It is a hard thing to see a cancer patient struggling on the bed when going through a lot of pain. You need to help the people with cancer to minimize the pain they may be facing at some point and make them feel good. You can decide to surprise them with different gifts as a way of comforting them through these hard times. There are multiple donation rewards that you can give to the people with cancer. Here are the gifts that you can give to the people with cancer.
Massage is a way to minimize pain when sick. In this case, you can hire the massage firm to give the people with cancer some massage. Massage can help ease the pain the people with cancer may be experiencing.
The cancer centers need people with cancer to pay a lot of cash. After hiring the cancer clinic people end up without any cash in their pockets. At this point, you can be certain that they don't have enough money to buy all the things they may need. Therefore, as a gift you can decide to give them meal vouchers and beauty products. Therefore, go to the market and find the areas selling the ideal products to surprise them every time.
Wearing the hospital clothing does not feel good for anybody. The people with cancer can live in the clinic without wearing the clinic attires. It can work well when you purchase the clothing the people with cancer can wear in the hospital. When you gift the people with cancer with pajamas you can be sure that they can feel well when wearing them when in the clinic.
Still, the cancer patients are not allowed to do the heavy duties. These persons can stay the entire day on the bed. In this case, you can get them as many movies to keep them busy. In this case, you can ask them their idea about the movie they would like to watch.
You can surprise people with cancer with cards as gifts. It is advisable to buy the cards with the information of the relationship you have with the person. You need to know that you can have the images of the person on the card still.
Another rewards you can give to the persons with cancer is your time and attention. Be there for them every time.
In the conclusion, you can purchase a laptop or an iPhone to the people with cancer. You can be certain that you purchase these products you need a lot of cash. The iPad and the computer can help persons with cancer. These products can make sure that the people with cancer can talk to the people close to them every minute through chats. Still, you can send them the enjoyable games on their iPhone and computers.


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Results of Mole Mapper Mobile-app-based Skin Cancer Study Are in
The Mole Mapper Melanoma Study asked people to take photos of and measure their moles to determine their melanoma risk and advance skin cancer research.
Now the results of the study, which included an app that participants could download to photograph their moles, are in.
The research, sponsored by Sage Bionetworks and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU, attracted 2,798 participants.
The findings, in an article titled "The Mole Mapper Study, mobile phone skin imaging and melanoma risk data collected using ResearchKit," were published in Nature Scientific Data.
Mole Mapper asked people to share photos and measurements of their moles over time, since abnormal or changing moles can be an indicator of melanoma. The goal was to advance the notion of remote mole monitoring, including whether it was a good way to detect melanoma early.
"In designing the study, we first wanted to know if research run remotely and entirely through an app could find the same melanoma risks as years of rigorous epidemiology and genetics research," Dan Webster, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute, said in a press release.
"We show, for instance, that Mole Mapper participants with red hair were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma. This is in alignment with previously published data showing that people with red hair caused by mutations in the MC1R gene have a higher risk for melanoma," he said.
Another aim of the investigation was to answer frequently asked questions about moles. Stanford University researchers had shown that applying deep learning algorithms to a patient database might be used to diagnose skin conditions. Mole Mapper researchers created a similar database, based on participant-sourced data.
"With Mole Mapper, we have a unique ability to collect thousands of measurements from 'pre-clinical' moles that people measure themselves at home," Webster said. "Over time, this can provide a basis for mole size and shape distributions to serve as a new benchmark for future studies."
Mole Mapper fits Sage Bionetworks' objective of developing open-source information-gathering modules that can be turned into mobile applications, enabling broad sharing of the resulting data.
"In the promising space of mobile health, too often data is controlled by private interests," said Brian Bot, co-author of the study and principal scientist at Sage Bionetworks. "Shared data resources such as these will help enable the scientific community to more quickly determine what can and cannot be gleaned from these types of remote measurements."
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Dorchester Cape is an unincorporated community in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The community is situated in Southeastern New Brunswick, to the east of Moncton.

History

Notable people

See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

Bordering communities

References

Communities in Westmorland County, New Brunswick

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Roger Daltrey Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Producer, Guitarist, Singer,
Roger Daltrey is an English actor and singer born on March 1st, 1944. He is best known as the former lead vocalist of The Who, a classic rock band. He was also the co-founder of the band. The talented musician is also known for his trade make of using his microphone's cord to swing the microphone while performing at concerts.
His fame began around the mid-1960s with hit songs such as "Substitute," "Baba O'Riley" "I Can't Explain," and "My Generation," among others. Among Roger's first experiences in the music career was through a guitar which he created. He used a block of wood to carve a guitar just like that of cherry red Stratocaster
Roger Daltrey was born on March 1st, 1944. His place of birth was in West London in England but grew up in Acton. He is the son of Harry Daltrey and Irene and has two siblings. His father participated in the Second World War and would return home after a few years. He also supported his son's music career. In fact, he is 1959 he bought his son Epiphone guitar.
Roger Daltrey began his schooling at Victoria Primary School. He then attended Acton County Grammar School followed by Townshend and later Entwistle. He was quite bright and normally appeared among the top students in his school. As a result, he earned himself a position at the Acton County Grammar School.
Instead of joining the college as his parents would have loved him to do, Roger Daltrey chose to pursue his passion for rock and roll music. He joined Detours band and later became its lead guitarist with an Epiphone guitar his father had bought him. Meanwhile, at school, he became a rebel and began smoking tobacco. Eventually, he was expelled. This led to his later autobiography "until he was expelled Roger had been a good pupil."
Detours Band
Besides playing with Detours in his early career, Roger Daltrey also earned a living as a steelworker. Their first single "I Can't Explain," was released in 1965. It was a hit song which became among top 10 single songs in the charts of UK. In 1967, their song "Happy Jack" made a debut appearance in the Charts of America.
The Who Band
Roger Daltrey later became the lead vocalist and singer of The Who band. He has then released songs such as "My Generation" and "Behind Blue Eyes." In 1969, the band released the Tommy rock opera which became a huge success for their career in music.
Acting And Recent Projects
In 1976, Roger Daltrey acted the lead role in Lisztmania, a biographical film, by Franz Liszt. In 1981, he produced and starred in McVicar. Other films which he acted later include: Lightning Jack in 1994, Like It Is in 1998 and Best in 2001. Rogers produced the Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who TV documentary which was released in 2007.
In March 1964, Roger Daltrey tied the knot with Jacqueline Rickman also known as "Jackie." Four years later, the couple divorced. Subsequently, Rogers married his second and current wife Heather Daltrey in 1971. He is blessed with five children, two daughters namely Rosie and Willow and three sons, Simon, Mathias, and Jamie.
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Bingnan (Luke) Lu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Analytics & Operations at NUS Business School
Research Fellow at the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA)
Welcome to my webpage, where I share information about my research and teaching interests. My research is broadly in the area of Operations Research with a focus on service operations. For more detail please visit the relevant tabs or see my biography below for an overview.
Bingnan Lu is a visiting assistant professor of Analytics & Operations at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS), and a research fellow at the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA). He received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in 2021, advised by Saif Benjaafar. His research mainly focuses on service operations and relies on the methodologies of stochastic modeling, applied probability, and queueing theory. He is interested in a broad range of applications, particularly focused on applications in healthcare and on-demand service platforms. Prior to UMN, he received a B.Eng. in Engineering Systems and Design from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in 2015, with a focus on Economics and Operations Research.
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Chronic Physical Health Conditions Increase Depression Risk Later in Life, Study Shows
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Dealing with two or more physical long-term health conditions increases the risk of depression and anxiety.
Respiratory and gastrointestinal/pain conditions were the strongest predictors of depression and anxiety.
Dealing with a chronic health condition can take its toll. According to a recently published study in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, navigating two or more physical long-term health conditions was associated with subsequent depression and anxiety concerns.
With COVID-19 putting a necessary focus on health for many, this may be an opportune time to better understand the impact of multiple physical health conditions on one's ability to be functioning well mentally.
Especially given how much more focus is often placed on physical health, as opposed to mental health, this research bodes well for greater outreach efforts to ensure that individuals have adequate mental health support.
Understanding the Research
Researchers looked at more than 150,000 middle-aged participants in England, Scotland, and Wales who had responded to an online mental health questionnaire in 2016 as part of the larger UK Biobank study. Their physical health had been assessed in earlier surveys conducted between 2006 and 2010.
As the number of physical long-term health conditions increased in participants, the research demonstrated a greater likelihood for incidents of poor mental health, including persistent depression and anxiety.
In terms of limitations, it can be difficult to ascertain causality from observational studies, and self-report brings some potential bias. Also, about 97% of the participants were White, so this study can't tell us much about how ethnic minorities might be affected.
Are Some People More Prone to Depression?
More Mental Health Support Needed
Anthony Alan Thomalla, PhD, a licensed psychologist at ABC Resources, says, "The takeaway is that people do better when they have family support, spiritual support, and medical support including psychological."
While access to mental health counselors, ranging from social workers to psychologists in a primary care medical setting has grown in recent years, Thomalla highlights that such services still often remain insufficient.
Thomalla says, "It is not surprising that people with multiple physical conditions struggle more as they enter a phase of their life when people tend to be more vulnerable and isolated. If you have multiple physical challenges it is important to monitor mental health as you age. It is easier to address issues when you see a little smoke as opposed to waiting for a five-alarm fire. If you do not address these issues as they arise they will devour physical reserves that you cannot afford to waste."
Anthony Alan Thomalla, PhD
If you have multiple physical challenges it is important to monitor mental health as you age. It is easier to address issues when you see a little smoke as opposed to waiting for a five-alarm fire.
— Anthony Alan Thomalla, PhD
Grief Over a Healthy Body
Psychologist Shamin Ladhani, PsyD, says, "Understanding that your physical health impacts your mental health means having self-awareness about how your chronic condition is impacting your life."
If there is difficulty coping with health decline, Ladhani encourages individuals to validate those feelings, as many people that develop a chronic condition go through a period of grieving over the loss of a healthy body. "The public needs to know that psychologists, specifically health and medical psychologists, have training and expertise that can help patients to manage and cope with chronic illness. We have studies that show that psychological techniques can improve blood flow, lower pain levels, reduce blood pressure, and lower blood sugar levels, just to name a few," she says.
Ladhani says, "It is not clear that this study takes into account how diverse populations are impacted, as often individuals from underserved or marginalized backgrounds are more at risk for developing chronic health and chronic mental health conditions, and the article does not look at or address other causes for the development of mental health issues."
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Home » Features » Commentary and Buddhist Perspectives » Life Matters
By Tilly Campbell-Allen
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Lives matter.
All lives matter.
The latter has become a controversial adjunct bannered by many on the back of the Black Lives Matter movement. Is this a chant of the privileged who have never felt the brutal hands of injustice? Or simply a cry for equality, respect, and honoring of every life? Is it a chant meant to whitewash years of suffering? Or a sentiment not meant to be weighted in any direction other than a just cry for the rights of all?
And this latter sentiment is surely a beautiful idea, no? The way it surely should be . . . right?
In a recent discussion about the events of the last few months, which are unprecedented in most of our lifetimes, we veered off into lateral thoughts about life and humanity and the human condition in general. A point was raised about how many would call for the Right to Life, how so many find animal cruelty abhorrent, and rightly so, but when aired on social media, the public indignation is often hypocritically righteous as many then tuck into a meaty or seafood meal without thinking twice. A point to reflect on, maybe.
We then thought of the pack mentality of humans, and how the seed of an idea can hook people into following a trend. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic here in the UK, there was an artistic movement that swept the nation in support of the National Health Service and frontline staff. Rainbows started appearing in residential home windows thanking frontline workers for being heroes, for "sacrificing" themselves for the benefit of all . . . many of whom already do so on a daily basis and sadly rarely do they receive public gratitude, and even less frequently do they receive the pay, working conditions, and respect they deserve.
All the stay-at-home children were busy with their coloring pens and paints, eagerly and earnestly focused on the task of making rainbows. There were also media-encouraged arranged handclaps, during which the inhabitants of the country were hanging out of their windows at allotted times durin the day, clapping in appreciation for all the hard work of hospital staff, care home staff, and for all those folks deemed essential service workers, for all the risks they have incurred. In many respects, it's a very lovely sentiment, meant by many as a heartfelt and genuine recognition and valuing of the hours and hard work of anyone in a job that cares for others, and during lockdown it was as much as many felt they could do. I truly hope that it has inspired some youngsters out there to pursue a meaningful career of caregiving, or at least, for some folks to reevaluate what it means to have a career of meaning. But it also had us thinking about how quickly these bandwagon trends take hold, how fast we can be directed into a way of thinking and doing, and, maybe most concerning, how fast we can be distracted from important issues by suggestions of the relatively banal, or how things can be kept fresh in our minds by the same suggestions.
At worst, the pack instinct of us humans—given that we have this primordial drive to be in the "winning clan" and feel accepted—can drive us into a frenzied wild hunt for, let's say, a culprit who has been deemed responsible for the suffering of others. How did many of us react to the hunt of known terrorists? Did we condone this bloodlust due to their obvious evildoings? Can we maintain the "all lives matter" argument within the quiet of our private self when fueled by the awareness of terrible injustices and cruelty? Clearly not the sociopolitical point of the recent protests, which are addressing a hideous legacy of division and human behavior, but merely a tangent, albeit a difficult thought. Arguably the best aspect of the pack aspect of humans is getting things done. En masse.
Some protests are sadly nothing but a noisy day's walk up and down some city streets, which may or may not make the news—or if it does, hopefully without too much biased reporting. Then there are the rallies that are aggressively swept under the carpet, but the result of either is all too often the same: within 48 hours, everyone is back at their day job, the general public are distracted by the next media sensation, and nothing is really achieved. And those in power know this all too well. But every now and again, the dissent against political malfeasance or unjust social acceptance or compliance transforms into a tsunami of change.
And as you may know, a tsunami is made up of water: 0.05 milliliters of water makes a drop, and an estimated 26,640,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 drops make up all of our known oceans.
A single drop may not seem to make a difference, but it's worth remembering this analogy of the power of coming together. Tsunamis can sweep in and devastate lives, and so can violent riots. But we don't need to wait for grand riots and rallies. Clapping really won't make any difference to paychecks and the realities of a frontline worker's life. But what we can do is be mindful and utterly conscious of our actions every single day. We want to respect life? Well, respect it in how we behave, in what we stand up for, in what we buy, and in what we eat. We can't erase the atrocities of the past, nor should we condone the suffering. And bear in mind that suffering is accepted, romanticized, and even celebrated in too many films and TV shows that we call entertainment. So it's all too easy to become blasé.
If we are to believe in the transmutation of the soul, then we have all likely been the cause and the victim of much suffering over the course of known human history. I am both ashamed and feel the pain of all my ancestors, all my past selves. However, in this incarnation, I will never know what it's like for anyone else, to be in their skin and mind and experiences. But I do know what world I want my children, and their children, and theirs, to grow up in. A world of kindness and understanding that is extended to this cosmic electron that we call home hurtling through the void—which, if we don't actually treat as our priority, all our in-fighting, as well as hopes and dreams, will be futile, as our selfish destruction of this planet is our own slow suicide.
I can't change the past, but I can learn, evolve, and affect the future by my actions in the present.
So don't wait to be engineered onto a trending bandwagon. Think for yourself and apply actions in every possible moment, however small they feel. Our thoughts are our liberation from the prison of constructed culture. And our thoughts do not only reside in our head.
At the profound level of reality, there is no separateness, no gross matter. No you, no me. But pain to you is pain to me; suffering to one is suffering to all. So in my unsolicited opinion, this world of ours, in which so many of us are detached from things fundamentally natural, living in a construct of engineered "norms," and in which kindness as an everyday practice is too often comprised, it behooves us to consider what practical acts we can carry out on an everyday basis. Small acts that echo the chants that we may join in on. The droplet in the tsunami of change.
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Tilly Campbell-Allen is a mother of three, philosopher, artist, and iconologist who was first immersed in Buddhism during the early 80s when geshes lived in her London home. Tilly has been working as a professional artist in France since 2009 focusing very much on divinity, particularly Eastern motifs. She is part of the Buddhist art collective Dakini as Art (creative sister to the Yogini Project) and now has work being owned by a growing number of collectors worldwide. Tilly also has a deep fascination with peeling back the veil of local narratives and seeing a bigger picture of how things work on both micro and macro levels, marrying profound spirituality with phenomenal experience and our emotional journey and posing questions for contemplation and dialogue. Life is still her biggest educator and single handedly parenting her children has been the biggest teacher of all. Silk Alchemy is published bi-monthly.
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Edna still cannot work on her art on gloomy days, so she spends rainy days either at home moping or seeking solace by visiting friends. She spends more time at the racetrack with Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp. Her increasingly bold, vivacious personality attracts Arobin.
One afternoon he picks her up to again attend the races but this time Mrs. Highcamp is not with him. They go the races and then to dinner at Edna's house. After dinner he shows her a dueling scar on his wrist and she impulsively grabs his hand, then withdraws in confusion and alarm, claiming to be upset by the sight of the scar. She responds with hostility when he too-warmly kisses her hand while apologizing, feeling as though she is being unfaithful to Robert (but not to Léonce).
In Chapter 23, Edna sketches out her perfect scene of two lovers in a boat disappearing in the night — a scene without end or resolution. This chapter reveals Edna has the same focus on process over goal with regard to her art: "being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work in itself." Her inability to work when the weather is less than sunny prevents her from becoming a great artist. She is far more interested in doing what feels good rather than producing something of worth, an attitude that dominates her life and underlies her imminent affair with Arobin.
Edna is primed for a meaningless tryst after her success at the racetrack. Intoxicated by the excitement and adrenaline, she "wanted something to happen — something, anything, she did not know what." She is not explicitly interested in having an affair with anyone other than Robert; Arobin is simply in the right place at the right time.
While she has no romantic feelings for Arobin, when he shows her the scar on his wrist she experiences a strong, "spasmodic" impulse compelling "her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand." Such a description of her movement, so mechanical and purely physical, is indicative of Arobin's physical appeal to Edna, although he holds no emotional appeal for her.
Arobin's seduction of married women invites them to a sort of rebellion — making Edna a prime target at this point in her life. She finds that "the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness." That sensuousness is greatly appealing to Arobin, and he has the experience to exploit it for his own ends. When she is with Arobin, Edna is under the influence of another intoxicant; although he has no emotional or romantic hold on her, "his lips upon her hand had acted like a narcotic upon her."
Although intrigued at some level by Arobin's overtures, she can't help but feel as though she is being unfaithful to Robert, who currently has her heart, although Léonce's feelings, who has her hand in marriage, are not a concern. The evening's physical stimulation, a sensual awakening, is followed by "a languorous sleep" in which the narcotic of excitement provided by the gambling at the track and the dicey involvement with Arobin causes "vanishing dreams" — as if Edna's innocence about her own sexual desires is also vanishing.
drag a type of private stagecoach of the nineteenth century, with seats inside and on top, drawn by four horses.
Jockey Club a luxurious social club limited to a select group of the New Orleans upper class.
gelding a gelded animal; especially, a castrated male horse.
Dante Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italian poet: wrote The Divine Comedy.
Grieg Edvard Grieg (1843-1907); Norwegian composer.
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Jon Cleary, Go Go Juice (Thirty Tigers)
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It may be a surprise to find an explicit Katrina song on Jon Cleary's latest album, until you realize that his last full, original studio album—Pin Your Spin in 2004—was released before the storm.
Cleary's been through a lot in that time—for one thing, his Absolute Monster Gentlemen split up and reunited—but stylistically, this is an album that could have been made six months after its predecessor. That's good news for those who've missed Cleary's trademark mix of heavy funk and Anglified soul.
Though all three Gentlemen appear (in two cases on backing vocals only), they're not the main bad on this album. Instead he uses a varied all-local cast (with notable names like drummer Terence Higgins, guitarist Shane Theriot, and Ivan Neville) and makes the arrangements more expansive, with horn charts and double keyboards.
The two departures both evoke the '70s: "Step Into My Life" is an old-fashioned R&B ballad (Fender Rhodes, drumbox and all), and "Brother I'm Hungry" revisits the topicality and spacey grooves of Marvin Gaye circa "What's Going On" (though the topic has hardly dated). But the best track here is characteristic Cleary: "Boneyard" is the happiest song you'll ever hear about dying (or specifically, about not dying just yet); and the groove underlines the song's message: "Before I make it to the boneyard, I'm gonna have some fun."
If there's a flaw here, it's that the album tilts too heavily toward goodtime grooves. One of Cleary's strengths as a songwriter was always his sly take on up-and-down relationships, and there's nothing here quite as clever as "Fool's Game," "When You Get Back" or "Cheating On You." (Considering the number of upbeat love songs here, he may just have less to complain about).
As for the Katrina song, it's a good one: "Bringing Back the Home" begins as a funeral march and builds to a celebration of jazz, funk and R&B. Consider this disc one more example that the good stuff is still around.
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Here is the first in a series of blogs featuring three amazing women.
Enjoy a snapshot of each woman's story and be inspired!
The host of the "From Point A to Plan B" event, Jan Mercer Dahms, has been bringing together women in various venues in Manhattan over the past year, through her national networking group for successful executive women, known as"6-Figures – Professional Women." Her generosity in sharing her experience and expertise as a nonprofit executive is as powerful as her drive in planning and staging her events. Jan also happens to be the very busy CFO of International Planned Parenthood.
Wearing multiple hats at the same time seems perfect for her. As she puts it, "it keeps the creative juices flowing freely." Entrepreneurial through and through, her career has spanned fashion, cosmetics, dermatological pharmaceuticals, media, and education. With an MBA in International Business, Jan has held executive-level finance positions, including leadership positions for organizations such as Teach For America and Medicis Pharma. In 2010, she launched Jan Mercer Dahms & Co.
What I love about Jan is her enthusiasm about her work as a cause, one that brings together like-minded motivated women who share their challenges as well as triumphs in the world of work. I know this because I practically monopolized her at another event recently, asking her dozens of questions regarding a nonprofit that I am interested in. Jan patiently answered all of them, and then some. I also learned that she is originally from Nebraska, and since the Midwest has always been the bastion of courteous and kind personalities, then Jan Mercer Dahms should be its official ambassador!
Christi Scofield, President and Founder, Ice Breaker Entertainment: www.icebreakerentertainment.com, a highly successful consumer products company selling books, games, school supplies, t-shirts, iPhone apps, and more.
Gurjot Sidhu, CEO and founder of Gurjot NewYork: www.gurjotnewyork.com, an upscale clothing firm for women.
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On November 8th, 2006 The Association of Union Constructors (TAUC), met with Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program (OSHA VPP) personnel and fellow OSHA Challenge Program administrators, at the Department of Labor. Over the course of an entire day, the group discussed ways to better this OSHA program that provides a road map for employers to implement safety and health management systems. With many employers interested in implementing the VPP on their jobsites, but needing assistance in doing so, the OSHA Challenge Program was created. This program caters to those employers who strive to make safer and healthier working conditions.
The Challenge Program provides opportunities for employers not currently served by existing OSHA cooperative programs to work with the Agency and receive recognition for their efforts. Challenge participants link into either a general industry or a construction track. Within each track, participants follow a detailed three-stage roadmap that guides them to improve their safety and health management systems and work toward VPP status.
The Program has many employers at different stages in the process of working towards implementing a successful safety and health management system. Currently the Program consists of 71 employers, (40 in construction including TAUC members), 11 administrators, and 50 coordinators. With over 13,000 construction workers covered by the program, injury and illness rates have gone down considerably this year, 44% below the 2005 rates.
Being a charter member of the Challenge Program since its inception in March of 2004, TAUC takes great responsibility in assisting our members who are interested in implementing the VPP on their own jobsites. After all, initiating safety and health management systems is paramount to running successful and economical jobsites. The value of these systems not only resides in having a healthy workforce to get the job done, but it is yet another selling point for union construction.


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One of Anna Saccone's signature items is her Scorpio star sign necklace. This piece is not only jewellery to her, but a really personal talisman that she inherited from her father. This special necklace inspired Anna's first jewellery collection of beautiful star signs, which is now growing with the same beautiful star signs made into delicate bracelets!


To amplify the Martini Royale Casting communication platform, we developed a digital campaign, spread across 13 countries.
A variety of concepts helped in engaging new consumers with the Martini brand. An interactive video, allowing anyone to to appear as the star of an online film. A unique invitation system in which a local celebrity could create a personalized video to invite girls to participate in the casting. Digital support through online advertising, social media and blog communication. Our digital strategy was spread across 13 countries of central and eastern Europe.


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Facebook's Libra seeks Swiss payment system license
ZURICH — Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project is seeking a Swiss payment system license, financial watchdog FINMA said on Wednesday, noting the breadth of the planned services would require broad oversight.
The world's largest social media network announced plans in June to launch a cryptocurrency as it seeks to expand beyond social networking and move into e-commerce and global payments, though the plans have drawn intense scrutiny from global financial officials.
"Due to the issuance of Libra payment tokens, the services planned by the Libra project would clearly go beyond those of a pure payment system, FINMA said, noting this mean it would be subject to such additional requirements.
These would extend to capital allocation for credit, market and operational risks, risk concentration and liquidity, and the management of the Libra reserve, it said.
"We are engaging in constructive dialog with FINMA and we see a feasible pathway for an open-source blockchain network to become a regulated, low-friction, high-security payment system," the Geneva-based Libra Association said.
It has asked FINMA to clarify the status of the association and the Libra coin under Swiss supervisory law, the regulatory said. [https://bit.ly/2kEP7bk ]
U.S. Under Secretary of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker told reporters in the Swiss capital on Tuesday that cryptocurrency project must meet the highest standards for combating money laundering and terrorism financing if it is to get off the ground.
"Whether it's bitcoin, Ethereum, Libra, our message is the same to all of these companies: anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism has to be built into your design from the get-go," Mandelker said.
FINMA said that oversight of the range of services provided by Libra would follow the maxim "same risks, same rules."
"The highest international anti-money laundering standards would need to be ensured throughout the entire ecosystem of the project," it said.
(Reporting by John Miller and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi; editing by Michael Shields and Jason Neely)
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Volume 3, Number 1 (2000) Part I: Special Issue: The New York Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (NYCETP): Focusing on the Power of Collaboration
Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations
Title Page, Coordinating Editor's Note
Part I: Special Issue
A General Chemistry Course for Prospective Elementary School Teachers
M. S. Lazarus
Mathematics without Lectures: Small-Group Learning at New York University
A. Adler
Mathematics in Hands-On Science for Liberal Arts Students
M. I. Sobel
Bridging the Gap Between Schools and Non-Formal Science Institutions: Using New York City's Non-Formal Resources to Teach Science
P. Fraser-Abder
Combining Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Science Institutions: A Collaborative Program between the City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History
F. Espinoza
Using Technology to Enhance Pre-Service Teacher Preparation
E. Miele
The Use of Project-Based Learning in a Technology Course for Math and Science Teachers
B. Murfin
Reports on a Course for Prospective High School Mathematics Teachers
D. A. Stone
The Write Approach to Mathematics or How I Found the Middle Way
R. H. Ring
Portfolios and Performance Assessment: Tools for Changing Pedagogy with Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers
R. Welchman
Helping Change of Career Individuals to Prepare to Become Secondary Mathematics Teachers
K. Goldberg
A Case Study of an Online Science Fair- The International Cyberscience Expo 2000 (ICE2000)
Using Undergraduate Teaching Scholars in a Laboratory Course for Non-Science Majors
T. Jordan
Using Evaluation to Foster NYCETP Goals: Case Studies and Intercampsus Collaboration
C K. Tittle, S. J. Pape, and B. Flugman
Part II: Regular Journal Features
Attitudes in Physics Education: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Physics to Non-Science College Students
V. A. Niculescu, J. P. Chinnici, and B. L. Brown
Student Work Section
Patterns in the Sand: Mathematical Exploration of Chladni Patterns
A. M. Coughlin
Educational Research Abstracts
G. Bass Jr.
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Paul Taylor is a founding partner and Executive Creative Director at BrandOpus.
With over 20 years' experience, Paul has won multiple industry awards including 23 Design Effectiveness Awards demonstrating how creativity can deliver commercial results; with recent Golds for Twinings Signature range and Pipers Crisps.
Paul has been a judge of the FAB Awards and has been invited back to chair. He has also been guest judge on awards including the CreativePool Annual and the Drinks Business Awards.
Paul is widely recognised for his thought leadership, and has been published in Metro, The Drum, Campaign, The Dieline and The Grocer. He has also taken to the main stage at events including Eurobest 2015, where his talk 'Dead Lions, Medusa and the Goddess of Victory' discussed the importance of making brands meaningful.
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Lifting the Veil: Part 2 of Duke's Natural Gas Plant Debate
October 24, 2016 October 24, 2016 Soli Shin
If you are just joining us in our series on the proposed combined heat and power (CHP) plant on Duke University's West Campus, here's what we know so far:
The plant would run on natural gas, which may be a problematic fuel source considering the environmental threats behind shale gas extraction. There is no way of knowing if the CHP plant will or will not run on shale gas alone and if so, by how much. However, the existence of an additional plant running on natural gas increases the longevity of the domestic market for further natural gas extraction, including methods of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.
Duke Energy has put forth the CHP plant proposal to the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC). The expected turnaround for a response from the NCUC is between 2 to 6 months.
If it is built, Duke University's CO2 emissions will decrease but there is contention on how much it will decrease. Duke Facilities Management says it will be by 18% of our current Climate Action Plan (CAP) emissions. Professors Drew Shindell and Prasad Kasibhatla disagree and say it will be closer to 4%.
Duke's Energy Initiative has planned a forum on October 25th to discuss these various disagreements. Duke Climate Coalition (DCC), led by Claire Wang has been one of vocal parties in opposition to the way this proposal has come about. They will be hosting their own town hall discussion on November 3rd. I virtually interviewed one of their representatives, Helena Rhim, who offered the DCC's perspective. This interview has been edited and condensed for length:
Soli Shin (SS): What are some of DCC's thoughts on the proposal?
Helena Rhim (HR): While we understand that Duke University must purchase electricity from Duke Energy by nature of North Carolina's energy policies, we do not want the university to actively enable Duke Energy's fossil fuel legacy by allowing the utility to house a new natural gas plant on campus. Duke Energy has shown time and time again that it values profit over environmental protection, has no interest in expanding its portfolio of renewable energy options, and in fact, it's been pushing projects to rapidly expand fossil fuel infrastructure all over its service territory (for example, with its currently proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, an almost 600-mile long natural gas pipeline).
SS: In the DCC's opinion, is it specifically the partnership with Duke Energy that is concerning or are there inherent concerns regarding natural gas as a fuel source?
HR: Although our partnership with Duke Energy has notable implications, the proposal for a natural gas plant is where the problem lies. The prevalence of methane – a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide – completely negates the benefits of a cleaner burn when it comes to natural gas, and although there's been some recent debate on the precise climate impacts of methane leakage, this scientific uncertainty is all the more reason to back out of a potentially 35-year commitment to gas, rather than jump in blindly.
SS: What is DCC's definition of false climate solutions?
HR: False climate solutions are the actions that can actually lead us to harm to our communities and ecosystems in the long run. By not fully addressing all of the climate impacts of a decision in the present, we're creating the risk of locking in resources, infrastructure, and ideas that may hinder debilitate the advancement of truly effective climate change initiatives.
SS: If the best that we, as a university, can do is still more forward-thinking than other institutions, is this not a version of leadership?
HR: We have the power to change our role and to be spokespeople for these ratepayers of Duke Energy, in Durham and beyond North Carolina, who look up to us to say no to Duke Energy's natural gas plant and to require that they invest in more renewables. Moreover, university leadership involves more than just forward-thinking. It entails providing transparency throughout the entire decision-making process and offering a legitimate platform for those affected by the decision – us students, alumni, the faculty, and community members – to voice their opinions and expertise during the deliberation process.
SS: Does the DCC have any response to the statement that this CHP plant would be built with options to convert or retrofit should better fuels and technologies become economically feasible and more useful in the future?
HR: There is currently no contractual obligation to implement these cleaner proposals, even if they did exist. Because of the lack of transparency, we are simply taking the administration at their word. These promises of retrofits or exit clauses for the plant must be made before any contract is finalized and must be written into the contract itself. The fact that the university is already looking for a way out suggests that this plant may not be the best choice, especially given the rapidly changing energy landscape and the lack of evidence that a brand-new investment is at all necessary.
The trend of vocal students, faculty, and community stakeholders against fossil fuel dependence cannot be shaken off lightly. Yet, we must remember that there is a distinction to be made about the merits of the plant itself versus the accusations against the concerns about lack of openness in the administration's discussions with Duke Energy.
Clearly, one of the most alarming consequences of this CHP plant's approval would be to set a precedent that bypasses or discourages discussion on future plans affecting the entire university. As members of the Duke community, we should attend both events on October 25th and November 3rd to continue to seek understanding between all parties.
The opinions expressed in this blog reflect those of its author, the Nicholas School of the Environment's sponsorship of the October 25 forum does not represent an endorsement of, or position on, the proposed plant. We encourage all members of our community to attend the October 25 forum.
For any questions and comments, please email me at soli.shin@duke.edu.
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Up for Debate: Duke's Natural Gas Plant Proposal
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Soli studies the issues of energy consumption with a humanities lens. Read More >
She writes about creative solutions around energy efficiency and how to best communicate energy use through data, language, and visuals. She investigates advances in the energy technology industry. Her driving passion is to narrow the gap behind the science and the implementation of better energy practices on a global scale.


LARCHMONT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A new mural in a village in Westchester isn't receiving the recognition that was expected.
In fact, some residents say the new painting in Larchmont is an unwelcome sight.
The mural debuted in November on Chatsworth Avenue by the corner of Palmer Avenue.
It's part of an organization, Street Art for Mankind, that's helping to fight child trafficking.
Murals have popped up all over town, each representing the families and individuals that established the village. This one in particular features the Palmers, a family of pioneers.
Some people say the woman in the center of it, though, is freaking them out, while others say it's adding some extra flare to the area.
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Good location and ample room for 2 people but Would be good if the toiletries eg shampoo, conditioner and bath soap were of better quality.
Very comfortable room with good amenities. Very close to the beach which was wonderful. Not so close to restaurants and shops.
Keep in mind, this is a "motel" and NOT a "hotel".
This motel was not what I had expected. The walls/ceiling were paper thin, the noise from next door and above our room from the shower being used, was deafening, the guy next door going "crazy" about the lack of space to park your car (and get out of it) and that people were taking others car-parks was totally unacceptable. Very old complex, our screen door to the front porch came off in my husbands hands! In fairness, it is a "motel" and not a "hotel" and it is reasonably priced for what it is..


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We Other Humanists: On Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon's "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age"
February 1, 2022 • By Michael Meranze
Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon
FOR SOME TIME NOW, so we have been told, the humanities have been in crisis. Course enrollments are down, the political culture deprecates the knowledge and skills cultivated in literature and philosophy departments, language instruction is said to be irrelevant because of the global dominance of English, administrators shift money to STEM areas because of the possibility of grants and increasingly deploy underpaid educators to teach the humanities, parents want their children to go into biomedical fields, and the emphasis on quantitative judgment has marginalized the idea of interpretation. Even those who, like Benjamin Schmidt, had argued that there was no crisis have come around.
To make the situation even more galling, this crisis marks a fall: the humanities, so the story goes, can trace their roots back to the Renaissance and had been the heart of the university till recently. Indeed, merely a few decades ago enrollments were increasing and English, as Geoffrey Galt Harpham has argued, was crucial to the formation of national and civic identity. From the 1960s through the 1980s, humanities disciplines held central place in the discussion of the university — a controversial place to be sure, but in the era of civil rights, second-wave feminism, and decolonization, humanist learning and teaching helped open up spaces to imagine new ways to organize society and live together. But now that is all gone, sidelined by entrepreneurial rationality and the preeminence of the biosciences, and the humanities have been forced to the edge, holding on to a cliff by the tips of their fingers.
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon want us to rethink this narrative. Their new book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, does not seek to refute the crisis argument (there is too much truth in it) as to resituate it. Instead of seeing the current moment as an unprecedented crisis in a mode of learning centuries old, they want to shift our attention to the long history of crisis thinking itself. As they tell it, proponents of the humanities have told a story of its crisis forever; indeed, this sensibility lies at the heart of the modern humanities. From their emergence in the 19th century, the humanities have always seen themselves as responding to crisis even as the knowledge they produce has helped create the crisis itself. In a "disenchanted age," the humanities claim to be the source of meaning, but they cannot help failing to provide it. Crisis is both the driving force and the false consciousness of the humanities.
As the editors of Charisma and Disenchantment (a recent edition of Max Weber's "Vocation Lectures") and of an important sourcebook on the rise of the research university (with Louis Menand), Reitter and Wellmon are well situated to challenge our conventional wisdom about the humanities. And as scholars of German literature, they offer us a dramatic account of the debates over the humanities and their meaning from late 18th- through early 20th-century Germany. From Kant's assertion of the importance of the humanistic disciplines in The Conflict of the Faculties (1798) through Humboldt's elaboration of bildung and Nietzsche and Dilthey's contradictory efforts to regain some place for the spiritual in a world increasingly dominated by the natural sciences, up to the debate over Weber's controversial Science as a Vocation (1919), Reitter and Wellmon demonstrate that many German academics and politicians were profoundly concerned with the problems created by a modern, mechanistic, scientific understanding of the world. As science and capitalism increasingly "disenchanted" human experience and reduced the realm of meaning and the supernatural, the humanities were put forth as the arena within which questions of ultimate meaning might be addressed and the spiritual life of the community reinvigorated. But there was a problem. Rooted in the developments of textual and historical criticism and philological knowledge, the modern humanities stripped the classical sources of meaning, whether Platonic or biblical, of any possibility of transcendence. Reitter and Wellmon tell this story of recurrent crisis and failed reconciliation skillfully across a series of chapters that sketch the history of efforts to characterize and justify the humanities in Germany.
Their account is predicated upon, while attempting to retroactively justify, two important historical claims. The first is that we have been mistaken in trying to trace a direct line from the Renaissance studia humanitatis to the contemporary humanities. The Renaissance rebirth of classical knowledge alongside new forms of philosophical and scientific endeavor have provided humanists over the centuries with a sense of stable grounding. Although the ethos of Renaissance humanism has become a site of contention in recent years, even its critics assume a continuity in the history of the humanities. But that claim is a false one, Reitter and Wellmon argue. Instead, the modern humanities are a chapter in the history of the modern university that emerged in Germany after the French Revolution. As they put it, "In essence, the development of the modern humanities both depended on and played a crucial role in the rise of the modern research university [emphasis in the original]." It was in this institutional context that the disciplines of history, philology, and philosophy took their disciplinary forms and began to constitute an interconnected and institutionalized mode of knowledge. Importantly, their connection to the university meant a linkage between professionalization and scholarly norms.
This inherent linkage, Reitter and Wellmon argue, placed a contradiction at the heart of the modern humanities: the humanities became part of the very disenchantment process they simultaneously insisted they could overcome. One can see this development most clearly in the history of philology and biblical criticism. The Renaissance's recovery of the classical world purported to give people access to a nobler form of life; the Protestant Reformation's recentering on biblical text claimed to provide people with a purer truth of the primitive church. The discipline of textual criticism's contribution to this history of philology and biblical criticism reduced classical texts to historically specific traces and contradicted claims that the Bible was the direct word of God. Under the increasingly precise scrutiny of philological and historical analysis, nobility and divinity faded away to the endless stream of immanent events.
Not surprisingly, Max Weber is crucial to this accounting. Permanent Crisis treats him as both guide and example. On the one hand, Reitter and Wellmon's definition of modernity is essentially Weberian — they lay stress on the processes of disenchantment via modern science, bureaucracy, and capitalism, along with a focus on "reenchantment," the always failed effort to overcome disenchantment with some new system of meaning. It is this framework that enables Reitter and Wellmon to track the modern humanities as deeply symptomatic of modernity itself; as they tell it, the humanities have defined themselves as being able to both diagnose and overcome the discontents of disenchantment. Of course, they cannot achieve this aim. It is this structural impossibility that ensures the "permanent crisis" of the humanities.
On the other hand, they treat Weber as a participant in the ongoing German debate over disenchantment and knowledge. They devote a fascinating chapter to Weber's intellectual vocation lecture (they translate it as "The Scholar's Work") and the heated responses it produced in Germany across the 1920s and 1930s. In that lecture, delivered in November 1917, Weber famously told an audience of politically active students that university disciplines were not going to help them overcome the contradictions of modern life or reach deep into true experience. The most that scholars could do was demonstrate the choices that could be made and their social and political outcomes. Needless to say, this message was not a widely popular one. German humanists were deeply concerned (some were outraged) by Weber's scholarly ascetism and his insistence that professional norms and duties demanded that professors not seek to answer the fundamental questions of the meaning of life. Weber's critique of the desire for prophecy and reconciled wholeness was both prescient and powerless as German universities were swept up into the maelstrom of the Third Reich.
Their deep roots in the German literary tradition enable Reitter and Wellmon to tell this story with great power and insight. But it serves them less well in their effort to transplant Permanent Crisis across the Atlantic. Their final chapter, "Crisis, Democracy, and the Humanities in America," attempts to embed both the current crisis of the humanities and the history of the humanities in 20th-century America within their accounting of German contradiction. But the result is somewhat scattershot: the Harvard Red Book in a paragraph; a page or two on poststructuralism and its aftermath; an enticing — if brief — discussion of the Gauss seminars at Princeton; and, not surprisingly, a powerful account of the humanism of European émigré scholars. This criticism, admittedly, may be a bit churlish. After all, Permanent Crisis does sustain its core notion that the modern humanities are constantly facing a crisis that is in part of its own making due to their central role in the research university. Their account of the German debates is stimulating and left me, at least, wishing for the time to read their historical subjects through the lens that Reitter and Wellmon provide. And the authors could not really be expected to do for 20th-century America what they did for 19th-century Germany.
But as reasonable as these critical caveats might be, they would mean avoiding the actual claims of Permanent Crisis. After all, the authors do not claim to be providing a study of German intellectual history; instead, as they repeatedly make clear, their subject is the "modern humanities" in an "age" (ours) of "disenchantment." Consequently, they deploy the particular case of Germany as the touchstone for the wider situation of the humanities. The transferability of their claims, therefore, is an important question, and on this question, they are less persuasive.
For one thing, the American academy (and this would be true of others as well) was not simply an offshoot of the German, and the problems taken up in the humanities drew upon more varied intellectual traditions. As the authors are well aware, when the American research university took shape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it drew not only on aspects of the German experience but on the British system and the impulse of the American Land-Grant tradition. Moreover, the research university in the United States did not occupy the same place of authority as it did in Germany — at least not until after World War II. Admittedly, Reitter and Wellmon make clear that they are not discussing humanities practice so much as a discourse about the meaning of the humanities. But the tensions between scholars and critics, or the struggles to assert the importance of the humanities themselves, have different patterns in different institutional contexts. Given the importance that Reitter and Wellmon justifiably place on situating the humanities within their institutional context, it is striking that these differences play so little a role in their comparative accounting.
But there is another issue that needs to be raised. Permanent Crisis approaches the question of meaning through the lens of Weberian disenchantment. Given the centrality of the Reformation to the German philosophical tradition, this position makes good sense. But is that the only way of approaching the issue? What if instead of disenchantment we approached the problem of the humanities through the object of culture? What, for example, would our understanding of the place of the humanities look like if we took Raymond Williams and the "Culture and Society" tradition as our touchstone? After all, as Williams adumbrated that tradition over 60 years ago, culture and society emerged at roughly the same time as the humanities that Reitter and Wellmon describe and also engaged (in terms of figures like Coleridge and Arnold) with the German tradition. And it responded to the increasing mechanization of thought and society — not in terms of "disenchantment" but rather critiquing the way that industrial capitalism disrupted inherited ways of life. In this way, as Williams showed, the "Culture and Society" tradition moved both inside and outside of the English university while providing a basis to confront the changing contours of modern power. The parallels with the tradition that Reitter and Wellmon consider are clear; but so are the differences.
Importantly, while "Culture and Society" ideas can be faulted for residing more in sensibility than in philosophical formulation, they did lead, in the figure of Williams and his compatriots, to contemporary cultural studies. What began as a response to the disruption of traditional society became, in the hands of radicals and socialists like Williams, a tool to explore new forms of social and ecological criticism as well as the democratization of culture itself. Importantly, as the figure of Stuart Hall and those he influenced demonstrate, British cultural studies connected up with the Black radical tradition that developed in opposition to both British imperialism and American white-supremacist culture and politics. Granted, these Black radical movements were not always located within universities, but their links to university-based humanistic inquiry are clear.
Although cultural studies scholars saw themselves as responding to crises in society, these were not necessarily crises of modernity nor were they far removed from the questions animating what we call the social sciences. One need only think of the ongoing critique of the idea of "culture" within anthropology, or the emergence in the 1960s of ethnic and women's studies programs, to see that any consideration of the modern humanities cannot take place without attending to their status adjacent to the interpretive social sciences. Indeed, one needs to look no further than the discipline of history (sometimes placed in the humanities, sometimes in the social sciences) to see the point clearly. And once you recognize how much the modern humanities share with parts of the modern social sciences, not only the crises of the humanities but the nature of their projects will have to be reconfigured. In such a telling, the centrality of Weberian disenchantment would not loom so large.
Ironically, some of these problems could have been averted with a more capacious reading of Weber. In both Charisma and Disenchantment and Permanent Crisis, Reitter and Wellmon (in conjunction with translator Damion Searls) translate Weber's "Wissenchaft als Beruf" as "The Scholar's Work," in opposition to the more conventional Science as a Vocation. They do so, as Searls explains in Charisma and Disenchantment, because Wissenchaft "means any systematic or cohesive body of knowledge," as opposed to "science" as we use the term. But while this may be a justified critique of previous translations, it only replaces one problem with another because, as the conventional pairing of "scientists and scholars" makes clear, in English common usage scientists are scientists and not scholars. In fact, there is good reason to think that Weber was not talking about the problems of the humanities in any particular way but rather the problem of the professor in the university in a general way and that the problems he addressed were most intensely faced by those in the sciences.
Consider the way that Weber opened his discussion in "The Scholar's Work." Weber informed his audience that, from the perspective of someone working in a university, the most important thing to understand was that German universities were becoming "Americanized" — by which he meant more bureaucratized and capitalist. In this development, where the worker was separated from the means of production, it was the sciences that led the way while those in the social sciences and humanities had not succumbed yet. Nor were the contradictions and challenges that Weber outlined particularly acute for the humanities. He was, after all, a professor of economics and law, and his most salient outlines of the problems that disenchantment posed drew from the sciences and the social sciences (with a touch of philosophy here and there). The great danger for Weber was the intermixture of politics with scholarship, in the sense of substituting charisma for conceptual analysis. But that was not limited to the humanistic disciplines, as the devolution of Steven Pinker makes all too clear. Rather than providing the tools to dissect a "permanent crisis" of the humanities, Weber helps us understand the permanent temptations and challenges of intellectual life within capitalist universities. Reitter and Wellmon, to be sure, understand this point. But their framing prevents it from achieving the visibility it deserves.
I do not, however, want to end on a negative note. Permanent Crisis is a significant and stimulating book. It offers an account of the philosophical dilemmas of the modern humanities that anyone concerned with the history of humanistic reason will want to contend with. It is filled with provocative readings of both well-known and forgotten figures. It is also bracing in its determination to deflate some of the larger pretentions of contemporary rhetoric about the humanities. But it is not a full account of the "Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" nor of the problem of the humanities in general. It is, however, an important piece of one.
Michael Meranze is professor of history at UCLA. He co-edits the blog Remaking the University.
Michael Meranze
Michael Meranze is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he specializes in US intellectual and legal history, and a member of the American Association of University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He is the author of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia 1760–1835 (North Carolina, 1996), co-editor (with David Garland and Randall McGowen) of America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present (NYU, 2011), and numerous essays on legal and intellectual history. He also co-edits the blog Remaking the University.
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Q: Python socket - when is a string not a string? Working with Python sockets using some code that I found to make a telnet server. The server code works fine. I am in need of sending hex strings to/ from the client do to escape character issues. When I send data to the client like this:
conn.sendall('\x74\x65\x73\x74\x31\x32\x33\x0D\x0A')

or
test_var = '\x74\x65\x73\x74\x31\x32\x33\x0D\x0A'
conn.sendall(test_var)

It works perfect. When I try to create a string and store it in a variable (like the following kludge):
def recover_raw_data(data):

    data_list = []
    hex_list = []

    for items in data:
        data_list.append(ord(items))

    for items in data_list:
        hex_list.append("\\")
        value = '%02X' % int(items)
        hex_list.append("0x" + value)
    print hex_list
    almost_final_data = "".join(hex_list)
    just_about_final_data = almost_final_data.replace('\\0x', '\\x')
    final_data = just_about_final_data
    print final_data
    conn.sendall(final_data)
    return()

You can print the output of this mess and it looks right, a Wireshark capture shows the packet going out literally and not as ascii...
e.g. \x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A
I've tried .encode and a ton of other ideas I found on Google... Wondering why I can't create a string from a variable that works... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: A (Python2) str is a sequence of bytes. For instance, '\x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A' is a sequence of bytes. You can see which bytes more clearly by applying list to the str:
In [26]: list('\x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A')
Out[26]: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '\r', '\n']

So you see, you really have 8 bytes here. '\x31' is all one byte.
So you can not reproduce this str by joining the backslash character "\\" with the x character and then numerical characters:
(e.g. the raw string r'\x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A'.)
In [28]: list(r'\x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A')[:10]
Out[28]: ['\\', 'x', '3', '1', '\\', 'x', '3', '2', '\\', 'x']

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of recover_raw_data so perhaps the following is wrong, but it seems to me all you need is:
def recover_raw_data(data):
    conn.sendall(data)

(And if that is true, then you do not need recover_raw_data at all since conn.sendall suffices...)

Actually, it is possible to convert the literal string (with backslash and x characters) to the desired string, by decoding with the 'string_escape' codec:
In [30]: (r'\x31\x32\x33\x34\x35\x0D\x0A').decode('string_escape')
Out[30]: '12345\r\n'

But I really don't think you should need to do this. Your data appears to be already in the right form before you go through this rigmarole.

PS. If you show an example of what the input to recover_raw_data looks like, and what you want done to it, perhaps we can suggest how to modify recover_raw_data.