has crystallized itself into a society, it has ceased to be an active union; for the act of union is a ceaseless uniting of individuals, it has become a united existence, has come to a standstill, has degenerated into a fixity; it is dead as a union; it is the corpse of union, and of the act of union; that is, it is a society or community. What is known as "party" is a striking example of this.
As Stirner had to acknowledge that this union or society cannot exist without freedom being limited in every way, he declared — since after all he requires union for some things—"absolute freedom" a creature of the imagination, as the opposite to "individuality," which is the main thing. But can it be believed that Stirner has set up an "absolute freedom" all of his own making, to place it in contrast with individuality. In other words, freedom is merely the possibility of living one's individuality, of being an "individual" in Stirner's sense. Freedom is the absence of every outside influence; it may be understood in an exoteric or esoteric sense; and throughout his whole book Stirner has done nothing but strip the "Ego" from every sign of outside compulsion; he has made it the "only one" by freeing it with relentless logic from everything external. He has depicted this act of liberation as the goal of all culture; and it finally emerges that all this story of the "only Ego" is a delusion, for "union" excludes "absolute individuality" as well as "absolute freedom" — because the two are identical.
Stirner, indeed, only spoke of an "absolute freedom" to represent it as a fiction of the imagination, and on the other hand only of an individuality. Now his union does not exclude individuality and freedom, but only absolute individuality. But this last Stirner cannot admit, because it also he regards merely as a "spectre," an "obsession," a "fixed idea." But whether he admits it or not, what is Stirner's "individual" but an idea, something absolute? Stirner had begun with the intention of slaying Feuerbach's idea of "man" as a retrograde idealist fallacy, and of creating, like Prometheus, a new man, the Unmensch, in the Ego completed into a microcosm, and, as such, complete in itself, separate and independent. But that is, as a matter of fact, not the "no-man" but the superhuman Prometheus himself, the idea of Man which he attacked in Feuerbach. "Might," he says in one part of his book, "goes before right, and rightly too." This is exactly the logical scheme of the whole book. Away with everything absolute! Individuality goes before every idea, just because it is itself the absolute idea of the much-despised Hegel. But suppose we do not take into consideration this fundamental contradiction. Let us suppose there is none, and that all Stirner's other assumptions are indisputable, that God, Humanity, Society, Right, the State, the Family are all classed in one category, as were abstractions and creations of my own "Ego," what follows? That these ideas, now that they have lost their absolute character, are no longer to be reckoned as factors in the organization of life? It is so, if one regards only that which is absolute as entitled to exist; but Stirner would drive everything absolute from its very last positions. And does it follow further from the circumstance that one of these factors has lost its controlling influence over mankind that all the others, because they too are not absolute, should be denied all practical significance? Put in concrete form, the question stands thus: (1) has the idea of Deity lost its practical significance, because it has been divested of its absolute character, and its purely empiric origin has been recognized? And (2) if the idea of Right is no more an absolute one than the idea of Deity, does it follow that the influence of Right must be placed upon the same plane as the influence of conscience?
As to the first point, I am relieved from any answer in view of the thorough treatment of these questions by the light of modern investigation. The second question I prefer to leave to some professional jurist, who knows the nature of law, and at the same time has every intention of doing justice to Stirner.
These conclusions block the way for the mischievous misapplications of distorted expressions of an exact thinker such as Ihering. Ihering certainly took away ruthlessly the ideological basis of law, but he never denied or attacked necessity of legal compulsion as Stirner did. We might just as well ascribe to Darwin the intention of disowning man because he set forth man's natural descent.
It is of just as little use to claim that past master of sociology, Herbert Spencer, in support of Stirner's views, because Spencer too recognizes the purely egoistical origin of law and of social organization. Egoism and Anarchism are not so mutually interchangeable as Stirner thinks. The question is, first of all, whether egoism after all really finds its account in the "union of egoists." It has been already more than once remarked that here too, as in the case of Proudhon, we only have to do, at bottom, with the logical extension of the present order of society that rests on free competition. "Make your value felt" is still to-day the highest economic principle; and he whose value, whose individuality consists in knowledge alone without an adequate admixture of worldly wisdom, would probably fare no better in the more perfect Anarchist world than the poor schoolmaster Caspar Schmidt in our bourgeois society, who suffered all the pangs of hunger and greeted Death as his redeemer.
Stirner did not form any school of followers in Germany in his own time, but Julius Faucher (1820-78) who was known as a publicist and a rabid Free-trader, represented his ideas in his newspaper Die Abendpost (The Evening Post), published in Berlin in 1850. This paper was, of course, soon sup- pressed, and the only apostle of Stirner's gospel thereupon left the Continent and went to England, to turn to something more practical that Anarchism, or (to use Stirner's own jargon) to realize his "Ego" more advantageously. How strange and anomalous Stirner's individualism appeared even to the most advanced Radicals of Germany in that period appears very clearly from a conversation recorded by Max Wirth, 3)"Zur Geschicte des Anarchismus," Neue Freie Press, 26th July 1894 (No. 10,748). which Faucher had with the stalwart Republican Schlöffel, in an inn frequented by the Left party in the Parliament of Frankfort. "Schlöffel loved to boast of his Radical opinions, just as at that time many men took a pride in being as extreme as possible among the members of the Left. He expressed his astonishment that Faucher held aloof from the current of politics. ' It is because you are too near the Right party for me,' answered Faucher, who delighted in astonishing people with paradoxes. Schlöffel stroked his long beard proudly, and replied, ' Do you say that to me? ' Yes, ' continued Faucher, ' for you are a Republican incarnate; you still want a State. Now I do not want a State at all, and, consequently, I am a more extreme member of the Left than you.' It was the first time Schlöffel had heard these paradoxes, and he replied: ' Nonsense; who can emancipate us from the State?' ' Crime,' was Faucher's reply, uttered with an expression of pathos. Schlöffel turned away, and left the drinking party without saying a word more. The others broke out laughing at the proud demagogue being thus outdone: but no one seems to have suspected in the words of Faucher more than a joke in dialectics." This anecdote is a good example of the way in which Stirner's ideas were understood, and shows that Faucher was the only individual "individual" among the most Radical politicians of that time. 4)It is characteristic that even the German followers of Proudhon, as, e. g., Marr, Grün, and others, had a very poor opinion of Stirner, and never dreamed of any connection between his views and those of Proudhon. On the other hand, Proudhon's doctrines, which in their native France could not find acceptance, gained a few proselytes among the Radical Democrats, and especially among the Communists of Switzerland and the Rhine.
Moses Hess was, among Germans, the first to seize hold upon the word "Anarchy" fearlessly and spread it abroad. This was in 1843, thus shortly after the appearance of Proudhon's sensational book on property, where the word was first definitely adopted as the badge of a party. Hess was born at Bonn in 1812, and was meant for a merchant's life, but turned his attention to studies picked up later, more especially to Hegelian philosophy, and entered upon the career of literature. In the beginning of the forties he propounded in his works on The Philosophy of Action and Socialism a confused programme, in which the Communism of Weitling was curiously intermingled with the views of Proudhon. In 1845 he expressed his views in a paper called The Mirror of Society (Gesell- schaftspiegel), that appeared later in 1846, under the title of The Social Conditions of the Civilized World, and represented the extreme views of Rhenish Socialism. Moses Hess died in obscurity in 1872.
Hess went farther than Proudhon, in that he differed from Proudhon 's carefully thought-out and measured organization of society by demanding, under Anarchy, the abolition of the influence, in social, mental, and moral life, not only of the State and the Church, but also in like manner of any or all external dominion. All action, he declared, must proceed exclusively from the internal decision of the individual acting upon the external world, and not vice versa. Action which did not proceed from internal impulse, but from external — whether from external compulsion, necessity, desire for gain, or enjoyment — was "not free," and thus merely "a burden or a vice." This cannot be the case under Anarchy, for there every work will bring its own reward in itself. The manner and duration of a man's work will depend entirely on his inclination, thus introducing an individual arbitrary will un- known as yet to Proudhon. Society will offer to each just as much as he "reasonably" needs for self-development and the satisfaction of his wants. As the means of introducing "Anarchism" Hess mentions the improvement of the system of education, the introduction of universal suffrage, and—a thing which Proudhon always opposed — the erection of national workshops.
Karl Grün, however, was not only in friendly personal relationship with Proudhon, but also perfectly imbued with his ideas. Born on September 30, 1817, at Ludenscheid, in Westphalia, he studied at Bonn and Berlin, and later became a teacher of German at the college of Colmar. Later he founded in Mannheim the radical newspaper, the Mannheimer Zeitung, and when expelled from Baden and Bavaria went to Cologne, where for some time he continued active as a lecturer and journalist. During the winter of 1844 and 1845 had made the acquaintance of Proudhon personally in Paris, and had inoculated him with Hegelian philosophy, and in return brought back Proudhon's views with him to Germany. The result of this first visit to Paris was the work entitled, The Social Movement in France and Belgium,5) Grün wrote many works on literature and the history of art, and also Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Sphinx on the French Throne (3d ed., 1866); France before the Judgment Seat of Europe (1860); Italy (1861), etc. one of the most important works on advanced Socialism in Germany, which made known the Socialist views of Frenchmen, and especially of Proudhon, to the German public in an attractive form. In 1849 Grün made another stay in Paris. Returning thence to Germany, he was elected a member of the Prussian National Assembly; then, being arrested for alleged complicity in the Palatinate rising, was at length acquitted after eight months' imprisonment. He then lived in Belgium and Italy, engaged actively in literary work; later on became a teacher at the School of Commerce in Frankfort, visited the Rhine towns on a lecturing tour from 1865 to ´68, and migrated in 1868 to Vienna, where he resided till his death in 1887.
Grün goes farther than his master Proudhon, and, like Hess, sowed the seed of the Communist Anarchy which has only attained its full growth as a doctrine in quite recent years. In this he totally rejected the principle of reward or wages maintained by Proudhon. "Proudhon never got beyond this obstacle," he says; "he anticipates it, seeks it, he would like it, he introduces it: the farther association extends, the greater the number of workmen, the less becomes the work of each, the more distinction between them disappears. That is a mathematical proceeding, not social or human. What distinction is to disappear? The distinction among producers is to become progressively smaller. The natural distinction of capacity which society abolishes by the social equality of wages. Preach the social freedom of consumption, and then you have at once the true freedom of production. Reverse the case: are you so anxious about lack of production? Recent progress in science may assure you. Perhaps children up to fifteen years of age would be able to perform all necessary household duties mere guides of machinery — even in holiday attire, as a game of play! Everyone is paid according to what he produces, and the production of each is limited by the right of all. But no! No limitation! Let us have no right of all against the right of the individual. On the contrary, the consumption of each is guaranteed by the consumption of all. The production of one is not paid for by the product of another, but each pays out of the common product."6)Die sociale Bewegung, p. 433. Darmstadt, 1845. We shall meet with the same ideas in Kropotkin, only more definite.
Proudhon found an ardent disciple in Wilhelm Marr, who at that time stood at the head of the German Democratic Union of manual workmen of "young Germany" in Switzerland. Born on May 6, 1819, at Magdeburg, Marr was originally intended for a merchant's calling, but after his stay in Switzerland (1841) gave it up entirely, and turned his attention to a political and literary career. At first, attracted by Weitling's Communism, he later on came into decided opposition to it from his accentuation of the individualist standpoint, which he, as an ardent follower of Feuerbach, pursued according to Proudhon's rather than Stirner's views. In conjunction with a certain Hermann Döleke, Marr endeavored to instill these views into the above-mentioned Swiss workmen's unions. His programme was quite of a negative character; as he himself describes it: "The abolition of all prevailing ideas of Religion, State, and Society was the aim, which we followed with a full knowledge of its logical consequences." Döleke called it the "theory of no consolation"7)Wilhem Marr, Das junge Deutschland in der Schweis, p. 135. Leipsic, 1846. (Trostlosigkeits-theorie). In December, 1844, Marr published a journal in Lausanne called Pages of the Present for Social Life (Blätter der Gegenwart für sociales Leben), to pro- mote the literary acceptance of this theory. "With remorseless logic," says Marr himself (Das junge Deutschland, p. 271) "we attacked not only existing institutions in State and Church, but State and Church themselves in general; and as a first attempt, which we in the second number made in the shape of an article upon the Tschech outrage, produced no ill consequences for us, our audacity grew to such a pitch that Döleke often preached Atheism, and the word ' Atheism ' was to be seen at the head of his articles. I did the same in the department of social criticism, while, following the example of Proudhon, I put before my readers at the very beginning the final consequences of my argument." For a time the Government did not interfere with Marr's propaganda, but in July, 1845, it stopped the publication of his journal, and Marr was soon after expelled from the country. This was the end of the results of his propaganda in Switzerland; for in the popular reflex of Marr's doctrines we can hardly find more than the Radicalism of German Democrats, as preached by Börne, colored by a few traces of Proudhon's teaching. This shade of opinion was then quite modern; we recognize it in Alfred Meisener, Ludwig Pfau, and the Vienna group, even in Börne, who died in the forties; the doctrine was part of the spirit of the age, and did not need to be derived from Proudhon.
Wilhelm Marr, after many and various political metamorphoses, took sides with the Anti-Semites, and acquired the unenviable reputation of being one of the literary fathers of this questionable movement. Recently he has again abandoned this movement, and living embittered in retirement in Hamburg, has once more devoted the flabby sympathies of his old age to the Anarchist ideals of his youth.
Marr forms the link between the pure theory of Anarchism and active Anarchist agitation, between the older generation who laid down the principles and the modern Anarchists. The acute reaction following upon the years 1848 and '49 extinguished the scanty growth that had sprung from the seed sown by Proudhon and Stirner. Only when in the sixties, with the reviving Social-Democratic movement there naturally arose also its opposite, the "Anti-Authoritative Socialism," did men proceed to complete the work begun by Proudhon and Stirner. Recent proceedings in this direction have, however, not only not added any essential feature to the theory of Anarchism, but rather have obscured the former sharp outlines of its ideas, and introduced into its theory elements which are really quite foreign and contradictory to it, and have prevented that peaceful discussion of it which might be advantageous to all parties. This distinction between the older and the more modern theorists of Anarchism is most clearly marked in Bakunin y with his introduction of "Russian influence"; with Bakunin begins the theory of active agitation.
1. ↑ Stirner's chief work, The Individual and his Property (Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum, Leipsic, 1845), has been reprinted by P. Reclam, at Leipsic, with a good introduction by Paul Lauterbach. The literature about Stirner is almost exclusively confined to a few- scattered remarks in larger works, which are not always very appropriate. J. H. Mackay is said to be working at a biography of Stirner. The monograph by Robert Schellwien, Max Stirner und Friedrich Nietzsche (Leipsic, 1892), is quite worthless for our purpose.
2. ↑ Stammler, Die Theorie des Anarchismus, Berlin, 1894, p. 42.
3. ↑ "Zur Geschicte des Anarchismus," Neue Freie Press, 26th July 1894 (No. 10,748).
4. ↑ It is characteristic that even the German followers of Proudhon, as, e. g., Marr, Grün, and others, had a very poor opinion of Stirner, and never dreamed of any connection between his views and those of Proudhon.
5. ↑ Grün wrote many works on literature and the history of art, and also Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Sphinx on the French Throne (3d ed., 1866); France before the Judgment Seat of Europe (1860); Italy (1861), etc.
6. ↑ Die sociale Bewegung, p. 433. Darmstadt, 1845.
7. ↑ Wilhem Marr, Das junge Deutschland in der Schweis, p. 135. Leipsic, 1846.


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News Release 13-May-2019
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announces new physician-scientist training awards
Grants totaling $2.76 million give six physician-scientists resources to pursue cancer research
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
New York, NY (May 14, 2019) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that six physicians with novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named the 2019 recipients of the Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award. The awardees were selected through a highly competitive and rigorous process by a scientific committee comprised of leading cancer researchers who are themselves physician-scientists. Only those scientists showing bold initiative and a commitment to finding new cures for cancer were selected to receive the award.
Physician-scientists are crucial to moving scientific discoveries from the lab to patients, but only one percent of all doctors are physician-scientists. That number is at risk of shrinking further, due to lack of funding. Fewer MDs are choosing to go into research because the career path is challenging and the remuneration lower than clinical practice. To help increase the number of physician-scientists, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation created the Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award, which provides physicians who have earned an MD degree and completed clinical specialty fellowship training the opportunity to gain the research skills and experience to become leaders in translational and clinical research. To address the financial burdens that often deter physicians from pursuing a research career, Damon Runyon provides significantly higher funding than most research fellowships--$460,000 over four years. The award also retires up to $100,000 of medical school debt still owed by an awardee (the average medical school debt is now more than $200,000.)
"Physician-scientists have the unique ability to blend their insights from treating patients and working in the laboratory in a way that enables and accelerates medical advances," said Yung S. Lie, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. "If the current shortage of physician-scientists continues, we risk a situation in which major laboratory research discoveries may not reach patients at all, and that would represent a true crisis in cancer research."
The Physician-Scientist Training Award was established in 2015 thanks to the generosity of Damon Runyon Board Members Leon Cooperman and Michael Gordon.
2019 Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award Recipients:
Edmond M. Chan, MD, with mentor Adam J. Bass, MD, at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Defects in the cellular DNA repair machinery can promote cancer formation and cause cancer cells to rely on back-up DNA repair processes. These cancer cells are particularly vulnerable to drugs called PARP inhibitors, which target a DNA repair process known as homologous recombination. Dr. Chan hypothesizes that a similar treatment strategy can be used for cancers with deficiencies in DNA mismatch repair, which causes microsatellite--short, repeated sequences of DNA--instability (MSI). Microsatellite instability is found most often in certain colon, stomach, uterine and ovarian cancers. Using CRISPR screening technology, Dr. Chan discovered that cancer cells with faulty mismatch repair become dependent on a gene called WRN to survive. He is characterizing this vulnerability for MSI cancers with the goal of finding new drugs that inhibit this pathway.
Andrew J. Dunbar, MD, with mentor Ross L. Levine, MD, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Mutations in the cancer-causing oncogene JAK2 are a hallmark of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), a blood disorder characterized by over-production of mature blood cells. While currently available JAK2 inhibitors improve symptoms, they are unsuccessful at completely eradicating diseased cells, so remissions are rare. Using genetically engineered mice, Dr. Dunbar will investigate how MPN cells remain dependent on JAK2 signaling for cell growth, and how additional mutations in the epigenome (the proteins involved in regulating gene expression) might contribute to drug resistance. His research aims to identify improved JAK2 inhibitors and lend insight into whether targeting both oncogenic drivers and epigenetic defects could be required for effective therapy. Ultimately, he hopes these findings will translate into better treatments for patients with these cancers.
Gabriel K. Griffin, MD, with mentors Bradley E. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Immunotherapy drugs, which spur the body's own immune system to attack tumors, hold great promise but still fail in many patients. Dr. Griffin aims to identify therapeutic targets that can enhance the efficacy and scope of immunotherapy in melanoma and other cancer types. His unique approach focuses on retrotransposons, repetitive sequences of DNA that are evolutionary remnants of viruses and comprise upwards of 50% of the human genome. These genetic elements are usually silenced via DNA methylation but can activate an immune response at certain times. Dr. Griffin's research will characterize the epigenetic pathways that silence these repetitive elements in cancer cells, thus helping tumors evade surveillance by the immune system. This basic understanding may guide the development of epigenetic therapies capable of triggering anti-tumor immunity.
Ashley K. Koegel, MD, with mentors Wendell A. Lim, PhD, and Mignon Loh, MD, at the University of California, San Francisco, CA
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the most common type of blood cancer, is curable in less than 30% of all patients. Recently, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has successfully cured patients with certain types of leukemia. This approach has not yet been effective for treatment of AML, in part because these cells look very similar to certain types of healthy blood cells that are critical for life. Dr. Koegel has engineered a variety of scientific tools (specific receptors) that can be used to develop next-generation CAR-T cells that can effectively kill AML cells without significant toxicity to normal, healthy blood cells. The first receptor acts as an ON/OFF switch and is regulated by a small molecule drug. The T cell is turned ON only in the presence of the small molecule. The second receptor allows T cells to discriminate AML cells from healthy blood cells. Successful next-generation immunotherapy strategies will provide AML patients with much needed treatment options.
Jonathan E. Shoag, MD, with sponsor Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD, at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States. Remarkably, work over the past decade has demonstrated that even the worst prostate cancers are dependent on the same signaling pathways that govern normal prostate behavior. Dr. Shoag's objective is to identify drugs that have activity against the normal prostate and can be used to understand and treat prostate cancer. Dr. Shoag will apply novel statistical and machine learning approaches on large scale clinical data to discover new therapies and pathways important in prostate cancer. He will then test these therapies in genetically engineered and patient-derived prostate cancer models. Identifying active drugs against prostate cancer that are already FDA-approved or have been previously studied in clinical trials for other cancers can aid in understanding prostate cancer biology and can rapidly benefit patients with advanced disease.
Rabi Upadhyay, MD, with mentor Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD, at New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Immunotherapies using checkpoint inhibitors have shown amazing results in certain solid cancers. However, there are vast differences in treatment outcomes for patients who have remarkably similar cancers (based on histology and genetics) and many patients develop resistance. In addition, predicting who will benefit from the treatment has been unreliable. Recent research found that the diversity and specific quality of microbes that colonize the intestines (the gut microbiome) can impact the success of cancer immunotherapy, but there is no consensus about the underlying mechanisms. Dr. Upadhyay aims to build a mouse model of lung cancer that replicates the previous findings and then dissect the intricate biology between the gut microbiota and tumors in the lung. He plans to further define the cells and molecules involved, with the hope that more effective immunotherapy treatments can be designed for patients.
To accelerate breakthroughs, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation provides today's best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative research. The Foundation has gained worldwide prominence in cancer research by identifying outstanding researchers and physician-scientists. Twelve scientists supported by the Foundation have received the Nobel Prize, and others are heads of cancer centers and leaders of renowned research programs. Each of its award programs is extremely competitive, with less than 10% of applications funded. Since its founding in 1946, the Foundation has invested over $370 million and funded over 3,750 young scientists. This year it will commit over $19 million in new awards to brilliant young investigators. 100% of all donations to the Foundation are used to support scientific research. Its administrative and fundraising costs are paid from its Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets Service and endowment.
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Meta Finally Agrees to Settle Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit
By Aamna Faisal | Published Aug 29, 2022 | 4:25 pm
Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to settle a massive data privacy lawsuit in San Francisco federal court. A court filing showed that it includes all the damages caused by third parties including Cambridge Analytica for accessing the private data of users.
The case was filed 4 years ago when the data breach was revealed by a whistleblower. At the time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was summoned to US Congress to answer questions about Facebook's role in the data breach and how they handle user privacy. Back then, Facebook paid a $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission and lost nearly $100 billion in market value.
As for the case in question, the four-year-old lawsuit claimed that Facebook has violated the privacy laws by sharing the personal data of users with third parties such as Cambridge Analytica. The judge has put the case on hold for 60 days since the financial terms were not revealed in the filing. In the meantime, the lawyers for the plaintiff and Facebook were to finalize a written settlement.
The settlement amount was not disclosed and the lawyers representing the plaintiffs declined to comment.
Cambridge Analytica was a British political consulting firm that was involved with Facebook in a major data breach. Both the companies were involved in collecting personal user data from around 50 million Facebook profiles and misused it during US's 2016 presidential elections to allegedly get Donald Trump elected.
Christopher Wylie, the research director of Cambridge Analytica revealed how the company collected the Facebook profiles of US voters. Back in 2014, they built software called "This is Your Digital Life" to collect data from 270,000 users legally. These people were asked to share their friends' data which resulted in Cambridge Analytical collecting 50 million people's personal data through their Facebook profiles.
After Wylie's confession about the data collection and their potential involvement in US elections, Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica's account. Furthermore, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the data breach happened and apologized.
Read This If You're Clueless About Why Everyone is Mad at Facebook
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Improve RoI from business travel with IT-enabled best practices, says new LSE study
The London School of Economics has released the Managing Every Mile report aiming to help companies unlock greater RoI from business travel.
The study was commissioned by Amadeus through LSE Consulting, and insights were drawn from C-level executives exploring how corporations can get a better understanding of its Travel & Expense (T&E) programmes, unlocking a greater return on investment in the process.
Key recommendations from the report include that T&E programmes must align with six strategic priorities: growth, cost minimisation, operational efficiency, employee productivity, risk mitigation and management information/analytics.
Two thirds of the executives interviewed said the expensing process was a cause of both user frustration and clerical and managerial annoyance. The absence of best practices at earlier stages in the T&E process and notably in the booking and approval flows negatively affects the traveller's experience and increases the complexity at the expense management stage. Aound 60% of executives interviewed were considering changes to their IT and T&E systems in the next 1-3 years to facilitate better T&E spend management as opposed to cost control strategies.
Dr Alexander Grous, author and lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, said: "The framework we have developed identifies five key stages, all of which are underpinned by technology: T&E strategic sourcing; T&E buying; traveller support and duty of care; expense management; and analytics and feedback. By following best practices at each of these stages, companies will secure optimised T&E spend management and ensure maximum return, while also driving greater operational effectiveness and employee satisfaction."
Arlene Coyle, CCO corporate solution sales and marketing of business travel, Amadeus, added: "We are seeing travellers' needs, and the nature of the workplace, change in ways that require much greater dynamism and flexibility in travel management.. By going beyond the actual cost of business travel and by looking at what travellers want, how the booking process needs to work and the effect of this on productivity and duty of care, corporations are able to better shape their travel programmes and create better journeys for their travellers."
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Q: Can i make a form consisting of different fields with signup fields? models.py
class employeeModel(models.Model):
    employee_id = models.CharField(max_length=300,unique=True,help_text='Employee ID should not be same')
    name = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    father_name = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=50,null=True,blank=True)
    email = models.EmailField(null=True,blank=True)
    password = models.CharField(max_length=20,null=True,blank=True)

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse('detail_view',kwargs={'employee_id':self.employee_id})

    def __str__(self):
        return self.employee_id
    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'Employee Detail'

views.py
User = get_user_model()
def create_view(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = employeeForm(request.POST or None,request.FILES or None)
        if form.is_valid():

            username = form.cleaned_data['username']
            email = form.cleaned_data['email']
            password = form.cleaned_data['password']
            User= get_user_model()
            user=
                 User.objects.create_user(
                  username=username,email=email,password=password
                    )
            authenticate(
            request,username=username,email=email,password=password
            )
            user.save()
            form.save()

            return redirect('emp_list')
    else:
        form = employeeForm()
    return render(request,'create_employee.html',{'form':form})

Though its not raising any error but User cant create instances though this method, though 'user objects' are showing in EmployeeModel.objects.all() not in User.objects.all(). Thats why when i create any user though this form login fails cause they are not objects of User.
What can i do to make it work? or i have to discard this code?

A: models.py
class employeeModel(models.Model):
    def __init__(self, employee_id, name, father_name, username, email, password):
        self.employee_id = models.CharField(max_length=300,unique=True,help_text='Employee ID should not be same')
        self.name = models.CharField(max_length=300)
        self.father_name = models.CharField(max_length=300)
        self.username = models.CharField(max_length=50,null=True,blank=True)
        self.email = models.EmailField(null=True,blank=True)
        self.password = models.CharField(max_length=20,null=True,blank=True)
    def __repr__(self):
        return "Employee: {}".format(self.name)

My suggestion: Try the init method for your employee class as above.

A: @ChidanandaNayak, Yes, though not certain how you intend to use the employeeModel class to create users, make sure all the arguments passed in the class are equivalent to the number of arguments defined in the init method.
Example;
id = 123
name = 'John Doe'
father_name = 'Patrick Doe'
username = 'john_doe'
email = 'john_doe@demo.com'
password = '1234567890'
new_user = employeeModel(id, name, father_name, email, password)


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Town of Bedford; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, and Approving Use of the Traditional Licensing Process
Project No. 5596-019
a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File License Application and Request to Use the Traditional Licensing Process.
b. Project No.: 5596-019.
c. Date Filed: April 30, 2018.
d. Submitted By: Town of Bedford.
e. Name of Project: Bedford Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the James River, in Amherst and Bedford Counties, Virginia. The project does not occupy federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the Commission's regulations.
h. Applicant Contact: M. Scott Salmon, Electrical Department, Town of Bedford, 877 Monroe Street, Bedford, Virginia 24523, (540) 587-6022; or Jot Splenda at (919) 866-4417; email—jsplenda@louisberger.com.
i. FERC Contact: Allyson Conner at (202) 502-6082; or email at allyson.conner@ferc.gov.
j. The Town of Bedford filed its request to use the Traditional Licensing Process on April 30, 2018. The Town of Bedford provided public notice of its request on May 23, 2018. In a letter dated June 21, 2018, the Director of the Division of Hydropower Licensing approved the Town of Bedford's request to use the Traditional Licensing Process.
k. With this notice, we are initiating informal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act and the joint agency regulations thereunder at 50 CFR part 402. We are also initiating consultation with the Virginia State Historic Preservation Officer, as required by section 106, National Historic Preservation Act, and the implementing regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2.
l. The Town of Bedford filed a Pre-Application Document (PAD; including a proposed process plan and schedule) with the Commission, pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the Commission's regulations.
m. A copy of the PAD is available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission's website (http://www.ferc.gov), using the eLibrary link. Enter the docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in paragraph h.
n. The Town of Bedford states its unequivocal intent to submit an application for a new license for Project No. 5596. Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.8, 16.9, and 16.10 each application for a new license and any competing license applications must be filed with the Commission at least 24 months prior to the expiration of the existing license. All applications for license for this project must be filed by April 30, 2021.
o. Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filing and issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: June 21, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
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A unique subscription to BMW and MINI has been launched
Drover, a car subscription company partners with BMW Group UK to enable a flexible, monthly subscription to BMW and MINI vehicles.
Now BMW and MINI drivers will be able to own vehicles such as the MINI Hatch or ultimate driving machines in the form of BMW 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 series, as well as X and i models, for one all-inclusive monthly subscription price. Drover's innovative user proposition rolls the entire cost of car ownership into one monthly price which includes the cost of the car, insurance, maintenance, servicing, taxes and breakdown-cover.
Users can sign up on their website and the same portal is used for them to swap, upgrade or downgrade their car monthly cost or just cancel altogether, without any long-term commitment or steep upfront down-payments. The partnership idea was born during BMW's Innovation Lab program. The ten-week programme enables start-ups to trial products at scale, receive expert mentoring from senior members of the BMW Group UK team and access insights from leading experts in the automotive and automotive finance sectors.
Chris Brownridge, BMW UK Sales Director, said: "New, creative solutions allow the chance for car users to experience BMW or MINI ownership for as long or as little as they require. BMW Group UK is at the forefront of such development and we are excited to announce a partnership with Drover, the car subscription platform. Through its new subscription model we are able to provide an even wider range of ways to access BMW and MINI vehicles for retail buyers to suit their changing requirements."
Felix Leuschner, Founder and CEO of Drover, said: "We are incredibly excited to be working with BMW Group UK and very proud to be announcing our partnership, which is a direct outcome of our participation in BMW's Innovation Lab. Our partnership brings together the latest and best in cars with a new model of ownership to give those demographics access to vehicles who might otherwise not purchase one, driving incremental revenue for BMW Group UK".
Cars on offer on the scheme start with a MINI Cooper 3-Door Hatch and a BMW 116d Sport and rise through the 2 Series Coupé and X1 up to 4 Series Coupé and 5 Series Saloon and Touring models. Other available vehicles include 2 Series Active Tourer, 2 Series Convertible, 3 Series Saloon and Touring, 4 Series Convertible, X3 and i3.
Pricing for a MINI Cooper 3-door Hatch starts at £562 for a monthly ownership option, while the same time period for a BMW 116 Sport is £778. In contrast one month of BMW 520d Saloon ownership is £1,076. A full breakdown of pricing is available on the Drover website.
Drover offers flexible, monthly all-in car subscriptions to its customers, allowing its users to swap, upgrade or downgrade their car monthly payment or just cancel altogether, without any long-term commitment or steep upfront down-payment. Drover provides this service through a marketplace model, providing its 100+ fleet partners with an easy to manage listings and fleet management interface, allowing them to monetise available vehicles effectively on Drover's platform. Drover launched in January 2016, has handled tens of thousands of vehicle bookings since and has been serially backed by Version One, Forward Partners, Cherry Ventures, Partech and BP Ventures.
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By: Dale Hanson-Bourke, MAP International
Brenda, a single mother of two, is employed as a domestic worker, washing and ironing clothes. She makes just $19 per week, barely enough to feed her and her two children, a daughter aged 2, and a son aged 10. Her job offers no benefits. She has no vacation, no insurance, and no job security. If she misses work due to illness, she loses her job. Neither child is able to attend school because she cannot pay the school fees.
The family lives in the area of Jocotillo, Guatemala. The land that Brenda and her children live on is located on the banks of a ravine and does not have adequate sanitation. The family uses firewood to cook. The smoke from the fire often contributes to respiratory problems.
Brenda's two-year-old daughter became so sick recently that she had difficulty breathing. She had a bad cough and was running a fever. Brenda knew she needed help, so she made her way to the closest clinic, located 2 km from her home. Supported by the Order of Malta, the clinic also receives support from Food for the Poor and pediatric antibiotics from MAP International through its Bringing Children Health program.
At the clinic, Brenda and her daughter met Dr. Yusimil Carranza, or "Dr. Yusi" as everyone calls her. A highly trained pediatrician, Dr. Yusi chooses to work in the clinic primarily serving some of the poorest families in Guatemala instead of taking a more lucrative job in private practice.
"I love these families," she says. "Serving them is a privilege."
When Dr. Yusi examined Brenda's daughter, she diagnosed her with acute pneumonia and was able to treat her with pediatric amoxicillin, thanks to MAP. Brenda couldn't have paid for the medicine and was so grateful that her daughter could receive the treatment free.
"Too often children go untreated because their parents can't afford medicine," said Dr. Yusi. "This can lead to chronic, life-long problems and even death."
After taking the medicine, the little girl's condition improved and she was back to her normal self. Dr. Yusi made sure the antibiotics were used properly and that the little girl had completely recovered.
Brenda is so grateful to the donors because she does not have the necessary resources to buy the medicine her daughter required. "May God bless everyone for all you have done for us," Brenda said.
Stories like Brenda and her daughter are a reality thanks to life-changing medicines from MAP International and our partners. For more inspiring stories, please visit MAP's website at www.map.org.
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